Autumn, no matter where, is always good; However, the autumn in the north is particularly clear, quiet and sad. The reason why I have traveled thousands of miles from Hangzhou to Qingdao, and even from Qingdao to Peiping, is to enjoy this "autumn", the autumn flavor of this old capital.

Of course, there is autumn in Jiangnan, but the vegetation withers slowly, the air is humid, the sky is pale, and it is often rainy and windy; A person caught between Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Xiamen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou can only feel a little cool in the chaotic past. The taste, color, artistic conception and posture of autumn are always not enough to see, taste and enjoy. Autumn is not a famous flower, nor is it wine. Half-drunk state is not suitable for enjoying autumn.

It has been nearly ten years since autumn in the north. Every autumn in the south, I always think of the reed flowers in Taoranting (1), the willow shadows in Diaoyutai (2), the insects in Xishan (3), the jathyapple in Yuquan (4) and the bells in Tanzhe Temple (5). Even if you don't go out in Beiping, you can rent a rafter (6) dilapidated house and live in the sea of people in the imperial city. Get up in the morning, make a bowl of strong tea and sit in the yard, you can see the high blue sky and hear the pigeons flying in the blue sky. From the bottom of Sophora japonica leaves, counting a ray of sunshine leaking to the east, or in the broken waist, facing the blue morning glory like morning glory, you can naturally feel the autumn breath. When it comes to morning glory, I think blue or white is the best, followed by purple and black, and pink is the lowest. It is best to have a few sparse and slender autumn grasses as a foil at the bottom of the morning glory.

The locust tree in the northland is also an ornament that can remind people of Qiu Lai. Like a flower, but not a flower, when you get up in the morning, it will be all over the floor. When you step on it, there is no sound, no smell, only a little tiny and soft touch. After sweeping the street in the shade for a while, the silk lines of the broom left on the dusty soil look exquisite and leisurely, and subconsciously feel a little lonely (7). The ancients' eyes left a leaf in the phoenix tree, and the world knew autumn (8) probably in these depths.

Qiu Chan's faint lingering sound is the characteristic of the northland. Because there are trees everywhere in Beiping and the houses are low, you can hear them everywhere. In the south, you have to go to the suburbs or mountains to hear it. Qiu Chan sounds like a cricket and a mouse in the north, just like a housefly that every family keeps at home.

There is also autumn rain. The autumn rain in the north seems to be stranger, more delicious and more decent than that in the south.

Under the gloomy sky, a cool breeze suddenly came and it began to rain. After a layer of rain, the clouds gradually rolled west. It is sunny again, and the sun comes out again. (9) City idlers wearing thick green cloth or jackets, biting their pipes, went to the bridge and stood under the bridge after the rain, met acquaintances, and said with a sigh in a slow and leisurely tone:

"Oh, it's cold-""This word is pronounced very high and dragged on for a long time. )

"Isn't it? A layer of autumn rain is cold! "

Northerners always read array characters like layers of characters, which are flat and even (10). This mispronounced rhyme is just right.

Fruit trees in the north are also a great spectacle in autumn. First of all, jujube trees, corners, walls, toilets and kitchen doors will all grow up. This kind of jujube, like olive and pigeon eggs, is light green and yellowish in the middle of small oval leaves. This is the peak of autumn. When the leaves of jujube trees fall and the dates are red, there will be a northwest wind. Convenience in the north is a dusty world. Only these dates, persimmons and grapes are ripe until the turn of July and August, which is a good day for clear autumn in the north, and it is a year.

Some critics say that China's bachelor of arts, especially poets, are full of decadent colors, so there are many words praising autumn in China's poems. But what about foreign poets? Although I don't read many foreign poems and essays, and I don't want to write a bill for autumn poems and essays (12), if you look through the collected works of poets such as Britain, Germany, France and Italy, or the anthology of poems and essays from various countries (13), you will always see many autumn praises and sad cries. In the long pastoral poems or poems of the four seasons by famous great poets, the part about autumn is always the most exciting and interesting. It serves to show that sentient animals and interesting human beings can always cause deep, distant, severe and bleak feelings for autumn. Not only poets, but also prisoners in prison. In autumn, I think I will definitely feel a deep affection. In autumn, there is no country, and there is no difference between race and class. In China, there are idioms of "Qiu Shi" (14) in the text, and readers include Ouyang Zi's "Autumn Sound" (15), Su Dongpo's "Red Cliff Ode" and other very common works, so I feel that the relationship between China literati and autumn is particularly deep, but the taste of autumn is particularly deep, which is the taste of China.

Autumn in the south, of course, also has its unique places, such as the bright moon on the Twenty-four Bridges, the autumn tide in Qiantang River, the cool fog in Putuo Mountain, and the residual lotus in Lizhi Bay (16). , but the color is not strong and the aftertaste is endless. Compared with Qiu Lai in the north, it's just yellow rice wine dried in vain, porridge steamed in white, perch white crab, yellow dog white camel.

Autumn, autumn in the north, if I can stay, I would like to fold two-thirds of my life for a third of it.

The text is from Yu Dafu's Autumn in the Old Capital.

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