Far Away Yet Empty

🌄🚶‍♂️💭 Faraway has nothing but farness. // 远方除了遥远一无所有。 Yuǎnfāng chúle yáoyuǎn yīwúsuǒyǒu. // Viễn phương trừ liễu diêu viễn nhất vô sở hữu. // Phương xa trừ xa xôi ra thì không có gì cả. P.s.: Picture taken in Changpinggou Valley (Changpinggou), Mt. Siguniang (Four Maiden’s Mountain or Skubla), Ngawa (Aba) Prefecture, Sichuan, China in … Read more

Sitting Alone

[Cũng là ngồi, nhưng muốn ngồi ở đây / I’d rather be sitting here] 🏞️🌬️🍃 Sitting alone, mind often strays, Emotions linger, thoughts in a daze. Clouds enshroud the mountain’s base, Wind howls through the valley’s space. // 独坐常忽忽, 情怀何悠悠。 山腰云缦缦, 谷口风飕飕。 Dú zuò cháng hūhū, Qínghuái hé yōuyōu. Shānyāo yún màn màn, Gǔkǒu fēng … Read more

Inner Obstacles

🏔️👟😓 Ce n’est pas la montagne à gravir qui vous fera abandonner, c’est le caillou dans votre chaussure. // It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it is the grain of sand in your shoe. // 使人疲惫的不是远方的高山,而是鞋里的一粒沙子。 Shǐ rén píbèi de bùshì yuǎnfāng de gāoshān, ér shì xié lǐ de yī lì shāzi. … Read more

10 Days With The Most Steps In 2019

According to Pedometer app, I walked the most steps in my Sichuan trip: 1. July 5: 31,497 steps ~ 15.12 km* (in Chengdu) 2. July 6: 29,337 steps ~ 14.08 km (in Chengdu) 3. July 3: 28,849 steps ~ 13.85 km (in Mt. Siguniang) 4. June 24: 23,878 steps ~ 11.46 km (in Dujiangyan and … Read more

Mountain Life

🏞️🌲🌾 Rise and fall outside the mountain, Those in the mountain don’t know. In the past year, There’s nothing to worry about. So people in the mountain, Live well into old age. They’re willing to eat pine flowers and cypress seeds, Old people return here for peace. // 山外兴与废, 山中皆不知。 算来一年中, 所忧无一时。 所以山中人, 人人皆其颐。 松花柏子肯许食, … Read more