The Mysterious Shangri-la

When you are on the way of taking train from Beijing to Lhasa or train from Shanghai to Tibet, will you take some books with you? Here we will talk something about a famous book called "the Lost Horizon " which tells an excellent story about Tibetan area.

James Hilton, the British writer whose books were the famous best-sellers, had created the legend story. Shangri-la became famous after the novel published in 1933, the crisis of the western society . The novel which is common in the narrating was very popular in the west and of great influence in its ages. At that time people had suffered the terrible world war and the age of turbulence, most of them want to have a peaceful and happiness life. This novel had built a promising land in people's minds and from then on the Mysterious Shangri-la in " the Lost Horizon" had became a glamorous paradise.

Shangri-la is so unreal blurred between the horizon of people's real life and spiritual world and wandered on it for more than half a century that still exudes seductive infection and always being the inward yearning of a " land of idyllic beauty " in people's minds. Every one interpreted this masterpiece carefully will follow the writer's pen and their minds wander to Shangri-la to experience the feelings of the heroine of the novel but at the same time have a heavy sense of loss  after gain some ting so that understand the profound implication of this book.