Green Day (Hei Tao Essay): Hei Tao Essay

Author: He Tao
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Farmers walking with hoes, smoking cheap cigarettes. A huge iron pot. Horses. Various species of lush, shimmering green vegetation. Tall gray-white horse-head walls. Pregnant women with large bellies. A smoky hand tractor struggling across the creek bed. An ancient carved bed. Short, stubby brick chimneys. Star clusters. Pigs. Even, there are the bright red sunrises... twisting, swirling, in the red, earthy, powerful vortex of Southeast China. A kind of magnificence, an irresistible fate—have you witnessed it?
"Farmers walking with hoes, smoking cheap cigarettes. A huge iron pot. Horses. Various species of lush, shimmering green vegetation. Tall gray-white horse-head walls. Pregnant women with large bellies. A smoky hand tractor struggling across the creek bed. An ancient carved bed. Short, stubby brick chimneys. Star clusters. Pigs. Even, there are the bright red sunrises... twisting, swirling, in the red, earthy, powerful vortex of Southeast China. A kind of magnificence, an irresistible fate—have you witnessed it?"