Secondly, when it comes to Beijing’s material benefits, it is also a bad place for real estate, such as mountains and seas, foreign groceries, radishes and cabbages. People who have lived in Beijing for two or three years always feel that Beijing is too dull, gray sand is too dim and life is too changing when they walk through the front door, and they feel comfortable when they walk through the Lugou, as if they have a new life. But after a year and a half, anyone who lives outside Beijing except his childhood hometown will have to think of Beijing again and hope to go back and vaguely suffer from severe homesickness. One experience is that everyone who has lived in Beijing feels particularly strong in myself. Perhaps the biggest reason is that my long bones are still buried in the graveyard of Guangyi Garden in the suburbs, where several close friends were killed and suffered at the same time.
One thing that people in Beiping don’t like is that everyone thinks it’s most important for Beiping to unite in weather. I also think there are not many places in China to describe it well. For convenience, I want to divide it into four seasons and talk about it briefly.
Since Beiping entered the lunar calendar in October, it has been the season when the dust and sand are everywhere and the wind is biting. Winter in Beiping is the most feared day for ordinary people, but if you want to know the uniqueness of a place, I’d better appreciate it when it is most perfect, so it’s always my philosophy to go to the tropical cold weather in summer and the North Pole. Although it’s much colder in winter than in the south, people in the north feel the great leisure in winter.
Let’s talk about the cold-proof device of the house first. The houses in the north are not the same as the modern cities in the south. Generally, people in the north are always short and one-four rooms with thick mud walls on all sides. The parlour is a warm kang, a cloister is a window with tissue paper in its eyes and a damper. Besides, there is nothing else. In such a simple house, you can teach the stove to light a little cotton curtain, but it is always warm when you live in the house, like in March and April in spring, especially when you feel that the house is warm and tender. Sobbing in the northwest wind, the sky is always gray, and the road is always surrounded by gray obstacles. As soon as you step into the house from the dusty dust, you will feel a spring breath surrounded around you. Your horse will forget all the winter pains outside. If you eat wine and burn mutton pots, it will be even more impossible to give up wine in the north in winter. Adding garlic, mutton and soy sauce to cook together can almost make a room full of white water, steam and warm air. Glass windows will sweat in the first half of the night and become strange ice patterns in the second half.
When it snows, of course, the scene will change again in the morning. Opening your eyes from a thick quilt will make your eyes dizzy. When the sun shines, the snow will shine one by one, and it will be dormant for a long time. At this time, birds will fly to feed, vibrate their feathers and talk, and squeak endlessly. After several days, the gloomy days and clouds suddenly become clear, so young northern residents can live outside, skate, make snowmen, drive ice carts and snowmobiles are the most energetic in this kind of day.
I used to spend the night in this kind of heavy snow when it was sunny. Some friends crossed the lame donkey Xizhimen Camel Village. There was a heavy snow on the outskirts of Beiping, and there were many dead trees in the western hills. There were a few snow-like northwest winds blowing from time to time, which gave people an impression. It was really profound, great and mysterious. Until more than ten years later, I still have to make a chill when I think about the scene, just like standing by Diaoyutai River for a moment.
Beiping Winter Night is especially suitable for reading letters, reminiscing about the past and gossiping about nonsense. I remember that all three of us lived in Beijing at that time. Every winter night, we always traveled thousands of miles to get together for a talk. When we were teenagers, we met things in our hometown, and the children went to bed. The servants also went to bed. We three brothers would have to add more coal and have a long talk for a few nights. Because it was windy and cold outside, at one or two o’clock in the middle of the night, they would all say simply sit and sit for the day. Bright words like this kind of precious memory like this kind of deepest emotional appeal means that you can’t enjoy the epiphyllum several times in your life, but if it weren’t for the winter nights in Beiping, the fun would certainly not be as long as this.
Generally speaking, Beiping winter is the only opportunity to appreciate the smell in the north. The benefits of this season are mixed memories of trivial matters in this season. If you want to write it in detail, it will always be a little better than the scenery of the Imperial Capital. I feel that it is too long to remember a little bit of my personal experience. I can write a little more about my dreams in spring, summer and autumn. I will mourn the death of my country on this day.
Spring and Autumn is a lovely season everywhere, but it’s a little different in other places in Beiping. Spring in the north comes later and shorter. After the northwest wind stops, the snow gradually disappears. When the driver can’t see the smooth old sheepskin coat, you have to prepare money for spring outing. Because spring comes and believes that spring goes, you will have to sneak past the house furnace like a flying horse in Beiping. Maybe you will have to call for a arbor soon after it is removed.
The most memorable trace of spring in the north is the new green layer outside the city box, which is like a flood. Beijing has come to be a city where trees can’t see the roof, and the green city will step on the yellow soil slope all around the city gate. It is even more crowded with trees and forests, trembling in the sunlight, and the light green waves are shiny and shiny. If the nervous system is not very healthy, people will suddenly plunge into this light green ocean wave and have a look, which will ensure that you will faint if you don’t open your eyes and stand on your feet.
The new green outside Beijing, Qiongdao, Chunyin, Xishan, and the verdant scenery, is really a wonderful painting of extraordinary splendor, but this frame or painting cloth is now completely in the hands of a troll with black hair. When will it be possible to see the light of day again in the north?
In terms of topography and latitude, the summer in the north is certainly cooler than that in the south. It is really not necessary to spend the summer in Beiping City than in Beidaihe or Xishan. It is the hottest time from noon to three or four o’clock in the afternoon. There is always a place in the sun and mountains that is not cool and cloudy. It is necessary to wear a single shirt to pass after midnight, and it is necessary to cover a thin quilt. Beiping natural ice is cheap and durable, and people who have lived in Beiping in summer can’t forget a favor.
I have spent three summers in Peiping, such as the No.2 Gate of Lingjiaogou in Shichahai. Of course, I have been to all the places in summer, but in the middle of the dog days, don’t ask whether it is day or night. You can teach a rattan couch to move to the grape trellis or the shade of rattan flowers in the courtyard to lie down and eat iced tea, snow lotus root and listen to the drums of the blind, but you can’t feel the heat fumigation at all. At the hottest time in summer, it’s only 945 degrees Fahrenheit in Peiping. This hot weather is only 10 days at the most.
In Peiping, the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn are connected, which seems to be a cold period and a warmer period. It is a short moment from spring to summer to autumn, and it feels a little cold after a nap. Therefore, the autumn in the north is particularly long and the autumn aftertaste is stronger than that in other places. I spent an autumn in Peiping two years ago because I came back from Beidaihe. At that time, I have written an article praising the autumn in Peiping, and I don’t want to repeat it here, but the autumn colors in the suburbs of Peiping are really like a book, and you can’t get tired of reading it.
It’s crisp in autumn, windy and sunny in the morning, and you can go for a walk on a donkey in the western hills or the Biyun Temple in Yuquan Mountain to see the red persimmons in the distance, the smoke trees, the reeds and millet in the countryside, and the farmers’ tenants are brought into the city on the donkey’s back. You can guarantee that you won’t get tired of it for a month. It’s good everywhere in the spring and autumn, but the autumn in the north seems to be higher. The northern air seems to be drier and healthier, and the feeling of the plants falling and the golden wind seems to be much more serious and bleak in the north. If Go to live in the farmer’s house or in front of the ancient temple for three months in the 10th day of the lunar month to see the ancient people’s sadness. It’s so sad that they can’t feel the mourning of herding horses in the south, but in Peiping, especially in the suburbs, you will really feel so sad and cry for thousands of miles. I said that autumn in Peiping is the real autumn. Autumn in the south is just the IndianSuer or the weather in Koharu in English.
Looking at the four seasons in Beiping, every season has its special benefits. Winter is the period of room, food and election. Autumn is the day of the countryside, and the eagle is the day of spring. The new green is beautiful. Summer is cool and refreshing. When the seasons are changed for a while, it is another kind of interest. It is a kind of Chinese flavor that is not connected but both of them are in harmony. The temple lights up in Fengtai to see the peony garden and find plum blossoms. For five or six hundred years, culture has gathered in Beiping. It is not good all year round in January. I am remembering Beiping and I am deeply wishing her safe progress. We
May 27th, 1936
Weather in Koharu
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It seems that a lot of time has passed since I alienated my pen and ink stone. Recently, I have lost my sense of the times at all. My desk is piled with two or three letters from the south asking me if I always don’t write home letters. However, I have been reluctant to write home letters for a long time. From the beginning, it has been a year since I published the last text, and it takes two or three months for my right hand and five fingers to throw away from the pen and paper. When I compete this year or three months, it is almost like a camel’s body, but it is a loss from congenital deficiency. This is our China doctor. I always talk, so don’t laugh at me here. It’s the greatest miracle after Moses that I have lived in this cold sea of imperial cities in the north wind and suffered all kinds of bullying and humiliation.
In retrospect, this year is really a long time. The bell and drum are full, and the autumn night is long. When everyone sleeps in the middle of the night, I walk around alone in a six-foot bedroom. Think about my woman. Think about my friend. Think about how many short cigarettes I have smoked in my dark future. When I can’t sleep, I took a candle and went to the kitchen alone to cook some bad chickens and ducks. It’s more than three times and five times. Looking back now, at that time, after I first arrived in Beijing, I looked like a childhood nightmare. It seems that it has been more than ten years.
This is especially because I feel that the matter of long years is not a matter of consciousness. In fact, in the past year, my body and spirit have been imprinted on both sides. This family is very short, but I have been branded for a long time. Last October, some poor friends sent me a boat at Huangpu River. If I met them on the way at this moment this year, they would always give me a gentle glance and will definitely walk forward without changing their normal state, although I prayed silently in my heart that I met them and didn’t know them.
In this year, my aging weather has really hit rapidly, and my white hair is really rapid. An exaggerated metaphor is that if we don’t go for the time being, we will give a discount. For example, I have grown ten years old during this year, and my teeth have lost my memory. I have to look back in the mirror every morning in amazement. It is reflected that there is another old man who is under 40 and a half years old behind me, and the waist belt is full of holes, and then a hole is made. It’s not enough, but I have to start all over again. Now I’m in the second place. The saddest thing is that when people bully me and insult me, it’s easy to get up in the past, and that kind of anger and passion can’t be encouraged now. Moreover, when I feel the greatest insult, I don’t know where to come from, and I always have a funny feeling. Needless to say, when I was young, all my delusions have been exhausted. Now I can’t even remember whether my wife, children are born at home and my mother is healthy or not. When I go to the street, I can I’m afraid it’s getting cold now, so walk slowly. I’ve seen some streets and pedestrians forming a modern world of great harmony. I’m tired of seeing and walking, and I’m running home to get something delicious to eat. I also want to be able to eat these delicious things without being full. I’m afraid I can’t eat them all the time because of my bad teeth and indigestion.
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Now what we enjoy here is the best time of the year, but in October, it is the time of Koharu in the north and south of the Yangtze River. Besides, the world is a world of Datong Oriental carts, ox carts and wagons, all of which are flickering in the breeze. Except for the five-color flags, the national flags of the world are sky-grey, high and far away. Not only are we all singing, laughing and dancing, but our ears are wailing and crying wildly. In this peaceful and prosperous time, I should also take a cup of wine to celebrate Nanshan Shoujiu from the sunset in Chang ‘an, but I don’t know why I came to the
I looked up to see the clear blue weather. People scattered everywhere, and the sun seemed to say something terrible to me. But because I loved and pitied me, I didn’t dare to say anything. Suddenly, the rope fell to the ground and rang. After I bowed my head and looked at the place where the pronunciation came from, I couldn’t see any movement. This is about that the locust tree behind our court got rid of the burden of one leaf again. It was about ten o’clock before noon. My family went. I strolled to the yard because I couldn’t sit alone in the house, but I was in the yard.
Half a year ago, when every day was full of melancholy, it was a kind of surplus to enjoy. Now I can’t even enjoy happiness. My fragile body and mind are suddenly stained with this layer. Although it is very light, it seems to be a deep worry. I feel restless and have no choice but to smoke several cigarettes in succession.
Was it taken by a god or was my star lucky enough to be here when the doorbell rang? Mr. G, a child, came in with a watercolor tool rack on his back and said
Duff, I want to sketch in the countryside. Why don’t you go for a walk with me?
Mr. G is a very lively young painter under the age of 20, because I also look at painting very much. He always comes to me to talk about painting. According to him, it’s too beautiful to sit at home today, so I’d better go for a walk. When I change my clothes, he walks in the door and tells the concierge not to eat, so that everyone can’t feel happy when I wait.
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We came to the road without a definite purpose, but we went west to Pingzemen. The sunshine didn’t ask about a case outside the city. There was a stall near the city gate, where the peanut vendor was spreading. It was probably because he was wearing that wide jacket. I think it also reflected the blind autumn weather. Pedestrians in the teahouse can’t get rid of a pair of poor colors in such warm sunshine. I look at these people and feel uncomfortable. I told Mr. G to avoid the street outside the city and turn north along the city. I often come to the city’s long embankment in summer. There are very few carts coming and going in the sky, and the color of willows beside the road has also changed. The shallow water in the city river is still reflecting the sunshine. In fact, there is no difference in summer, but I think there is always a lonely feeling floating on the water. Look up at the distance on the other side. Rows of semi-withered trees are staggered in the middle, and the color of the earth is not like that in summer. The shallow grass has dried up and brought a light yellow color. The roof of the French church seems to have lost its power, and it is isolated there in the semi-withered trees. In summer, a row of western hills and even peaks are It’s fresh outside. This row of brown barriers is much closer. It’s much closer than usual. In addition, it’s filled with blue and clean air. It’s full of sunshine and warm sunshine across the bank. Two gray soldiers came and they dragged two oblique short shadows silently to the south. When I met them, I remembered the robbery outside Pingze the other day and said to Mr. G.

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