In my last post I mentioned that I read a lot of Chinese hermit poetry, but posed the question why anyone would choose to live that way today. I was speaking at least partly tongue-in-cheek.
As Bill Porter, or Red Pine, our translator extraordinaire, discovered in his book, "Road to Heaven," there are still plenty of people pursuing the reclusive hermit lifestyle in the mountains of China -- something that has been done there for thousands of years.
Here is one young woman's explanation as to why one might follow such a path.
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