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In the twilight, all the noise returned to calm. Nothing is better than reading in a quiet night. A solitary lamp and a cup of strong tea, put on the rest of the travel prose collection "Cultural Journey" and savor it.
Seeking stability in silence is the realm of reading. The book was opened, and in an instant there appeared in front of me. He seemed to be drinking tea with me. Gradually, I involuntarily joined the traveling team. It seems that there is only one person in the whole trip, and that is me. The sky is vast and everything is so real. I am like the shadow of a tour guide, invisible, but everywhere, guiding me, influencing my thoughts, and making me truly experience this bitter trip.
I like drinking tea, especially strong tea-there is a faint fragrance in the green water. If you drink it in one gulp, you will complain. Tea can only be tasted slowly. The first bite may be bitter, but when you take it carefully, it seems like a long stream of water, and a sweet fragrance rises from your stomach and goes straight to your forehead. That kind of comfort can only be felt when you are around. The more you chew, the more you taste, and so does reading.
Here, my mind seems so pale and powerless. For example, the spring tide in Qiantang River, fine words have sweeping momentum. Every jumping character is a perfect combination, plain and touching.
I walked through Dunhuang and entered the Mogao Grottoes. "Looking at the Mogao Grottoes is not a specimen that has been dead for many years, but a life that has lived for more than a thousand years." Here, I am completely "melted by the torrent of history". "There is no repetition here, and true happiness never repeats. There is no stereotype here, and there is no room for real humanity. There is nothing here, only human life is transpiration. " Yes, what am I in the face of this thousand-year cultural accumulation? There happens to be a Taoist king in this holy place where pilgrims are numerous. Since then, the Chinese nation has been humiliated, but didn't Wang Daoshi make the Mogao Grottoes culture shine? There are so many cultures in China, but we just ignore this cultural treasure house. How sad it is!
"History has never given vassal status." "History has never pitied the weak." Shanghainese just have a spirit. They want to prove themselves strong. "The real strong, always occupy a place. Isn't that what the Chinese nation needs?
"No ruins, no yesterday, no yesterday, no today and tomorrow. Ruins are textbooks, let's read a geography as history; Ruins are a process, and life is to start from old ruins and move towards new ruins. Ruins are a long evolutionary chain. " "Grandma without wrinkles is terrible, and old people without white hair are sorry." In the collision between mind and soul, the call of "let history return to truth and life return to process" was issued.
Here, it has transcended the limitations of time and space, and it is a difficult trip. It's like traveling in the desert. This is a historical roaming and a cultural journey, and it is the default of the cultural connotation that has been sealed for a long time. Reading and reading, I was shocked by my soul, baptized by my spirit and sublimated by my heart.
Life is actually a journey of suffering.
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When I first read Yu's works, I was deeply attracted. Cultural Journey is Yu's first travel prose. The main purpose of this book is to find the cultural soul by relying on mountains, water and things, and to explore the historical fate of China culture and the historical composition of China literati. Yu Xiansheng thought about the profound cultural heritage of our ancient nation with his unique observation and insight.
In the book, the author takes every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of ancient soil as the main line, expressing the author's joy and worry. The pen is delicate and memorable after reading. Mr. Yu attracts readers with his unique writing charm, which is a bitter memory, a feeling after anxiety and a relaxation after meditation. There are two points in the article that have the deepest feelings.
First, the Taoist temple tower
At first, I thought the pagoda was built to commemorate a great man in history, but after reading it, I felt as painful as the author!
Where is the malice? This tower is the burial place of the sinner king in Dunhuang Grottoes. He is a common citizen in China. He fled to Gansu and became a Taoist. After many twists and turns, it unfortunately became the seat of the Mogao Grottoes and dominated the most splendid culture in ancient China. The Taoist king used a bunch of keys to protect Dunhuang for thousands of years, but he stayed in the hands of outsiders, and the descendants of China also abandoned it. The cultural relics of that carriage were exported abroad. Not only that, the Taoist king was not satisfied with the murals in the cave. In order to make it bright, he found two helpers, carrying a lime bucket and a grass brush, and started his painting plan. The first part of the lime brush is too thin and the color is still looming. Here he comes again. Pathetic! Pathetic! The people of China are sad, and the people of the world are sad! The author criticizes a historical sinner with ugly writing. He doesn't understand the author's sentence "I hate it!" " .
Second, the hidden spring of Shayuan
Hidden Springs in the Sand Garden is another scene after the author stepped through the snow in Yangguan. When the author was blocked by several huge sand mountains in front of him and there was no way to go, the author showed "peace of mind, climb slowly!" " The attitude of "the top of the sand mountain is secondary, just climb it".
When the author's feet suddenly leveled, his eyes suddenly emptied, and a clear spring lay at the bottom of the mountain. At this time, the author of this scene used a sentence, "Any word used for algae decoration is right for it." The author who saw this scene was already anxious. How can he go on? The author used such a sentence: "If you bite your teeth a little harder, something will happen, and le neck will stretch your feet with the muscles on your face." One foot, one foot, the whole bone is ready for a heavy blow! "It can be seen that the author was in a hurry. How do you feel when you have a bend in the desert that is not small, but can be three or four hundred steps long, the widest in the middle and quite medium? Under the water, clusters of aquatic plants are flying, making the water greener. How would you feel if there were three mysterious water ducks floating on it with long ripples on their wings? Seeing this, I seem to hear the crisp sound of water ducks driving away the lake, and I feel immersive. There is also an extravagant hope that I am willing to pack my bags for this scene and pursue it in Wan Li, not far from the scorching sun!
When I close the book, my mind is in chaos, and I feel excited and disappointed. There are so many wonderful things in the book that I don't know if I should recall that scene. Excited because the brain seems to have been injected with cultural stimulants, and words can no longer be expressed. Disappointed because of being at sixes and sevens and being absent-minded.
3 Cultural journey after reading
Writing, the arduous journey of writing culture. Describe the ups and downs of history.
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China's splendid civilization is being obliterated by time. I wonder if those people who reminisce about that sad history in the corner while lambasting historical sinners have really closed their eyes, calmed their hearts and returned to the indifference and rationality of history. I have always admired scholars who understand history and dare to criticize it. At the same time, I think Mr. Yu, a professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy, is a hero among countless scholars, and his Cultural Journey is the most outstanding top grade among thousands of literary and historical prose works.
This book is Mr. Yu's first collection of cultural essays. Some of these articles won the first prizes of various literary awards. The main purpose of this book is to seek the secrets of cultural soul and life with the help of scenery, and to explore the historical fate of China culture and the historical composition of China literati. These articles by Mr. Yu, with their profound knowledge of literature and history, rich cultural perception and artistic expression, not only reveal the great connotation of China culture, but also provide a brand-new example for contemporary prose circles.
Mr. Yu attracts readers with his unique writing charm, which is a bitter memory, an understanding after anxiety, a relaxation after meditation and a youth after old age. Like many educated youth scholars, he once sighed deeply in this book, but the same sigh appeared in different places, and the charm was far from the same. As he said, "I can be young", his life is flexible. He always upholds the passion of his youth and enjoys the leisure of his old age to spend his rich middle-aged time. Therefore, Yu Xiansheng is a half-breed at any time. So his articles are always mixed with different feelings. For example, his sadness about the loss of China culture is full of young people's insults to dissatisfaction, middle-aged people's helplessness to the world, and old people's regret for vicissitudes.
Maybe some ideas are completely unintentional, but the inspiration for writing this book is definitely intentional. Obviously, he discovered the dusty place of China's history and culture. In today's era of vigorously promoting China's splendid civilization, it is naturally more striking and thoughtful to put forward such a specious view. China's ancient civilization once created a prosperous time in ancient times. In order to preserve its prosperity, people handed down splendid culture from generation to generation, and successively built large buildings such as Mogao Grottoes and Dujiangyan. Even ordinary arched buildings and library buildings are printed with cultural traces. But people's ideals are always good, but time is against people and changes endlessly. What people want to preserve will still be washed away by time within a certain limit. Although some of them are artificial, in the final analysis, they still come from the blank of historical roulette. Some historical dust can't be left behind, and many scholars are sad and regret it. They always live in a past that doesn't belong to them, and they will never get out alive. Therefore, "facing up to the past and the present" is an important topic I have learned from this book, and I also think it is the subject of Mr. Yu's research and warning. Because only those who truly understand the historical situation can print their own rut marks on the basis of conforming to the wheel of history.
Smoke a wicker and break a peach branch. Have a cup of tea and read a good book.
Walk into the leisure, walk into the "cultural journey".
After reading The Towers, this article tells a historical tragedy and a heavy cultural fact. The problems it reveals are heartbreaking and worrying, and people can't help sighing for that era and for our nation. The whole article revolves around Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, saying that in the early 20th century, Mogao Grottoes were run by an ignorant Taoist because of ignorance. Because of ignorance, he exchanged the priceless national treasure in the cave for countless silver dollars from western scholars who came here; Because of ignorance, the treasure of the motherland was damaged and unfortunately lost, leaving us with infinite regret. We sincerely feel sorry, hate and indignation for the outflow of national treasures. Strong national pride makes us start to do something to remedy the lost culture in this awakened nation today. Therefore, in addition to regret, hatred and indignation, we want to catch the culprit directly. So, are western scholars guilty of robbery? Is it a short-sighted, ignorant Taoist king? Or the old China, the "China" that closed its doors and declined? Perhaps, as the ancients said, "food never tires of essence", our own backwardness makes us unwilling to pay attention to the cultural relics left in the desolate northwest, so we have to let powerful forces take care of them for us? Think about the shame of the "sick man of East Asia" in old China, and think about the iron truth that "you will be beaten if you fall behind". My heart is bleeding, my national pride is crying, and I feel that things are unbearable. This makes me feel scared and uneasy. Like a sharp arrow coming from the depths of history, it stung my heart. This is a historical tragedy that happened to my ancestors, but the pain it brought can last for centuries. The past has passed, and it is impossible to catch the real culprit and bring him to justice. All we can do is count the sins helplessly, regret helplessly, look at history helplessly, sigh helplessly, let it freeze on that shameful day, the sky above the evil day, turn into a haze in the clear sky, watch the stupid Taoist king walk on the road of harmony and respect, and watch foreigners. A contemporary China youth wrote: "I hate/hate that I didn't have a century earlier ... or you and I would each ride a horse/fight it out at the gate." The exciting language speaks for everyone in China. However, reality and ideal are always meaningless struggles, so they cannot be unified. Look, what are China people doing now? Some people continue to be slaves of foreigners; Some people forget shame and history; Some people bought rubber rolls of China cultural relics in museums in London, Tokyo and other places, and briefly studied the photos after returning home; Others shout out their anger in shouting, but they always just shout and can't pay attention to practice. It all started with him, the fool-Taoist king. Today, many people know this name: Wang. I wonder what he would do if he knew the value of a national treasure and the seriousness of his behavior. Small enough to make a fortune? Or, have you switched to a bigger business? Or turn over a new leaf and defend the national treasure? I don't know-my imagination is limited. But this reading really exposed me to the dark side of history. It was a terrible and disastrous era. I hope it won't happen again.
Not easy to find.