February 15, 2022, the Lantern Festival of traditional Chinese festivals. However, this year's CCTV Lantern Party has used cool light effects and virtual space from the beginning to bring people into the space of the meta-universe.
The most shocking thing is that Wang Yaping, an astronaut who is still on a space mission, plays a guzheng "Jasmine" on the space station:
The background of the space station, the astronauts in space suits and the antique guzheng, and the sound of the strings of the kites that bounce with the fingertips...
What you see and hear gives people a very unreal sense of turbulence and strong shock in time and space.
In the surging mood, Su Dongpo's thoughts in "Water Tune Song Head: When is the Bright Moon" flashed in his mind:
When is the moon? Ask the wine to qingtian.
I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace.
I want to go home by the wind, and I am afraid of Qionglou Yuyu, and the high places are cold.
Dancing to clarify the shadow, how it seems to be in the human world...
What year is this night in heaven, Su Shi is doomed to be unable to know.
But today we know with unequivocal certainty:
There is no Chang'e in the moon.
Back to the earlier Tang Dynasty, Zhang Ruoxuan, one of the "Four Scholars of Wuzhong", wrote a poem "Spring River Flower Moon Night" that asked people about the confusion of time for thousands of years:
Who first saw the moon on the riverside, and when did the river moon shine at the beginning?
Life is infinite from generation to generation, and Jiang Yue is only similar every year.
I don't know who Jiang Yue treats? But see the Yangtze River sending water.
Since the birth of human beings on the earth, the moon is still that round of moon, once illuminated the master of the JiaHu bone flute more than 8,000 years ago, once illuminated the sons and hundreds of families of the pre-Qin Warring States, once illuminated the Great Wall of the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty weiyang, the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Tang and Song dynasties, the Yuan, Ming, and Qing social unrest, the modern revolutionary struggle against the construction of new China, until today's us...
The same round moon is missing and round, round and missing; but the human world has no idea how many vicissitudes have been transformed.
Human beings who cannot transcend the limits of life can only be like passers-by in infinite time and space, watching flowers blossom and fall year after year, mourning life and suffering for a long time.
Flowers have a reopening day, and no one is any more young.
——Chen wrote the first of "Two Songs of Persuasion and Persuasion of The Continuing Nephew Pu Pu"
Winter goes to spring and comes again, look at the willow leaves, pink flowers, listen to the small river water clearer and more jingling, young children have no sorrow, run and jump wantonly, laugh and sing, even the red apricots in the wall can't help but stick their heads out, bathing in the good spring light...
In this midst of this, who can easily give up this beautiful world with infinite vitality?
"Zhuangzi Getaway" has a saying: "There are spirits in the south of Chu, with five hundred years old as spring and five hundred years old as autumn." In ancient times, there were those who took eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. ”
In the southern part of the Chu Kingdom, a tree called the Dark Spirit grows, and the 500 years is a spring and the 500 years is an autumn. In ancient times, there was a tree called Tsubaki, which regarded 8,000 years as a spring and 8,000 years as an autumn.
Of course, this is just the ancients' beautiful imagination of the infinite life.
It is precisely because man himself cannot achieve it that he must transfer it to the natural objects he worships.
However, life has a metabolism, born to death, no matter who it is, can not escape the rules of death.
The Qin Emperor Han Wu, the second of the most outstanding emperors in history, one system liuhe, taking the world, one pingxi region, the great unification, but all left a stain of obedience to Dan and seeking growth.
"Xunzi Ritual Treatise": "The mourner, decorate the dead with the living, the elephant is born, to send him to die, to die like life, to die as if he exists." ”
"The Mean": "Death is like life, death is like survival, filial piety is also".
In fact, "death is like life" is not only out of the requirements of etiquette and morality, but also the eternal imagination of life imagined by people throughout the ages and generations.
However, imagination is only a cheerful fantasy after all.
The dead are long gone, but the living still have to return to reality and face the life that is close to extinction step by step.
Wang Xizhi thought very clearly about this:
Gu Zhiyi is a false birth after death, and Qi Peng is a vain act.
The future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past. Woe to you!
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Although the world is different, so rejoicing, its unity is also one.
Later viewers will also feel Sven.
- "Orchid Pavilion Collection"
Life and death are different; longevity and short life are also different;
Regardless of the era of people, the instinctive desire for life and the fear of death are similar.
How do we view the rise and fall of the lives of the ancients today, and how do future generations view us?
Miraculously, thanks to the immortal inheritance of Chinese culture, Wang Xizhi can understand the helplessness of life and death from the words of his predecessors, and thousands of years after him, the readers of the Lanting Collection, including us, can also chew out similar understandings from the prefaces he wrote.
Personnel have metabolism, and exchanges have become ancient and modern.
- Meng Haoran, "Climbing Da Nang with the Sons"
Inheritance is really a kind of magnificent power that is condensed into eternity.
The significance of the theme song "A Glance at a Thousand Years" of "National Treasure" was reflected in the "crossing" legend of the Sanxingdui cultural dance "Golden Face" at this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala:
When I look at you affectionately,
At a glance, the more a thousand years,
You don't have to say anything,
Your vicissitudes,
I know.
At a glance through the ancient and modern, the more than a thousand years, this can not but be said to be a wonderful, bold, but also make people feel sad and comforting in the imagination of time and space.
The same is true of the guzheng song "Jasmine" from the space station at the CCTV Lantern Party:
Past, present, future.
It accommodates the profound understanding of contemporary Chinese of the spirit of traditional Chinese culture, and also shows the self-confidence of contemporary Chinese to stride forward in space and boldly create the future, and also transforms the time-space imagination that has been passed down for thousands of years in the blood of Chinese from the delusion in the text pile into a live-action version of reality.
However, China is still young, up and down five thousand years, inherited in the blood of the generations not forgotten beyond time and space, the future, will go further, longer...
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Chasing fish, lovers of traditional culture, hope to use words to make what is thought and seen in the dusty history feel, in this era, once again full of humanity.