Chapter 7 The feelings of Tuoshan Parrot

I heard that during the Mingfang movement, someone asked Chen Yinke to come out to speak, and Mr. Chen only said: "Meng Xiaodong is a good singer in opera, and Xusheng is the number one today. You should ask him to come back to sing opera and spread it widely." Although the words are shallow White, with profound meaning, fully expresses the feelings that cultural people should have in the era of cultural tradition deformation.As soon as Qi Jun from Taiwan arrived in New York, she went to visit the garden "Mingxuan" designed by her old classmate Chen Congzhou in the Mainland, and then wrote to Mr. Chen: "Because my hometown Yongjia Garden is very large and magnificent, I saw the garden in a foreign country. Land, can’t help but feel a lot of emotions.” In Qi Jun’s article, he misses the past by the Huansha River, and Chen Cong Zhou reported that the willows are still there, but Qingqing is not seen. Fragrant feelings.

Two or three years ago, I organized a special page of "Chinese Feelings" for a monthly magazine, and wrote a letter to ask Brother Yu Yingshi for a manuscript; One sentence as the title, saying that he "likes the moving name of "Chinese feelings" very much, and that this kind of feeling does exist in every person who has been influenced by Chinese culture; he has lived in the United States longer than in China Time, and became an American citizen, but from the subconscious to the conscious, he always felt that he was "Chinese". Brother Yingshi continued to remember his trip to his homeland in Mid-Autumn 1979, and it was difficult for him to return home as a wanderer. For the love affair, the three poems transcribed in this article, the feeling of family and country is especially overflowing in Chu Mo, and it is not just a work of Jingguang.

Talking about "Chinese feelings", eighty-nine is a concept of culture, and almost completely does not involve political consciousness.I often think that politics is just a game of ideas. The office also has to be romantic.This is the setting pin of moral sentiment. "In the past, there was a parrot flying to Jituo Mountain. It was a big fire in the mountain. The parrot saw it in the distance, soaked its feathers in the water, and flew and sprinkled it. The god said: "Although you have aspirations, why are you so cloudy?" He said: "I often live in this mountain, and I can't bear to see my ears!" God's kindness is to put out the fire." Politicians are mostly not parrots. Once Tuoshan is on fire, of course they think that they can keep it from being publicized, and they really can't hide it. Ordinary people with cultural sentiments are nineteen parrots, regardless of success or failure, soaking their feathers in the water, flying and spilling them, because "I can't bear to see my ears"!Therefore, Zhou Lianggong said in "Gushu House Book Shadow", after his friend narrated this beautiful Buddhist scripture story, he said: "Yu Yi is a parrot with water ears in the feathers, don't you know if you move the gods and put out the fire for me? "Chinese feelings, cultural identity, etc., once tested by real-life encounters, should be able to display the integrity of Tuoshan Parrot.

I have lived in overseas Chinese society for so many years, and I often feel the sense of confusion caused by the phenomenon of economic dominance, political alienation, and cultural vulgarity. I feel that the traditional cultural value system of the Chinese nation is indeed undergoing a severe test.Although the elite class has made great contributions to the prosperity of the society and the take-off of the economy, the mentality of the "MBA family" in Chen Yingzhi's writings has spread rampantly, which not only confuses the minds of business managers, but also affects the embrace of cultural people.This group of people are what the magazine called "international upstarts" who "pursue personal achievement and profit, and advertise that they are value-neutral, act calmly, and have no emotion."In places where business competition is fierce and political future is uncertain, businessmen have short-sighted vision and cold temperament, which may be the best way to protect themselves; at a time when the old country’s political system is in decline and the moral system loses its dignity, scholars blindly worship foreign countries and have a closed mind. , which is of course common.However, "Newsweek" talked about the issue of MBA moral reorganization, and saw the prevalence of insider trading in the stock market and other incidents of breach of trust. It had to point out that people of insight in the United States have been alerted that in the process of cultivating MBAs, they should not forget to teach the principle of distinguishing right from wrong .Mr. Liang Shiqiu's "Qingqiu Trivial Notes" has a section on the purpose of life.He said: "As far as natural phenomena are concerned, one is to forage for food in order to survive, and the other is to reproduce in order to pass on the family line. But as the spirit of all things, man must not only meet the requirements of nature, but also establish his own goals. On the one hand, To enrich oneself is to pursue perfection in knowledge, emotion, enjoyment, and work. On the other hand, it is to benefit others. Contributing to others is the so-called three immortals, but it is actually the goal that everyone should strive for. "These words are plain and plain, not amazing heroic language, but gentle and knowledgeable language, which shows how much Chinese culture has a simple side beyond the strings.

Of course, the experience of meritorious service and morality will inevitably lead to injustice, so Mr. Liang recorded Guan Hanqing's "Four Pieces of Jade": "The southern acres are cultivated, and the eastern mountains are lying. He, I am the one who is stupid, what are you arguing about?" Zen sticks to him, his heads are all over the head, and his success and failure are all jokes.This kind of nostalgia for living in the world is just the Chinese feelings that have been transformed in the cultural sense. It can easily be sublimated into a ray of harmony in people's hearts, teaching people what to do and what not to do.

Brother Yingshi wrote me a running script, which recorded a poem of his trip to his homeland: "Crossing the quicksand under the crescent moon, visiting the ancient times and returning to enjoy the credit; I have the local accent but I don't know where is my home?" Maybe it is no longer the home of the past, but the accent has not changed, the feelings are still the same, and the cultural identity is still Chinese rather than Western; then, Yu Xiaodong's play, the willow color by the side of the Shansha River, can be seen by the parrots of Rentuo Mountain, If the garden of culture catches fire, it will surely soak the feathers in the water and sprinkle them in the air.This little bit of ethics is necessary.