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Chasing Sunset
Every day at 4:30 in the afternoon, I wait for someone in the studio on the 20th floor of the Sunshine Building. His name is Shen Xiaoliang. At this point in time, the day’s work is coming to an end, and the night is about to roll out, which is the most suitable time to wait. While I waited for his arrival, I would sit in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of my studio, looking down. Looking at the ground from the high-rise building, you can clearly see the color of their clothes, recognize their body movements, and hear the noise of cars and horses. It seems that even their…
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The Cycle of the Seasons: A Reflection on Nature, Life and Death
Many times, we have forgotten the land, the place covered by cement has almost become a screen between us and the earth. The ground on which I stand is covered with thick cement, bricks or slates. In the city, my feet barely touch the dirt. But there is no lack of filth and smoke in the city. In the early winter, the sky gradually lost its moisture, and the blue color seemed to be sucked away by the dust and haze, turning into a death-like gray. I saw the shadow of the day on the pigeon’s feathers, and the dust had infiltrated its black pupils into a cataract-like turbidity. Pigeons…
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A Childhood Summer at Grandma’s House
As long as I can remember, every summer vacation, I will go to my grandmother’s house to live for a period of time. Mother also knows my thoughts. Every time at this time, my mother would dress me up beautifully: put the tip of my long braid to the root of the braid, and tie two flowers made of red silk on the rubber band at the root; Fashionable ruffled denim tops and beautiful little skirts… After finishing dressing up, my mother would ask me to carry a schoolbag full of clothes. While telling me to pay attention to safety on the road, my mother took out two cents from…
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Reflecting on the Complex Nature of Infatuation, First Love and Unrequited Affection
Loving someone obsessively is the process of turning from thinking that you are rational to being a love lunatic. People in love will hold each other up on the altar for no reason and become a god-like existence. If there are less debauched adventures, less absurdity, less frivolous and ambiguous affairs, how can we live with courage in the face of thorns? Ten years of seclusion in Taoyuan, coffee time in Second Life, a cup of UCC every morning, Master Fengyun incarnates the daily life of a lazy master, stubborn and unconvinced youth is far away, just remember a certain summer, a room at the south exit of Shinjuku, Tokyo…
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Rachmaninoff: The Life and Music of a Russian Composer
On May 13, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra announced that it will return to the Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangdong Province on June 20 to perform Rachmaninoff’s “Second Piano Concerto” and “Second Symphony”. Arouse the ecstasy of music fans. This ecstasy is “the best in the world, and undoubtedly one of the most important orchestras in Russian history”, and even Rachmaninoff, who is regarded as “the last romantic tradition”. 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth and the 80th anniversary of his death. Music lovers regard Beethoven as a god and Rachmaninoff as a lover. Compared with countless talented musicians in history, Rachmaninoff is so “down to earth”. He…
