Boats Against the Current Vox Obscura
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yu yi
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n. the desire to see with fresh eyes, and feel things just as intensely as you did when you were younger—before expectations, before memory, before words.
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Ancient Chinese ?? (yú yi), I remember. Compare the Mandarin 玉衣 (yù yī), jade suit. Before their burial, the corpses of Han dynasty royals were clothed in ceremonial garments made of jade—a stone believed to have preservative properties, Even then, thousands of years ago, people were trying to protect themselves from the ravages of time by becoming "jaded." Pronounced "yoo yee."