"Searching for the Lost Beauty in the Four Seasons of the Year" uses the flow of seasons as a natural context to connect a gentle journey of "searching". There is no specific name in the story, only a figure walking in time, with the changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, salvaging the neglected and trivial beauty in the folds of daily life.
In spring, it is the smell of soil mixed with grass in the alley after the rain, the first sprouts sprouting from the potted plants on the window sill, and the laughter of children running across the stone road chasing kites by chance - these moments that were missed by the hasty footsteps have become the starting point of searching. In the summer evening, the whispers of cattail fans waving in the shadow of the old locust tree, the sweetest bite in the center of the iced watermelon, and the Milky Way that I accidentally looked up from my desk late at night are all reminders that beauty is hidden in a moment of peace in the heat.
At the autumn solstice, it is the rustle of fallen leaves covering the paths, the aroma of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes wafting from the corner shop, and the long-faded dry petals sandwiched in old books that reappear with the warmth of the past. Under the warm winter sun, the chestnuts roasted crispy by the fire, the light refracted by the ice dripping from the eaves when the snow cleared, and the cup of hot ginger tea handed by a stranger. These small warmth have become treasured fragments in the cold winter.
The story does not pursue dramatic conflicts, but only records the process of perception and "searching" for "loss" in the cycle of four seasons - perhaps a vague memory, a long-lost state of mind, or the reawakening of perception after being dulled by life. In the end, you will find that those so-called "lost beauties" never really disappear, they are just scattered in the ordinary days of the four seasons, waiting to be re-seen and picked up by a slowed down heart, and pieced together into a gentle footnote that belongs to time.
Intention: spring, summer, autumn and winter