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Appreciation of The Lost Horizon

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The novel depicts a pure land paradise hidden in the southwest of China-a place where Tibetans live a peaceful, quiet, eternal and mysterious life. In the novel, the author describes a beautiful kingdom. There, the three rivers meet, the mountains soar into the sky, the top of the mountain is covered with snow, and the deep grass is under your feet, covering the earth.

The author integrates World War I, the Great Depression and the global adventure fever into the characters in the book. It reflects that people were trying to pursue Shangri-La in their hearts at that time. This novel is thrilling, exciting, bizarre and full of drama.

What's more, reading this novel will be an experience of body, mind and soul.

Shangri-La, like the Peach Blossom Garden in the West (the story of Peach Blossom Garden, Tao Yuanming, about 365-427), is also an elusive and mysterious utopia.

However, Shangri-La's contact with the world will be more limited than that of Peach Blossom Garden, and it will not give up the achievements of scientific and technological civilization; It advocates the golden mean. I won't go to extremes, but I won't be too calm.

Shangri-la has its own responsibility to prepare for the coming disaster in the world (World War II). It is actually a modern Noah's Ark.

The author tries to deny that in the early 20th century, European society indulged in endless material pursuit, launched colonial wars of aggression crazily, and created an ideal utopian image-Shangri-La.

Its ultimate goal is to take the foreign image as an alien force, warn European society, urge introspection, and thus promote the adjustment and transformation of its own social world outlook ideology, hoping to establish an ideal western world that lives in peace with nature.

The Lost Horizon is a book published by Macmillan Press in London in April 1933. The author is James? James hilton.

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This book describes a riot in Bascou, a South Asian subcontinent country in the early 1930s. Consul General Conway of British Consulate, Americans Marison, Barnard and Missus Brinkero left Pakistan by small plane on May 20th and flew to Peshawar, Pakistan.

During the flight, they found that the plane had deviated from its original route and had flown from west to east and north along the Himalayas. The pilot is not the usual Finn, but a stranger with a weapon. The plane was hijacked and they had no weapons, so there was nothing they could do about it.

At night, the plane was forced to land on a deserted snowfield due to a fault, and the pilot was seriously injured, and four passengers were safe and sound. The next morning, before he died, the pilot said intermittently that this was a Tibetan area in China, and there was a Lama Temple called Shangri-La nearby. They can only find accommodation there. The desire to survive made them trek to Shangri-La.

In a long valley, they met an old man named Zhang Han, who was surrounded by a dozen Tibetans and could speak perfect English. The old man told them that this place is called Blue Moon Valley, which is the only way to Shangri-La.

The snow mountain towering like a pyramid in front of the valley is called Karakal, which is over 28,000 feet above sea level. Zhang took them to climb for almost a day, and finally passed through a misty forest, and finally arrived at Shangri-La, a Lama Temple in the city center.

The Lama Temple dominates the whole valley and forms Shangri-La society. Shangri-La is home to thousands of residents, mainly Tibetans. Residents have different beliefs and customs, including Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, but they are United, friendly, happy and healthy.

In all areas of Shangri-La, the relationship between religion, nationality, people and nature is governed by the golden mean.

People think that there are three States of human behavior: excessive, insufficient and moderate. Excessive and insufficient are the root of evil, and only moderation is perfect. This makes Shangri-La society peaceful and peaceful.

There are many mysterious and wonderful things in Shangri-La. The most surprising thing is that the life expectancy of the residents here is very long, many of them are over 100 years old, and they look very young.

The highest Lama who has been practicing Tibetan tantric yoga for a long time is over 250 years old and has been in charge of Shangri-La 100 years. However, if the residents of Shangri-La leave the valley, they will lose their youth.

In Shangri-La, Conway had many conversations with Zhang and Lama and discussed a series of religious and philosophical issues. Conway is a young man with excellent spirit and body.

Through the conversation, he established a certain degree of "telepathy" with the Supreme Lama, and the Supreme Lama also deliberately chose Conway as his successor-in fact, this is the real reason why their plane landed in Shangri-La.

After a period of experience and observation, all four of them think that Shangri-La is the happiest society they have ever seen.

Conway is infatuated with Shangri-La, which is a beautiful and quiet gold mine that Barnard can't give up. Miss Brinkero wants to spread her religious teachings in Shangri-La, and they don't want to leave Shangri-La. Only Morrison has always wanted to go back to England, because the wedding day is just around the corner, but it's a long way, so he can't go back alone.

Marison finally seized the opportunity of the death of the Supreme Lama and transporting caravan porters to Shangri-La, forcing Conway to leave Shangri-La. They climbed mountains and mountains all the way in the no-man's land, and once passed Daxing House on the Tibetan-Chinese border. Ma Lisen was seriously ill and died before he arrived in Korea. Conway also suddenly lost his memory.

On the way back to England by boat, Conway recovered his memory while listening to Chopin's piano performance. At this time, an indescribable sadness appeared on his face. A kind of "universal, distant rather than personal" sadness. That night, he left quietly and disappeared.

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Lost Horizon