Wind-Swirling Cherry: Ancient Lotus

Author: Yin Jianling
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Yin Jianling, a renowned female children's literature author, presents another powerful work following her groundbreaking novel The Paper Person. The Paper Person has supported countless girls struggling with sexual confusion and pioneered similar themes in China. Five years later, The Cherry Blossoms in the Wind has accumulated the author's more mature creative talent and reflections, proving to be deeper, more moving, and more poetic than The Paper Person. The novel primarily tells the story of a girl with supernatural abilities named Sakura, along with Mula, a dolphin, and Kuike, who retain a childlike heart, as they experience various adventures and eerie tales. It is a story about escape, exploration, and search.
The supernatural girl Sakura has no background or origin; she comes from a virtual world. Meanwhile, Mula's world is disrupted by the arrival of the Magicians, who steal humanity's shared treasures, causing the land to bloom with flowers of evil. Adults lose their original innocence, kindness, and beauty, becoming ugly and chaotic, which in turn affects their children. Due to his parents' mistakes, Mula falls into hardship, losing his name and memories. By chance, Mula meets the magical Sakura and embarks on a journey to find the source of evil, reclaim his name, and fight against the Magicians. Along the way, with the help of Sakura's unicorn mount, Wind, and the strange bird messenger Angela, they encounter an orphaned dolphin, the scavenger Kuike, and together they experience various adventures and eerie stories. As they decode mysteries and overcome evil, their hearts also grow. Whether they can truly defeat the Magicians and reclaim humanity's lost treasures remains to be seen.
The entire book is divided into four parts, with a plot full of twists and turns and simple yet beautiful language. The author, with her poetic and elegant writing style and unrestrained imagination, paints a grand and beautiful literary landscape. Against the backdrop of stunning scenery, the beauty of humanity shining in the is even more heart-stirring.
About the second part, The Ancient Lotus – The story continues from The Dream-Lost Chronicle, becoming even more gripping. Sakura, Mula, Kuike, and the dolphin carry a newly sprouted lotus seed and embark on a new adventure. Along the way, they encounter a crying girl in the illusion-famous town of Hook, rescue a newlywed who has aged overnight due to a curse in the wild land of Vorlan, solve the mystery of the escaped convict Shal's disappearance on Nail Island, help a single-parent child find happiness again in the Cherry Blossom Valley after their parents' marriage breaks up, and engage in a battle to protect the lotus seed against the Magicians in the port city of Banquan. Many of these strange stories have shadows in real life, refined by the author's artistry, making them thrilling, dangerous, yet full of emotion and atmosphere.
During their struggle against the Magicians, Sakura's team also faces a crisis. Will the lotus seed grow smoothly? The book reveals the answer. Now, they are lying in bed at a strange hotel in Hook. Everything here seems unreal, including the bed beneath them. It has no legs, floating in the air, swaying gently with nothing to support it.