Chapter 82 Abe Seimei's garden

Ever since watching Japanese movies, whenever the seasons change, I always think of the courtyard of Onmyoji Abe Seimei in the movie. In Abe Seimei's yard, there are always flowers and plants, and they will change with the seasons.Later, I found the original work of the Dream Pillow Tapir, and found that each chapter of the novel begins with a small scene in Abe Seimei's courtyard located on Tuyumen Xiaolu.In spring and summer, "cherry tree leaves, plum tree leaves, and the new green of cat's eye grass, dora trees, and maple trees glow dimly after being wet by rain. Dragon tooth grass, five phoenix grass, Physalis grass, and money flower—— These flowers and plants are clustered one after another, luxuriant and full of courtyards." In late autumn, "red leaves are falling on the flowers and plants that are about to wither all over the ground. In the early morning, hoarfrost will probably fall in the courtyard, forming a seemingly accumulated A courtyard with a thin layer of snow."

What continues is the tradition of the Japanese (not just the tradition of Japanese movies and literature), and the most subtle item in this tradition is the sense of season.To see cherry blossoms in spring, to pick red leaves in autumn, to lament the impermanence of life in front of the moonlight and night dew, in front of the green grass and distant smoke in the field in spring, even those who are eager to go out to do business in "The Lustful Generation" Prostitutes can't help but look around with nostalgia.Looking at it, I felt peaceful in my heart. For the Japanese, the sense of seasons is a test paper for judging whether a person's origin and temperament are noble or not, because only a good education and a stable environment can cultivate a sharp enough feeling and expression of the seasons. , The sense of superiority in the novel is not only based on the author's background, but also comes from their sensitivity to the sense of the season.Whatever the season, do what you want, and prepare for the corresponding feelings. It may be fake and stylized at first, but as time goes on, it will become real.

The sense of the seasons was also one of our overflowing feelings, "Yuefu", Tang Poetry and Song Ci, thousands of words, thousands of sounds, all "seem to sing for the seasons".The fields blooming in spring need to be accompanied by a little singing; on autumn nights, someone playing a flute on a tall building where the moon can be seen must be heard from far away from other houses to have a taste.White flowers bloom on green trees to look good. When you walk in the green grass by the water to see off, you should wear white clothes, so that people who go far away in a boat can see them from a distance.

The so-called tradition is the superposition and expansion of those innate things. This tradition is disappearing here.In the era of raging wars, depicting the scenery of the four seasons has become the most extravagant behavior. For many years since then, the red sun and green mountains and sunflowers have become the seasonal imagery that dominates the world. Then it was caught off guard by the transformation of agricultural society, the environment deteriorated, and the sense of season was gradually eliminated. .The novels in literary magazines have never had a sense of season since then, or they are about the struggle in the unit room, or the affair between old man Li and Mrs. , is also impatient.After accepting the chemotherapy of the times and killing all the relevant traditional cells, our sense of seasons disappeared, so that Mr. Xie Youshun wanted to write "Beware of Abandoning Hometown-style Writing" to call for the description of scenery in literary works .

And we, like the people who have been exterminated in the past and imprisoned in a city without seasons in "The City of Souls", still remember the blue sky, the blue sky, the breeze and the moon, and think about it hard, but we can't find it.