Chapter 4 Book Review: The Merry Is Always Blown Away by the Rain and the Wind

——with "Brave New World" Text/Mongolia , It’s really beautiful, such a concise text, outlines the backs of the literary circles of the Republic of China, like the playback of short movies, let us relive the glory that belongs to the literati, and inspire our expectations and imagination for intellectuals ... This book is a collection of "Gou Shen", a column of "China Youth Daily · Freezing Point Weekly".Newspaper reading should not be too long, and it must be easy to read; journalists' writing should contain more false and true news, and remembering people and events has its own unique features.The host of the column, Xu Baike, is a talented scholar of Peking University with strong cultural feelings. He pays attention to writing about everyone conscientiously, and specially interviews the descendants, students, or friends who have forgotten the age of the host. Therefore, he has recorded a large number of first-hand materials, which are of great interest There are a lot of anecdotes and precious old photos. It is only natural that this column was honored as the best in 2006 by Freezing Point Weekly.The reason for the award is:

These articles "my way is consistent", with independent judgment and poetic brushstrokes, activate for us one by one forgotten figures of the Republic of China, and outline a little-known history; Characters or scenes cut into the old past. This column is a comprehensive integration of history and poetry, learning and knowledge, talent and emotion, new and old.It is like a pot of aged wine, the more taste the better. "Gouchen" babbles, murmurs, and endlessly, but it actually tells readers a theme: there was such an era and such a group of characters.Think like that, live like that.They are not far away from us today, but the spirit and character they guard and embody are far from the present.Walking into their world, we feel as if we have passed away; touching history, we can't help but sigh——

On the dance pavilion and singing stage, the wind is always blown away by the rain and the wind.Grass and trees in the setting sun, ordinary alleys, where human slaves once lived.I think back then, gold and iron horses swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger. The emotion of Xin Qiji's song "Yongyule Jingkou Beiguting Nostalgia" is very close to the complex taste we read. Jiang Tingfu, Mei Yiqi, Liu Wendian, Fu Sinian, Huang Kan, Zeng Zhaolun, Huang Yuansheng, Lin Baishui, Wang Yunwu, Cai Gongshi, Zhang Shenfu...and Wu Zuxiang, Deng Guangming, Jiang Tianshu, Lin Geng, etc. who are very, very close to us today , these names are on the verge of oblivion in today's textbooks, media, and young people's memories. Of course, we may inadvertently meet them in the former residence or work site of a certain hutong in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places. It's weird... Walking out of the alley, you can see the Bird's Nest Dome and all kinds of strange and dazzling office buildings. The so-called panopticon-style post-modern architecture still stimulates your aesthetics. The yelling, the honk of the traffic jam, the sound is in the ear, crazy, crazy, the moment of encounter becomes blurred and indifferent... In fact, few people can remember those names. , computer viruses, cyanobacteria in Taihu Lake, Dongting Lake rats, black brick kilns, and the Asian Cup all seem to have nothing to do with each other. The hardships of basic necessities and the dream of beautiful women and dollar bills make our whole body and mind involved in this "brave new world" like a nightmare—— The greenhouse effect exacerbated by automobile exhaust makes the sun extraordinarily warm, making ice-cold Coca-Cola and central air conditioning a desire.

Of course, maybe not at the moment, we may still meet those names, that is, accidentally in the dust of the library, in the corner of a certain idle book that we are bored to open when we are sick, or when we lose the ability to work and are about to grow old and ruminate "I In a dream of this lifetime... At that time, we may find that this "brave new world" is becoming more and more strange like Huxley's name, but they are getting closer and closer to us. close-- So reading is not for you and my job today, not for you and me to buy a better house and car, not even for you to maintain a sense of superiority in front of post-doctoral fellows and university professors who are far more than participating in the Dream of the Red Chamber audition today , but to miss the unwarranted ideals of your youth, and to speak out to the media, knowledge, and self-cultivation with a little awe—this awe will make us make fewer mistakes——

"There are no true lunatics in the world!"—this is a sigh under the high civilization of today's red flags fluttering and fluttering! "Real celebrity, self-styled!" - this can be understood as a blessing to each of us - Read it, even if it's useless, it won't do any harm.I would like to say that in the cultural market where more than 250 kinds of books are produced every day, there seem to be not many books that are not harmful.Therefore, I recommend this book to readers-"What is useless is useful." Zhuangzi's words are not easy to understand, but it seems too late when we fully understand.Reading this book will make us feel that everything is not too far away, or that it shouldn't be too far away.