-Appreciation of Listening to Cold Rain
As a famous modern writer in China, Yu Guangzhong's creation is multifaceted. He can not only write poems, but also write essays, comments and a considerable number of translated works. He calls himself "a polygamist in literary creation". Liang Shiqiu once commented that he "wrote poetry with his right hand and prose with his left hand, with the same achievements."
Listening to the Cold Rain is one of the representative works of Yu Guangzhong's prose, which was later included in the writer's prose collection of the same name.
By describing the delicate feelings of the long rainy season in Taiwan Province Province, the writer truly outlines the image of a white-haired wanderer walking alone in the cold rain, euphemistically conveys a wanderer's strong sense of loneliness and homesickness, and shows an intellectual who is far away from his hometown's deep attachment and sincere praise for traditional culture.
"After the shock, the spring chill intensified. First, the material is steep, then the rainy season begins, sometimes dripping with ideas, and sometimes it is wet, even in the dream, it seems to be holding an umbrella ... "From the rain, the writer remembered the long-lost land-the ancient continent; From Jinmen Street to Xiamen Street, from Jinmen to Xiamen, I thought of Changzhou people, Nanjing people, Jiangnan people, Sichuan Wazi, Wuling teenagers, Jiangnan apricot flowers, spring rain ... From Apricot Blossom, Spring Rain and Jiangnan, I think of Chinese characters and China ancient culture. "No matter whether Chixian, Shenzhou and China are changing, as long as the spirit of Cang Xie is immortal and the beautiful China people are not old, the image and magnetic centripetal force will always be there." The author also talked about his feelings abroad from Rain. If he wants to appreciate the realm of "clouds, when I look back, just behind me, fog, when I enter them, they are gone", he can only return to China. "The misty and beautiful scenery of China comes from the charm of Song paintings." Then, the writer mobilized all the senses-from listening, watching and smelling, trying to write a lot of fun in the rain. "Listening to the sound of rain, as long as it is not a shocking rainstorm on the stone slope, will always be an auditory beauty." Whether it's a "raining phoenix tree" or a shower hitting lotus leaves, it always sounds a bit bleak, sad and sad. When I reminisced on the island today, I was even more sad in a sad place. " From ancient bamboo tiles to today's buildings, from traditional houses in China to Japanese-style tile houses, "It's raining, the lightest percussion beats the city, the vast roofs are knocked from far and near, the ancient pianos are knocked one by one, and the fine and dense rhythm ... plays lightly, slowly, takes a rainy season and improvises from the shock." Finally, the writer wrote: "For twenty-five years, I have not received the blessing of my hometown Bai Yu. Maybe a little frost is a disguised form of self-compensation. " Let bygones be bygones. The old house is not here, listening to the cold rain. "
Listening to the cold rain also has a very distinctive artistic feature.
First of all, the artistic conception of the works is rich and far-reaching, with strong homesickness. Fei Xiaotong once pointed out in "Native China": "China society was born at the grassroots level. As one of the essential attributes of China society, the locality determines the importance and cherish of this nation for land. " Yu Guangzhong is such a writer with strong local feelings. He went to Taiwan Province province in 1949, and his 25-year experience of leaving his hometown became a distant and inseparable emotion. The writer himself once said, "My homesickness still lingers in my mind" and "I gradually realize that my homesickness should now be my attachment to the whole of China, including geography, history and culture". Therefore, the works must express the writer's homesickness and love for the land. In prose, the writer's memories of juvenile life, the ancient civilization of Chinese mainland, the artistic conception of ancient poems and paintings, and many feelings about real life are gathered together through the distant feelings in the rain to form a euphemistic and long song, in which the praise and pursuit of hometown, native land and China culture are flooding in, creating a far-reaching artistic conception.
Secondly, the imagination of the work is beautiful and changeable, and a large number of expressions such as metaphor, contrast, association and contrast are used, which has achieved good artistic results. Rain is a very common natural phenomenon and a life experience that everyone has had. However, the writer can start with this ordinary life experience and show his unique feelings. From Jinmen Street to Xiamen Street in the rain, I want to go to Jinmen to Xiamen; From Changzhou people, Nanjing people, Sichuan wazi people, Jiangnan people, to Jiangnan apricot flowers and spring rain; From apricot blossom, spring rain, Jiangnan, Chinese characters and the ancient culture of China, writers try their best to link them together. Many feelings and wonderful metaphors and contrasts in the senses of rain, such as hearing, sight, taste and smell, have deepened the expression and expression of writers' homesickness and achieved good artistic effects.
Thirdly, the writing style of the work is elegant and elastic, which skillfully combines classical vocabulary and vernacular, and has an excellent sense of music and rhythm. Yu Guangzhong has a good accomplishment in classical literature and has received systematic training in vernacular Chinese. He was born to create with ease. He not only pays attention to the use of long and short sentence patterns, but also pays attention to enhancing the sense of music and rhythm through disyllabic reduplication. Intensive imagination and intention further enhance the interest of prose. Whether it's torrential rain or intermittent light rain, plus a lot of double-tone overlapping words-for example, "Rain is coming, coming, tiles say so, a tile says hundreds of billions of tiles, saying that it's light to beat, slow to buckle and slow to beat, knocking on a rainy season intermittently, improvising from fright to Qingming, and then playing an elegy on the scattered grave coldly. Make the prose vivid, elegant and beautiful, comparable to Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip in Tang Dynasty.