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On the other side of the mountain
Jiaxin Wang
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When I was a child, I used to lie in front of the window and daydream.
-What's that over there?
My mother told me: the sea.
Oh, is that the sea beyond the mountain?
So, with a secret wish,
One day, I finally climbed to the top of that mountain.
However, I almost came back crying.
On the other side of the mountain, it's still a mountain.
On the other side of the mountain, there is a livid face.
Give my fantasy a zero!
Mom, where is the sea?
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Beyond the mountain, it is the sea!
It is a sea of faith.
Today, I didn't expect,
A seed floating from childhood,
But it took root in my heart.
Yes, I am disappointed again and again.
When I climbed to the top of the mountain that tempted me
But I once again regained my confidence and went forward bravely.
Because I hear the sea still clamoring for me in the distance.
The snow-white tide comes every night.
Moisten my dry heart again and again ...
Beyond the mountain, is it the sea?
Yes! People, please believe them one by one.
After climbing countless mountains.
After overcoming disappointment again and again
You will eventually climb to the top of such a mountain.
Over this mountain is the sea.
This is a brand-new world.
Light up your eyes in an instant ...
Overall grasp
What is the "sea" in the poem? The poet said, "it's a sea of faith" and "it's a brand-new world". In other words, "sea" refers to the ideal realm. Beyond the mountain is the sea. This "mountain" is not a mountain, but countless mountains. Climbing a mountain is very laborious, and climbing countless mountains is even more difficult. In other words, the realization of the ideal is to go through various hardships.
On the one hand, because I am eager to realize my ideal as soon as possible, on the other hand, because I underestimated the difficulty of realizing my ideal. I thought I could climb a mountain and see a sea, so I could reach my ideal state, but this is not the case, so I can't help feeling disappointed and depressed. "When I was a child, I used to lie at the window and think/-What's that over there?" Looking forward to the new world beyond the mountain is a daydream when I was a child. "Mom told me: Sea/Oh, is that the sea beyond the mountain?" In other words, my mother pointed out the ideal and aroused my desire. But when I was a child, my knowledge was superficial after all, thinking that the sea was beyond the mountains. I never saw the sea, but I still saw the mountains. I'm so disappointed.
When I grow up, the poet understands that the sea my mother said is a sea of faith. The sea is far away, but it is not illusory. Ideals and beliefs make people not afraid to travel long distances. "Courage again and again and go forward bravely."
The poet tells people with his own life feelings and firm beliefs that the road to an ideal life is long, but as long as he persists in struggle, the ideal realm will eventually be realized.
This poem expresses a belief and a philosophy. Poets take mountains and the sea as images, the sea as ideals, mountains as difficulties and climbing mountains as metaphors of hard struggle, with magnificent images and rich meanings. A word "mountain" can refer to either a mountain or countless mountains. From an artistic conception to a new artistic conception, poetry advances in ups and downs, and feelings are also ups and downs, which gives people profound enlightenment.
Problem research
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1. Why is it "hidden desire"?
When I was a child, I wanted to see the sea beyond the mountain. I climb mountains to see the sea. I didn't tell anyone about this wish, so I said, "Secret, face to face."
2. Why do you say "the mountain beyond the mountain is livid"?
This is personification. I climbed to the top of the mountain, thinking I could see the sea, but I still saw the mountain. I was very disappointed and depressed, so when I saw the mountain over there, I looked like a "livid face". The mountain is green, just because "I" is in a bad mood, as if the mountain is there with a livid face, blaming me for wishful thinking and laughing at me for being childish and ridiculous.
3. What does the sentence "Give my fantasy zero" mean?
"I" thought that the sea was beyond the mountain, but now I understand that this is an illusion. The so-called "zero score" means that the illusion is completely lost.
4. What is the metaphor of "a seed floating from childhood"? Why is it "floating"?
Metaphor is a kind of belief, a belief given to me by my mother. Mom said this out of my wishful thinking and doubts, and there is no real ideal, so it is floating.
5. "Because I hear the sea clamoring for me in the distance/-the snow-white tide, coming night after night/wetting my dry heart again and again ..." What do these poems mean?
The poet is convinced that there is a sea in the distance-the ideal can be realized, and the ideal stirs in his heart day and night, inspiring "I" to struggle unremittingly, just like hearing the sea still clamoring for me in the distance. "Dry mind" is a metaphor for the desire for ideals. The tide "moistens my withered heart", that is to say, the ideal moistens my heart, making it not withered, but full and full of vitality.
6. What is the meaning and feeling of "lighting up your eyes in an instant"?
First of all, why "light up"? You can imagine how brilliant this "brand-new world" is. If you want to light up the mood before and after, you can feel that kind of surprise, and the realization of the ideal realm is exciting and surprising.
Related exercises
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First of all, read the whole poem and feel the thoughts and feelings in it. Poetry often has deep meaning besides literal meaning. Let's explore the meaning of "sea" and "mountain" in the poem.
This topic starts with reading aloud and grasping the overall image to understand the thoughts and feelings of this poem. Therefore, when we appreciate poetry, we can appreciate the image of poetry and understand the meaning of artistic image.
To explore the meaning of "sea", we should link it with how difficult it is to climb mountains, and also consider that mountains are countless.
The sea is an ideal realm; The mountains are full of difficulties and obstacles. The whole poem expresses such thoughts and feelings: to achieve the ideal state, we must go through all kinds of hardships. Only by being fearless and persevering can we realize our ideals in life.
Second, contact the context and taste the words added in the following poem (the questions in brackets can be referred to).
1. I often lie in the window and daydream.
What does this word mean here? )
The mountain beyond the mountain is livid.
Is this the color of the mountain? )
When I climb the mountain that tempts me.
What is the attraction of The Peak? )
It moistens my withered heart again and again.
What does "wither" mean here? )
According to the concise characteristics of poetry language, this topic guides students to explore the meaning of keywords. This kind of taste is difficult, but it is good and interesting, which can enhance the understanding of language and improve the appreciation of poetry and other literary works. Teachers should help students explore as appropriate.
1. The original meaning of "wishful thinking" is to be in a daze, which means that you are always fascinated by the world outside the mountain, to the extent of obsession. Explain that "I" was unwilling to be trapped in a narrow world and pursue a new world since I was a child.
"My face is livid" is my subjective feeling when I am depressed. I hope to see the sea, but I still see mountains. I was disappointed and depressed, as if the mountain was there, blaming my wishful thinking and livid.
Because I always feel that I can see the sea when I climb to the top of the mountain, and every top of the mountain is so attractive.
4. "dry" describes the desire for ideals.
Third, write a paragraph on the topic "I finally saw the sea". Tip: This sea can be natural or alive. It can be sweet or bitter; It can be quiet or violent; It can be pleasant or depressing. ...
This topic is written in combination with the text. Hint shows that "sea" does not necessarily symbolize ideal, which broadens the thinking. The easiest thing to write about is the first trip to the seaside. You can write about the yearning for the sea, the feeling of finally seeing the sea at the seaside, the unparalleled beauty of the sea and so on.
teaching program
First, strengthen reading training.
It is advisable to arrange reading before exploring in order to understand students' reading ability and perception ability. In the process of inquiry, it is advisable to arrange fragment reading as an important inquiry means. After groping, it is advisable to arrange reading aloud to improve the reading level of expression.
Second, grasp the key to inquiry.
The key is the symbolic meaning of "sea" and "mountain", especially the symbolic meaning of "countless mountains". It is necessary to mobilize students' life experience and understand the symbolic meaning of "countless mountains". People often underestimate the long-term and arduous nature of realizing the ideal state from the beginning, and once they fail to reach the expected goal, they will be disappointed. This situation may be repeated many times. With the deepening of understanding, we can fully realize its long-term and arduous nature. The poet warned people not to expect it overnight, and not to be discouraged because they failed to achieve their goals after many struggles. If you explore this essence, you will like this poem and feel that the last poem is simply a motto of life.
Third, create a new style of inquiry learning.
This lesson is the first lesson of Chinese learning in grades 7 ~ 9, and it needs a good start to implement the spirit of Curriculum Standards. Let students do their own research and cooperative learning, teachers should lead, students should go by themselves, and teachers should guide, help and encourage. From the beginning, they should form good habits and create a research-based learning situation, which will be easier in the future.
Fourth, pay attention to "reading and writing".
"Reading and writing" means reading and writing, accurate pronunciation, standardized writing and practicing writing. "Reading and writing" is the accumulation of language materials, which can continuously enrich the language. Only by memorizing words can they be used freely in their own oral and written languages. Single words are hard to remember and their usage is uncertain. It is best to memorize short phrases, such as "the sea is noisy", which is easy to remember and use; Constantly expanding and changing, you can generate various sentences. For example, "the distant sea is very noisy", "the distant sea is very noisy to me" and "I hear the distant sea is still very noisy to me". Paying attention to "reading and writing" can improve the basic language skills. All units will be like this in the future.
Fifth, teaching design.
Guiding ideology
1. Reading literary works should cultivate the comprehensive ability of feeling, ideal, appreciation and evaluation, so that students can have their own emotional experience, get a preliminary understanding of the subtleties of the works, and gain beneficial enlightenment to nature, society and life.
2. Pay attention to reading training.
3. Starting from the first lesson, try to create an autonomous, cooperative and inquiry learning mode, position students as "masters of Chinese learning", create a good autonomous learning situation, and guide and organize inquiry reading and creative reading.
Class arrangement
1. Read the introduction and read the text silently.
2. Read and write.
Fantasy, secret, livid, condensed into a moment of temptation, noise and humidity.
3. Read aloud.
Mandarin is required to be read correctly, fluently and emotionally.
(1) teacher's template reading.
(2) Practice reading aloud.
(3) reading.
(4) read together.
4. Content discussion.
At an appropriate time, we can read the "relevant materials" in the poet's creation to students to help them understand poetry.
To discuss, we must first find and ask questions. The problem is a problem, and so is the deep meaning or mystery. Ask the students to put a question mark with a pencil, then ask questions, and the teacher will add them.
(1) "beyond the mountain is the sea". What is the difference between my understanding of the word "mountain" when I was a child and my understanding today?
(2) The poet understands that the "sea" mentioned by his mother is a "sea of faith", not a natural sea. So, what is the "sea of faith"? Does this poem answer this question?
(3) After reading the first part, what kind of child do you think I was when I was a child? Why does he want to go to the other side of the mountain, and he is always dreaming at the window? Why go climbing? Why do you say your dream is "fantasy"?
(4) What does "hidden desire" mean? Why do you say "secret"?
(5) Why are the green hills on the other side of the mountain "livid"?
(6) "Give my fantasy a zero" and use discussion language instead.
(7) What does "a seed floating from childhood" mean? Why do the peaks tempt me? Why am I disappointed? Why is the brain dry? What does it mean to have a wet heart?
(8) If discussion language is used, how to express the belief expressed at the end?
5. Summarize the experience of content discussion.
Learning methods and habits are also teaching goals. Part of the study notes should be devoted to "Chinese learning experience", and reading, writing and oral communication should be recorded in pages. You only need to make one or two summaries at a time.
6. Read it again.
7. homework.
Choose a topic from "Discussion and Practice" or design it yourself.
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Brief introduction of the author
Wang Jiaxin was born in Xunxian County (now danjiangkou city) in Hubei Province from 65438 to 0957. 1972 entered Ogawa Middle School in danjiangkou city, Hubei. 1974 After graduating from high school, I went to the countryside to work in Ogawa Agrochemical Plant. 65438-0977 was admitted to the Chinese Department of Wuhan University, where he began to publish poems. 1982 graduated and assigned to teach at Yunyang Teachers College in Hubei Province. 1983 participated in the youth poetry meeting organized by poetry magazine. 1984 wrote a group of poems, Chinese Painting and Poems on the Yangtze River, which attracted wide attention. 1985 was seconded to Beijing Poetry Publishing House for editing, and published a collection of poems "Farewell and Commemoration". Since 1986, the poetic style has changed and become more dignified, bidding farewell to youth writing. The representative works of this period include Touch, Landscape and Impression. Poetic theory of man's meeting with the world. 1990 left. 1992 went to Britain as a visiting scholar, 1994 returned to China and was transferred to the Chinese Department of Beijing Institute of Education as an associate professor. . 1994 returned to China to teach in the Chinese Department of Beijing Institute of Education. His published poetry collections include Commemoration (1985) and You Cliff (1997). Wang Jiaxin, who used the pen name Beixin, etc.
The Sea Beyond the Mountain —— On Beyond the Mountain (Wang Jiaxin)
On the other side of the mountain is a poem I wrote more than 20 years ago, when I was a college student who came to the university campus from a remote mountainous area. Therefore, for me, rereading this poem is like opening an old photo album that has been sealed for many years and seeing me in my early years that is not naive but makes people feel sad and nostalgic.
Obviously, Beyond the Mountain originated from childhood experiences. I was born at the foot of Wudang Mountain in the mountainous area of northwest Hubei. My parents are primary and secondary school teachers. I have lived in five or six places with my parents since I was a child, but I have never left the world in the mountains. For me when I was a child, the world was a quiet campus after school, clear rivers in mountains and rivers, and silent mountains surrounding all this.
And I happen to be a teenager who is addicted to fantasy and full of strong curiosity about the outside world. The first two sentences of this poem are a true portrayal of my childhood. I think that almost everyone has some "hidden desires" in childhood and adolescence, and this "beyond the mountain" vision and fantasy in the poem constitutes the unique secret of my childhood-it still secretly affects my life.
However, this alone is not enough to form a poem, so "sea" appeared in my life and finally appeared in this poem. The appearance of "sea" just corresponds to "mountain". Show the structure of a poem. The "mountain" and "sea" here can be understood metaphorically: the mountain, a real world, is closed, gloomy and depressed; The sea, an imaginary world, is open, bright and free. The sea is the end of mountains and rivers and the beginning of another world. The sea, from ancient times to the present, is a call for human freedom and imagination. And these meanings are impossible for me to realize when I was young. I just look at the other side of the mountain and imagine the blue of the sea by virtue of my fantasy nature.
However, as people know, this fantasy of another world is the most vulnerable to setbacks in real life. It can be said that any "unrealistic" fantasy will one day be shattered in the face of "cold" reality. I also experienced such painful times repeatedly when I was young. However, it is incredible that the fantasy is frustrated, but the spirit of idealism has taken root in life-it has become more internal and stubborn because of the frustration of the real environment! The second section of the poem mainly reveals this belief in the "sea". Perhaps it is because of my unyielding nature, or perhaps it is a motto I read in junior high school, "As long as you walk along the river, you will find the sea", which gives me this belief. At this time, "sea"-this childhood dream has also been promoted to the whole life level to re-understand. It is different from the sea in the first section and has a certain symbolic color of life ideal. "Yes, I was disappointed again and again/when I climbed to the top of the mountain that tempted me again and again." Maybe any ideal is a trap of temptation, and any ideal is just beyond my power. However, it is in this difficult and tortuous process of seeking that life has been promoted and enriched, and life has been endowed with hope and meaning. "The white tide came night after night/soaked my dry heart again and again. ...
Fate thus created our generation. Our generation, born in the 1950s and 1960s, was educated by idealism since childhood, went to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, and came to the university campus after the Cultural Revolution. Some people call us an idealistic generation, while others call us a disillusioned generation. Idealism has cultivated our fantasy and spiritual temperament, but we are also the generation that pays the heaviest price for the illusion of "ideal". Among my contemporaries, many people have gone through hardships and still maintained the spirit of idealism, but many people have lost their hearts and become very confused. It is based on this understanding of my contemporaries that I wrote at the end of this poem: "My friend, please believe-". This is a speech to my contemporaries, but it is also an inspiration to myself: I believe that life has a higher realm. I believe that after climbing countless mountains, I will eventually climb such a peak. I believe that the "ultimate sea" will eventually illuminate our eyes and life after going through hardships. ...
Rereading this poem today, of course, I feel its childishness in art, because the road it shows us far exceeds my imagination when I was young. In real life, although I have seen the sea that my childhood yearned for countless times, the "sea" in my mind is still out of reach. So, what is the most important thing for me now? Still "faith" If I can't reach this affirmation again at a higher level, it's hard to imagine that I will stick to it in my later life. Rereading on the other side of the mountain, looking at the direction of childhood, I have this feeling again.
Introduction to Beyond the Mountain (Zhao Xun)
What "On the Other Side of the Mountain" tells is obviously related to the frustration experience that he has been accompanying since he was a child, and his increasingly deep feelings and beliefs in this frustration. However, poetry is a special art, which requires the poet to deal with his repeated pains, passions, beliefs and experiences with "images" instead of simple and conceptual language. Different from many people, Wang Jiaxin did not turn the sufferings he suffered in his life into an angry noise, but experienced the disillusionment of all his ideals from it and turned it into a poetic meditation based on the opposition between "mountain" and "sea".
On the surface, the discovery of "beyond the mountain or beyond the mountain" is nothing more than the disillusionment of such naive illusions as "beyond the mountain is the sea". However, the "mountain" in poetry is a barrier that prevents the poet from reaching the "sea" he yearns for, and it is a realistic existence that prevents his dream from realizing. Therefore, this sense of frustration also indicates all the pains and failures in the poet's life, transcending the specific life experience and becoming a symbol of universal emotional experience.
Correspondingly, the "sea" symbolizes the tempting desire that always calls us to start: "On the other side of the mountain, it is the sea/the sea that embodies faith"; The snow-white tide comes every night/wets my dry heart again and again. The poet believes that "you will eventually reach the top of this mountain/and on the other side of this mountain is the sea"; This "sea", "is a brand-new world/brightens your eyes in an instant"!
Generally speaking, the opposition between "mountain" and "sea" is often unbreakable. As another poet said in The Mountain Man, "He thinks that he can't walk out of here in his life. The mountain/sea is there, but it's far away/so he will die halfway/in the mountain, and he hasn't got there yet". However, in this poem by Wang Jiaxin, the opposition between "mountain" and "sea" and the isolation between "mountain" and "sea" were overcome, because a stubborn "child (me)" appeared, and he kept climbing mountains and mountains to pursue the sea. This "child" can be said to be an unyielding "belief" itself. The Dreamcatcher between mountains and seas embodies our inner "hidden desires" and the mental journey of a generation between the hardships of reality and the hard persistence of ideals.
In art, Beyond the Mountain seems to have simple lines, but it is full of waves and close to people's hearts. The poet is full of tenacious beliefs, but his tone is not always high. He didn't shy away from the truth of life. In the first part of the poem, he even wrote in a child's voice: "One day I finally climbed to the top of that mountain/but I almost came back crying/-on the other side of the mountain, or on the other side of that mountain, a cold face/gave my fantasy a zero." These frustrations from negative descriptions, in turn, enhance the authenticity of the opposition between "mountain" and "sea" from the senses and emotions, and make poetry fully complete the final reversal of "sea" to "mountain" in a powerful conflict. At the same time, this kind of emotional ups and downs also gives the whole poem an appropriate rhythm.