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The Final Collection of Songs is the last book published by Mr. Sun Li during his lifetime. "The song is not over, but the man is gone; or the song is over, but still sees the man." This is not the ability of human beings, but the destiny of heaven. In the epilogue to the book, sir said. It is quite different from when I wrote the preface to the sequel to the anthology four years ago, saying that "the words of my later years are like the love of distant mountains".
The text recorded in this book from 1990 to 1995 is the work of Mr. Sun Li's 77-82 years old who has changed his mind with a fake pen. The whole book is divided into two parts: reading notes and narrative notes, the former is the highlight, reading history, reading pictures and reading posts, and using essays to outline history and reality; the latter is prose in the traditional sense, which is also the last prose chapter written by Mr. Sun Li, although this part only accounts for about one-eighth of the whole book, but it can see the trajectory of Mr. Mr. Li's thoughts, emotions and stylistic connections and changes.
Such articles include both narrative and narrative. Remembering people, such as "Remembering Chen Zhao", "Mourning Kang Mao", "Sending GuangYao", etc., the object is the old world of literature, which basically continues the style of the past, and is still permeated with the rich emotion that only Qingshan is in the old friendship. Several articles, such as "Aunt Dongning" in "New Spring Nostalgia" and "Descendants of the Hu Family" in "Summer Miscellaneous", have more narratives and different meanings. These articles are short, but they all span the three time and space around 1949 and the present, integrating the changes of the times, the vicissitudes of the world and the situation of life. The writing style is completely different from Mr. Sun Li's previous Baiyangdian style.
Especially when I read "Ji Xiu Rong", I felt more emotions. This is the last article written by Mr. Sun Li before he closed his pen due to serious illness, which is only a thousand words short, but he wrote about the events of 1948, 1949, 1960 and 1995, outlining the life trajectory of Xiurong from the age of 17 to 64 and the friendship with the author for 47 years, and Mr. Sun Li also wrote a poem for Xiurong. The end of the article reads: "Regarding Xiurong, I have known her for many years, I always feel that I have written about her, and today I have searched the collection of essays, but I can't find a word, somehow." "The past and the present, memory and reality, intertwined, the afterglow does not disperse, the endless sense of beak, left in the blank. The style of writing has been washed away by lead, the old trees have sparse branches, the flowers and leaves have fallen, and they are clean and thin. Mr. Sun Li once said: "The work of prose is about to explode. The sense of truth cannot be conceived. "In this way, the tenons are in the buckle, and the nail work is not used to jingle, and then inlaid with gold edge jade to charm people."
"The Final Collection of Songs" shows the writing style of Mr. Sun Li in his later years. Such a stylistic feature, I think can be compared with a minimalist school. In the past, when talking about Tang poetry, it was said that "the suburban cold island is thin". The words "cold" and "thin" can be summarized as characteristics of this simplicity. "Cold" means cold; "thin" means clear. Leng Jun, more refers to the introverted ideological strength and critical sharpness of the content; Qing, more refers to the natural nature of the text deletion and simplicity, and the artistic conception is easy but far-reaching. This should be a conscious pursuit of Mr. Sun Li in his later years, and this pursuit is both a pursuit of thought and an aesthetic pursuit. He advocated what the ancients said, "The merits of narrative are mainly brief", he said: "The more people reach their old age, the more simple their writing becomes, which is not only related to literary cultivation, but also related to grasping reality and insight into the world. At the same time, he especially liked the words "big taste must be light" and "the avenue is low", and he copied them many times and even placed them in his study.
In the "Qu Final Collection", there is a "Preface to the Continuation of the Anthology", talking about the late text, Mr. Sun Li said that it was "not the Qionglin in front of you, and even less lacking in the next Yerba Buena." Not the good of the times. In this way, even after 30 years, it is still valuable today. Some of the writings that are still in vogue today do not necessarily have the vitality of Mr. Sun Li's writings in his later years.
The song ends and the man is still there. This year, it is the 20th anniversary of Mr. Sun Li's death, re-reading the "Qu Final Collection" to release the feelings of nostalgia.