When is a cigarette, a mountain and a cloud?
A water, a bridge, a car accident,
A forest pine tree, a bunch of bamboo, red leaves are:
Colorful fields, colorful autumn scenery,
As clear as a dream, vague and hidden,
-Come on! Is it a wheel or time?
Urging old Qiu, urging old age!
Note: This poem was written on 19231October 30th. Published in 1923, Novel Monthly, vol. 14,No. 1 1, formerly known as Shanghai-Hangzhou Road. [ 1
It is interesting to compare Zhu Ziqing's essay "Hurry" with Xu Zhimo's "Cars in Shanghai and Hangzhou". Zhu Ziqing described the footsteps and impressions of the passage of time with slow and calm pen and ink, while Xu Zhimo reproduced the hurried form and posture of time with extremely concise words. Zhu Ziqing's time is personal, but Xu Zhimo's time is powerful and architectural. No one can witness time. Although time rises and falls repeatedly in the form of black and white in human life, the essence of time has not really become a fatal sensitivity of human beings until modern times. If Zhu Ziqing's "Hurry" makes readers notice the stop and disappearance of time in trivial matters, Xu Zhimo's "Cars in Shanghai and Hangzhou" requires readers to look at the time and go in the opposite direction. It uses the unique language of poetry to erect space and turn time into Tao.