"Autumn in Nanjing" Ye Zhaoyan, excerpts from the article are as follows:
I can't think of anything special about autumn in Nanjing. Nanjing is a city with four distinct seasons. It has all kinds of seasons and climates. It is hot in summer, cold in winter, humid in yellow plum weather, and dry in autumn. It’s not like Hainan Island where it’s summer all year round, it’s not like Kunming where it’s like spring all year round, and it’s not like Arctic Village where it snows for most of the year. Autumn in Nanjing seems very mediocre. When the day comes, there will be no delay. Just leave.
Nanjing is an embarrassing place. When I go to Qixia in autumn to see the red leaves, the red leaves are actually not authentic. First of all, it is not popular, and secondly, it cannot become a forest. Perhaps the only ginkgo tree worth seeing in Nanjing is the autumn. The autumn wind is bleak, and the golden leaves fall one after another, making a sound as if it is snowing. On the campus of Nanjing University, in Liangzhou of Xuanwu Lake, there are acres of ginkgo trees, but you have to hurry up to see them. The golden leaves of the tree will all fall away in a few days.
Autumn in Nanjing is precisely short-lived. Beauty is always short-lived, and it is beautiful because of its short-lived nature. Only Nanjing people who have experienced the scorching summer heat can truly feel the significance of the first autumn wind. It was a kind of luck to escape death. In the past days of continuous high temperatures, how many people used the phrase "it's so hot" as a mantra.
The autumn wind forces Nanjing, this ferocious furnace, to no longer be aggressive. In the same way, as autumn moves in day by day and winter approaches quietly, Nanjing people will feel autumn more than comrades in other places. of preciousness. Winters in Nanjing are often more difficult than those in the north. Students from the north who come to Nanjing to study at university often scream from the cold and humid air in winter.
Nanjing’s advantage is that the four seasons are orderly. Only in such a city can people truly experience the changes in climate and seasons. Spring, summer, autumn and winter are precious gifts given to mankind by nature. If any part is missing, it will be incomplete. Autumn in Nanjing is not as perfect as imagined, and perfection has always only existed in the imagination.