中国现代著名作家周瘦鹃先生一生酷爱紫罗兰，和紫罗兰结下了不解之缘，这其中与一段浪漫的爱情故事有关。周瘦鹃中学毕业留校任教的时候，偶然遇见一位叫周吟萍的女子，活泼秀美，很是爱慕，与之往来频繁，并谈到嫁娶。然而，周吟萍家庭富足，周瘦鹃则家境贫寒，吟萍父母坚决反对，并将吟萍许配他人。吟萍是一弱女子，没有办法，只有饮泣。她有一个英文名字Violet（紫罗兰），周瘦鹃因对她念念不忘，于是寄情于紫罗兰，案头清供的是紫罗兰花，写文章写信用的是紫罗兰颜色的墨水，并在苏州建造了“紫罗兰庵”，还创办了一个名叫《紫罗兰》的刊物。……
Cannot remember where I read this story. It touched the bottom of my heart though—and I fell for "yolanda" ever since. Of course, I fell for the flower first, as I fell for Indie Pop in high school. A beautifully sad story. When I think about it, I think of Shen Congwen's The Remote Town, where Chatong (茶峒), the small border land brings me the same sentiments as I chew on Zhou Shoujuan's life-time bond yolanda. When things change over time, is there anything—like Shen's Phoenix and Zhou's yolanda—that will secretly govern the rest of my life?
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