Spring is a season for reading, especially poetry. 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", describes a magnificent historical and cultural landscape between 23 poems. "Literature is the wise man of history, and history is the rich mine of literature." The accumulation of culture between words and sentences forms poetry, which shows a mysterious power in our minds.
"Spring and Autumn":
A collection of historical and cultural essays by scholar, writer, and literary critic Li Fang. "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" and so on. Each essay revolves around a historical figure or a historical story, so the selected poems are also associated with their corresponding content, thus serving as a reading prompt for the reader. In the collision of the author's ideas again and again, the Chinese culture is displayed in a long-range, broad and profound way.
"I don't know who cut out the fine leaves, the spring breeze in February is like scissors", the willows in early spring and February can already be watched by people; "the light rain on the street is as crisp as crisp, the grass color is close but there is none", the most beautiful early spring scenery in the year is far better than the late spring of the green willow city; "sneaking into the night with the wind, the moisturizer is silent", attracting people to appreciate the warmth of the rain and rain.
In the new book "The Great Spring and Autumn" by the writer Li Fang, the article "Seven Faces of Chengdu" begins with Du Fu's "Spring Night Happy Rain", she writes: "The Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) said that there are two things in a person's life that will not be forgotten, one is the face of the mother, and the other is the face of the city. However, as urban renewal continues to advance, more and more memories that accompany our growth are fading away. After a long time, looking back at the galloping years, how many city faces can remain in the depths of our memories? Needless to say, there must be Chengdu among them. In this chapter, Li Fang tells the reader in depth about Chengdu's past and present, traditions and development.
Li Fang:
Scholar, writer, and literary critic. He is a member of the Plenary Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, the vice president of the China Essay Literature Association, and a member of the Literary and Art Theory Review Committee of the China Writers Association. Over the past few decades, he has worked tirelessly, and his works have been published in newspapers and periodicals such as "People's Daily", "Guangming Daily", "China Youth Daily", "People's Literature", "Zhong Shan", "October", "Writers", "Everyone" and other newspapers and periodicals. He has published works such as "Restless Muse", "Exploding in thunder", "Dry on Paper", "Devil's Contract", "Castle in Bagpipes - Edinburgh Chronicle", etc.; has been opening columns in the "National Humanities and History" magazine for many years; and in 2017, he edited the large-scale literary book series "Selected Library of Famous Artists on the Silk Road".
Using poetry as a medium, it shows the vast world. In this book, the author selects 23 poems, each of which begins with a poem. From the Spring and Autumn Warring States to the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, from the famous people of the ages to the ancient city of Youyou, from the cultural relics to the mountains and rivers and the world, in these magnificent and profound historical and cultural fields, the author drifted, searched, pondered, questioned, remembered, criticized, loved, and worried, and wrote a magnificent and abundant, profound, legendary and wise great historical and cultural landscape.
In this historical essay note, Li Fang not only shared his profound thoughts as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but also had his own rural documentary essays in recent years. The ordinary family life and ordinary families who have seen and heard in the process of poverty alleviation in the mountainous areas have converged into a beautiful era of our common life today. Visited Xichang on the snowy plateau, Liangshan on the cliffs, Guyuan in the barren world, Xiangxi on the banks of the Wuling River, and Xiangyang in the seven provinces. In Li Fang's pen, there is a better and better China.
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 problems that she had never thought deeply about, 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."
Q-Beijing Youth Weekly
A- Li Fang
Spring and autumn is an attitude towards life
Q Why is the title of this new book called "Spring and Autumn"? Is there any special meaning?
A Spring and Autumn, there are many kinds of connotations, we often say: Spring and Autumn Brushwork, Spring and Autumn Accumulation Order, Spring and Autumn Peak, Spring and Autumn Blame the Sages... Spring and Autumn refers to time, but also an attitude of life, a outlook on life, a world view, a cosmology, and a methodology.
Spring and Autumn, Shi Ye, Shi Ye. The ancient ancestors' sacrifices of spring and autumn gave the word a distinct temperament of agricultural civilization, spring planting and autumn harvest, spring and autumn fruits, spring leeks and autumn pines, spring dew and autumn frost, spring flowers and autumn moons. The beautiful words in the classics carry the beautiful expectations of the ancestors and also harvest the beautiful blessings of the ancestors. Spring to autumn, the four seasons reincarnated, the achievement of China's 5,000 years of Haohao soup.
In the spring and autumn, humanity is also the way of heaven. It was in this era that ancient China, together with ancient Greece, ancient India, and ancient Israel, began the "awakening of ultimate care," and human civilization, still in its childhood, had completed its first major breakthrough in thought. In the place of origin of the four civilizations, people invariably chose to face the world in a rational and moral way, thus achieving the "axial era" of world civilization. At the same time, those ancient civilizations that did not achieve breakthroughs, such as the Babylonian culture and the Egyptian culture, although they were large in scale, eventually difficult to get rid of the fate of extinction and became fossils of culture.
In my opinion, Spring and Autumn is a kind of memory and an awakening. Great Spring and Autumn, these three words contain too much and too much, I hope to use these three words to pay tribute to the great time.
Q Each essay in this collection begins with a unique opening of poems, with a total of 23 poems, how did you choose these 23 poems to open?
A Because each article is a historical figure or a historical story, I chose to use a poem related to this character or story as a reading prompt.
Q In the preface to this book, "Where the Years Remain Blank", you wrote that the history of literary artists such as Sima Qian is unique, and the writing of literature is in the depths of history, and even more in the blank space of the years, how do you view the relationship between literary writing and history?
Literature is the wise man of history, and history is the rich mine of literature.
Xu Shen's "Commentaries on the Interpretation of Texts" says: "History, the chronicler also; from the middle and holding, Zhongzheng also." "The original meaning of history is actually the chronicler, that is, the historian who records history. In the West, the multilingual concept of history is derived from the Greek historia, that is, investigation and inquiry, from the ancient Greek historian Herodotus's book Historia.
History includes all the past, as well as the recording and reflection, study and interpretation of the past. In this way, history has three characteristics, one is the consciousness of time, the second is the presence of ideas, and the third is the openness to the future. Time is fluid, today's tomorrow is tomorrow's yesterday, the future history is the future of the past, the meaning of history lies in the continuous discovery of the real past, and constantly use new discoveries to correct the fallacies and misreadings of the past, which is precisely the value of historical research, and in the places that historians cannot reach and cannot reach, so that the details of history become more abundant and rich, it is precisely the meaning of the existence of writers.
Q There is an article in the book, "Spring and Autumn in the Spring and Autumn Era", which tells the dialogue between Confucius and Lao Tzu, two giants of Chinese culture, what kind of inspirational significance do you think the collision of their ideas has for today's readers?
A I also wrote my expectations in the preface to this book - human beings have experienced one change after another, one migration after another, the age 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.
History tells us that a country and a nation can never leave their ideals and beliefs; it also tells us how a country and a nation can maintain ideals and convictions. Learning from the ancient is not muddy, breaking the law is not contradictory, inheritance is not rigid, innovation is not alienated, this is the law of scholarship, but also the law of creation, in fact, it is very difficult.
Q Is there a bottleneck period in your creative work? How will this time be spent?
A there is no bottleneck, only contradiction. One of the most difficult is the allocation of time, because of the working relationship, the time that can be freely used every day is too little and too little, not enough time, which is the most painful place for me, so I cherish those silent and undisturbed nights, cherish those moments of thought.
I would love to say that in this book that uses history to connect, I would like to remind the reader that the lesson of forgetting the tragedies of history and repeating tragedies is lost.
Q Do you have any writing plans in the future? If so, can you tell us what the theme is?
A there are a lot of plans. I just finished writing a book called The Twelve Hours of China. Immediately in the process is a book on the return of the remains of the martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and now I am doing desk work, and many details are shocking.
Wen Wang Yajing
Edited by Han Haha
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