Caption: "Cold Food Post"
We are also in an era of change, impetuousness replaces calmness, material replaces culture, the Forbidden City, cultural relics, "Cold Food Post"... Everything has become a dispensable symbol, and the power of time accumulated by the artwork is probably only time to bear.
Cold food post
Text | Wang Jing
Source | Sanlian Life Weekly, No. 5, 2013
"Time just passed, just stay here..."
In 2005, the National Palace Museum in Taipei made a movie called "Passing Through." The story starts from the melodious folk music erhu selling artists in front of "life's shortcomings, a bowl to bear", around the "Cold Food Post" and the three young people's respective persistent search layer by layer, through time and space, with the perspective of cultural relics to face the culture and the times.
Stills from "Passing Through"
"Cold Food Post" is two poems by Su Shi who was degraded to huangzhou's third year of cold food festival, because of the scene touching:
Since I came to Huangzhou, I have passed three cold foods, and I want to cherish spring every year, and I can't be sorry for spring. This year is raining again, and autumn is sluggish in February. Smell the begonia flowers, muddy swallows and snow. Stealing in the dark, the night is really powerful. He Shu was a sick teenager, and his illness had to be white.
The Spring River wants to enter the house, and the rain is coming. The hut is like a fishing boat, clouded in the clouds. Cook cold vegetables in the empty room, and burn wet reeds on a broken stove. That knows that it is cold food, but see Wu Street Paper. The king's gate is nine times deep, and the tomb is in the thousands of miles. I also want to cry poorly, and I can't afford to blow ashes.
"Cold Food Post" single word partial
The allusions of the Cold Food Festival came from "Junjun" and "Courtier", and Duke Wen of Jin died in order to pay tribute to Jiezi for not seeking Lilu and hugging the tree, and since then he has ordered the prohibition of fire and cold food on this day to show his remembrance. It was cold food again, "paper ashes flew into white butterflies, tears and blood stained into red cuckoos", Su Dongpo, who was relegated to Huangzhou for three years, borrowed his experience, and felt his Own Wutai poetry case, loneliness and hardship, and sloppy encounters were inevitably desolate, and due to fate, he wrote the "Cold Food Post" known as "the third line of the world's book".
From the meson push to Su Dongpo, in the face of the extreme cold of life are faced with choices, the meson push can not stand the same flow and choose to return with the mother, Su Dongpo is in the dilemma of "lying on the begonia flowers, muddy swallows and snow". This entanglement is not only revealed in the text, but also the calligraphic realm of the entire work is told. Different from the gorgeous calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty, the calligraphy of the literati of the Song Dynasty appears to be more natural and vigorous, perhaps inextricably linked to the great era of the country's broken mountains and rivers.
Time and space change, the camera shuttles, and a "Cold Food Post" occupies the wrong of fate. After the Qianlong Emperor saw this manuscript, he put it in the Inner Palace and sealed it with a poem. Among the calligraphy and paintings collected by Qianlong, the square seal of "Yi Descendants" is common, and it seems that he has long understood that thousands of generations are not as good as a note of calligraphy and painting. At the same time, it also leaves us with a space for thinking, that is, how do we view the cultural relics that have been calm after all the vicissitudes? How to face the culture that has been passed down for thousands of years?
A hundred years later, the calligraphy and painting treasures of "Yi Descendants" were trampled on in the Yuanmingyuan, and the remnants of the "Cold Food Post" were stained with the flames of World War II, and they traveled to the east and experienced the Great Tokyo Earthquake... It is no longer a sticker, a cultural relic, but a testimony to the fate of the entire country.
In Taiping, the original copy of "Cold Food Post" is still lying silently in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The paper roll is yellowed, and how many defects are carried. Su Shi's loneliness is like reincarnation, and in this era, many people still have to face it. Just like the island in "Passing", his grandfather once participated in the restoration of "Cold Food Post" in Tokyo, and the shock he received also affected him, but he still could not understand it after all, until he encountered exclusion at work; just like Toyoko in "Passing", who was struggling to cling to the disappearance of his father and the distant departure of his first love; just like us in life, "secretly stealing, the night is really powerful", the years have passed away, the illness is white, and when he begins to melt into the vicissitudes of the world, his eyes are confused, where to go?
Time is only passing, and people are only passing.
Of course, it is not only people who are struggling with ups and downs, but also this era. Back to the "Cold Food Thesis", around 1082 was the era of the Song Dynasty's reform and reform, the new and old forces collided, and Su Shi became a victim of the New Deal and was imprisoned. However, the backbone of the literati has not been broken, and after regaining the "Snow Hall", the eastern slope is still "picking up all the cold branches and refusing to perch". We are also in an era of change, impetuousness has replaced calmness, material has replaced culture, the Forbidden City, cultural relics, "Cold Food Post"... Everything has become a dispensable symbol, and the power of time accumulated by the artwork is probably only time to bear.