Soul Road - Wild Bull Horn Series

Author: Yang Fuquan
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Publish Date: 2000-01-02
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Content Summary: The universe is vast, the path of life is long, yet human existence is brief. Decades of time, like the morning star and the ephemeral flower, vanish in the blink of an eye. The brevity of life becomes a timeless lament that flutters through the history of human hearts. Where do we come from? Where are we going? These questions have been a perpetual theme of contemplation for nations living in various cultural environments.
In the Naxi Ancient Kingdom, nestled in the Hengduan Mountains of northwestern Yunnan, China, the people created the "only living hieroglyphic script in the world." They used it to record their "soul path"—the journey of life's return, which they believed was intricately connected to nature. On a magnificent ten-meter-long white linen cloth, they depicted a mystical religious labyrinth, the "Divine Path Map," a path that blends Indian pre-Buddhist culture, Tibetan Buddhist culture, Han culture, and the indigenous Dongba culture of the Naxi people. It is a "long and winding road of the dying."
Beyond this soul path, the lovers of this "city of suicidal love" have their own extraordinary and romantic "soul paths" and destinations for life. This book invites the readers who are meant to encounter it to embark on a journey along the soul path of the Naxi people in the vast mortal world. It allows them to experience the extraordinary and mysterious culture of death and rebirth of this snow-covered ethnic group in "Yunnan of the Clouds," to witness the songs and sorrows of different ethnic groups, and to feel the poignant melancholy of death, as if gazing at a cold moon, the whimsical thoughts like the flickering of clouds and sun, and the sudden enlightenment as the heart, like a ray of sunlight, flashes into a deep gorge.