gentle night

She sticks to the simplicity and simplicity of personal writing with a pen

From the distant Sahara to the Dunhuang Gobi, she does not follow the crowd, nor interpret life, but only a witness of life

She is the eternal San Mao who is romantic, free and easy, and true in our hearts, an eternal legend

The sixteen essays in "Tender Night" mainly describe Sanmao's life in the Canary Islands, picking up waste with a primary school teacher from Switzerland, becoming close friends with a wandering Japanese youth, paying homage to him and sleeping in a cemetery without ever meeting. In the scorching West Africa, she struggles to get a salary for José... She reads the warmth and coldness of human relationships and laments that life is not easy. However, thinking of the angels guarding her, Sanmao is no longer sad. What is in her eyes is only tenderness like water, and what overflows from the tip of her pen is still her earnest contemplation of the world.