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Chapter 66 original intention

⒈The first birth of the first ancestor, the birth of the ancestor... Because the book is new, I was very cautious when I opened it.The first line on the first page of the book reads: "Chu, Zai, Shou, Ji, Zhao, Zu, Yuan, Tai... Shi Ye." That year, when I was seventeen years old, I was stunned by the first sentence of the book "Erya". This book is so strange!Put "初" and a bunch of "synonyms of "初" side by side at the beginning of the volume, as if intending to use this long string of words like "初" as the beginning of the whole book. It is also the beginning and tone of the entire Chinese culture, right?I'm a little in awe.

Think of another book, the Bible, which also begins like this: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." It is really a concise and magnificent big pen, without any words to describe it, but it is full of vitality, like the sound of a bell, piercing the ears, making people feel unable to sit still while reading it. Zhizhi, this is the mood!With just a few numbers, the work of heaven has been completed. It makes people imagine the moment when the sun rises, the sea first waves, the mountains rise, the canyons suddenly descend, and the earth waits silently for the moment when the grass emerges from the ground!

And that year, when I was seventeen, I just entered the Chinese Department, and I just bought the first ancient dictionary "Erya", and I was immediately fascinated by the first line on the first page. , That’s great, the first Chinese dictionary (presumably also the world’s first dictionary), its first word is “初”. "At the beginning, the beginning of tailoring clothes." This is explained in the book of philology. I was shocked again. At that time, I had a little training and knew that there was a picture behind every Chinese character, but there was not only a picture behind the character "Chu", but a long scroll.Thinking about it, when the creators of the characters first created the character "Chu", they also painstakingly created the character "Chu". This matter is invisible to draw, and has no form to ask for. How can we track and trace it?

He thought of a certain woman's actions, maybe it was a mother, maybe a wife, who carefully took the cloth off the loom, a neat piece of cloth, holding scissors in her hand, standing by the window, holding her breath, thinking about where to come from When the knife was cut, the sunlight rendered her slightly messy temple hair into a halo of light.She looked at the whole piece of cloth with mysterious and changing eyes, as if presiding over a ceremony.In fact, all she was trying to decide was whether she should make a child's shirt first.Or cut your own dress first?A piece of cloth, like the darkening dusk, has a whole night of beauty that can be expected - of course, it may also be a nightmare, but because it may become a nightmare, a beautiful dream is more worth longing for - and in her mind When I wanted to go, the sunshine of early spring flowed through the window one after another, it was the wind in batches, it was the unsteady first song of the chicks, and it was the horses in the sky who didn’t know where to go. A cloud rolled out of a loom.

The woman finally made up her mind, and cut it off with a knife, with an almost tragic determination on her face. This is how the word "beginning" comes from. Life is like a piece of cloth that has been woven with painstaking efforts. Once you cut it down, everything will be cut. The formation and extinction of the entire universe can also be regarded as a woman's tailoring!I fell in love with the word "beginning", and reminded myself that I should return to being a "beginner" every morning, and maintain that original aspiration every moment. ⒉Hibiscus

"The Biography of Yan Yan" says: "Between Yan Yan, Bao Zhao and Xie Lingyun were good or bad. Zhao said: 'Xie's five-character poems are like hibiscus, naturally lovely, and Jun's poems are like brocade and embroidery, full of carvings.'" People in the Six Dynasties said that the hibiscus is the lotus. Bao Zhao used "the first lotus" to compare Xie Lingyun, which is really enviable. In fact, it is not surprising that it is "like a lotus".Only these four characters in Lingyun's life are enough. Later literary critics also liked to use this word gui. Jie Cunzhai's "Lunci Zazhu" commented on Wei Zhuang's Ci in the late Tang Dynasty:

"Duanji's poems are exquisitely beautiful, and the first day of hibiscus and spring day of willows make people want to see their demeanor." The Chinese don't have any "criticism of poetry" or "criticism of words", only "talks of poetry" and "talks of words", and words of words are so good that they are already condensed and full, and they are as gorgeous as a small order. ⒊Clear dew, morning flow, new Tong Chuyin There is a story in the book that Wang Gong and Wang Chen were good friends, but they broke up because of political grievances.It's just that Yugong always thinks of Wang Chen every time he encounters beautiful scenery on a good day.Facing the mountains, rocks and flowing springs, Wang Chen reverted to Wang Chen. He is a wonderful person and an old friend who can share infinite opportunities.

Once, in the very early morning of a spring day, Yugong walked alone outside a secluded and wonderful place. It was recorded in the book: "When the child is young, the dew flows in the morning, and the new tung tree is first introduced." Wang Gong, who is loved by others and praised as "the willows in the spring moon", suddenly said sadly: "The king is washing himself." The tone was half angry and half cherishing, and it was translated into vernacular: "Oh, Wang Da that empty guy really has nothing to say—it's really outstanding!" I don't know why, but when the author described this delicate interpersonal relationship, he also included the surrounding environment.And what made my heart throbbing when I read it was the incidental description of "In the clear dew and morning flow, the first introduction of Xintong".Maybe it’s not a thrilling landscape, but just a morning with the beginning of the prelude, just the dew shining in the sun at the beginning of the morning, and the tung trees under the dew decoration are just sprouting, which makes people pure and bright Wake up, and even strongly miss that friend who had a rift.

Li Qingzhao was probably also fascinated by this scene, so she actually moved all the sentences "Qinglu morning flow, Xintong Chuyin" in her poems.A drop of dew flashes from the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, and a leaf of Xintong is crystal thin and translucent in the quiet title page. I hope that my friends will also think of me at the best moments in their lives, when everything is clear, when leaves are tender and flowers are beginning to bloom, when frost is beginning to set, when night is beginning to be quiet, when fruits are beginning to ripen, Fang Xin of tea.At the sailing of the boat, the return of the bird's wings, at the moment when the baby smiles for the first time, think of me.

If the person who thinks of me is not a friend but an enemy (if I have enemies), that's fine—no, maybe it's better, the other party will still think of me despite the deep rift, it must be because of my wonderful personality reason.Of course, it's also because a newborn tung leaf is so good, good enough to make people have the grace to appreciate the enemy.
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