Picture Chinese stories: 10 illustration books you can't miss

The Seed of Time. [Photo/dangdang.com]

The Seed of Time

My eyes widened when I saw one picture in this book: two people stand at the river bank, and many fireflies come from the jar in their hands and form a long bright line, sparkling in the sky. With an air of indescribable mildness, the light green of many trees blends beautifully with the pale blue of the sky.

The book is about the love of two old people. One day, an old man finds a seed and he buries it in the earth. The seed grows into a plant that wakes up the man's sleeping memories of his short but beautiful time as a youth.

The seed is the memory in everyone's heart, aka the seed of time. We will go through sorrows and happiness in our short lives, but when it comes to the end of our life, let the seed only contain those happy times.