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The root of the word "craftsman" is mostly related to inheritance or persistence. "A man of a hundred works, a gentleman despises, and now his wisdom is beyond his reach." In "The Sayings of the Master", Han Yu criticized the so-called "gentleman' way of being a light and thin teacher" and not as good as "a hundred works". The responsibility of the craftsman to "inherit the teacher" is generally regarded as nothing more than livelihood. But at the bottom of it, it is the true spirit of the people. In the moment, this is insistent or unconscious, almost instinctive. Times are changing rapidly, and their craftsmanship and traditions seem to be declining. Cao's discussion of "waste art" is almost a proverb. Faded out of our lives, if not traced back, not even known. The veins of teaching and teaching are not vast, but there is still a trickle of water, and the source is endless.
Ge Liang's "Tile Cat" is a collection of short stories, which contains three novels, "Bookmaker", "Flying Hair" and "Tile Cat", which are the bookmaker who restores ancient books, the two agents of hair in the face of tradition and innovation, and the interpretation of the history of the Southwest United University in the southwest. The protagonists are bookmakers, barbers, and craftsmen and readers of the era when the "tile cat" was strung together.
Ge Liang said that he wrote the "Bookmaker" because of the rescue of the manuscript of his grandfather's posthumous work "According to Several Previous Views", and he was able to understand the profession of "ancient book restorer". "The whole old is as old" is the principle of their work. This is a group of people living in the old times, and their life's efforts are only to let them handle the books, return to the broken generations that should go, maintain the old appearance, and dilute the traces of the times.
The "dignity" of books is also the dignity of these bookmakers who restore ancient books.
The two restorers written in "The Bookmaker" have different learning, inheritance and origins, representing two different cultural contexts in China and the West, and the same destination. "Do not encounter good work, prefer to save the old things", is the biggest tacit understanding between the bibliophile and the book cultivator. All the retention and waiting are the marks of several reincarnations in the years. Along with that bit of stubbornness in their lives, it is also related.
"Fei Fa" and "Wa Cat" take place in the background of Lingnan and Southwest. With the participation of artifacts, the writer interweaves the miraculous historical fate of the Southwest United Congress and the lives of the masters who have vividly existed in history into a whole of history, and of course, it is also subject to the indelible hope and loneliness in the text. In Ge Liang's view, these people are the idealists of this unforgettable historical era, "walking to the end of the water, sitting and watching the clouds rise."
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > bookmakers who are obsessed with restoring ancient books: Jane in Hong Kong and Lao Dong in Nanjing</h1>
Jane is a female bookmaker living in Hong Kong, has been a little old, very much their own style and principles of doing things, the "I" in the story is Dr. Mao Guo, to see his friend Professor Ouyang, Professor Ouyang is a student of Mao Guo's grandfather, the two people chatted first, Mao Guo told Professor Ouyang that he found a manuscript of his grandfather, but some of the scattered pages were glued together, Professor Ouyang suddenly his eyes lit up, and he temporarily took Mao Guo to meet a person, that is, the bookmaker who restored ancient books, Jane.
Jane was very difficult to talk to, refused, saying that if it was not good to repair, she could not afford to pay. Professor Ouyang knew that this was the meaning of sending a guest, helpless, the two people had to resign, Mao Guo accidentally touched a book on the shelf, the book landed, Mao Guo quickly picked it up, dusted it, and conveniently picked up the corners of the page and put it back in place. This move inadvertently touched Jane, who a week later asked him to come to him with the ancient book, and she had to help repair it.
Dr. Mao Guo came here to connect with Jane about the restoration of books, and Jane told Mao Guo that the reason for his change of heart was because he saw that he was a true book lover. Dr. Mao Guo suddenly thought about who this habit of his came from, the old Dong of Nanjing, another bookmaker, an ancient book restorer.
The second chapter of this novel, "Lao Dong", uses the eyes of Mao Guo in childhood to write about a master who originally repaired shoes on the side of the road, but he did not think that one day one of his award certificates was accidentally stained with a large ink stain by an ink bottle, and the child's emotions were very disturbed. Father Mao Yu suddenly said that he had a way, so he took his son Mao Mao to the West Bridge to find Old Dong who repaired shoes. Old Dong really lived up to expectations, and repaired this award certificate of Mao Guo as before, leaving no trace at all where most of the ink on it had been soaked. Since then, Lao Dong's miraculous life has been integrated with his father's narration in Mao Guo's eyes, allowing us to know a bookmaker who has been restoring ancient books for his life's pursuit.
Ge Liang's words are very evocative, and when you read a book, you will forget that you are just reading a novel, but it is like following Ge Liang in the space where the text is built.
In fact, whether it is Jane or Old Dong, she and he, who look alone, are people with persistence in their bones. Therefore, a person who felt that the love between himself and Le Jingyi's father seemed to owe the little girl there, although the divorce between Le Jingyi's parents was inevitable, because the marriage of two people was only an agreement between the elders, not about feelings. Le Jingyi's father had planned to go to Hong Kong to marry Jane, but he suddenly had a heart attack and died in his apartment where he lived alone. The father's wish before his death was actually to hope that his daughter Jingyi could follow his lover Jian Xue to restore ancient books, Jingyi also came to Hong Kong, worshiped under Jane's door to learn to restore ancient books, but she did not know anything at the time, until two years later, she was full of teachers, in a book sent by Master Jane, she saw the library ticket of her and her father's photo, and then remembered that the teacher always had to pay tribute to an important person every third year of junior high school, and her father was also the death day of that time, Jing yi only realized the coincidence and absurdity of life with hindsight.
Old Dong was single for a lifetime, picking up a daughter Yuanzi, but after raising up, yuanzi's birth mother wanted to go back. Old Dong's lonely wandering can also be regarded as a deliberate banishment of himself.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > pay tribute to history, to the craftsmen and gentlemen who made great contributions to that era and society</h1>
The last article in the collection of "Tile Cat" is the novel of the same name, "Tile Cat", which recreates the history of the Southwest United University to the southwest, recreates for us many touching moments in that period of history, intertwines the craftsman and the reader, and uses the "tile cat", a kind of craftsmanship that has been circulating in the local area for a long time, as a clever entry point for connecting history and reality, and reproduces for the reader a history that posterity should not and cannot forget in the long river of history.
The "tile cat" is a sacred beast that protects the craftsmen, sees the reckless past, and also watches over the endless future. There is a folk custom in the houses in rural areas of Kunming, that is, tile cats are placed on the roof of the middle of the house. The tile cat is a cat made of pottery with an open mouth, which looks like a monster with a vicious face.
There are certain rules for the use of tile cats, and not all houses must be placed. If there is a temple high house in the direction of the gate of their own home, or a house facing a family, the locals will think that it is unlucky, and may be "beaten" by the other party in terms of luck, affecting their own fortunes, and even bringing disease or disaster, so they will place a tile cat on the door of their own house and the roof of the main hall.
In the novel "Wa Cat", we will see many traces of the evolution of famous characters in Modern Chinese History, and in the ancient town of Longquan in Kunming, Yunnan, there are more than ten former sites of the Southwest United University period, Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, Pu Jiangqing, Feng Youlan, Chen Yinke, Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin... These well-known figures, when the Southwest United University moved here, set off a spontaneous follow-up of young people in the local area, and the marriage between Ning Huaiyuan and Rong Ruihong was also a symbolic use with a certain metaphor, which led to the later saying, the descendants of the Ning family and the Rong family, the two that were later continued, one was a craftsman, the other was a reader.
Ge Liang's words are light, alive, and tense, and the nourishment of the words obtained when reading is quietly comfortable and natural.
The fates of the Rong family girl and Ning Huaiyuan are intertwined and completed in history in the novel; these craftsmen and readers are all people who insist on their ideals in order to do their dreams and do the job at hand.
Their dignity, persistence and faith, like a prism, reflect most of us in this world; they are the idealists of this era, walking to the end of the water, sitting and watching the clouds rise.
"Flying Hair" is a novel written by a barber, two generations of father and son, using the same kind of industry to seek survival capital, just as a job or as their own lifelong pursuit, the results are not the same. Father and son, ideal and reality, understanding and misunderstanding, silently dissolve those discordant voices in the persistence of two generations.
Ge Liang's novels are the appearance that good literature should present, not dog blood, not vulgar, some are the thick breath of life in the streets and alleys, in those quiet and long cooking smoke, with words to give our readers a peaceful or complicated earthly world, let us sigh life in those circles, know ourselves.
Recommend this good novel to you and teach you what literature should look like. The book was originally priced at 59 yuan, and now it only sells for half price of 29.5 yuan, if you buy it at the same time in the same store to meet 49 yuan, you can get free shipping, if you buy this book alone, the freight will increase by 6 yuan. All in all, this discount is still very good value and worth starting.
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