Personal Reflections

Choosing the East 择东 日月轮回西复东，是非成败异求同。 屈指行程二万五，敢舞长缨缚苍龙。 几度东风吹旧树，十载波澜缘为公。 万万人民待破晓，扫除一切害人虫。 The sun and moon turn, west and then east; amid right and wrong, victory and defeat, we seek different paths toward the same goal. ...

Someone answered the question of meaning and value in the last century: The most precious thing a person has is life, and life is given only once. One should live so that, looking back, one will not regret having wasted the years in idleness, nor feel ashamed of having lived meanly and vulgarly. Of course, ordinary people like us do not necessarily possess such a lofty outlook. My own answer is the unity of knowledge and action. ...

Meeting Happiness: In Lingnan 相见欢·在岭南 来来往往匆匆，到南东，极目楼高厂阔，去无踪。 人熙熙，车攘攘，道不同，十年未尽之路，主人翁？ People hurry back and forth, rushing south and east; high towers and broad factories fill the horizon, then vanish without a trace. ...

What Is It All For? “What Is It All For?”—A 97-year-old philosopher rethinks life in his final months | Being 97 | Documentary short | Old age Death is not frightening. Losing things is. When we are young, we naturally possess so much: a strong body, a wise mind, nimble limbs, abundant energy, and endless ambitions. The body is the bridge that makes all of it possible. As the years pass, however, everything begins to leave us. ...

Three in the Moonlight “A 53-year-old childless cat lady regrets it, twenty years too late” — Bilibili Students cannot understand this kind of urban loneliness. There are classmates when you go out and parents when you go home. But when you move to a big city alone for work, with no familiar face anywhere, your phone rings only for spam or work. Loneliness crawls out from all four walls like woodworm and leaves you shivering. ...