Old Stories of Peking [New Cover]

Author: Chen Pingyuan
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: Looking west, the lotus flowers in the moat stretch straight into the indistinct golden, red, and green hues, where the stone bridge and archway of the Divine Prow Gate are located. In front of Jingshan, there are the morning rooms and palaces. I particularly love wandering here amidst the misty rain, witnessing with my own eyes the "double wind towers of the imperial city in the clouds, and the myriad homes of the smoke trees in the rain," as described by the ancients. The article expresses profound reflections on the Red Building, which the North University people were proud of, being used as a military camp by the Japanese invaders. It is easy to imagine that discussing the Forbidden City is also a rather heavy topic. Whether it is nostalgia for the homeland or sightseeing, the imperial aura of the Forbidden City is not entirely obscured by the dust of the world. Therefore, the last sentence of Zhu Wen's article, "The North University people were nurtured in this environment," is worth careful consideration.