Text / Ma Guofu
Zhou Huacheng's writings are as fresh as spring shoots and calamus, as vulgar as mountain springs and winter snow, and as fresh as agarwood and light smoke. He built on paper the original hometown of the restoration spirit, and used a series of affectionate and elegant words to establish an order of watching over rural civilization in the process of the new era, and continued the bloodline of the agricultural spirit.
"Sit with the Flowers for a While" uses a full personality and rich character stories and a volume of idyllic style with a long flavor, providing us with a new path to revitalize the dignity of the countryside, carry forward agricultural civilization, and reshape the core of farmers in the context of the new era.
In the process of urbanization and urbanization in which farming culture is becoming more and more withered, many people flee the countryside with the dirt of their hometowns on their feet, change into suits and ties in the city, put on famous brands, arm their cowardly shells with brand-name logos, open up the distance between the flesh and the countryside, and cover up the inferiority brought to their bones by the old and backward rural spiritual heritage.
Hua cheng, on the other hand, went up against the current and chose to return to his hometown of Changshan, Zhejiang, to plant rice in the field and become a confidant of rice. He is a naked son of his hometown, and he uses a piece of writing about the scenery behind his hometown house as a hometown legend, shouting for the rice fields, and his words recall our distant past and rebuild the "museum of innocence" that we once had.
The text of "Sit with the Flowers for a While" is interesting and has a taste, and the beauty of the hometown style, the beauty of folklore, and the beauty of the mountains behind the words are presented in the homely and simple language.
Huacheng's texts are simple and concise, and I have almost all of his works at home: "The Beauty of Creation", "The Past", "The Taste of Grass and Trees", "Born to Beauty", "Spring Mountain Slow", "Flower Sticker", "Twenty-four Sounds", "One Day Without Doing a Day without Eating".
Throughout his text, there are few adjectives, few embellishments, less rhetoric, looking at the mountain is the mountain, seeing the water is the water, a school of innocence and truth, always maintaining the most essential concise warmth behind the text.
In my eyes, his words are the clear springs that naturally flow from the mountain stream bamboo forest, the rice flowers that grow in the lonely fields, the lotus bottom breeze in the lotus pond, and the clear stream under the puxia. In him, I saw that Wen Ru was simple, sincere, realistic, determined, introverted, and rich.
"Sit with the Flowers for a While", the whole book is divided into four volumes, including falling flowers, mountain colors, drinking, and the upper seat, with a total of 29 masterpieces, most of which are published in "People's Literature", "Essays", "Rain Flowers", "Selected Essays", "People's Daily", "Wen Wei Po", "Liberation Daily" and other first-line famous periodicals.
This is not only a book of gratitude for presenting the world of his hometown, but also a book of declarations for revitalizing rural civilization, a book of aesthetics that continues to cultivate civilization, and a book of exploration that in the new era with individual strength to lead groups to dig deep into the new connotation of farming culture and rebuild a new path of rural aesthetics.
For example, the old forest that planted kiwifruit in the old forest in the deep mountains in the "Moon Order in the Mountains", the author and father who planted rice in "Put the Seedlings into the Earth", the black child in "There is an Oil Mill in the Mountains", and so on, all of them are the most loyal defenders, successors, and promoters of agricultural civilization.
Smell more grass and trees and less people. Professor Zhu Liangzhi of Peking University, a scholar I like, wrote in his book "One Flower, One World": "The meaning of a small flower is a kind of wisdom to return to the world and return to the true. The number of sands in the Ganges, every existence in the universe can be said to be tiny, especially a short and fragile life. The epiphany of the meaning of a small flower is the emphasis on the fact that life itself is a right, and that knowledge and order are the creation of man. ”
Huacheng is the confidant of the grass and trees of his hometown, the confidant of the mountains and rivers, the confidant of the birds, insects, birds and animals, and he goes deep into the heart of a rice, a tree, a flower, a cloud and a grain of rice with a subtle naturalistic feeling, discovers its unique beauty, and presents us with a strong naturalistic feeling and a romantic temperament of humanistic feelings.
He speaks for the rivers and mountains and fields of his hometown, speaks for rural aesthetics, makes the rights and figures of a small flower, a tree and a rice become the aesthetic symbol of the new era, and lets us follow his brushstrokes back to the hometown that provides our flesh and soul, from which the same frequency resonance caused by the separation of empty distances is generated.
He established a biography for his hometown Changshan, and let me always remember "Who are you?" Where are you from? Where are you going? "The ultimate three questions. I think this is also a question that everyone who comes out of the dirt and looks for an "ideal world" under the protection of urban civilization deserves common consideration.
In the "Six Rooms", there is a passage that is particularly of contemporary significance, he wrote: The most important value of man now is to become a "data provider", that is, you eat, drink, clothing, food, shelter and transportation, are creating and providing "data". Your value is "data". Only when the recliner is flattened, it is a pleasant thing to see the clouds flowing in the sky slowly and calmly.
In "The Name of the Farmer Signed on the Turnip", he wrote: Every good green vegetable, every good turnip, hides the name of a farmer. Just as a literati writes an article with his own signature, on top of each radish, he also signs the name of a farmer.
In "Sweet Nights", he wrote: "I feel that life actually needs a little sense of ceremony. Why has our lives become less interesting? For we have lost those doors bolted tightly, silently, sweetly filled, at night.
In many articles, the idea of shining with the author's wisdom in the above paragraphs has won my heart, and it reads like drinking fine wine, like tasting good tea. This is a deep cultivation and reflection on the customs and objects of the hometown, and it is also an exploration of the true meaning of the essence of life behind the appearance. This is the ultimate question of his worries and thoughts, and it is also the answer to the return of life and life to authenticity.
Huacheng is not only an excellent essayist, but I think he is also an excellent life artist and social practitioner. I have always believed that life is greater than literature, and that life is far more important than art. And how to bring art to life and live art is a person's creation and cultivation.
Hua Cheng's cleverness lies in the fact that he has perfectly found the best combination of the two in natural life, rural life, literary life and social life: "father's rice field".
The art of life not only tests a person's aesthetic ability, but also tests a person's ability to control life and rebuild. His practice of farming culture of "father's rice field" has created a well-known cultural and creative brand at home and abroad, thus driving one party and benefiting the hometown is the best example.
The immortals in the clouds boiled wine urgently, and the Buddha outside the clouds went and collected the tea. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has an interesting soul, he loves wine and wine, drinks and sings with friends in the fields under the moonlight, and is free; he loves tea, drinks tea and loses adjectives, understands the mysterious way in the most natural authenticity, and sees the heavenly heart; he loves food, good food, insight into the natural ethics of heaven and earth in the country customs that come from the story, writes a bowl of warmth and freshness in the fireworks of the world, and the golden morality in home-cooked rice and vegetables, which is interesting to read and cannot bear to release.
"To the wine as a song, the four good winds arrive with the moon; the towel is exposed, and the new rain on the first floor brings clouds." He said that people with clear eyes met in that rice field, and I looked forward to the day when I would carry a pot of fine wine to Changshan, and Huacheng would let the fireflies come to pick me up, and in the summer when the gods were looking at each other and the grass seedlings under my feet were knotted, when the window copied the old time and moon, there would be Qingxing to the wine.
This article is selected from Zhou Huacheng's "Sit with the Flowers for a While", authorized by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House)
Selected Chinese books
"Sit with the flowers for a while"
Written by Zhou Huacheng
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
January 2022
Zhou Huacheng, a troubadour and famous writer on the field, will have a new prose work in 2022, trying to present a place with mountains, waters, springs and stories to more beauty seekers. The whole book is divided into four series: "Falling Flowers", "Mountain Color", "Drinking" and "Upper Seat", focusing on the grass and tree nature, mountain residence daily life, cooking food, humanities and arts in the mountain city of Changshan, Zhejiang, capturing the shining moments of everyday things with poetic language, and exploring the unique poetry of all things in the countryside. At the same time, it also records the comfort and helplessness of rural life, as well as the insight and thinking when writing friends in the hometown, qinggenging and rain reading, and the text is soaked with the classical meaning that is difficult to find today.
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