Living and working day after day, the hustle and bustle of the city and the exhaustion of the body and mind often sweep us. Life and the world, for us, are like a labyrinth. I want to be closer to the land, I want to be closer to nature, after all, we are all children of nature.
Today, more and more young people are living in seclusion, yearning for a more natural and authentic way of life.
From tomorrow onwards, be a happy person
Feed the horses, chop wood, and travel the world
From tomorrow, care for grain and vegetables
I have a house facing the sea and spring blossoms.
The life described in Haizi's poems has become the ideal state of life for countless people.
These seven books tell the story of the lives of seven people who have different careers and identities, but all have the same ideals. Textile artists, architects, writers, veteran media personalities... They have all found their roots in nature and life.
"Farming Life"
"You and I are both seeds, children of nature, coming from the soil and returning to the soil."
Yumi Hayakawa, a well-known Japanese textile artist, lives a life of half farming and half creation with her potter husband Tetsuhei Ono and her two children in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture. She began traveling as a young man, drawing on the wisdom of life and fabric creation from all over Asia, and now she is self-sufficient in the mountains and fields while creating fabrics that are close to life.
Farming Life is a collection of essays in which she shares her way of life rooted in the earth. Work at sunrise, rest at sunset, feed chickens, chop wood, participate in memorial services... In ordinary daily life, we think about the true meaning of nature and life. Nowadays, many urban people are unhappy because they have lost the foundation of life and forgotten that people are part of nature. Only by regaining the connection between life and nature can we live more steadily and worry-free on the earth.
"Every Day is a Little Spring Day"
A jumble of trees and one-bedroom chalets on the outskirts of Nagoya is a dream idyll for mr. and mrs. Tsubata.
"Every Day is Karuhiwa" was co-authored by Hideko Tsubata and Shuichi Tsubata. In 1995, they became a couple, and "Every Day is a Little Spring Day" is their married life.
In order to fulfill his wife's idyllic dream, Shuichi, who loves sailing and sailing, moored in this rural land, personally built a wooden house, opened a vegetable garden, and since then he and his wife Hideko have been away from the city, and the four seasons have changed in the spring planting and autumn harvest. Eiko takes care of Shuichi's life and living with meticulous care, even preparing ten kinds of small dishes for breakfast, and using "rainbow ingredients" to combine nutritious and delicious dishes... At the same time, she never forgot Shuichi's dream of sailing in her heart. Finally, at the age of eighty-eight, Shuichi returned to Tahiti, where he had been thinking about for a long time. As soon as he set off, he began to miss Hideko who stayed at home, "How lonely she is." ”
Under the meticulous care of the two for decades, today's vegetable garden is full of fruits in all seasons. The vegetable garden and the wooden house are connected, like a large sailing ship that Shuichi loves, and on the flagpole in the middle, various colors of flags flutter in the wind.
Every day is a small spring day and. The warm sun that is not dazzling in the clear sky is just like your long-term companionship day after day.
My Shepherd's Diary
My Shepherd's Diary is written by the Swedish writer Ekser Linden.
A Swedish scholar who fled the city, became a shepherd "halfway out of the house", documenting the change of mood of living in nature. 1021 shepherd days, 133 diary full of emotion, philosophy and humor.
Through his relationship with the sheep and his own observations in his daily life, Exer linden finds inner peace beyond the hustle and bustle of modern city life, while at the same time making a keen and interesting meditation on the little wonders of the world, guiding the reader to observe life, to perceive everything spontaneous in nature, and also to teach us about ourselves and our place in the universe.
Even people who know nothing about shepherd life will love this diary.
"You are so tired, you might as well go home and plant a vegetable"
Life is not boring day after day, but to find the place of longing in the heart.
Smell the aroma of basil to set up a shelf for tomatoes; pull a piece of arugula leaf in your mouth, chewing while looking for ripe blackcurrant fruit; wet your pants with crystal dew on the furry leaves of asparagus; pluck a handful of small turnips with mud; listen to birdsong, dog barking and the buzzing of bees, and usher in the sunrise with tall beets...
This book is written by Chef Huajun. She is a veteran media personality, horticultural writer, and urban agronomic practitioner. He was the chief editor of "Girlfriend" and the executive editor of "Urban Housewife". In 2015, he founded the "Kitchen Garden" brand, advocating horticultural planting with both food and beauty, practicing the aesthetics of plant life, and sharing the healthy taste of LOHAS life.
Living in the city, we have always longed to change the way we live with nature, so what could be better than growing vegetables?
After she quit her job by chance, she rented two acres of land on the outskirts of Beijing. With curiosity, love and sincerity, a stumbling career as a vegetable farmer began. From reclaiming wasteland, weeding, ploughing the land, planting flowers and plants, and tending to all kinds of vegetables, everything is a life that has never been experienced before.
Half Inch Farm
"Half Inch Farm" records Shenglin's ten years of seclusion.
She is a member of the Zhejiang Writers Association, the North American Writers Association, a director of the Houston Chinese Writers Association, and a former senior editor of Hangzhou Daily. She went to the United States in 2009 to escape the hustle and bustle with her husband, Filip, and live in seclusion in the jungle.
The couple owns a half-inch farmstead in the United States called Wharton Town. They rested at sunrise and sunset, living a rural life of seclusion in the wild forest. Chopping firewood, planting vegetables, fishing, planting flowers, raising bees, raising chickens, ducks and geese... The wild forest changes throughout the seasons, all kinds of small animals and wild beasts haunt, listen to the birds singing at noon, hide and watch raccoons walk, fight wild boars, raise peacocks, the days are different every day, the flowers, birds, insects and beasts here have new things every day.
Like Sanmao, Sheng Lin is also wandering away for love, and love is also her destination. There are no high-rise buildings, no brocade costumes, only mountains and wilderness, back to basics. The days in the forest are simple and quiet, frugal and original, contented and joyful, the days do not need to be too full, it is enough to live your original appearance.
Farming, Food, Love
It is a model of poetic living and the best-selling masterpiece of Christine Kimball, America's most influential pastoralist.
Christine, who lives in New York, is a travel writer who travels the world, and in an interview, she meets Mark the farmer and is fascinated by Mark and his lifestyle. She decided to give up everything in the city and made her home with Mark at Esther's Farm.
The book is a vivid account of the first year of Christine Kimball and Mark's first year at Esther's Farm. From winter to spring, from summer to autumn, they injected life into the farm little by little, and finally ended with the hilarious wedding of the two in the barn loft during the autumn harvest of the following year, Kimball wrote the most authentic and deep connection between people, people and food, and people and land with meticulous poetry and humorous and vivid strokes.
At the same time, it is also a journey of growth and transformation for a woman. From the initial enthusiasm, through anxiety, doubt and even panic, she slowly became firm. Today, she is deeply rooted in the land and has lived on the farm with Mark for 14 years.
Kimball once said: "I want a home, a house with the smell of grass, sheets hanging on rope, a child running through the sprayed water." She finally realized her ideal of farming and food, and in the process of constantly escaping and pursuing, constantly paying and constantly working hard, she found the most authentic self.
The Book of Farming
"Book of Farming" is a new work by the famous Taiwanese writer Chul-tsai. She studied in the Department of Chinese studies at National Taiwan University and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and was a reporter for China Times for many years, loving plants and food, and always being an observer of nature and society. He is the author of the essay collections "Flower Bush Belly Language", "Southern Snow", "Wonton City", "Red Stewed Kitchen Lady", and "Book of Gluttony".
In 1996, she moved to Hong Kong, obsessed with Hong Kong cantonese objects, wandering in the city folk customs, like to walk in the mountains, love to shop in the market, often cook old fire soup, and grow vegetables in her own farm, observing the relationship between food and terroir. In the summer of 2015, he bid farewell to Hong Kong and moved back to Taipei to settle down.
"Farming Book" is a collection of her op-eds in recent years.
She moved to a new home on an outlying island in Hong Kong and cultivated vegetables in the open space outside the house. In the order of the solar terms, the hardships of reclamation and the joy of harvest are written. In her pen, vegetables, melons and fruits have spirituality. In addition, the book also includes the author's travels around the world, how to purchase local ingredients and integrate into local life; write about life's encounters: marriage, theft, and illness; and write about Hong Kong customs and market life.
The text of the whole book jumps out of the flow, palms are everywhere, showing a mix-and-match flavor. In her pen, pastoral life is integrated with the old personnel and urban life, so that we who are in the heart of the city and nature cannot help but indulge in it.