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Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://esound.space/fullTitle: West Lake Old Dreams: 白話西湖夢尋Author: Li RongbaoNarrator: Li RongbaoFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9:05:14Language: EnglishRelease date: 11-28-2021Publisher: Findaway VoicesGenres: Non-Fiction, Essays & Travelogues, Art & MusicSummary:West Lake, later Ming dynasty, a handsome man from rich official familly, yes, official already for 3 or 4 generations, lived a happy life, he drinks water, just like others, he tastes water, he knows water difference, he can identify water from Mian river or Zi river, just like the chef, Exchange Teeth. He tastes local spring water in temple, so too many people came and carried water from the temple, the monks were so tired and bothered, they just destroyed the spring. He tastes tea, and organized tea competitition, then he created his own brands, too many gentlemen or noble man f** loved his tea, so many tea brands failed. ... When he turned 50, he lost everything, he lost his house and field, had no garden any more, lost his money and foods, then he had no rice in jars always, long hair covering his neck and back, he ran into moutain, he wont't take salary from new government, so he eats wild vegi wei, and then he knows brother Yi and Qi would not eat Zhou rice was cheating, just face words. He came to West Lake, but West Lake lost almost everything, they are not the old world, everything was burned down, he ran away scared and he would keep old dreams, if grand son or grand grand will ask him about West Lake, he can tell them this way... ...... ... 西湖夢尋，張岱夢中的西湖，實際上好多景物都沒了，燒毀了，殘磚爛瓦，猶不及夢中的記憶更美好，我趕緊走開了，還不如回憶自己的蘧蘧然蝶夢。真實的沒有了，不敢忘記，兒孫輩問起時，就這麼說說：R1，第一卷，西湖北路，北山路，有白樂天，紀念他的玉蓮亭，沒了，他修的白堤，沒了，但灌溉農田的水閘還在；昭慶寺，江東第一繁華地，沒了，地名還在；保俶塔，還在，沒保住錢俶，但使吳越免於戰火；葛嶺，大佛頭，賈似道威令必行；智果寺，... 岳王墳千年奇冤, ... 南齊名妓蘇小小的淒涼故事... ...紫雲洞，令人遺世歸隱；瑪瑙寺長鳴鐘... 暗夜裡聽到令人放棄罪惡邪念... ....西湖西路，中路，南路，外景... .... Please send your comments to '[email protected]', thanks. Narrated in Chinese/Mandarin, accent: Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. If you want to listen to the audiobook and read the ebook same time, you can find my simplified Chinese version ebook at kobodotcom by searching my name 'li rongbao'.