What Yu wrote and expressed in this novel prose full of personal imagination can be explained by three short words, that is, with tears of my aunt's powder, as if he had tightened his bloated body before several rolls of thread-bound books, and cried lightly and vividly at the rotting bones of the dead body: "I hate it!"
His "hate", like his "silence" but still "excitement" in the end, can't give me any thorough emotional impact and appeal. His "hate" is really superficial. He can almost blame the crime and hate of destroying Dunhuang cultural relics on this Taoist priest who was "a common China civilian in that era, wearing homespun cotton-padded clothes, with dull eyes and timidity"? ! A hundred years later, Yu, as a "cultural scholar", was wrapped in a sense of knowledge superiority, sitting in front of a tea-scented book case, staring at the nitrate dust that burned all life in the night at the beginning of the century, and reprimanding an old janitor who he had never really known or understood-why did you lose like this? At that time, Mr. Yu found some moral superiority and self-satisfaction from this old slave. The essential function of the tower is limited to this.
At the end, the clever author did not forget to borrow the words of a Japanese scholar, "I want to correct a past statement." The achievements in recent years show that Dunhuang is in China and Dunhuang studies are also in China "to restore China's national pride and self-confidence. In the past, he just gnashed his teeth at China's ignorance, barbarism, backwardness and morbidness, all of which were concentrated on Wang Daoshi as an "individual". He should have started thinking deeply about China's various deep-rooted morbid and ignorant "Rainbow Taoists" who had an impact on him. "Therefore, whenever something bad happens in China, it is said that it is always because of some" little people "who make a mess. Once something good happens in China, it must be a proof of the collective glory of the whole Chinese nation, so that our national and cultural" self-esteem "and" self-confidence "can be realized and satisfied. It is this Ah Q-style "victory method" without self-criticism, dissection and repentance that makes the rest of China literati and culture invincible in the artificial "pain" and self-anesthesia detachment. No matter when it comes, it will be a seemingly confident "victory in hand." But I know he's guilty.
However, some intellectuals in China are willing to return to the so-called "5,000-year splendid civilization" and pick up the personality mask of traditional literati feelings. What's more, "China civilians everywhere" need to find the "self-esteem" and "self-confidence" of "our culture" satirized by Lu Xun. I have done a good job for the people, so I think his prose is essentially a kind of kitsch, and he is not wronged, but this time he sells an elegant and decent "cultural" aphrodisiac.
2. Mogao grottoes
The words conveyed by the Mogao Grottoes are beautiful, slightly gorgeous, rich in rhetoric and without a sense of carving. The still Dunhuang frescoes, dancing with fresh lines and momentum, not only conform to the content of characters and backgrounds, but also give strong life and aesthetic significance across time and space. People move with painting, painting turns from heart, and fantasy is intertwined with the present. History and color rise, exquisite and majestic.
The author's intention is clear: he wants to pursue a kind of "beauty" of Dunhuang art beyond religion and morality. You can change your perspective, but the perspective of "beauty" is appropriate, and at the same time, it takes into account the multi-layer meaning of the Mogao Grottoes, that is, "rich depth of field". The significance and value of Dunhuang are obviously "inexhaustible" classics. Under the artistic psychological observation of "beauty", Yu intercepted the fragments of Dunhuang he wanted and appreciated them. From this perspective, it should be said that the author has a lot of vision. But the problem is that with the appearance, gathering, carnival and release of "all kinds of life", Yu gradually entered the narrative of "the depth of history and the depth of national psychology", and "humanity", "life" and "personality" became pale and vague symbols that were repeatedly praised. We saw colorful and graceful paintings, but we couldn't see a deeper couple. It is also a tribute to the infinite longing and pride of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, so it is said that "our nation finally has such a dynasty and such a moment", while the beauty of individual life art is obscured by grand historical themes and cheap national self-esteem, so "we once had" and "we have been together for more than a thousand years" are only mechanically piled up, which is a great loss of three-dimensional and multi-dimensional thinking, so the beauty of Mogao Grottoes.
3. Snow in the Sun
Yangguan "will eventually become a ruin and a wasteland." So what is the reason? In a very obscure way, the author expresses the view that the rulers in power do not seem to give artists enough status and respect, which limits their creation, but artists are good enough, talented enough and excellent enough.
However, the sentence "Chang 'an Palace only opens a narrow side door for artists" is very meaningful, which shows that while secretly comparing himself with ancient intellectuals, he has never left the "door" opened by Chang 'an Palace. Yu's personality is deeply branded with his psychological attachment to "power", which is deeply reflected in this paper. He lamented, mourned, mourned and even complained about ancient cultural celebrities, and even often squeezed out a few drops of dry tears. He actually hopes that the authorities can give a cultural person like him a living space and even reuse it. This is a typical China traditional literati complex, without or lacking independent personality, always living in the shadow of power discourse to seek self-orientation. I take this opportunity to show his vanity as an intellectual to the fullest. Don't insult Eliot's classic, just look helplessly at his final grave.
I still don't forget to take the statue of the Tang Dynasty to find some poor "pride and pride" of the western masters in the Renaissance, but he doesn't want to ask again: why can't such brilliant Tang Dynasty art avoid the fate of retrogression and decline? Why did the Renaissance in the West create an unprecedented modern human civilization?
Those filial sons and grandchildren who are still sitting on national cultural relics such as the "Four Great Inventions" and praising Kai are naturally puzzled.
5. Liu Hou Temple
If you understand the deep meaning of the author's "borrowing the corpse of an ancient man to return his soul", you will feel that this is a "cultural prose" with a high disgusting index. It is not so much the vague concept of "culture" that makes it vulgar, but rather the confession of a cultural person who is eager to be an official. The whole article reveals the author's strong ideology of "official standard", and even such disgusting words, except for pulling Liu Zongyuan out of the coffin on the spot and saying that "Liuzhou was opened from the roots" because "Liu Zongyuan and other officials who were demoted to the south". I don't know whether the opening and rise of contemporary Liuzhou really depends on the cultural background of the officials who relegated the south thousands of years ago, but what I know is that I am not drunk. It can be said that Yu is also a "scholar" and a great scholar with a high level. Therefore, if China wants to get better "fundamentally", there is really only one way, that is, to use this group of scholars and young people to be big officials and small officials. It can be said that through this article, we can see that Yu has hardly digested the political ideas of the rule of law and constitutional democracy in modern society. He may know some theories, but he has accepted a more conservative political and cultural consciousness than the contemporary Neo-Confucianism. As a result, the artiness of being an official controls culture, and intellectuals show off culture with power. Ironically, Yu is still lamenting that Liu Zongyuan has lost his "personal meaning" in his article. Under the official-based authoritarian system, it is certainly impossible for individuals to be independent and suppressed. Now that I have seen this, I will not hold myself responsible for the system, but place my hopes on the "rule of man" of "literati being officials". I don't know if he is really excusing the ancients. "Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is intended to be used repeatedly by the public"!
7. Dujiangyan
This is still an article about Li Bing through Dujiangyan and "official standard" through Li Bing. I have discussed it in the comments on Liu Hou's Ci, but this time he injected professional science and technology into the "official standard" instead of inscriptions and poems. The greatness of Dujiangyan is embodied in the spirit of Li Bing. The author hopes that such people can have endless children and grandchildren, so he gives Li Bing endless comments.
Yu Wen is used to exaggerating his position and showing his affectation and grandstanding in landscape worship, but of course he doesn't really want to kneel in front of landscape cultural relics. He's just making a false gesture. His focus is still to use this emotional agitation to eliminate rational cold thinking and let readers agree with him and follow his point of view. In this paper, the worship of "capable officials" is the same as that of "honest officials", and it is an understanding of the thought of "rule by man". We should know that "being honest and able to be an official" alone can't help China get rid of the historical cycle brought by "rule by man", but this rational cognition has been exhausted under the grand theme deliberately created by the author and the populist atmosphere of flattering the people.
Yu said in the article: "Here, I suddenly have some optimism about the history of China.". Although I don't know whether this is true or not, you can feel this sweet and greasy superficial view of "music" in the whole "cultural journey", but the title of the book runs through the word "bitterness". What is pretending? What is melodramatic? Look at that.
8. Three Gorges
Li Bai's poems are elegant, smart and detached, full of enthusiasm for mountains and rivers. However, they are depressed, sophisticated, anxious and sad. If you have read his works, the immortal spirit of detachment and seclusion will always accompany this talented son of heaven. In the hardships of the world and the ups and downs of his career, he chose to indulge in his spirit with an unruly character, which is consistent with Du Fu's perseverance. Most people in China probably prefer reading Li Bai, because I can read a kind of speed and pleasure from Li Bai, but I prefer Lao Du. Lao Du's words are not only notes splashed with aura, but also the soul of life precipitated by blood and tears. He is not detached, so he surpassed every detached poet of that era.
9. Corner of Dongting
"Demoted official culture" is indeed an important part of China culture. When the official career was prosperous, I didn't see any particularly excellent articles. They were just released, so they "had to be close to the mountains and rivers." With a natural feeling of grief and indignation, their literary talent actually flew. "Things have changed, and even the court thinks that this person is good and has restored his reputation." It can be seen that the writing style and lyricism of relegated officials do not hide the utilitarian heart of looking forward to the Lord's reference and reuse. After being demoted, I have no choice but to write something, which just proves that the "literary works" of the demoted official are written with different meanings and purposes, so the "literary works" created really conform to his "personality"-they are all hypocritical. Then, if China's "extremely eye-catching" culture is all done by cultural officials, we don't know whether China's demoted officials are too talented or China's self-evaluation of literary creation is "too talented".
However, literature is only framed in this article. What is important is the "fame" effect of "the place is spread by people, the people are spread by places, and the two sides help each other, all of which are famous". Degraded officials turn to dust, and the landscape pavilion is still such a landscape pavilion. What do you care about literature? What is important is that the "fame" earned by the article is the inexhaustible tangible benefit. Literature not only "helped" the official career of relegated officials, but also "helped" the reputation of tourist attractions, which can probably go down in history and remain immortal. I have read Yu's Help and half of China's classical literature.
12. random thoughts on scenic spots in Qingyunpu Scenic Resort
Xu Wei's madness and the weirdness of the "Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou" are unique in China's history and culture. Mr. Lu Xun once talked about the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" in Wei and Jin Dynasties, probably not out of dissatisfaction with Confucian ethics, but out of resentment at the current situation that Confucian ethics was misused by those in power, leading to the existence of name only. Do literati like "crazy" and "weird" want to rebel against the dominant culture or protect the true meaning of culture in disguise, only targeting those in power? If "crazy" and "weird" people really transcend the traditional culture of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, what are their spiritual resources? Or a more superficial and decadent nihilism? In my opinion, these "crazy" and "weird" people are like pulling out their hair and trying to fly away from the earth. They just made a gesture, and their powerlessness was covered up. In fact, "crazy" and "weird" people have not really surpassed or even cut off the hatred, contempt and contempt they expressed. Are there cultural and traditional factors in their blood? It is precisely because of their qualifications that they may be implanted deeper. Those "crazy" and "weird" people have entered a strange cultural circle that they can't jump out of, as if they knew their grandson like the back of their hand. In the end, he was buried deeper by traditional culture because of his unique and novel personality and profound knowledge, but in the end, he may be melted into a panacea to bring cultural traditions back to life, which was repeatedly pondered and wiped by "cultural scholars" hundreds of years later, and then used to write articles on cultural conservatism. "Crazy" and "weird" people seek spiritual breakthroughs in reincarnation. It turned out that they failed and came back. For an ancient nation without God and redemption, spiritual breakthrough can only be another kind of self-righteousness of "taking me as righteousness".
15. Lonely Tianzhu Mountain
"Religion with landscapes" is neither a landscape nor a religion, but a culture that can "make those knowledgeable literati feel comfortable". Tianzhu Mountain has advantages and disadvantages, but it is far from being the "home" of China literati. Jerusalem is the home of Jews and the Bible is the home of Christians. Tianzhu mountain? After all, its "religion, beauty and poetry" constitute a very interesting tourist attraction.
16. "Stormy days"
"Offering books for the Sikuquanshu is a disaster for Tianyi Pavilion, which is quite right." This is another blind spot of China's historical darkness. In this paper, the so-called "sound personality" was put forward, and later this ridiculous word was given to Emperor Kangxi by him. China literati love to talk about "perfection" and "perfection", and they are also good at leaving these perfect modifiers to themselves and those in power. A "sound personality" abides by feudal clan rules, including "prohibiting women from going upstairs", and the "sound" emperor and his successors also began a long "literary prison" and closed the country. How is this deformed "sound personality based on cultural conscience" formed? Even a punk like Ah Q knows to draw a circle of complete victory on paper seriously, not to mention the literati in China.
17. West Lake Dream
All religions will come to the West Lake for exhibitions. The word "exhibition" is wonderful. People in China are used to watching. In any case, the most important thing is to "look", which begins with looking and ends with looking. Full of eye addiction and sensory pleasure, just like the soul is drained.
18. At the foot of Langshan Mountain
I didn't understand the profound meaning of Lu Xun at all. Is Lu Xun improving the naming of natural scenery? Yu Wen's so-called "but everything is so elegant, vigorous and naturally drained life" is purely a literati's imagination. In fact, his "calmness" is the same as his ancestors' "Good water in the ancient pond", "Clear bell in the small temple" and "Bright moon in the distant village", all of which are thinking about how to work hard on naming and deceive themselves with words, but in different ways. What Mr. Lu Xun criticizes and mocks is precisely this kind of national cultural psychology that is good at practicing fraud and self-deception on "name", and the author just loves to make a fuss about "name".
19. Shanghainese
This is the best and most wonderful article written by Yu in this book, perhaps because the author himself is from Shanghai, and he has a profound and comprehensive understanding of Shanghai.
Xu Guangqi is a beginning worthy of special writing. He can openly accept and spread western civilization, and even be baptized and converted to Christianity in an increasingly closed and decadent feudal era. His influence is absolutely different from any previous cultural exchange. He injected completely heterogeneous cultural blood into ancient China and set an example of "new people". Guangqi, as its name implies, is a resigned person. However, the Shanghainese, who lacks the source of life and creativity with the staff mentality, has not got his essence, but is just a spirit.
20. The story of five cities
The mellow smell of Lanzhou beef Lamian Noodles travels thousands of miles and floats into my nose and tongue outside the customs. .
2 1. archway
The memorial archway is probably one of the most disgusting things in China culture. It bears witness to the hypocrisy, cruelty and cannibalism of China's morality, and it is an evil that is publicly praised. It is not others who help to write articles and create theories to praise and publicize it, but scholars. Parents secretly sent their daughters away from home while setting up memorial archways, exposing the absurdity that "chastity" and "chastity" hurt human nature. "Saint" is the embodiment of male chauvinism in women. "Sage" and "virtuous woman" are neither "saints" nor "beauties", but distortions of female images. The women here are just tools to embody moral principles and are the objects of male chauvinism. The culture of feudal China was full of shocking deformation.
22.temples
Women are placed at the bottom of their rights, almost completely passive and uneducated, so they resigned themselves to the "convenient method" of "chanting Buddha". By chanting, we can only help build more archways in the countryside, not tear them down. This is the effect of China's "Buddhist chanting".
23. Night boat
The author wants to say that this night ship is a spiritual and cultural ship, but it has accumulated hundreds of thousands of years of culture. Finally, "I said this tattoo is a boat, and she (mother) said this tattoo is a wooden fish". "Wooden fish" is indeed a tattoo. Knock it down slowly, which is the rhythm of China culture, and leave it to scholars and young people in China to make up for it.
24. Wujiang Ship
The personality, psychology and behavior of young students have been oversimplified and beautified. Can poetry be written on the basis of tampering with natural humanity? Boys are in adolescence, and at an age of extreme abstinence, it is normal to have a hazy affection for the opposite sex, repressed impulses and even hidden desires. Why do they keep their eyes open when they deliberately declare that they have no evil thoughts? And what is the author's so-called "evil thoughts"? Taoist "evil" word! After that, the boys dug a "friendship well" in front of the girls' dormitory, which is obviously a disguised expression of the collective unconscious of sexual instinct and a special substitute for "showing kindness" between the opposite sex. The author can completely face the frank and fiery desire as Han Shaogong did in Maqiao Dictionary, and at the same time reflect the absurdity and sadness that distorted human nature and suppressed human desire in that era. However, on the one hand, the author wrongly depicts the boy's idea of "doing all kinds of evils" from the aesthetic point of view, which is divorced from the real situation; on the other hand, he writes a vulgar plot that the male hygienist "artificially breathed" the girl who was victimized by the Cultural Revolution and "tossed it for a while", which is as vulgar and old-fashioned as the plot that the heroine must have a supporting role "accidentally" to come in and see when taking a bath, or even more absurd. The moonlight filled her, and she really became the daughter of Taihu Lake. "The great tragedy and life disaster suffered by a young girl in a crazy world has been dissolved in this" aesthetic "vision full of erotic eyes. In the end, only the poems written by the Song Dynasty poets to the little red girl by boat echoed, and the dead smell and grief of the body were completely destroyed and forgotten. . . . . Is this the author's attitude towards the living tragedy and disaster of the Cultural Revolution? !
25. "Letters"
Living on the word "letter" was completely exiled and abandoned because of a very small "dishonest incident", so the old letters who served the village for most of their lives were easily pushed into the abyss of fate, and the villagers' intolerance became a matter of course. In the extremely utilitarian demand for the word "faith", the dignity and rights of faith as a "person" have been diluted and ignored, and the backward farming civilization and patriarchal clan system have been ignored. Believers seem to be "sublimated", but just like countless memorial archways of "virgins and chastity women" in China, it is essentially a distortion, alienation and trampling on human nature, and fresh individual lives are crushed into symbols for people to worship under the illusion of "morality". This transcendental concept of "belief" formed in China's feudal era can never be copied and transplanted to modern and contemporary society, and feudal morality is thus established. China people like the results of "Happy Birthday" and "dzogchen", and this article is no exception. In the jubilant atmosphere at the end of the article, I obviously felt a chilling shiver.
26. wine cemetery
Teaching English we all love Chairman Mao is an example full of political seriousness and fanaticism. Love has long lost its original meaning here. This "great leader" has replaced God and sat on the throne of God for his people. Love belongs to only one leader, and the leader of one person deprives hundreds of millions of people of the right to love freely. Love is like an inferior seed that is spawned by chemical fertilizer, inflated by air and excited by drugs. It is dry and pale and can't be soaked in any oil, so that when people who drink wine naturally write "Love is life" on the blackboard, the whole class will laugh, while the girls will blush and bow their heads. In an age ashamed to associate love with life, can we still expect it to create appalling darkness without brewing?
27. "The window of the old house"
The old house belongs only to the author, so there is no need to be pretentious. The author is too vain. This article can be compared with Mr. Lu Xun's "Morning Flowers and Evening Picks" collection. Lu Xun's nostalgic prose never puts on airs. Mr. Lu Xun writes about real people and life, not fame and fortune. Yu Wen is really short and inferior in quality.
28.remains
Not all ruins can embody the "tragic spirit", and not all tragedies become ruins. Ruins are a normal state, and talents who come out of ruins deserve attention.
29. Poetry in the rain at night
Night rain is not necessarily incompatible with comfort. Ease cares for itself in the rain at night, laments itself, is comfortable in poetry, is willing to be surrounded and swallowed up by the rain at night, and has no vitality and desire to rush out. The rainy night also accomplished the purpose of destroying the traveler's progress.
30. "Pen and Ink Festival"
A word "sacrifice" reveals a conservative attitude. Pen-and-ink calligraphy is the carrier of culture and art, and it also has emotional integration, but hasn't pen-and-ink been updating its content for thousands of years? Refusing to update is tantamount to self-destructive continuation of life.
3 1. Worried about library collection
The "worry" of book collection actually stems from the scholar's meanness and conceit of materialized knowledge. Scholars are jealous of each other and slowly realize the preciousness of their book wealth. The smugness and vanity of that kind of literati are fully revealed. This is also human nature. Scholars are not particularly disdainful of money and are generous. When they are as poor as Kong himself, they will also be ashamed to spend a few coppers on wine. Therefore, I don't think the literati's love for books needs to rise to a very "lofty" level. Books do reflect the unique spiritual world, academic outlook and even temperament style of bibliophiles to a certain extent, but that's all. Scholars should return to normal mentality, which is my view.
32.Chimonanthus praecox
Chimonanthus praecox can really stimulate people's emotions, and only people can have this knowledge, or it has been passed down from mouth to mouth, giving a certain natural plant a specific character or symbol. Therefore, future generations must see the tenacity and tenacity of vitality from wintersweet, but they can't see all the complexity and many paradoxes in life. Chimonanthus praecox can keep out the cold, but I wonder if it can also keep out the heat.
33. Living in Longhua
In the smoke of historical narrative and ancient temple architecture, Zen flavor is becoming more and more yellow and brittle, solidified into a decadent color, saturated with literati's nostalgic and detached emotional decadence. There are many people living in Longhua. In the end, there are clouds all over the sky. Even if the old monk cuts dozens of pieces of cloth and drinks the Buddha nature of cypress seeds, he just lives in Longhua.
34. Thirty years' weight
A few years later, the former teachers who once admired and thought they were tall and mighty were looked down upon by themselves with charity-like suspicion and pity, and they seemed to feel that their fate was impermanent. In fact, they were driven by some self-satisfied hidden psychology to ponder over others' acne, and the faint groans could not conceal their subconscious desire to satisfy vanity in comparison.
Was the previous "admiration" really just a combination of vanity and gratitude promotion psychology after winning the prize rather than "unexpected"? How much can a child know about a teacher he didn't know before, but now he claims to "admire" and "worship"? If there is no bright color, will there be a series of emotional psychological and chemical reactions and physical changes? The shadow of the past is actually false, and those flattering words are also based on the illusion of self-expansion. However, will this figure be "true" in a few decades? The answer is still no, because how can the world dispel Zen Prajna for an author who serves me, serves me and footnotes me? Never had any sincerity to get to the bottom of the matter.
35. Wanderers
Are drifters as desperate as dying people, clinging to straws and worrying about their long-lost spiritual hometown? How can a drifter make sure that his journey is no longer new, and returning to his hometown will not let him fall into deeper disappointment or even despair? Drifting, because of helpless choice or because of strong will and self-confidence? Hope does not appear because there is a predictable and visible goal. Hope is the light of generate's mind in the nothingness of the future. When you walk in hopeless hope, it is truly saved. Most old people in China are immersed in the double anesthesia and comfort of using old bags of new wine, and are unwilling to open their eyes. As a result, I couldn't get the wine and the bag. When they are old and dead, they are just a pile of rotten bones for people to mourn and express their feelings. They will never experience the soul of the old man, and his life will always be as upright, persevering, blazing and invincible as Christ in The Old Man and the Sea. His faith led him to embrace all difficulties with open arms and slowly move towards a new spirit.
36. China complex
Language is a powerful carrier of culture, and human civilization belongs to language existence. However, human speech is different from words, and its finiteness, scarcity and falsehood have been proved again and again, or it is self-evident. People should not be overly infatuated, persistent and depressed. It is the mission and development direction of cultural people to use it and surpass it, instead of dancing in the shackles of the so-called "mother tongue" and not being manipulated by it. To some extent, Chinese hindered the ancient people from accepting western civilization. In the past, it was a space struggle between vernacular Chinese and classical Chinese, but now it is a more complicated and profound hesitation, struggle and integration of national cultural psychology.
37. "It's really quiet here."
At the end of the article, there is only "static". The model of "soldier, prostitute and literati" has been elevated and given inexplicable meaning, and all people have become symbols, including Japanese literati emphasized and rendered by the author. Literati are particularly important because they are "literati"? The tragic course of history eventually leads to the silence of inscriptions, vegetation and everything returning to nature. When a coward refuses to face the deep suffering of individual life and the soul troubled by various diseases, he will close his eyes and say: be quiet, and everything will return to purity. In this way, the silent and dark East lost its mouth calling for the light of redemption in the wilderness in numbness and drunkenness.
The arduous journey has quietly become a permanent tasteless and boring. . . . .