For China people with a little culture, it is known that the Three Gorges mostly started in Baidicheng. Li Bai's famous poems can be read in primary school textbooks.
When I really drove through Baidi City, I still held my head high piously, looking for the silver robe and rosy clouds. The announcer on board was reciting this poem, introducing a few words excitedly, and releasing the music of Bai Di Tuogu. Suddenly, mountains and rivers, history, childhood fantasies and hidden dangers of life all surged into a group, which was shocking.
Entrusting an orphan to Bai Di is a Beijing opera, which tells the story of Liu Bei who retreated to Bai Di City and died of depression, leaving his son and political affairs to Zhuge Liang. Melodious sound cavity floats on the whirlpool-like river surface and collides with wet rocks, which is sad and desolate.
I think, Baidicheng has been casting two voices and two gods: Li Bai and Liu Bei, poetry and war, heroism and depression, pilgrimage to natural beauty and struggle for the dominance of mountains and rivers. It stands high above the mountains and at the foot is a surging river, arguing about these two themes day and night.
China's rivers and mountains can be battlefields with corpses, or a paradise where cars come and ships go; A feudal force can ignite and extinguish the fire of life, and can also bless the poet's life. Poor Baidicheng is so tired. Li Bai's canoe was just sent away in the morning, and Liu Bei's horseshoe was picked up in the evening. However, over time, the protection of mountains and rivers to poets has been weakened day by day, and their boats have been stranded from time to time, and their clothes have often been burnt. They moved from high spirits to bitterness, from bitterness to silence. China, how many poets are left?
Fortunately, there are still some poems and some memories. Fortunately, many people in China still remember that one morning, a poet quietly boarded a boat at the foot of Bai Di. I can't say why, and I didn't hold a farewell ceremony, but it was finally remembered by people, and it will be remembered by people for thousands of years until the end of time. This reveals the hunger and thirst of a nation: they should have more such calm mornings.
In Li Bai's time, the Chinese nation was not too dull, so it is not surprising that there are so many poets coming and going in this land like today. They have no political and business feelings, only a pair of sharp eyes and a poetic atmosphere, wandering between mountains and rivers, and marrying the earth. It is enough to write rows and rows of poems with no practical value and pass them around among friends. They take this business as a serious matter and are not afraid of camping or long-distance travel. As a result, it was not the emperor, imperial concubine and general who stood in the center of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but these poets. Yu Guangzhong s poem Looking for Li Bai;
Wine enters the intestines, and seven points enter the moonlight.
The remaining three points into a firm but gentle roar.
Embroidered mouth spit is half a prosperous Tang Dynasty.
I have always regarded these words as a rare swan song in contemporary China poetry.
Poets in Li Bai's era deeply loved Sichuan's local cultural relics and yearned for the open civilization of Xiajiang River, so the Yangtze River became the sidewalk of their lives, and they could solve the problem without too much determination. Where the feet are, the hometown is there, where the water is, the road is there. They know that the most dangerous place in the Yangtze River is undoubtedly the Three Gorges, but they also know that it is the riverbed of the fastest poem. Their boat is too small to have a rest from time to time. When they arrived in Bai Di City, they refreshed themselves and prepared for a powerful collision between life and nature. I can only ask those who scratch their heads in the yellow light to stop writing poems. Poetry does not belong to poets. The poet just bid farewell to Baidicheng on a small wooden boat in the Three Gorges.
two
Say goodbye to Bai Di City and enter the Three Gorges, which is about 200 kilometers long. On the waterway, 200 kilometers is not a short distance. However, you will never feel that the creator is making an article that is too long. The strength and beauty gathered here, spread out for 2000 kilometers, will not make people tired.
Zhaitang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge are all concentrated in dense layers, and no matter how slow they travel, they cannot be dissolved. Even the sun and the moon are shining in the sky, so we can't squeeze in here. In this regard, 1500 years ago, Li Daoyuan said it best:
There are mountains on both sides of the strait, and nothing is lacking. Rocks piled up, blocking the sunshine in the sky, and there was no sunrise since midnight.
(Notes on Water Classics)
He also used the most frugal words to describe the "Junmao" of the Three Gorges in spring and summer, and the "Linsu" in the early sunny days, which made it difficult for future generations to mobilize.
You can't find the words after the Three Gorges. Only honestly, let the whistling evil wind blow, let the surging river splash, let the confused eyes stay, and make the voice that has to scream again and again hoarse. Don't think about anything, don't say anything, and make life seriously scared. Never wake up from the shock, sober people can't bear the Three Gorges.
Suddenly, there were some "Yi-Oh" sounds from the dead hole. That's Wushan Goddess Peak. The goddess stood sideways between the peaks, bringing a little relief to the frightened human beings. It seems that when arranging the ceremony, God suddenly thought of adding a representative to let the tiny creatures crawling between mountains and rivers occupy a corner to watch the ceremony. Of course, women are chosen. They are just young and charming, and the real masterpiece of mankind can only be them.
People poured the most magnificent legends into her, as if determined to let her absorb the beauty of the world in order to compete with the natural elves. Said that she helped Dayu to control the water, that she had a tryst with King Chu Xiang every night, that she had a ring when she walked, and that it smelled good when she came back from sex. However, legend belongs to legend. After all, she is just a pillar of a boulder, a dangerous peak. It's just a humorous comfort of natural forces to human beings.
When Li Bai has gone down the river, the people left behind can only give her their weak wishes for life. The word "goddess" has finally changed from gorgeous to immoral, no matter which one is far from a sound individual life. Warm body, unrestrained laughter and the fragrance of love are all carved into an ancient shape and stay among these mountains. A country with a population of 100 million has long enjoyed several incomplete myths.
three
Finally, people got tired of watching it and went back to the cabin to rest.
A group of prescient people gathered in the cabin, never leaving the hatch from the beginning, sitting quietly, self-sufficient and serene. Let the mountains and rivers run away outside. There are four walls, a cabin roof and a bed. It is said that it is best to build a reservoir in the Three Gorges to save noise. Turn off the radio and don't let Li Bai bother you again.
History ends here, mountains and rivers retire here, and poets wither here. Soon, only some foreign tourists beside the boat were still screaming.
Outside the ship, Wang Zhaojun went to his hometown. Perhaps the rapids here washed away women's hearts, expecting the wind and beautiful women, but let the maids quit, willingly married the Xiongnu on the grassland and died in a foreign country. Her amazing move helped China's history clear a steep passage like the Three Gorges.
Outside the ship, Qu Yuan's hometown passed. Maybe the Qifeng here gave him a pair of pride. This crazy poet, older than Li Bai, is too restless. He carries a long sword and is full of whimsy. He crisscrossed the Central Plains, asked questions from heaven and earth, and finally joined the Miluo River. At that time, the river there also stirred up the waves of the Three Gorges.
It seems that people from the Three Gorges, whether male or female, are all strange. It will roll up a little vortex and start some collisions. They are all a little rebellious, magnificent and amazing. They don't take their hometown as their destination, just like the water of the Three Gorges struggling to flow everywhere.
The Three Gorges is destined to be a restless cave. With its power, who knows what will happen to the land that carries it?
Foreign tourists who exclaim on the ship's rail ask my foreign friends who are the first scenic spot in China. After all, you don't really know the Three Gorges.
Do we understand? Our ship sailed smoothly, and the cabin was full of laughter and smoke.
Tomorrow morning, it will arrive at a dock and set sail slowly. No farewell, no excitement, no singing.
Left the Three Gorges with peace, and Li Bai was gone.
Yu, 1946, was born in Yuyao County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province on August 23rd. He is a famous contemporary cultural scholar, theorist, cultural historian, writer and essayist in China.
1966 graduated from the drama literature department of Shanghai Theatre Academy. 1980, Historical Draft of Drama Theory, History of China Drama Culture and Aesthetic Psychology of Drama were published one after another. 1985 became the youngest liberal arts professor in Chinese mainland. 1986 won the top ten academic elites in Shanghai. 1987 was awarded the honorary title of national outstanding contribution expert.
Yu is famous for writing historical and cultural essays, and his collection of essays "Cultural Journey" was very popular after it was published. In addition, he also wrote some prose works, such as Notes on Mountain Residence, Frosty Riverside, A Millennium Sigh, etc.
Creative features:
First of all, Mr. Yu was a great scholar who studied Chinese and western literature before writing prose. All kinds of ideas that can be expressed clearly in academic ways have long been made clear in millions of academic works.
Therefore, his prose presents a style that academic works can't, which is what Mr. Bai Xianyong praised him: "Think about the world poetically." The poetic soul contained in his works is "to provide a beautiful ceremony for a series of spiritual paradoxes".
Secondly, Mr. Yu had a profound life experience before writing prose. He was born in a village with rich culture. After ten years of catastrophe, he was elected as the president of a bureau-level university. He also felt the boundless mood before and after his resignation, and even traveled all over China and the world. Together, he knows where China's acupoints are.
Therefore, the writing topic he chose can always shake the hearts of millions of readers in the first time. Even if we talk about history and study, there is no psychological obstacle. This is very different from the essays of celebrities, salons, petty bourgeoisie, literature and art, and cynics.
Thirdly, Mr. Yu's novels and dramas are based on the most successful aesthetics of "mass symbolism" in Europe in the 20th century. As he said in the preface of Glacier: "Put on the coat of popular plot for the philosophy of life; Design a game that looks like history for reconstructing history. "
In April 2005, he was invited to give a lecture tour in the United States;
/kloc-April 9, 2000, lecture on the dilemma and outlet of China culture (Hunter College of new york University);
2.4 10, lecture on "China intellectuals" (in North American Chinese Writers Association);
On the morning of April 12, lecture on "China culture in the sense of space" (University of Maryland);
On the afternoon of April 12, talk about "The Footsteps of a Gentleman" (Library of Congress, Washington);
5.4 13, China culture in the sense of time (Yale University);
6) On April 15, I talked about "Collective Personality of Cultural Purchase in China" (at Harvard University).
6.4/KLOC-0.7 Lecture on "Three Advantages and Four Quagmires of China Culture" (Houston South American Chinese Writing Association).
Personal life:
His wife, Malan, a generation of Huangmei Opera performance artists, is the only one who has won the highest awards in all stage plays and TV dramas in China so far; Won the lifetime achievement award of the best artist in Asia jointly awarded by Lincoln Art Center, new york Municipal Bureau of Culture and American-Chinese Association.
Most of Malan's main stage performances were written by Yu himself. The couple mainly live in Shanghai at present.
References:
In Yu Qiu _ Baidu Encyclopedia