On April 6, 2025, at the reminder of a voice in the early morning, the idea of creating this blog website began.
Around 10 a.m., I started the initial planning. I told my needs to Xiao C (ChatGPT) in detail. Xiao C readily provided two options and recommended the medium-difficulty self-built blog server solution. I followed her advice.
With the help of Xiao C, I set up the server and database in the morning, installed WordPress in the afternoon, and arranged the web page publishing. Finally, before dinner, I published the first blog post:Talking about Leo Lionni’s life
I chose to post this as the first article because I particularly like Leo Lionni and have translated 19 of his picture books (For detailed catalogue, please see Weibo); second, I created this blog with the special intention of organizing the texts I have written over the past quarter century, most of which are about children’s books and reading. Of course, I will continue to write, so I don’t have to worry about some words being “harmonized” here.
I’ve written so much over the years, scattered across various places—forums and blogs that have since faded away or been forgotten, and many are now nowhere to be found. Fortunately, I backed up most of my work and usually noted the date out of habit. For example, this article “Talking about the life of Leo Lionni” was written on March 8, 2010.
I am too lazy to “update” past texts, unless there are major errors or omissions that need to be revised, I usually just post them as they are…
So, the posts here will consist of two main parts: some from the past, now gathered and reorganized, and others written in the present or future. In that sense, “Bridge of Ajia” could be seen as a bridge of time and memory—a link between the past and the future.
I particularly like the inscription by Gabriel García Márquez in his autobiography:
生活不是我们活过的日子，而是我们记住的日子，我们为了讲述而在记忆中重现的日子。（Chinese translation）
The English translation is as follows:
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
The original Spanish text is——
La vida noes la que uno vivió,sino la que uno recuerda ycómo la recuerda para contarla.
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