Old Scenes of Yongkang - Shadows Fading Away Gradually

Author: Lu Dunji
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is a travel and cultural book that vividly introduces Yongkang, a small town in Zhejiang, with illustrations and text. Today, Yongkang has gradually become a county-level city renowned worldwide for its hardware industry. It is precisely this rapid transformation that makes people suddenly realize the value of almost stagnant traditional culture, and makes them cherish the fading of the agricultural society. This impulse drives photographers to travel far to Yongkang, searching for traces of old swallows' nests. It also makes the author contemplate the past days, trying to paint scattered scrolls of the desolate past. Especially in this era of changing fortunes, the calm past may just soothe our restless hearts. This is a travel and cultural book that vividly introduces Yongkang, a small town in Zhejiang, with illustrations and text. Today, Yongkang has gradually become a county-level city renowned worldwide for its hardware industry. It is precisely this rapid transformation that makes people suddenly realize the value of almost stagnant traditional culture, and makes them cherish the fading of the agricultural society. This impulse drives photographers to travel far to Yongkang, searching for traces of old swallows' nests. It also makes the author contemplate the past days, trying to paint scattered scrolls of the desolate past. Especially in this era of changing fortunes, the calm past may just soothe our restless hearts.