The spring rain on the empty mountain has the fragrance of books

◎ Sun Yongqing

"Reading in the rain and in the rain" is the tradition of China's agricultural civilization, the wisdom of the reader's life, and the concrete embodiment of the inheritance of the context. With the continuous change of the times, the way of reading will continue to be updated, but the connotation of "reading in the rain and the sun" will not change. Zhu Hangman recalled the scene of reading books on rainy days when he was a child, and his memory was still fresh, so he named the words of buying books and tasting books: "Rain Window Books". The book is divided into three series: "Notes on the Pearls" describes the interesting things about buying books and reading books, and the bookstore has become the author's spiritual home; "Palm Talk" talks about the elegant tastes of famous people's reading, which triggers some of the author's feelings; "Pinzao Record" reviews the writings of famous artists and also writes out how to evaluate them. It's what a reading essay should look like: peaceful, clean, beautiful.

The essay of visiting the bookstore to find books is very difficult to write, and it is easy to write a book purchase list and a bookstore introduction, which requires the author to integrate knowledge and interest into the text. "Liulichang Shushi" was written in the Chinese bookstore of Liulichang, and found the photocopy and publication of the "Original Library of Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Prose Masterpieces", including Zhou Zuoren's "Book of Rainy Days", the author was very interested in the edition of the book, looked over this set of "Original Library of Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Prose", and found that the editor-in-chief was his teacher Wang Bin, Mr. Wang Bin was a professor at Lu Xun Academy of Literature, and he was also a quite accomplished writer. The author wrote: "Searching for books is sometimes like archaeology, not to the scene, whether you have seen the real thing, there are really different experiences." It also led to Teacher Wang Bin's interpretation of this set of books. What was even happier was to find two books of interest, one was Zhou Zuoren's "GuaDou Collection", the other was Ye Shengtao and Yu Pingbo's "Twilight Entertainment", and what fascinated the author was that the two books were stamped with the collection seal of "JianZhai Treasures". After returning home to revisit the two books, there was a small discovery, there was a book purchase ticket in the "Guadou Collection", curiosity drove the author to examine the owner of the book "Jian Zhai", it turned out that the owner of the two books was the old love of the writer Yu Qiuyu.

The interest in reading on a rainy day, the leisure of Yuxia's storytelling, and the simplicity of reading essays are slowly cultivated in the process of reading, and they are slowly moistened in the fragrance of books. We read "Reading Memories of Youth", the author fell in love with reading under the influence of his grandfather when he was young, the conditions were extremely poor at that time, the books he read were few and miscellaneous, he read "Waiting for You at Peking University", the author insisted on changing the text from reason, dreamed of reading the Chinese Department of Peking University, although he did not do so, but thus embarked on the road of literature. It was only after I went to college that I began to study systematically. Reading Zhou Zuoren and Qian Zhongshu's books affected the author's interest in choosing books. From Qian Zhongshu to Wu Mi, Yang Dai, Zheng Chaozong, Kunxi, Xie Yong, etc., from Zhou Zuoren to Pay Attention to Abolition, Feng Zikai, Zhang Zhongxing, Gu Lin, Li Changsheng, etc., from Lu Xun to Tai Jingnong, Tang Tao, Wang Yao, Sun Li, Lin Xianzhi, Qian Liqun, etc., this series of reading processes gradually covered the background of his own writings, and from this text, we can glimpse the reasons for the formation of the author's writing interest.

Zhu Hangman has his own concept of reading, and a good reading essay is to sow the seeds of reading, so that more readers can read more good books, so that the atmosphere of reading continues. "Like a Seed" is very well written, the author read the article in honor of Mr. Kunxi, he bought Kunxi's "March Book Window" to read, very much agree with Mr. Kunxi's statement: "Books and other arts such as music, painting rely on friends to convey information to each other, I call this seed, I have to read Henry James and E.M Foster novels are out of Bian Zhilin's recommendation and introduction, so others influence me, I will also affect others, this is the same role as seeds." The author read two essays by Kunxi commenting on Qian Zhongshu, "The Devil Visits Mr. Qian Zhongshu at Night" and "Window", and even rushed to re-read these two old texts. Zhu Hangman's "The Same Seed" is also like Mr. Kunxi's "March Book Window", which is sowing the seeds of reading, I read this text, and I also want to read Mr. Kunxi's "March Book Window".

On how to write a good reading essay, the author talks about some ideas in this book. In "Ancient Feelings of The Ancient Feelings of The Stuff", he wrote About Mr. Gu Lin's writings and Mr. Gu Lin's understanding of reading essays: "Writing a book, is it appropriate to tighten your gaze, and it is best to 'attack a little bit, not as good as the rest', because it is not a guide, or an academic commentary, an essay sketch to take a book as an introduction, this is to borrow other people's wine glasses, trigger their own depression, cite a lot of examples, rest assured that it is difficult to receive, it is inevitable that 'lack of depth of field'. Combined with Gu Lin's "Painting, Writing History", it was interpreted. Mr. Gu Lin's prose collection "Note Beads" about Bingxin chose the prose "My Hometown" to talk about, and adopted the writing method of "attacking one point, not as good as the rest", and explained Bingxin's prose collection thoroughly. The author also grasped the writing characteristics of Mr. Gu Lin's "attack a point" as an article, thus weaving this "attack a little" book, so it has the charm of "loop chewing".

In "Ancient and Humble and Windy", the author highly recommends Zhao Yuan's "That Historical Moment", and Zhao Yuan also chooses a little microanalysis and goes deep into the texture of history, thus showing the complexity and color of history itself. This is a chapter in the treatise "Imagination and Narrative", which won the Lu Xun Literature Prize for Theoretical Criticism, and the prose essay awarded to the prize by "That Historical Moment" can show the richness and variety of prose, which is also in line with Zhao Yuan's creative philosophy: "Organizing scholarship in the way of prose also makes me more likely to experience the pleasure of writing." ”

I used a passage of the author's comment on Mr. Kunxi instead, which I thought was quite appropriate as a summary: after reading this book, it is not difficult to see that although the author's writing is a book or a reading essay, it is indeed "words and things", but also has his "personal style", I think it is a wide range of books and bypass, showing his keen judgment and profound literacy in literature.