Chapter 37 "Picking up the Mountains and Fields" ①

"Picking up the Mountains and Fields" ① I love reading travelogues.It’s early summer now; in the travel notes, you can see the brilliant spring flowers and the fallen leaves dancing in the autumn wind…——I’m thinking about it and looking forward to it!Here is White Horse Lake, when I was reading travel notes, I was able to visit the sacred and majestic city of Rome, the simple and quiet village of Loisieux—all of which I envied and imagined!Travel notes are full of dreams: "The latter dream drives away the former dream, and the former dream drives away the greater former dream." ②It came and went, came and went like this; Sunset glow, like fireflies in the field, like the sound of flute on the water, like the fragrance of tea in the next seat, like a girl in memory, all these are dreams.When I was in middle school, I read Kang Gengsun's "Travel Notes of Eleven European Countries",-in fact, only (?) Italy Travel Notes-and I had many good dreams at that time; !At that time, Liu Zihou's landscape notes often fascinated me.Later, I read "Luoyang Jialan Ji", which recorded the prosperity and magnificence of the temples, which fascinated me; I also read "Shui Jing Zhu", which recorded strange mountains and rivers, which either shocked me or made me wander. (My so-called "travel notes" have a wider meaning than general ones, so the latter two are also included.) These may record local customs, or mountains and rivers, or "beautiful past", or remember the beautiful today, All have thick or light colors, or industrial or splashy styles.However, I recently read "Schooling in the Mountains and Fields", which is different from these: in this book, what is written is only "a corner of the continent" and "a region of France"③, not a special resort or a well-known place; so All the benefits are only the author's own discovery!Among the above-mentioned works, only Liu Zihou's works are written in this way; but Liu only records scenery, but this book also records culture-as Vicard said in the preface.The so-called "culture" is not the behemoth we usually imagine, but the beauty of human feelings; and the culture of the village of Loisieux in the book is actually more than the scenery: this is different from others.The book describes the culture of Loisieux village, but it is not about the culture of Loisieux village. It is just that the author Mr. Sun Fuxi secretly told us his philosophy, his philosophy of life.So what he wrote was "a district of France", and he wrote it himself!He himself said it well:

I originally wanted to try my best to pick up the flavors of the mountains and fields, but unknowingly picked up many pickers myself. (Page 261 of the original book.) ①A collection of travel notes by Sun Fuxi. ②Mr. Tang Qi's poems. ③ Chinese language in the preface. But it is this "self" that is lovely, and it is this "self" that is valuable! Mr. Sun himself said that this book describes "the pattern in which the great life of human beings is assigned to him". Let's see what the pattern of his life is?There are two kinds of people in the world: one is the bold and the bold, and the other is the fine needle and dense thread.The former type of person is really a "knife", a sharp knife for cutting through messes!What disputes, what kudzu vines, in his hands, they are all resolved with a clean knife! ——Don't even look at it, needless to say rely on him to solve the problem!He only focused on a few major branches, and swept away all the thousands of branches and leaves; the so-called "capturing the thief must capture the king" is also the so-called "can't stop it"!This is how heroes and heroes do it: their plans are grand, and they disdain and have no time to care about those trivial programs!The same is true for stupid fools, but they only want to save trouble!They don't have enough thinking power, they don't have enough insight to analyze and penetrating into the details; if two children are arguing, the father doesn't even think about it, so he will give each of them a slap in the face as usual!This is really "unpleasant"!But if you and I can neither be heroes nor are we willing to be fools, then naturally we can only try to be the latter.This kind of people have to ask the details of everything; "Break the sand tank and ask the end! And ask where the sand tank started from?" ①They will not let go of a word or a move, a grain of sand or a stone!In the past, people carved peach pits into a boat with Su Dongpo, Huang Luzhi, Foyin, etc. on the boat; or wrote the word "World Peace" on a sesame seed on New Year's Day to test their eyesight: this is the side of this temper.They don't pay attention to ten thousand and ten thousand, but pay attention to one centimeter; they feel that one centimeter is the specific and subtlety of those ten million - as long as they see this one centimeter thoroughly, it is the same as the magnification of a photograph. The rest is also conceivable.That's why they have to take everything apart and look at it, and take it apart to look at it; no matter the difference between penny and baht, or the difference between money and money, they have to see it later, just like a microscope.In this way, they can distinguish many new and different flavors, which is their unique secret!In short, they are amazed at how insignificant things are; while ordinary people turn a blind eye to them!Therefore, they are ordinary people but somehow different from ordinary people.These two kinds of people——Mr. Sun, a painter, if you allow me to use Chinese painting to compare, I will say that the former is "splashing brushwork" and the latter is "fine brushwork".Mr. Sun himself is a "fine brushwork", the latter type of person.His friends have dubbed him "the finely crafted Chuntai", and it's nice that he's all here!He remembers his aunt and father, who, he said, taught him the finer things they taught him, and yet he was nowhere near them.From his father, he "knows that in a sentence, besides the literal meaning, there are other words in it. Hearing only the literal meaning is far from being able to understand the meaning of the spoken voice"②.The strength of this book lies in the point of "other words"; isn't it weak at first glance?Chew slowly, and a thick taste will flow out from the corner of your mouth!If you have seen the morning dew, the wrinkled water waves, the cold moon: thin blouses, if you have eaten fine silk, fresh bamboo shoots, and newly made Longjing tea: you must understand my words .

①It is our dialect. ②The original book is 171 pages. What I find most interesting is Mr. Sun's wit.Mr. Sun's ability to collect is really good!How many small but rare materials he has collected, like a loving mother who collects bait; and when he happens to pick up one or two, it is amazing how rich he is!In fact, things are not unusual at all, but once he cleaned them up, they felt extraordinary.He doubles down on the places that people ignore, so that you will also feel surprised when you are in the usual situations.His selection skills are brilliant; the analytical description and wonderful dialogue are enough to show his keen observation ability.Therefore, his books are full of his own personality, and on the other hand, they are also full of other people's personality. It is no wonder that he himself feels that he is rich.His analysis and description contain the beauty of reasoning, that is, precision and roundness; like a young warrior who is tied up, he is heroic and charming!It is also like a small scalpel used by a doctor, with a flash of silver light, the flesh and blood are completely different!You may feel that it is too trivial and boring; but this is not boring and trivial, this is leisure (Idle).Leisure is also an aspect of life, just as necessary as not leisure!The excitement of his dialogue is also on the leisurely side!This is really what the people of Loisie ux village say, because the real country life is leisurely.During these conversations, he introduced us to meet lively Loisieux villagers!In short, when we read this book, we can often see the whole thing and the whole nature of people from a few words or a sentence; this is what I call "Mr. Sun's wit".Mr. Sun is a painter.He once wrote a travel note titled "Caricatures on the Way to France" with the name of "painting";In fact, he is just self-effacing; almost all of his essays are paintings, and his compositions are paintings with words!He narrates, expresses emotions, and writes scenery, which is certainly a painting; even if he is reasoning, it is still a painting.People say that "there are pictures in the poem", but Mr. Sun has pictures in the text;

There are not only paintings in the text, but also poems in the paintings, and philosophy in the poems. I have mentioned Mr. Sun's painter, now let's talk about his poetic flavor - the picture book is a "silent poem".His book is about folk pleasures; but what pleasures does he have?The backwardness of picking grapes is one; painting wind willows, paper is wind blowing, painting waterfalls, paper is water splashing is two; "co-painting" with green grasshoppers, black ants, etc. is three.These are what he has said, but the important thing is the "other words" that have not been said; he loves the character of the villagers, the simple, gentle, optimistic, and hardworking character.They "don't want to fight with people anyway"; they don't shrink back, they don't despise, they love others but are selfish, they hide but confess; they just work, they just work too much, "really don't want their own lives!" ②—— It's not for food and clothing, nor is it not for food and clothing, it's just a kind of fun.These are exactly where they are healthy!You may want to laugh at them for not having ideals, just like Mr. R and his wife in the book laughed at the workers they hired; but the ridiculousness of "having no ideals" is not necessarily more ridiculous than "having ideals"—in our present, " "Original" and "cultural" are really cute.And this is not all for the sake of comparison, the "primitive" is actually closer to the poems we often read, and it is really "not related to people's hearts"!For example, when I read this book, I often feel that I am reading a very familiar poem! "The character of the villagers" also has a "associated name", which is "natural scenery". Mr. Sun is a painter, so it goes without saying that he loves natural scenery; Needless to say.Mr. Sun is a painter, and he loves the moving images of nature more, which is also a kind of social change.He loves willow trees blown by the wind, he loves waterfalls with splashing water droplets, he loves green grasshoppers, black ants, ocher brown things with six legs and four wings that he doesn't know; how much they trouble him, but they are alive. The painting, the poem of life! —Of all the people, he loves the old and the little ones the most.He respects and loves old people who have worked so hard all their lives and can no longer walk with a stick, and he even envies children who tremble when they see a train.Yes, old people are like ripe fruit trees, full of heavy fruits, which you can pick and eat; as long as your eyes are bright and your skills are good, you will be able to return home full of food!A child is like a flower that has just been plucked, and it contains endless promises: there are red, green, thick, light, small, large, single, double, and so on. Some are fragrant, some are not fragrant, some work hard to bloom, and some work hard to bear fruit - apples with feminine faces, golden pears, red cherries like pearls, purple grapes like wreaths... and the little girl is especially cute! —Who who reads this book does not love the little girl who yells a shrill "Ah!"In fact, a person with a bright heart is a friend to him in everything: he feels that there is something interesting in everything, and under the customary clothes, there is a fresh body hidden.To develop one's own life based on this meaning is the life of poetry. "Mr. Sun's poetry" is also here.

① It has been published in "Morning News Supplement" and "Xin Chao". ②The original book is 124 pages. ③ The original book is 128 pages. ④ The original book is 253 pages. What flows in this river of life is Mr. Sun's philosophy.He is a patient and self-controlled person, a Moderate person; he cannot separate himself from himself, but he also takes care of others.He should "try to pay attention to the joys and sorrows of others,—either the joy of suffering, or the pain of joy,—so as not to despise others with eyes on the forehead, or flatter others with a smile on their shoulders"①.Therefore, when talking about cities and villages, men and women, groups and individuals, he can find out their respective strengths and weaknesses.But he is not blindly tolerant, like a "rotten face"; he does not want class, and she sympathizes with everything—even cattle are no exception!He said:

We live in the great land of the universe, and all the children are in our hearts; there is not a land that is not my land, and there is not a child that is not my child! (64 pages in the original book.) This is the greatest "tolerance", but "tolerance" with only one path - in fact, it can no longer be called "tolerance".In this world of "unfinished drafts", although he still cannot avoid doubts and contempt, although he despises quarrels in the world, thinking that it is the same as the issue of the rights of the three bugs; In the mirror, I saw myself and the future smiling shadow of all the universe" ③.He believed in the hope of big life; he believed in the old apple tree "without fruit and flower", the old apple tree "only with few branches and leaves growing on the old trunk that was broken and once withered". "Also prepare for the next year to bloom more prosperously than before, and bear more delicious fruits!" ④In his mind, the world will not be old, because he can often start from scratch; he does not sigh , Crying for insufficiency, he just did his best.He taught the Chinese people not to be discouraged; ⑤Really, he is really a person who is not discouraged!He wrote this book without being discouraged, and he will certainly not be discouraged in other lives!Or some people say that his thinking is close to "smoothness", but his original intention is only to "neutralize", and there is no room for "harmony"; To be able to slowly and persistently cultivate his paradise!This, together with his painting brushes and poetic sentiments, is the expression of his "skillful kung fu".

①The original book is 265 pages. ②The original book is 139 pages. ③ pages 159-160 of the original book. ④The original book is 228 pages. ⑤ pages 51-52 of the original book. ⑥The original book is 60 pages. There are several paintings of Mr. Sun in the book.My favorite is "Lake Scene in the Caress of the Setting Sun"; it is a world of colors!And the decoration and arrangement of this book, just as the lake view is lovely because of the sunset caress, is also lovely because of Mr. Sun's caress (if I guess right)!Among these, we can see the "finely crafted Chuntai" again.

June 9, 1925. (Originally published in "Our June")