Old Scenes of Yongkang: Shadows Fading Away Gradually

Author: Lu Dunji
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is a travel and culture book that vividly introduces the small town of Yongkang in Zhejiang with illustrations and text. Today, Yongkang has gradually become a county-level city renowned worldwide for its hardware industry. It is precisely this rapid transformation that makes people suddenly realize the value of almost stagnant traditional culture, and makes them cherish the fading of the agricultural society. This impulse drives photographers to travel far to Yongkang, searching for traces of old swallows' nests. It also makes the author contemplate the past days, trying to paint scattered scrolls of the desolate past. Especially in this era of changing fortunes, the peaceful past may just soothe our restless hearts. This is a travel and culture book that vividly introduces the small town of Yongkang in Zhejiang with illustrations and text. Today, Yongkang has gradually become a county-level city renowned worldwide for its hardware industry. It is precisely this rapid transformation that makes people suddenly realize the value of almost stagnant traditional culture, and makes them cherish the fading of the agricultural society. This impulse drives photographers to travel far to Yongkang, searching for traces of old swallows' nests. It also makes the author contemplate the past days, trying to paint scattered scrolls of the desolate past. Especially in this era of changing fortunes, the peaceful past may just soothe our restless hearts.
When the industrial hurricane swept across the other side of the ocean, raged fiercely in the Southeast Asian Gulf, and suddenly landed on the southeastern coastal areas of the mainland, this ancient and elegant region was suddenly struck by a storm surge. People calmed down slightly, only to realize that this small place had suddenly entered the ranks of the top 100 counties and cities in the country. Row upon row of old houses were turned into ruins overnight, while new cement buildings sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain, rapidly rising and inevitably exuding an arrogant and disdainful attitude, overlooking their outdated predecessors. In just over a decade of change, people have come to realize that the disappearance of tradition can be so simple. Today, Yongkang has gradually become a county-level city renowned worldwide for its hardware industry. It is precisely this rapid transformation that makes people suddenly realize the value of almost stagnant traditional culture, and makes them cherish the fading of the agricultural society. This impulse drives photographers to travel far to Yongkang, searching for traces of old swallows' nests. It also makes the author contemplate the past days, trying to paint scattered scrolls of the desolate past. Especially in this era of changing fortunes, the peaceful past may just soothe our restless hearts.