Beijing and Hong Kong Essays

"Beijing and Hong Kong Essays" is a collection of essays based on personal travel and mountains, rivers and cities. The author was born in a small coastal town in Guangdong. He studied, worked and lived in three cities: Beijing, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. During this period, he traveled to Yunnan, Fujian, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces. He condensed into words his life journey spanning north and south for more than 20 years. The book takes the three cities as the axis and the Kyushu landscape as an extension. It completes an in-depth dialogue about time, memory and individual existence between the palace wall and the seaport, the tea garden and the ancient city, the ginkgo and the jingle car. The author puts his palms against the city bricks, listens to the sound of springs with his ears, and measures the ancient roads with his footsteps. He turns the stone steps smoothed by time, the ironware rusted by the sea breeze, and the bluestone slabs dented by countless pairs of feet into a ferry leading to a broader spiritual world. This is not a hurried travelogue, but a museum of mountains and rivers on paper - from the 600-year history of the red walls and yellow tiles of the Forbidden City, to the whistle of the Star Ferry cutting through the morning fog in Victoria Harbor; from a cup of milk tea in the cafe under the Lion Rock, to the eternity of the triple tones of the sky and the sea at dusk in Tolo Port, it invites everyone Readers who are willing to slow down can gaze at the countless stories hidden behind those silent objects in the text, identify the traces of time in the texture of space, and finally find their own tranquility and vastness in this spiritual territory constructed by city bricks, sea water, tea soup, the patina of tram tracks and the moonlight on the Peak of Victoria Peak.