If I didn’t encounter you

Would be difficult to describe your look

Although heard a lot second-hand or browsed over Wechat posts

Merely a blurred impression 

Until I was immersed in your beauty

As if farmers fall in love with their field of rice

Sunflowers locate the direction of sunshine

My love at the first sight resembles a delicate garment

Prospering with you

In spring every year

Amid sun-glows on an autumn day

I climbed over the mountain where glorious revolution happened

Looking back, the fire of revolution

Kindled in the hinterland of Ruishan

To disseminate revolutionary ideas

Although living in hunger and cold, and being as slippery as an eel

A stone-made command post

Nurtured the seed of ideals and convictions

Now, smoke of gunpowder gives way to idyllic scenery

Climb over a dozen of winding stone steps

To penetrate into the body of Ruishan

Making every small step

Analogous to unfolding a new chapter of revolutionary stories

Looking back suddenly

People never forget original aspiration, and march forward as usual

Here and now

What a vivid classroom atmosphere

In the depth of forests of Ruishan

Seeing flowers blossom

Constitutes unrivalled enjoyment of life

Noble-minded orchids

Fragrant peonies

Bright red azaleas

In the exclusive territory of sunshine

Throw a flower language party in the forest

It is conceivable to see

In this world without music playing

Birds, insects, squirrels and peacocks

All being absolute protagonists in the grand banquet

Despite not being famous

But culturally rich and charming

Simple and unadorned instead of being pretentious

Graceful without losing glamour

Natural giant stones standing upright against wind

Being treasures endowed by nature

Frogs, turtles, earthworms and snakes

These dancing elves

In the vast universe

Behold the shifts and changes of life

Without fearing vicissitudes

No one knows why these charismatic giant stones

Can always blend in with their natural surroundings

Gurgling mountain spring flows all the year around

To narrate their past and present stories

As if they had never left

Nestling the familiar farming village

Ripened rice field, simple and unsophisticated dwellings

Year after year, season after season

In a summer afternoon

Randomly choose a place in the dense forest of Ruishan

To hang a hammock to repose

As if the cradle we slept in during babyhood

Feel mountain breeze as tender as a mother’s hands 

Listen to flowing spring as melodious as a nursery rhyme in dream

Happy hours are fleeting

Though sunshine is blocked for the time being

My heart feels exceptionally warm

I have visited many mountains

Walked down many rugged mountain roads

But particularly fascinated by Ruishan

Because of its simple and unsophisticated attractiveness

Neither humble nor pushy, neither fragile nor flattering

Stand upright in the secular world

You can easily get attached to it

On one hand

Being undisturbed by favour or disgrace

On the other hand

Being romantic and lighthearted 

Ruishan, I love you

For being common but not ordinary 

For being unsophisticated but not naive

Never to be forgotten since the first sight!