His language is strange. It's nothing to separate, but it tastes when connected. "Stars are still stars, the moon is still the moon", put together, just like "the old man is carrying his little grandson, looking forward to affection and pain". The following is what I like: simple, smooth, not feminine, in one go.
Wang Zengqi is recognized as a famous contemporary short story writer and playwright, especially his Shajiabang, which is a household name. Since I knew his name, I thought he was an essayist. The first article I read was "Chronicle of a Big Fight", which was indescribably exquisite. Even the moss on the bluestone board was smooth and unforgettable.
Plants on Earth is selected from a large number of essays. It was first written in the forties, and most of it was written in the second half of life. Its style is still simple and its technique is perfect. Read many articles for the first time. I wrote flowers and plants, local scenery, hometown food, travel notes, unforgettable years, old friends and teachers, and plain life, all of which are fine works.
Writing scenery is Wang Zengqi's strong point. It is not boring and not difficult. With the imprint of the times, every corner of the old house has a strange story. Although half a century has passed, its voice, color and smell have calmed down, but we still see the years that have slipped through our hands between the lines, remembering that they are all warm, and the nostalgic tone spreads relentlessly in the quiet old house. Wang Zengqi's nostalgic articles are slow in pace, mixed in scenes and somewhat like old novels in narrative style. Because he is familiar with classical Chinese, metaphor, nostalgia and handy. From time to time, he jumped out of some strange sentences, ancient sentences and strange sentences, such as Meng Qian Bitan and Rong Zhai's essays.
Writing people's articles is lively and brisk, which is a minimalist traditional ink painting model to imitate people. The appearance of close relatives linked his growing footprints in poetry, pasting, tea tasting, painting and writing, and understood the source of his integrity and literary talent.
I like his chapters about food and snacks around the world best. It happened that he seemed to know the hobbies of female readers. As long as he mentions delicious food, he must introduce the taste and making process in detail, and then carefully describe the finished product, which is not only colorful but also three-dimensional.
Wang Zengqi once said modestly that he could not write such brilliant works as Voltaire and Schopenhauer, nor could he write such long prose as Montaigne. He doesn't write lyric prose either, and feels that his age is too sentimental, a bit like an old man writing a love letter, Sorry, so his prose is not long, and he "stumbles" to adapt to the reading habits of this "fast food era". Short, faint prose is not tiring to read, especially suitable for the faint sunshine in the spring afternoon. Many times I fell asleep after reading it, and I realized the artistic conception of "sparkling words and burning sentences" in my dreams.
A good article is to let the reader read all the way. "Oh, it's over. What happened later? " This collection of essays has this effect.
Chapter 2: After reading Wang Zengqi's Prose, I feel that the taste of this world is as thin as gauze for many years.
Living in a small building and listening to the falling spring rain, you will hear the sound of selling apricots in the depths of the alley early in the morning.
Short paper is inclined to be grass, and tea is played in the dark window.
Oh, don't sigh that the dust in Kyoto will stain the white clothes, and there is still time to return to the mirror house in Lake Ubak.
This is a poem by Lu Fangweng, which is different from his famous poem expressing his ambition to serve the country. This poem shows us the daily life interest of a scholar-bureaucrat, and his carefree mood is refined, just like Mr. Wang Zengqi's prose.
Wang always loves this poem, not this artistic conception full of life. What he wants to show us is his life in a mood.
His feeling of life seems a bit like the leisure of a truant child. The world is so big: sweet grass roots are in his mouth, sesame seeds that are stunk all over the body catch "Liu Du", Miao girls selling bayberry whisper softly, and hydrangeas that quietly "absorb water" on the windowsill. This is life, even an art, and he really enjoys it personally.
He is a different writer, unlike today's writers sitting at home or in the office, staring at the screen, fingers flying on the keyboard, and nerves almost destroyed by endless phone calls. His articles and books seem to have been touched by himself thousands of times. The smell between the lines is a wooden pencil, not the hard cold of the machine. I can see a strong old man holding a pencil with his bony outstretched hand and smiling calmly. His delicate and emotional brushwork gives himself and us a little surprise and a little touch from time to time, for a dish of white osmanthus with raindrops and a sudden change from the middle of the lake. Dull is true, dull is a state of life, a realm and an understanding. Most people are trying to get rid of mediocrity, but those successful people who have experienced storms and seen rainbows often don't aim high, but understand the dull and even "mediocre" daily life with this dull mentality.
In fact, the beauty of leisure embodied in his articles is exactly what he pursues after experiencing the ups and downs of personnel. The beauty of a great beauty is awesome, but what he shows us is the kind of little beauty that can make people smile. Beauty is around, and beauty is in duty. Unfortunately, most people have no energy and mood to pay attention to these seemingly trivial beauties. Most people are in a hurry. Thick lenses actually isolate people's hearts from society and nature. Too many metal products actually wrap people's hearts layer by layer. When the author tried to make us feel beautiful, I clearly heard a kind voice saying to people who were busy on the road, "children, slow down." Look at the color of this begonia, like the rouge water from a good family accidentally flowing out of your fingertips. " It's beautiful. It's beautiful. "
Chapter III: After reading Wang Zengqi's prose, I have warned in the Peach Blossom Garden more than once. Here I seem to have come to a primitive utopia, a quiet and wonderful paradise, and I fell in love with it in despair!
This is an ideal paradise. To be exact, it is a primitive utopia. In the eyes of Anzhaozhuang people, monks are no different from farming, weaving mats, hooping and painting. They are all free and equal professionals and have nothing to do with the hardships of the world and the bitterness of life. For example, Xiao Yingjia and Zhao are the owners of everything on the farm. He is not only good-tempered, but also strong. Aunt Zhao is also a strange spirit. Not only her hometown food is delicious, but also cut flowers are the treasures of many married girls. Two precious daughters are even more beautiful. The son in England is quiet and has a family. Xiaoying is very lively and laughs like a magpie all day. As can be seen from the days of this family, there are many people in Anzhaozhuang.
As for the monk's life in the temple, it is even more desirable, without the shackles of the rules and regulations in the general Buddhist temple. Monks here can eat ready-made meals, make money, return to the secular world, get married, buy land and live a leisurely life as long as they know the basic skills of doing things, such as lighting yoga and worshiping Huang Liang. The old master in buddhist nun sits all day, not thinking about the world, intoxicated with "a world in one flower". Master Renshan is a "master", in charge of three account books, namely account books, rent accounts and debt accounts. I never wear cassock in buddhist nun on weekdays. I often wear short frock, revealing Huang Chengcheng's round belly and kicking slippers barefoot. The other two masters also have their own advantages. The second master married in the secular world and even took his wife to cool off every year. Third Master is not only beautiful, but also has the unique skill of "flying cymbals". Even after each ceremony, a big girl or kannika nimtragol suddenly disappears in the village. The most surprising thing is that they never hide meat, and even kill pigs in the hall during the Chinese New Year. The monks here live a happy life day after day, year after year. This is not a "pure land of Buddhism", but a modern version of the "Peach Blossom Garden".
In such a paradise-like dream, our little hero meets Xiao: Xiao is intelligent and studious, and meets Xiao when he is a monk with his uncle. Gradually, they became good friends, and Ming often went to his small home. In this way, their hazy first love was born quietly, and they were woven together. Together, they transplanted rice, herded cattle, cut rice and watched the threshing floor, especially a sketch of them coming home after digging water chestnuts. "She went back with a basket of water chestnut, leaving a string of footprints on the soft ridge. Minghai looked at her footprints stupidly. Five little toes, flat bottom, thin heels and a missing arch. Minghai has a feeling that she has never had before, and she is itchy all over. This string of beautiful footprints messed up the little monk's heart. "What a beautiful description, it depicts the mentality of boys and girls when they first fell in love, wonderful, beautiful and logical. Finally, they went to the city together. One went to Yin Shan Temple to be ordained, and the other bought things for his family. They all came back together by boat. Finally, Xiao Xiaoming was driven crazy: I want Xiaoying to be his wife.
In such an environment, so quiet and beautiful, people will unconsciously integrate with the environment and have infinite reverie. The Commandment, a paradise-like dream, makes me yearn for it infinitely!
Chapter Four: After reading Wang Zengqi's prose, Kong Old Master Q has a famous saying that has been passed down through the ages: "Eating food is also good". This shows that it is human nature to eat and like beautiful things. Therefore, eating has become one of the eternal themes of mankind.
Throughout the ages, there have been many articles about eating, but I only like Mr. Wang Zengqi's style. Its root lies in its words full of praise and gratitude to the world, love and sincerity to life.
In "Food in My Hometown", the author focuses on a common food-fried rice. At the beginning of the article, the author quoted a passage from Banqiao's letter: "It's freezing in the cold. When poor relatives and friends come to the door, first make them a big bowl of fried rice with a small dish of ginger juice, which is the best tool to warm the old and poor." When this sentence came out, it suddenly made people feel very kind! People at the bottom of society warm each other's bodies and hearts with a bowl of fried rice!
At the end of the article, the author describes an episode in the war years. There is no ordinary wind and rain, and there is no pain caused by chaos in the eyes of ordinary people. Instead, he described a night in the war accompanied by fried rice with humorous and romantic strokes: "I can't remember what year it was, but I was still young." Sun's army of the National Revolutionary Army was fighting in our county, and our family brought some luggage into Yesun Temple and set up an altar. I am extremely interested in this unconventional life. Many people live together and can't cook. Tonight, we use it to fry rice and make coke slices. " What great wisdom and courage it is to remain calm, quiet, calm and even humorous in such a chaotic environment! And where does this wisdom and courage come from? The article itself admits: "This is really a romantic night I spent as a child." Without great love and praise for life, how can there be such a mind and courage?
"Bean juice" describes the vivid life picture of the people at the bottom of Beijing: "Bean juice is the leftover of making mung bean fans. Very cheap. With bean juice, you don't have to cook porridge when you eat Wowotou this day. This is inferior food. The pickles on the bean juice stand are not money. " The most interesting part is the ending: a fellow villager in Baoding sat down, took out two steamed buns and asked, "How much is a bowl of bean juice?" The seller told him 5 cents. "What about pickles?" "Pickles don't cost money." "Then give me a plate of kimchi." A few words, full of human fireworks, suddenly make people feel that the world is so real, so lovely, so nostalgic!
Chapter 5: After reading Wang Zengqi's prose and Wang Zengqi's book, in the words of literary girls, it gives people the impression of tea towel sushi, first-class juicy mushrooms, fragrant white sesame seeds and chestnuts. The vinegar rice with so many ingredients is carefully wrapped in a slightly sweet thin egg roll. Although it's not a recent work, it's very kind, cute and close to the chest, but after reading it, the smell of vinegar keeps getting stronger until it finally becomes a profound concept of impermanence.
I think the biggest feature of Wang Zengqi's book is the strong local folk customs. Especially the food culture, people feel that this is not an essay, but a martial arts novel by Jin Yong. Can't help but remind people of the part where Huang Rong cooks for Hong Qigong in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Including his language, it is semi-mixed with classical Chinese, which makes people feel that the tone is smooth. Feather-like fried eggs slowly spread out in the mouth, and my heart was pounding, expecting soft Ji Kang eels and broken chestnuts. It feels like this!
Throughout the ages, from the emperor of Kowloon to the common people, they all yearned for the life of becoming an immortal. If not, marry a crane and live in seclusion. However, they ignore the happy life that the world has brought them. Shu Ting wrote in her goddess peak: "The torrent of Jinguangju and Ligustrum lucidum is inciting new betrayal. It is better to cry on your lover's shoulder for one night than to be exposed on the cliff for a thousand years. " Immortality and indifference to fame and fortune are certainly worthy of joy or admiration. However, taking wine as a song, seeking mountains and asking about water and making money together have some fun and customs that the so-called immortal hermits can't understand.
Wang Zengqi's book tells us this truth. The people he wrote are the most ordinary little people in the market, and his food is not very high-end local snacks on the roadside stalls. He also writes some ordinary trivial things. But people can taste the good feelings between people from his seemingly plain language. In the greatest injustice, fate sometimes leaves a trace of warmth and comfort, which makes people reluctant to give up the world. It seems that there are other profound arrangements, and nothing happens casually, depending on whether your mind understands God's will enough.
The deep communication between father and son and so on, everything is worth tasting.
Take a bite of the wonderful soup that flows out instantly from the vertebral velvet!
Jikang eel that melts in your mouth!
The sweetness of pieces of vinegar rice and chestnuts has become a wonderful match!
Even the dried gourd wrapped in egg skin is elastic and delicious!
This may be the beauty of this book. Think of the beautiful misunderstandings and stumbles in the book, even the stiff corners of the mouth will eventually show a smile.
Chapter six: I read Wang Zengqi's prose, and I am deeply touched by Wang Zengqi's prose today.
One is to learn some theoretical knowledge. For example, how to use Chinese characters in an article, he mentioned the uniqueness and significance of Chinese characters in China. He said that Chinese characters in China are for reading, not for speaking. Many poems lose their former things when they are recited, so he opposes reciting poems and prose. He advocates careful interpretation word for word. Shen Congwen's Border Town is less than 70,000 words, but it has been written for half a year. Wang Zengqi's prose is not unique word by word. But together, it's really amazing and free and easy. He advocates that characters should not be described too much, but should be described and compared from many aspects such as environment, sound and color. How to organize articles? He said that he had outlined the whole article in his mind before writing this article. We must first have an overall idea. These were all thought out when he was sitting quietly with a cup of green tea.
Secondly, his prose style is concise and clear. Everyone will understand after reading it, and everyone can understand it. It is the teacher who inherits the characteristics of Shen Congwen. Although simple, it is a literary rhetoric, a literary language, not a dialect, and it is impossible to write such words without linguistic research and mastering skills. Wang Zengqi also talked about how Shen Congwen and Lao She practiced calligraphy. Wang Zengqi has a deep family background and a wide range of hobbies. In elementary school, grandpa taught him the Analects of Confucius and wrote a short essay "Yi", which was quite good. When I was in primary school, cultural things were insulated except herding sheep and digging bird's nest. I think the most valuable thing about Wang Zengqi's prose is "truth", and there is no suspicion of being melodramatic. It's true feelings, it's true words. In particular, that language is really rare, so we should let the younger generation try to figure it out. At first glance, it is comfortable and credible, unlike many articles written by people nowadays, which like to use gorgeous words, but the content is empty. Uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, unreal. Because of his wide hobbies, his prose is naturally free. Vegetation, history and culture, people's stories, folk customs and artistic relics. Are involved. But it is really about the characters, especially about teachers and friends, family background, father and mother. Intoxicating, showing his kindness, kindness and truth. For example, the memory of father in Father and Son Became Brothers for Many Years shows that father and son are so free, equal and harmonious. Memories of three mothers in My Mother. Although she is a stepmother, she is full of feelings and happiness.
The third is his feelings. He is friendly to everyone. For example, in the memories of many teachers and friends of The National SouthWest Associated University, we can feel his feelings for teachers and classmates. It's pure and natural. I think a person should be like him. Be friendly to anyone and be serious about everything. And the pursuit of natural simplicity in health care is also worth learning. I think some of his teachers, hospitality and cultivation mentioned in the article have a great influence on me. Those are true stories. People should keep a childlike innocence in life and don't put on airs. Reading is learning. It is very important to study articles and be a man.