Yucheng Wang
There are many bamboos in Huanggang, which are as big as rafters. Bamboo workers broke it, cut off its knots and replaced it with pottery tiles. Better than a house, cheaper and more labor-saving.
In the northwest corner of Zicheng, it is deserted and dilapidated. Because it is a small building, it is connected with the Job Building. Far away, the mountain light is swallowed, and it is plain, remote and shapeless. It rains in summer and there are waterfalls; It should snow in winter, with the sound of broken jade; It is advisable to drum the piano, and the sound of the piano is ethereal and smooth; Poetry is appropriate and rhyme is clear; Appropriate to go, the voice of the child is Ding; Throwing a pot is appropriate and loud: it's all the help of Zhulou.
In his spare time, he put on a crane, put on a Huayang towel, held a roll of Zhouyi in his hand, burned incense and sat quietly to relax the world. Sails, sand birds, clouds and bamboo forests are the first things you see when you cross the mountains and rivers. Drinking, drinking, tea and cigarettes, sunset, moonlight, and exile are also victories. He Yun Qi, a meteor, is high; Well done, well done, China is China! Stop at storing * * * and hiding songs and dances. This is not a poet's business, and I won't take it.
I have heard the saying of bamboo workers: "Bamboo is a tile, only ten feet. Repeat, it's twenty feet. " Hey! I left the Chuhe River from Hanlin before Yi Dao was old. Bing Shen moved to Guangling; Ding You went to the west again. In addition to 1898-year-old Japan, there is also Qi 'an's life; I arrived in the county town in March. For four years, I have been running around, and I don't know where I will be next year. Are you afraid of the perishable nature of bamboo buildings? Lucky people and my comrades, inherit and repair it, and Gu Lou will be immortal.
Cheng Ping's August 2002 15 Diary.
This article was written on August 15th, 2002 in Xianping, Song Zhenzong. At that time, Wang Yucheng was demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang County, Hubei Province). This is the third time that he has been demoted. According to Wang Bizhi's Notes on Swallows in Lushui, "It is really the Prime Minister's displeasure that Wang will demote Huangzhou." After he took office in Huangzhou, he built a bamboo building in the northwest corner of Zicheng. This article is written for his bamboo house. Through the narration and description of bamboo building construction, this paper expresses the thoughts and feelings of career frustration and leisure frustration.
The full text can be divided into four paragraphs.
The first paragraph of the article, starting with "bamboo", not only starts with the topic, but also explains the reason why bamboo replaces tile. Because there are many bamboos in Huanggang, and they are as big as rafters, it is cheap and labor-saving to break them and scrape off their joints. So every family in Huangzhou area is a bamboo tile house. This passage states the advantages of bamboo in Huanggang and building houses with bamboo, which paves the way for the author to write a narrative about building a small bamboo building himself.
Next, the second section of Huangzhou Bamboo House, which is "more natural than the house", naturally turned to the small bamboo house to be written in this article. In this passage, the author first introduces us to the construction site of Zhulou, which is located in the northwest corner of the city, an inaccessible area. Why did he build a bamboo house here? Because it is connected with the "Moon Building" he built earlier, it looks quiet and good. Then use four short sentences to describe the mountains and rivers outside the building. The first three sentences of the four sentences are specific descriptions of the scenery seen outside the building, and the last sentence is a concentrated summary. In this way, the virtual and the real are born together, and the complexity is simplified, which makes people feel that the scenery outside the building is beautiful. The following six sentences are used to describe the six "Yi" in the building. The first two words "Yi" describe the interest of the weather, and the last four words "Yi" describe the joy of personnel, and all this is caused by the sound of the bamboo building, so at the end of the paragraph, I accepted the sentence "All the help of the bamboo building". There are many scenes in the bamboo building, and here we only focus on the beauty of sound. Outside the building, the sound of rain, thunder, piano, poetry and songs, the sound of Go, and the sound of smashing pots correspond to bamboo, which is full of fun and fascinating, making people think and feel like they are there.
The third paragraph below describes the author's life in his spare time. If the last paragraph is a purely objective description, then this paragraph becomes the author, and this person is the author himself. In his spare time, the author came to this bamboo building, wearing a Taoist robe and hat, holding a roll of Zhouyi, and "sitting quietly" in the building to solve secular troubles. Among these sentences, the most worth mentioning is the sentence of "recreation and worrying about the world", which shows the author's depressed mood of being repeatedly excluded from the officialdom. Although the words here are euphemistic, if you savor them carefully, you can still see the secrets in the author's heart. He looked around and saw patches of sails, dancing Sha Ou, wisps of smoke, clumps of green forests and bamboo forests, and rivers and mountains. It is the happiness of life in exile that the wine wakes up and the tea disappears and the sunset glow is sent away to welcome the bright moon! The predecessors commented: "If you succeed in climbing stairs, you will feel lonely and want to be immortal" (see China's View on Ancient Literature). However, in this detached matter, it is not difficult to see the author's inner anger and grievance. In the next few sentences, I will compare the fourth floor of "Yun Qi, Meteor, Jinggan and Liqiao" with the bamboo building, aiming to show that I don't advocate nobility and luxury, but prefer to live a poor life, thus further sublimating the ideological content of the article.
The last paragraph of the article ends with the author's lament about his experience. Although this paragraph is a discussion, it is still written from the bamboo tile, which shows that it is inseparable from the topic. The prospect of Bamboo House is not good, but it is not so compared with the author's fate! During the four years from Song Taizong to Yi Dao as a baby (1995) to Jihai in March (1999), Wang Yucheng was demoted by Hanlin to Chuzhou, moved to Yangzhou, recalled to the imperial court, and later demoted to Huangzhou. And "I wonder where it will be next year?" Because of this, he is "afraid of perishable bamboo buildings!" But out of deep affection for the bamboo building, the author hopes that "future generations and my comrades will inherit and repair, and ordinary buildings will be immortal." Well, back to the "bamboo building", promise the first one, and the writing is very rigorous.
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the writing of this article is unique. First of all, the author puts his feelings of exile in the narrative of building a bamboo building, and his feelings are deep but not revealed. For example, reading Yi, getting drunk, enjoying the scenery and drinking tea is naturally a pastime, but this pastime after the author's demotion does not mean inner injustice! Another example is at the end of the article. On the surface, it is hoped that future comrades will continue to repair the bamboo building and make it immortal. In fact, it is to express their resentment and stimulate their will to struggle. It is precisely because love is in the scene and love comes from the scene that the article is implicit and intriguing.
Secondly, the concept is exquisite and the structure is rigorous. The title of this article is "The Story of Bamboo House". The author's pen is like Youlong playing with pearls without taking it off. He described the bamboo house from a close distance, starting with bamboo, then entering the bamboo house, then writing the scenery of the bamboo house and the six "Yi" in the building, and finally ending with the hope of "the immortality of the building", which still belongs to the topic of "bamboo house". This kind of inheritance is natural, taking care of the past and the future, with distinct levels.
In addition, the language of this article is unpretentious and the feelings are vivid and vivid, which also leaves a deep impression on people.