To the Violet for Fate

Author: Liu Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This volume includes two reflective essays, "A Purple Cloud Dedicated to Fate" and "Life is Not Always Awake," reflecting the author's true inner world. Deep life insights, rational social criticism, a conscious sense of repentance, care and tolerance for others, a persistent belief in advancing social progress, and a keen sensitivity to art bring readers a spiritual shock. It is a masterpiece of contemporary Chinese literature.
A vast expanse of wildflowers burst forth from the base of walls, gaps in steps, and exposed ground, a pale purple in hue, swaying in the wind with fragrant tendrils, attracting bees and butterflies. Upon closer inspection, ah, it is February grass! Also known as pansies! In the imperial palace, which prides itself on its magnificent brick, wood, stone, and jade architecture, only deliberately planted flowers and trees were permitted to exist. These wildflowers had no right to bloom, yet here they were, blossoming so vibrantly in early spring! This too is a fate.