When I picked up the Chu Ci and began to read the Departure, Qu Yuan was resurrected in my heart, and I woke him up.
Qu Yuan's model came. His outfit is still fashionable, even from today's point of view, there is still some other exaggeration: wearing a hat made of tall grass, the already tall body is more upright; the upper body is covered with lotus leaves, fluttering with the wind, making him look personable and imposing; the lower body wears a skirt embellished with lotus flowers, and strides forward, less bound, more agility and freedom; the garland of draped cars and river lily on the shoulders, the fragrance even attracts a few butterflies, flying up and down around him; wearing a long bronze sword on the waist, The pei made of a youlan made the awe-inspiring righteousness on his face feel even more blasphemous.
Xu is separated by more than two thousand years, the first time I read "Leaving the Troubles", I was like a cloud. Many words have not been seen, and in many verses, words cannot be distinguished from words; too many words, even if they are composed of common words, do not know how to say. Stumbled and read it twice, except to figure out some of the mood changes of Dr. Sanlu, as many people say, obscure and difficult to understand! I complained, "Master, 'Departure' is so long, I can't understand it!" Qu Yuan replied, "If you know me, only piety can be reached!" ”
I agree with that. A literary work, if you read, only like is not enough, only a pious will give people the courage and perseverance to read, and reading a book is also about chance. Just like "Chu Ci" and I studied "Wading the River" in high school, I secretly resolved that I must read "Chu Ci" well in the future, at least carefully read "Leaving the Troubles". However, these years have been struggling in the "Gou and" of life, although the wish has not been lost in the bottom of the heart, but more than thirty years have passed, and finally did not get what they wanted.
In 2020, he accidentally joined the caterpillar reading club organized by his classmate Lao Cheng and learned Xiaoguwen with a group of children in the WeChat group. The children's enthusiasm for reading was very high, infected me, moved me, and the classes in the group almost never fell. Several of the main lecturers are either secondary school teachers with teaching experience, or talented university teachers, or learned historians, or the little caterpillar himself has twice to teach. From here, I learned a lot of things, and the level of ancient Chinese has made great progress, which has also made a good preparation for reading "Chu Ci".
Qu Yuan was spoken about more than once in the group. One day, reading "Fisher Father", I saw that everyone's emotions were high, and the wish that had been in my heart for many years suddenly sprouted. "Who wants to read the Chu Ci with me?" The proposal was immediately echoed by several teachers and parents. "Well, let's read separately, take notes, and exchange them with each other when the time comes, so that we can improve the efficiency of reading and give lectures to the children when appropriate!"
When he said that, he immediately found an original copy of "Chu Ci" and read it from "Leaving sorrow". "Leaving the Riot" is recognized as not easy to read, but the momentum accumulated for decades is like a gushing flood at this time, which is somewhat unstoppable. Start with the basic work: zhuyin, identify words, interpretation, translate the original poem into the vernacular, once these work is completed, then find relevant materials to read, such as Sima Qian's "Biography of Qu Yuan Jia Sheng Lie", the works of some experts who study Chu Ci, you can more deeply appreciate Qu Yuan's spirit and feelings.
I found the original text of "Leaving the Troubles" from the Internet, copied and pasted it on the writing software. The Dictionary of Common Characters in Ancient Chinese and different versions of Chu Ci were also purchased for the search and selection of materials. From the first line of "Leaving the Sao" the first word to start, meet the mountains to open the mountain, meet the water to build a bridge, slowly comb through, step by step, just like in the creation of "Leaving the Sao", the emotions are also very full.
Reading "Leaving the Riot" made me feel like climbing a mountain. A poem is like a stone step, climbing a level and then going up a level, you can only come step by step. Sometimes I consciously climb a lot of steps, but I can look up, and the steps in front of me seem to extend to the clouds, but I still can't see my head. But Qu Yuan's personality charm attracted me, and the wish made to the caterpillars also gave me another motivation. I used all the free time I could use: I had to read when I got up early in the morning; I had to read it after I finished my business at work; I had to read it before and after lunch at noon; I pushed off all the socializing at night, sometimes reading late at night. As Qu Yuan said, "I make the phoenix fly, followed by day and night!" "It feels like I'm the bird at this moment, constantly soaring and hurrying."
With Qu Yuan day and night, I have fully entered his world, and I have become a friend of the year, regardless of time, regardless of occasion, as long as we are free, we will chat at any time. Sometimes I helped at my daughter-in-law's beef stall, and when I got interested, I found a place to indulge in reading it. How can you not read "Leaving the Troubles" without reciting it? Recitation can more truly perceive Qu Yuan, understand Qu Yuan, and feelings are naturally fused with Qu Yuan. I found a passage of Fang Ming's recitation from the Internet, listened to it over and over again, speculated, imitated, and practiced repeatedly. Now I recite "Leaving the Troubles" again, smoothly, and the emotional grasp is also in place. Every time I recite, I only feel that the turbid qi has dropped, and a yang qi has risen from the bottom of my heart, and after the recitation, it is as if the meridians have been opened, and the body suddenly feels much more relaxed. Yes, "Leaving the Riot" is nearly three thousand words, and reading it in a round way is quite helpful for the improvement of lung capacity.
Just when reading "Leaving the Troubles" intensively, Qilu Hospital notified her daughter-in-law to undergo the removal of the bottom of the stomach polyps. These years are busy and busy, we rarely leave our "one acre and three points of land", although we want to go out and see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, but we can fall into the "rivers and lakes", and it is not easy to do what we like to do, it is really involuntary! Now driving on the highway to the hospital, there is a feeling of "jumping out of the three realms", getting rid of the entangled "Gou And" in life, just take this opportunity to read "Leaving the Troubles" happily! Fortunately, my daughter-in-law's surgery was small, and there was not much psychological burden, which would not affect my mood of reading "Leaving trouble".
Because of the epidemic, the hospital wards are strictly forbidden to enter and exit casually, which can make me read "Leaving the Troubles" more distractedly. During the five days in the hospital, I and Qu Yuan soaked together day and night, in addition to eating and sleeping, the two of us were like shadows, chatting happily.
When I first read "Leaving the Troubles", I felt that the whole poem was too long, and it seemed to make people breathless. Coupled with the fact that the ancient and modern languages have changed too much, it is really daunting. But once you read it, especially if you read it well, the poet's expression becomes clear, and the whole poem also has a sense of context. And every time I read it, the feeling of being full of vigor and swinging intestines immediately swept away all the bad emotions in my chest.
For "Chu Ci", for "Leaving Sorrow", for Qu Yuan, I think I have a piousness. "Leaving trouble" came out for more than 2,000 years, and there are people with a sincere heart, and I don't know how many people there are for generations! Qu Yuan's loyal patriotic spirit, the spirit of perseverance without remorse, the spirit of exploration from top to bottom, the spirit of personality that is independent and unswerving, and the individual spirit of being drunk and awake have always been admired and lamented by future generations. The humanistic charm exuded by these spirits gives people edification and encouragement, which is also the root of the strong vitality of "Leaving the Troubles".
The romantic color of "Leaving the Troubles" has fascinated many literati and inkers. Qu Yuan, focusing on the issues of advancing or retreating, from the stream or keeping the will, and going and staying, fully mobilizes artistic expression techniques such as metaphor, exaggeration, and symbolism, blends myths and legends, historical figures and natural phenomena, and depicts for us a mixture of reality and fiction, magnificent scenes, rich and peculiar artistic conceptions, and vividly expresses the contradictions and firmness of the poet.
"Departure" is a rhetorical gift, as a characteristic of poetry, its emotional factors and musicality are unparalleled. The whole poem is nearly four hundred sentences, two sentences and a section, each sentence is basically seven or six words, and the opening sentences use the tone word "兮", so that the whole poem forms a magnificent momentum, and the verses are like a wave of waves in the sea, stepping on the same frequency and pouring in like a sea, vast, endless, and purifying the soul of the reader. And this distinct, unified rhythm presents the beauty of rhythm.
The language of "Leaving the Riot" is neatly staggered, and the sentences and aphorisms are continuous. These sentences are as brilliant as the stars and poetic; their descriptions are straight to the heart, like a hammer, sonorous and sound. When recited, the breath is free, passionate and generous without a sense of tiredness; reading it, the sense of substitution is strong, the appeal is also strong, as if there is a strong attraction, people can't stop. The poet's mood spiraled upwards, until the end of the poem, which was also the climax, suddenly fell from the brilliant fantasy world back to reality, and the big dream suddenly woke up, and the psychological gap stirred up a powerful shock wave, breaking through the internal organs and holes.
On the whole, "Leaving the Troubles" also has the characteristics of prose, which makes the expression of content richer, and the emotions are more rushing and surging.
In the process of marking words, I found the ins and outs of some Chinese characters, which made me marvel again and again: I couldn't imagine that the original meaning of this word was like this! The reason for this explanation is that there is a story behind it! For example, the "hou" in "three queens" and "hou xin (纣王)", some versions of Chu Ci only interpret it as "monarch", through consulting the data, "hou" is the title of the Xia Shang Dynasty to the living monarch, and the monarch is called "emperor" when he dies. This made me deeply experience the profundity of Chinese characters, and felt the brilliance of Chinese culture from one side!
I believe that Qu Yuan must have a deep understanding of a sentence, "Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want!" "Standing in the ward building of the Gastroenterology Department of Qilu Hospital, looking out the window at the quaint buildings, I wondered, if Qu Yuan traveled to the present, what would he do? How busy will he be? You know, for example, I am an ordinary person, busy every day, I forget that people will still be sick, and there is no time to get sick. "Zeng Was depressed and depressed, and it was inappropriate to mourn." Qu Yuan's knowledge of strong ambitions, clear in controlling chaos, skillful in rhetoric, and talented in governing the country and securing the country, but he was let go of people's words, deep love for his homeland and homeland, helplessness of the hero's useless place, the two emotions intertwined, impacting each other, preferring to sink himself into the Luo River rather than conform to the world, how disappointed he should be in reality, imagining the magnificent scene of Qu Yuan holding the stone Sinking River, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
Qu Yuan was unfortunate, his legend, his immortal poetry, but left a valuable spiritual wealth for future generations. Qu Yuan was awakened again and again, and this wealth surged and inexhaustible, nourishing the souls of future generations of Chinese children, which is the blessing of my generation.
Reading "Leaving sorrow", approaching Qu Yuan, and feeling Qu Yuan, that is a lifelong thing that must be used, and it is a must-do thing. Mr. Liang Qichao said that when we were born in this land, we should have the ability to appreciate the "Chu Ci", otherwise we will be sorry for ourselves and be born in this country.
Since I started reading "Leaving the Troubles", I often reported on the progress of the reading in the group, joking, "Caterpillars, I am preparing a big meal, wait ha! "But no matter how delicious the meal is, you have to eat it yourself, and I'm just responsible for bringing it to you." This big meal, when to eat is steaming, eating, is to swallow a "energy stone", so that you can get energy replenishment for life. Well, the big meal is already on the table, don't say anything, then eat now, hope you enjoy the process too!
Author: Mi Zhaojun, member of Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association, member of Yucheng Writers Association. After work, he likes to chew on words, record life with words, and build his spiritual home

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