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I finished reading "Young Taiwan" with the "Wandering Guide" on the back of the book cover. In the table of contents of this book, each article has a place name.

"Jiji" is the one I am most familiar with. On our street, there is a "Jiji Town" 500 meters west. I think it is the earliest "24-hour" restaurant in the local area. It has been open for almost 20 years. One wall of that restaurant is a picture of a train station with the word "Jiji" on it. I have eaten vegetable and meat wontons many times and drank soy milk many times. Only then did I know that Jiji is a small town in the west of Nantou, Taiwan. The town is famous for its railway tourism and is also the epicenter of the "921 Earthquake".

Except for "Jiji", of the nearly 30 places written in "Young Taiwan", the only place names I am familiar with are "Jiufen" and "Lukang".

I know "Jiufen" because I traveled to Taiwan a few years ago, and Jiufen was one of the itineraries. The tour guide talked about the origin of the place name, saying that in the early days there were only nine households in the town. Every time they went to the market to buy something, the buyers were usually entrusted with nine copies, one for each family, hence the name of the place. This place name also makes tourists feel warm and has the smell of fireworks.

Entering through a narrow alley, there are shops selling souvenirs and Taiwanese specialties on both sides, as well as cafes, taro ball shops, etc. It does not make people feel that it is different from domestic ancient towns such as Lijiang and Wuzhen. What are the differences in the business structure between , Zhouzhuang and other places? If there is, it is "culture". Wu Nianzhen is known as "Taiwan's best storyteller". He was born in Jiufen, and his hometown is mentioned in many articles. In "Young Taiwan", Jiang Xun beautifully describes this town that prospered due to gold mining but declined due to the depletion of gold mine resources. The accompanying illustration is a poster for "Love in the Wind" directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, and the story is about Wu Nianzhen's youthful past.

“The steps made of stones form a long and steep alleyway in the dormitory, winding on the hillside.”

“The houses built of stone are arranged in a circuitous sequence. The mountain road was built to form a mountain city with unique scenery on the northeast corner of the island. "

The Jiufen boy described by Jiang Xun is "especially short, with a round head, a naive smile, and often a childish look. I took off my shoes and socks and ran on the stone steps."

"It seems that some memory from the past life is calling me."

A woman wearing a pink-bottomed white flower cheongsam. , face powdered, pale...

After reading this, I remembered that as a tourist, I once stood under a huge billboard in Jiufen, waiting for the tour bus. Was it that woman? Where to stand? She is wearing an outdated outfit, who is she waiting for? Waiting for a boy?

I know "Lukang" because of Luo Dayou's song. At this moment, I chose "Lugang Town" as the background music for this article. Due to well-known reasons, including the "blocking of the strait", most of our generation's understanding of Taiwan begins with campus songs.

Chiang Xun was born in 1947 and is a well-known painter, poet and writer in Taiwan. Graduated from the History Department and Art Institute of the "Chinese Culture University" in Taipei, and once studied in France. His "A Dream of Red Mansions in Detail" is highly praised by many people. "Young Taiwan" is not a travelogue, but an essay, a novel, or an article that cannot be classified into any genre. It records his "lingering memories of his teenage years. The characters here are rarely intellectuals. They live at the bottom of every corner of the island, such as Chiayi Yuemei, Bengang, Yunlin Ancient Keng, and Southeast Tainan. Wang, Nantou Jiji, Kaohsiung Amitabha, Ziguan, Hualien Yanliao..."

Through these places, Jiang Xun rested his youthful heart. Between the lines there are sounds, smells, shapes, colors, light and shadows, childhood, nostalgia, small towns, and the mental journey of a young man growing up. It has unique beauty due to the changes of time and space.

I started writing "Young Taiwan" in 1999, and the article was published in "United Literature", with a six-year hiatus. Jiang Xun wrote in the "Preface": "Let's set off for a strange place name that we have never heard of. Pick up your backpack, take a car at will, and wander to a place you have never been to."

In this book, What I like most is the part where the author re-wrote "Young Taiwan" in 2007. For example, "Young Fengshan" is about an IT elite who drives a Mini Cooper, wears an Armani shirt, holds a Prada mobile phone, and smells of cologne. He picks up a hitchhiking boy who wants to wander around just because of the name "Fengshan". Backpackers. At the end, he called: "I woke you up! When you come to Taiwan for vacation, I will take you to a place called Fengshan. It is more than 700 meters above sea level. There are many waterfalls and huge rocks in the stream -" Yes Fengshan's introduction was told to him by the boy who hitchhiked on the road, and the person he called to argue was probably a girl he cared about very much, right?

When Jiang Xun continued writing "Young Taiwan", he was already 60 years old. Once again, he "often quietly left those noisy sounds, picked up his backpack, and wandered to a quiet town or village..." Like a 16-year-old The boy wandered around on the island, talking to himself in loneliness, so there were articles that we saw that were either tender, ignorant, helpless, torn, or regretful, all of which were about young people.

Reading these words may really produce an impulse - "With this book put together, you can pick up your backpack and get ready to go."

"Looking for the footsteps of those young people, walking around the places written in the book or every nostalgia in our own memories, so as to rest our young or young girls' hearts.

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