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About This Novel

"Memories of Autumn Lanterns" is a prose by Qing Dynasty scholar Jiang Tan reminiscing about trivial matters in daily life with his beloved wife Guan Rong (Guan Qiufu). It is full of elegance, talent, leisurely interest and poetic flavor. The narration of the whole book is vivid, the diction is clear and elegant, and the emotions are pure and touching. After that, Jiang Tan dedicated himself to worshiping Buddha. At the age of 40, his family was trapped in Hangzhou due to war and died of cold and starvation. The sorrow of the impermanence of the world can make people cry. This publication is based on the Qiantang Chiang Chaoyuan publication in the second year of Xianfeng (1852), and is carefully revised with reference to the punctuation typesetting edition of Zhu Jianmang's "Beautiful Literary Masterpiece Series" compiled by World Book Company in 1935. Specially invited Suzhou University teacher and young poet Zhu Yinshan's vernacular translation and annotation, which can be fully understood without any basic knowledge of ancient Chinese. The appendix is ​​the preface to the first edition in the second year of Xianfeng, which includes "Hundred Poems by Chiang and Guan" and "Chronology and Biographies" as an aid to understanding Chiang and Guan.

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