Hutong culture is a closed culture. Most residents living in hutongs have moved to another place and are unwilling to move. Some have lived in an alley for decades, and some have even lived for several lifetimes. The following is my reflection on Hutong culture for your reading. I hope that after reading it, you can gain something and be enlightened.
After seeing the Hutong culture (1), I like Beijing very much since I was a child, especially old Beijing. There are complex impressions in this kind of like. Thought of here, my heart seems warm and moist, like a spring afternoon breeze blowing. The middle is shallow and faint, mixed with a little nostalgia and disappointment ... In short, it is an indescribable feeling, just like everything after reading the Hutong Culture by the old writer Wang Zengqi.
I have been to Beijing. In the eyes of Beijingers, it is not much different from other big cities. High-rise buildings, traffic, people coming and going-a modern city changing with each passing day. However, I don't know why, in front of such a "Beijing", I didn't feel the excitement I had imagined. On the contrary, my heart is always shrouded in a layer of lingering loss and loss. This doesn't seem to be the Beijing I remember. What does Beijing "should" look like? Actually, I still don't know The hustle and bustle accumulated by the imperial capital for hundreds of years, the neat and sonorous Beijing accent and rhyme, the glazed tile roof of the Forbidden City shining with golden light, or the endless Chang 'an Avenue all seem to be incomplete. The impression of Beijing is not a painting, but a movie, a historical, cultural and active Beijing full of images, prosperity, joys and sorrows. As written in the article. Beijing, with its big square, is divided into Little Square by hutongs, big and small, long and narrow, which are relatively independent but interrelated. Beijingers, the soul of old Beijing, live in the square and shuttle through hutongs. Generation after generation, houses are getting older and older, and the name of hutong may be mispronounced. Not to mention how many stories of kindness, resentment, joys and sorrows happened in quadrangles and hutongs.
But Beijing is still Beijing, and the increasingly gloomy urban primary colors have not reduced the heroism of the five dynasties imperial capital. Beijingers or Beijingers? When they speak, they are as crisp and fast as steel knives and carrots. When they walk, they are still slow and steady. Perhaps, at the foot of the emperor who has been powerful for hundreds of years in history, they have experienced too many storms and made them accustomed to this calm, dull and humiliating. Then, perhaps this hutong, which records the vicissitudes of Beijing, can be regarded as the most standard state of existence in Beijing.
It's kind of funny to think of yourself here. I read an article, which is very nostalgic. But on second thought, this is not surprising. No matter which person or country, there is a yesterday and a history. We all come from the past step by step, inheriting, developing and updating. Time will not be interrupted, so we can't cut off the past and forget it. I believe that my inexplicable attachment to old Beijing comes from nature and is the note of the old capital flowing in the blood of cultural accumulation.
Reflections on Hutong Culture (2) People's culture is too profound. It is more thorough than a mirror, and all the beauty and ugliness are clearly visible. There has never been an alternative beauty that has been modified and processed, and the hutong culture has been reviewed. Life is the expression of people's culture, and all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation reflect its profound ideological connotation. In fact, this kind of thinking is also forged by history, and it is impeccable and blameless in front of him. Everything seems to be formed naturally, but in fact it is full of twists and turns. When everything flows in the right direction, we can only continue to be excellent, try to avoid "countercurrent" and "lost", and only remember some essential fragments.
Not far from us, there must be this scene in these just-lost fragments-Hutong culture. Hutong culture is the representative of people's culture at the junction of ancient and modern times and has its own vast world. In modern China, the integration of the Chinese nation reached its peak because of the rule of the Qing government, and it was also greatly influenced by the incompetence of the Qing government. Whether it is a feudal high court or a handicraft business gathering place is decided at those moments. Perhaps people's architectural habits have been pushed to a historical peak by national integration, so the fine combination of feudal high walls and citizens, superstitious orientation and rational emotions, and the combination of disciplined households and emotional exchanges naturally formed "Hutong". The courtyard of "Hutong" is square and orderly, without losing communication with neighbors, providing convenient space for people's lives. The name "Hutong" embodies the great wisdom of the people, like a struggle under the shackles of ideology, like a free and lively world infected by filth. For a city, "Hutong" is exactly like a vein, not necessarily an artery or a vein. Only capillaries can determine its life and death. At that time, the people of China were very angry. The feudal rulers imprisoned their thoughts, bound their actions and exploited their flesh and blood. The arrival of imperialism did not change anything, but only increased colonial rule. How can a foreign grandfather not lie down? What if handicrafts can't be sold? Aren't they lucky that they didn't starve to death after finishing their work? This is nothing, we can "endure", but "endure" for a while does not mean that we have to endure for a lifetime. With less weight, what can we pursue without material life and spiritual life? How much bitterness is behind the word "forbearance", how much resistance is behind the seemingly negative, and how much helplessness does it take to say this word? But this is not the whole of "Hutong Culture". Some people finally misunderstood "forbearance", but more people just "forbeared" the integrity of the Chinese nation for a while, so they got everything today.
Historical changes are fleeting, and our descendants should not only miss the classics at that time, but also learn their spirit. It is necessary to investigate shortcomings, so is consideration. In short, history is created by the people, not a scene that dominates the people. After all, human history lies in people.
Everything in the world is ever-changing and has its own form, but there are not many elements that make up everything, only dozens on the periodic table. Similarly, the forms of articles vary widely, but there are only a few ways of expression, including narrative, descriptive, lyrical, argumentative and explanatory. After reading it, I have some feelings about hutong culture. These five expressions are combined by different writers in different ways, presenting their own unique stylistic forms and showing the writer's distinctive personality characteristics. So is Wang Zengqi's prose. Taking the mind as a melting pot, he used several expressions flexibly and appropriately, casting the unique style of his prose, that is, taking description as the framework, narrative as the filling, and lyric as the style, which is harmonious and unified, forming an organic whole.
The first volume of high school Chinese includes an essay "Hutong Culture" by Wang Zengqi. This article has such characteristics. The author always talks about the relationship between hutong and culture at the beginning. "This founder not only influenced the lives of Beijingers, but also influenced their thoughts." Then, it is divided into three parts: first, Hutong, the origin of its name, the size and number of Hutong, the function and environment of Hutong; Let's talk about culture first, always talking about the essence of hutong culture, "Hutong culture is a closed culture", and then explain various specific manifestations of "closure". Finally, the development trend of hutong and hutong culture is explained. "Hutongs in Beijing are declining" and "Hutong and Hutong culture will disappear one day under the sweeping tide of commodity economy". This is the structural framework of the article. Obviously, this is an illustrative structural form.
This structure is not surprising, but it is surprising that the author fills it with narrative. For example, to illustrate the characteristics of Beijing Founder, look at what he said, "Beijingers have a strong sense of orientation." In the past, rickshaws often shouted' Go east!' In every corner. Go west! In case you hit a pedestrian. When the old couple were sleeping, the old lady thought the old man was squeezing her and said,' Go south'. In this way, the author vividly and interestingly explains the little things in daily life, which makes you deeply impressed by the characteristics of Beijing. What effect will it have if we introduce it in another way and use any of the nine common explanation methods? For another example, in order to illustrate that the essence of Hutong culture is "forbearance", the author talked about three things. One is the classic sentence of Wang Lifa in Lao She's Teahouse. One is a dialogue in his own novel The Sun in August, which is more detailed; One is to hit a little girl on the mouth with a young man. His attitude is different from that of two old Beijingers. In the author's pen, these vivid characters just illustrate the essence of hutong culture. Therefore, the narration in Wang Zengqi's works is different from the examples in the explanatory text, but full of literary meaning.
What is even more surprising is that the author has a strong lyrical style when he narrates. For example, "Look at the photos of these hutongs, which makes people feel nostalgic and even a little sad. But this is a helpless move. " This is direct lyric. "The west wind is still shining, the vegetation is decaying, and it is desolate and lifeless everywhere", which describes the decline of hutong and reveals extremely sad emotions. At the end of the article, I said, "Goodbye, Hutong." Nostalgia, sadness and helplessness are intertwined, which is hard to say.
From the hutong culture, we can concretely perceive the beauty and strangeness of Wang Zengqi's prose style. For example, if Wang Zengqi's prose is compared to a painting, then description is the lines of the painting, narrative is the pigment filled in the lines, and lyricism is the luster and color of the picture.
In addition, in Selected Works of Wang Zengqi (Lijiang Publishing House), Wang Zengqi selected 12 essays, among which "The Shadow of a Green Lake", "Rain in Kunming" and "Running Alarm" have such characteristics. In the preface of this anthology, Wang Zengqi said: "What I pursue is not profundity, but harmony." Looking at Wang Zengqi's essays, I really feel that several common expressions have been used in his hands with great perfection. Therefore, his prose shows harmonious, natural and unpretentious beauty.
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