Banqiao will always be connected with the flowing water. Banqiao will always be connected with the images of life that come and go in a hurry; with some intermittent memories; with some birdsong and moonlight. . It lies so quietly across the flowing water and in the boundless years, like the image of a dream, full of sad poetry. An eternal scene of life, a vast and profound cultural relic. Like a symbol of nostalgia, the Banqiao on the flowing water is looming in the smoke, and is slanted sideways in the pages of ancient books.
But Banqiao is also a place for farewell, just like the long pavilion and short pavilion in ancient poetry. Banqiao is a very special culture that grew out of the countryside, and is a beautiful thing that is classical and pastoral. Recalling Wen Tingyun's sentence "The sound of roosters in thatched shop and the moon, and the frost on Banqiao where there are traces of people", I felt a kind of desolate detachment and the desolation and hardship of traveling far away, and the desolate mood was like the wind of late autumn passing through my chest. The moon and the frost-covered Banqiao City are two sad things. Scholars in the old days always regarded them as the source of nostalgia and expressed the deepest sighs of life.
Living in a busy city, Banqiao is far away from us. Distant things always make people miss them. Banqiao is an idea, which is far away from life but very close to dreams. It is the temptation and call from the ancient countryside, which connects the city and the countryside, connects the classics and modernity, connects the frustrations and triumphs of life, and even birth, old age, illness and death, sorrow and joy. It is the trace of a distant dream about life. At that time, you sighed occasionally. The Banqiao on the flowing water and the Banqiao in the snow lie in the distance that we cannot see. When you are happy alone, when you are melancholy and lonely, when you are reading a notebook from a predecessor, you will suddenly think of him. He is full of distant and charming affection in a far away place.
Nostalgia is the deepest and most moving part of Chinese culture. It can even be said to be the root of Chinese culture. Without nostalgia, Chinese humanism cannot be constructed, at least it will be an incomplete humanism. As for Banqiao, as the most typical symbol of nostalgia for cultural people, its significance far exceeds the symbolic meaning itself. It is nostalgia, and it is also a long-lasting culture with unfailing charm. Many times it is even a calling in life. The background of culture is always pastoral, full of temptations, and the background of cities or living beings is also pastoral. For many years, we have been exposed to the hustle and bustle of the city and the worries and gains and losses of life. The city is like a beautiful trap and a siege of the heart that cannot be broken out, which separates our body and soul from the pastoral culture. Our emotions and blood are What flows is already something far removed from culture. We have been losing that sense of "pan-nostalgia" and our enthusiasm for culture. I have forgotten the tranquility and distance that nourishes my body and mind, and everything that should not be forgotten. We have forgotten Zheng Banqiao, the wise man who rushed out of the Vanity Fair, and we only remember "it is rare to be confused". We cannot enter Zheng Banqiao's realm, but we easily betray the culture we created and loved. Is this also a kind of sadness?
"Banqiao" means countryside or pastoral. Banqiao is an atmosphere and a kind of passing away.