Poetic Poverty---A Vanishing Game

Author: Jiang Lan
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: From a psychological perspective, it is natural to long for the past due to the shortcomings of reality. However, human nostalgia often falls into two patterns: a sense of homeland rooted in geographical perspective and childhood reminiscence from a temporal dimension. Past facts make us cherish memories endlessly, and the childhood that cannot return remains a beautiful realm of imagination: the bamboo pole reaching for cicadas, the slingshot aimed at small birds, marbles on the muddy ground, kites in the wind, colorful cigarette boxes—all so vivid, as if in the old days. Unsealing the long-forgotten fantasies, we narrate the stories within, experience the rich emotions, and bring childhood back to life in our reality, making it no longer distant.