{"id":5549,"date":"2022-05-14T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T10:14:15","slug":"731-an-ancient-lotus-seed-zhao-lihong-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/731-an-ancient-lotus-seed-zhao-lihong-china\/","title":{"rendered":"731 | An Ancient Lotus Seed &#8211; Zhao Lihong, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5550 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Afbeelding-731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>An Ancient Lotus Seed and a Ge Kiln Porcelain Jar \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\nPrelude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An ancient idea, like an ancient lotus seed<br \/>\nhidden in the ground for thousands of years<br \/>\nSuddenly but gently activated by cool running water<br \/>\nsprouts a bashful tender bud<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ah, through the vicissitudes of the earth<br \/>\nyou look so familiar and yet so unfamiliar<br \/>\nThe moment the fallen leaves and blooms are gone with the wind<br \/>\nthere comes a new lease of life floating with the current<br \/>\nThe same face, and the same countenance<br \/>\nall unchanged ever since the time thousands of years ago<br \/>\nWhat encased in fashionable clothes<br \/>\nis the not yet unevolved skeleton of the body<br \/>\nIn the buds, and among the stems and leaves<br \/>\nthe dewdrops are glittering as in those days<br \/>\nThe crowd are whirling and running in the wind<br \/>\nand in the rain the plants shaking their heads and waving<br \/>\nAnything changed to the world? Do all living beings<br \/>\nin heaven and earth still follow the old ways?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Zhao Lihong<\/strong>, China<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation Zhou Wenbiao \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ancient Lotus Seed and a Ge Kiln Porcelain Jar \u2014 Prelude An ancient idea, like an ancient lotus seed hidden in the ground for thousands of years Suddenly but gently activated by cool running water sprouts a bashful tender bud Ah, through the vicissitudes of the earth you look so familiar and yet so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}