Love City: Phoenix Travel New Concept Reader

Author: Kuang Lili
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: As a new generation author from the 80s, Kuang Lili published a long novel titled The Youthful Classmates at the age of 18. After graduating from university, she studied and worked in Shanghai and Guangzhou, experiencing the fashionable urban life of China. One day, Kuang Lili's footsteps knocked on the stone-paved streets of Fenghuang, Western Hunan, and stepped into the depths of the words of Mr. Shen Congwen, whom she had admired since childhood. Starting with a train ticket from "Guangzhou—Jishou," Kuang Lili embarked on her journey, narration, and presentation. She carried a notebook, a camera around her neck, and most importantly, a keen sensitivity for spiritual experiences and an aesthetic taste nurtured by beautiful reading. The words of Shen Congwen and Huang Yongyu were indeed the rhythm and melody of her journey, while the exquisite words of Einstein, Milosz, H?lderlin, and Gasscié-Bachler about walking in nature were also carried to her ears and brow by the mountain wind. The city walls, stone-paved old streets, Tuo River, and Rainbow Bridge were endless, while the bars, inns, tie-dye shops, specialty stores, and craft workshops were all charming. The ginger sugar, red hawthorn berries placed in tung leaves, ferns and bamboo shoots picked from the mountains, and the silver bracelets, indigo-dyed embroidered fabrics, and Miao villages in the river breeze were all vividly colorful. With her camera and words, Kuang Lili captured the natural scenery before her, reflected on the new and fashionable aspects hidden in tradition, and discovered the emotions and poetry in ordinary life. This beautiful way of education, where young lives walk into nature and tradition, has long been lost in today's world. Through Love City, Kuang Lili shows such a beautiful path: let free and unrestrained walking become a journey of beauty and joy, and by loving a city and understanding it, one will come to understand love even more! Entering the history, traditions, and culture of a city effortlessly will also make one love the people and life both within and beyond the city. Perhaps, starting with reading such a book, some lucky young people may discover and embark on a beautiful path of self-education.