As a literary genre, prose is short and easy to learn. There are many people who love to write prose at present. However, it is not easy to write prose well and accurately. It is even more difficult to reach the transcendental realm. However, someone did it. He is the famous essayist Liang Heng.
I first saw Mr. Liang's prose in a magazine a few years ago. The title of this article is "Beating all the railings", which was written by Xin Qiji, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Reading it is like drinking nectar, and my heart is like a knife. The image of Xin Qiji has been lingering in my mind for a long time. After that, I have seen his works, such as Seeking the Ferry, Seeking the Ferry, Where to Ferry, Reading Han Yu, Reading Liu Yong, Jinci, Summer Feelings and so on. Reading his articles, there is a sense of pleasure, one go, can't stop, and even reach the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. What is artistic charm? I think that's about it. The author has selected four essays as middle school textbooks, which is the largest number of living writers. School textbooks involve ideological guidance and teaching norms for teenagers, which is a century-long plan, and the requirements for material selection are extremely strict, sometimes even harsh. Many writers are famous, but none of them can be selected in their lifetime.
Why can Liang Heng's prose produce such magical power?
I think what matters is the depth of thought reached in his article. Liang Heng is an intellectual with a sense of social responsibility and a thoughtful person. In his writing, he often reveals a broad humanistic feeling, full of love for the motherland and the people. Most of the characters in his works are people with lofty ideals who are concerned about the country and the people, and their lives are full of troubles. He eulogized them enthusiastically, and excavated powerful spiritual strength from them, which was touching and inspiring. Ji Xianlin, a famous scholar, said, "Liang Heng is a man who is willing to use his brain, works hard and cares about his country and people. He came to talk to me, whether talking about history or reality, and in the end he couldn't leave his concern for the country and the nation. What is rare is that he can always turn this political ambition into a beautiful literary artistic conception. Except Liang Heng, no other living essayist can pursue such a realm. " For Liang Heng, this is a high evaluation.
The author has great respect for Han Yu. The article "Reading Han Yu" said that when Han Yu was demoted to the remote Chaozhou as a local official, he did not sink because of personal adversity. In a short period of eight months, he did four good deeds for the local people, and was deeply loved by the people. Their deeds have been passed down to this day. To this end, a local Han Gong Temple was built to commemorate him, and a mountain was renamed Hanshan and a river was renamed Hanjiang, making it immortal. Han Yu has written many articles, but the author is good at exploring and writing new ideas. In terms of adversity, he compared Han Yu with Qu Yuan and Li Bai. Speaking of it, "from this point of view, Han Yu is better than Qu Yuan and Li Bai. He didn't just stop sighing on the Shu Road and meditating by the river." "No matter how wronged you are, history will never shed tears with you, but will only recognize your contribution." Furthermore, it is pointed out that before Han Yu took office, what did successive local officials do in the face of these drawbacks? Looking back at history and facing reality, the author's question is thought-provoking and alarming! At the same time, we have to respect the lofty realm of Han Yu.
In the article "Shoot the railing all over", the author wrote with affectionate strokes that the hero "was originally prepared to sprinkle blood on the desert with his own body, but after crossing the south, he was forced to leave the battlefield and was no longer useful." He looked up at the sky like Qu Yuan, but he was as angry as a worker and couldn't hit the mountain. He looked at the river, looked at Chang 'an, climbed the dangerous building, patted the railing and could only shed tears. "
His words were not written in ink, but smeared with blood and tears. When we read his words today, we will always clearly hear a patriotic courtier crying and repenting over and over again. I can't forget his image overlooking the railing in the sunset. "
In the author's vivid description and admiration of the protagonist's psychology and movements, we can clearly see a vivid patriot image in front of us, ready to come. At the same time, I also feel that the author's fiery heart is connected with the protagonist. Here, the author, the reader and the protagonist all have * * * voices. A feeling of great reverence for the tragic hero Xin Qiji arises spontaneously, and Peng Pai stirs in his chest and can't be calm for a long time. The appeal of the work comes from this. A reader of Xin Qiji's former residence in Qianshan County, Jiangxi Province, after reading "Shoot the railing all over", was very excited and said from the heart: Liang Heng shot Xin Qiji alive, and his writing was wonderful! Xin Qiji found a bosom friend in time and space. Xin Gong can be comforted if he is knowledgeable in the spirit of heaven.
The author writes characters and is good at understanding their inner world and examining them from multiple angles. In the article Looking for a Ferry, Finding a Ferry and Where to Cross, the author reinterprets the superfluous words written by Qu Qiubai before his execution. "When we only look at his career and watch him die calmly, he is an admirable mountain in the plain; When we look at his anatomy again, he is a peak facing a deep valley. The wind is whistling and the forest is roaring, which is extremely steep. " The author imagines, "If Qiu Bai is a character like Li Kui jy, shout: Chop at Grandpa, and he will be a hero again twenty years later. Maybe people have forgotten him. " Just because "he felt that he was really insignificant and really ashamed of the title of party leader, he carefully analyzed his soul with a scalpel."
"He thinks exploration is more valuable than arrival." The author sighed with emotion, "If he didn't make any revolution at first, he would become a famous writer, translator, epitaph, calligrapher and famous doctor as long as he pulled out a hair from his body and cultivated it carefully."
"A person without talent also just, or a little to become a thing. The most regrettable thing is that he only did one thing with ten points, or even did nothing. This is a pity for future generations. " In the author's pen, a bold and frank image of Qu Qiubai stands in front of readers, which makes people sigh. Qu Qiubai's daughter, after reading Looking for the Ferry, Looking for the Ferry and Where to Ferry, lamented that the author knew his father's inner world best, and his articles even surpassed his father's biography.
Liang Heng's prose is not only profound in thought, but also rich in art, and the two have reached a high degree of unity. He made great efforts to soften the language of this article. According to his own words, he belongs to the "Kuyin School". In his writing, he asked himself that "words are not amazing and endless, and there is nothing new in the text." In this paper, a variety of rhetorical devices are used to temper words repeatedly to enhance the expression effect.
There are many memorable sentences.
There is such a description of crops in Summer Sense. "You see, the wheat that has just been cut, the cotton seedlings with seven or eight green leaves in the ground, the sorghum and corn with megaphones in the sky, and the melon seedlings crawling on the ground are all vigorously generated." Here personification and metaphor are used, one is "picking", the other is "lifting" and the other is "crawling forward", so that the shapes of several crops are vividly written.
In Jinci, "Yellow flowers are all over the mountain in spring, and the path is fragrant; Qiu Lai has sparse vegetation and high water. " Use contrast method, vivid and concise.
Xin Qiji described it in "Shoot the railing all over". "He has only one heart disease: lack of gold, the moon is not round, the mountains and rivers are broken, and his heart is uneasy." Use parallelism and pay attention to flatness. When read, the syllables are loud and catchy.
In addition to using a variety of rhetorical devices, he is also good at association and imagination, making the article vivid. Reading Han Yu describes the protagonist's exile. "The carved Liang Yu on the Chang 'an Temple waited quietly under the hook Xiao Yue, and the snow on the Qinling Post Road and the fog in the South China Sea jungle lingered quietly. History finally waited for a ruined scholar. He walked step by step to the hall with a long beard and hunched his hands, and then he led a thin horse to the beach.
The author's rich imagination and vivid description make readers seem to see Han Yu's lonely figure on the road.
Liang Heng's creative attitude is very strict, rather short than extravagant. Usually only write one article a year. He spent six years before and after writing Find a Ferry, Find a Ferry and Where to Ferry, and even spent 20 years writing A Great Zhou Enlai. This reminds me of a sentence, "You should work hard to produce fine products." Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions, which has been read for ten years and added and deleted five times. It is still an unfinished work. It is precisely because of this rigorous creative attitude that the author's works can stand the test of time and be circulated for a long time. In today's impetuous atmosphere, Liang Heng's creative attitude is undoubtedly worth learning.