Essays on The Road of Writinghttps://zyxn.fun/en/tags/essays/Recent content from The Road of WritingHugoenAll articles on this blog are licensed under the BY-NC-SA license agreement unless otherwise stated. Please indicate the source when reprinting!Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:56:00 +0800Observation: Sixty Per Cent Chance of Rainhttps://zyxn.fun/en/posts/guan-cha-liu-cheng-hui-xia-yu/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:56:00 +0800https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/guan-cha-liu-cheng-hui-xia-yu/ Observation: Sixty Per Cent Chance of Rain

Author: 卜世()

A sixty per cent chance of rain, which we read as probably will not.

Published on 2026-10-28 at The Road of Writing, last modified on 2026-10-28

]]>Life and ObservationRambling: People Who Speak in Absoluteshttps://zyxn.fun/en/posts/man-tan-ba-hua-shuo-man-de-ren/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:56:00 +0800https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/man-tan-ba-hua-shuo-man-de-ren/ Rambling: People Who Speak in Absolutes

Author: 卜世()

Words with no room left in them are the cheapest to say, and the least likely ever to be called to account.

Published on 2026-10-27 at The Road of Writing, last modified on 2026-10-27

]]>Life and ObservationJottings: The Steps We Skiphttps://zyxn.fun/en/posts/bei-sheng-diao-de-ji-bu/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:56:00 +0800https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/bei-sheng-diao-de-ji-bu/ Jottings: The Steps We Skip

Author: 卜世()

What tools save us is steps — and also the ground where ability used to grow.

Published on 2026-10-26 at The Road of Writing, last modified on 2026-10-26

]]>Life and ObservationNight Reading: Tao Yuanming Was Not Lying Flathttps://zyxn.fun/en/posts/tao-yuanming-tangping/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:56:00 +0800https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/tao-yuanming-tangping/ Night Reading: Tao Yuanming Was Not Lying Flat

Author: 卜世()

Reading Tao Yuanming as the founding father of lying flat is the great misreading of our time.

Published on 2026-10-25 at The Road of Writing, last modified on 2026-10-25

]]>Reading and AppreciationAside: What Is the Old Style?https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/he-wei-gu-feng/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0800https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/he-wei-gu-feng/ Aside: What Is the Old Style?

Author: 卜世()

People ask me often: what is gufeng, the old style? Silk and satin? Pavilions and towers? A vocabulary of archaisms?

To my mind it is first of all a state of mind that shows up as taste — leaving blank, holding back, keeping warm.

Published on 2026-10-24 at The Road of Writing, last modified on 2026-10-24

]]>Aesthetics and DesignOpening: A Blog Opens for Businesshttps://zyxn.fun/en/posts/kai-pian/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0800https://zyxn.fun/en/posts/kai-pian/ Opening: A Blog Opens for Business

Author: 卜世()

A domain was chosen, a small site built. The personal blog I had been turning over in my mind for months finally opened today.

The site is called “The Writing Road: Easy to Know, Hard to Walk” — writing is easy to talk about and hard to do, and the only way to get anywhere is to keep putting down one word after another. I am not aiming at anything grand. I only want a small plot of ground where the scraps of ordinary days — what I read, the roads I walk, the idle turns of mind — can be gathered up. Over the years it may amount to something, and the time will not have gone entirely to waste.

Published on 2026-10-24 at The Road of Writing, last modified on 2026-10-24

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