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Over the past sixty years, due to family background and work, the author has become acquainted with many older cultural figures and scholars with profound traditional cultural accomplishments, such as Chen Mengjia, Qi Gong, Wang Shixiang, Zhu Jiaxin, Shi Shuqing, Weng Ouhong, Deng Yunxiang, Wu Xiaoru, etc. Some of them maintained relatively close contacts until their death. These older generations of intellectuals and scholars happen to be the witnesses of China's great era over the past hundred years. This book narrates the author's interactions with these predecessors, describes their voices and smiles, and focuses on their contributions to academic culture. This makes the book have the significance and value of contemporary cultural history, and today's readers can also appreciate their virtues and grace.

"Charming Scenery of the Old Times" is a collection of the latest selected works of Mr. Zhao Heng, a well-known scholar and cultural master, including "A Crescent Moon and Like a Hook: Zhao Heng's Self-Selected Works" and its companion piece "Leave it as a Note for Future Years". With his profound cultural accumulation and years of life insights, Mr. Zhao Heng blended half a century of social life and cultural history into his vivid personal memories. "A Crescent Moon Is Like a Hook: Zhao Heng's Selected Works" mainly focuses on three parts: "Remembering food", "Remembering scenery" and "Remembering old friends". Reminiscing about food - telling the appetites of gourmets, showing the traces of human relationships and the changes of the times through food; reminiscing about scenery - recalling the passing etiquette, customs, old literati, and recording the dying Chinese traditional culture; reminiscing about old friends - describing the voices, smiles and interactions of the older generation of literati and scholars.

"Wenxin Yayun (Essential)" is another new member of the "Hundred Flowers Tan Essays". It selects the prose essays written by the author Zhao Heng in recent years about talking about food, drama, collections, customs, elegant collections, old things and Beijing. It is run through with the main line of "literati" and picks up life experiences. The fragmentary impressions and experiences in the history, from the perspective of those who have experienced them, not only incorporate personal emotions and life experiences, but also continuously accumulate and learn from history and culture. With simple and elegant words, they describe the passing etiquette, customs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, food and entertainment.

Mr. Zhao Heng, a well-known scholar and cultural master, selected 34 recent works and compiled them into a collection of essays "Memories for Future Years". Mr. Zhao Heng adheres to his consistent simple and sincere style, and uses his profound cultural accumulation and years of life insights to present readers with a rich spiritual world full of historical and cultural heritage. The book is divided into four volumes. The first volume "Culture" reflects the author's unique thinking on culture and culture-related phenomena and things; the second volume "Old Friends" is the exclusive memory of several old friends such as Ma Lianliang, Zhang Boju, Liu Zonghan, etc.; The third volume "Beijing" contains articles related to Beijing. From this perspective, it writes about the author's lifelong bond with the city of Beijing; the fourth volume of "Hundred Operas" explores ancient and modern times, comparing many ancient and modern sports such as swimming, horse racing, fencing, archery, etc., Highlighting the interest in the collision, and also exploring the status of sports in ancient culture and their value to today. "I know that the past will be difficult to look back on, so I will keep it as a memory for future years." Listening to Mr. Zhao Heng talking about culture, recalling old friends, talking about Beijing, and chatting about various dramas, downplaying the years, quietly observing the time...

"A Crescent Moon Also Like a Hook: Selected Works by Zhao Heng" is a self-selected collection by Mr. Zhao Heng, a cultural celebrity. Mr. Zhao Heng, with his profound cultural accumulation and years of life insights, painted a vivid picture of life in the past for us. The book is divided into three parts: Reminiscing about food and drink - telling the appetites of gourmets, showing the traces of human relationships and the changes of the times through food; Reminiscing about scenery - recalling the passing etiquette, customs and old literati, recording the dying traditional Chinese culture; Reminiscing about old friends - describing the voices, smiles and interactions of the older generation of literati and scholars, and looking for the afterimages of the masters in the words. A collection of personal memories that spans half a century, and a long-lasting history of social and cultural life.

This book is Mr. Zhao Heng's latest work. For the first time, the author concentrates his pen and ink on recalling the life he lived in Dongsiertiao in the 1950s and 1960s. He mainly describes the characters, as well as social experiences and Beijing scenery. It has a profound flavor of life and human touch, and also has the value of a history of social customs. The book has about 200,000 words and is divided into two parts. The first part mainly writes about family affairs, starting from the great-grandfather's generation to his grandfather's settlement in Beijing, recalling the older relatives in the family, his personal youth time, and the surrounding life scenes (Longfu Temple, Wangfujing, Dong'an Market, etc.). The second chapter mainly describes the relatives and friends at home, academic teachers and friends (such as Song Yunbin, He Cijun, etc.) And various guests (such as Zhang Junqiu, Pu Zuo, Xi Xiaobo, etc.), Showing the life profile of some middle- and upper-class figures in Beijing's cultural circles at that time.

The book is divided into four parts: "searching for the past", "visiting", "talking" and "talking about mountains". The content is mostly about what the author has seen, heard and felt over the years, including the grinding of painting work, the aftertaste of trivial matters in life, and the reflections on various aspects of life.