Four Rhymes of Nostalgia in Yu Guangzhong: Green and Boundary Sorrow
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"Green Life and Sorrow" is Yu Guangzhong's sixth collection of essays. It contains almost all the works of the author during his three years in Hong Kong during his middle age. Editions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are scarce and almost out of print. The content of the book is divided into four series. The first volume is lyrical prose with a beautiful writing style, which is a model for students' writing. The second volume is short essays, covering literature, dance, folk songs, poetry, etc., And covers literary and artistic topics at your fingertips. The third volume is literary criticism, looking at Yu Guangzhong's evaluation of writers in the early Republic of China such as Dai Wangshu, Wen Yiduo, Guo Moruo, and Zhu Ziqing. The five articles in the fourth series are book reviews. The five books reviewed are either poems, novels, translations, or English works. When Yu Guang was a young man, he went to Hong Kong for the first time. Due to the chaotic current situation, he was unable to study. A year later, his mother brought him back to Taiwan. Twenty-seven years later, when he returned to Hong Kong, he was accompanied by his wife and four daughters. Sadly, his mother had been cremated long ago. The former out-of-school youth has become a university professor on the podium. He was born young and his life is like a dream. Looking north to the Central Plains from Taiwan is a feeling of homesickness; looking north to the Central Plains from Hong Kong is a feeling of border worry. Three years pass quickly, but the memory carried by words will remain forever. Yu Guangzhong used his extensive writing style to write exquisite and simple chapters, which are integrated into this book "Green Bian Sorrow", which is deeply loved by academic circles and readers.
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