On the twenty-fifth of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, Xiaoxue. The Five Elements Sea is full of gold, full of power. Chong Yang Sha East. In a glitzy place like France, I live silently in a small town near Paris. Time just passes. Rain kept falling. Stepping on the wet sycamore leaves, choking on the cold water in the air. I am full of winter memories of this city at 50 degrees 34 minutes north latitude. On that day, I inadvertently caught a glimpse of a movie poster with Leslie Cheung's familiar face painted on it, with four big Chinese characters - East Evil and West Poison. ASHES OF TIME, CENDRES DU TEMPS, the ashes of time. Suddenly, the past came up and flowed before my eyes. However, before I could feel sad, a gust of wind blew away the past. That year, I don't know how old I am, I was nestled on my parents' wooden bed, 1 meter away from the 21-inch Hitachi color TV. There was a dim yellow sand in the TV, and a few figures of Thurso. Staring at the small TV in the quiet mirror-like lake reflects the boundless desert, I feel very moved. From that time on, I began to know that the place I had longed for was called the distant place. That night, I didn't see Ouyang Feng's handsome face, I only remembered the back of Hong Qi leading the camel. "The day he left, the wind was blowing south, and he deliberately went against the wind. That day was the fifteenth, and the almanac was written: Lose the star, be on duty, north of Italy." So I said to myself, it's good to live like this... On this day, many years later, in the pitch-black screening hall, there were sporadically spectators. On the big screen is the golden desert and the blue sky. Hong Qi, still has the character of going up against the wind. He said that he wants to cross this desert and see the other side of the desert. In the dark, I stared at Ouyang Feng's charming eyes, as if I was in his wine stack in the desert. "Everyone goes through a stage where they see a mountain and want to know what's behind it," he said. "I really wanted to tell him that maybe after going over the mountain, you'll find that there's nothing special. Looking back, you feel This side is better." "But I know he won't believe it. According to his character, how can he be willing if he doesn't try it himself?" Probably because I wanted to be Hong Qi. Perhaps once upon a time I also drank that jar of "Drunken Life and Dreaming of Death" and began to forget how I left my hometown and went to one distant place after another. I always thought that the happiness I wanted was farther away. I also don’t remember Maggie Cheung, who was wearing red clothes, wearing red flowers, and weeping in front of the bronze mirror. I have never thought about who and how to spend the best years of my life before Hongyan was not old. I am used to wearing a long batik skirt and a loose shirt with wide sleeves, passing through the desolate streets. I don't care how time slid across my skin. I just don't like looking in the mirror and seeing my tired eyes. Curled up in the farthest corner from the silver screen, but unable to resist, was engulfed by the endless yellow sand. Suddenly I remembered the original intention of the long journey that I had long forgotten. However, later, Ouyang Feng burned the hut and left his desert. At that moment, I woke up. I once wanted to be a hero like Hong Qi, but in the end, I became Ouyang Feng in the desert... I wonder if one day I will be able to get out of my desert? I don't know if there is a corner of the paradise: the breeze and the moon, the weeping willows in the boat, and the romance of a lifetime.
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