The Opening of the Literary Walk along the Hundred Blossoms Brook on the Campus of NCU
The Literary Walk along the Hundred Blossoms Brook on the campus of NCU was officially open in September 2019. NCU held the poetry recitation activity “Echoes with Poetry; Odes to Pine Waves” as the opening ceremony. Many distinguished senior poets and promising young poets, including Mr. Fuan-Chan Lin and Dr. Jui-Teng Lee, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, were invited to celebrate altogether on the campus of NCU. With such poetic communication, we wished to cultivate students’ spirit in addition to their academic specialties and let technology and literature march two abreast.
“The previous wooden walkway along the Hundred Blossoms Brook has been scorched and drenched for twelve years. We redesigned the walkway to improve its quality and safety, providing a better campus facility for all NCU students, faculty, alumni, and the public. As a university with long history, its flourishing humanistic tradition could be traced back to the period when the predecessor of NCU was still in Mainland China. Though NCU was renowned for its departments of science and engineering after moving to Taiwan, the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Hakka Studies still retain strong humanistic tradition, infusing humanistic atmosphere into the whole campus. In a diverse contemporary society, a university as the cradle for cultivating educated talent is not simply a place for professional learning for students. Moreover, with such an activity as poetry recitation that shines a light on things other than academic studies, we hope that students and faculty members could be enlightened by poetry about life. Furthermore, we also wish that their humanistic qualities could be enriched by literature,” said Dr. Jing-Yang Jou, President of NCU.
The wooden walkway beside the Hundred Blossoms Brook had its mission accomplished. The newly constructed literary walk symbolizes the legacy from the past and the way to the future. The whole walking path was landed with black flagstones on which there carved excerpts from literary works of NCU alumni who are also famous writers in the literary arena. These writers and excerpts were selected by the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Jui-Teng Lee, and Dr. Yi-Wen Chuang at the Department of Chinese Literature. The pathway was thus named the “Hundred Blossoms Literary Walk.”
