Recalled so early (Sixties spirit)

Author: Liu Langui
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Publishing Date: 2005-06-01
Features: They are the "nameless generation," the ignored generation, the "eggs under the red flag," the remnants of the red era, the descendants of the agricultural age, the watchers and reference points of history, the excess of the excessive era, the last generation tied to words like youth, ideals, passion, responsibility, life, and the meaning of life. They have no flags, slogans, or declarations; they will not form a powerful social force or create their own discourse system and cultural authority. They are silent, lonely, imaginative, melancholic, wavering, alienated, and detached, distant from the present, the past, and the future. Like wandering souls without a home, they are the drifting generation. They are the aimless and helpless passengers easily left behind by the vast era train on strange, nameless stations, possessing only the faint of the rumbling train receding into the distance and their fragmented memories. Therefore, at the cusp of adulthood, they can only retreat into their fragile and sensitive inner depths, "moved by the past," and prematurely enter the river of nostalgia. They have started to reminisce so early. They are the "nameless generation," the ignored generation, the "eggs under the red flag," the remnants of the red era, the descendants of the agricultural age, the watchers and reference points of history, the excess of the excessive era, the last generation tied to words like youth, ideals, passion, responsibility, life, and the meaning of life. They have no flags, slogans, or declarations; they will not form a powerful social force or create their own discourse system and cultural authority. They are silent, lonely, imaginative, melancholic, wavering, alienated, and detached, distant from the present, the past, and the future. Like wandering souls without a home, they are the drifting generation. They are the aimless and helpless passengers easily left behind by the vast era train on strange, nameless stations, possessing only the faint of the rumbling train receding into the distance and their fragmented memories. Therefore, at the cusp of adulthood, they can only retreat into their fragile and sensitive inner depths, "moved by the past," and prematurely enter the river of nostalgia. They have started to reminisce so early.