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On the bank of Yi River in the hinterland of Yimeng Mountain. The sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar every year are often the most miserable scenes for the grassroots Kangxi. Kangxi rode his motorcycle down a hillside. The slope was the famous Guanzhuang Slope. The slope was very long, five or six miles long. In order to save fuel, Kangxi simply turned off the engine and let the car slide down freely. The road is a newly paved asphalt road, clean and smooth, and the motorcycle moves forward smoothly, which is really enjoyable. At the bottom of the slope, the car slowed down. Kangxi controlled the car, got out of the car with his legs turned, freed his body, stood on the roadside and peed. I felt this urination as soon as I left the county town, and I kept holding it in for thirty or forty miles. Kangxi fully realized the joy of peeing to his heart's content and couldn't help but scream a few times. Not far away there was an old man and three sheep, moving in the direction of Kangxi.

"The Pressure of Time" is written by Xia Lijun, winner of the "Lin Yutang Prose Award" and "Zhongshan Literature Award". With the skill of search and interpretation and the courage of purification, the author echoes the secrets of the soul one by one, launching a series of time and space dialogues spanning thousands of years, aiming to complete the in-depth interpretation of the ancients and traditions with academic literary expression from the perspective of modern humanities. Qu Yuan's lingering pathos, Cao Cao's treacherous confusion, Li Bai's youthful exuberance, Sima Qian's loyalty... Each of the ancients, whose appearance and spirit are similar, their existential dilemmas and human struggles under the pressure of time, are presented in the author's writing. The author and the ancients as aesthetic objects reach the depths of history together, but they can stand clearly outside the phantom of history. The writing is clean and crisp, with the skin peeling off the bones, and sometimes it has the effect of getting to the bottom of things. It is simple and refreshing to read, but it is always alert and requires a lot of thinking.

"Time Can Talk" is a collection of historical and cultural essays by Xia Lijun, and is a companion volume to the Lu Xun Literature Award-winning work "The Pressure of Time". The book is divided into three series: "Life Has Original Intention", "Time Can Talk", and "Toes Must Be Free". It mainly includes "Reading Li Bai in the Western Regions", "Li Bai's Moon Is Out", "Cao Cao as a Poet" and other chapters. Xia Lijun's prose is beautiful, emotional and has high aesthetic value. It is a rare fine piece of cultural prose.