Haikus：written in Praise of the Beijing-zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games

Written in Praise of the Beijing-zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games

Haiku is a traditional and structured short poem basically following a 5-7-5-character line pattern. Using concise and sharp haiku to sing of new things in the new era has become a trending practice in contemporary Chinese poetry. The new practice boosts China’s morale, builds up its national spirit, and bolsters the spirit of the times.

In mid-april, I hosted a press release on Reborn: The Century-old Beijingzhangjiakou Railway (a new book published by Foreign Languages Press) at Taizicheng Station on the Beijingzhangjiakou high-speed railway, visited Zhan Tianyou Memorial Museum in Beijing and participated in a Party history study session at Qinglongqiao Station (also on the Beijing-zhangjiakou high-speed railway). I wrote these haikus after being inspired by these events.