Hometown ⁽²⁾

They say that once people reach a certain age, they take an interest in opera, genealogy, and hometown culture; in the second half of life we cannot help wondering where we came from. I think I have reached just such a turning point. Two or…

The bright moon over the Huainan, cold over a thousand peaks; into the dark unknown she goes, no one to tend her. —Song dynasty, Jiang Kui, "Treading on Grass" (Tasha Xing) Take just these last two lines of Jiang Kui's ci-poem and read them alone;…