The "Epic of the Great River" in Search of Spiritual Mysteries
——Reading Ran Ran's long poem "The Great River Goes"
Wen 丨 Chongqing Youyang No.1 Middle School teacher Nanfengzi
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"The Great River Goes", the great poet. In the poem, the great river, boundless and boundless, contains all kinds of things in the world: water droplets, nations, natural things, all living beings. It flows through the snowy rock valley, villages and towns, connecting the vast ocean, reflecting the history of the individual and the nation, and condensing the difficult process of human civilization. With his unique life realization, deep cosmic consciousness and cultural contemplation, the author constructs a poetic realm of truth and illusion with rich meanings (objects) and images, so that the works present a grand but delicate aesthetic character.
It came to a special point in time, February 2020 – people are experiencing a sudden epidemic. In difficult times, the poet absorbs perception wholeheartedly, immerses himself in contemplation, and in a magical moment, the river of the soul and the river of reality naturally converge, and the illusion rises into a thousand meteorological phenomena. The magnificent "great river" - the "objective counterpart" of the author's emotions, the idea of the whole poem. And everything in the aftermath of the world, the scenery of the four hours, the individual life in rotation, the evolution of human historical civilization... A variety of images rushed to "swim" into the vast river basin in an orderly manner. The whole poem rhymes through, and the beginning of the poem should be the end, and the end of the poem should be the first, successfully avoiding the drawbacks of some long Chinese poems "there are sentences and no parts".
The river is poetic and surging and naturally has an aura suitable for contemplation: it is also a sign of natural beauty, such as "in August the Yangtze River is clear, a thousand sails are light with wind", "chaotic stones pierce the air, the waves crash on the shore, roll up a thousand piles of snow"; or the carrier of all kinds of sentiments, such as "Ask the king how sad, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward", "Where is the sunset pass, the smoke wave river makes people sad"; or various philosophical metaphors, such as "life is infinite, the river and moon are only similar every year", "the deceased is like Sifu"... These are the three major tributaries of the great river in the history of poetry. In addition to inheritance, the poet further incorporates the individual life course, the essence of national culture, and the code of the human spirit, so that Dajiang has a richer and more meaningful life and new face.
"The river goes" and the inscription "Everything that was lost is back" outlines. Once in a while, they can be used as the eyes of the whole poem: they are the structural paradigms of life and death, the individual and the human being, and they are also the dialectics of historical development and the evolution of civilization.
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Multiply to swim in the heart.
Immersed in the realm of nature and art, the soul begins to illusion, like a drop of flexible water, into the stream into the lake, into the river into the sea, infinite evolution, and the same feeling of symbiosis with the river - it is me who is not me, it is the river that is not the river, the god is in the universe, the thing and I are integrated, the thing and I forget...
The glacial snowfields of early spring, the purple green velvet artemisia, light up the eyes; the sound of melting water droplets, awakening the ears. This is the hidden scenery of life in heaven and earth, the original beauty, beautiful and trembling: "Upside-down ice stalactite melting drops, / Cute tip, like the beak of a spotted goose." In the summer valley, clouds, sunlight, birds and fish shadows form a stereo painting: "At that moment, the sparse cirrocumulus clouds / distributed high in the sky, the sun will chirp cicadas / sprinkle to the surface of the water." The birds chanted, and the fish chirped." Autumn water city, fairy tale moving: "a blue sky like a wash, spacious thoroughfares, / towering towers and commercial buildings, above the wetlands / birds covering the sky, grass and trees / sowing purple gray green red brown orange yellow ..." "A light rail car/ driving by, like an accordion unfolding bellows". The mouth of the great river in winter is majestic and glows with the light of life: "The mouth of the Chengmu River, the river and the sea are infinite, / The nearshore earth is yellow and green and brown, the distant steel is blue, / Contains a rich and matchless sound and light, / The magic city of the never-ending sky where the soul and the shadow interact."
Sprouting from the source of the river, going through thousands of turns, ups and downs, flowing through snowy plateaus, huge rocky valleys, townships and cities, and finally merging into the ocean, this is a cycle of life. The mystery, harmony, and tranquility of the beginning of life: "The blue in front of you is / Not a real lake, but / A person's beloved; the white in front of you, / is not an ice field, but a delusional extinction." "This is followed by the purity of the original heart and spirit, the learning experience in the process of life growth, from the old smith, the sugar man painter to the winemaker, the mason... Even the cornice moss flowers, birds, insects and fish, it is these ordinary people and things, these primitive creative labors, that constitute the texture and chain of civilization. In the middle of the river, the autumn of life: "Lotus seeds sleep in lotus shells, osmanthus flowers sleep in gliding". In the lower reaches of the great river, the seasons enter the winter, and the hidden life of all things gives birth to the rotation of the next season: "The door of the future is open, and every road is / a new realm - in front of the eyes are droplets of water, / is pregnant, is germinated, is the blossoming, / is the uninhibited life, is the light of beauty and freedom." ”
The wanderer's perception of the relationship between natural areas and the evolution of civilization: "The hidden land islands at the mouth of the sea, / The real shipping port, the bridge across the sea ... / And these are all related to the melting of glaciers thousands of miles away , / Associated with the trickle of the snowy plateau". Observation of daily life: "Attentive eaters, heavy bowls, / deep smiles, just earthly feelings". Enlightenment of individual life and the community of life: "To grow, one must learn to claim those / Revelation and treasure - the golden rose at the feet, / The walkers of life, who reveal, dop/dwell in all things".
After the senses are "opened", sound and light, sweet and sour, bitter and spicy, hard and soft, cold and hot, everything is transformed without hindrance: "More want to go back to spring, rape flowers spread / large pieces of gold, bees vibrate the eardrum, / Hissing and humming music." The smell of flowers burning in the air has caused thousands of bees to rush." Like everything in the world, it seems to have a sharp heart: "Sparkling on the river, a wet/green-headed duck is watching you, it has just crossed /most of the country, patience is comparable to faith." / Your wings are also beginning to soar -/ What could be more interesting than flying with your strange self? / Your responsive gaze makes it firmly believe, / You are its distant self."
Plunge into Dahua, walk with the river, listen to the sound of the confluence of nature and civilization, and witness the scenery of the individual life journey.
Three
Sensual scenery, abundant affection; profound reason, wonderful combination and condensation.
The poet is in harmony with nature, integrates into the world, and scrutinizes human civilization. The upper, middle, and lower reaches of the river with different landforms, different hydrology, and special scenery have become a lyrical and rational medium, and a carrier of dialogue with heaven and earth and all things, history and humanities.
Because of his intuition and daily life, Zhesi is clear and perceptible, full of vivid vitality and aura: "The grand waters stretch to the far sky, / There are divers in the river: / Climbing the rope into the water, he took off his mirror, / Wiped his face, shouted to his boat partner ... / And the gate on the left bank slowly opened, / The water of the Lake of Tianliang was happy to return, the sound of the waves, / Answering what is Yue Na". The principle of acceptance is concretely presented as a grand landscape where rivers and lakes converge, which is not only a rhetorical technique, but also a fusion of sensibility and intellect.
Therefore, the philosophy in the poem may not be knocking on the door of reason, but pushing open the window of feeling and imagination. The reader relies not on reasoning and deduction, but on a sense of understanding: "A manne stone engraved with prayers, / taken out of the snowy plateau by the rapids, / Jump off the overhanging rock to bring the outside world / Pray all the way." Every time the treacherous waters swirl, / it gets more and more excited... You find its light and shadow, not with the eyes, / but with the heart of the ups and downs. / It says to you: All despair will / create you, and whoever carries happiness will also receive happiness. In the inner view, the hanging rock is just a "smooth road" with a slope of ninety, and the whirlpool of the dangerous shoal is more like a "roller coaster"; the desperate situation and the blessing are interchangeable, and the payment may often be another kind of reward. "The snow lotus blossoms on the rock walls, / This magical flower, five years of dormancy, / only for two months of growth and flowering. / If you blindly plant a tree, after hundreds of lifetimes, / Fang wins this life. "The preciousness and miracles of life are transformed into freehand shots." The great snowflakes, / The cotton flowers from the north, / From autumn to winter, it maintains the lightness of the clouds, / The whiteness of the frost dew. 'Come in, come in, / Bloom is a blessing—'" Snowflakes bloom like white cotton, and the next year will be the golden color of the harvest, and people can't help but cheer and praise... These swarming pictures make us feel enlightened and enjoy the rationality brought by an aesthetic perception.
The vigilance of life perception and the fullness of emotional experience make the philosophical ideas in the poem full of fun and wisdom, which is a spiritual motto and a sweetheart to heal heartbreak: "Your past life may have been a bird, / with black neck spots and orange mouth." / In the previous life, it is enchanting and tender. / A lifetime is too short, not even enough / Patching up a flaw; and the next life / Flaws change again. "Regret is the plain face of life, imperfection is the truth of life... In the meantime, there is the enlightenment of life, the aesthetic of mystery and mystery, and the detachment of the state of mind.
What is more exciting than the intentional reason and the two contracts of mind and matter are more exciting than the unintentional reason and the secret and the reason- although the poet at this time has no intention of discussing the metaphysical theory, the chosen meaning (object) image has been hidden from the mysteries, giving people the wisdom of the association: "Everything that is scattered between heaven and earth, / and again converges - the brown bear protrudes out of the cave, / The berries return to the branches, in front of the green cliff / A snow leopard steps by, the posture is calm, / Show the graceful king's temperament." The picture is vivid, pregnant with the harmonious beauty of wild life and nature, although it is not intended to be reasonable but righteous in it.
Four
Poetry writing is the discovery and invention of language.
Defamiliarization is the feeling that leads people to experience what has never been experienced, to look at inner and outer life with a new gaze in a pure state of mind, to enter the world essence and the origin of life, to obtain the most original experience, to give the first name to all things that exist - so that we have the sensual yardstick of re-measuring the world, to see those who seem to have experienced but have not seen: "How long is the time of life, / Can be subdivided in the flower fall, but also reunited at / parting: parents hurriedly left a full head / flying snow, wood hibiscus left a sparse flower shadow." ”
Novel language extends and expands your perception and aesthetics. In "Boat or Jindu", the "weaving" of the old smith matches the longitude and latitude of the years, kindness and forbearance, and the ears and eyes, which is novel and appropriate. The word "weaving" thus comes out of the dictionary and has a life and poetic generativeness. "Bliss is at hand, from moving/melting ice to tapestry-like flowing water". The extraordinary combination activates the poetry of the "tapestry", and a sparkling plateau river with fine water patterns appears.
The old words are another way for the poet to stimulate the poetry of language: "The riverbed is slowing down, the cliffs are standing, / The waves on the river are not happy." Weathered stakes, / hanging coffins living next to each other seem to declare / hide some kind of equivalent mystery in them. The use of "water waves are not happy" condenses the river scenery that is as gentle as a mirror, giving people unlimited time and space thinking." The "lighting" in the sentence "Green Velvet LightIng Eyes" may come from "May Durian Flowers Illuminate the Eyes", and "Dots" are more colored, dynamic and lifelike than "Illuminated". As the Jiangxi poetry school said, "taking the fetus and changing the bones", it is like coming out of oneself.
The use of ancient poetry rhymes: "Foam shattered, waves bulging, under the rocks / A thousand holes and a hundred tricks whispered: laying out the explanation / Should and cross-examine evidence, as if it is for the old rain and new knowledge..." There is both the elegance and brightness of the Song words, and the catchiness of the vernacular, achieving the effect of saying more with less and having a lively rhythm.
See the world poetically and reconstruct the experience of life: "The honey-colored flying insect that enters and exits the hive / will also bulge into a small bubble inside, / Draw out the sealed memory." In the flickering/multiplicity, you glimpse the constant and the simple. "Memories are precious because they are fleeting, and those moments that cannot be retained are frozen in the eternal spiritual landscape through the construction of poetry.
The poetic beauty of language is often accompanied by the light of intellect. For example, the secret connection between the individual and the human being: "Countless deaths, resurrection is always /one more time." "Self-redemption:" A mother wrapped her arms around herself: 'All dreams / are opposite, dreams die ... Be born. '/The kid on the beachhead flying a kite, pulling/slender spider silk, he was probing the speed of his dreams. For example, thinking about how to spend the journey of life: "The light boat, / Every time in the wind and waves there is no danger - / It depends not only on luck, but also on the mission, / The long journey of life must be interpreted by yourself." "Similar spiritual enlightenment, even if it is not fully realized for a while, will still be unforgettable, and in some cases it will become a cure. For example, the candlelight in the poem illuminates the dialogue of human nature: "There is a person who fishes at night, puts on an electric car and chats with the neighbor: 'This thing is addictive, and it can't stop as soon as it has a seizure.'" '/He teased his proclivities, and caught enough/, but still couldn't help it/went down to the river again and again and stretched out his fishing rod."
Using intuition and experience to screen language, polishing language with poetry and philosophy - the poet tirelessly "washes" through the gold mine of language, sets sail from the experience of individual life and then transcends himself, and in the process of exploring the mysteries of the human spirit, he can freely return to the spirit of heaven and earth, corresponding to the universe and time and space, and finally forged this "river epic" that "all things in the river" are "what it is".
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