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After the PLA entered the mountain, it brought the outside world, sowed the seeds of modern civilization, and quietly injected the color of the times into this isolated hinterland. This is a poem that the army loves the people in the new period of socialism.
The author mainly uses narration to express his feelings, rarely makes specific descriptions, but reads with relish; The article does not directly point out the central idea, but it is not difficult for readers to understand the main idea of the article. When reading, pay attention to the effect of this expression. ]
The other side of the mountain is actually a mountain.
There is a ditch between mountains, and there are several small villages in the ditch.
The villagers themselves can't tell when their ancestors came here and why they took a fancy to this place. Obviously, it is poor here, with no land and no trees. Most of the year is winter. Collect some grains on the hillside and raise some cattle and sheep on the grassland. It is difficult for people who lack land and sheep to wear pants. Since we have lived here for generations, we can live here with a clear conscience.
One day, a team came in the ditch, froze and stopped. So we looked at each other, curious.
These soldiers actually wash their faces every day, sweep the yard every day and find a shovel to build roads. Generations have been walking around on this cow dung, pig manure and mud, saying that this is not the way.
So the villagers watched them dig ditches, plant trees, enclose livestock and build toilets for people. In the 1980s, such a batch of toilets were finally built in the village.
The road is really easy. Soldiers have really seen the world. Everyone chatted together, and the soldier said that this dress should also be washed. Take it off and wash it.
This ditch is not heaven. Primary school principals come from the mainland in the 1950s, but they are single-handedly unable to guarantee the enrollment rate. It's okay now. Soldiers go door to door. No culture, okay? Eggs 1 min, 1. Soldiers buy 1 0 eggs for1yuan, but they dare not sell them. Buyers have to buy with small change, give 1 cent, take 1 egg, and pay 10 times 10 egg. Someone knows a few words, 1200 1000200. No one dares to drive the only tractor in the village.
Dolls go to school, boys go to school and girls go to school. Those who are over school age go to night school. In the past, girls didn't go to school, and night classes were all women. Some men are not at ease, so they stand outside the classroom window. After reading it, they feel good and come in to study. Osmanthus fragrans is 18 years old this year, and just got a literacy certificate from night school. You can read newspapers and books, and strangers don't hide. If you get married in two years, you can also write home. Can I still sit in a sedan chair when I get married? She glanced shyly at the driver of the army, and now she is in a jeep. She doesn't need to bring dry food across the mountains, she will arrive soon.
Besides literacy, night schools also teach songs. The first song I taught was Dongfanghong. In fact, they also sing. When herding sheep on the slope, flowers from Qinghai often melt into the air. Ask them to sing in the room, but they don't want to. Is the room where Flowers is sung? Flowers is a forbidden song for many years, because there are too many naked lovesickness in the song. But lovesickness can't help it. Almost everyone can sing Flowers. Between heaven and earth in Qinghai, facing the creatures who eat grass peacefully, they casually put aside their voices and fly out so melodiously, so comfortably and so tortuous. Beautiful tunes and fresh charm can never be learned by soldiers.
As a soldier, I did something real. I don't even think about how many deep and shallow meanings there are. The connotation of heaven is far away. The villagers will not ponder, what they want is reality, tangible and tangible.
Now they have excellent wheat seeds transferred from foreign troops. They can prepare pesticides, sprinkle fertilizers on mountains, drive tractors and do small businesses.
So gold diggers, contractors. Someone took out a loan to transport yak [6] to Guangzhou for sale. A cripple contracted the projector. Many people bought televisions, tape recorders and motorcycles. Several family universities graduated.
They know how to make money, how to spend money and how to adapt to the market. Soldiers go to buy eggs, 25 cents 1.
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When I was a child, I used to lie in front of the window and daydream.
-What's that over there?
My mother told me: the sea
Oh, is that the sea beyond the mountain?
So, with a secret wish,
One day, I finally climbed to the top of that mountain.
However, I almost came back crying.
On the other side of the mountain, it is still a mountain.
On the other side of the mountain, there is a livid face.
Give me a zero for my fantasy of typing!
Mom, where is the sea?
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Beyond the mountain, it is the sea!
It is a sea of faith.
Today, I didn't expect it.
A seed floating since childhood
But it took root in my heart.
Yes, I am disappointed again and again.
When I climbed to the top of the mountain that tempted me
But I once again regained my confidence and went forward bravely.
Because I hear the sea still clamoring for me in the distance.
-The snow-white tide is flowing every night.
Moisten my dry heart again and again ...
Beyond the mountain, is it the sea?
Yes! People, please believe them one by one.
After climbing countless mountains.
After overcoming disappointment again and again
You will eventually climb to the top of such a mountain.
Over this mountain is the sea.
This is a brand-new world.
Light up your eyes in an instant ...
I. Introduction to the author
Wang Jiaxin was born in Xunxian County (now danjiangkou city) in Hubei Province from 65438 to 0957. 65438-0978 entered the Chinese Department of Wuhan University. 1982 graduated and assigned to teach at Yunyang Teachers College in Hubei Province. 1985 seconded to Beijing Poetry Magazine as an editor, 1990 left. 1992 went to England. 1994 returned to China to teach in the Chinese Department of Beijing Institute of Education. His published poetry collections include Commemoration (1985) and You Cliff (1997).
Second, the Sea Beyond the Mountain —— On Beyond the Mountain (Wang Jiaxin)
On the other side of the mountain is a poem I wrote more than 20 years ago, when I was a college student who came to the university campus from a remote mountainous area. Therefore, for me, rereading this poem is like opening an old photo album that has been sealed for many years and seeing me in my early years that is not naive but makes people feel sad and nostalgic.
Obviously, Beyond the Mountain originated from childhood experiences. I was born at the foot of Wudang Mountain in the mountainous area of northwest Hubei. My parents are primary and secondary school teachers. I have lived in five or six places with my parents since I was a child, but I have never left the world in the mountains. For me when I was a child, the world was a quiet campus after school, clear rivers in mountains and rivers, and silent mountains surrounding all this.
And I happen to be a teenager who is addicted to fantasy and full of strong curiosity about the outside world. The first two sentences of this poem are a true portrayal of my childhood. I think that almost everyone has some "hidden desires" in childhood and adolescence, and this "beyond the mountain" vision and fantasy in the poem constitutes the unique secret of my childhood-it still secretly affects my life.
However, this alone is not enough to form a poem, so "sea" appeared in my life and finally appeared in this poem. The appearance of "sea" just corresponds to "mountain". Show the structure of a poem. The "mountain" and "sea" here can be understood metaphorically: the mountain, a real world, is closed, gloomy and depressed; The sea, an imaginary world, is open, bright and free. The sea is the end of mountains and rivers and the beginning of another world. The sea, from ancient times to the present, is a call for human freedom and imagination. And these meanings are impossible for me to realize when I was young. I just look at the other side of the mountain and imagine the blue of the sea by virtue of my fantasy nature.
However, as people know, this fantasy of another world is the most vulnerable to setbacks in real life. It can be said that any "unrealistic" fantasy will one day be shattered in the face of "cold" reality. I also experienced such painful times repeatedly when I was young. However, it is incredible that the fantasy is frustrated, but the spirit of idealism has taken root in life-it has become more internal and stubborn because of the frustration of the real environment! The second section of the poem mainly reveals this belief in the "sea". Perhaps it is because of my unyielding nature, or perhaps it is a motto I read in junior high school, "As long as you walk along the river, you will find the sea", which gives me this belief. At this time, "sea"-this childhood dream has also been promoted to the whole life level to re-understand. It is different from the sea in the first section and has a certain symbolic color of life ideal. "Yes, I was disappointed again and again/when I climbed to the top of the mountain that tempted me again and again." Maybe any ideal is a trap of temptation, and any ideal is just beyond my power. However, it is in this difficult and tortuous process of seeking that life has been promoted and enriched, and life has been endowed with hope and meaning. "The white tide came night after night/soaked my dry heart again and again. ...
Fate thus created our generation. Our generation, born in the 1950s and 1960s, was educated by idealism since childhood, went to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, and came to the university campus after the Cultural Revolution. Some people call us an idealistic generation, while others call us a disillusioned generation. Idealism has cultivated our fantasy and spiritual temperament, but we are also the generation that pays the heaviest price for the illusion of "ideal". Among my contemporaries, many people have gone through hardships and still maintained the spirit of idealism, but many people have lost their hearts and become very confused. It is based on this understanding of my contemporaries that I wrote at the end of this poem: "My friend, please believe-". This is a speech to my contemporaries, but it is also an inspiration to myself: I believe that life has a higher realm. I believe that after climbing countless mountains, I will eventually climb such a peak. I believe that the "ultimate sea" will eventually illuminate our eyes and life after going through hardships. ...
Rereading this poem today, of course, I feel its childishness in art, because the road it shows us far exceeds my imagination when I was young. In real life, although I have seen the sea that my childhood yearned for countless times, the "sea" in my mind is still out of reach. So, what is the most important thing for me now? Still "faith" If I can't reach this affirmation again at a higher level, it's hard to imagine that I will stick to it in my later life. Rereading on the other side of the mountain, looking at the direction of childhood, I have this feeling again.
Third, the guide of Beyond the Mountain (Zhao Xun)
What "On the Other Side of the Mountain" tells is obviously related to the frustration experience that he has been accompanying since he was a child, and his increasingly deep feelings and beliefs in this frustration. However, poetry is a special art, which requires the poet to deal with his repeated pains, passions, beliefs and experiences with "images" instead of simple and conceptual language. Different from many people, Wang Jiaxin did not turn the sufferings he suffered in his life into an angry noise, but experienced the disillusionment of all his ideals from it and turned it into a poetic meditation based on the opposition between "mountain" and "sea".
On the surface, the discovery of "beyond the mountain or beyond the mountain" is nothing more than the disillusionment of such naive illusions as "beyond the mountain is the sea". However, the "mountain" in poetry is a barrier that prevents the poet from reaching the "sea" he yearns for, and it is a realistic existence that prevents his dream from realizing. Therefore, this sense of frustration also indicates all the pains and failures in the poet's life, transcending the specific life experience and becoming a symbol of universal emotional experience.
Correspondingly, the "sea" symbolizes the tempting desire that always calls us to start: "On the other side of the mountain, it is the sea/the sea that embodies faith"; The snow-white tide comes every night/wets my dry heart again and again. The poet believes that "you will eventually reach the top of this mountain/and on the other side of this mountain is the sea"; This "sea", "is a brand-new world/brightens your eyes in an instant"!
Generally speaking, the opposition between "mountain" and "sea" is often unbreakable. As another poet said in The Mountain Man, "He thinks he can't walk out of here in his life. The mountain/sea is there, but it's far away./So he will die halfway/in the mountain and not get there yet." However, in this poem by Wang Jiaxin, the opposition between "mountain" and "sea" and the isolation between "mountain" and "sea" were overcome, because a stubborn "child (me)" appeared, and he kept climbing mountains and mountains to pursue the sea. This "child" can be said to be an unyielding "belief" itself. The Dreamcatcher between mountains and seas embodies our inner "hidden desires" and the mental journey of a generation between the hardships of reality and the hard persistence of ideals.
In art, Beyond the Mountain seems to have simple lines, but it is full of waves and close to people's hearts. The poet is full of tenacious beliefs, but his tone is not always high. He didn't shy away from the truth of life. In the first part of the poem, he even wrote in a child's voice: "One day I finally climbed to the top of that mountain/but I almost came back crying/-on the other side of the mountain, or on the other side of that mountain, a cold face/gave my fantasy a zero." These frustrations from negative descriptions, in turn, enhance the authenticity of the opposition between "mountain" and "sea" from the senses and emotions, and make poetry fully complete the final reversal of "sea" to "mountain" in a powerful conflict. At the same time, this kind of emotional ups and downs also gives the whole poem an appropriate rhythm.