"Cultural Bitter Journey" is the author's collection of cultural essays. Some articles have won first prizes in various literary awards. The theme of the entire book is to seek cultural soul and secrets of life through landscapes and objects, and explore the historical destiny of Chinese culture and the personality composition of Chinese intellectuals. Among them, "Taoist Tower" and "Yang Pass Snow" etc., are through ancient object images, describe the rise and fall of the Yellow River civilization in the vast desert, and a sense of profound and desolate history can be seen in his writing. "White-haired Suzhou" and "Jiangnan Towns" etc., however, use the gentle and sad bridges and rivers as a background, vividly portraying the fresh and elegant Jiangnan culture and human conditions. "Stormy Tianyi Pavilion" and "Random Thoughts on Qingyun Spectrum" etc., directly point to cultural personality and cultural conscience, revealing the difficult journey of the hearts of Chinese scholars. In addition, there are already well-known articles analyzing the trend of culture such as "Shanghainese" and "Ink Sacrifice", as well as familiar memoir essays full of cultural reflections like "Pai Fang", "Temples", and "Home at Longhua" etc.