Theme concept:
The work describes the author's three-day journey from Chongqing to Wuhan via the Three Gorges, vividly shows the magnificence and magnificent posture of the Yangtze River, the largest river in China, enthusiastically expresses the revolutionaries' admiration for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and encourages people to grasp the objective laws of things, overcome all difficulties, forge ahead courageously and create a better tomorrow.
The article was written in the early 1960s, which coincided with the most serious economic difficulties in China for three years. The author's main purpose is also obvious. Undoubtedly, it will play a certain encouraging role for our people to overcome temporary economic difficulties and tide over difficulties.
Analysis of works:
Three Days on the Yangtze River was published in the March issue of People's Literature in 196 1. It is a beautiful diary-style travel prose and one of the representative works of the author. It is included in Liu's prose collection.
For the mainstream discourse in the 1960s, although it has just passed the severe famine disaster, the era name it constructed has firmly established its dominant position. The literary world has entered the "lyric period" of grand narrative. "Reality actually refers to a judgment of reality. The description and enthusiasm for reality itself means a kind of lyricism. " This lyricism appears as an objective representation in published literary works, that is, it is expressed through the description of objective scenery. The ancient lyric technique of borrowing scenery is no longer a personal feeling, but a metaphor for the beauty and sublimity of the times through the beauty and sublimity of nature, and the traditional artistic technique also presents a new ideological color. Liu's Three-Day Tour of the Yangtze River is a typical representative of this phenomenon.
The success of this work benefits from the description and depiction of the scenery, and it has the characteristics of "Fu" in style. Liu expresses his feelings through description, and his lyricism has a process. The journey of "opening-narrowing-opening" of the Yangtze River made him imagine "fighting-entering-surviving the night until dawn", so his journey also took on the symbolic color of ideology:
"The dawn is ahead, we have to work hard." At this time, a solemn and beautiful emotion filled my mind. I think this is the great era I have experienced and suddenly concentrated on the surging Yangtze River. Yes, isn't that how we fight, sail and walk from night to dawn all our lives? ..... Our philosophy is revolutionary philosophy, and our poetry is fighting poetry, which is why our life is the most beautiful. Lenin put it very well: "Go! -Great! This is life! "
Three Days on the Yangtze River was written after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, so the author constantly emphasized the significance of overcoming obstacles and sailing forward. This symbolic image appears constantly in the article. One moment in the steep canyon, "a ray of sunshine falls on the left cliff like lightning", and the other moment "a wooden boat going upstream". It seems that the momentum of this green beach is scary, but people have mastered a way forward from the turbulent waves, defeated nature, and so on. At the end of this article, in the face of the "world" in the Cold War era, we praised "the fragrance and peaceful breath that our whole land breathes today. This kind of socialist breath is the freest and most powerful glory that the blood of all pioneers in the world has condensed together, whether in Asia or Europe, whether in America or Africa. "This kind of voice is the direct lyric of the times. The lyric subject of this work is undoubtedly "I", but this "I" is not an individual, but the embodiment of "history", "reality" and "times". When the individual participates in the propaganda of the name of the times without reservation, the individual is no longer an individual, so the lyrics of this "I" can have such great pride and courage.
Artistic features:
First of all, the organic combination of poetry and philosophy is an important artistic feature of this article. The whole article is the expression of the author's improvisation, reciting things and expressing his will, which contains poetry and philosophy in the description of splendid mountains and rivers. The magnificent scenery of the Yangtze River, the mind of a heroic soldier and the writer's profound views on life are written together. When the author captures the meaningful things in life, he often creates a poetic mood, expounds his unique understanding of life, and reveals an intriguing profound philosophy. For example, one day, in "Great Momentum" and "River Hunting", the author immediately associated with the history of mankind and the revolution in China, so he had the feeling of "fighting, driving in, and going through the night until dawn". The next day, from the stormy waves of the wooden boat crossing the dangerous beach, we got the truth that "if we master a way forward, we can overcome nature". On the third day, from the letters in prison and the lights in Wuhan, I felt the close relationship between today's happy life and the bloody sacrifice of revolutionaries. These philosophical thoughts are all contained in poetry and painting.
Secondly, vivid scenery and flexible writing are also the obvious characteristics of this paper. The writer is good at grasping the characteristics of the scenery along the Yangtze River, vividly writing the colorful scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River, and artistically reappearing the characteristics of "it is solemn and beautiful, full of meteorology". The steep and majestic Qutang Gorge, the deep and beautiful Wuxia Gorge and the dangerous water in Xiling Gorge are all vivid and natural, which fully shows the writer's profound attainments in writing landscapes.
In the description of scenery, the writer appropriately uses a variety of artistic means, sometimes with light strokes, sometimes with heavy colors, sometimes with myths and legends, sometimes with beautiful sentences, and skillfully uses metaphors and personification to modify and render them, so that the magnificent charm of the Yangtze River is vividly displayed to readers.
Third, the prominent focus and distinct main line are the obvious characteristics of the article in structure. This is a lyric prose in the form of travel notes. There are many experiences and feelings in the three-day journey, but the author has made careful choices and tailoring, describing the scenery in turn and expressing his feelings in the order of the time of the ship's travel and taking the shift and transformation of the scene's position as clues. In this way, although they all wrote about the Yangtze River for three days, they all had their own emphases. One day is to highlight the night view of the Yangtze River; The next day, I described the magnificence of the Three Gorges with pen and ink. On the third day, a magnificent scene of "Chu land is vast and boundless" was displayed. This not only shows the colorful mountains and rivers of the motherland, but also expresses the author's unique feelings caused by the change of scenery. The whole article can be described as coherent and full of charm.
In addition, the language of this paper reflects the consistent style of the writer's language: magnificent, meaningful and unrestrained. In beautiful words and changeable syntax, people obviously feel the majestic momentum of revolutionary soldiers.