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A 5-Day Central Yunnan Wander: Embracing Spring in Kunming, 2023 Prologue: When the Spring Breeze Sweeps Through the Spring City The changing of seasons always happens without notice. Just as the last plane tree leaves fall before the door, spring in Kunming quietly arrives. February…

The Eternal Rice Terraces: A Year in Yuanyang There are places that photograph well, and then there are places that live in your bones. Yuanyang, tucked away in Honghe Prefecture of Yunnan Province, is the latter. It doesn't shout for attention—it doesn't need to. Its…

Tengchong: A Dream You Never Want to Wake From in an Autumn Border Town Prologue: A Long-Overdue Promise Fulfilled I first heard of Tengchong seven or eight years ago. Back then, I learned that on the western border of Yunnan, tucked away in obscurity, lay…

Four Years of College: Exploring Yunnan in Fragments of Time Prologue: A Youthful "Impulse Purchase" During my freshman year, a group of graduating seniors tearfully grabbed the hands of us newcomers at a dinner party, speaking with heartfelt sincerity: "Don't spend all your time obsessing…

Tracing Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, and Seas: Encountering Winter and Summer in Yunnan Preface: A Promise with the Unknown Some say Yunnan is a book you can never finish reading. No matter how many times you flip through its pages, each one still holds surprises. I…