Chapter 81 now

This word spread in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, including Maqiao. "Modern Chinese Dialect Dictionary" (Jiangsu Education Press, 1993) included this word, and the examples listed are at least; Present words: repeated words. Fresh dishes: leftovers. Fresh rice; leftovers, such as "Fried three dishes of fresh rice, the dog will not eat." Therefore, the dictionary concludes that "now" has two meanings: ⑴ means to keep the original state; ⑵ means something left over.In my opinion, whether "original status" or "remaining" is good, the common meaning is to express the old, old, original, and former.For example, "the dog bites the current place" means that the dog bit the previous (old, old, original) wounded place.

Maqiao's "present" also expresses an opposite meaning: not the old, not the old, not the original, not the past, that is, the "now" that has been commonly used in Mandarin Chinese. "Etymology" (Commercial Press, 1989) believes that this meaning originated from Buddhism.In Buddhism, the past, present, and future are the three worlds. "Kisha Lun" states: "There are three times in the Dharma of the first life... When it is effective, it is called the present... If it has been born but not destroyed, it is the present," When I discussed the Chinese concept of time with French sinologist A. Curie, I mentioned this "now".I also talked about "Zhi": "Zhi" not only means the image of the past, such as places, county annals, magazines, etc.; No nation has such a large and voluminous historiography, and the records of historical facts can be accurate and detailed to every year, every month or even every day. But on the other hand, the Chinese have the least sense of time. Chinese has no time There is no difference between past tense, present tense, and future tense. Chinese also has synonyms such as "xian" and "zhi", which not only reveal the past but also indicate the present moment. Perhaps, Chinese people believe in reincarnation, and an ancestor may be you A descendant may also be your ancestor. In this case, what is the difference between the past and the future? Or what is the significance of such a difference?

In such an environment, synonyms such as "present" and "zhi" are not difficult to understand. The writers looked back again and again, wrote some current events, and said some current words.But their every word is actually an intervention in the present, surging current thoughts and emotions, and they are all out-and-out "present".Writers are most accustomed to finding the present of the past and the past of the present, living forever in the overlapping shadow of time.Their contradiction lies in: to discover time, but also to fundamentally reject time.