Caption by Antti Laitinen
The more you read
The bigger your world is
"Each has its own way of life"
Dragons and ants, each with its own scenery
Text | Cao Hui
Source | "Shanxi Evening News" February 28, 2022 "Night Reading" edition
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Lu Xun Literature Prize winner Feng Jicai's new collection of works, the novel has the legend of the worldly stranger, the prose has the beauty of all living things, and the essay has a taste of life.
A book that reads the master's style and understands contemporary literature. This book includes 32 masterpieces of novels, essays and essays personally selected by Feng Jicai from 1981 to the present, depicting different characters in various periods from the late Qing Dynasty to the present, showing the different living conditions of ordinary people, and conveying the author's thinking on life: gods and tigers and dogs, each with its own way of life. The way of living is different, and a happy life is a common rush.
All sentient beings, illuminated by the years, have their own trajectories. Whether you believe it or not, it does not hinder the journey of life from birth to death, just like Feng Jicai's book "Each Has Its Own Way of Life", for us who are trapped in the potholes and dust roads is nothing less than a prescription, both wise and astute to understand and understand, but also with bitter words of comfort and admonition, to us who are either vicissitudes or smooth, to open up a way for the wanderers to open their hearts.
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All the masters of each line, to a certain extent, can turn their palms into the wind like a martial arts master and shock the eight directions.
Feng Jicai is a big coffee who can handle the words with ease, although he is low-key, he does not hide the light emitted by his works, this light is eye-catching but not dazzling, and the warmth contains the power to wipe people's heartstrings, which is the charm of literature.
The book combines different genres and different characters, but it is not obtrusive, for no other reason than that, these novels or prose essays all highlight the author's thinking on world affairs and his contemplation of human nature.
What the book wants to tell us is nothing more than that whether you live in a temple or in a city, whether you are an emperor or a mortal pawn, there is nothing. All sentient beings are equal, each has its own way of life, each person is unique and cannot be copied, everyone is a unique landscape, and each living law has its own reason for existence.
Vivid portrayal of characters is one of the features of the book. Content is the soul of the book, and the book has great depth in polishing the content. The author is well versed in the psychology of the world, and easily unlocks the weight of the world's hearts.
People live to a certain age, the understanding of life will be deep to the extent of their own surprise, this is the deep connotation of the saying cloud "ginger is old spicy", the article will naturally follow the "rising tide", from light to "spicy" to "choke the heart and lungs" is the road that every writer will walk.
The novel part of the book is not "spicy", but it gives people a rich pyrotechnic atmosphere, such as the "looking up wife and bowing her head" in the "looking up wife", her decadence after the death of her husband and no longer looking up, with "decline" to the mutilation of the marriage to lower the flag, no longer strong, become the appearance of a normal woman, is not the low-headed man is her head-up support? In fact, the original intention of the author's writing should not have any feminist and patriarchal theory, and the novel should be a refinement and processing of real life.
Bypassing the author, I want to say the digression: the reason why women are strong is really not the intention, but as long as men can stand the door, no woman likes to be a female man and force Liangshan. Reading this novel makes people feel emotional, deeply sighing for the lives and fates of their respective lives and fates of the wife and the man who bowed their heads, and more is acceptance.
The novel part, but also prefer the "cannon double lamp" this article, read before, although the writing is not very meaningful, but full of deep human feelings, especially Niu Baoqi, portrayed vividly, he for love and did a pile of reckless things, the result is to hold the beauty of the return, this is not sincere, the golden stone is open? While reading, I thought of the "Guan Guan Ju Dove" in the "Book of Poetry Zhou Nan", and inadvertently, the dove bird became the embodiment of Niu Bao and Chun Zhi.
Such a lifetime is worth it for ordinary people. The novel "Old Husband and Wife" is not known for its brilliance, but wins with affection. Wrote an elderly couple playing and making trouble for a lifetime, disgust is false, love is true, this kind of mutual foam, but also the world hopes, is the return to the simplicity of life.
In addition to the relaxed content, many pages are very meaningful, which is the author's deep writing intentions. For example, in the "low-key" article, Feng only wants to teach us not to be superficial people, not to be flashy people. To put it simply, he wants the reader to understand what is true "happiness" in a human life, and how to maximize the inner happiness index.
The most touching one is "The Last Van Gogh", especially the passage where Van Gogh humbly talks to his brother about money, which is heart-wrenching to read.
In contrast, Rodin in another article is much luckier, and he belongs to the category of "artists who can enjoy the ripening of fruit while alive.". Many accomplished people bear the double destruction of spirit and material, this is the melting pot of society, we are not Sun Wukong, only van gao, can refine the golden eye of fire, although the price is extremely painful.
Other passages, such as "Burning Stones" and "Lu Xun's Merits and Deeds", are also touching to read, and they can chew out the taste beyond words.
In the use of language, I appreciate this kind of gentleness that does not deliberately use rhetoric to create momentum. How to say it? Reading through the whole book, it feels like bathing in the tepid sun, that kind of ease and comfort, that kind of relaxation and great ease, is the author with the achievement of the text to give the reader a kind of "consummation" that wants to arrive, as if eating a meal that is not luxurious but particularly delicious, making you feel refreshed and refreshed, physically and mentally comfortable.
Let us return to the article "The Last Van Gogh", "Van Gaude's miracle is genius plus mental illness", "Van Gaud's supreme value is his unparalleled art and the great life of martyrdom for art", "Truly great art is the work plus his whole life"; as well as the quote from Hamlet: "Even if I am placed in a matchbox, I am the master of infinite space"; especially in "The great appearance of the philistine in the winter whispers shows the omnipresence of the mediocre"... These rich golden sentences hide the enlightenment and guidance to the world.
Looking at the various articles in the book, I feel that the novel part is mostly written by Feng when he was young or middle-aged, and when he wanted to write it, he wrote it with the original intention, and there was no trace of deliberateness. The characters in the novel are also experienced or heard by the author, which is the foundation of most writers' literary creation. Written when he was young, the content left many traces commensurate with age, and it was not as deep and lofty as the works created in the later period.
The prose essays in the book feel that he is in his middle age, and strictly speaking, he is mostly created in his later years. With a lot of sophisticated pen, like Wang Shouren's personality, every move and style is permeated with a kind of general demeanor and courage, and there is more than enough intention at the end of the pen, big people and small people, in their respective stages are protagonists, but also are supporting roles in other people's lives. With the pen calmly, not known for floating words, this simplicity is also a spiritual extension of people in terms of words, and it is easy to read and sit and watch the things that rise from the clouds.
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Of course, the simplicity of the book's architecture is also a highlight.
Based on the content as a whole, there is no restriction on the acceptance. This kind of collocation, far from being abrupt, is interesting to read and boring. The book is divided into three parts with novels, essays, and essays as the skeleton, and the content has its own advantages and disadvantages to entertain the reader. Every time you change genres, you suddenly have a sense of opening up a new realm.
Compassion for human nature, insight into world affairs, and respect for life are all the foundation of Feng Luo's writing. He believes that, in his bones, all artists are an idealist and believe in the words of Zassi. After reading this article, you will have a general understanding of the author, that is, a kind and responsible person, a bookish but heroic but heroic, a low-key and high-profile man who takes the world as his own responsibility, and is a talented person who understands and wants everyone in the world to live and understand.
People live for a lifetime, in the rolling red dust of the boiling sky, each of us is just a drop in the ocean, how is a life. A simple single "living" word, the connotation is too large and complicated. Only by correcting their mentality can they live their lives as well as they can. Whether it is a peony or a moss flower, whether rich or poor, whether healthy or weak, what is important is where our hearts belong.
It is the fixed star of our life, if the heart is there, the dream is there, and the skin bag of the world in the eyes is just the carrier of "living". Everyone has their own way of life, the key is that they can be worthy of themselves without hindering others, and live according to their own wishes, that is the three lives are fortunate.