This work was written in the period of 1942 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, when the land of China was being ravaged by Japanese imperialism, the light was replaced by darkness, and it was peacefully immersed in slaughter. For the independence and survival of the Chinese nation, Qian Qian never wants to be a conquered people, take up arms and go to war at all costs. For this reason, the author wrote "That Day", which symbolizes the vigorous dedication of people with lofty ideals to the motherland with the pursuit of light and heat by moths and Kuafu, and praises moths, that is, anti-Japanese soldiers. The works are profound and affectionate, inspiring and inspiring.
2. Guide to "Day" and "Month" (Yao Chunshu)
..... Generally speaking, Ba Jin's prose before the founding of the People's Republic of China has the characteristics of simplicity, freshness, fluency and lyricism. However, Ba Jin's prose is numerous, and its content, style and writing style are rich and varied. Ba Jin is a writer with romantic poet temperament and introspective characteristics. He has abundant passion, rich imagination and profound introspection and introspection ability. In Ba Jin's prose, besides natural, simple, fresh and straightforward prose, there are also a number of essays with distinctive romanticism symbols, which are dedicated to dreams, dreams and deformation illusions. This kind of prose is not a true representation of the external objective world, but mainly a true expression of the writer's inner world, not a direct catharsis and pouring out of the writer's thoughts and feelings, but a clever sublimation and symbol. Ba Jin's excellent essays are often ignored by ordinary people, but they are magical, mysterious and profound, with unique ideological depth and artistic charm. This can be said to be an important tradition of China's prose from Zhuang Zhou's Zhuangzi to Lu Xun's Weeds.
In this kind of creation, the constant intentional repetition of some similar images and concepts is a common and regular literary historical phenomenon among some literary masters at home and abroad. For example, Balzac's nouveau riche, Turgenev's Redundant Man, Tolstoy's confessing aristocrat and Lu Xun's The Lonely Man. At the same time, literature is a study of human beings, which always shows the beauty of human feelings and humanity in a specific social and historical life, as well as the beautiful social ideal and aesthetic ideal of human beings to transform and create the world, so literature has its "eternal theme"; The creation of literary masters at all times and all over the world will always repeat these complicated motifs with their own aesthetic grasp, make their own unique explorations, and contribute their own moral feelings and wisdom. Benson, a famous British essayist, said in The Art of Essays: "Views are really the essence of intensive reading of essays." We study the ontology of Ba Jin's prose creation from a series of similar images and concepts that appear intentionally and repeatedly in his prose creation, which can reveal some of his thoughts and artistic characteristics.
There are four groups of similar images in Ba Jin's prose. The first category is those images that give off light and heat and give people warmth and light, such as "sun", "moon", "stars" and "lights". Sunrise on the Sea is a collection of maritime miscellanies, which is recognized as a masterpiece of beautiful scenery writing. In this article, Ba Jin not only vividly reproduces the magnificent scenery of the sunrise on the sea layer by layer, but also incorporates his warm affection, which is really "all scenery and words are affectionate". The sun in Dragon, Tiger and Dog doesn't directly write about the sun, but praises the moth who jumped on the lamp and Kuafu who died of thirst, expressing his romantic feelings of bringing "light and heat" to the "dark and cold world" and "dying with a bang" like a moth. Ba Jin sometimes likes the moon. On a quiet moonlit night, the bright moon shines soft light on the ocean and the earth, which will cause many beautiful associations and melancholy thoughts. In "The Moon at Sea" and "Heart of Hometown" in "Miscellanies at Sea", Ba Jin, as an impressionist painter, described the beauty of light and color on the moonlit night at sea, and the beautiful moonlight also aroused the poet's homesickness: "The moon at sea, the horizon * * at this time", * * * weeping at the bright moon, for the heart, five places, one wish for the same disease "-Feng Yong. Moonlit Didi also describes the moonlit nights in Yokohama, Japan and Gulangyu, Xiamen, but it is mainly the social reform activities of his friends in Anna. The moon in the collection of dragons, tigers and dogs criticizes the "light" of the moon as a kind of "dead light", which reflects Ba Jin's thirst for light and heat.
..... praise for light and heat, praise for vitality, praise for explorers and martyrs, and hatred for long nights and cold nights. These are four groups of images that appear repeatedly in Ba Jin's prose, which constitute the melancholy and warm youthful atmosphere of Ba Jin's prose, which is also the secret that Ba Jin's novels and prose are particularly popular with young people.
(Excerpted from "On Ba Jin's Prose Creation before the Founding of the People's Republic of China", Literature ReviewNo. 1996,No. 1 issue)
Fourth, the burning heart is sincere-Appreciation of Japan (Lu Qiyuan)
Ba Jin is good at novels as well as prose. His prose and prose poems are full of the majestic momentum of whipping darkness and pursuing light, and full of touching elegance of expressing emotion. In art, it advocates simplicity, openness, frankness and sincerity. Sun is a beautiful prose poem, which can show Ba Jin's artistic style. The author describes people with plain words, takes scenery as metaphor, takes emotion as the eye, and combines philosophical thinking with poetic description, which not only successfully shapes an ordinary and great image of a "moth", but also entrusts and expresses his lofty aesthetic ideal.
The author touched things and swam, which triggered profound philosophical thinking from the tragic death of moths. You see, it "jumps at the lamp and pursues light and heat". Although it "finally died under the lamp", at the last moment of its life, it finally "got light and heat" Moths are called "I" because they have a spirit of courage to pursue, sacrifice and walk the line. Aren't moths a thousand times nobler and greater than those who are afraid of death and survival? ! A timid person is not as brave as a worm. From the author of The Moth to the myth of ancient daily life, Kuafu's "chasing the shadow of the sun and dying of thirst in the valley" is as sympathetic and close as a moth's funeral lamp, which deserves praise, respect and memory. More divine than moths, all the actions of pursuing light and heat, all the behaviors and spirits of bravely fighting and risking one's life and forgetting one's death should be strongly advocated and praised loudly. Because "there is no light and heat", this world will become a "dark and cold world". In order to keep light and heat in the world forever, to prolong life and to develop society, we must persevere in pursuit, fight tenaciously and even give up our lives for this. It is extremely glorious to sacrifice oneself for the survival of mankind and the realization of an ideal society. Therefore, "I" not only praised the spirit of moths, but also practiced, "I would like to be a moth on earth" and "fly to the fiery red sun ball", even if I turned into a puff of smoke and a pinch of ash, I would be willing. Here, the author turns from objective praise to subjective expression of longing to be a moth, and his feelings show a progressive trend, which is a qualitative leap, a sublimation of beauty, true, sincere and touching!
This work was written in the period of 1942 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, when the land of China was being ravaged by Japanese imperialism, the light was replaced by darkness, and it was peacefully immersed in slaughter. For the independence and survival of the Chinese nation, Qian Qian never wants to be a conquered people, take up arms and go to war at all costs. For this reason, the author wrote "That Day", which symbolizes the vigorous dedication of people with lofty ideals to the motherland with the pursuit of light and heat by moths and Kuafu, and praises moths, that is, anti-Japanese soldiers. The works are profound and affectionate, inspiring and inspiring.
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