篇名 | Travels Through Time and Timeless Beauty|A Time/Space Oasis – The Taipei Botanical Garden |
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卷期 | 6 |
作者 | Xu Ciqian |
頁次 | 024-025 |
出刊日期 | 201612 |
If the novel Ryu can be described as a youth novel, the Taipei Botanical Garden, which makes repeated appearances in the book together with scenes of first love, can be said to be a place blooming with the hard-to-miss poetry of the old city. Protagonist Ye Qiusheng (葉秋生) makes frequent visits to the garden. In the beginning, this is to trace the reasons behind the death of his grandfather. Later, he comes to talk of love. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Taipei Botanical Garden was busy morning to night. At daybreak, seniors would come to practice tai chi or ballroom dancing, or carry out another form of exercise. During the day, many students would be by Lotus Pond sketching.