Chapter 7 Preface to Cao Wenxuan (2)

In today's flood of modernism, "old-fashioned" is more and more a charming word.People find that "modern" is already very annoying because it is too refurbished and too obsessed with abnormal situations, characters and objects.Readers even became suspicious: What exactly does this kind of literature give us? Is it a sense of morality? Is it a sense of beauty?emotion?Or is it something else important and valuable?Those puzzling "meanings" are too metaphysical (almost metaphysical), making reading a process of suffering, suffering, and suffering.The "philosophies" behind, at the bottom, and in the dark depths can only be revealed after being hinted and explicitly taught by well-trained experts and scholars.The epiphany of the theme is a painful hope in this kind of reading.Because of the difficulty and the abstruse, "modernity" has brought up a large number of reading priests, who have the power of interpretation and interpretation, and reading is carried out under their complicated guidance.The simple and clear reading in the past is now more and more mystical.Reading in this way is not so much reading as a test of one's patience and intelligence.The pleasure of reading is only obtained after a narrow escape, and most "laymen" give up halfway.Apart from consuming our painstaking efforts, the direct feeling of "modernity" to ordinary readers is cold, depressing, dull, hopeless, hopeless, downward, and depraved.When more and more people came out of the "Emperor's New Clothes" live effect, a simple thought arose: Wouldn't the world be a better place without these words?This question is almost fatal to the "modern".

It’s just such a normal story, and the way of telling the story is the most common way in the history of novels, and the theme doesn’t need to hit the wall with your head before you can understand it, let alone listen to and read the sermons of the pastors.After reading it, you will feel that life is meaningful and will add tenacity.You are upward, and you will hear the vivid sound of the wind in your ears as you travel your way.It belongs to the reading public, not just to the reading elite.It is not the number of bestsellers, but it can definitely have a world of bestsellers—a world that stretches as far as the eye can see.It does not rely on the strangeness of the story, but on the quality of the story; not on the novelty of the theme, but on the weight of the theme; not on the grotesqueness of the characters, but on the truth and richness of the characters.To read such a novel, you don’t have to put on an air, you don’t have to make a fuss, just read it, it’s equal, common, and easy, and you’ll benefit a lot after reading it.

All these are the essential qualities of old-fashioned novels of yore. I recently renovated my house and went to the decoration market and furniture market almost every day.After looking at it, I still feel that the furniture of classical style and pastoral style is reliable and economical.I always feel that there are years hidden in their skeleton and texture, and there is an indescribable beauty hidden in them.Behind that solemnity and texture is the shadow of a thousand years of history.Those modern furniture are also novel and unique, and can grab your attention at once.However, after watching for a long time, there is always a little doubt: can they last for a long time?If it is too stylized, it may become outdated easily.In the end, all of them chose classical and pastoral ones.Of course, I also know that these classical and pastoral furniture have actually incorporated some modern elements—"modern" injects some fresh elements of life into "classical" and "pastoral", which is probably the "modern" meaning.

Don't forget the relationship between the name of this work and the value of this work.A good work must have a good name.To put it to the extreme, you can tell whether this work is a good work by reading the name. June 18, 2009 at Peking University Blue Flag Camp