If someone increasingly yearns for a simple life—growing flowers, birds, insects, and fish; strolling through lush, dense parks; buying natural, unpretentious objects; ma...

This is a belated year-end summary, nearly a week late. These past few days I wanted to collect myself and carefully summarize last year's situation, but laziness prevail...

It's now 1:11 AM. In my life there have been countless moments like this, all consisting of "1"s. The most infuriating is undoubtedly pulling out my phone and seeing "11:...

In November I interviewed at five companies. In the end, I still ended up doing work similar to my first job. This reminded me of someone who said you must be careful cho...

Now I'm 22, almost 23. I don't know what my grandfather and father were doing at this age. I guess at that time Grandpa was eating from the big pot with production team v...

D3: Feilai Temple — Yubeng Village Last night I stayed in a room with a couple who came from Shenzhen. This room had three beds, each at 100 yuan. Although I had already ...

D6: The Old Town I had never been to Lijiang before, and had no desire to go—besides the overly commercialized old town, what else was there to remember about Lijiang? Bu...

D1: Shangri-La One hour before the holiday, the boss said we'd return to work on the 6th of National Day. My heart immediately sank—did the planned 8-day itinerary have t...