"Sea Silk Road, Sea Poetry Road" Sea Voice Poem, Preface

"All the feelings, wait for it, slowly emerge."

On August 14, 2017, halfway through the journey,
This is what I wrote on the postcard I was going to send back to Taipei from Guangzhou.

The journey of the Maritime Silk Road, for me, is already a dream before I set off.
When the whistle of the first steamship sounded, a certain rhythm that floated with the waves of the sea,
It seems to foreshadow that this dream will only fall into a deeper and deeper world.

Whether you are traveling or looking back at the moment when you return home,
A vague state and feeling that cannot be expressed in words, still lingering in my mind,
It's like a ball of yarn that is difficult to comb, and you don't know where to start.

I try to collage this journey with a natural, flowing, unstructured structure,
Like this book of sound poetry that I don't know how to define.

Static images, flowing light and shadows, a fragment of the soundscape of the moment, short texts and verses with vague meanings,
These fragments of meaning are the medium that leads me to the larger, larger world.

That's the purpose of this creative process, and that's the purpose of this journey.

"Voyage Route"

July 23rd, Night, Taima Ship, Keelung Port July 24th, Morning, Taima Ship, Fuao Port / Mazu Nangan Island July 24th, Sun, Golden Dragon Ship, Mawei Port / July 26, Fuzhou, Fujian, Wenchang Wharf Ferry, Mazu Hometown, Meizhou Island / Putian City, Fujian

July 27th, night, Fuxia-Xiamen high-speed train, Citong Port/Fujian Quanzhou, August 5th, day, Fuxia-Xiamen high-speed train, August 6th, Fujian, Xiamen, morning, sleeper express, Guangzhou, Guangdong

August 14th, night, sleeper through train, Guangzhou, Guangdong, August 15th, morning, sleeper through train, Xuwen/Zhanjiang, Guangdong, August 15th, day, Guangdong-Haizhou Railway Train Ferry, Haikou Port/Hainan Haikou City, August 16th, night, Beibu Gulf No. 3, Haikou Port / Hainan Haikou City, August 17th, morning, Hepu / Guangxi Beihai City

August 18, night, Harmony train, Nanning, Guangxi, August 19, night, China Southern Airlines, Jieyang, Guangdong, August 19, morning, China Southern Airlines, Taipei

＊This travel plan is the 2017 "Maritime Silk Road, Maritime Poetry Road" plan, funded by the Cross-Strait Tourism Exchange Association and co-organized by Travel China Magazine.