In the summer
Every time it rains
The heat comes down.
In the spring
Every time it snows
It gets warmer.
In the winter
The heaven’s getting rid of all its coldness.
Autumn lasts a week.
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Further reading in the China Flash series:
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Further reading in the China Flash series:
- Lean In Beijing on the new sexism, corporate ambition, marital choices and awesome girls in China
- Beijing Night
- Film-maker Jenny Man Wu on contemporary Chinese women’s wit, pain and ambivalence
- Benedicte Bro-Cassard, Beijing fashion photographer, on luxury, sugar daddies and sugar daughters
- Kong Lingnan, Beijing painter, on natural beauty and human ugliness
- Writer Kerry Brown on the seven elite men who rule a country with Communist roots and capitalist shoots
- Writer Zhang Chao on media misogyny, social changes and the pressures facing young Chinese women
- ABS Crew: Beijing graffiti artists on legal, semi legal and illegal Chinese street art
- My friend writes me a delicate poem to explain the intense Beijing seasons
- Even afternoon tea says something about modern, monetised China
- Porcelain dolls, bad Samaritans and the law
- Beijing storms, turtles and dogs
- Two Chinese characters
- Hair envy