Materialism: My Museum Journey

Author: Zhou Peihong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: I love museums. I really do. There's a mysterious aura that transports you to the depths of time, dark and quiet, making me feel that everything in the world has its origins, and no person or thing can be disconnected from history. A book is like a journey, and this museum visit was particularly special to me. I felt like I had become a child again, receiving a baptism of knowledge and imagination, and my curiosity about the world was renewed. – Zhou Peihong
I love museums. I really do. There's a mysterious aura that transports you to the depths of time, dark and quiet, making me feel that everything in the world has its origins, and no person or thing can be disconnected from history. This book is like a paper museum I have imagined, with exhibits from all over the world—each belonging to different museums in reality, yet they should be shared resources of the world. I selected them based on my interest and intuition, and they embody the wonders or secrets of the world—natural, human, scientific, cultural, and geographical. I didn’t categorize them in the usual way but arranged them in approximate chronological order. Starting with a 500-million-year-old fossil of a crinoid, the exhibits progress through time until they pause at a 200-year-old spring celebration. The history is vast, as if witnessing a life being born in darkness, wandering through a long corridor, growing in an awkward, expanding world, and flying toward the light at the exit.
A book is like a journey, and this journey was particularly special to me. I felt like I had become a child again, receiving a baptism of knowledge and imagination, and my curiosity about the world was renewed.