The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics coincided with the spring of Lichun, and the 24 countdown to the festival opened the curtain of the Winter Olympics with "Chinese romance". The ancient poems hidden in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics led the countries of the world to welcome the new hope of Lichun. Also taking ancient poetry as the source of creation, the well-known scholar Li Fang's new work of historical and cultural prose "Great Spring and Autumn" was recently published by the Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House, and the whole book is based on 23 poems, from the Spring and Autumn Warring States to the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, from the famous people of the ancient world to the ancient city of Youyou, from the cultural relics to the mountains and rivers and the world, writing a magnificent historical and cultural landscape.
At the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, "sneaking into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently" introduced people to appreciate the warmth of the rain and rain, and the article "Seven Faces of Chengdu" in "The Great Spring and Autumn" opened with Du Fu's "Happy Rain on Spring Nights", which deeply told the past and present, tradition and development of Chengdu for readers. In the preface to "The Great Spring and Autumn", the author Li Fang wrote about her expectations: Mankind has experienced one change after another, one migration after another, the era of great navigation, the era of great turmoil, the era of great subversion, the era of great change... It is precisely with these magnificent histories and the continuous exploration of these histories that there is an infinite richness of human thinking and the infinite possibilities of human progress.
"Great Spring and Autumn" is divided into 23 series of "Shi", "Pulse" and "Tao", which not only includes the author's representative prose titles, such as "Jiang Chun Into the Old Year", "Eternity in the Drifting", "Spring and Autumn in the Spring and Autumn Era", etc., but also includes his latest prose masterpieces, such as "Qianqiu Yi Yangxiong", "Neon", "Awakening", "Sound", "Blood in mountains and rivers", etc., each of which begins with a poem. Because each essay revolves around a historical figure or a historical story, the selected poems are also associated with their corresponding content, thus serving as a reading prompt for the reader.
Li Fang is a well-known scholar, writer, and literary critic who has published many classic cultural prose works. Compared with her previous style, the collection of historical and cultural essays "Great Spring and Autumn" is more profound and thick.
For Li Fang, the change in literary style and the change in her reading interest are inextricably linked, in recent years, her reading interest has shifted from Western modernity and modernist art to traditional Chinese culture and historical philosophy, and in the gap between work, she has used fragmented time to read most of the "Twenty-Four Histories of Dian schoolbook". In addition to reading, she began to think about many big issues that she had never thought deeply about, such as ideals and beliefs, human beings and the world, civilization and inheritance, time and space, history and literature, longitude and latitude and the future... Even when the content of the book has not yet been eyebrow-raising, there is a clear title in my heart - "Great Spring and Autumn". Spring and Autumn Brushwork, Spring and Autumn Accumulation Sequence, Spring and Autumn Peak, Spring and Autumn Rebuke the Sages... Spring and Autumn, these three words contain too much. Li Fang said: "The Great Spring and Autumn, like a majestic mountain, attracts me to climb, and I hope to use these three words to pay tribute to the great time." ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Jia
Editor/Bow Lifang