Outside the Bow, Chaff (Recollections of the Past Half Century)

Author: Zhao Heng
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This collection is another set of social life essays and miscellany by the author following "Old Glutton's Random Notes." The author picks up fragments of life experiences, impressions, observations, and feelings, narrating them from the perspective of a witness. Those vanishing rituals, customs, old figures, music, calligraphy, painting, and dining and leisure activities are described in a leisurely manner. Though it is a personal miscellany, it touches upon many social and cultural phenomena, recreating the rapidly disappearing life scenes over the past fifty years. From the lingering nostalgia, one can sense that modern people, despite their busy pace, still cherish and hold dear their cultural traditions.