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The Treasure Hidden Beside You
Retired editor Zhang Daxian accidentally discovered that the blue cat in the flower shop he often passed by was behaving strangely on his way to buy groceries every day. Driven by curiosity, she gradually became involved in a jewelry mystery that spanned the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. This short-haired blue cat named "Amber" turned out to be a "treasure keeper" who traveled through time and space, guiding her to find seven mysterious jewels scattered throughout Beijing. Behind every piece of
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Have You Eaten Today?
A Beijinger who has been away from his hometown for many years spent a year re-tasting every taste of his hometown - from the sourness of bean juice to the sweetness and crispness of candied haws, from the exquisiteness of palace snacks to the world of Hutong snacks. This is a journey of taste and a belated self-discovery of roots. What he records is not only the food, but also the people who still stubbornly cling to a certain corner, a certain taste, and a certain promise in a rapidly changing
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