To the Violet for Fate: My Life's Realizations -- Liu Xinwu's Masterpiece Collection (Volume 4)

Author: Liu Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This volume includes two essays, "A Purple Cloud for Destiny" and "Life is Not Always a Dream," reflecting the author's true inner world. Deep life insights, rational social criticism, a conscious sense of repentance, care and tolerance for others, a persistent belief in advancing social progress, and a keen sensitivity to art bring readers a spiritual shock. It is a masterpiece of contemporary Chinese literature.
A vast expanse of wildflowers burst forth from the base of walls, gaps in steps, and exposed ground, a pale purple in color, swaying in the wind with fragrant tendrils, attracting bees and butterflies. Upon closer inspection, ah, it is February grass! Also known as violets! In the imperial palace, which prides itself on its magnificent brick, wood, stone, and jade architecture, only deliberately planted flowers and trees were allowed to grow. These wildflowers had no right to bloom here, yet in this early spring, they flourished so magnificently! This too is a kind of fate.