Yesterday, I happened to read the word "people", and "people" also means "self-protection". People living in exile also mean Meng and Meng, and the plants are in their infancy. It's interesting to think about it. If Chinese is the spiritual home of the Chinese nation, I feel just like the exile who has gone a long way and finally returned to his home, familiar and slightly unfamiliar, relaxed and somewhat ignorant.
ignorance is just like the feeling of reading this book several times recently. It's deja vu, but it can't be thoroughly understood. Yes, it seems not. I think that reason is that I have been away from my home for too long. Nevertheless, the familiar feeling and taste of home always lingers in my heart, just like a person who is far away from home will miss his hometown and the young time he spent there all his life.
because it is a part of life, the original part. The feeling of cutting constantly seems to be chaotic. Just like the word "emperor" read yesterday, it originally meant the flower pedicle, because the later mosaic fruits of plants were born from this pedicle, so "emperor" had the meaning of ancestor and initial. Therefore, it can also be said that ancient Chinese characters are the beginning of our Chinese civilization. Since the creation of characters in Cangjie, the history of civilization for thousands of years has also flowed out.
I think, because of this, although I am confused every time I read, I still feel very magical and interesting every time I read or listen to my peers. Because even if only a few words enter my heart occasionally, it feels like a little star suddenly lights up a certain part of the night sky, and then a series of pictures will emerge, and I can't help but exclaim with joy: Ah! How beautiful! How interesting! It's amazing!
I didn't have such a strong desire to read it at first, but I just wanted to read it more and more. Civilized civilization, looking for words to give birth to meaning, presumably means using words to show the meaning of light. Imagine who would see the light and not want to get close!
After reading it, I immediately understood what Mr. Xing Kuan said, "If you can't learn words, you won't get into the world". I understand why the teacher said that learning calligraphy means learning words. Literature carries the Tao and books carry the text. They are like soul and flesh and blood, and they are always interdependent and inseparable. I gradually understood why the teacher chose this book as the first study of philology after Raining Millet. As Chen Duxiu himself said, "The main purpose of this book is to train and enlighten".
As I read it, I gradually understood why Chen Duxiu named this book "A Textbook for Primary School Literacy". It is because of ignorance that we have to train, and the veil of ignorance will gradually be lifted. Since it is training and enlightenment, it is of course necessary to start from primary school, which is to prepare for the future understanding of the Six Classics, which should be something that only the university can do.
The term "primary school" here may not necessarily refer to primary school students. I think that if a person has not experienced the real training of Chinese language and characters, and has not been able to understand the origin and true connotation of Chinese characters, no matter how old he is, he is still an ignorant primary school student in terms of studying Confucian classics, just like me at the moment. When a high-rise building rises from the ground, it must be built layer by layer. If the foundation is not laid well, how can we start building a high-rise building?
As I read it, I suddenly understood why Chen Duxiu was able to devote himself to writing this book in such a bad environment in prison in his later years. I also understand the intention of Mr. Gong Pengcheng's calligraphy reading guide that "this book is the most academic in Chen Duxiu's works" and "although the name is humble, the inside should not be underestimated, so I hope readers can follow it well". I also understand why Chen Duxiu refused the request of Chen Lifu, then Minister of Education, to change the title of the book and publish it, without hesitation, when life was dying.
This is just a true scholar's loyalty to the writing and his firm belief in the light and truth carried by the belief in Chinese characters. There is reason to believe that there are some things in this world that exist above individual life, and that is the power of faith. Because faith itself is not guarding the life and death of a leaf or a branch, it is guarding the invisible roots under the soil. Leaves will fall and germinate year after year, and branches and even trunks may be damaged and cut off again and again. However, as long as the underground root system is still there, it will always have the hope of resurrection and rebirth.
Chinese characters were undoubtedly created as a belief system at first, which is the root of the endless civilization of the Chinese nation and the eternal hope of the Chinese nation. The proud literati like Mr. Chen Duxiu and the true literati of past dynasties have spared no expense to protect or pass on what they have devoted their whole lives, not only the Chinese characters themselves, but also the belief system formed by the forms of Chinese characters, which is the affectionate guardian of the roots of Chinese civilization and the desperate follow-up of the light and hope carried by Chinese characters.
In this way, we will have a deep understanding of the meaning of this book and some behaviors of its author. From this point of view, in fact, the feeling of reading this book is similar to that of reading the Bible and Buddhist scriptures. Like Shuowen and Erya, it is a reference book, but at the same time it is also a classic, so it is obviously impossible to read it thoroughly.
Remembering what Mr. Xing Kuan often said, the main purpose of learning characters is to understand the Six Classics. The Six Classics is the truth about the natural life of the universe left by our ancestors. Therefore, it is normal to read it without understanding. After all, it is impossible for us to master some extremely sophisticated tool at once. Moreover, this tool is still aimed at truth and used to dissect truth, and even this tool itself has become a part of truth.
However, there is no need to be pessimistic. Even if we can't exhaust the truth, we can always stay with it and go and see it if we have nothing to do. As long as we approach it from time to time, ponder it and feel it with our heart, we will find that we can easily get some beautiful and bright things from it, which will comfort the storms and impermanence of our small lives.
think about it, the words "winter" and "end" are originally one word in ancient Chinese, because winter means the end of one year; Think about the day when the "white" image first appeared, "it is slightly sharp to distinguish the whole day, and white is incomparable, and it is like the twilight of the first day", which is related to "the East is white"; Think again, "Dan", like the shape of the sunrise, is about the appearance of the sun just giving birth to the horizon ... Feel it carefully, every word is a moment and a picture in the finely divided time of ancient times.
When I think about these pictures, I think it's really beautiful and extremely romantic, because this word is a real and subtle presence and sight of our ancestors looking up at the sky and geography, about everything in the world and about the world we live in. Our ancestors shaped these fleeting beings and turned them into words, thus permanently condensing the beauty of that moment in words and transmitting it to generation after generation.
When you understand these words, you will find that they reveal our ancestors' love for nature and unparalleled enthusiasm for life itself. Looking at it, some kind of moving feeling and cheerful feeling will involuntarily flow out from the heart. That feeling, just like our hearts bathed in the warmth of sunshine and the beauty of moonlight in the light river of Chinese characters, and felt the vastness of the starry sky.
The lofty light of faith seems out of reach, but Chinese characters tell us that it is actually between heaven and earth, in nature, and in every bit of our lives. Those beautiful moments and extreme romance condensed in Chinese characters are never far away. What we need is not nostalgia, but to awaken our awareness by approaching Chinese characters, to see and feel the beauty that has been lingering around us.
As stated in the introduction of the book Rain in the Sky, we were originally a people who believed in light and worshipped the skylight. It's just that times have changed, and this light source has been covered by the dust of history! When the word "show" reappears in the sky and multiple time and space overlap in life, I see "rain millet, ghosts crying at night" again. Only when his hands were folded, the priest prayed: God bless happiness and the sky will return.
Coincidentally, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also a festival to worship ancestors. May our ancestors bless us, and may we not forget our ancestors' love and lose our lives. May we all return to our spiritual homes and settle our hearts.
The sun is still the sun, the moon is still the moon, the starry sky is still the starry sky, and your heart is still the original heart!
—— Mid-Autumn Festival of Polaroid's New Year.