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Dong Qiao's Prose 董桥 1358Words 2018-03-18
Reviewed my own manuscripts overnight, selected 120,000 words to compile a new anthology; at the beginning of the style, I was at a loss as if I was missing something.My husband has been writing for decades but has not got rid of the bad habit of "light-heartedness". Although there are many miscellaneous books, he often wanders in shallow places, and it ends up as Qian Mocun said, "what is said is reasonable but not thorough, and there is a reason for it but not well-thought-out".Fortunately, my love and ambition are not dead. If you hold on to your passion and ambition, why do you have to work so hard for writing?Just talk about your temporary ambitions and tell your temporary feelings, whether it is cold or warm, you can let it go!As for the writing skill, it is in line with the sentiment after all. Although it is not a "coincidence", it is "out of the rules" after all, and I am proud that I have not stumbled into the mud of sloppy sentence making.There is a lot of "unruly style" in Hong Kong, and the style of writing and government is not to my taste. I can't bear to suffer from this disaster, so I send it to Taipei for publication.The title of the collection is quite thought-provoking, and it is still uncertain.Since I am a member of the "study" who is not familiar with the world, it is better for the title of the book to have an affair with the "study". A month ago, I met Lin Wenyue in Taipei and learned that his new anthology was named "Afternoon Study".Lin You's article "Afternoon Study Room" was included in the "Dashufang" of the Lianhe Bao series; the series also included a humble essay "The Mind of a Bibliophile". It's a coincidence, but it's hard to avoid the ridicule of being weak and sad, so I give up.The old-style poems often use "Ji Shi" as the title, which is very pleasing; deliberately innovating is not as good as attacking people's old wisdom, and using "study Ji Shi" is also very convenient and poetic, and may be considered.Articles in troubled times are really not enough to exchange for yellow and white things, but I have been persistent in this for 20 or 30 years, and I am afraid that I will be willing to see through this hurdle for a while;The body is tumbling in the famous field, and the heart is listening to the rain in the barren village. In the end, it must come from the sea.Or say: My essay is over-crafted, exquisite like the art of flower arrangement, but it is not as impressive as the wild flowers blooming everywhere, so I can't help but smile when I smell it.I tried to exchange letters with Chen Zhifan to discuss the theory of "naturalness" in articles, and his insights were very insightful. The general idea is that: the poems and paintings of the Six Dynasties are not natural, but they are extremely beautiful; although the water from the hibiscus is natural, it is not art at all, and artificial carving is art; The highest state is to see nature in man-made, such as French girls who seem not to dress up but actually dress up deliberately.Wildflowers are not art, but the wildflowers in London parks are art; every tree and flower by the Swiss lake is decorated by Swiss, but it is pleasing to the eye, and then it is pleasing to the heart; Lake Windermi, where Wordsworth sang poems in the United Kingdom It's natural, it's like this since the beginning of the world, what has it to do with art, what has it to do with the human mind?Wujiao style is not as good as the eight great masters of Tang and Song Dynasties; Han Yu's beautiful prose is like "picked in the mountains, as beautiful as Ru; fished in water, fresh and edible", the words are natural and neatly opposed, and inevitable; Hu Shi's poems on vases "It's not about being afraid of the wind and rain, it's not about candlelight and fragrance." It also sets the confrontation between ancient and modern successes, and it is inevitable.Nowadays, the new generation is determined not to read books, and only wants to be natural, but there is nothing they can do!There is no color, no sound, the sky is falling and the earth is cracking, the pain is indescribable, and thousands of lives can't be exchanged for half a work of moaning, because they can't make a sound, let alone moaning!Chen Zhifan cherishes ink like gold, and devotes himself to practicing every word and sentence. The result he hopes is like a French girl who does not show any traces of dress.How can the color-blind and dumb-voiced people be able to detect the joys and sorrows!Writing is like practicing the piano, and it is not enough to say "basic skills" without practicing hard for hours every day; for those without basic skills, although emotions flow like a faucet, after all, there is no bucket to hold water, and the ears will be soaked in water in vain.Beginners are most afraid of writing vernacular poems. After being approved as a "poet's license", he will be confident that he can do anything. He writes a series of babbling and dreaming, incestuous nouns and verbs. A painter, but a poet can't even write a note!The existentialist master Saudi suffered from eye disease in his later years, and his brain power also slightly deteriorated. He was often insane and unable to write serious works. The doctor then asked him to try to write poetry as the next best thing.The master was displeased when he asked, and said: "This bastard quack doctor can't do anything!" It means that quack doctors can order him to abandon writing and write poetry.This incident illustrates two reasons: one is suitable for insane people to write poems; the other is not for poets to be insane.Poetry in vernacular is indeed inseparable from old learning; "Swallows don't know what the world is, people are ordinary, and people in alleys face each other, like saying rise and fall in the setting sun!" "I don't know what world" means ignoring the generation gap; The Zen machine of the sound of rain in a barren village.

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