“大理不是你想象中的普普通通的小城市”，画家韩湘宁如是说。他在纽约居住了四十年后，在大理安了家。

"Dali isn't your average little city," says painter Han Xiangning, who has made Dali his home after living abroad for four decades in New York.

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在我的回信中我告诉了他关于我的生活的情况，我居住在乡下的房子坐落在赫罗纳郊外的一座山上，前面是座中世纪的城市，后面是乡村和空旷地。

In my reply I told him about my life, my house in the country, on one of the hills outside Gerona, the medieval city in front of it, the countryside or the void behind.

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“一个城市的精神活力取决于他的居住率，”他说。

“The intellectual energy of a city depends on livability,” he says.

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