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Wait for the next year's flower bloom day and then visit the canal to compose a poem - the preface to "A Bend of the Autumn Moon Lying on the Canal".
Author: Zhang Bingji
In June 2020, the Hebei Provincial Wind Collecting Society is preparing to study a group of writers and artists who have applied to join the association. When reviewing the applicants' profiles, one writer caught my attention, and that writer was Zhang Chunjing, the author of this book. His application materials at that time were written like this: Zhang Chunjing, pen name Nan Bing, is from Nanpi County, Hebei Province. He is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, a member of the China Internet Writers Association, a member of the Hebei Writers Association, a director of the Cangzhou Writers Association, the honorary chairman of the Nanpi County Writers Association, and the executive chairman of the Nanpi County Sinology Research AssociationThe honorary title of "Yanzhao Cultural Star".
With these excellent conditions, Zhang Chunjing was successfully approved to join our society. Since then, we have gradually increased our interactions, and we have become friends in the literary world. After Chunjing joined the association, he actively supported the work of the association, and after he contacted Nanpi County Xianggong Cultural Products Co., Ltd., the company funded and co-organized the first "Xianggong Cup" National Prose Poetry Contest with our society. The competition was very successful and the social response was very good.
Chunjing is not only refreshing, but also has a wide range of knowledge, especially his rich knowledge of literature and history that I admire. Reading his prose, you can often see allusions, legends, and ancient rhymes interspersed with them. He seems to be able to get a lot of classics at his fingertips, and they are displayed on paper, demonstrating his strong knowledge of Chinese culture. For example, in the short essay "Brine Point Tofu", which is only more than 1,700 words, Chunjing actually quoted the records about tofu in three classics, including "The Great Dictionary", "Shuer Gongshi" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", as well as the remarks and stories about tofu by Liu An, the king of Huainan, Lu You, the patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the revolutionary pioneer Sun Yat-sen. In "Dawa Four Chapters "Jujube Forest", the author quotes the "Jujube Fu" written by Fu Xuanyun, a doctor in the Jin Dynasty, who traveled here (the place where the author wrote), and gives this fu in its entirety, which opens the reader's eyes. Loading appropriate historical materials into literary works can enhance the depth, thickness and taste of the work, and can greatly enhance the appeal, persuasiveness and ideological charm of the article. However, the classics cited must be consistent and coherent with the theme expressed by the author, otherwise, it may be overwhelmed. Although the history of the spring scene is rich, he noticed this in the prose creation, when he wrote about the scenery of the ancient canal in the article "A Bend of the Autumn Moon Lying on the Canal", he quoted the words filled in when Kangxi passed through the canal during his southern tour in 1750, and used the emperor's words to prove the beauty of the ancient canal, which appropriately expressed the author's penmanship. The "Records of Ming Shizong", "Wu Qianshu with Chao Ge", "Jiajing Qingzhou Mansion Chronicles", "Water Classic", "Linzi District Cultural Relics Chronicles", as well as the legend of "Dongguang Baozi saves the Yan King", the allusions of "floating melon and sinking plum", etc., all play the role of the finishing touch and add a lot of color to the article.
An all-round writer should not only write good poems, songs, and articles, and infect people with beautiful works, but also be a philosopher, using metaphysical works to inspire and guide people. Reading Chunjing's works, I feel that his words are always filled with dialectical thinking and philosophical flavor, which can always trigger my deep thinking after reading. In general, travelogue works mostly write about the magnificence of the mountains, the clarity of the rivers, the vastness of the grasslands, and the seclusion of the forests. The travelogue works of the spring scenery also write the scene, but he does not stop at the description of the scene, he often has to make further play after describing the scenery: "The character and image of Huangshan pine give me confidence and courage, I want to take it as a model of life, a teacher of cultivation, and a friend of the heart, like it to face life with fortitude and strength, always maintain an enterprising spirit, with wisdom and hard-working hands, compose a happy and beautiful life movement, and constantly cast the glory of life." Look at the following sentences contained in the article, every sentence is a proverb, and every sentence comes from the author's heart:
"Any success begins with overcoming pain. ”
"Seedlings wither without roots, people will die without roots, families will be difficult to inherit without roots, and the country will be in danger of being wiped out without roots. ”
"Man cannot mature without suffering and failure, and cannot be strong without great joys and sorrows and great ups and downs. ”
This kind of prose of Chunjing is the product of the combination of his perception and inspiration, and he penetrates into the essence of things and reveals the essence of things through phenomena, which has an aesthetic effect of penetrating into the wood. Reading his prose can not only improve our literary accomplishment and writing skills, but also allow us to learn the wisdom of life and the experience of dealing with the world.
There is a saying in the literary world that "only those who love great love can have great works". There is some truth to this view that there is a causal relationship between a writer's humanity and the results of his creation. Throughout ancient and modern times, many great writers have been writers with great love. It is precisely because they have a heart of great love that they can write great works and masterpieces that will be handed down to the world. The author of this book, Comrade Chunjing, is a writer full of love, who loves the motherland, his hometown, the people, and his family. His grandfather suffers from bone disease and is a "Luo Guo" in terms of body shape. However, in his heart, his grandfather is a tall tree: "In my eyes, although my grandfather's body is a pot, his soul is upright, his heart is upright, he is an upright man, and he is a towering tree." "Chunjing once met his mother who had passed away for many years in a dream, but he disappeared in a flash. This aroused his deep longing for his mother, and he wrote: "My mother is at home, and my mother is crippled when she leaves, just like this half-string moon." It's been a long time, mother! I hereby paint a small piece of paper to chat to comfort my heart, if the wind is calm one day, borrow a Kong Ming lantern and send it to you - my relatives, my mother!" If the author did not have a deep love for his mother, he would not have met his mother in his dream, let alone write such tear-jerking words. Chunjing has a sister who has been speechless for ten years, and he often visits her at his sister's house, and he always worries about his sister's thoughts: "The rope-like crooked country road is familiar to me, although it is covered with fallen leaves, and the brown chest is exposed in the wilderness of the North China Plain, and the muddy rut marks are like the roots of longing, extending the day and night thoughts of the eldest sister." "I don't dare to face your familiar face, every time I see you, I have a long time like a fish in my throat, and my body and mind are like a serious illness. ”
Chunjing not only has thoughts and emotions, but also excellent writing skills and artistic talent, he is good at expression, good at description, and can compile very ordinary creative materials into very beautiful works of art. After reading "A Bend of the Autumn Moon Lying on the Canal", I feel that the spring scene is like a weaving craftsman under the bamboo forest, and the bamboo tools under his hands are elegant and exquisite, which makes people love it. Chunjing's South Canal is such a bamboo vessel: "The South Canal, with its chivalrous and soft intestines with nine bends and eighteen bends, contains a broad and profound culture of the sea and the tenderness of the children and daughters of the canal, moistening the dry hearts of future generations on both sides of the river, allowing them to sprout, grow and flourish." These poetic words give wings to the imagination, and reading them always makes one fly along his handwriting. "Looking at this ghostly scenery, looking at the beautiful Laoshan Mountain, even the weakest and weakest will become a big man in Shandong in a blink of an eye, full of energy, the veins are stirring with male pride, full of masculinity, hating to fight with the sea, with the sky, with the earth; I hate to sweep away all the pests and pests, and to eradicate all injustices. These sonorous words, like a deafening trumpet, like thunder on a snowy night, make people's blood run high and full of pride, and we seem to see the author's clenched fists and tense lips when he is struggling to write.
Chunjing grew up by the canal, and he has a constant relationship with the canal. The other day, he told me on WeChat that he was waiting for a snowfall – he planned to go on a canal tour after the snow and write a few essays on the snow scene of the canal to add to the book. However, after waiting and waiting, the snow he was looking forward to did not come, and the annoying new coronavirus pneumonia came. He and the rest of the group had to stay at home to protect themselves. The canal could not be swamped, which made him very frustrated. I comforted him and said that the life of the ghost is short, and the plague will soon recede, so wouldn't it be better to swim the canal again in the spring of the next year, and write about the canal in the sea of flowers?
January 6, 2021
(The author of this preface, Zhang Bingji, is a second-level inspector of the General Office of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, the founder of the Hebei Provincial Wind Collection Society, and the editor-in-chief of the Wind Collection.com)
Produced from Gyeonggi Cultural Perspectives
Text / Picture Zhang Bingji
Editor: Li Jie