Listen to the real heart sounds of four hundred years ago

——Reading Yuan Zhongdao's "You Lotus Leaf Mountain" has a feeling

□ Peng Xia

In the late Ming Dynasty, the town of Mengjiaxi where I lived was born with three literary superstars, they were three jinshi born of a mother, and the three brothers of the famous late Ming literary artists Yuan Zongdao, Yuan Hongdao and Yuan Zhongdao, who were known in history as the "Three Yuans of Public Security", held up the banner of literary innovation with the literary courage and spirit of "single lyrical spirit and informality", and vigorously corrected the retro maladies and simulated decadence of the late Ming dynasty. In literary creation, they all advocate not being constrained by conventionalism, pursuing the flamboyance of individuality and a natural, authentic and fresh style, known as the "public security faction". Yuan Zhongdao, the backbone of the public security faction, advocated the emphasis on the "theory of sexual spirits", which raised people's emotions to a height beyond form, that is, true disposition.

I was not born and raised in Si, as a daughter-in-law of Mengjiaxi who married here, but I was destined to live with this land. If you don't read the articles of the Three Yuans and don't understand the literary ideas and styles of the Three Yuans, you can't be counted as a native of the Three Yuans, and you are even more ashamed of the title of a literary lover and writer. Previously, I often published some small articles on life and seasonal times in newspapers and magazines, and in order to echo the preferences of the majority of readers and editors, the texts composed rarely revealed their true disposition, and they were shallow and weak to read, and there was a sense of moaning without illness. Reading Yuan Zhongdao's article "You Lotus Leaf Mountain" today, I first realized that the voice close to my heart is very important for a writer, it is the touching power of the article, and the exuberant vitality that has been passed down to the depths.

Two kilometers east of Mengjiaxi Town, Lotus Leaf Mountain is the former residence of Yuan Dahua, the grandfather of the three Yuans, and now only two lonely circular tombs remain, hidden under the green trees. These two tombs are the resting places of Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Zhongdao, and the tomb of Yuan Hongdao is far away in Xiaojiazui Village in Zhangzhuangpu Town.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor was sluggish in political affairs, corrupt officials and corrupt officials ran rampant, the national strength declined, and the people lived in deep trouble. In 1615, Yuan Zhongdao returned to The Public Security from the hermit Yuquan Mountain via Shashi to his hometown of Heye Mountain to worship his ancestors, and it was at that time that the popular essay "YouHeyeShan" was written.

When Zhongdao walked on Lotus Leaf Mountain, he retained his childhood memories of grass and trees, all of which aroused his love and attachment to his hometown. "The cang of the mountain, the crystal of the water, the forest of the tree...", Lotus Leaf Mountain, a very ordinary hill, because of the infusion of nostalgia, immediately became beautiful, vivid and lovely. Homesickness and nostalgia jumped out on the paper.

When night strikes, the moonlight in the depths of the dense forest is not illuminated, and it appears deep and dark, unfathomable. In that year, Yuan Hongdao, the leader of the "public security faction", had died five years ago, and his father Yuan Shiyu had also died three years. In such a cold and silent environment, the scenery is not human, and most of the people I knew well in childhood are no longer there, and it is inevitable that the middle way will be sad in its heart. With the sudden release of songs, break the inner depression and the coldness of the external environment, and the mood becomes relaxed. But the mournful singing of the farmer's car and water trumpet made the heart that he had just possessed disappear and become extremely heavy, so he did not make a sound and stepped on the moon. Between the fresh and elegant words, it seems to be enjoying the mountains and admiring the moon with pleasant feelings, but careful study actually hides the author's faint sorrow about the people's livelihood and suffering.

In this "Lotus Leaf Mountain Chronicle", there is the reluctance and attachment of the Middle Way to his hometown, as well as the worried people's feelings when he was "worried" and resonated with the labor trumpet of his hometown", and its text was frank and natural, and it was full of appeal. Yuan Hongdao commented on Yuan Zhongdao's article: "Lyrical spirit, informal, not flowing out of his chest, refusing to write." "The prose of the Middle Way, the flow of clouds and the flow of water, the situation and the situation, writes out the true self, which is worthy of emulation by us who are young.

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