"My Hometown Is Far Away" is a prose about my hometown. But it is different from ordinary lyrical prose about missing one's hometown. Zhang Kangkang's article expresses his understanding of "hometown" and his exploration of a deeper meaning based on his emotional understanding of several hometowns. One chapter in the article describes the four "hometowns" the author has experienced. The first is the author’s ancestral home in Xinhui, Guangdong. The author describes the fascinating beauty of his "hometown" from the perspectives of vision, hearing, and smell. Next is the author’s grandmother’s house, Luoshe, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. There the author left her wonderful childhood holiday life. Again, it’s the author’s birthplace—Hangzhou. The author felt the gentleness and indifference by the West Lake where "light makeup and heavy makeup are always suitable". Finally, there is Xiaoxinanling, a land of ice and snow, where the author spent his youth. The south of the Yangtze River is made of water, and the north of the Great Wall is made of ice. Here, the author has listened to the sound of falling snow and felt the warmth of red flames in the ice and snow. Each of these four hometowns is so beautiful, but the author's feelings about the four hometowns are different. For modern people, the love of returning to their homeland no longer hinders their pursuit of happiness. Reality sometimes makes people leave their hometowns. At such times, how to find a home in the spiritual world is more worthy of consideration. Zhang Kangkang uses her words to point out a way to our spiritual home.
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