Between Waking Dreams - Reading "The Great Wall Assertion - Selected Literary Works of Xie Jiuzhong"

In January 2022, Beijing Publishing House published the "Collected Works of Yu Chuan" edited by Qiao Yu, which included the book "Great Wall Assertion - Selected Literary Works of Xie Jiuzhong". The 253,000-word book, divided into three parts: poetry, prose, and novel, comes from the author's work from the 1980s to the early 1990s, most of which were published. It includes the author's works published in newspapers and periodicals such as Poetry Journal, Stars, Novel Newspaper, Literature and Art Daily, Beijing Literature, Beijing Daily, and Beijing Evening News. At that time, it was very difficult to publish articles in the press. This article talks about some of the poems and essays in "Selected Literary Works of Xie Jiuzhong" to talk about my feelings after reading.

First, do things like mountains, and be like water

Nothing can stop the one called history / Horseshoe / Liaojin Yuanqing in battle armor / Like a flock of iron-colored crows / Flapping the shining wings of swords and guns / Whistling from the beginning / The old Linggong was praised for the enemy / Golden Knife / Thin in the air above the Yanmen Gate / A hook of the moon / Wearing the broken prison clothes of mountains and rivers / Wen Tianxiang chanted "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang" / From the distant southeast sea / All the way to Beijing / And the Badaling Great Wall / On the piece that suppressed history / On the Wangjing Stone / There is still Li Zicheng when he entered Beijing / Horseshoe under the stamp

Only the Great Wall / Tied to the sunrise and sunset / Habitually watching the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry field turn / and the repeated punctuation of the bucket turning the stars / and standing yourself / Standing hard / Ridge / With brick and stone thick page numbers / Carefully cleaned and bound / Every chapter of the change of dynasties / Paragraphs of rise and fall / With the multiplication of the people Trivial / Sentences / Put a ten-thousand-page long national history book / Leave it to future generations to read

A memory scar / A cultural landscape / The Great Wall / The Great Wall - excerpted from Xie Jiuzhong's poem "Great Wall Thoughts"

In the great wall tour, the poet interweaved history and reality into images, and wrote the colors seen and imagined sounds into poems. History after history, picture after picture, passion after passion... It's dizzying and eye-catching. "Great Wall Thoughts" evokes the reader's imagery and interest with one wonderful clip after another, with a big mood, a big feeling, and a moving heart. This reminds me of the Southern and Northern Dynasties poet Xie Lingyun's "Climbing the Highest Peak of the Stone Gate": looking for a cliff in the morning and resting in the mountains at sunset. Thin peak anti-high pavilion, on the ridge lining the back stream... I also thought of Xie Lingyun's "Twilight of the Years": "Yin is worried and can't sleep, and it is difficult to suffer this night." The moon shines on the snow, and the wind is strong and mournful. Transported to no drowning, the year has passed away."

Xie Lingyun has a deep worry in "Twilight", the night can not sleep, the long night is endless, unbearable. The moon shone on the cold snow, and the north wind was fierce and fierce. The fortunes of the world die with time. A year is about to pass, and his life is mercilessly urged.

Whether it is "Great Wall Thoughts" or "Twilight of the Years", there is no desolate and lonely charm, ancient and modern poets express the poet's cognition and helplessness about life, regret for life and sorrow for the lack of success in his career. There is no permanent thing in the world, and everything will die over time. Their sentiments are not passive and low, but solemn and broad, to "leave a 10,000-page long national history book / leave it for posterity to read."

Space and time, this shore and the other shore, two poets broke their boundaries. If you are not crazy, there must be no good poetry, and poets of ancient and modern times are dreamers and fantasists. The hundred poems created by xie Lingyun, a poet of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, became the founder of ancient landscape poetry on the mainland, influenced the poetry creation of the Tang Dynasty, and eventually the Tang Dynasty appeared in the landscape idyllic poetry genre.

Some poets today have a number of family treasures for Tang poetry, but they rarely introduce Xie Lingyun of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but do not forget that Li Bai has great respect for Xie Lingyun and is ashamed of himself: "My people sing songs, and I am ashamed of my happiness." According to some statistics, Li Bai's poems quoted a total of 101 times xie Lingyun's poems, such as "And looking for mountains and rivers from recreation, why swim east to enter the guild", "Idle peeping stone mirror clear my heart, Xie Gongxing is not moss". Another example is "Ground Fan Zou Lu Xue, Shi Teng Yan Xie Ming" (Li Bai's "Farewell to the Dukes of Jinling"). In addition to Li Bai's admiration of Xie Lingyun, other great poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Du Fu, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, and Wei Yingwu, longed for him in their hearts. Du Fu's poem: "Yan De Si is like Tao Xie hand, so that the canal is written and traveled together." Bai Juyi's "Reading Xie Lingyun Poems": "I have heard the Tao of The Master, and I am poor and obedient to the number of meditations." When the court comes, the poor go to the rivers and lakes. Xie Gongcai fell and did not meet the world. Ambition is not needed, there must be some leakage. Vented into landscape poetry, yi rhymes with humor and curiosity. The great must cage the sky and the sea, and the grass and trees are not left behind. He only plays with the scenery, but also wants to save his heart. Often, in the midst of the matter, we have not forgotten the exhortation. Because of the knowledge of recreation, not only in the chapters and sentences.".

Xie Lingyun (385~433), the founder of the shanshui poetry genre in the history of Chinese literature, was the grandson of Xie Xuan, a famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was known as Xie Ke. Xie Lingyun inherited the title of "Gong of Kangle" at a young age, and three thousand households were eaten, and he was known as "Xie Kangle", and the Book of Jin recorded the "Collection of Xie Lingyun". At that time, the north was invaded by the Wuhu, and most of the Han people's literary atmosphere was concentrated in Jiangnan. Whenever Xie Kangle's poems were transmitted to the town, the dicks rushed to tell each other, competed to copy, and moved the beijing master. Xie Kangle changed the obscure style of Xuanyan poetry since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the words were clear and beautiful, bright and vivid, which was fascinated by the literati at that time. Today, Xie Kangle's legacy still exists, the landscape is flexible and natural, and I read its charm in the poetry of Xie Jiuzhong, who is now a man.

Twelve Peaks of Wushan Mountain / Twelve Slender Artistic Fingers / Playing Slowly and Slowly / The Strings of the Three Gorges Being Tightened by the Shocking Waves / You Gently Pull / Li Bai's Light Boat Is Like a Musical Note / In the Blink of an Eye, It Flies Over the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains / Forever Moored in Tang Poetry / Yu Yun Yuan/ Du Gongbu's Ark Chiseled with Seven Laws / Very Steadily Sailed into the Mood of the Wind and Sky / Also Entered the Line of Your Song /

And you slowly twist / White Emperor City / Is a low part of the Three Kingdoms / Like a cry / Thousands of years to knead a high note / Three Gorges Dam / Symphony that shocks the soul / But it is no longer a line-mounted musical score /

Twelve Peaks of Wushan / Twelve Slender Artistic Fingers

——Excerpt from Xie Jiuzhong's poem "The Twelve Peaks of Wushan Mountain"

"The Twelve Peaks of Wushan Mountain" has love in the scene, there is a scene in the love, no carving, fresh and natural, is a kind of depiction of the poet's romantic realm. Although it is not reality, how can you not feel the trembling of the heart in the face of these verses? The twelve slender artistic fingers are because there is always a wish in the heart, and may the world be full. May the winter night of the wind and snow be accompanied by good people, red mud and small fire, tea and wine. May there be a confidant in the world of the world, and walk in the same way. Xie Jiuzhong's poems are reflected in the meticulous depiction of subtle scenes, and also show the colorful landscapes, which makes people have a feeling of "everyone has it in their eyes, but nothing in their pen".

"Spring grass grows in the pond, the garden willow becomes a songbird", "Spring Festival Gala Green Wild Show, Rock High White Cloud Tun", "Wild Sand Shore Net, Sky High Autumn Moon", "Dense Forest Contains Yu Qing, Far Peak Hidden Half-Rule"... These classic verses of Xie Lingyun's poetry use natural scenery to create a long-term artistic conception, expressing their poetic feelings of wandering in the mountains and rivers, untamed and even empty-eyed.

In my opinion, Xie Jiuzhong has the same magic. Landscape poems in "The Great Wall's Assertion- Selected Literary Works of Xie Jiuzhong", such as "Night Rain" and "Fourteen Lines of Summer". Six poems in the group", "The Depths of Autumn", "Snow Valley", "Years in the Mountains". Eight Poems in a Group of Poems" and so on, with emotional expression as the table and the words in the chest as the purpose, forming a unique natural and humanistic scene of contemporary Beijing Yanqing landscape poetry. The landscape poems of the ancients and the present reveal their appreciation for nature and inherit the lyrical poetic style of Jian'an literature. I saw: Yanqing poetry returned to the natural tradition.

Why do Chinese people love landscape poetry? There are many reasons, and here I only express the philosophical poetry of "doing things like mountains, being like water".

The wall stands tall, and the desireless is rigid. The mountain has the wind and bone of the mountain, a thousand peaks and a thousand valleys; the mountain has the connotation of the mountain, and the smoke is swirling and meandering. Do things like mountains, steady and down-to-earth. Xinchang County, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (before the Tang Dynasty belonged to The County), where there is Tianmu Mountain. Li Bai has "Lake Moon Illuminates My Shadow and Sends Me to The Creek" in "Sleepwalking in Heaven and Leaving Farewell". Xie Gongsu is still here today, and the water is rippling and the ape is crying." It can be seen that Li Bai is a super fan of Xie Lingyun. The moonlight of Mirror Lake illuminated my figure, and I came to the XiXi River under Tianmu Mountain, and I saw the place where Xie Lingyun traveled to the mountain, as well as the blue waves of the stream, but what I heard was the desolate and crisp ape cry. Xie Lingyun's arrogant and uninhibited personality and flowing immortal wind bones made Li Bai admire: "Standing on Xie Gong's feet, he climbed the Qingyun Ladder." Half of the wall sees the sea and the sun, and the sky smells of the rooster. "Xie Lingyun explored the odd victory, climbed dangerous peaks, wore a kind of wooden spike shoes, removed the tooth nails of the forefoot when going up the mountain, and removed the tooth nails of the hind palms when going down the mountain, which saved effort and was stable, which is the "Xie Gong Gong" that made posterity praised.

The sea is full of rivers, and there is tolerance is great. Water has the flexibility of water, with the shape of the trend, can be small or large. Water has the shape of a cup and plate, the shape of a river, and the shape of an ocean. Being a person is like water, soft and rigid, can be big and small, can go up and down. The benevolent leshan, the wise enjoy the water. The good is like water, and the wise are as clear and transparent as water. The wise man "dwells in a good place, has a good heart, is kind and kind, speaks well, governs righteously, does good deeds, and moves when he is good."

Second, sing and answer each other, and talk to the ancestors

Xie Lingyun of the ancients and Xie Jiuzhong of the present, their poems and essays show their natural ecology and emotional personality, leaving the society with the chant of life and the reputation of landscapes.

Xie Lingyun's essay "Mountain Residence Fu" describes his joy of farming and reading, practicing calligraphy, giving new poems, and participating in Buddhism...

"Mountain Residence Endowment" text: "Mai deep in Dinghu, send high affection to Fenyang ... In the Near East, Ueda and Shimoko ,...... Near the west, Yang and Bin jiefeng, Tang Andang are continuous. Room, wall belt creek, once, lonely river. Bamboo edge pu is green, and the stone shines red. The moon hides the mountain into the yin, and Mu Mingke rises with the wind. ...... Open the south household to the far ridge, and open the east window to overlook the field. The fields are connected to the mountains and the mountains are full of water, and the ridges are pillowed with water and passed. Strange and strange, crossed the scriptures. Drainage channels, veins scattered ditches and ditches. ...... North Mountain Second Garden, South Mountain Three Garden. Hundred fruits are prepared, and they are close and far away. Row the cloth plant, greet the morning and wait for the evening. ...... Settle down at two o'clock, winter and summer in March. Distant monks have come, and there is no gap in the near crowd. The Dharma drums are ringing and the praises are clear. ...... Paper-aiding grips will be sexually psychic. Poetry is based on words and deeds. Proverbs, salty and salty..."

"Mountain Residence" writes spring, summer, autumn and winter in time, and writes east, west, south and north from space. While describing the strange mountains and rivers, it also presents the life principle of "forming in the current line, stopping at the moment, and the standard of life cannot be surpassed". Ancient and modern poets have pursued the beauty of life, the beauty of behavior, and the beauty of art. Rodin said: There is no shortage of beauty in the world. It's the lack of eyes that find beauty. There is no cloud in the heart, only then can you see the beautiful scenery, and only then can you cleanse the muddy body and mind. Let's look at the landscape prose of Xie Jiuzhong. He wrote in "Longqing Landscape and Water Yin" that the scenery of Longqing Gorge in all seasons is infinite. Wild ducks that flew from nowhere in the spring, in groups of three or five, floated lightly on the surface of the water, like fluttering colored notes, dragging behind them with wisps of aftersound ripples; schools of fish also floated out of the deep water, swimming freely. Summer mountain smoke. The maple trees, yellow oaks, and almond trees that roam the mountains in autumn are like drinking a large bowl of sun wine, drunk and swaying in the autumn wind. The mid-winter of Longqing gorge is unusually cold, so the strange art of ice lanterns was born. The canyon, a world of ice sculpture and jade, a paradise of ice and snow in the north. The carved smoke willow painting bridge and the wind curtain green curtain have penetrated one after another laughing and talking nightless days.

I am more than willing to read the article "Searching for Flexible Scenery" in "Great Wall Assertion - Selected Literary Works of Xie Jiuzhong", which depicts white birds, yellow birds, blue birds, and black birds with the mood of compassion and sorrow and joy, these spirits of nature are a lovely and flexible scenery.

In the section "Blue Bird", the author writes: "In childhood, the greatest fun thing is to pluck a bird. The hometown is a small projectile village, leaning on the half-screen green mountain on its back, overlooking the clear water. The mountains are not high or dangerous, but in the summer they are green and lovely, the water is not deep or wide, but it is always shallow and quiet. On the mountain, there are many birds; at the water's edge, there are many birds. And for the mountain and the water embellished with some aura. So the author asked a few children to dig a bird hole in the loess pond at noon one day with a pickaxe and a shovel. When the third small hole was dug, the bird couple was finally caught.

"The blue bird couple we had caught shrank in our hands, caressing the beautiful furry feathers that could only be seen from a distance before, and we were full of surprise for the first time to be intimate with it, but their eyes showed infinite panic, and they could feel the trembling of their bodies. Soon, our surprises were all gone, and we saw the blue bird's long, pointed beak, which had been polished and bald and short, which was the trace it left when it built its own home, and how long would it take for it to chisel out its home little by little with its mouth on this hard earthen pond? Looking at the excavated and collapsed cave in front of us, looking at its bald and short mouth, we all looked as if we had just committed a crime, and no one spoke. After a moment of silence, we released the blue bird couple as soon as we released our hands, and they circled around their homes and flew off into the distance. ”

The "Blue Bird" section is more interesting to follow. A few years later the author became a teacher and taught in the county seat. My wife is a music teacher, and although she is close at hand, she has to live separately for simple reasons and no room! Waiting in line for equal rooms? Many of the old teachers standing in front of the author had their hair whitened and were still waiting there. There was no way, the couple borrowed from east to west, raised money to build a house. After the homestead was approved, in order to save a few dollars, the couple bought bricks and tiles, pushed cement, and built their own houses. Half a year has passed, and the new house has risen, but the couple looks much older. The joy of housewarming was on one night —

"Under the light, I caressed my wife's hand, and my wife caressed my hand, and my hand grew a layer of hard and shiny calluses, and my wife's slender hands, which had originally danced flexibly on the keys, were like dead branches, and our hands seemed to have become bald and shorter. I was speechless, my wife was speechless, and we only let hands and hands silently communicate a complex emotion. After a long time, a long time, my wife smiled at me and said: If a bunch of robbers come now, don't say anything, and then start demolishing our new house, what will you do? I don't know why my wife would ask such an absurd question, but her words reminded me of that afternoon in my childhood, and I was dumbfounded.

This night, I was sleepless, and a pair of blue birds that had lost their homes were always flying and flying in my hallucinations. Looking back on the past is like smoke, but only the childhood that never grows up, like a brilliant pearl, flashes on the river beach of memory, and the cruelty of many children's fun is enough to repent for a lifetime.

That blue bird..."

The author is confessing the reckless behavior of childhood, a pair of blue birds that have lost their homeland, flying in the hallucinations, flying... This article is rarely the author's sense of repentance. The writer Barkin wrote novels and learned from Rousseau's Confessions that honesty and not lies. The Analects have "Three Provinces and My Body: Seeking For Others and Not Being Faithful?" Friends and not convinced? Pass on whether you are used to it?", through self-examination to deeply understand yourself, analyze yourself, and correct yourself. Buddhism has a ritual of confessing one's own sins and repenting of sins and praying for blessings. Repentance is not the end of confession, the important thing is that "the evil of the future is even more dare not be created", knowing the sin and resolving to correct it.

Seeing the absurdity of the world is the basic level of a wise man. When I saw it clearly, I didn't feel sick, but I smiled. Man's greatest enemy is no one else, but the floating "heart" and the "mouth" that comes out of the mouth. When there are few people, be careful to isolate your own heart; when there are many people, keep your mouth shut. Surrender his heart and be kind to others, and there will be a blessing!

Mr. Liu Yida wrote in the "Traverse" of this book: Jiu Zhong's prose, I feel that I am clearly influenced by Turgenev's "Hunter's Notes" and Thoreau's "Walden Lake". Perhaps because of the environment in which he lived as a child, he gave his beautiful sustenance to the beautiful nature, showing a very full of love. In the prose works, the beauty of nature and the dreamlike artistic conception are fully displayed.

In May 1991, Xie Jiuzhong attended the Meeting of the Young Chinese Writers Creation Conference as a representative of Beijing poetry. From 1991 to 2022, 30 years have passed, during which I have read not many new poems by Mr. Jiuzhong, can Mr. Jiuzhong continue to be the standard-bearer of landscape poetry? In ancient times, there was Xie Lingyun, and now there is Xie Jiuzhong. I hope that Mr. Jiuzhong, hurry up and whip, sing and answer each other, and go hand in hand with the ancestral spiritual fortunes, and comfort life!

On March 9, 2022, Shi Zhongyuan was held at the Tampo Bay Bookstore in Yanqing, Beijing