Things Being Seen Daily (Suijian Lu in Chinese) was a magazine column written by Xue Deyu, a biologist of Republic of China, for Nature, a Chinese magazine published in 1928—1932. This column proposed the topics using the things which could be seen in daily life, to popularize the new knowledge, particularly the scientific knowledge behind common sense with familiar things, closing the distance between scientific knowledge and the public. This way to interpret the scientific knowledge did not only show the writing style formed by combing the feature of the natural history and the literature level of the public in that era, but also embodied the idea of “Science Localization”, the concept of popularizing science proposed by Zhou Jianren, the chief editor of this magazine.

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