Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 60 Stream of Consciousness Literature

Standing on the steps outside the hall, Chi Xueli looked at the endless rice fields outside the ancestral hall: "It's okay, I want to see the second emperor Cong, and see that the descendants have inherited their will and achieved today's achievements, and I will also be happy." You should be very satisfied and happy."

"Elbow, I think you should write all this down and publish it in a journal, so that more people can know the history and stories here."

"I also graduated from a Chinese major, but I don't know a lot of what you said today."

Zhou Zhi smiled secretly, that's because this subject is too vast, and today's university education is still more of a crash course, focusing on strengthening the skeleton and building meridians.

These plump, fleshy and textured things are really not something that can be fully mastered by a four-year undergraduate.

And now there is no search engine, you can only build an index system in your mind through the terrifying amount of reading, otherwise, even if you are given a library there, you don’t even know which book to look for.

And it takes so much energy to learn and master, what can happen afterwards?

In addition to writing articles, there is almost no use for it.

Therefore, this is a knowledge that is almost about to lose its life.

Unless the people of the country begin to rebuild their national self-confidence and urgently need to make up for the gap that makes the nation proud, and when this nation begins to re-examine and think about its own uniqueness and superiority, China's long-standing civilization, splendid culture, and its enduring vitality will be able to Become the object of everyone's investigation.

And this knowledge, until then, may be revived.

Zhou Zhi smiled and shook his head: "That's not necessary, the next study task will be very heavy, and I need to focus on that end."

Chi Xueli said anxiously: "I think it is very necessary! Otherwise, you can send it to me after you finish writing it, and leave it to me without worry, and you don't have to worry about it."

Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "Then I'll write a travelogue when I go back. This shouldn't be too complicated. Come on, my sister will take a photo with Yang He."

Only then did Chi Xueli realize that at some point, her camera had been hung around Zhou Zhi's neck, and she took it off and said, "Wait, I'll put the camera on the stone pillar, the three of us come together!"

Under the setting sun of Wangcong Temple, with the main hall as the background, the three of them took a group photo with bright smiles.

On the way back to pick up the car, Chi Xueli asked, "Yuzi, how did you get your knowledge of classical culture and history?"

Zhou Zhi said: "My fourth cousin came out of a private school, and later he was admitted to the Nanjing Institute of Education, which can be regarded as both internal and external; and my godfather is also very good. They laid the foundation for me."

Chi Xueli no longer regards Zhou Zhi as a high school student on the topic of ancient prose: "Just now I heard you quote 'Wangdi Chunxin entrusts the cuckoo', Li Shangyin's poems are the most difficult to understand, I have never read them, you can understand them ?"

Zhou Zhi said: "Actually, Li Shangyin's poems are difficult in the "Untitled" series. What sister Xue Li wants to ask is this, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Chi Xueli nodded like a pounding garlic: "'The spring silkworms will die when the silkworms die, and the wax torch will turn into ashes and tears will dry'. 'There are tears in the moon and pearls in the sea, and smoke in the blue sky', the sentence is extreme Beautiful, what is the theme of the poem? I don’t understand.”

"That's because sister Xue Li has entered into a misunderstanding."

A few people wandered among the dense ancient cypresses, and Zhou Zhi began to explain his understanding of Li Shangyin's "Untitled" to Chi Xueli: "There are a few of the oldest poems in China that are currently recognized."

"Among them, "Tan Ge" is a hunting poem: 'Break bamboo, continue bamboo;

""Strike the Soil" is a farming poem: 'I work at sunrise, and rest at sunset. I dig wells to drink, and plow the fields to eat. What does imperial power mean to me?'"

"In addition, there is another poem, which is the first one included in the "Grand View of Classical Literature" published by Yuelu Publishing House. It is a celebration poem: 'Hands, dance. Feet, dance'."

"No matter which one it is, we can see the systematic structure of Chinese poetry, and the strong realistic narrative style, which is developed on this basis, which is what the Book of Songs calls 'Ode to Fengya, Fu Bixing'."

"If you apply Li Shangyin's "Untitled" in this way, you will find a problem, which is what Sister Chi just said, the problem that the theme is not clear."

"Taking "Jinse" as an example, the first sentence begins with "Jinse's unprovoked fifty strings", reminiscing about one's own "Hua Nian" and delineating the scope of the poem."

"But the next two sentences, 'Zhuang Sheng' and 'Wang Di', actually only describe the disillusionment of hope and the emptiness of sustenance. They say 'I can't ask for it'."

"The two sentences 'Canghai' and 'Lantian' contain Buddhist causality, including flaws and regrets."

"The last 'reminiscence' and 'confusion' are to recall the loss of the most cherished things in the ignorance."

"Looking at the whole poem, Li Shangyin didn't say what he was disillusioned and lost, what he regretted and regretted when he was young."

"We can use our own understanding, which may be life, health, family, love, career, wealth, family..."

"But does it matter? It doesn't matter. Because what the poet wants to convey and express is a subjective emotion."

"Have we really felt this flow of emotions and thoughts? Of course we have, otherwise they would not have become famous and passed down through the ages."

"So "Untitled", it is really Untitled, what it writes is a flow of emotions and thoughts, what we need to feel is the flow of emotions and thoughts blended by the poet's sadness, pity, and regret at that time. "

"These emotions can be found in everyone, so the poet believes that his poems don't need to be understood, but only need to feel and resonate."

"In fact, this has deviated from the traditional Chinese spiritual core of 'poetry expresses ambition', or it can be summed up by 'poetry expresses meaning'."

"And I think that ancient Chinese poetry is actually a magical process of co-creation between the author and the reader. The words left by the poet are actually intentionally skipped, incomplete, and left blank."

"And these jumps, incompleteness, and blank spaces are left to the readers to fill in automatically in their minds when they are reading."

"This process creates the understanding of artistic conception, which is a very beautiful process of expression, transmission and reception."

"So in this sense, Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is of course a poem, and it is still a very brilliant poem."

"He doesn't even need you to understand, that is to say, he doesn't need you to completely fill in those jumps, incompleteness, and blank spaces. He also completes this beautiful process. Compared with ordinary poems, it is more romantic, fantasy, Ethereal."

Seeing that Chi Xueli became more and more confused, Zhou Zhi sighed helplessly: "Or let me put it another way, maybe Sister Chi is easier to understand."

"You said."

"There is a school in Western literature, and the academic circles generally believe that they are the embodiment of symbolist literature in the field of fiction."

"Because of its unique technique and high achievement, it is usually regarded as a separate literary genre."

"This genre advocates objectively and spontaneously reproducing the 'truth' that the characters feel subjectively on paper."

"At the end of the nineteenth century, the French writer Eduard Dujardin published the novel "The Fallen Laurel", which is regarded as the herald of this genre because it always uses the artistic technique of "inner monologue". "

"The subsequent French writer Marcel Proust, whose masterpiece "Remembrance of Things Past", practiced the author's artistic view of "subjective realism" and became a model of this genre."

"In [-], the famous British novelist Virginia Woolf created "Spots on the Wall". The work goes through the process of infinite association caused by a woman seeing an indistinct spot on the wall, It reveals the richness and ease of change in people's inner world."

"Is Li Shangyin's "Untitled Jinse" created in the same way?"

Speaking of this, Chi Xueli finally understood: "Stream of consciousness literature!"

"Yes! That's it!" Zhou Zhi said, "The technique of this genre includes inner monologue, inner analysis, self-association, time and space montage, and another key point is poetic and musical."

"Li Shangyin only used 56 short characters to express all the above methods vividly and vividly!"

"So no matter in terms of creative techniques, creative ideas or creative ideas, Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is the earliest "stream of consciousness literature" in the world!"

"These writers of later generations, their works are actually mixed with a lot of realistic materials. How can they be compared with these poems in terms of 'pure' and 'beautiful'?!"

Zhou Zhi began to feel aggrieved: "That's why I don't understand. There are so many people who study foreign literature, doesn't it mean that none of them know Li Shangyin's "Untitled"?"

"There are so many people who study Chinese classical poetry, doesn't anyone know about Western stream-of-consciousness literature?"

"But why didn't anyone connect it, why didn't anyone realize that Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is the earliest and purest stream of consciousness literature?"

"Why doesn't anyone realize that the creative method that was highly respected in the West in the 1000th century is an ancient Chinese poet who left it over [-] years ago, or is it something that most Chinese people are familiar with today? !"

"This is the extreme lack of cultural self-confidence! Worshiping foreigners, thinking that foreign moons are rounder than China's! No deep understanding of traditional Chinese classical aesthetics!"

"So the founder of stream-of-consciousness literature was not a Westerner at all; this kind of creative method did not appear just in the [-]th century."

"The founder of this important literary school, the great achiever, should be our great poet, Li Shangyin, who was born in 810 AD and died in 850 AD!"

"The truly pure classic masterpiece of this genre should be his "Untitled"!"

"Many people are overwhelmed by Li Shangyin's talent and moved by the beauty of "Untitled", but most people ignore the age of poetry that was solidified by Feng Ya's poems and poems. Li Shangyin's creative breakthroughs and painstaking efforts Pursue the pioneering spirit of innovation!"

"Read Li Shangyin's "Untitled" with an attitude towards stream-of-consciousness literature, Sister Chi, do you still find it difficult to understand?"

Chi Xueli was shaking with excitement.

This seems to be the easiest effort to pierce the window paper with a finger!
But it is also the most difficult effort!

Because many people have not even made it to the window!
Grabbing Zhou Zhi's arm: "Elbow! You must write another article! Write this well!"

"Ah? Sister, are you waiting for me here?" Zhou Zhi thought for a while, then shook his head resolutely: "No, I won't write this."

"why?!"

(End of this chapter)