The meaning of home
Hometown can be as concrete as half a moss, or as illusory as a feeling. This is what the author calls "duality".
Both Cui Hao and Li Bai asked where their hometown was. Do they really not remember? Don't know the place of birth? No, they know better than us, but at this time, home is a feeling for them: warm, reliable and enough to attract themselves.
Most homesick literati are strangers. Being in a foreign land, I will increase my sense of foreign land, increase the charm and taste of my hometown, and the taste of my hometown will reach its peak, becoming a nutrient for creation and another life experience. The more beautiful a foreign land is, the more beautiful your hometown will be, and the more homesick you will be. From this, your hometown will be blown into a colorful bubble and a dream. The stronger the homesickness, the bigger the bubble and the sweeter the dream. Strangers can understand that this is a dream, so in order to protect the dream bubble in their hearts, "as a result, I have been avoiding my hometown all my life, avoiding all the way and thinking all the way."
He Lao is one of the few people who dare to verify the authenticity of dreams. "Children meet strangers and ask for directions with a smile" is more or less sad! But this is the real hometown.
"In all kinds of life situations, the most important thing is the profound interaction between foreign land experience and hometown consciousness, and the wandering desire and returning consciousness complement each other."
Only the thoughts of vagrants have "meaning" and can we appreciate the weight of homesickness. Bing Xin, an old man who left his hometown for a hundred years, swam back to his girlhood home in a dream when he was white-haired. Strangers have a deeper understanding of home, and their thoughts have more connotations.
I believe that when strangers encounter something that triggers their thoughts, their emotions are far more violent than words. All is silent. After all, emotions are wordless, but we stubbornly use words to describe them.
"They don't say why, also don't ask yourself why. They dried their tears and flew away. "
Second, hometown and language.
Language is a direct expression of culture and a symbol of region. Under the attack of Shanghai dialect, Yuyao dialect was completely defeated, but gradually forgotten.
"Hometown, so I lost it."
"Hometown, so I got lost."
Without basic communication methods, what will happen to its internal inheritance?
Third, understanding
How many people really know their hometown? How many native Beijingers can roughly explain the growth process of Beijing? Only a few years later, Mr. Yu learned by chance that there were celebrities such as Wang Yangming and Huang Zongxi in Yuyao, which frequently appeared in history textbooks and even famous kilns in previous dynasties. Who would have thought?
But this late knowledge does not affect the worship and pride of hometown, but adds color.
The place of growth is only the earth, nothing special, ordinary. What makes you think of the temperature and taste here? Time has drowned these; It always feels incredible to pursue it now.
Personally, I have a deep understanding.
My hometown is Zoucheng, Shandong Province, which is one of many counties and cities in China that depend on coal mines for survival. It is ordinary, ordinary, wandering the streets, noisy and crowded, slightly chaotic, with a local accent everywhere, kind and ordinary. But here, there is a nationally recognized excellent mother-Meng Mu; There is a great saint recognized by the world-Yasheng Mencius; 30 kilometers away, there is a representative of China culture-sage Confucius. These three great men * * * are guarding this land and China, and * * * are adding strength and color to Chinese civilization. Great man! I never thought that I was so close to the sages, and I was once classified as the most ordinary hometown, so extraordinary!
I can understand the excitement when the teacher introduces us to my hometown, because I can, too. Whenever Confucius and Mencius' articles appear in the textbook, I can't help but "show off" to my deskmate: Look, it says "Zoucheng people" here, my hometown! I don't want to prove anything, but I have a strong sense of identity with my hometown, so I am very happy, so wherever I go, I feel I belong here.
People say that time is the biggest destroyer. The land is covered with sand, and the past gradually fades away. Only through the inheritance of moral quality, the identity of national culture will not be outdated. On the contrary, it will get deeper and deeper with time ... on a large scale, national identity; Small scale, regional identity, regional identity (hometown identity). Especially today, most people in China are proud of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2009 victory over the global financial crisis. Five thousand years of civilization has made us make contributions today and straightened our backs. In an unconscious moment, the sense of identity is implanted and enhanced in the sand rolling of the timer.
The inheritance of spiritual morality is more mysterious. One side of the water and soil supports the other side, "water and soil", I prefer to regard it as "water and soil customs", including nature and humanities; Humanity also includes the words and deeds of elders. The morality of the older generation influences the next generation through education and life, so it takes a long time for the regional atmosphere to condense. Similarly, it is not easy to change.
Fourth, explore
"The glory of the distant year carries the evil turbidity of the first year, and the exquisite pottery stores the cruelty of purpose."
Intoxicated by the prosperity of civilization, the barbarians were particularly shocked when they appeared, denying, denying and unwilling to admit, and pride turned into shock.
"Blending with the achievements of existing civilizations and even sneaking into people's hearts is that when we are looking for them, we often find our parents, our hometown and our history."
Civilization may carry barbarians, but it is a progress, and there is a transition from barbarians to civilization. However, there is always a bright spot in civilization. The existence of these bright spots proves the efforts of human progress. Modern people are proud of what the ancients saw. What are their mistakes? Brutal warfare is just a mistake, so "this is enough."
Five, go home
After all, time has blown away everyone's taste, disappearance is inevitable, and retention is accidental. So bizarre, but the author still thinks he is from Yuyao and is still excited about Hemudu. On the contrary, it is the most essential hometown, which has become more and more intense with the passage of time. Hometown has become a kind of faith and a kind of pride.
Times have changed, after all, things are different, even nothing more than people, but this is still my hometown! If you have a home in your heart, you have no home! !