Chapter 18 to write Zhu Tianwen

Su Dongpo said, "Literacy is the beginning of trouble in life", and I am still writing this?Just thinking about it is enough to worry about.I have been worried like this for two days, and when I woke up at four o'clock this morning and thought about it again on my pillow, I suddenly discovered that there is a place where there is no worry in the article.In this way, I will write it. Zhu Tianwen's novels remind me of the scenery of Japanese shrines.This comparison may not be correct, but it is not a comparison, just use it for fun, like the way of writing Xing in the Book of Songs.

My favorite is to watch the dance of Japanese shrine maidens.Wu is a borrowed Chinese character. The original meaning is Wang Ji. Here it should be translated as Shen Ji. It is comparable to the nuns of the church, but different.The gods of Japanese shrines today are girls from good families who are from 15 to 18 years old, and the older ones are from 18 to 21 years old. They enter the shrine for three years, practice etiquette, and then go home to get married.Shen Ji usually wears a white shirt and red dress, and her face is auspicious and fine, with a little powder on her face, giving her a girlish beauty.

The shrine is decorated with ancient clothes and belts for the priests, holding wats, divided into masters of ceremonies and music.The master of ceremonies presents and withdraws food in the temple.The musicians sit on the left and right sides of the temple and mainly make music.At the beginning of the ceremony, the music officials beat the drums and played the sheng, and the ritual officials offered Zudou. Each product was handed over by the Shenji of His Majesty on the right to the Shenji of His Majesty, and then passed on to the ritual officials to offer on the sacrificial table in front of the god.The movements are quick.After the food is served, Shenji dances.

At this time, Shenji is wearing the attire of the emperor of Nara Dynasty thousands of years ago, a skirt with wide sleeves and open train, a golden crown, white linen with hanging hair, and a fan covering the face. The right majesty ascends to the palace in turn, and there are two or four people. .In the urging music of the big drum and the blowing of the sheng, the small steps of the goddess when she ascended to the palace are hurried and complicated, with the feeling of the beginning of the tide when the spirit is blowing.They came to the main hall in twos and bowed down before the gods, got up and danced with the bell.The bell has a handle and is tied with a wide and long ribbon.It is the bell dance first, followed by the fan dance.

However, Shen Ji Fu worshiped, holding the bell in her right hand, holding the ribbon on the bell handle with her left hand, and holding her shoulders open on both sides. The posture of standing up, and the posture of dancing in front of the god with the bell in her right hand, can only be felt. Big, really like mountains and rivers.The music officer's song is a tribute to the prosperity of the country and the people's safety, Haiyan and Heqing, and the tune is elegant and grand. To the drums and flute, Shenji's dance is smooth and smooth, but suddenly Shenji turned around and faced the worshiping people of the temple. The crowd, slowly dancing forward three or five steps, really like the tide is coming.Shenji's eyebrows and expressions are just the piety and integrity of a virgin.Every time I just feel that it is the first time I see a woman can have such beauty.It was from that dance that I suddenly understood the principle of movement, gestures and eight methods taught by Mrs. Wei to Wang Xizhi.

Shenji dances for the gods, not for the audience.The audience is also in front of God with Shenji.People come to worship, not to tell their sorrows, but to come to the place of sorrow in the dance before the gods, so that there is no old age, sickness and pain in the dance of Shenji at this time. When I read Zhu Tianwen's novels and essays, I naturally feel reverence and rectitude in them, and I think of Shen Ji's dance.And because of this, I have paid more attention to some basic problems in literature, and feel that today is an era of great introspection in literature, and only new writers can come out of this introspection.I first want to say this to Zhu Tianwen.

It turns out that a good article is just like the dance of the Goddess, but it is for God, not for readers.A good reader is with God with a good writer.This principle can be applied to all good things, not limited to literature.Speaking of politics, for example, Takamori Saigo, the first person of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, said that he regarded heaven as his opponent, not man.Yao Guangxiao, who led the army of the king of Yan in the Ming Dynasty, also said: "I know the way of heaven, let alone the hearts of the people." Both of them responded to the sky, and the masses naturally followed it.

Just like the statues in Greece, they are also aimed at gods. Both the author and the viewer are devout and correct.Western statues have completely fallen into the evil way of art as far as Rodin is concerned.The discoveries of mathematicians and physicists such as Plato, Descartes, Newton, and Einstein are all about God.Painters such as Cezanne and Van Gogh, at least they can not be the audience.Hu Shizhi was in the limelight back then, but his is, "I sang my own songs, I am entertaining my own feelings." Such a comparison shows how wrong it is for today's writers to care too much about readers!How shallow is the debate about whether literature is subjective or objective, whether it is popular or aristocratic!A real literati, I think, must have the reverence and integrity when he is dealing with the pen and paper on the desk, as he is to the gods of heaven and earth.Because a good article is like the wind, which blows the water and flowers in the world, and this wind can only come from the realm of God.But God and religion are two different things.

Zhu Tianwen is still a new writer, and he doesn't know how to take care of the readers, so it's good.That is to say, it is a big weapon. I have only seen Zhang Ailing and the Japanese mathematician Jie Jie have the seriousness and seriousness of little girls and boys like this when writing articles.Zhu Tianwen is very similar to Zhang Ailing in some ways, but also very different.The similarities between the two are a new character, a soft character, and a big character.Moreover, both of them are modest, Zhang Ailing is willing to praise Su Qing's writing and appearance, Zhu Tianwen also reads the works of his peers, and each pair seriously praises them, thinking that they are not as good as they are.And clumsy resemblance in business.The looks and expressions of the two are somewhat similar.The articles are also somewhat similar.

The difference is that Zhu Tianwen does not have Zhang Ailing's individualistic self-defense.Eileen Chang's individualism and self-defense are Western, but she is illuminated by her genius, and her individualism and self-defense are often washed away by genius.Zhu Tianwen loves to take advantage of the bustle of the world more than Zhang Ailing. For example, she went to Taichung for eight days to participate in folk dances during the summer vacation. But the biggest difference is that the era of Zhu Tianwen's generation is different from that of Zhang Ailing more than 30 years ago.People in Eileen Chang's era had a better sense of the current situation than people today, they were more able to think independently, and they read more books.But after the Second World War, Zhu Tianwen's generation of young people only followed the fashion, but had no sense of the current situation. They seldom thought independently, seldom read books other than homework, and were influenced by American-style education. He is an adult, and his spirit is too immature, and he is always an adult.Because young writers lack knowledge and foundation, they are more like grass that grows and withers in autumn.I talked about this with Zhu Tianwen, and she was willing to study hard again.Know that today is an era of decadence, that is, you can be born in many eras without being restricted by one era, and give birth to revolutionary vigor.

Zhu Tianwen is a third-year student at Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences this year, which is exactly the age when Eileen Chang returned to Shanghai after studying at the University of Hong Kong to start literary creation.But comparing the works of the two, we can see that there is a big difference in the times.Zhang Ailing has no novels with students as the theme.Since the Republic of China, only the school education in the May 4th era has had intellectual brilliance.By the time of Eileen Chang's generation, the school system had been established after the Northern Expedition, and only homework and examinations were emphasized, so most students were disgusted with the school.The society at that time was old habits combined with admiration for the foreign, and the admiration for the foreign was just learned.The novelty of Zhang Ailing's article lies in its intellectual brilliance.Zhang Ailing's articles are all against the status quo, but because the writing is soft, it is observational rather than impulsive, so it can't be seen. By the time of Zhu Tianwen's generation, the students were already content with this system.Although it is like Wu Xianghui's "the boy who refused the entrance examination", as for the longing for knowledge, he does not have it.But there are youths for men and women.Zhu Tianwen's novels are still only about student life.Hers is the quality of the article, good-natured, peaceful.In several of her novels, such as "Nvzhisu", "Mo Shangsang", and "The New Record of Qiao Taishou", the male students and female students are shallow but not frivolous, although they are wrong but not sinful, they write youthful stories. The sense of reality is well written.They don't know what ambition is, but they don't get it seriously.Zhu Tianwen's pious and correct writing also made me pious and correct reading, but here. But what I want to tell Zhu Tianwen is that there is a crisis for a group of young writers. They have too little knowledge about human affairs, and writing about youth is a bit isolated.Nowadays, adult writers generally have too little knowledge of human affairs. They know social events but not human affairs, and they can describe emotions and desires but not life.Such works, whether by young writers or adult writers, are flooded like photography. Every family has several photo albums, but no one else wants to read them.In Japan today, novels have become food-injured, and diverted to document-based, non-fiction-like works, but this will soon be food-injured.Somehow, the current works have become similar to photography. The works should be like paintings, and there will not be many good paintings.The world needs simplicity, tranquility, and liveliness and abundance. This is a matter of articles. Zhu Tianwen and the young writers of her generation grew up only in the great reflection of contemporary literature.Literature is to make people understand themselves, and then surpass themselves, play with nature, and get rid of life, old age, sickness and death.Literature is cosmopolitan, but it must have its national personality.Poetry and articles are the sound of the nation's buds opening in the solar terms of the times, so literature is also the joy of ritual and music.Chinese literature is the highest literature in the world literature. Zhu Tianwen still has to work hard, and she can get it, because she has the two qualities of a genius.She means it.There is also her affection.In her novel "Still Shining with Attitude", she writes that she admires a girl in the same class, and in another novel "How can I be so sad" that she admires a teacher, both are just intentions.And this simple longing is related to the earth mother and also to a person's longing for the past life and the future life.It is also related to how many heroes in the past happily followed Mr. Sun Wen who is just now, and only wanted to take one step after another.That kind of longing is for the other party, not for oneself, and he is not more aware of himself than at this time.The difference between Zhu Tianwen's life and her articles lies here. And her high affection can be seen from one incident.The year before last, Zhu Tianwen and her father, Mr. Zhu, came to see me for the first time.Mr. Zhu is a gentle, upright and righteous person. He came to search for information about Eileen Chang.Zhu Tianwen only listened to what I said, she didn't say anything herself.I haven't gotten to know Mr. Zhu well yet, and he is polite, so my words will float, I am not sincere enough to others, and I am not true enough to myself.Mr. Zhu gave me a bottle of Zhuyeqing, and I returned a Japanese bag.Because I said that I brought two of them with the same burden, one was given to a prominent official, and the other was given to Miss Tianwen.After the guest resigned, I just felt that the day was not right.Sure enough, a few days later Zhu Tianwen wrote to Lin Jun (note: Hu's student Lin Hui'e, pen name Xianzhi), saying that she was very disappointed to see me.She wrote in the letter: "Then what does it have to do with me!" She said that my face did not have the characteristics that Eileen Chang said.Immediately after reading the letter, I felt ashamed and apologetic, feeling that I was really bad, and felt a great deal of respect for the person who wrote the letter. She also said in the letter that I didn't pay attention to the clothes she was wearing that day, and she made one piece of sushi in the bento I brought, and I didn't know if I ate it.I also think it's my fault.But even though I was hit hard, I liked that the letter was written cleanly and without taboos, and I only praised Mr. Lin.It is because I am writing this article that I am reflecting on myself while taking a walk today. I remembered that Xuedou said that Zen Master Huangbo was "awe-inspiring and high-spirited without boasting." Ordinary people only take everything for granted, but geniuses are serious like children, but when it comes to real things, they always feel wrong, even the sun on the steps is wrong, which makes people wronged, annoyed, and surprised ,joy.I have to ask God for this feeling.Zhu Tianwen's quality as a literary scholar is the quality of a genius who is also familiar with philosophers, mathematicians and physicists, and it is also the quality of a founding hero in politics and military affairs.When Zhu Tianwen saw me, like Emperor Wu of Liang met Bodhidharma, he asked, "Who is the one to me?" He said, "I don't know." Not only did Emperor Wu not know, but Bodhidharma himself didn't know either.Zhu Tianwen saw that she was a genius because of her cleanliness, no taboos and dazed feeling. Because I mentioned dancing earlier, let me say one more thing here.One autumn, when I was in the countryside of Chichibu, Japan, I saw a small shrine for a festival, and the villagers danced on a temporary stage in front of the god.She is dressed like a country woman, wearing homemade green clothes, holding a twig that looks like tea in her hand, and dancing to the sound of drums and flutes. Later, when I read the Chronicles of Ancient Matters, I realized that Wu's scriptures were written because Amaterasu was angry with her younger brother and hid in the Iwado of the Sky and refused to come out.Amaterasu is the goddess of the sun.The gods outside want her to come out, and the Tiantian girl will dance.It turned out that Tiantian girl was ugly in appearance and body, and she danced funny, so the gods laughed.Amaterasu who was inside felt it was strange to hear it, and lifted the Iwato of the sky to peep, but was pulled out by the God of Hands who had been ambushing there in advance, and the earth was like a golden arrow in the sky again. In the glory. I have always imagined that Tiantian girls are beautiful, and I know they are ugly. I was surprised and disappointed.But then I realized that Zhuangzi also wrote about disabled people becoming beautiful, and among the Eight Immortals there is Tieguai Li, because they are all in fairyland.A prime minister of the Tang Dynasty went to a Buddhist temple to meet a Zen master. The monk threw over the tea bowl, and the prime minister said you were too rough. The monk said, "What is this place, but you talk about it in rough terms!" Tiantiannu danced with people laughing and laughing, funny and lively, So there is nothing that is not beautiful, even nothing that is beautiful or not beautiful.In this way, discussions about morbid beauty and exposure literature, as well as avant-garde literature's theory of destroying beauty, can be swept away like a garbage collector. I tell Zhu Tianwen this because the creation of young writers of Zhu Tianwen's generation is to be established simultaneously with new literary theories. Taipei Jingmei in August 1976