"To be honest, writing a book about plants, my confidence is far from enough, but I can't stand the emotional energy. I wrote this book as a love letter to plants, wild love, but love is very real. ...... My attitude toward plants, with flowers, is that we are mainly responsible for aesthetics. This is the famous female writer Jie Chen expressing the purity and worship of plants in the "Afterword" of the new edition of "An Abyss Color".
◆ Rose is a kind of flower that I am obsessed with
In the new edition of the essay collection "An Abyss Color" published by the Sichuan People's Publishing House, JieChen divides more than 80 kinds of plants into "Spring: Tiger Sniffing Roses", "Summer: Fragrant and Compassionate Bosom", "Autumn: Cut Through the Empty", "Winter: Gentleness and Despair at the Same Time" 4 series, some of which are often seen in daily life, such as begonias, wisteria, cherries, mangoes, strawberries, osmanthus flowers, ginkgo biloba, sycamores, etc., and some may have only heard names, such as dry lotus, elderberry, hibiscus, cassia, virginity, etc. Every plant has a theme, but JieChen does not delve into the botanical meaning behind a flower, but more about emotions, confessions and thoughts. Open this amazing new book and you'll find that its content, though trivial, is warm. For example, there is a pure aesthetic of the plant itself, there are plant-related delicacies, there are also many very strange stories that Jie Chen reads in reading plant books, and some are clean dust in travel, daily life and plant-related experiences, but Jie Chen boils it down to "love letters" written to plants.
The words in the book surprise people everywhere.
"They opened, first one, one, then another; and then snapped, like a young lady finally unable to bear to lose her temper, and when she woke up, it was all open."
"It must be there, it's been waiting for me for many years to see when it's touched."
"I immediately inspected the whole neighborhood and found that there were camellias everywhere, and there were also some huge trees, hanging on a large red flower, the leaves were green and green, very noisy, like an overly enthusiastic woman, which made people a little embarrassed and embarrassed."
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Such words, with a sense of reality, are within reach.
These plants are the treasures in the heart of clean dust. However, for Rose, she has different feelings. She wrote in "The Rose Flower Thing": "First of all, there were a few bones in my family's flower table and garden that bloomed a little red. I stabilized my mind and tried not to get excited. I knew that the most dazzling flower event for me in the middle of the year was coming. I'm talking about roses. "The 'Great Red Robes' are finally in full bloom, on the flower stand outside the living room, on the daughter wall of the garden, and they stand among the green vine leaves. The wind blew, and the leaves and flowers trembled slightly in the thick, giggling, sighing faintly, and sobbing slightly. Quiet, delicate, deep, strange; it is missed, it is concerned, it is like Xu Wei singing 'all language disappears in the chest', and, that is, sorry, sorry. Oh my god, I want to cry. "The flow of these sincere emotions is completely different from the dust of ordinary days. In Jie Chen's own view, "Rose is a flower that I am obsessed with." In this obsession, the combination of the Chinese character 'rose' from glyph to pronunciation gives me a very important sense of beauty, and more importantly, this scene of flowers blooming, the delicate and tiny flowers themselves and the unique spread and flourishing of vines, which are both humble and proud, delicate and strong, both joyful and desolate. ”
"Every year in April and May, red roses can be seen on the streets and fences of Chengdu's streets and communities." As a result, the dust frequently took to the streets, and his eyes lingered on those fences and walls, not moving. "Many years ago, when I was seduced by Rose, I wanted to write a movie story that started under Rose, and it didn't matter where the story ended. The point is, how beautiful is the picture at the beginning. I'll let the protagonist appear under the rose at the beginning with a full heart. Full of heart! Very suitable for these heavy little red flowers. Later, the story that was seduced by Rose became a long novel, "Jinser Unprovoked.".
◆ Treat each plant as your own lover
Jie Chen believes that what plants bring to us, especially flowers, is definitely not just an aesthetic pleasure, but more of something related to existence. "I feel that the plant is a manifestation of divinity, that its existence is broad and quiet, encompassing all the elements of nature." Therefore, the word "aesthetics" has a deeper understanding in the book of Clean Dust. "Botany is a profound science, but for us ordinary people, it is difficult to understand the many professional knowledge behind this knowledge, then, plants for us, is our daily existence, everywhere." Specific to 'aesthetics', I said 'we are only responsible for aesthetics', in fact, I mean daily life, as if very familiar, but in fact we know nothing about them, they are quietly presented in front of us, which is also an unreachable aesthetic concept. Of course, the beauty of plants has many layers, there are many, many emotions, some things are pleasant, some things are very sad. ”
Jie Chen also said: "Every woman should have such a courtyard." If there is no garden, there should be at least one plant as a lover. "This actually belongs to the category of aesthetics, an expression in everyday aesthetics." I have always believed that human wisdom does not exist only in the mind, it exists in all aspects of the body. Therefore, if we exist as a living individual, then we should get along with plants, in addition to vision, we should also mobilize other senses, such as smell, hearing, touch, etc., to have more connection with them and with nature, and then go deep into the heart. So, I think we just have to treat every plant as our own lover. ”
In "Red and Wet Camellias", Jie Chen had a shocking "dialogue" with the camellias in the rain: "The camellias in the rain are getting more and more red and frightening, trying to withstand the blows of the rain, bright and decaying, desperate looks, like a face of heavy makeup struggle before dying." It's terrible. ...... Something strong, intense, intense, showed its form of weakness in the drizzle; it might be able to resist it in the midst of a torrential rain, but it could not withstand the grinding of the drizzle. But this failure is also the failure of woody plants, and the flowers and flowers of herbs cannot be put together to say that those things that are inherently weak are not in the same context as woody plants. The question is, whether it's camellias or begonias, it's a natural destiny. This is extremely frustrating. ”
Reading is a way that must exist
As a professional writer, in addition to "A Deep Abyss Color", Jie Chen has published many works in recent years, including "Gorgeous Turn", "Lifting the Pen to Get Old", "Life is a Secret", "Beer and Perch", "Wine Red Ice Blue", "Poisoning", "Jinser Unprovoked" and so on, including more than 30 essays and novels, all of which are sought after by readers without exception. This kind of cross-genre writing has something in common for Jie Chen, that is, "how to relate myself to the world as an individual of life, almost all works are this starting point, so I often say that I am a writer with a small incision." Such a small incision can also be related to the life experience of many people, and I am also satisfied with resonating with readers. It is also based on this that I feel that my creation is valuable. ”
To be able to achieve this kind of valuable writing, reading is a very important factor. Jiechen took the Japanese writer Osamu Dazai's phrase "you can live in the study for a lifetime" as her motto, and the study became the place where she spent the most time at home. For the transformation between the identities of writer and reader, Jie Chen frankly said: "I think I am a reader first and foremost, a reader who is very addicted to reading and obsessed with reading, if I am not a writer, I think the identity of the reader alone has made me very satisfied, and maybe the pleasure brought to me by reading itself is very strong." One of the main ways writers get their nourishment is through reading, so the transition between them is also natural. Many of my own creations over the years have come from a steady stream of reading nutrients. In daily life, when you want to be quiet, you first pick up a book and then go back and forth in reading. On the one hand, it is to travel to another world in the book, and on the other hand, to return from the book world to the real world, reading is a way for me to exist. In short, both writers and readers will get deep shelter and nourishment in reading. ”
Of course, as readers, we can also appreciate her true disposition through the words of Clean Dust, and feel her dashing and open-mindedness and calmness towards things. As she said in "A Cup of Spring Tea": "When spring arrives, chengdu people everywhere in the tea house drink tea in the sun, slightly astringent, not sweet, refreshing and refreshing." The heart has to be the ordinary mind. As the saying goes, the plan of the year lies in the spring. Spring begins, there is a normal heart, and the days of this year are more comfortable. (The picture of this article is provided by the interviewee) (He Jian, all-media reporter of Reader's Daily)
Editor: Wang Xin Responsible Editor: Dong Xiaoyue Review: Zhou Hua