The martial arts costume drama "The Order of Mountains and Rivers" has become extremely popular recently: it ranks first on the popular TV series list, first on the popular martial arts drama list, and first on the popular list of costume dramas.
In the play, the brotherly love between Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing, "Mountains and rivers are not important, a gentleman will die a confidant" moved many netizens.
Some netizens commented that the deep friendship was touching. If I could have such a buddy, my whole life would be enough.
Some netizens said that Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu seemed to have really existed. They redeemed each other and warmed me.
Meet a close friend in the mountains and flowing water. Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing were lucky enough to meet their close friends in life, thus creating a good story in the martial arts world.
From ancient times to the present, many people have been searching in the vast world, looking for the person who knows and understands themselves. If you find it, your life will be complete.
"There is a Strange Tree in the Garden", a thousand-year-old poem, sings about this feeling of close friends.
When I first read this poem, I just felt that it expresses the love between children and the author is thinking about a woman. I recently read Yang Wurui's "Nineteen Days Talk" and realized my own shallowness.
"Nineteen Days Talk" is a collection of 19 daily life stories and stories read in "Nineteen Ancient Poems" when teacher Yang Wurui and young netizens "slowly read" it. My feelings were recorded, and it took four years to condense them into a book called "Nineteen Days Talk."
"There is a Strange Tree in the Courtyard" is the ninth song among them. Teacher Yang Wurui said that the foundation of friendship is the "seeing" of differences.
The beauty of this poem is that the poet saw a gorgeous flower that was completely different from the "branches" around it, and recognized this "beautiful flower". He knew that there was another person who could also recognize it.
So no matter how far apart they were, the fragrance was waiting with sleeves full, and he also wanted to share this "stunning beauty" and this discovery with him, because he knew that they could always see the same beauty side by side. This is the best gesture of friendship.
Teacher Yang explains this poem through the story of Chen Yinke and Wu Mi. After reading it, I feel even more exquisite about this poem.
Chen Yinke and Wu Mi met at Harvard in 1919. Since they met, the two of them have been "both friends and teachers."
Even if things changed later and they were far apart, they continued to communicate with each other through letters.
In 1961, they had known each other for 42 years and separated for 12 years. After two years of planning, Wu Mi finally took advantage of the summer vacation to go south to visit his old friend. Chen Yinke was very excited. The letter was full of instructions: how to take the bus, When is the right time to arrive at the station, how to get to Sun Yat-sen University, how to stay in a hotel, how to eat, what the weather is like...
When Wu Mi arrived at Chen Zhai in Guangzhou in the early morning, the old man Chen Yinke, who was already blind at the time, was groping around indoors. He walked slowly with his staff and waited for Wu Mi. The two old men were extremely excited and happy to meet each other. Wu Mi didn't go to bed until 4 a.m. that night.
When they met, they talked about everything, including Han Yu, Confucius, academics, poetry, drama, and feelings...
Chen Yinke occasionally mentioned the sentence "She is so beautiful." "You have pity for those who have gone before you, but the branches are still waiting for those who come after you." Wu Mi immediately saw the benefits of poetry: "extremely beautiful" and "many branches" are exactly the portrayal of them and the times. The two old men smiled knowingly.
You understand what I say; you can also see what I see. This is the best gesture of friendship - seeing each other.
This meeting became the farewell of the two old people. They never met again until Wu Mi's death in 1978.
However, for more than ten years without being able to see each other, Wu Mi always remembered Chen Yinke. When he was in pain, he would recite Chen Yinke's poems and essays. He spent the last few years of his life reading Chen Yinke's poems and essays.
Teacher Yang believes that the story of Chen Yinke and Wu Mi confirms the friendship of "the two see each other together" in "There is a Strange Tree in the Garden".
Teacher Yang’s writing method of letting stories and ancient poems illuminate each other avoids the boring feeling caused by traditional exegesis, and instead makes "Nineteen Ancient Poems" like a beam of light shining into the hearts of readers.
After reading the story, I also understood the meaning of poetry in the twists and turns of the story. In this way, the classics moisturize things silently and nourish the heart. In this way, "Nineteen Days Talk" builds a bridge between modernity and classics.