Hangzhou Xiaoshiguang photography

Black fonts, black and white cartoons, printed on a beige postcard, are not smooth to the touch and mixed with some grass clippings. This simple cover is inconspicuous, but it conveys a kind of warmth, like a ray of light shining into the years, not dazzling, but it makes people feel inexplicable.

? There are a few lines of fine print on the back cover:

You can understand the origin, content and form of the author's book in just a few words, so this is not an abstruse book.

? From the first story "My Little Picture" to the last story "Grandma's New Year's Eve", I read it in one go, and found that it is a book that can make you happy, a book that you can pick up and finish at one breath, and a book that can remind you to open countless dusty memories.

84 cartoons, 84 memories. Maybe you are not from Hangzhou, maybe you don't know the place name in the book, but it doesn't prevent you from seeing your childhood and your happy time in the book. Telling ghost stories, fried dough sticks and lard bibimbap, eating Baota sugar, red bean popsicles, a pencil box, fried rice and fat meat, and tooth extraction ... These stories are told in humorous language, accompanied by childlike cartoons, without complicated decorations and bright colors, but you can't help but raise your mouth and think that you have forgotten.

Of course, maybe you are born after 80, 90 and 00, and you are lucky not to live in that era of material shortage. These stories can't touch the switch of your memory, but when you hold this little book, travel to an era that you have never experienced, and simply feel the beauty in the author's sincere and lovely words and cartoons, maybe your world will become less noisy, less complicated and less nervous, followed by what is in your heart.

Because happiness has never gone far, it has been deeply hidden in each of our memories and turned into a soft heart, accompanying us on the road of life.