The train is speeding, and the window is full of sunshine, the fields spread out under the sun, the peaceful trees and villages on the fields.
A middle-aged man came down from the horizon and walked along the winding path, walking among the vast heavens and the earth. Dark clothes, jacket open, two arms tossed back and forth, eyes fixed a few steps away, he did not look around the fields on either side, nor did he look up at the train. He walked a little hastily and seemed to frown. Maybe he lives on a nearby farm and is a little thirsty just after finishing his job, maybe he hates it.
What about me, me and the people on the train, who are we? I saw him walking, like a painting, a dream, imprinted in the depths of my soul, and he did not see us. For him, we don't exist, just a train passing by, another train. Maybe he was born here, longed for the train as a child, dreamed of being taken by the train and going far away. Maybe he went and came back, and yes, there was nothing here, but elsewhere too, the whole world was empty, and these trains, too, are empty now.
The earth, the fields, the woods, the houses, the villages, the people, the cycle, the train is like a projector, playing the same silent film of life. Another spring, all things flash the light of revelation in the eternal position, happiness is everywhere, as long as you want, stop and sip.
The Train Is The Scene (three books)
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Toast the wine to the east wind and calmly
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"Jiuquanzi"
(Tang) Sikong Tu
Buy the apricot blossoms, and return from ten years to the beginning.
The artificial mountain west bank medicine is east, full of red branches.
Spinning around and spinning into the air, white-haired lovers are more sorry.
At dusk, I toast the wine to the east wind and calmly.
The French writer Flaubert said, "My principle is not to write about myself." In his works, the artist is like God in creation, invisible and untouchable but incomparably powerful, and its existence can be felt everywhere, but it cannot be seen anywhere. ”
This artistic concept was also expressed in a similar way by the Tang Dynasty poet SiKong Tu in "Twenty-Four Poetic Works implicitly": "Without writing a word, do your best; if the language does not involve itself, if it is not worrying." No matter what the writer writes, it is a projection of self-consciousness, a stem of grass, a stone, a piece of broken glass, a road, anything, you can write a work, if you write well, every word and every sentence in it can feel the existence of the author, why do you have to write yourself. To speak is not to write about oneself; if one is overwhelmed, one is to incarnate into all things and to be concerned with all things.
This song "Jiuquanzi" is a good interpretation of Sikong Tu's interpretation of "implicit". This word ostensibly writes apricot blossoms, writes planting flowers, waiting for flowers, enjoying flowers, sighing flowers, it seems that there is no word involved in oneself, that is, it does not involve his own experiential world, but writing apricot blossoms can illuminate his life, and different people will read it, and will also generate different landscapes.
"Buy the apricot blossoms, return to the first place after ten years", from buying apricots to plant, to seeing the apricot blossoms bloom, there was a gap of ten years in between. Planting almond trees, but two or three years, you can flower and bear fruit, "ten years back", it can be seen that it was only planted soon, before the flowers bloomed, people left their hometown. However, why is it said that "Fang Shi Di"? This is a fiction, and ten years later, the poet Fang first saw the apricot blossoms blooming for him.
Where do the apricot blossoms bloom? How's it going? "False Shanxi West Bank Medicine East, full of red branches", it was opened in the place where it was planted that year, and the east side of the fake Mountain West Bank Medicine Bar is still here. This sentence is very affectionate, worth slowly recalling, we can imagine that for ten years, the poet should often think of this almond tree, when planting, should carefully choose a good location, wandering every spring, he must think: I don't know if the apricot blossoms have bloomed? At this time he finally returned, saw "full of red branches", and in his eyes, the apricot blossoms burned with the enthusiasm of longing.
"Spiraling and spinning into the air", waiting for ten years, only to see the flowers bloom, the flowers bloomed for less than ten days, and there was nothing. Spinning open and spinning into the air, three "spins", just like three gusts of wind blowing through. What is this metaphor? There are many metaphors that can be used. When I was a child, I looked forward to the first day of the Chinese New Year, looked forward to the temple fair after the spring, hoped and hoped, finally arrived, and when I arrived at that day, I felt sudden, and that day also passed suddenly, everything was empty at dusk, and my heart was very sad, and I couldn't tell anyone.
"White-haired and multi-lovers are more sorry", multi-lovers are more sad, and after returning from the situation, they are ten years old, and when they reach the age of understanding, they know that good times are easy to pass away and good times are not long, everything is a matter of the moment. The Northern Song Dynasty poet Song Qi wrote in "The Waves and Sands Near": "The teenager does not care, the streamer is like an arrow, and he does not feel shaohua changing according to the rules." Until now, the moon is full, the flowers are full, and the wine is full. The word "first regret" is important, floating like a dream, life geometry, after understanding, first know to cherish.
"At dusk, toast the wine to the east wind, and calmly", toast the wine to the east wind, beg for spring light and do not hurry, and ask people to get more time to spend. The whole word is inseparable from the apricot blossom, reading it has a sense of vicissitudes, people and things and time, the relationship between the three, just a few sentences, implying endless meaning.
Northern Song Dynasty Zhao Chang "Sketching Apricot Blossom Diagram"
Red apricots, intertwined branches
River Legend
(Late Tang) Zhang Bi
Red apricots, intertwined, dense and dense.
A garden of strong green wind, fragrant through the curtain.
The oblique sun is like a common spring light language, butterflies compete and dance, and more drain the warbler's jealousy.
Souls sold in front of a thousand pieces of jade bottles, immortals, Yaochi drunk twilight.
When the apricot blossoms first bloom, they are red and fragrant, gradually opening and becoming whiter, and the fragrance is fading. The upper piece of the word, depicting thoughtfulness, subtle and not complicated, writes the beauty of red apricots from different angles. These few sentences can see the talent of the author, even if my generation has seen a tree of red apricots, it may not be able to have a rich sense of sensitivity, and even if there is, it may not be able to find the most accurate word. What is talent? The Russian writer Chekhov once gave an example of describing a table as it was, which was much more difficult than writing about the cultural history of Europe.
"Red apricots, intertwined branches, dense and dense", this is a close look, dotted with red apricot branches, overlapping each other, reflecting each other, dense and dense, flowers bloom like the sea. In the next few sentences, the perspective moves to the interior, "a garden is rich in the east wind, the incense melts through the curtain", the flowers and trees bloom in the courtyard, the poet looks at it from a distance, and writes his intuitive feelings: a garden is rich. The slightly swaying flower branches, leaning on the spring breeze to dream lazily, the rich floral fragrance blends into the wind and penetrates into the curtain.
The next piece is spring. In the poet's feeling, red apricots, branches, spring wind, flowers, oblique suns, butterflies, warblers, all things have souls, and their souls are bright and fragrant. The slanting sun not only shines on the flowers and trees, but also speaks with the spring light. "Butterflies fight and dance, and more drain the warbler's jealousy", Li Shangyin's poem can be annotated for this sentence: "How can Qiao Qiao have no original intention, and there may not be a good period on a good day" ("Flowing Warbler").
"In front of the soul selling a thousand pieces of jade, the immortals, Yaochi drunk in the twilight." The last few words, sorry for the good day. At dusk, the spring light, the flowers and trees, and the bottle of wine make people intoxicated, make people feel like gods, and are drinking and feasting in the Yao pond of the Queen Mother of the West.
Ming Wu Bin's "Wen Xing Double Bird Diagram"
On a spring day trip, apricot blossoms blow all over your head
"Si Di Xiang"
(Tang) Wei Zhuang
Spring day trip, apricot blossoms blowing all over the head,
Strangers who are young and full of wind.
The concubine intends to marry her for the rest of her life.
Even if you are ruthlessly abandoned, you cannot be ashamed.
The words include those who write about the scenery into the gods, such as Zhang Bi's "River Biography" above; there are those who have wonderful feelings, such as Wei Zhuang's "Si Di Xiang". The five generations of literati in the late Tang Dynasty were known for their euphemisms and subtlety, but many of Wei Zhuang's lyrics were refreshing and straight, the tone was resolute, the emotions were deep, and they were full of folk songs and the rustic flavor of the Northern Dynasty Music House.
"Spring day trip, apricot blossoms blow all over the head", the beginning, fresh and fresh. Women travel in the spring, walking in the countryside, "apricot blossoms blowing all over the head", spring is bright, spring breeze is beautiful. The tone of this sentence is cheerful, and as soon as a woman plays, she can make people immediately perceive the cheerfulness of her personality.
"Strangers to who are young, full of wind", spring travel, it is a good time to meet and meet, not only men look at women, women also look at men. Seeing and being seen, hunting and being hunted, ancient and modern, the stage set is different, the ancient countryside is replaced by the present street.
Despite this, the ancients loved more bluntly and energetically than today's people, and there were fewer tricks of today's ghosts and tricks. "The concubine intends to marry and rest for a lifetime", the woman does not doubt her enthusiasm, let alone hides, and loves him without argument, completely following the heartbeat. Especially in ancient times, "marrying the body and resting for a lifetime", how much risk should be taken and how much courage was needed.
But she fearlessly said: "Even if you are ruthlessly abandoned, you can't be ashamed", and she will not regret it even if she is abandoned. Such a woman is really spicy and admirable. Thinking of "The Tale of the West Chamber", this script is in the Tang legend "The Legend of the Warbler", and in contrast, the story of "The Tale of the Warbler" is more modern and more complex of human nature, although the lyrics of "The Tale of the West Chamber" are absolutely beautiful. Careless readers tend to think of "The Tale of yingying" as a story that is chaotic and abandoned, but this is not the case (as to whether the author Yuan Shu borrows the legend to whitewash himself, that is another matter), from the text alone, Cui Yingying should be responsible for his own ending. Yingying City Mansion is very deep, suffering from gain and loss, joy is not in shape, the attitude is half abandoned, even if her mother has agreed and made a relationship with Zhang Sheng, she does not show her feelings in front of Zhang Sheng, does not play the piano in front of him, no longer answers with his poetry, even if he repeatedly requests, she will categorically refuse. Such a personality, not only Zhang Sheng claims that "I don't know its changes", but even today, it is difficult to get along.
Speaking of this song, the woman's love thoughts begin with apricot blossoms and end with apricot blossoms, and love is a flower affair. The apricot blossom blows all over the head, which is both a gesture of beauty and a word of faithful love.
Finally, I would like to share with you a modern poem, "Linguistics" by the German Jewish poetess Hilde Domin:
You have to talk to the fruit trees.
Create a new language,
The language of cherry blossoms,
The word for apple blossom,
Pink, white words,
The wind carried them away quietly.
Go talk to the fruit trees
If you suffer injustice.
Learn to be silent
In that pink and white language.
Fruit trees blossom, but aren't they talking? However, their linguistic law is silence, and poetry is precisely the speech of silence. Before and after the poem, between the lines of the poem, the silence is like an underwater iceberg, invisible but clear and perceptible.
Hilde Domin, who also wrote about the apricot blossoms in another poem titled "The Return," said: "Next to the house of my childhood / In the february weather, / The almond tree blossomed." / I have dreamed of / That apricot blossom blooms. ”
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