Britain is not a place where immigrants can’t live. It’s a place that’s different from Vancouver, Toronto. Can in the UK long ju, character, to adapt to the British culture of bone marrow, to understand a word, is called the eccentricity.
There is no proper Chinese translation for this word. Can barely be interpreted as: there is a maverick personality strange lonely high. Eccentrics at one point in the history of the breed in China: the wei jin the seven sages of bamboo forest, teacher zhang liang’s art of war in the western han dynasty qian Bridges of the elderly, the northern song dynasty su dongpo, eight mountain man, ku hung-ming in the late qing dynasty, Ming dynasty into such, all those highlights, but ordinary people don’t understand.
Mi was not to be confused with the aloof, arrogant, sulky members of the Chinese literati like Lu Xun, Li Ao, who was eccentric and out of touch, but loved to insult the vulgar. This kind of person is not Eccentrics.
Photographer Julian lee in Hong Kong to Britain in The early eighty s, like: as soon as I get to London as a powder of The Prince, neutral walking king’s cross station, David bowie, an alternative called Scala theatre, a stand-up ancestor Quentin Crisp, The colonial government all walks to The study of political appointee scoffed all dare not to face The dark corner, and The level of colorful inside many people and things, Julian lee see like a five-year-old child for The first time The disney park laughter, clap your hands. I saw his face and told him: Congratulations, you stay, you will be welcome in London.
Sure enough, he went to The Royal Academy of Art, made album covers for The Prince, and opened a photo exhibition at soho’s avant-garde Gallery. Like a fish in water, only later to apply for city University back to do art department lecturer. I told him: Hong Kong is not for you. ‘But Hong Kong has the steady security of a well-paid job,’ he said.
His ashes were scattered in the River Thames, not Victoria Harbour. He need not be so extreme as Li Jun, though he had lived in England for a long time and unconsciously acquired the taste of this Eccentric character. Gradually, I realized that this quality would make me go a little deeper into the truth of life.
A bit like a monk, but not quite. To be alone in the dark, to wear an old shoe and a jacket for twenty years, and to be somewhat lost, is an environment suitable for mathematicians and writers. A man’s house is his fortress. Hubbub, gossip and prying into other people’s privacy is a lifestyle suitable for hutong and lane houses. Even Hong Kong people who want to buy a house in Britain should have a club house. Such property is not for British people.
And that kind of weather is also the soil and water environment in which this character is cultivated. So I have to go all the way to the past, unless I like reading, have a little naive heart, love novel, otherwise how to stand.
It is the beautiful scenery in the South of the Yangtze River.
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