Literati's soul prose

As we all know, China culture has a long history and has been shining in the world for thousands of years, and a considerable part of these cultural elements are contributed by literati masters. These masters have written brilliant history with wisdom and pure character, so that cultural civilization can be passed down from generation to generation and spread step by step. In ancient times, there were a hundred schools of thought contending for literature and art, the gorgeous posture of Tang poetry and Song poetry, Ming drama and Qing legend, and the prosperity and development of modern vernacular poetry.

But now the economy is more prosperous than culture. The economic tide devours human conscience like a scourge. The concept of money first makes the whole society impetuous, and the pursuit of spiritual comfort seems to be an extremely extravagant dream. Although there are still many people who love literature, sowing dreams in this pure land of literature can occasionally let their hearts fly in an ideal and free country. After all, people always have to live in reality and return to reality, and the pressure of life is overwhelming. For the vast majority of people engaged in literary activities, it is an indisputable fact that they can't live on literature.

Many kind-hearted people have devoted their lives, have no time to take care of them, and have no strength to hold on to the cultural baton handed down from generation to generation. Isn't it cruel that such a vast China and such a thick and profound civilization fall on the weak shoulders of a few people? No matter how hard their bones are and how straight their backs are, they can't carry such heavy things. In this way, will the profound Chinese culture collapse like the once brilliant Mayan civilization, turn into the dust of history and live in people's endless memories forever?

Perhaps this proposition is too grand and my strength is too weak. I can't shoulder this heavy responsibility like a giant. What I can do alone may be thinking. I sincerely look up to those great souls who have spent their lives running for civilization and questioned whether civilization is progressing.

Du Fu, who wrote about human sufferings and worries about the country and the people, has gone, Li Bai, who embroidered his mouth and spit out half of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, has long since died, and Lu Xun, who bowed his head and wrote a knife, has also gone ... Numerous cultural giants have been taken away by the years, turned into dust and sealed by history. They floated into the lonely grave with the heart sound that they had shouted all their lives, and piled up into a magnificent national culture Kunlun.

Forgive my shallowness. Living in such an era, I can't understand how powerful the thoughtful thinking of those cultural celebrities is. Even if they are as close as Lu Xun, they are just an armchair strategist. I can't deeply understand that the dagger thrown by Lu Xun really hurt the numb soul of the nation, and I can't fully imagine what kind of complex mentality he used to face the dripping blood of that turbulent era. Perhaps for me, Lu Xun also seems a little far away. After all, I wasn't born in that era, I haven't seen this master, and I haven't experienced all kinds of hardships, so I always seem a little difficult to get close to.

Then talk about the near one! Bai Yang and Yu, the years in my life overlap with these two literary giants, so I feel close to nature and can be shocked, moved and admired by their tracks.

I first met Bai Yang in 2008, when I was in high school. I accidentally saw him in the newspaper one day, but I never thought that the moment I met this master seemed so sad, and that day happened to be the day when the soul of Master Bai Yang returned to spring. The poplar in the photo is an old man in a wheelchair with a vicissitudes of life. The newspaper did not give a detailed account of his deeds. We can feel that he is a fearless fighter only from the name of his masterpiece The Ugly China.

Later, through understanding, I confirmed that my feelings were completely correct. Old Poplar is indeed a cultural fighter. In the contemporary era when money and power are rampant, he dares to criticize and accuse China people of their bad habits. How can I not be amazed and impressed by this courage and responsibility?

Bai Yang's life is full of suffering, and his life is destined to be full of suffering. At that time, the authorities in Taiwan Province Province, perhaps the mainland now, liked perverse subjects. Bai Yang's frank and hateful personality doomed him to be an alien. Therefore, when he translated the word "entourage" in the comic book Popeye into "compatriots of the whole country", it would also arouse the resentment of the authorities, and then he was arrested and sentenced to death on charges of "insulting the Fuehrer" and "communicating with bandits". Fortunately, God has eyes, and God did not let a passionate and sincere soul go to the grave innocently. Poplar escaped the fate of death, but it was also jailed and spent more than nine years in prison. When Bai Yang was released from prison, he was over 50 years old. Besides the hair with snow on the sideburns, there are three shining works, namely, Outline of the People's History of China, Chronology of Chinese History and Descendants of the Prince and Princess of the Emperor and Empress of China.

People thought that Poplar would be smart after he got out of prison, but instead of giving birth to flattery, he became more and more stubborn. He gave up novel writing and concentrated on writing prose. The reason is, in his own words: "I think writing a novel is indirect, and it has to go through a form and some characters, so I rewrite the prose." Essays, like daggers, can go straight into the heart of sin. The sketch is like a person sitting next to the driver, always reminding the driver that you are wrong, you should turn left, you should turn right, you should stand aside, you should not overtake on the double yellow line, there is a bridge in front, you should slow down the throttle, there is a crossroads in front, there is a red light and so on. " He doesn't want hypocrisy, don't beat around the bush, just point out the mistakes and ugliness of China people naked. Only in this way can Bai Yang write ugly China.

Ugly China was actually the topic of Bai Yang's speech at 1984 University of Iowa. Later, it was compiled into a collection of essays and used this name. 1982, a newspaper in Taipei invited Bai Yang to give a speech. The topic given by Bai Yang was "Ugly China People", but when the host heard the topic, he rebuffed it and dropped the speech. 1983, Taiwan Province Donghai University invited Bai Yang to give a speech, but Bai Yang still gave an "ugly China". This time, the school asked Bai Yang to change the topic, Bai Yang refused, and finally agreed to change the content to a more euphemistic point. Unexpectedly, after the speech, the school sent Bai Yang's speech tape, but the content was pinched off. It was not until 1984 that Bai Yang was invited by the University of Iowa to give a speech, and Bai Yang was allowed to play by himself, and the complete Ugly China was produced.

The Ugly China pointed out that China people are stingy, disunited, arrogant, unwilling to admit their mistakes, and so on, which makes people enjoy it. This book was banned in front of China people and foreigners, and was not allowed to be published in Chinese mainland until 2004.

In fact, Bai Yang publicly scolded China people, but in his bones he really loved China. The so-called "the deeper you love, the more you hate". When you hate it to the extreme, you become extremely fond of it. We can see Bai Lao's sincerity from the following things.

He once said, "I dare to point out the shortcomings of China people because I come from China."

When Shenzhou 5 was successfully launched into the sky in 2003, a reporter told him that some people thought that the government should use the money to build a space shuttle to help the poor, but the government did not take punitive measures against these speakers. Bai Yang later sighed: "Suddenly, a light rose before my eyes. I feel that China is not only making progress in science and technology, but also improving our humanistic quality. "

Another thing is that in 2004, when Bai Yang learned that the mainland had lifted the ban on Ugly China People and allowed it to be published, Mr. Bai, who was in his eighties, began to preface the mainland version of the book happily, regardless of his deteriorating health, and said in the preface, "This is the day I am looking forward to, which makes me even happier. Thank God! "

Bai Yang's persistence in life finally won him victory. In 2008, this fighter, whose life was stormy and full of hardships, tortured China's humanity and worried about Chinese civilization, was able to smile. The people of Sri Lanka are dead, the article is immortal, and the spirit lives on forever!

Like Baiyang, I am deeply shocked and admired by the master.

As we all know, Yu really entered the sight of the masses with the cultural journey, and I was no exception. I started with him, and I know him best because of my cultural journey.

When I put down all his administrative duties, he packed his bags and started a great journey. It's just that this is not an ordinary trip, not as easy as a holiday, as the name of the book says, the journey is hard.

It is a big move to give up all fame and fortune and concentrate on traveling, and it is even bigger with the pace of exploring the soul of civilization.

Yu Yu Qiu walked through the long desert of Dunhuang on yellow sand, entered Liu Hou Temple, crossed An Baili Cave, swam Dujiangyan, sailed the Three Gorges, overlooked Dongting Lake, looked up at Lushan Mountain, approached Suzhou, climbed Tianzhu Mountain, touched Tianyi Pavilion, and fell in love with Slender West Lake ... The constant footsteps along the way stirred up rolling dust. Those cultures and history that have been dusted by years have been stripped away bit by bit by this knowledgeable and well-written scholar, which has made people today.

The profoundness and desolation of history, the prosperity and decline of culture are all vividly described by Yu with his unique observation and ideological power, and the context of culture and the fate of literati are also clearly combed by this master bit by bit.

However, Yu was not satisfied with the exploration of China culture. Without any protection mechanism, he personally crossed tens of thousands of kilometers on a road full of fuzzy weeds, dense trenches and bandits, and crossed the major human civilization relics such as Europe and Africa, and found out their living conditions with difficulty. Along the way, he also caused an inexplicable thought: "As the foundation of our life, Chinese civilization is also scarred, but how to avoid the overall collapse? How much did this evasion cost? Which costs are positive and which costs are negative? Can the avoidance of the past guarantee the future? More importantly, how long will it take for the dynamic young civilizations in the world to repeat the fate of the rise and fall of most ancient civilizations? "

Yu Ben can sit in his office, drawing and greedily enjoying the charm of high-rise lights, but he doesn't! He took a pure soul and dragged his tired feet all the way to explore, not for fame and fortune, but for his own soul and human civilization. He doesn't want the splendid Chinese culture to be quietly buried by modern green mountains and green waters. He wants this splendid culture to be passed down from generation to generation and carried forward, so that people can enjoy the edification and edification of culture forever. His arduous journey is no less than learning from the Western Heaven in the Tang Dynasty. How can such a mind, such a spirit, such a pure soul not make me deeply sigh and admire?

Nowadays, people are too fast in life and money, leaving their souls behind. In order to pursue fame and fortune, various food and drug safety problems have appeared in society, which makes us all at a loss. Now that the poplars are gone, the hard steps are gradually drifting away. Who will be the next master who has a great soul and can awaken human conscience?

The strength of one or two people is too weak in front of the whole society. Even if they are alert as poplars and heavy, they can't carry this crumbling Tianshan Mountain. Even if it survives, it will eventually grow old. If there are no successors, this culture will fall into ruins at some point.

Therefore, the best teacher is actually each of us. Seeing those touching and human news, the paragraphs in the comments are all moving and supportive. In fact, the hearts of China people are extremely kind. If each of us can maintain this kindness and inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture, then no matter how the times change, why worry that our souls and hearts will be derailed?

What history fears most is people's hearts. If people unite, no matter how magnificent the regime is, it will be crushed by the wheel of time, just like the replacement of countless feudal regimes. On the contrary, when people's hearts are scattered, no matter how powerful they are, they will disappear, just as countless powerful people are deceiving each other.

After admiring and sighing, what each of us should do most is to walk side by side with our noble and kind souls, just like those literati masters. Qi Xin works together to pass on our excellent culture from generation to generation and create a harmonious scene of our society.