Chen Chaohui (pen name Mo Dan), a famous writer and professor of poetry and prose, made his artistic achievement of "a lifetime of waiting, a lifetime of exploration and pursuit": Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House officially published Selected Prose of Mo Dan. The book contains poems and prose works 142, with 350,000 words. * * * is divided into eight parts: Red Land of Love, Man and Nature, Oriental Woman Flower, Yunnan Time and Space, Emotional Post Station, Dream Hometown, Philosophical Life, Past and Present Campus. This work is a sparkling Mars in his life, a sunflower to which he devoted his efforts and sweat.
This book named "Prose Boutique" is actually a poetic prose, a poetic prose, that is, a "poetic prose" boutique.
Poetic prose is a new style from the west. It is to add poetic elements to the form and characteristics of prose, which is full of poetic prose. It not only has the prose characteristics of free form, but also has the poetic core of poetry. It is not a simple list of life phenomena and a shallow narrative, but a poetic spirit of life before it is presented to readers; It is the growth and extension of prose poetry. Although it is a marginal style between prose and prose poetry, it is an independent style. The life of poetry and prose is nature, the soul of poetry and prose is freedom, and the origin and destination of poetry and prose is emotion. In short, the characteristics of poetry and prose can be summarized into six words: "nature, freedom and emotion", that is, describing the nature of nature, pursuing the freedom of mind and expressing inner feelings. No matter from the overall conception, implication, chapter and rhythm, it has distinct poetic characteristics.
In the literary world of our country, there are many people who write prose, but few people write poetry and prose. In the history of China literature, although some poets and writers have written some poems and essays, such as Zhu Ziqing, Guo Moruo, He Qifang and Bing Xin. , are occasional, far from large-scale, large-scale style, and most of them lack conscious awareness of poetic style, so there is no complete and mature independent text that can reflect poetic style. Mo Dan was mainly engaged in the creation of prose and prose poems in his early years, but he also wrote some poems and essays unconsciously and inadvertently. He said: "On the road of prose creation, I have been looking for it." "Every writer has a problem of how to find himself and himself" (Selected Works of Pale Ink Prose The Rough Road of Literature). Later, I gradually realized and pursued it. Since the 1980s, I have been consciously engaged in the exploration and creation of this style. He has published a large number of poems and essays in prose, essays, youth literature, October, American World Journal and Taiwan Province New Life Newspaper. I was also selected for Appreciation of New Prose in China in the New Period and Hundred Essays in Western China. When poetry and prose creation just started to emerge, he has achieved fruitful results. It can be said that Selected Essays in Pale Ink is the first "poetic prose" text with its own system in the history of China.
The greatest feature of Selected Works of Pale Ink Prose is that under the premise of profound observation and refinement of life, it splashed ink on the most unique plateau life in Yunnan with simple poetic heart, dignified feelings and high-spirited writing. This is a book full of rich poetry and "full of worries about the red land" (selected works of light ink prose, the road to literature is bumpy). He said: "attachment and dissatisfaction" is the keynote of my works. "I love this fast land deeply!" (same as above). In the works, the simple and generous temperament, tenacious character and indomitable spirit of tenacious vitality in the struggle against death and nature can not help but breed sincere love, and then produce incomparable reverence. This indomitable image of plateau people can be found in Walking into West Yunnan, Dionysus, Jinjiang Boatman, A Chang Dao, Hunting for the Gods and other works. At the beginning of his famous literary novel "Walking into Western Yunnan", he wrote: "So many mountains in western Yunnan stand side by side, like a group of men who don't know how to crawl, holding their heads higher and higher." The mighty plateau man "is not afraid of sinister life", and his ketone body is full of "tenacity and tenacity", like "continuous mountains". The west of Yunnan described by him is the symbol of Yunnan Plateau and the embodiment of Yunnan people. This work compares the mountains in western Yunnan to plateau men who don't know how to bow their heads by symbolic means: stalwart, wild, wild, broad and shocking. In Dionysus, he wrote: "The sun of the plateau people rises from the wine bowl. Wine is their woman. Without wine, there would be no excitement and burning in life. Holding bowls and drinking around the fireplace, bowl after bowl, drinking this burning life. After drinking, they stumbled like Nujiang, watching the mountains collapse and the earth move, and their eyes became red with wine ... "Jinjiang boatman is like a gossip furnace in Jinsha River Canyon, and his character was melted by wind, rain and lightning. He has a fiber back, he breaks thousands of rays of sunlight every day, and then the canyon is dark. Jiang Feng's straightened boat fiber can't twist the biceps. His image belongs to stone and bronze. "The tall and straight image of plateau people suddenly stands in front of readers. This is the unique image of the plateau man in Mo Dan's works, and he painted a strong color for the art museum in western Yunnan!
Mo Dan is full of affection for the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau where he was born and raised. His observation of life is very delicate, his feeling of life is extremely keen, and his description of scenery is particularly vivid. If "highland people" is a comprehensive image in Modan's mind, then the old man on the plateau, the daughter of the forest and the orphan girl in the mountains are concrete images. He sketched them vividly with extremely concise and vivid pen and ink. It is this "male and female plateau" that has produced a "plateau on the plateau" that condenses China's history: Zheng He; Sun Ranweng's antithetical couplet "Illuminating the Immortal Culture" was born. Mo Dan said that "the plateau is a group of sculptures". It is these plateau people who have written the splendid history of the plateau and enriched the history and culture of the Yunnan Plateau.
Dan Mo is good at expressing emotions in the field of prose and creating rich poetry. The article is full of poetry and painting, and the pen reveals the true feelings. Most chapters of this work are about local life in Yunnan. With his "unique life experience", he vividly showed the tenacious vitality of men in Yunnan Plateau in their struggle against death and nature, and described the anguish and struggle of Wumengshan people. With his sincere heart and beautiful flowers, he poetically carved various vivid lives and scenes on the beautiful red land and the mysterious southern plateau, weaving meticulous emotions into rich and magical associations. The content of his poems is completely life-oriented; The images in his poems and essays completely poetize life; He organically unified the contradiction between life-oriented poetry and poetic life, which is very rare. For example, A Chang Dao is a typical representative of his poetic life and poetic life. He described the birth of Achang Dao as follows: "People on the red land like to dedicate their youth to flame and burning, forge their lives on the anvil and forge a spirit of not grinding their edges." Sweating dawn and dusk leave the stove, forging, sledgehammer and small hammer take turns forging, distracting thoughts and scum, cowardice and timidity splash under the hammer. Forging, swinging the sun and the moon repeatedly forging, wedging life and will into the blade of fine steel. The sharp Achang Dao was born in the burning years "; About A Changman's heroism is written: "Dipped in cold and upright, A Changman grinds a handle of autumn into noble and upright, a ray of ruthless cold light. In the grand festival, a long knife jumped out of its sheath with a kind of joy and excitement, flying dragons and snakes. Put on Chang Dao and stand in front of people, as straight as a pine. Wearing a long knife and walking in the crowd, a man's temperament is as bright as gold. People who can wear Achang Dao are neither heroes nor chivalrous men. Sun San's death is out of fashion, and he can't sing' The wind blows and the water cools'. They use simple earthy feelings to wipe the blade, sing mountain-like earthy folk songs to make a living, and wander the wasteland. They swaggered along the long streets of the metropolis and let the outside world write an exclamation point! "In the lonely mountain, the bonfire brightly reflects the heroic pride. How hearty! How happy this is! Such plateau people make every reader, especially those of us who live in the plateau, feel proud!
Light ink has wide vision and diverse materials. Almost every article has rich images, beautiful artistic conception, colorful language, meticulous description, novel and strange imagination, picturesque realm, colorful pictures and vivid images. For example, his work "West Yunnan": "West Yunnan is tanned by the sun. There is a very fertile pelvis in western Yunnan "("Walking into Western Yunnan "); In his works, his care for the red land is persistent: "The root of legend can't be erased in any way. People only remember a gourd from Genesis floating on the Red River. So gorgeous, so eternal, it was a fire solidified hundreds of millions of years ago, a love letter that nature could not send away, exposing the primitive life and emotion on the edge of civilization and wildness. Catherine's winding mountain road is the image of the eagle when it reaches the blue sky. The storm made people afraid to go near that beautiful place. On the ballad tree, there is an imminent woman who is wet by the running water of a small river "(love is red land). Look at Wumeng Mountain in his works again: "Wumeng Mountain is careless, carrying a powder gun and swearing, throwing the vines of folk songs beside women. When you are hungry, burn some potatoes with firewood to satisfy your hunger; When you are tired, you use the stones on the mountain to get sleepy. People sleep in nature on thatched hillsides, and nature often wears felt shirts and faces the fire by the fireplace "(Wumeng Mountain). These descriptions make man and nature so harmonious. These descriptions are not only extremely vivid and touching, but also have beautiful pictures, mellow meanings and profound philosophies. Reading his works can not only enjoy a delicious spiritual "big meal", but also enjoy real beauty, purify the soul and enhance the realm in a subtle way.
Light ink writes the secrets of Yunnan's landscape, culture, customs and birds deeply and beautifully, which makes people memorable. The work that best embodies the theory of light ink poetry and prose is "Shouldn't Walk Out of Cliff Painting". This work depicts a pair of lovers who "belong to the plateau" and "are young plateau" with intense emotion, complete conception, vivid image and ethereal realm. When a station is about to leave, they will give up their constant lovesickness and shocking relatives. With strong and deep feelings, the whole article expresses their continuous lovesickness, beautiful memories, ardent entrustment, pouring out love words, leisurely telling, affectionate comfort, and embodies deep homesickness and inseparable feelings. The full text is lyrical, free as running water, in one go. For this 5000-word work, the author said in the inscription: "Rock painting is a symbol, symbolizing all the beautiful things in life." It can be seen that "you should not walk out of the cliff painting" does not mean walking out of the Yunnan Plateau, but that you should not lose the best thing in life: love. We should stick to and grasp everything that symbolizes the beauty of life.
Anyone who has heard the erhu song "Birds in the Empty Mountain" and the suona song "A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" (also known as "A Hundred Phoenix Facing the Sun") will never forget the ethereal and quiet artistic conception, beautiful melody and rhythm. It is not easy to describe this artistic conception in words and record the melody and harmony. However, light ink did it. His poem "Birds in the Empty Mountain" captures the characteristics of "quietness" and "motion" of bird language, develops in an orderly way from quietness to motion, writes motion in quietness and contains quietness in motion, and engraves a poem and prose "Birds in the Empty Mountain" in language, so that readers can enjoy the beauty of melody, rhythm, harmony and music interest from the text.
It is no exaggeration to say that Selected Essays in Pale Ink is a poetic sculpture with unique natural scenery, local customs and humanistic spirit on the Yunnan Plateau. As he himself said, "Red soil is the source of art and life", "Poetry and thatch sprout silently here, and the winding red soil road is a complex that I can't get rid of in my works" (Preface to Pale Ink Prose). He described this magical land as extraordinarily beautiful and magical, and he portrayed the men and women in the southern plateau as majestic, bold, generous and generous. Although a little wild, it is full of tenderness and poetry.
The reason why Mo Dan's poems and essays have such excellent aesthetic effects is that, as the author said, "These works flow from the feelings of life and grow from the soil of life. It is a form of life emotion, authentic food. " He also said: "Poetry and prose are not only sculptures of nature and life, but also sculptures of the soul". (good girl, Confusion and Thinking). Mo Dan's poems and poems are beautiful oil paintings with plateau customs, sculptures of people's hearts and spiritual food of fertile land on the plateau. Mo Dan and his poems belong to Yunnan and the whole red soil plateau.
In art, Mo Dan constantly pursues excellence. He said: "in my artistic pursuit, I advocate the density and concentration of artistic information, and I don't value the accumulation and looseness of life materials;" Likes to be subtle and does not pursue straightforwardness; I like to gallop freely in the territory of art form, and I am not used to the endless and conformist form (Selected Works of Pale Ink Prose, The Rough Road of Literature). His works are the practice of this idea.
Generally speaking, prose is good at expressing feelings, but not at writing people, and it is even more difficult to write poetry prose. Mo Dan explored some writing methods of poetry and prose, and accumulated some experience: grasping valuable events, vivid plots, flashing details and the context of emotional development, refining and concentrating, and carving and sketching at key points. When writing, seek simplicity, not complexity, not refinement, and carve images with three knives and two axes. This technique is not only reflected in articles such as "You shouldn't walk down the cliff painting", but also used by some historical women he wrote, such as Yu Ji and Cixi. For example, his figure in Kyrgyzstan is "soft and thin ivy", and her beauty and love are "delicate flowers blooming from the gap of war"; Writing about her suicide is "cutting off her tender life and love with a three-foot Longquan sword", how vivid and vivid! In particular, when he wrote Cixi's "treating men with beauty and approaching the imperial power with beauty", in addition to the abnormal image, it added a bit of profundity. Only write three sentences about her beauty: "wearing a beautiful cheongsam, carrying a very emotional silk scarf, twisting her sexy waist" and "making all China's braids submit to a woman". It is this woman who "kills men with beauty". "Her beauty is like the poison of poppies accumulated in the years. Finally, the old woman's heart turned into a lump of heroin. " In a few strokes, the enchanting beauty, crazy jealousy and incomparable cruelty of Cixi are vividly portrayed. Let you deeply feel that she is a real "imperial power, dictatorship, mixed-race witch" collection.
Pale ink's poems are elegant in style, poetic and implicit, concise in language and beautiful in artistic conception, leaving a certain aesthetic "blank" for readers and creating a larger aesthetic space. Please look at these descriptions:
"He is determined to leave, and the love like the big leaf vine can't entangle him" (the daughter of the forest);
"A woman with a thin waist embraced a very bumpy history on the plateau" ("Zhuang Dian");
"A romantic and charming woman has drunk the whole Bianjing" ("Li Shishi");
"The mountain can't stop the river that is determined to flow", "If you want to be a river, you must hold up your heart with your own waves, and also hold up his boat with your own waves" (river water);
"Western Yunnan is an emotional quagmire, and you can't pull it out when you step in"; "Only when the night wind blows slowly, people in western Yunnan have leisure to dress their wounds with songs in the moonlight" ("Walking into western Yunnan");
"Walking into Shangri-La is a fairyland on earth. Only those black-necked cranes on the sparkling Napa Lake are leisurely and lofty, pretending not to care about fish and shrimp, strutting around like gentlemen. Those clouds wandering in the sky like jeep girls seem to have leisure at this time, rinsing their beautiful clothes repeatedly by this lake. The mountains with serious expressions meditate in the distance, as quiet as some profound philosophers. "
"On the shelf of highland barley in the field, it is the golden sunshine in autumn." (Secret Shangri-La)
These descriptions are really fascinating as their names suggest.
Modan is especially good at refining words and sentences. On the surface, some of his words and expressions are plain and tasteful, but they are refined to a magical and wonderful degree. For example, the "Wumeng Mountain Moon" in his eyes: "It's not yellow or white, the leaves are smoked, and the corn wine is soaked", "In autumn, the moon hangs on the tree and is golden. Wumeng Mountain Moon, a kind of cold burning "; In his eyes, Yuanmou Tulin: "Nature is displaying its own unique artistic sculpture", a "weathered Louvre" and a "solidified ancient battlefield"; The valley he wrote: "The valley is quiet, and the sunshine is like a kitten's tongue, licking the lake in the forest silently"; "Golden sunshine is scattered on the grass, and the leisurely deer are walking like a beautiful woman ... beautiful hooves splash beautiful notes"; "The rock is a sculpture that has been touched, and the lake is as clear as the eyes of a girl who has not yet understood love" ("Birds in the Empty Mountain"); "Birds can't peck at the sounds of nature in the valley, and the past wind can't steal the mystery and fragrance here. The clouds in the sky are like a group of delicate ladies of the Tang Dynasty, dragging their skirts and sipping their thin lips and flowing through the blue sky ("Caravan Drifting Away") ... These descriptions are not only wonderful poems, but also exquisite prose quatrains!
Mo Dan also deliberately pursued the defamiliarization of poetry and prose language. The so-called "defamiliarization" means that art is always presented in a brand-new way, which gives people a fresh stimulus and feeling physically and psychologically. This kind of "defamiliarization" is always between similarity and dissimilarity compared with "firstness". As Qi Baishi said, between art and life, "it seems too kitsch to deceive the world". Real works of art should leave readers a broad space for acceptance, as well as space for imagination, thinking and aftertaste, thus producing infinite charm and suspense beauty of art.
The creation of poetry and poetic realm, and the tempering of poetry by light ink are worthy of serious study and reference by those writers whose articles are vulgar and obscure and whose structure is disordered!
Mo Dan's works also have some shortcomings. He said: "Aesthetics needs distance, and if there is distance, there will be jumping and abandonment" (the bumpy road of literature). Mo Dan's pursuit of "aesthetic distance", "jumping", "abandonment" and "defamiliarization of art" is undoubtedly correct. However, it may be due to his excessive pursuit of "jumping" and "defamiliarization" of art, excessive concern about the material nature of language and excessive efforts on the density and tension of his works that "one advantage" inadvertently brought "one disadvantage" and inevitably caused some readers to be tired of following. Because some chapters jump too fast in thinking, images change too fast, and lack the necessary transition and cohesion, readers who are not familiar with this special style of poetry may encounter some obstacles, and even feel some difficulties in reading. On the other hand, there are too many vivid images in some chapters, but not enough to build the overall artistic conception. When reading, I feel overwhelmed and beautiful, and sometimes the overall impression left by reading is not deep enough. When he deliberately refines words and sentences, he sometimes unconsciously ignores refining his meaning. The ancients said, "refining words is not as good as refining sentences, and refining sentences is not as good as refining meaning." The purpose of refining words and sentences should be to refine the meaning. Mo Dan's works would be more perfect if he put more energy into refining and made the "Three Refinements" more closely unified.