Text: Humility talks about the style of writing
Editor|Humility talks about the style of writing
Wong Ting-kin is a highly artistic literary master, who often uses various literary genres to show his extraordinary artistic talent and achievements, and his prose works are full of diverse artistic expressions, which make his literary creation to a higher level. This article focuses on the research direction of artistic expression techniques in its prose creation, but there are still some omissions, and I hope to teach Fang's family.
Close-up of vivid characters
Huang Tingjian's depictions of human figures are often vivid and far-reaching. For example, his description of Ouyang Xiu is very vivid. Since he had never had any chance to travel with Ouyang Xiu, it was not easy to make a pertinent evaluation just by reading his literary works. From the description in his "Ba Ouyang Gong Red Pear Blossom Poem", it can be seen its meaning. The text says:
Looking at Ouyang Wenzhong's book with Gao Si when he was reading in the museum, the tone can be broken thousands of miles. Living in Yiling, the poems are heroic and unfrustrated, and they should be so. Literati or less clumsy and late work, to Wenzhong, when the pen is young, there is a dusty sentence, this Shi Shi so-called "prince of the dynasty", one day born one day noble evil! Yu Ya heard that Wen Zhong was loyal to Yiling, and he had to pass the sentence of Zhu Shuzhen, who was left behind in Xijing, to be too guarded, so he had no color of chasing his ministers.
Huang Tingjian, who has never met and does not know Ouyang Xiu, has a sense of intimacy and admiration and respect for the big man when describing Ouyang Xiu who he "saw" from the flat text. Thinking about the momentum of "the tone can be broken for thousands of miles", was Ouyang Xiu ready to make this amazing language when he wrote the admonition?
When he was demoted, the heroic spirit of his writing has not been diminished. These are all from Huang Tingjian's description, and we see Ouyang Xiu's appearance. This is like the kind of confidence that a person who has been the deputy minister of the Song Dynasty should have.
Yan Jidao is Yan Shu's youngest son, what does he look like? Through Huang Tingjian's description, people can know that he is so extraordinary, and does not pay much attention to the scruples necessary in personnel, this kind of person likes to live in his own world, dances and writes, and is very good at the Six Classics and Baijia Language, and his writing is so good that he can be a family of his own.
When you comment on others, you often don't care how others criticize you. This is the image of Yan Jidao in Huang Tingjian's pen, living vividly around people.
Among them, "Lei Kui Quanqi, negligent scruples" and "article Hanmo, self-reliance scale" are connected in pairs. Imagine a talent who behaves brightly, but is too lazy to deal with it in officialdom. Such a person speaks playfully, and even "spits" in other people's faces, this is what Yan Jidao looks like in front of the world.
Through Huang Tingjian's observation, Yan Jidao is an "idiot" person. The text said: "Shuyuan is a solid person, and his idiocy is also self-defeating." Those who love Uncle Yuan are all stunned, and when they ask their eyes, they say: "The eunuchs are even on the sidelines, and they can't be at the door of the nobles, they are stupid;
The paper has its own body, and he refuses to be a new jinshi, which is another idiot; spent millions of dollars, the family sneered, and the face was childlike, which was another idiot; People don't hate it, they believe in others, and they don't suspect that they deceive themselves, and they are stupid. "Yes, we all think so.
Huang Tingjian's analysis and judgment let us see Yan Jidao's persistence and stubbornness, kindness and sincerity. Although he is called an "idiot", he is more like a big lyricist who is honest and straightforward.
As for Wang Dingguo's character image, it is "sprinkled with far-reaching rhyme, and the more talented the instrument is". And full of chivalrous character Yang Suweng, is unique, its text says: Danling Yang Suweng, a great man, he has chivalrous spirit in the party of Luxiang Township, many pretending to borrow people, but with courtesy, not with financial resources to call Changxiong also.
Yang Suweng is really a heroic man, to Huang Tingjian wanted to engrave Du Fu's poems in the local book, he immediately decided to "want to make a high house and a wide hemp stone", to get a house to collect carved stones, this kind of heroic spirit, not everyone can do it, but it can be truly presented in Huang Tingjian's prose, which makes people feel a beautiful picture of money and power.
In addition, Huang Tingjian's depiction of small people is also straightforward and vivid, flexible and interesting. The text said: Chen Liujiang Duan Liji said: There are knife and tweezers in Chen Liushi City, more than 40 years old, no room and no family surname, the only daughter, seven or eight years old. The money obtained with tweezers was drunk with the woman. When drunk, the hairpin flower plays the flute, and the shoulder girl returns. There is no worry about one day, but there is a lifelong joy, and those who suspect that there is a way are also.
There may be a master in the market, or a hidden person may not be. The image of the knife and tweezers who Chen left here is vividly displayed on the paper under Huang Tingjian's wonderful pen. Under his portrayal, a picture of a father and daughter is immediately presented in front of him.
Huang Tingjian once wrote a poem for this: "The market is full of pearls and jades, and the exchanges have never arrived." Take the petite girl on the shoulder, meet the same in this life. The nourishing frost knife is there, and the mirror of reading people is empty. You can always lift wine and play tweezers. This kind of life attitude of "no worries, but lifelong happiness" may really be in line with the natural style of Taoism of "being at peace with encounters and being at ease".
Good at narrating things
The so-called narrative knowledge is not to discuss it, but to remember it in case of forgetting. Unlike his predecessors, who liked to express their grievances through landscapes, or to express their deep life experiences, or to make great discussions in the writing of scenes, Wong Ting-kin's travelogues mostly focus on writing about scenes, and his writing is light and strange. The earliest work to write about the mood of travel is "Yin on the Stream: Preface", which says:
Spring mountain birds cry, new rainy days. The grass grows angrily, and the bamboo is in the shade. Huang Ziguan fishes under the pond, seeks spring in the small peach source, and learns from the three or four generations of Xitong, childish, and furrowed. Tea Ding wine scoop, Yuanming poems, although not commanding, not to take the left and right. Lincang waves, blowing white stones, Yongyuan Ming poems a few pieces, the breeze blows clothes for me, and good birds advise me to drink.
When it is unrestrained, and according to the rules and standards, there are advantages. It is known that there are many people in the White Lotus Society, and there are many people who do not reach the poetry of Yuanming. If you drink too much, you will drink it, but you will not be very drunk at the beginning. Gai Qi's apartment is the same as Bi Zhuo and Liu Ling's generation, and he claims that his income is different from that of his two sons, and people can't know it. Drunk, get a paper book, for "Yin on the Stream".
Although this article was written at the age of about 16, the pen is light, and the people, times and scenes of the time can be clearly outlined in a few sentences, so that the reader can also understand them at a glance. Huang Tingjian went out with three or four little friends to have fun after the spring rain, and did not forget to bring "Yuanming" with him when he went out, and recited Yuanming's poems to his companions while drinking, which is quite on par with his predecessors and is a fresh work.
The "Journey to Qiannan Road" is the best work of Huang Tingjian's travelogue prose, and he writes about the scenic spots on the way in an interesting and fascinating way. The text says:
In March of the second year of Shaosheng, Xinhai, the second prison pass, with Bo's Yuanming, Sanshan Wei Xin Hongyaofu, the cliff to find three tour holes. Walking around the mountain and walking between the bamboos for 200 steps, the monk's house, the great compassion house, there are five or six huts. The monks are very poor and can't make sencha for guests.
Writing this article, Huang Tingjian was informed that he was originally demoted to Fuzhou (now Fuling, Sichuan) and then to Qianzhou (now Pengshui, Sichuan), and was accompanied by his eldest brother and friends on the way. However, Huang Tingjian can "cry left and right, and be at ease", precisely because of his "unbreakable temperament".
Huang Tingjian's "Record Tour" is really traveling, maybe I heard that there is a scenic spot "Sanyou Cave" here, so I went to find it with everyone. How to walk, how long to walk, what he will see, he can explain it clearly here, and even the chance encounter with the mountain monk on the way has become an episode.
Too much compassion, follow the micro line two miles high, to the three tour holes. A path of treadmill pavilion around the mountain, looking down at the deep stream of terrifying people; A path through the belly of the mountain, dark, out of the hole is clear. The cave can accommodate a hundred people, there is stone milk, and it is a drop for a long time. There is a place in it, more than two zhang deep, and it can stand. Taste the feast of the Taoist, and go away without patience.
Here, Huang Tingjian is like a tour guide, and begins to lead readers into the journey. There are two roads, one is to go around the belly of the mountain, and it is scary to look at the deep stream from top to bottom; The other is to go through the cave. Where should we go? Huang Tingjian told us that he went to the cave.
Ji Renzi, Yaofu Boat did not treat each other first, and even shrimp and toads in the middle of the day. Looking at it from the boat, it has a mouthful of mouth, and even a shrimp toad. Yu from the Yuan Ming Dynasty to find the source of the spring into the hole, the stone gas is cold, the flowing spring is agitated, the spring is out of the stone, and the waist bone is like a dragon tangled. There are rockfalls in the caves.
It is flat and spacious, and can accommodate several people to sit for a banquet. The water flows to find the back of the shrimp and toad, and between the nose and mouth, it is into the river ear. The taste of the spring is not extremely sweet, but the cold ironing of people's teeth is also its deep origin?
The second scenic spot is "Shrimp and Toad", and the tone of the pen is also changed from flat and straight to the description of metaphors and beautiful words, such as "the stone is cold, the flowing spring is agitated, the spring is out of the stone, and the waist bone is like a dragon tangled".
On the eve of Renzi, stay in the Cattle Gorge. Tomorrow will be ugly, the people will enjoy the scalper god with dolphin wine, and the people of the two boats will be drunk. For many years, the three elders are invited to stay less, but they have to be with Yuanming and Yaofu to drag the cane Qingyue, watch Ouyang Wenzhong's poems and Su Zizhan's memories of Ding Yuanzhen's dreams, and watch only the ear stone horse. The back of the shrine is very strong.
Ordered the servant to carry the stone to the sand, and the spring was clear. Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" Ji Niuxia tea can be drunk, because the boat people ask for it. There is a cage of new tea for sale, which is no different from the blade of grass, and there is no good thing in the mountains.
The local customs are still recorded here, and there is a sense of "staggering" and "drunk can enjoy it" in Ouyang Xiu's "The Story of the Drunken Man's Pavilion". The text directly describes the beauty and writes the scenery naturally, so Ouyang Xiu once wrote a poem "Cattle Temple" here, and Su Shi has an article "After the poem of Ouyang Gong's "Cattle Temple", which was written here.
Huang Tingjian's essay is simply written about the scene, and the twists and turns of the scenery are depicted realistically, full of interest, which makes people feel like they are traveling with him.
As for "A Trip to Anle Mountain in Hejiang County, Luzhou", it reveals Huang Tingjian's transcendent emotions. The text says: ...... Raft the Pan Anle Creek and go up to Liu Zhenren Mountain...... Anle Mountain, the house of real people's ascension.
The real person is Zhenzhen, the word is good and celebrated, and the first Bu lives in this mountain, saying: "The road is flat and the mountain is resting and unclear, the Jiang'an Fang Mountain is turbid but not beautiful, seeking the mountain and the clear, only the mountain is peaceful." "Once settled, the springs are sweet, and the tigers and leopards serve. The journey of the obscure sun, the clouds and mist are obscure. Will come out of the mountain, the evening is sunny, and all the peaks will come out.
Huang Tingjian wrote this article, he has received a notice of reinstatement from the demotion office, but life comes and goes, he understands the truth of "where blessings and misfortunes are, and where misfortunes and blessings lurk", and there is no special joy and resentment, and he can see his indifference in this article.
The turbidity of the mountain gas may be sought by the mountain, but what about the turbidity of the human world? Therefore, Huang Tingjian wrote at the end of the sentence, "The journey of the obscure sun, the clouds and mist are obscure." will go out of the mountain, the evening will be clear, and all the peaks will come out", which seems to reveal that the turbidity of the court will also fade away with the mountain, which means that the person who has been slandered should also have a time to return to his clarity.
epilogue
Huang Tingjian's artistic thinking is fully reflected in his prose works, creating a unique aesthetic conception. For example, he is good at using the form of Sun Tzu's Art of War "Changshan Snake" to express the image of the gentleman in his heart in the way of echoing the beginning and the end.
And "Xiushui Ji" can echo the above words, and point out that although the growth conditions of "orchid" and "hui" are the same, "the mountains and forests are ten and one orchid", which shows that it is not easy to form a gentleman. The significance of this is to show that a gentleman has the characteristics of becoming a gentleman, which is difficult for others to replace.
Secondly, in the mastery of the character form, it can be said that the tone is "thousands of miles away", which truly presents Ouyang Xiu as a big man who has no "color of chasing ministers" even if he is demoted. And Yan Jidao's "idiot", under Huang Tingjian's description, has become Geng Jie, honest, frank and respectable people.
As for Wang Dingguo's talent and instrumentality, Yang Suweng's own chivalry has been described by him very lively. It can be seen that the delicate characters he copied. The final narrative is not the expression of grief and anger of the predecessors, but has its own style, which is naturally not pretentious, and the penmanship is light and strange and charming, which is pleasing to the eye.