"Spring and autumn dreams, those who wake up are heavy, and those who don't want to wake up are old."
The book is called Taipei People, but it tells the stories of all kinds of mainlanders from the mainland to Taiwan Province Province. In these stories, everyone is looking back, looking back at the high-spirited, iron-clad Majinge, looking back at the gold powder of the Six Dynasties, looking back at the unseen Shili Yangchang. Bai Xianyong said that he wrote to express the silent sadness of human beings. "Taipei people" is like this. Those old dreams that no longer exist and the amber-solidified time are like a cup of bitter wine.
The book describes Yin Xueyan, who never grows old, the general's wife, the dancer Jin Daban whose love is disillusioned, and Mr. Yu, an intellectual whose youthful ideal is fading. Past and present, prosperity and poverty, youth and the decline of color, many contradictions are intertwined in everyone's life trajectory.
The era of great changes and the hometown that I can't go back to have created the tragic fate of the characters. Everyone seems to be unable to escape his own fate and the rise and fall of the times. All this is like a dream, and it finally goes up in smoke.