Lights and Poetry in the World

The parting dock, the lonely wild crossing, the moonlit night in a foreign land... Every time Chen Wangshu stopped and looked back, poems lit up in his heart, like a lamp or a candle. This work is not only his personal spiritual epic, but also a picture of the vicissitudes of life drawn with the poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties as the soul and the character of the scholars as the pen and ink. From the prosperity of the capital to the decline of Shuzhou, he carried these bright "lights" up and down in the officialdom, making choices between love and meaning, and finally turned the words in the poem into a glimmer of light that illuminated the land and water.