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She has received her share of nature's bounty, has clung to her flowers and birds and hills and dales for her inspiration and moral support, which alone have kept her heart whole and pure and prevented the race from civic social degeneration. She has chosen to live much in the open, to bask in the sunlight, to watch the evening glow, to feel the touch of the morning dew and to smell the fragrance of hay and of the moist earth; through her poetry, through the poetry of habits of life as well as through the poetry of words she has learned to refresh her, alas! too often wounded, soul.

Lin Yutang's 'My Country and My People'

No. 50 Moganshan Rd, Chunming Art Industrial Park was originally the Xinhe Spinning Mill, a Zhou-family enterprise and a representative of the merchants from Huizhou prefecture of Anhui province, which was built in 1937. The Park has introduced more than 130 artists who come from over 10 Chinese Mainland provinces and 16 foreign countries and districts. (more...)

《幽梦影》可说是集中国文人情致雅趣、格调才情之大成者。林语堂把它称之为享受自然和人生的警句格言，中国的古文本来是小品文的天下，而《幽梦影》则无疑是小品文的巅峰之作。作者用幽静的态度去观察人生与自然，如梦一般的迷离，如影一般的朦胧，折射出中国传统文人避世隐逸的独特感受和深度体验。 (more...)

近日翻到许思园的《中西文化回眸》，谈到中国之自然诗。

“凡诗的发展最初题材为神，次为人，又次为自然，最后诗家只是琢磨字句，规律实大致如此。”中国工艺美术的装饰题材也有类似发展。 (more...)