When I am silent, I feel full; I will open my mouth and feel empty at the same time. The past life is dead. I am happy for this death, because I know it once lived. The dead life has rotted. I get great pleasure from this decay, because I know it is not empty.
It is my sin to leave the mud of life on the ground, not to plant trees, but to grow weeds. The weeds are not deep at all, and the flowers and leaves are not beautiful. However, they absorb dew, water, blood and old and dead meat, and each one takes it to survive. When you are alive, you will still be trampled and cut until you die and rot.
But I am calm and happy. I can laugh and I can sing. I love my weeds, but I hate the ground decorated with weeds. The fire ran underground and rushed; Once the lava is ejected, it will burn all the weeds and trees, so it will not rot. But I am calm and happy.
I can laugh and I can sing. It's so quiet between heaven and earth that I can't laugh and sing. If heaven and earth were not so quiet, I might or might not. Before giving this bunch of weeds to friends and enemies, people and beasts, lovers and lovers, I take this bunch of weeds as my witness in the time of light and darkness, life and death, past and future.
For myself, for friends and enemies, for man and beast, for lovers and lovers, I hope the decay of this weed will come soon. Otherwise, I can't live, which is more unfortunate than death and decay. Come on, weed, attach my inscription!
1April 26, 927
Lu Xun recorded it on the Baiyun Tower in Guangzhou.
Extended data
Creation background
1, cultural background:
Weeds is a collection of prose poems full of symbolic significance. Symbolism, as a conscious movement of literary schools, began in the 1980s when the French writer Jean Morias published the Manifesto of Symbolism in le figaro. In the 1920s, it became a worldwide modernist literary movement with great influence.
From 19 18 to 1924, new youth, morning newspaper supplement, novel monthly report, literary journal, literary weekly, light of learning, awakening, threads and other publications.
Liu Bannong, Zhou Zuoren, Liang Di (Zheng Zhenduo), Shen Xingren, Zhang, Su Zhaolong and others have successively published Turgenev's and Baudelaire's prose poems, and some publications have also specially published articles introducing and discussing prose poems. It is in this cultural atmosphere that the author published 23 prose poems one after another and compiled them into Weeds.
2, the background of the times:
At the beginning of the 20th century, China's political situation was turbulent, warlords fought, and after the Duan government took control of the Beijing regime, China fell into the darkest period after the May 4th Movement. The warlord government "not only destroyed the national movement of student workers for freedom, but also brutally killed innocent people." He also led his troops to fight many times in Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, southeast Guangdong and northeast China, disturbing Yan. "
The May 4th New Culture Movement experienced repeated setbacks. After the New Youth League broke up, Lu Xun felt that he was alone in the desert. He described himself as an idle soldier wandering in the old battlefield, unable to find the goal and meaning.
However, the discord or even break with Zhou Zuoren made the concept of complete homeland that Lu Xun tried to maintain disappear, and the final integration of Lu Xun's spiritual homeland collapsed. Moreover, the female normal university incident also brought great influence to Lu Xun's mood. In order to describe this process, the writer Lu Xun created a series of prose poems reflecting the warlord's melee and inner anguish.
3, the creative process:
The 23 prose poems included in this collection of poems were written in Beijing during the period of 1924 to 1926. Lu Xun, the author, recalled in 1932: "Later, the people in New Youth dispersed, some were promoted, some retired and some advanced. I have experienced that the same partner in the battle will still change like this.
And ending up as a' writer', still walking around in the desert, but unable to escape writing in rambling journals, this is called rambling. With a little sentiment, write some short essays, which are exaggerated, and then print them into a book called Weeds. "
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