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Panshan History
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As for this trip, I spent more than two weeks in training over the summer vacation, clocking in from eight in the morning until eight at night—tiring and exhausting, leaving me breathless. On the final day of the training, Mr. Mengmeng picked me up and we immediately sped out of Beijing. With little preparation or planning—after all, we’d come specifically to see the live‑action performance of “Tianxia Qingshan”—our original plan was to make a day trip, staying just one night. But on the day we arrived, it rained in Jixian County, and the show was canceled. Still, having made the effort to come all this way, we weren’t about to give up, so we stayed an extra day and finally got to experience the performance as we’d hoped. Our deep fascination with—and love for—live‑action shows has driven us both to endure such long, arduous journeys.
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Heaven and Earth · Panshan – Epilogue: Love · Mountain
In his twilight years, the aged Qianlong, even as he basked in the adulation of countless subjects, could not forget that poem from his youth—when he first beheld Panshan. Driven by a lingering sense of loss, he ordered his people to tirelessly restore and maintain the mountain’s temples. In his old age, Pan’er trudged, halting yet resolute, along the winding path that led to the summit, raising within his heart a temple of his own. All the past and all the lives yet to come, it seemed, were but the fleeting bloom of an ephemeral flower, patiently awaiting its moment. He asked the Buddha, he asked this mountain: though we may never meet, still, he felt no loneliness.
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