Feel and think while walking

In recent years, a kind of "walking" prose seems to have gradually borne a bad reputation, almost indiscriminately dubbed "style writing" or "tourism text", in which disdain and contempt seem to be recognizable only in tone. In fact, the formation of this stereotype is not without reason. The reason is that in recent years, the wind of tourism and cultural propaganda in various places have gradually become popular, and in addition to the excitement of the tour, people who have read and written several compositions have the impulse to record their whereabouts, so with the convenience of network dissemination, it seems that everyone can pick up the pen as a writer. As a result of the roaring up and down the mud and sand, a large number of chronicles were naturally produced. How is this part of the text named? Travel essay? It seems a little too solemn, think about it, about only called "tourism text", go to a "scatter" word is more appropriate. But in this way, it is an indiscriminate "one-size-fits-all", in order to save the work of identification, even the bath water with the child is splashed with dirty water. Some of the jixing texts that can really be called prose and have high literary value have also been marked as "tourist texts" for no reason.

When I first read the catalog of Zhou Yuxian's essay collection "Walking on the Earth", it was almost full of articles related to walking - "A Wujiang Song in the World", "Awakening Nami", "The Rain of Linzhi", "The Water of Dali", etc., I did have some trepidation in my heart, but when I opened the specific chapter and entered the words and lines, the hanging heart fell to the ground. Zhou Yuxian really has a transcendent self-consciousness and pen power. In her pen, she actually said this about the Apeng River: "The peculiarity of the river is that it is a rare river flowing from east to west on the land of China... It's like a column of soldiers, one of them heard the wrong password and turned in the opposite direction... Headed west. Nature's carelessness has made a big river willful. All the way to the west, it also makes the Apeng River a unique note in the chorus of thousands of rivers. "Is this Apeng River?" Obviously this is the river in the author's heart. The water of nature has always strictly followed the laws of nature and followed its own "way" to move forward. If a thousand people look at it and a thousand people write it, it's all just the same thing, then what's the point of writing the words? But after all, Zhou Yuxian was not among the thousand people who repeated to each other, she was the thousandth person, and she gave her own spirit, thinking and personality to the river that did not reveal her personality. Of course, another possibility is not ruled out, it is this Apeng River that awakens her hidden sexual spirit and makes her have extraordinary discoveries.

It turns out that the "tourist texts" are not unbearable, they can be a fragrant and gorgeous flower in the garden of prose. Not only is there a reason for existence, but it can exist with dignity and dignity. In the ancient Chinese saying, "walk a thousand miles and read ten thousand books", which means to broaden your horizons and increase your insight while walking, which is more intelligent and richer than reading dead books. Therefore, when the ancient benevolent people were young, they had to arrange a walking experience for themselves to open their eyes and hearts, which was the tradition of walking. People who have knowledge, experience, and perception must also record their own knowledge, views, and experiences of the world, and they must "make a statement" and "enlighten the way", which has a literary tradition, and is mainly a prose tradition. As far as the ancient books and documents we have seen so far, a large part of the articles are not "stuffy" in the study, but rely on walking and thinking to collide. In this way, the quality of the article has no essential relationship with the writer's posture, and it does not matter whether you write while walking or sitting. Liu Zongyuan, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, Xu Xiake, and other literary figures, due to their own choices or forced by fate, all had to write while walking on the journey. If you name them all "tourism literature", China is afraid that there is no literature, at least not so rich literary heritage. Here, Zhou Yuxian understands the greatness of the Chinese literary tradition, and no one follows the crowd and abandons the tradition as if it were a disadvantage.

The crux of the matter is how to write and what to write. Regarding the writing of tourism essays, if the focus is on tourism, naturally there will be no good prose. Today, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes, airplanes, high-speed rail, television, WeChat, Douyin... Convenient transportation, information explosion, today's people with the help of modern means of transportation can be feasible for a day, enough for the ancients to walk for a year, even if people do not go out can know things thousands of miles away, feet have not seen the eyes. There is no longer a landscape in the world that people can't "see", who still has a rare description of the scenery! "Jing" only needs a camera or camcorder and does not require the writer to waste pen and ink. The focus of tourism prose should always be on the prose, and the key to prose writing is to write themselves, if the writer can grasp these two key points, keep pace with the times, with new ideas, new ways to write a unique observation and understanding of the new world, new life, walking will also produce fine works, classics. Carefully reading and tasting Zhou Yuxian's articles, we will find that such a recognition has long become Zhou Yuxian's literary consciousness, otherwise it would not have given birth to so many brilliant ideas during walking, nor would we have written so many beautiful words after walking.

For example, "Awakening Namtso": "Looking at the water of Namtso from the Nagon Pass, it is the tears left by the fairies in the human world, ice blue, shining." Far away, under the heavens; far away, far away from the earth. The water was bluer than the high sky, more alluring than sapphires. It is like a lover's eyes, with tenderness in its eyes, looking at every visitor who praises it..."

For example, "The Rain of Nyingchi": "Nyingchi, but this is not the case." She is Dolma on the Tibetan plateau, exuding a primitive atmosphere. The river is her blood, the mountains are her hair, the earth is her skin, the wind is her breath, the rain is her teardrops, and the clouds are her hair ornaments. She lay between Mount Gandhis and Mount Nyanchingtanggula, at the confluence of the Brahmaputra and Niyang rivers. She is the elf of freedom,...... She was left alone, as if she were completely unaware of her own beauty. Beautiful beyond self-awareness, beautiful enough to take over the world, but in vain let the world compare this primitive goddess to the petite worldly woman of Jiangnan..."

For example, "Poplar Tree": "A poplar tree has dozens of pairs of eyes, and a hundred poplar trees have thousands of pairs of eyes." The forest belt extends along the road, dividing the regimental field into a chessboard grid, the house yard is in the chess grid, and the people are also in the grid..."

The same landscape, because of different eyes, different hearts and souls, there are different words. Not only landscapes, but also for writers, everything in the world is a carrier to express emotions, express thoughts, realms, and feelings. No matter how the time, place, and object of writing change, there is only one person who lives between the lines, and that is the writer himself. The subject of writing is changing its own color and posture with the help of objects, but it is ever-changing, and the unique soul within is unchanging. Only the writer himself is colorful, profound, and profound, can write an extraordinary article.

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Source: China Art News