🎐 "The Mysterious Gate of Light and Shadow, the Bookish Suzhou"

On a midsummer afternoon, the sunshine on the streets of Suzhou was as bright as silver fire. I walked to Guanqian Street with a slight sweat on my feet. The crowd was bustling and the heat was floating, but at an inadvertent corner, I walked into a humanities bookstore - I originally just wanted to blow the air conditioning and avoid the sun, but I didn't expect that I stepped into a refreshing soul. The wooden bookshelves and the faint fragrance of paper and ink were like a peaceful embrace. After appreciating the exhibition in the bookstore, I turned to one side of the alley and found a unique Taoist temple. What is impressive is that there is no traditional incense smoke here. The main hall is a sacred temple constructed with digital projection (recorded in the video). The gods appear in the light and shadow on both sides, silent, but deeply penetrating. The central main statue is a mysterious picture with thousands of changes, as if it contains a miniature of the universe. When staring at it, you will feel awe. On both sides of the temple, there are digital divination and electronic lottery, so that technology and religion are no longer in opposition, but complement each other. At this node of the Ai era, guiding people's hearts in a new way is really cool. At that moment, I felt a kind of revelation that was subverted by gentleness: Broken appearance is not destruction, but deconstruction. When the form fades, the essence of divinity becomes clearer. Faith does not have to be confined to the ancient shell, it can also be rekindled in light and voice. This afternoon wandering in Suzhou (aimless wandering) was originally just for a short break from the summer heat, but it encountered a spiritual revolution. May we still find that room of book fragrance and a ray of mysterious light in the heat of the world, illuminate our own nature and illuminate the direction we are going. #Suzhou #Guanqian Street #Daru Lane #Pingtan Teahouse #Humanities Hotel #Digital Taoist Temple #Gusu District Cang Street #Slow Travel Notes #Travel with Qiao Mei