Shuang Lai Qing Feng

As a physicist the author has particular interests in Chinese literature and history. After retirement he got enough time to pick up his hobby in liberal arts. Starting from the language culture then to history and music. He spent several months on a paper 《Talking on Chinese Words and Characters》 in which he emphasized the beauty of the Chinese language as well as the difficulties encountered in the digital age. Following that he finished a series of papers discussing Chinese verbs prepositions as well as idioms in comparison with English. In the article on Chinese history he is trying to generalize from the data in different dynasties in a way similar to statistical analysis and thus to reach some commonsense conclusions. Two papers about the popular songs in the 1950s and 1960s as well as a discussion about Beijing Opera are also collected in the book.