From "One Hundred Poems of Feng Tang" written by modern writer Feng Tang.
From: "One Hundred Feng Tang Poems" by Modern Feng Tang
Original text:
May you be away for half your life and still a young man when you return.
Translation:
I hope that after half your life, you will come back with a clean heart and still be like a teenager.
Extended information:
Creative background:
Feng Tang is well-known to readers for his "Trilogy on the Growth of All Things". The collection of Feng Tang's essays launched by Wanrong Books is divided into five volumes: including the trilogy "The Growth of All Things" - "Give Me a Girl at Eighteen", "The Growth of All Things", "Beijing Beijing", thoughts Essays on "You Will Be Old While You Live" and the novel "Happiness" written in his youth
Looking back at his previous works, Feng Tang has some interesting comments, such as "Happiness" which he wrote when he was 17 years old. , and now he says that he can't stand it at all, but strangely, two or three of his particularly important female friends like this book very much.
He thinks "You will grow old while you are alive". There is something childish about it, but he believes that this childishness is like red wine. Different years have different flavors, so although the words written in his youth are childish, they have a unique taste.
The story described by Feng Tang was praised. Many readers regard it as Feng Tang's autobiographical story, because the characters' experiences or life scenes in the book are always very close to the author himself, but Feng Tang denies the term "autobiography", "It is not an autobiography, because these four novels are full of stories. What I write is not my true self, and my true self has never changed much.
This is a description of a group of characters, a developmental stage that human beings must go through, a region, and an era through a character that I am most familiar with."