Words are many, feelings are endless.

Author: Wang Chongli
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: In the recent trend of historical and cultural prose in China, one figure cannot be mentioned without being highlighted: Wang Chongli, a member of the presidium of the China Writers' Association and the president of the Liaoning Writers' Association, who won the National Excellent Prose Award of the inaugural Lu Xun Literature Prize (1997) for his work Spring Wide, Dreams Narrow. His writings are elegant and composed, imbued with profound and distant meaning, reflecting a unique poetic beauty and substantial academic expertise. He excels particularly in historical and cultural prose, guiding history and tradition towards modernity and the depths of human nature. Using modern consciousness to observe culture and human nature, he gains transcendent insights, thus standing out among contemporary scholars of prose (cultural prose) and being deeply cherished by readers both at home and abroad. This volume is part of the Wang Chongli Cultural Prose Series, specifically the Emotional Prose series, covering a wide range of emotions both within and beyond life—such as Qianqiu Koushen (A Thousand Years of Inquiry), Hongchen Jiewu (Enlightenment in the Red Dust), Xi Meng Zhuai Huai (Chasing Past Dreams), Wenhua Xiangchou (Cultural Nostalgia), Shanchuan Shangdu (Appreciating Mountains and Rivers), and Shengya Liji (Life's Journey).
In this world, only emotions are difficult to express—whether they are familial love, romantic love, friendship, nostalgia, or joy, anger, sorrow, or fear. Once put into words, they lose their inherent vitality. Time has flown like a bird, yet emotions remain like flowing water and drifting clouds, endless and unceasing. In the end, one can only gaze in longing at the scattered fragments of life, looking back on past memories.