Chapter 3 Book Review: Salvage an Era Patiently

Perhaps in order to cater to the nostalgic reading taste of this era, books such as anecdotes and anecdotes about the Republic of China have always been quite popular in the market. The age of stars.So it seemed that overnight, everyone started talking about Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke and Wu Mi.When the masters began to degenerate into a cultural symbol one after another, it seems reasonable to suspect that a titled book is another plate of dessert just served on the nostalgic feast? However, when we open the table of contents of this book, what we see are not those famous names.In fact, it is not surprising that this is a collection of articles published by the author in the "Gou Shen" column in "China Youth Daily · Freezing Point Weekly" for several years. thing.Thus, we see that the author spends a lot of time searching for information and looking for relatives and friends in order to trace the traces left by a person in the contemporary era, but there is a silent blank beyond that.On the one hand, it is to establish new cultural icons, but on the other hand, it is more and deeper forgetting.This seems to suggest that no matter how lively it looks on the surface, our understanding of that era is still incomplete.And the gesture of a salvager is naturally insulated from all motives for cultural consumption.

The author's profession is a reporter. In addition to the preparation of the text, he also needs to interview the relatives, friends and students of the subject to understand his (her) fate in the contemporary era.Perhaps because of this, the author has a deeper understanding of the huge break and contrast between that era and the present. The deep sighs of "the predecessors are gone and cannot be chased" and "the back is fading away, but still hovering low" can be seen everywhere in the book.This is not a literati formula, which contains serious reflections on the current situation and warm emotions on history.

Even in those characters we are more familiar with, the description of an ethos and demeanor does not degenerate into amusing narrative.Journalists must have an objective vision, so that the author tries to avoid subjective value judgments and make excuses.He often keenly grabs the most expressive details from a large amount of material, and then outlines them with close-up brushwork. Just a few short sentences make the picture full of sense.In the interspersed and dyed details, it is not necessary to press a word, but the realm is fully revealed.Coupled with the fact that time is constantly flashing back and forth between the past and the present, the calmer the author's brushwork, the more intense the emotions contained in it.Although the length of each article is only about a thousand words, it still makes people hesitate after reading it.As far as the depth and breadth of emotion are concerned, it may not be an exaggeration to say that it has the potential to scale thousands of miles.

Naturally, this is inseparable from the personality charm that those characters themselves cannot match.However, we still need to have such patience, respect and warmth in our hearts, not to materialize them as commodities circulating in the cultural market, and to talk about after dinner, but to carefully salvage and protect all the glory and splendor of that era , so as to irrigate the spiritual home that is not rich in our era.