West Lake Essay (essay)
Text/Wang Yishang
"I have seen this lake in the past years, but I do not believe that there is this lake in the world. Today, I passed by the lake, and the painter still owes a lot of work. This is a poem written by a Japanese envoy after visiting the West Lake during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. In the summer of 2004, on a chance to go to the south to investigate, I came to hangzhou's West Lake.
Among the literati and inkers of the past generations, there are countless articles and poems about the West Lake, and for many domestic tourists, even if they first visit the West Lake, it is inevitable that there is some sense of déjà vu. Because whether it is the story of the drama or the movie "The Legend of the White Snake", it is almost a household name and has become an image in Chinese culture. But in the words of the famous writer Yu Qiuyu, "It is possible to visit the West Lake, but it is difficult to get close, because it became famous too early, the ruins are too dense, the name is too heavy, and the landscape pavilions are too involved with history, and the result is a very thick place of symbolic objects." ”
Standing on the shore of the West Lake, I have long forgotten the law and rush all the way from the north to Suzhou and Shanghai, and the turquoise water of the West Lake sparkles under the afternoon sun, adding a charm to the charming lake. Listen to people who have been to the West Lake, if you swim in the West Lake in the drizzle, the scenery will be more beautiful and charming.
On boarding the oil tanker to Geling Huxin Island, I couldn't help but think of a picture of an ancient absolute published in the "Spring City Evening News" in Yunnan In the last century (March 23, 1982). It is said that when Su Dongpo was serving as a magistrate in Hangzhou, there was a year of the Qingming Festival, and some high-ranking officials and nobles, literati and scholars, asked him to board a boat and swim in the West Lake. A singer carried a tin jug to pour wine for Su Dongpo, and accidentally dropped the jug into the lake. Immediately, an unknown literati came out with a shanglian: "Swim in the West Lake, lift the tin pot, the tin pot drops the West Lake, sorry, the tin pot!" "The full ship screamed, but no one responded, you looked at me, I looked at you, and finally put their hopes on Su Dongpo, but unfortunately Su Dongpo thought left and right, and there was no lower link, so he had to pretend to be drunk and play unhappily. Since then, this couplet has become an absolute for eternity, and there was no lower link until the date the newspaper published it. More than 20 years have passed, and I am sorry to know that I have not heard of it, and I do not know whether anyone has continued to make a continuous link.
Visiting the West Lake, the most comfortable thing for me is the Su Causeway (it is rumored that Bai Juyi also built a white causeway), which let me see the su dongpo that is truly outstanding in the field of beauty. It is also the most beautiful scenery that can make Chinese literati raise their eyebrows. This great literary hero and great poet did not pursue elegance, nor even for any cultural purpose, but purely to relieve the suffering of the local people, to benefit the people, build water conservancy, dredge the lake to repair the embankment, and finally leave a long life in the West Lake. No wonder the Qing dynasty cha rong once gave a poem to the Su Causeway: "Su Gong built this on that day, not for the sake of the people's ears." It is precisely the artists who know the most about sightseeing, but they are reluctant to carve their cultural images into tourist objects, so such a has become a natural scenery that is particularly holy and dazzling in the West Lake. I, who have always been unkind to the gods, bowed three times in front of the statue of the cultural master.
The vibrant green lotus on the surface of Jimu Lake can't help but remember Yang Wanli's "After all, in the middle of June in the West Lake, the scenery is not the same as the four o'clock." The lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are different from the red". "Through the thin clouds, I seem to see the Xizi girl more than two thousand years ago in the lake huan yarn, the water splashing skirt yarn in the oblique wind and unconscious, the opposite high Leifeng Pagoda, although formally reconstructed, is still interpreting the love legend of Xu Xian and the White Lady, heaven and earth, is really a spiritual rich. There is also the span of the broken bridge, just a few steps away, there are eighteen send-offs, suppressed and frustrated, swinging intestines, and it is only a myth, but it is so permanent that Liang Zhu's long-term affection is vented, just like witnessing the pupa butterfly, enjoying the singing of the ages. There is also Lin Hejing, who sang for eternity with two sentences (YongMei poem) by the West Lake with "the shadow is shallow and shallow, and the dark incense floats in the dusk of the moon" (YongMei poem), who avoided the hustle and bustle of the official market, lived in a lonely mountain for more than 20 years, took Mei as his wife and the crane as his son, devoted himself to the tomb of Yue Fei, and Su Xiaoxiao, a Qiantang singer who loved mountains and rivers all his life... All of them cast a group of emotional statues that are full of charm and charm.
In general, the snake fairy, Liang Zhu, Yuexi Girl, and Dazhi Xizi Lake have never lacked the moisture of love, and they are all the best in the best place, popular among the population, and endless. Otherwise, how can the shores of West Lake today still be so enchanting and so moving?
Published in 2008.5.31.Heze School of Journalism "Reporter's Cradle" newspaper, 2013.12 selected for the 94th issue of the Journal of the China Writers Association "Writers' Fine Literature"
【About the author】:Wang Yishang (pen name Cordyceps sinensis), born in 1957, is a government employee and a member of the Communist Party of China. He was once employed as the deputy editor-in-chief of the editorial department of the "Reporter's Cradle" newspaper of Shandong Heze Journalism Institute. Since 1979, he has published works in the army, and has published more than 3,000 works. His works have been published in Heze Daily, Dazhong Daily, Peony Literature, Writers and Readers, Modern Writers Literature, Times Literature, Essence of Writing, World Poetry and Literature, Great Northwest Poets, Northern Lights, Literature, Selected Contemporary Chinese Masters, Selected Contemporary Literature, Ginseng Flowers, and Oriental Collections. Gold List Famous Articles- Selected Works of Cultural and Creative Achievements in the Past Forty Years", "Literature of Great Love in the New Century. There are nearly 100 literary websites such as newspapers and magazines such as "Selected Works of Chinese Rural Poetry" and "Selected Chinese Rural Poems", and have won more than 80 commendations and awards at the provincial and municipal levels. His works have been selected for the "Qilu Literary Works Annual Exhibition" for many times, the essay "Spring to crescent bay", and in August 2021, he was selected as a fourth-grade Chinese reading textbook. He is a member of the Shandong Provincial Writers Association, the Shandong Prose Literature Association, the Heze Writers Association, the China Writers Network, the Blue V Poets of the China Poetry Network, the contracted writers of the Jiangshan Literature Network, and the director of the Dingtao District Writers Association.
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