First, the unique old capital complex.
At the beginning, the author stated that he came to Beiping "all the way" just to "have a taste" and "the autumn flavor of the old capital". Through "taste" instead of taste, we can see that the author has a special liking for the autumn feeling of the old capital. In order to express this deep yearning, attachment and praise, the author uses a variety of artistic techniques. The first is comparison. "It has been nearly ten years since the autumn in Northland. Every autumn in the south, I always think of the reed flowers in Taoranting, the willow shadows in Diaoyutai, the insects in Xishan, the jathyapple in Yuquan and the bells in Tanzhe Temple. " This is a foil method that wants to suppress before promoting, like promoting one thing, but actually promoting another. Through a series of juxtaposition of autumn colors, autumn sounds, autumn scenery and autumn objects, the author shows the beautiful and intoxicating autumn colors of the old capital from a macro perspective. At the beginning and end of the article, the autumn in the north is compared with the autumn in the south of the Yangtze River, and unique sentence patterns are used to enhance the contrast effect. For example, the contrast at the end: (Autumn in the south) "Compared with Qiu Lai in the north, it is like yellow wine and dry rice, porridge and steamed bread, bass and big crabs, yellow dogs and camels." The author uses parallelism and metaphor to select four groups of things with obvious differences in quantity and quality, so that readers can taste the intoxicating characteristics of autumn in the old capital, which is rich, rich and delicious, with the author's deep love, and makes a sound. Yu Dafu has never lived in Beiping for a long time in his short life of 49 years, but he has always had a deep attachment to Beiping. In Four Seasons in Beiping, he wrote: "Beiping, which has been rich in culture for five or six hundred years, has bad months all year round. I cherish my memory in the distance, and I deeply wish her peace and progress. It will be the old capital of our Chinese people forever! " It can be seen that the author's enthusiasm for the old capital autumn is not only a simple love complex, but also linked with his love for the descendants of the Chinese people.
Second, the unique civilian consciousness.
Yu Dafu wrote about "city idlers wearing thick green jackets", and they talked about autumn rain and autumn in a "slow tone" when the rain stopped. At this time, the author's style is pleasant and relaxed, and his mood is cordial and appreciative (this song "mispronounced rhyme comes at the right time"), which shows that the author wants to live a carefree life like "urban idlers". Yu Dafu positioned his brushwork in the lower class and their ordinary life. As a result, every low-rise house in Beiping is inside and outside, the locust trees on both sides of the street are in front of the house, and the "Qiu Chan" of "every household is like" is kept at home, and the jujube trees on the side of the toilet have become the objects carefully described by the author. This aesthetic vision, which is related to the lives of ordinary people, is the artistic embodiment of the author's civilian consciousness.
Third, the unique "sad" mentality.
The "sad" feature of Autumn in the Old Capital is rich, which is implied in the projection of the author's mind. The author writes morning glory, "thinking that blue or white is better", which not only expresses his love for color, but also materializes a cold and indifferent mood; After sweeping the street, the author will "feel relaxed, subconsciously, a little lonely". These touching and unique words show a lonely and worried mood. The scenery here is completely emotional. Yu Dafu lived in old China in 1930s, and suffered a lot in life. Therefore, the "sadness" at this time is a blend of the autumn appreciation mentality of the old capital and the author's rich life sentiment. We might as well say that the "sadness" revealed in the article-anxious, lonely and lonely feelings-is a shadow cast by a specific era and social situation on an intellectual's mind, which inevitably makes readers feel bitter when reading.
Fourth, unique humanistic quality.
In the second half of the article, the explanation of writing autumn poems and the author's discussion are inserted. Yu Dafu is a scholar deeply infiltrated by China culture. He communicated his unique understanding of autumn, the old capital, with the poems of Chinese and foreign celebrities, and showed his profound humanistic quality and cherished feelings for autumn culture. Yu Dafu chose the title of Autumn in the Old Capital instead of Autumn in Beiping, because the old capital is more elegant and poetic than Beiping, and the combination with autumn can better imply a realm of integration of human landscape and natural landscape. It can be said that the humanistic atmosphere of cherishing autumn culture in the title is scattered in the whole text, which deserves our careful taste.