After re-reading Mr. Shen Congwen's "Xiangxing Essays", I can still have some understanding, which surprised me: the amount of perception of the world often depends on whether we have a pure heart. The cloudy pupils will only reflect the gray and cold world, while the good eyes will see light and heat.
A hundred years ago, the mountains and rivers of Xiangxi, the customs and customs, like a picture scroll, spread out through Mr. Shen's pen, through these washed words, we were unconsciously taken to that magical land, was brought back to that distant and strange era.
Mr. Shen always calls himself a "countryman", even Miss Zhang Jiasan's telegram to marry also jokingly calls him "countryman, drink a cup of sweet bar", although he wanders in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Yunnan and many places, his love for the mountain country is still so sincere and deep, he really regards himself as a wanderer in a foreign land. The leaves fell back to the roots, the soul returned to his hometown, and he finally did it, he turned himself into thousands of dust, sprinkled it in the Tuojiang River, and sprinkled it into the mother river in his heart.
In the thirties, after leaving his hometown for more than ten years, he finally set foot on the homeland of his dreams, and the people, things, mountains, water, fog, light and shadow encountered during the journey were narrated eloquently, gently, cordially, calmly, and the faint and strong nostalgia was comforted by a long and stretched stretch, and we also felt his joy and satisfaction, and were driven to feel the beauty of this world. A hundred years later, long and far, but the true love and humanity are still on the paper, refreshing, in the long river of time, what can really be handed down is those invisible, but touchable spirit and emotion.
The declining family, the ups and downs of fate, the sinister ugliness of the world, and the long-term loneliness seem to have failed to defeat the writer who grew up savagely in this border town in Xiangxi, and it is extremely commendable, after the wind and frost, the heart of the innocent child is still warm. When it comes to the mountains and rivers of his hometown, he often says in a thick Xiangxi accent, "There are no (beauty) (extremes)!" ”
He has always loved water, the ancients said that water has four virtues, almost the Tao: the benevolence of bathing the masses, the righteousness of Yangqing turbidity, the courage of the weak and able to win, and the wisdom of reaching the Quartet. He has hesitated, but it is like a whirlpool in the rapids, he has been troubled, just like the deep pool in the river, nothing can really defeat him, he will eventually break through many obstacles and run towards a bright future!
It has been said, "The night gave me a pair of black eyes, and I used them to find the light," but unfortunately this man failed. Mr. Shen was frustrated in his life, and was even forced to give up creation, and at the age of fifty, he changed his career to become a museum docent, and later because of the improvement of his treatment by one person, he was able to study the ancient costumes of the niche, and then he was pulled to transform, but he was not frightened, he persevered without saying a word. No matter what he does, he devotes himself to doing it, and he does it selflessly, so China has a professor who became a soldier at the age of 14 and later became a professor at Peking University, a "pastoral" literature in the Chinese literary circle, an authoritative work on ancient Chinese clothing, and a "three three" that he has in mind.
His color is colorful, his connotation is rich and timeless, his appearance is simple and introverted, Mr. Shen Congwen's life is a wonderful story, the word is like his person, the book is like his person, delicate, tenacious, sweeping away the convention, pure natural, all of this, I am afraid that it comes from the hometown of a warm and beautiful soul nurtured by the clear water.
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