一个好事的人，若从百年前某种较旧一点的地图上寻找，一定可在黔北、川东、湘西一 处极偏僻的角隅上，发现了一个名为“镇竿”的小点，那里同别的小点一样，事实上应有一 个小小的城市，在那城市中，安顿了三五千户人口的。不过一切城市的存在，大部分皆在交 通、物产、经济的情形下面，成为那个城市荣枯的因缘。这一个地方，却以另外意义无所依 附而独立存在…… ──摘自沈从文《凤凰》 A good person, looking from a somewhat older map some 100 years ago, will certainly find a small spot called “Town pole” in a very isolated corner of northern Guizhou, eastern Sichuan and western Hunan. There, like other little dots, there should in fact be a small city in which thirty-five thousand people were settled. However, the existence of all cities, most of them are in the traffic, property, economic situation below, become the cause of the glory of that city. This place, but in an independent sense attached to independent existence ... ... ─ ─ From Shen Congwen “Phoenix”