Sip Life

Author: Yang Quanwu
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: "Cup of Life" is the most authentic portrayal of Yang Quanwu's cultural personality and cultural realm. In Yang Quanwu's prose collection "Cup of Life," the words become increasingly soothing, the language increasingly mature, the structure increasingly complete, the imagery increasingly vivid, and the theme increasingly mellow, with profound thoughts. New writings, old dreams, solitary emotions with a fragrant aroma—both realistic and profound, both lyrical and philosophical—make it a vibrant red apricot in the literary garden, a competing rain lotus in the rainy season, a competing autumn osmanthus, and an arrogant winter plum. It is also an intellectual prose of contemporary significance with both artistic and aesthetic value. However, in terms of the evolution of his works, Yang Quanwu is far from a fixed or defined writer. His indifference and tranquility, his deep love and devotion to the Muse, his relentless pursuit of the literary dream, and his rare dedication to building the sacred of literature amid the context of industrialization, commercialization, consumption, and marginalization of contemporary literature, along with his remarkable command of language and artistic construction, give us every reason to believe that Yang Quanwu will surely cultivate a new rose garden in this relatively quiet and desolate realm of literature.