Tan Bing'er: The wind lamp of the world, born to death - talk about Mr. Xu Chi

Socrates said, "Philosophy is the practice of death." When Mr. Xu Chi's pursuit of literature and beauty rises to the philosophical height of solving the mysteries of the soul, then suicide becomes the only choice that the world cannot understand and is different from the red dust. Such as Lao She, such as Gu Cheng, such as Haizi, such as Zhang Guorong. And Mr. Xu Chi's jump has already illuminated the absurdity of the world.

In a sense, life has the inherent meaning of cultivation, but some people are aware of it, and some people are not aware of it; but whether they are aware of it or not, life is always presented as two states of life, up and down. When a person merges philosophical thought with a way of life, it is when he calmly and calmly regards death as his true state. Schustermann also believes that death can make the soul detached from the body and independent, so as to obtain the wisdom desired in the heart, experience the meaning of life from death, and discover the value of life.

Of course, all this is an attitude towards life that worldly people can never understand. Mr. Xu Chi, who has been dead for more than twenty years, who can say that his leap is not the ultimate choice in a sense? Just like his old friend Mr. Jin Kemu wrote the passage that remembers him: the poet Xu Chi hurried away / Like a firecracker / Jumped into space / Disappeared without a trace / Only the sound remained.

Mr. Xu will never forget the literary and artistic geniuses who were fought to the death during the Cultural Revolution and sneaked to Western countries to save their lives, such as Ma Sicong; at the same time, he was even more desperate for the literary world: an era of lack of Belinsky-style critics was doomed to have no vigilant and sobering xiongwen. Literature is a business of the mind and spirit, but many writers have to sell their souls and sell their conscience in order to make money and cater to the market, and in addition to catering to the official praise, only vulgar, low-grade works are very popular.

In contrast, in addition to The Significance of Xu Chi's Literary History, the Goldbach Conjecture has had a huge impact on china's contemporary intellectual, cultural, and scientific and technological history.

Some insiders said that Mr. Xu was too depressed and would often murmur to himself: The world is too noisy, Wuhan is so big that he can't find a peaceful place to live. Yes, Mr. Xu is a pure idealist with a pure heart. This, combined with his unhappy marriage and obsession with particle science, led him to become increasingly depressed. Compassion and loneliness finally eroded his courage and confidence in survival.

Perhaps, most people only know that Mr. Xu is a reportageist, essayist, and translator (famous for the Goldbach Conjecture), but they do not know that he is a pure romantic poet, like Dai Wangshu, like Shi Jingcun, like Mu Mutian. I still remember his poetic Chen Jingrun: "This is the flower of human thinking; this is the empty valley orchid, the alpine rhododendron, the snow lotus on the iceberg, and the peony of abstract thinking."

I have bought two translations of Walden, one is from Xu Chongxin of Yilin Publishing House, and the other is from Master Xu Chi. Out of preference, I naturally prefer Mr. Xu Chi's elegant and delicate language style, which is gorgeous and beautiful, but also deep and simple. As Mr. Xu himself said: it is a lonely book, a lonely book. If your mind has not calmed down, I am afraid it will be difficult to enter this book. After the mind has calmed down, you may be able to think about something. When you think about something, it is possible for you to think about yourself with this Henry, Mr. David Thoreau, and think more about the higher principles.

In addition to Walden, I also recommend that you read Xu Chi's literary and art criticism collections "Poetry and Life" and "Xu Chi's Selected Essays".