Are you Wen Qing?

First appeared in Special Chinese, # 134 Are you Wen Qing? . Special Chinese is a free podcast website of modern China culture. Welcome to recommend it to China students or foreign friends.

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"Wen Qing" is the abbreviation of "literary youth", and literature refers to literature and art. There are many concepts and definitions about Wen Qing on the Internet. Today, I will talk to you about what "Wen Qing" looks like in my eyes.

Wen Qing generally likes reading books and novels. Many "Wen Qing" like the novels of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, such as Kafka by the Sea.

The hobby related to reading is watching movies. What they watch is not ordinary movies, but mostly minority movies and sad movies.

They also like traveling and the feeling of being "on the road". There is a saying that describes the group of "Wen Qing" well: the soul and body are always on the road. The soul says reading is on the road, and the body says traveling is on the road. In the past two years, it is popular to travel to Yunnan and Tibet, or to travel abroad.

Besides reading and traveling, Wen Qing also likes photography. In fact, this is also easy to understand, because travel is always associated with photography. If you have friends of young artists around you, you can see them taking photos of their travels on their social networks, or taking pictures of flowers, blue sky and white clouds around them.

Most "civilized people" like coffee, and some people also like tea. Many "Wen Qing" have a dream: to open a coffee shop with bookshelves and many books. As for myself, I can be a boss in a coffee shop and read and write articles in my spare time.

In China, besides cafes, there are many young artists in Douban, especially young artists. They bask in the books they have read, movies they have seen, articles they have written, places they have been to and things they like.

Many "Wen Qing" are freelancers because they like reading and watching movies, and many of them like writing. They use words to record their feelings after reading and watching movies. Freelance means that you can arrange your time more freely, so you have more time to travel.

"Wen Qing" has many characteristics. For example, I like to listen to classical music and minority music, so I won't give examples one by one. You ask me why I know so much? Because there are many young artists around me. What about you? Are you Wen Qing?