In a hurry was written in March 1922, when the May 4th Movement was at a low ebb. Facing the disappointing reality, Zhu Ziqing felt depressed, nostalgic, depressed, sorry and disappointed. But after all, Zhu Ziqing is a man with strong self-control, earnest, diligent and practical. He is sentimental but not depressed, hesitant but not depressed. In his letters to Yu Pingbo on 1922 and 16543817, he revealed his contradictory thoughts: "I feel very tempted, decadent and annoyed about modernity", "I feel that time is in a hurry, what a pity", and he decided to "throw away metaphysics and focus on reality" and implement it. Yu Pingbo once commented that Zhu Ziqing "this intention is to combine decadence with realism to form a positive instantaneism", and this view of instantaneity "is always positive, affirmative, shouting and struggling in behavior" (read "Destruction"). Understanding Zhu Ziqing's mentality in writing in a hurry is helpful to grasp the author's unique aesthetic feeling caused by the bright flow.
Invisible and intangible time has passed away from people mercilessly and hurriedly. With his rich imagination, Zhu Ziqing vividly captured the trace of the passage of time. At the beginning of the article, the author depicts the picture of swallows gone, willows withered and green, and peach blossoms withered, rendering the rise and fall of natural objects and the change of time sequence, suggesting the traces of time passing. From this, the author reminds himself that more than 8,000 days in 24 years have disappeared like "a drop of water in the sea", "I can't help but shed tears". The author further describes in detail the moments of eating, washing hands, sleeping and even sighing in daily life. Time flies, and his past days disappear like "smoke" blown away by the breeze and "fog" evaporated by Chuyang. The author deeply feels that since he "came to this world", he can't "walk this time for nothing" and reveal the theme in an orderly way. Undoubtedly, Zhu Ziqing's thought of cherishing the inch of gold coincides with the ancient poem "Young people don't work hard, but old people are sad" and the motto "An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of money can't buy an inch of time". And Zhu Ziqing's description of places that people ignore will surprise you even in ordinary life (Shan Ye Collection).
It is worth noting that in the quiet flow of time, in a short space of only more than 600 words, Zhu Ziqing used a variety of rhetorical devices to completely show his inner world and let readers clearly grasp the context of his thoughts. At the beginning of the article, the author uses three parallel sentences to describe the spring scenery, that is, the swallows come again, the willows are greener, and the peach blossoms bloom again, in contrast to "the days are gone forever", which reminds people of the passage of time, causes thinking, points out problems, and puts forward the question of whether time is "stolen" or "escaped by itself" with lyrical rhetoric sentences, deeply feeling that time waits for no one. Then, in the second and third paragraphs, after the previous question, another question was raised. The author compares the flow of time in his past life to a drop of water, compares the "flow of time" of nature to the sea, and compares smallness to vastness, expressing the sigh of hurting and cherishing time. In the rush of time, personification gives life to the sun, a symbol of time, saying that the sun moves quietly around it, crosses smartly and flies lightly, which makes it feel at a loss and uneasy. He took advantage of the rush of the sun full of feelings, entrusted his surging feelings and deepened the theme. Finally, in the fourth paragraph, the author traces back the "gossamer trace" of his past life by asking questions, showing his serious thinking about the value of life and his persistent pursuit of life, and asks, "Why are our days gone forever?" Repeatedly echoing the beginning, showing anxiety. On the one hand, the author gives full play to his wonderful imagination, on the other hand, he makes full use of various rhetorical methods, especially the eleven questions that run through the whole article as clues to emotional development, expresses infinite thoughts through limited images, and uses ingenious ideas to make the feelings that have been "majestic and lingering in his heart" extremely "layered and tortuous" (short poems and long poems)
Zhu Ziqing showed the beauty of painting and poetry with his subtle observation and experience of objective things, vivid brushwork and the brushwork of blending scenes. For example, the sun in his works is not the usual natural scenery, but an artistic image created by the author. The author combines subjective feelings with objective external things, with both form and spirit and unique feelings, which is the unity of subjective and objective. Language has a sense of rhythm and melody, which exudes a strong lyrical atmosphere in simplicity and plainness, reaching a poetic aesthetic realm. The full text deeply attracts readers of different times with the beauty of style, rhetoric and emotion.
Zhu Ziqing's expression of time with the title "Hurry" is a rare and changeable feeling, which not only contains strong emotional flavor, but also implies interest in life. He is a graduate of the philosophy department of the university. He often can't help but observe and think about social life from the perspective of a philosopher. In many essays, he describes daily life in a lyrical style like a poet, which makes his works philosophical and profound. In this article, the author's thinking about time is centered around the meaning and value of life, and the contradictory psychology of loneliness, passion, distress and realistic pursuit revealed in this period certainly represents the general psychological state of young intellectuals who pursued progress but could not find a way out for a while during the May Fourth Movement, reflecting the state of mind of the times, but his attitude towards life is to cherish, love and inspire. Because Zhu Ziqing strives for the true interest of life and has new insights, his works will be full of rational interest and make people alert.
In a hurry, the style is euphemistic, smooth, light and long. The full text is short in length, simple in structure and short in sentence patterns. Swallow, willow, light smoke, breeze, mist, Chuyang, steaming, gossamer and other words are erratic and clever, and the artistic conception is clear. The whole text appears harmonious and symmetrical, which is consistent with the subtle flow of the author's pursuit of the traces of the passage of time to express his thoughts and feelings.