Mr. Qian Zhongshu once said: If you don't read, if you travel thousands of miles, you are just a postman.
And when you have read Mr. Yu Qiuyu's "Cultural Journey", you will understand more clearly that reading is another form of tourism.
In contemporary Chinese literature, in addition to Mo Yan is Yu Qiuyu, some people say that Yu Qiuyu is the best writer in the Chinese literary world, and his "Cultural Journey" is even more popular all over the country!
At that time, "Cultural Journey" was basically in a state of extreme best-selling, even in Singapore and other Chinese areas, there was also a boom in reading Yu Qiuyu.
The creation of "Cultural Journey" is not smooth sailing, it is exchanged for Yu Qiuyu's naked words!
In 1991, when Yu Qiuyu was still the president of the Shanghai Theater Academy, the youngest university president, and also at the peak of the cultural and educational circles, at the Chinese Theater Festival, Yu Qiuyu published a lot of academic works, and was a national theater expert, but it was at this time that Yu Qiuyu made a surprising decision, that is, to resign naked from the university!
Everyone also guessed that the resignation of such a figure is not a joke, he has submitted 23 resignation applications, the first 22 times have been rejected, the last time, Yu Qiuyu moved out of Tao Yuanming's return to resign.
Since then, this well-known theater expert inside and outside china has become a writer.
The reason for Yu Qiuyu's resignation is to go to the northwest to find Yangguan!
In order to find the soul of Chinese culture, he traveled through the time and space tunnel of history and culture, like a pilgrim, and realized the traditional culture and humanistic spirit in the exploration.
It is worth mentioning that Yu Qiuyu only brought one piece of luggage at that time, that is, a torn cotton jacket, and only wanted to experience the tragedy of "the west out of the Yang Pass without a reason"!
When he went to the northwest, he asked the local peasants, and no one knew where Yangguan was, don't look at Yangguan now, but at that time, Yangguan was just a big pier with the words "Yangguan Ruins" engraved on it, and all around it was a gray expanse.
Later, an old man told him the direction.
Yu Qiuyu is recorded as follows:
Today, I rushed to Wang Wei's "Weicheng Song" to find Yangguan. Before leaving, I asked the old man in the county where he was staying, and the answer was: "The road is far away, and there is nothing to see, but there are some literati who have worked hard to find it." The old man looked up at the sky and said, "This snow does not stop for a while, don't suffer from this." I bowed to him and turned to dive into the snow.
Out of the small county, is the desert, and then just walked all the way, and finally Yu Qiuyu came to Yangguan, stood on top of the collapsed ruins, the magnificent landscape was amazing to Yu Qiuyu, eroded by wind and snow, thin and depressed, here, only called the sky, only called the earth!
It was all graves
After a moment, the wind stopped, the sky was clear, and he saw that the bumps on the ground had become a frightening pavement, and he realized that all he saw in front of him was a pile of graves!
So many, and so densely arranged, and no one has ever sacrificed to sweep, then there is only one possibility, this is the ancient battlefield!
After that, "Cultural Journey" showed the depth and thickness and the weather to the readers, and Yu Qiuyu shocked China and foreign countries with such a picturesque prose!
It is the top ten of the national literary book ten-year ranking list, and it is also the most recommended book in China, and it is also the book with the most selected high school Chinese textbooks, and it is the spiritual enlightenment book for our adults and children.
It has been called the most influential literary book in 30 years.
He said
"I hope that my writing can have a bitter aftertaste, a heart after anxiety, a relaxation after meditation, and a young age after old age."
That's why we read in his writings a real emotion that rests in the depths of history:
The white hair of the central plains mother, the distant look of Jiangnan Spring Girl, and the night crying of Hu Xiang's child. Farewell under the willow shade of his hometown, the angry eyes of the general when he roared, and the flag of the army that threw away his armor. With a puff of smoke, another puff of smoke, all drifted away.
The key point of Yu Qiuyu's prose is that he integrates cultural monuments and the true meaning of life into beautiful and emotional prose. Readers can get new knowledge from words, cross mediocrity from reading, and thus gain the progress of life.
Reading his prose is like reading a painting, the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland are displayed one by one in front of the eyes, and there are more tragic and sometimes exciting emotions in the beautiful scenery, and after reading it, it seems that we have toured the memories left over from the ancient times.
From the long yellow sand opening of "Taoist Pagoda" and ending with the footsteps of drifters in a foreign land, from Li Bing's Dujiangyan reading directly more than 2,000 years ago to the extraordinary Wujiang Boat two thousand years later, this is a veritable hard journey, it covers too much, it bears too much.
After reading it, Lao Gu found that this "Cultural Journey" is a spiritual medicine for our lives.
"Life is really difficult, you can't find him if you don't go to the peak, and you can't get close to it when you go to the peak." It seems destined to continue to go uphill and downhill, uphill and downhill. ”
Our lives, and so it is, are constantly struggling, and then stopping to discover the beauty of life. Fight again, stop again... In this way, I continue to improve my life.
If you can only read one book in your life, then the first choice is "Cultural Journey", life is like a trip, you can encounter various landscapes along the way, but also have wind and rain.
It is our pillow book, our spiritual food, after reading, you will get a strong life force, for life, for life, there will be a new understanding.