Traveling with Wood Carvings — Impressions of Xitang

Last updated 2026-09-24 — Foreword: Many years ago, when the great literary master Shen Congwen wrote: “All my life I have walked the roads of many places, crossed the bridges of many places, looked at the clouds many times, and drunk many kinds of wine…” he could never have imagined that the footsteps of art would bring the poetic beauty of these words to Xitang many years later. “Spring and Autumn...”