Although living in a peaceful era, she still had to suffer again and again, bitter, unnecessary and groundless separations that felt like death. Yet she never complained. And she always tried her best to open her arms, arms that were turning older and stiffer, to embrace and offer protection to all her loved ones.
Why is there a saying in China that "a beauty is created by a lover's eyes (something similar to Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?)"? 世上爲什麼會有「情人眼裏出西施」這個成語呢?竊以爲……
And sadly, that is still the reality in China. 我小時候「批林批孔」時卻天天都在批判它!多麼荒謬!
Would she herself be able to live a life free of fear in her remaining years? Nobody knew. 她自己的下半生,能免於被追殺的恐懼嗎?安妮心中,似乎充滿著憂傷。
The mystical udumbara is not a dream/Its fragrance penetrates the darkest night/空花非是夢,夜來氣浮香。
While I was preparing to give her a lengthy sermon on the subject, she smiled and said with ease, “I know! It is just to be a good person!”
「我認為神韻具有巨大的穿透力、有巨大的影響力、有巨大的震撼力;同時我也感到神韻具有一種巨大的能量,她不僅是對中國古典文化一個完整的一個體現;同時她對人類歷史具有一種影響和作用。」