When "Liangshan Ji" was still in print, I asked the author He Wanmin for an electronic version to get a sneak peek, but unexpectedly bumped into those stunning pictures head-on, I immediately stopped looking at it, and decided to wait for the paper book to come out and read it carefully. Such a beautiful picture, with a text that seems to have a light and strong taste, should be read deeply and slowly, I am afraid that the inertia of computer reading will damage this feeling.
When you get the book, it is true - the pictures are rich, the photos are very precious, and the text is very rich.
The first impact on people is the vision, the shooting perspective selection is very unique, there is a deep meaning and charm, broken wall ruins, three or two sections of the city wall, one or two broken house rafters, which in the eyes of the average person is not in the scene, but He Wanmin found the deep meaning, photographed, collected, put into the collection, and played with it in a dignified place. The years have passed, but the fireworks remain, and their framing vision and perspective are immersed in a unique mentality.
The opening scene is shocking with a picture of an old man with a face full of ravines, which is like Luo Zhongzhong's "Father", the old man has a deep gaze, is he staring into the distance or is his cloudy eyes already accustomed to squinting? The old man's face is full of dense lines and ravines, the mud on the hands of the peasant woman's clothes, the winding legs of the peasant climbing the mountain and climbing the bend, and the hoof marks that loom on the rocks of the ancient road, which are the relics of the years that can only be discovered and remembered by those who have experienced the grinding of the world and understood the flowers, the world, the leaves and the bodhi.
These photos with unique perspectives and complex meanings are also to be selected by readers, people who have accumulated over the years and have experienced mountain life, in order to understand the taste and fall into contemplation at first sight. The aesthetic taste of urban life is bright and beautiful, and the flowers are probably also able to rub the liveliness here, change the taste, eat some wild fun, and we think of ourselves as the confidants and mountain people who understand it.
But once again, I can't help but feel some self-pity for this resonance, can't it be Wan Min Brother, this seemingly open-minded person, also has a strange taste of loneliness and a quiet elegance from time to time? Inside the warmth of his laughter at that time, there was also a trace of coolness soaked?
01
The soles of the feet have been surveyed in Liangshan
What is the difference between Liangshan in "Liangshan Chronicle" and Baidu Encyclopedia? What is the difference between literature and popular science? The key lies in people, and in the knowledge that people chew and touch, the mountains and rivers enter my eyes, and the breeze blows the mountains and hills. This is Liangshan, which he chewed and digested alone, Liangshan that was soaked out by his breath, and ancestral land that was stepped on by the feet of Liangshan people and slept on pillows. "Xichang Qionghai" and "Song of the Yi People" are not liked, because of its emphasis on geographical knowledge and rational combing, it is difficult to see the "athlete's foot" and the heat of the body of the He brand. Copying books is to have knowledge science, but the knowledge of the world has gone, why do I have to write down your knowledge point, I am not saying that these words are copied, but I feel that the words similar to the knowledge points often lack temperature. And we need the communication of the soul, the stirring of emotions, the touch of the eyes, if this knowledge can not enter the soul in its own unique way, then what is the difference between them and the entries that come out of the Internet?
The walking of the Liangshan Ji remembers the description of the Yi people from form to god - the children of the Yi family "the bottom of the foot plate is black". In the article, some people questioned Ji Ke Junyi for "deliberately darkening his skin" in order to catch up with the fashion, and "my child has a good Yi classmate, his whole body is black, and even the soles of his feet are black!" "The transmission of this sentence made me too impressed, but there was once an editor who deleted this sentence, look at my own black skin, I specifically asked a Yi poet, saying that there is probably no taboo about black skin, he was surprised, he thought hard, and did not remember what taboos there were.
The opening chapter "Liangshan Ancient Road" is extraordinary, the narrative is not hurried, the long years, such as fragments scattered like broken real links, emotionally not surprised, such as the fisherman salvaging the years, is to see that although the place is short and broken, but the years are long, the history is deep, the chaotic and fragmented mountain and stone streams are connected by him with an ancient road, and they have turned decay into magic, becoming the memory of history, the memory of culture, and the record of the survival history of the Southwest Yi people, which is also a record of the survival of the People of Southwest Yi, it is a record of objects and characters.
"Liangshan Ji" is a walker's note that walks all the way, the language is short, the text is concise, the sentences are short, the tone is short and solid, and the atmosphere behind it is hidden. At first, the sentence was short, and I thought that the breath was short, but after I saw the length of the text, I felt that its breath was long, which was for the shortness of the language and the length of the gods. The reporter does not play swear, so the sentences are short, the ends are dry goods, at every turn to talk about 5 W, words to have things, solid narrative objects, painting people, lyrical ah exaggeration ah all removed, these can be regarded as water squeeze out. The sentence is short and solid, such as silkworm chewing mulberry leaves, but also like a fine wave washing sand, Fang knows that it is slow years, slow life, slow taste.
The author repeatedly emphasizes that "I prefer to settle down and listen to the locals slowly, to get enough details and spiritual insights." I constantly tell myself not to be too impetuous, not to be sloppy, and the most useful is the details. Everywhere I went, the locals' unhurried and hard-working nature has undoubtedly become a fortune I have gained during my travels. It is precisely in this form that the spirit of the local people is refined, and the earth qi nurtured by the years is chewed, and the resonance of the form and god that penetrates the interpersonal barriers is formed, and the ancient and modern gods have intersected.
"Ganluo de Bromo" scenery is on the road, the story is also on the road, go to the ghost mountain to find ghosts, but did not see the ghost, but afraid of the grasshoppers along the way, the stories are on people, not only to explore the geography, but also to feel the humanities, the hometown story is wonderful, the present people and things are more vivid, the Ghost Sending Mantra of the Bimo Family is actually half-through, and as a mundane person, the family scripture of the family can be touched.
In the author's narration, the literary atmosphere is soothing, there are people in history, there are naturally landscapes, they are the carriers of human activities, people have the present people, things have the stories of the present, and the landscape relics are the door to enter the stories of the present and the present.
The soothing of the literary atmosphere comes from the vicissitudes of history, from the confidence of life, and from the stubbornness of the lives of generations. The old man has gone, the head of the building is full of poetry, a thousand years of leisure, how to explain the style of the thousands, only a sigh. The author does not have too much lyricism, nor too much interpretation, so he does not "pretend", does not pretend, does not use as a potential. In the face of unspeakable things, it is wise, even wise, to maintain a long sigh and a pair of eyes.
The head of the city gate and the hoof of the ancient road are just a key to open history and open the story of the deceased. Everywhere there are scars, not rushing to "visit here", not getting in the car to sleep and get off the car to take pictures, but touching history to understand the world and life, seeing yourself elsewhere, seeking enlightenment. Qingfeng Mingyue travels with me, such a visit is actually hurtful, it is draining of mental strength, even as for the heartless and lungless get off the car to take pictures and pee, tourism is a body tour, but also a divine tour. The scars are everywhere, Ya, in He Wanmin's search, up the mountain and down the river, there is foot strength, this Liangshan Era, are contaminated with his "athlete's foot", or that sentence, "the bottom of the foot board is black."
The scars are everywhere, the style is very elegant, but it is much more difficult to search in Daliangshan, and what comes to mind from time to time is his "life-saving benefactor" and "begging stick" on the old Juntan Beach, which knows the joys and sorrows along the way, no wonder it is worth "offering up".
02
Liangshan Ji Soul
To make a chronicle for Daliangshan, it is not a literati Yaxing, only because he was born in Si and grew up in Si, breathing and breathing and nourishment of Liangshan are all daily, and it is also instinctive to make a chronicle for it, and it is also a responsibility to integrate into the blood without considering prevarication.
The "discipline" has a chronicle, a record, a record, and a "discipline" general record, which distinguishes between the solemnity of its attitude, the formality of the occasion, and the thickness of its achievements. Whether it can be upgraded from the daily "memory" to the "ji" with a sense of historical heaviness, whether the essay sketch sketch can play the same texture as oil painting, the key lies in the support of the meaning behind each stroke, the meaningful support can leave a chewy deep taste, if not, it is the trivial daily miscellaneous that drifts with the wind, there is a discovery of the eyes, but also need to taste the tranquility.
Or restore it, to put it bluntly, it is a travelogue, a travelogue, and what flowers can be said? Before reading, people will hold a cold eye, which can't help but make a big discount first, and the expected value is not high. But it is precisely such a critical eye that shows the extraordinary nature of "Liangshan Ji". It writes out the ordinary heart of the border culture, and this conclusion is actually deduced from a series of negative expressions, the mysterious Liangshan, but it does not steal treasures and does not dig graves, the style is not exaggerated, the content is not curious, which is very different from the popular popular themes, there are treasures that do not boast of treasure, he faces the hardships and hardships of survival, explores the calm and nature, vicissitudes and stubbornness in the hearts of the people, pays attention to people's will to survive, even if they do not marry under poverty, they also accept it calmly, and the difficult state of survival is only the bridge to reach the will to survive This is the cultural self-confidence of the border culture.
The key to non-fiction is that after passing through the truth, you can touch the temperature and the soul, so that the truth is not only the truth of the skin, but the truth of the essence, the truth of the self, the living history integrated into personal experience, such a text has a summoning, can give people a sense of ecstasy, overwhelmed intoxication. Liangshan "Ji" people, the sense of historical ruin, the sense of longevity, the feeling of the richness of life, all into it.
Wangqi "Liangshan Chronicle", feeling the heart of the earth, "Liangshan Chronicle" is a field note, a walking record, but also a documentary prose, true feelings, real sense, insight. Its language is simple, calm, soothing, there is a prose mentality and tone, not exaggerated and not fake, rather than poetry, novels, drama mentality and form, the plain and calm of prose is often contrasted with the exaggerated and restless poetry language, just like the contrast between the thin and thin rings and thick makeup.
It is in this mentality that we accept the author's language style, even if it is "kilometers", the usual use of kilometers, but the use of such a "foreign word", stubborn words like stubborn ancient road, stubborn old man, long time strange, but kind, we accepted this stubborn old man and his stubborn symbol, and see that there is a lot of "you are coming" greeting interest.
Originally published in Phoenix Weekly