處暑

8月23日太陽黃經

150度

End of Heat

鷹乃祭鳥

天地始肅

禾乃登

疾風驅急雨，殘暑掃除空。

因識炎涼態，都來頃刻中。

紙窗嫌有隙，紈扇笑無功。

兒讀秋聲賦，令人憶醉翁。

——仇遠《處暑后風雨》

開漁節，放河燈

Main Content Of This Month's Magazine

8月精選 August

有界·VIEW

Filter’s World

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Life can be interesting and absurd sometimes. Some unbearable burden may lie behind the glorious surface while happiness and content the frustrated poverty. When life is added with filters, it seems that anyone can stand on the top of his life. If ideality serves as the filter of reality, then what filter does reality serves as?

無疆·WORLD

Peaceful life among the waters and mountains

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The mountains are hollow after the refreshing rain. The autumn weather arrives in a late fashion. Through the pine trees, the bright moon shines. Over the stones, the clear spring flows. Living near a mountain, I observe flowers and trees bloom at their proper time, and everything belongs to where it should be. The beautiful life in the mountains is the poetic and distant land in my heart. Blaze a trail and I’ll start my life in the mountains.

絲路·SILK ROAD

Kolkata, a city where no old friends are supposed to reunite

For most people, Tagore and Teresa's Mother House represent Kolkata, India. Once known as "Rome in Asia", the city was the second largest city only second to London. It also served as an important node on maritime silk road and thousands of Chinese people have settled and lived there since hundreds of years ago.

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書評·BOOKS

Marquez’s Joke： Read Love in the Time of Cholera

As one of the greatest writers in Austria, Kafka was good at writing with deformed and absurd image and intuitive and symbolic techniques. His writing was clear with weird imagination with fable style often applied. Everyone has different understanding for the implied meaning behind the stories without final conclusion， In the 19th century, various writing genres recognized retroactively him as their avant-courier.

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藝境·GALLERY

The Spectacle of Ideality

Life is more than just what lies in front of your eyes, but poetry and distant lands. Some artists reveal the scars of reality with cool mind while some are working hard on creating an ideal world. The magnificent spectacle by Lorrain frees us from the reality momentarily.

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窗外·AIRLINES

Small Town in South France

Provence in summer is full of the fragrance of lavender. When summer begins every year, the lavender in the fields near Valensole blooms one after another, filling the air with pleasant fragrance of lavender. It is said the flower language of lavender is waiting for love, therefore the large field of lavender in Provence becomes the symbol of roman in people's mind.

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