In the Qing Dynasty, on the shores of Xizi Lake, an ordinary but not ordinary couple lived an enviable life. The most beautiful life is in the daily life of you and me. The first time I read "Autumn Lantern Trivia", I was attracted by the couple's trivial little story. This book is a collection of trivia from the life of Qiantang Xiucai Jiang Tan and his beloved wife Guan Ying (word: Qiu Fu). In addition to 44 reminiscences and essays by Jiang Tan, the book also selects poems written by Jiang Tan and several poems by Guan Ying.
The book Chinese and elegant, describing his beloved wife from a male perspective, and his language is extremely gentle. It is really rare to read such a simple and delicate text, the Qing Dynasty text is short, and the contemporary young poet Zhu Yinshan translated Jiang Tan's text into modern chinese, so that readers can read it more clearly.
Jiang Tan and Guan Ying, Jiang Tan used to call his beloved wife in the text, that is, Qiu Fu, then we also follow him and call him "Qiu Fu", this word is more cordial, but also more meaningful, it seems to be more relevant with the title of the book. "Autumn Lantern Trivia", is recalled under the autumn night lamp, but also implies the "Autumn" word in "Qiufu", I don't know if she was born in autumn? This couple is very talented, elegant, deeply affectionate and like-minded, although the days are poor, but living a life of singing the moon, qinser and singing, it is really enviable. Some people think that happiness is material abundance, some people serve, and life is luxurious, which is really too vulgar, and the poetic daily life of Jiang Guan's two people tasting tea and enjoying flowers, boating and chanting the moon, writing and playing the piano, and seeking ghosts and visits is the happy life in my eyes.
Jiang Tan's words flow with respect and pity for his beloved wife, and even the very small details of the two people's lives are remembered by Jiang Tan and can be written into one text after another. There is an article about the bananas planted in Qiufu, Jiang Tan listened to the rain falling plantains, dripping and draining, feeling that his heart was broken, one day, he joked on the banana leaves: "Who is multi-eventful to plant plantains?" Early is also wet, late is also wet. The next day he saw a few lines on the banana leaf: "It's that Jun's mood is too boring." Planted plantains, and resented plantains. "Talented women are really different, making a complaint and fighting with a mouth are so elegant, no need to open their mouths, a few poems can be inscribed." And this kind of "dialogue" not only avoids the red-faced disputes, but also unties the knots of the heart, in jiang Tan's words, "enlightenment is not shallow", providing an opportunity for enlightenment.
Reading through the whole article, there are really no big things, they are all very subtle trivia. This is the way husband and wife get along, see the real chapter in the subtleties, the fireworks in the world are all trivial things, and what can be cherished in the daily trivia can be experienced with the heart, that is true love. Because love is sincere and sincere, of course, it is better to read the wisdom of the other party. In Jiang Tan's view, Qiu Fu's insight into the dragon whose jaw beads had been stolen was insightful and wise.
For others, these things in the text are really ordinary and trivial, but they can be written by Jiang Tan with a different sense of beauty, and this book can be called a model of Chinese life aesthetics.