The water town of Wuzhen, with its unique literary tone, has long been famous, and the world's young people tend to rush. Since the ancient Jiangnan out of talent, popular stories have long been poetry, film and television as evidence, have a reputation. And a long history, the bells and whistles, the literati.
The first meal in Wuzhen, we chose outside the Dongjie: dried Malan head, steamed whitewater fish, duck in the ancient town sauce. The flavor is very good. The small store business is very good, queuing is also worth.
The summer is in full swing, we slowly entered the Dongjia scenic spot after lunch. Wuzhen History Long history, really not just say, according to evidence of the Neolithic era in the Majiabang culture, found the traces of the first people in the town of Wuzhen in this prosperity, and in the Spring and Autumn period of the town of Wuzhen became the border between Wu and Yue, and bear the burden of the garrison. With a history of more than 7,000 years of habitation and more than 1,000 years of town-building, it's really a long way from here.
This Wuzhen, really lives up to its name. I heard that a kind of black paint can protect the walls, so the walls of Wuzhen or other items related to wood were painted with this kind of paint. The spacious and smooth black boat, the two sides of the neat and spectacular Wuqing tiled houses, reflecting the water is also dark green ink green. The house, basically two-story building, most of the following is a small business store, most of the owners live above. Drinking tea, dining dining, boat ride boat, strolling stroll. There is a special feeling gradually rise gradually thick ...... inside clearly have a kind of emotion in the stirring. I seem to have smelled the ancient town once the fragrance of books, heard the ancient town culture pulse beating.
Like this a rustic, quiet, inner, like the town was entangled in the feeling of water, immensely envious of the people of Jiangnan this unique. I can only visually experience the beauty of the exotic, with feet to measure the vastness of the world, to travel to warm time, open the mind, suck the spirit of heaven and earth, sucking the culture of nourishment. The old house is still there, and the history is still alive," he said.
The eye-catching and somewhat outdated signboard caught our eyes. Perhaps it was only then that the direction of the walk became clear, and the significance of the trip became clearer: this was the fulfillment of a long-cherished wish that had been hidden in my heart for a long, long time. My eyes flashed a lot of once warm time ...... those years, we read together those literary masterpieces ...... watched together those literary film and television drama ...... told students about the Those literary masterpieces ...... us, to the source of literary art that has been nourished. Surprisingly, some of the tears are full.
Leaving the waterway, into the narrow deep alley. I'm glad that we are not alone, there are a lot of cultural seekers. Some of them are students, some are parents, some are teachers ...... I am somewhat relieved. Our campus, our society, should encourage children to have more such trips.
The sunlight slanting through the old wooden houses ...... Imagine a street full of residents in those days ......
Imagine the little feet of children hurrying past on the green stone slabs... ...
Imagine how these old houses were the breeding ground of the country's great men and women ......
Naturally, we came to the town's famous Lizhi Academy, the former residence of such a famous literary giant, the birthplace of Mr. Mao Dun (Shen Yanbing). This is a great man not only has a rich literary masterpieces, and has a broad educational sentiment, but also the first Minister of Culture of New China. My heart, instantly throbbed.
Mao Dun's works may not be fully accessible to the general public. Because in the selection of materials, Mao Dun Xing Sheng has always been the background of those events of great significance and characteristics of the times, the important political and economic events of our time as their own subject matter. The long novel Ziyou (子夜), which I read over and over again when I was young, has a magnificent backdrop of China in the 1930s. It not only helped me to understand the characteristics of the era, but also served as an indispensable literary primer for my understanding of political economy, society and life.
Standing quietly in front of the giants, the classic quote from Mao Dun's famous middle school text rings in my ears: "The poplar tree is really not ordinary, I praise the poplar tree ...... that is striving to be a kind of tree, straight trunk, straight branches ... ...It symbolizes not only the peasants of the north, but especially the simplicity, the strength, and the spirit of striving for advancement that are indispensable in our national liberation struggle today." The writer's wonderful symbolism and the narrative technique of setting the real against the imaginary, one cannot help but be y infected by a great spirit and temperament. At that time, every class of students I spoke with great affection, proud that I was also doing the literary enlightenment of the children.
If I had been able to visit this place at that time, perhaps my course would have been more exciting. Life is always full of regrets. In fact, the great Mr. Mao Dun life is also full of many contradictions and regrets. Contradictions, the origin of Mao Dun ...... countless pen names, is also the best commentary on his personal, on the times.
Maodun was not only born in a family with quite new ideas, but he himself was actively involved in the magnificent social flood, which is why he was able to achieve excellence in a number of fields. His works of art are epic in character, profound and wide-ranging in their presentation of the times.
The old building is so old that it is barely holding together. We are here to feel a little of the literary man's life, and the distance between the great man and the mortal is thus much closer.
Tracing the remarkable cultural pioneers in Chinese history has always been the main purpose of my travel photography. Not only is it the fulfillment of a long-cherished dream, but it is also the correction of many of my attitudes and ideas. How many people still know the story of Mr. Lin in "The Lin Family Shop"? A cautious and business-savvy small businessman, faced with strong internal and external enemies, could not retreat, and in the end could only end up losing his family's money.
Is the store still the same? Obviously, the small businessmen of the old and new eras have seen a sea change in their outlook on life.
Anciently, there is a saying that "the sunny plowing career, the rain reads with the cold window", I do not know where it comes from, I think the Wuzhen residence has something to do with this? Legend has it that a poor couple, the wife helped her husband to study, and she plowed the land in the rain. The husband returned to the high official, in order to thank his wife, even for the repair of the sunny plowing bridge and rain plowing bridge. Although I did not figure out the exact location of the two bridges in Wuzhen, the name and the object do not match. But I still quite admire this pair of affectionate and righteous husband and wife model.
Coming to Wuzhen Dongjie, surely can not bypass the very literary tone of the "watery years". The somewhat dark and mysterious academy in the TV series is located here. The star Huang Lei's house and Liu Ruoying's place, which is not open now. But this alone can really feel the atmosphere of the scene of the characters in the drama. Not to mention, the old academy itself originated from a sad legend story, alone that a pair of young men and women in the play nearly middle-aged in Wuzhen and Taipei between the mountains across the sea love story, see how many literati tears confused.
Life in the young, may have encountered love at first sight, but most people are like the people in the play in all sorts of helplessness to let this love in the pain in the passing. The strong literary flavor of the whole play is an excellent foil for that pure feeling.
I gently walked around the shelves of the bookstore and remembered some unforgettable lines from the play. These lines alone have made it impossible for literary youth to resist the penetration of the play, not to mention Wuzhen, and Huang Lei Liu Ruoying, and those faint but deadly love.
Out of the academy, a short while to the "Bank of Nations," known as the Yu Guoliang Coin Museum. Yu Guoliang is a native of Wuzhen, born a teacher. I heard that he had been collecting coins for forty years solely for the purpose of teaching, and the coins in the small tiled residence were like a heavy book. Many people engage in collecting for the sake of curiosity, but Yu Dualiang is for the country to organize cultural relics and organize culture. This "rich man in Jiangnan" in fact, a life of poverty, only for the collection of people and the country, really admirable.
Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum should also go to shake a little, the first acquaintance with the Jiangnan people's carved beams and painted buildings.
We continue to follow the trend. There were a lot of people, young parents, all educated and insightful, who already know how important it is to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles to influence their children's lives.
Whether the children understand or not, these are able to become one of the most beautiful imprints on their lives.
Without being careful, we walked into the Hongyuantai Dyeing Factory. Batik cloth is also a specialty of Wuzhen, and the very local flavor of the blue flowers always gives people a strong sense of nostalgia. There were many people watching, but few people buying. The change of the times has made the blue flowers more towards the display, or stage.
The display of batik process ......
This is the shooting and hitting the net red place that makes how many women incredibly unforgettable. There were just too many people, and it was not very easy to capture a piece of no one.
The sun began to move west. We are back to the willow river. At this point in time, Dongjia, although the tourists like weaving, but the bones really still through the quiet temperament. Every adult, to a greater or lesser extent, can find some solace here.
Mr. Mao Dun wrote in his "Miscellany of the Countryside" that "when a person arrives in the countryside, it is as if a tightly pressed spring suddenly relaxes." Although Wuzhen is not really the countryside, compared with Shanghai, it does count in the category of townships. Traveling, I also have this feeling of relaxation.
Mr. Mao Dun went on to write in Miscellany of the Countryside:
Mr. Mao Dun is writing the inner monologue of millions of urbanites.
As the sun is setting, the atmosphere of life in the water village is even more intense, and that pole of clothes is exactly what marks out the plain and genuine happy life of the people of Dongjia.
The boat constantly, the old town people will be lit up, clearly this water, both sides of the river has been quiet a lot.
Mao Dun in the "hometown miscellany" also wrote: "long years and thousands of miles of separation, has never obscured my nostalgia." Yes, such a hometown, such a quiet and warm who can forget it.
The last batch of guests rowed past in the sway, the oars swung a circle of ripples ......
We walked towards the entrance of Dongjia Scenic Area, the clouds aggravated, and the sunlight became gentle. The wooden bridge across the frame restored its tranquility.
Wuzhen man, at this time immensely relaxed, cozy start door on the water and Maundy.
Mao Dun once described the water pavilion in his hometown of Wuzhen in "Earth, Mountains and Rivers" as follows: "...... Outside the back door of the house is the river, standing at the back door (that is the door of the Water Pavilion) you can use a bucket to fetch water, and when you dream at midnight, you can hear the sound of the sculling boat, floating past ......" At this moment, if you stand on that stone bridge on the left of the picture above, you must be more able to appreciate the mood.
We came to the Xiu Zhen Guan Square, which is supposed to be the cultural and entertainment center of Wuzhen in the old days, or perhaps the occasion for people to welcome the temple fair and watch the opera. When he was a child, Maodun might have been playing with his buddies here after dinner," he said.
I stood at the mouth of the street, on one side is the main scenic ...... night is getting thicker ......
This side should be mainly living area, the evening sun is spreading away ...... We were infinitely pleased to bathe in the evening sun.
Remember Yu Dafu said something to the effect that Mao Dun is a person who has long been engaged in writing. Only his deep experience of the world, so every not forget the society, his thoughtful observation, analysis of the clear, is the most practical in modern prose in a way to write ...... China if we want to social progress, if we want to make the article and the actual life of the relationship between the prose writers like Maodun, more than one good one ... ...
So some people say, Mao Dun left people, never just a back. I am y convinced.
Dongjia for thousands of years, has always been like a calm old man, with its unique containment of calm, vicissitudes of simplicity, in a corner of the Jiangnan water town quietly exists, tolerate its descendants. The aborigines have gotten used to the old man's generous and warm embrace.