I love lakes. For they are the eyes of the mother earth; they are the flowing deep love; and they are the wonders that exist in human life. As early as I was still a kid. I was always lit up at the sight of Lake of Taiye in Beihai Park. In the old society stricken by poverty and full of danger. Lake of Taiye was an unexpected surprise, a kind of fantastic tenderness as well as a kind of childlike openness and purity.

I often think that the land bears a marvelously harmonious relationship with us people: mountains stand for the great responsibility and the reserved reputation and integrity; seas for the illimitable thoughts and inexhaustible changes; deserts for the solemn expectation interweaved with hope and despair; and rivers for the spirit of pursuit, wisdom and restricted freedom…