As a famous contemporary poet and essayist, Xi Murong is unique and impressive in China's literary world with his fresh, simple, gentle and philosophical writing style. Here are five selected short essays by Xi Murong that I brought to you for your appreciation.
Xi Murong's short prose anthology 1: White Camellia
Camellia has blossomed again, so white and beautiful flowers are blooming all over the trees.
every time, I can't ignore a flowering tree. As white and moist flowers, from the small green buds, to more and more full, to slowly bloom; From semicircle, to near circle, to full circle. When you were in bloom, if you were willing to study it carefully, you would understand every word it said. Just because each flower can only bloom once, it is extremely careful to make a good step, and there is no wrong flower in the tree. They are so careful and serious to meet the only spring.
Therefore, every time I walk past a flowering tree, I have to be surprised and hold my breath at the beauty of life.
Xi Murong's Selected Short Prose Part II: Mirror
If you know that you have done nothing wrong, then you can go on doing it, regardless of how others will laugh at you.
On the contrary, if you think something is wrong, you should refuse people around you no matter how indulgent and seductive they are.
because, in your heart, there is always a very clear mirror, watching you all the time. It knows and cherishes your purity and integrity.
Xi Murong's Selected Short Prose Part III: Youth at the Window
Sometimes youth is extremely short, and sometimes it is extremely lengthy. I know very well, because I was as young as you. In front of the classroom window, I once gazed at the campus with no changes in the four seasons, just like you, wondering about my changing fate in the future. I once thought, like you, that no matter what kind, it would be much more beautiful than sitting in the classroom.
at that time, I wondered why the teacher never interfered and let me dream one lesson after another. Today, I realized that, like me today, he smiled and reread the youth we had experienced again and again from our young and full faces.
Xi Murong's Selected Short Prose 4: Ideal
I know, I have made this world too idealistic. However, I am not wrong. If there is no ideal, what kind of face will the world be?
Before an ideal is realized, there are many names. They are: fantasy, delusion, daydream, and impossibility.
However, it is it that makes a little boy who can only crawl and watch ducks become a scholar and a brave man respected by the audience. That is, it makes a girl who has been ill for more than 2 years and has only a primary school education write so many happy and beautiful books.
We can't find an excuse to say that their success is "unique". It must be admitted that their success is due to their ideals and their firm belief.
Xi Murong's Selected Short Prose 5: Farewell
Young you, it's time to say goodbye. Let me say goodbye to you.
I hope you will grow up well and become the kind of person you want and others like. It's not that I don't recognize personal value. On the contrary, I often think that you have to love yourself before you can love others.
However, if you only stay in the corner of loving yourself all your life, you will lose many opportunities to struggle and the right to live a good life.
a narcissistic flower is only beautiful, and a splendid flower that relies on each other and is in full bloom is brilliant. I wish you a bright tomorrow. Goodbye, my young friend.