Five Diaries -- Middle-aged Traveler

Author: Chen Cun
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The great things in the world can be seen in domestic and foreign news, but life is so tedious, and the world is so dazzling! The many small things I record leave the big things to others to speak of. One can only live in small matters. In short, these records are incomplete, limited, personal, and instinctive. Reading countless such records alongside media news reveals that very moment. The "five roots" in the book title is a Shanghai slang term. Ten years for one root, so five roots mean fifty years old. This is more fun than hardening oneself to claim "knowing one's destiny." It originally referred to money, ten yuan as one root, but it's unclear when it shifted to age. I haven't reached six roots yet, so I'm not at peace.