Night boat is the product of closed environment and backward productivity. In the narrow river, it sails slowly, communicating the economic and cultural ties between the rural areas and the county towns in remote mountainous areas, enticing the villagers and children in the mountain villages with its devout voice, becoming a boat in the hearts of children in the mountain villages, a boat for help in the broken villages, a boat bet by young adventurers, and a boat for stabilizing culture.
The "night boat" is symbolic, it is a symbol of the long journey in the southern water town of China, and it is also a symbol of feudalism in China. This feudal China ship sailed day after day year after year, but the closed environment, backward tools and narrow river made it go very slowly and could not get out of the fixed channel and area. Although there is communication, it is a trickle. This ship in China's feudal society was the social foundation of "night boat culture" which was conformist and divorced from people and reality.
The ships of feudal China finally came to modern times. The article quotes an article about three Zhejiang cultural masters taking a boat. Lu Xun's "Good Story" depicts the beautiful scenery on the water and entrusts the yearning and pursuit of a beautiful ideal. Zhou Zuoren's Wu Pengchuan shows his appreciation of personal leisure and leisure. Feng Zikai's article shows the self-satisfied realm of students and teenagers wandering in nature and art, which is a ship of modern China with the color and flavor of modern culture.
Criticizing "night sailing culture" is the purpose of the author's writing. Through the analysis of the ancient "night boat culture" in China, the following characteristics are revealed: 1. It's closed "The waves at the bow can't be poured in; The wind outside the ship can't blow in ","the world of scholars is only in the cabin "; 2. No creativity and initiative, conformism. "Give the boat to the boss", "The voyage distance has been booked"; 3. Be divorced from reality and people. "Talking about knowledge has nothing to do with the present; Talking about history, refusing to reflect ","savoring the past, even some trivial knowledge. Do not hesitate to fight for the details of thousands of years ago. " "A sneer, a show-off, a false admiration, a pretentious intoxication, and finally, you will get a bigger berth, fall asleep in a dream and get a smile", "Ten years of cold window, fighting between laughter and victory", are useless to practice and the people. 4. slow. This "night boat culture" makes the development of China culture slow, just like this slow-sailing night boat. The slow sailing ships in feudal China produced this closed, conformist, divorced from the people and reality, and slowly developed China culture; This culture, in turn, slowed down the progress of ships in feudal China.
The author calls this "night boat culture" noisy, boring and noisy. As time goes by, it will always be so noisy, boring and noisy, which is a sigh of China culture. Representing this "night boat culture" is Zhang Dai's book "Encyclopedia of Night Boat" in Ming Dynasty. By using the method of comparison, the encyclopedia compiled by Diderot and others in France at the same time is compared with Zhang Dai's Night Flight. The encyclopedia compiled by Diderot is not an aggregation of articles, but an enlightenment and progress again and again, so that the ship of French spiritual culture can finally get rid of the night of feudal society and sail into the new river of modern civilization. However, Zhang Dai's "Night Flight" can't do this. It's not his fault, but in feudal China.