Yu Dafu · Footprints Everywhere

Author: Yu Dafu
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In name, it is naturally pleasant to be a hermit; in reality, it is ultimately interesting to drift. Not cherishing oneself before the noble, feigning madness is hard to avoid becoming true. Once drunk, I whipped the famous horse; afraid of loving too much and exhausting the beauty. Fated misfortune in the southeast, heaven's cruelty, rooster's crow, wind and rain, the sea stirs dust. Sad songs and tears, what good are they in the end? Righteous men speak of the Qin Emperor one after another. — Yu Dafu
In Yu Dafu's prose, travel writing possesses the greatest artistic charm, mainly collected in Footprints Everywhere and Yu Dafu's Travel Notes. Each of his travel essays is like a landscape scroll with diverse styles, featuring extraordinary mountains and waters, all encompassed within. When describing a mountain, a river, a scene, or an object, he often starts from the nearby and gradually expands outward, presenting the beauty of the scenery from multiple angles to the readers. Of course, while appreciating the beautiful natural scenery, one can also see the vivid and emotionally rich figure of the author.