4. Compare the joy of meeting God with the slight depression of being forced to carry the sword.
Five will
Lu Xun
What the children are looking forward to, besides the Chinese New Year holiday, is probably the time to welcome the God Tournament. But my home is very remote. By the time the parade of the sports meeting passes by, it must be afternoon. Etiquette and ceremonies have been reduced and reduced, and there are very few left. I often wait for a long time with my neck stretched out, only to see a dozen people rushing by with a gold-faced or blue-faced idol. So, it's over. (Comment:)
I have always been hopeful that the tournament I saw this time is more prosperous than the last one, but the result is always "almost"; There is always only one souvenir left, that is, a whistle made of a little mud, a little colored paper, a bamboo stick and two or three chicken feathers, which will make a harsh sound when blown for two or three days. (Comment: In that era when cultural life was scarce, it seemed that whistling was also a child's.
Now, if we look at A Dream of the Temple of Tao An, we will think that the competition at that time was very extravagant. Although the articles written by Ming people are inevitably exaggerated, there are still some ways to welcome the Dragon King for praying for rain, but the way is very simple, just a dozen people around a dragon, and the children in the village are playing with some sea ghosts. At that time, they were going to play a story, which was really amazing. He thought of the character cloud in the water margin: "If there is none, it will be a country, a village, a secluded mountain and a neighboring state and county." Hired at a high price, there are 36 people, all of whom are heroes of the water margin, called [women's football] ... "Who can live like this without looking at elegance? Unfortunately, this grand occasion has long been eliminated with the Ming society. (Comment: The author tries his best to describe the luxury and extravagance of games in the Ming Dynasty in order to compare with the present. )
Although the current sports meeting is not like the cheongsam in Shanghai, it is officially forbidden to talk about state affairs in Beijing, but women and children are not allowed to watch it. Scholars, so-called literati, generally refuse to watch it. Only idle people ran to the temple or yamen to watch the fun; Most of what I know about the tournament comes from their narratives, not the precious "ophthalmology" of textual research experts. However, I remember one time I personally saw a relatively prosperous tournament. At first, a child rode it first, called "Tang Bao". After a long time, the "high photo" arrived, and a long bamboo pole held up a long flag. A sweaty fat man holds it in his hands: when he is happy, he will put the head of the pole on his head or teeth, or even on the tip of his nose. So there are so-called "stilts", "carrying pavilions" and "horse heads"; Some dressed as criminals, including children. At that time, I thought these were very glorious occupations, and I heard that they were lucky. -I probably envy their limelight. I thought, why didn't I get seriously ill and let my mother go to the temple to make a wish to "pretend to be a prisoner"? ..... However, until now I have nothing to do with the tournament. (Comment: What kind of society is this? From the author's seemingly dull brushstrokes, we should realize that this is a society that suppresses people's personality. )
I'm going to see Wucang Club in Dongguan. (Comment: Wucang is also called "five links" and "five saints". Shaoxing people describe them as the essence of five animals: horse, monkey, dog, chicken and snake. The Wucang Fair is a kind of god-welcoming competition, inviting the "five links" in Wucang Temple to cruise. These god-welcoming competitions are of course superstitious activities. But at that time, they were superstitious activities. It is also considered as a kind of mass entertainment. This is a rare event in my childhood, because it will be the most prosperous meeting in the county. Dongguan is far from my home, and there are more than 60 miles of waterways out of the city, where there are two special temples. One is the Meigu Temple recorded in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. After death, the maid kept a festival and became a god, but usurped someone else's husband. Now there is a pair of young men and women on the altar, smiling, which is different from "ethics". First, it's Wucang Temple, with a strange name. According to people who are addicted to textual research, this is the five gods. However, there is no definitive evidence. Idol is five men, nothing crazy. There are five wives sitting behind, but they don't "sit separately", which is far less strict than the boundaries in Beijing theaters. In fact, this is also different from "ethical code"-but since it is cabin five, it is unexpected that it is naturally "another theory".
Because Dongguan is far from the city, everyone got up early in the morning. The big ship with three tiled windows booked last night has been moored at Jiangkou, and chairs, meals, teapots and snack boxes are being moved down one after another. I jumped up with a smile and urged them to act quickly. Suddenly, the workers' expressions became very cautious, and I knew something was wrong. Looking around, my father stood behind me. (Comment:)
"Get your book," he said slowly.
This so-called "book" refers to Jian lue that I read when I was enlightened. Because I didn't have a second book, the age of going to school there was odd, so it reminded me that I was seven years old.
I was nervous and brought a book. He sat me at the table in the middle of the hall and taught me to read sentence by sentence. I read sentence by sentence, knowing fairly well. (Comment: A wonderful psychological description, "I" was uneasy under the oppression of my father, but I was helpless; I'm worried about not only whether I can recite it, but also whether I can go to the game. )
Two sentences and one line, read about twenty or thirty lines, he said:
"Read it to me. If you can't recite it, you are not allowed to go to the meeting. "
With that, he stood up and walked into the room.
I seem to have poured cold water on my head. But what can I do? Nature is reading, reading, memorizing-and reciting it.
Guangdong has Pangu, born in the wilderness,
In the world of the First Empire, Zhao Kai is intermingled.
It is such a book, I only remember the first four sentences now, and I forget the rest; The twenty or thirty lines memorized at that time were naturally forgotten in it. I remember hearing people say that reading Jian lue is much more useful than reading Qian Zi Wen and Hundred Family Names.
Because you can know the general meaning from ancient times to the present. It's good to know the general meaning from ancient times to the present, but I don't understand a word. "Pangu leaves Guangdong" means "Pangu leaves Guangdong". Read on and remember it. "Guangdong from Pangu"! Born in the wilderness
Oh! ……
The applicants have all moved, and the home has changed from hectic to quiet. The morning sun shines on the western wall, and the weather is fine. My mother, the worker and my eldest mother, Chang, could not be saved, so they silently waited for me to read and recite. In silence, I seem to
Many iron tongs should be stretched out in the head to clamp the stream that was born in the wilderness; I also heard my voice trembling, like the chirping of crickets in late autumn night.
They are all waiting; The sun has also risen higher.
I suddenly seemed very sure, so I stood up, took the book and went into my father's study. I recited it like a dream. (Comment: "Like a dream". I feel the same way every time I review these words. I admire Lu Xun for telling me about his father's helplessness and troubles when he didn't care about his children's psychology. It shows that the contents and methods of feudal education at that time did great harm to children's physical and mental health. Isn't our past "exam-oriented education" the same? )
"Not bad. Go ahead, "said the father, nodding.
Everyone moved at the same time, with a smile on their faces, and walked to the river port. The workers held me high as if to congratulate me on my success, and then walked quickly ahead.
I am not as happy as they are. After sailing, the scenery in the waterway, the snacks in the box, and the excitement of Dongguan No.5 Club seem to have little meaning to me. (Comment: "It doesn't seem to mean much to me." Because I'm so depressed in the morning. )
Until now, everything else has been completely forgotten, leaving no trace, except the one that recited the sword slightly, but it is still as clear as yesterday.
I still wonder why my father asked me to endorse it at that time. (Comment: All lies are narratives. The ending seems calm, but the feelings are strong. Behind the words are the father's irrationality, his incomprehension of his children, and the trauma and pain caused by his tyranny. )
May 25th. Day ~193610 June19], China writer, thinker and revolutionary. Originally known as Zhou Zhangshou, Cai Yu, and later renamed Shu Ren, he was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and was born in a ruined scholar-bureaucrat family. 55438+09 18 May, he used it for the first time. It laid the cornerstone of the new literature movement. Published in February of 192 1, the novella The True Story of Ah Q is an immortal masterpiece in the history of modern literature in China. The first collection of novels, Scream, was published in 0923 and became the cornerstone of China's new literature. After all its translations, it was compiled into The Complete Works of Lu Xun by People's Literature Publishing House.
[partial comments]
The story described in this article is simple: a long-awaited tournament has become dull because of his father's incomprehension and tyranny. However, in the plain narrative, we vaguely felt the author's broken heart. Even we can further think of today's children, whose hearts are not hurt by their concern for their children's success and hope for success.
The structure of this article is very distinctive. I didn't see idols and tomorrow's contest in my previous writing, so I didn't write idly, but paved the way for this hard-won contest from both positive and negative aspects, highlighting the theme. At the same time, the narrative language is simple and plain, which is worth writing.