There is a mother in the sea.
If love mountain is inherited by father, then love sea must be inherited by mother. It was shortly after the end of the war, when I happened to pass by Shinohatsu Pool, my mother would squat down by the pool and stare at the water. If I call her, her face seems embarrassed. She stands up and says with a smile, "I want to see the sea for a while!" " "
At that time, because I lived near Neusoft University, I stopped by Shinohatsu Pool to have a rest while shopping. Incredibly, I have never forgotten what my mother said at that time. In the summer vacation of sixth grade primary school, I went to a remote fishing village on Kagoshima, my mother's hometown, and stayed for a month. Grandpa is very tall and strong, and has been practicing medicine there. About 50 meters from home is the sea. From the beautiful seashore, you can see Sakura Island and Kevin Volcano. Mom said she wanted to see the sea. I think it might be the seaside in her hometown. It took less than two hours to go to Kagoshima today, but it was a far place at that time, and it was necessary to take an overnight train and take a barge to get there. Driven by homesickness, it seems that mother's behavior is taken for granted.
Although I like the sea, I only enjoyed getting along with the sea in that summer vacation, and then I reached the level of taking a sea bath from school. Perhaps my isolation from the sea has inspired my yearning for the sea. In the year when I graduated from college, I didn't know why, but I wanted to find a career related to the sea, so I asked if I could work in a Japanese mail company. The person in charge of the personnel department who came out to receive me said with great regret, "Our company, like other companies, does not accept college students with literary backgrounds." I mistook the shipping company for all the employees working on the ship.
Nevertheless, I still hope to take a boat, but my fascination with the sea is growing day by day. Fortunately, I will go to France soon. According to the instructions, international students will go by boat. It's a 33-day voyage to Marseille-I almost fainted at the thought of it, but other international students don't know why they are unhappy about such a time-consuming trip.
In order to enjoy sailing alone, I chose the berth in the fourth class, which is used by seasonal workers. International students never go near it. Not only that, because at the bottom of the ship, close to the sea, the blue waves outside the porthole are close at hand and surging. When the sea is rough, the crew will close the porthole covered with iron. The so-called bed is a two-story shelf made of iron pipes tied with canvas. There is no decoration in the room, just like a prison.
However, a civilized and comfortable environment often cuts off our direct contact with nature. If the Red Sea is hot, the bottom of our ship is over 40 degrees, and the deck is as hot as fire. Needless to say, first class and second class are elegant air-conditioned rooms. This is Conrad's tropical ocean, an untouchable entity like a beast. If it is not in a place where the sun is extremely strong and you will be burned with bare arms, you will not appreciate the dazzling splendor of the Red Sea.
In the morning, I was blown by the strong sea breeze on the deck and drank a large cup of coffee, feeling very satisfied. In the noise of China, Malaysians, Indonesians and Vietnamese, I was lying on the deck reading Hemingway's book, and I was extremely happy. I stood at the bow facing the sea breeze and felt like an adventurer in the era of great navigation.
The relentless blue waves in the Zina Sea in East India, the light green sticky waves floating in the Borneo Sea, the golden broken waves rippling under the magnificent sunset in the Indian Ocean, and a pair of terrible blue-black waves in the Mediterranean Sea-everywhere I go, it shakes my soul all the time, and I can't escape. From morning till night, I stood by the boat and stared at the vast blue sea for a while.
In my opinion, people will be happy as long as they stay near what they love for a long time and as long as it exists. People are bored because they blindly lose what they love. During this voyage, I feel that I have seen the beauty of nature and learned how to spend my life.
Thirty years have passed since then. Now, when I am attached to the sea, I will read Hao San Dazhi's unforgettable poems.
"O sea, in our words, there is a mother among you. But mom, in French, there is an ocean among you. " (In French, the mother is mere and the ocean is mer)
courtyard
courtyard
The so-called courtyard is the residential facilities built outside the house, which has a great influence on the indoor atmosphere. For example, if you sit down in the living room and other places and look out inadvertently, there are open and bright grasslands and lush pine trees, and the atmosphere of the house will be very different. I built a house in front of my parents' yard and lived in it. I don't have my own yard yet, but I can see my parents' yard on the dining table by the window. This yard is not arranged according to the appearance of a garden. There are only some miscellaneous trees in the yard, which are very wide. On the contrary, it can keenly show the seasonal changes of the four seasons, giving people a sense of surprise. In early spring, the delicate plum blossom accidentally opened a small piece in the corner. Looking around, the trees with falling leaves tear the winter sunset into thousands of pieces, so many times, the original grumpy mood becomes peaceful.
Looking in the yard, at first glance, it is an unobtrusive behavior, which seems to be a particularly important program in daily life for Japanese people including me. For example, The Battlefield in the Courtyard, a short story of the same name in Yamagura Hitomi's endless collection of sad stories, is a typical example. The novel is described as follows:
"This year's plum rain feels particularly long, because there is a lot of rain in March and April. I live in a melancholy atmosphere. Although it is rainy season, I may not feel bored. This is because the trees are dense. On a tree full of green leaves, I keep a good mood by watching the rain fall. I like Ajisai. The reddish flowers in Murasaki shikibu are blooming. Great!
I sit in the long chair in the living room, where I can see the trees nearby and watch the rain in the yard, so I feel very depressed ... "
As the owner of the author's two places at once, he looked at the yard like this, and his face galloped, thinking of his relatives who died recently. In other words, it is because the mood is getting more and more depressed, which may be the opposite idea to the "peace of mind" mentioned earlier. In fact, the feelings that are usually suppressed are lured out when overlooking the courtyard. According to a discharge phenomenon, depression is dispelled, which is essentially the same as "peace". This matter, after missing the deceased for a period of time, the owner who went to the bath to wash his hair realized that he would never cry at the funeral, but now he is crying, so the result is very clear.
Courtyard has a great effect on feelings. Maybe it has such a therapeutic effect. In order to achieve this goal, the minimum necessary condition is to connect with the house. If there is no particularly beautiful scenery and excellent observation conditions, there must be enough natural debris to surround the private atmosphere when the line of sight is blocked. Seeing all this, I feel very calm. This is all natural. No matter what kind of segment it is, it keeps an independent rhythm with the occasional joys and sorrows in people's daily life. If we feel this rhythm, then our feelings can't be relative to everything. That is to say, on this occasion, the line of sight is blocked, and the feelings are blocked, roughly.
Undoubtedly, such a function can't be achieved just by looking at the scenery and public green space outside the courtyard. However, the subtlety here is that the courtyard, as a private field, has different effects from other places. This may be because the consciousness of the person we entrusted to our feelings is different. According to the case that emotional waves are treated as parabolic objects, although deep feelings are mostly infinite, as a party, it is a highly private feeling to want to keep secrets that others don't know. Therefore, in order to release their feelings, people will avoid possible interference from others and maintain such a situation of protecting psychological safety.
In this way, where there is one's own place, the emotional client is also beneficial in the private sphere. It is most appropriate to look at the courtyard state of your house. Incredibly, it is easy to entrust feelings to plants outside the hospital, but others have no reason to understand that it is a bit shy to tolerate the nature around a room far away from the village, even if it is discharging with opponents in parks, green spaces and street trees. People seem to have some common psychology of urbanites.
The style of the miscellaneous forest in the yard is better to be sloppy. The reason for this consideration is that when I built the courtyard, I never specified the types of trees in detail. But I also have a strong persistent pursuit in roughness. From the indoor point of view, the location is very good, especially the living room, which is the center of daily life and planted deciduous trees in front of the dining room. I don't ask about the kind of tree, but the shape of the tree should be delivered according to the schedule. If possible, look at the real thing before choosing. My idea is that the thick trunk can fully stretch people's back, and it is the kind of tree with wide branches on it. Due to the limitation of the highest budget, trees whose leaves have not yet grown and the size is not enough will be used. Planting such trees is the expectation of their future growth.
The persistence of such a tree, first, the deciduous trees that need pruning in order to adapt to the season, that is, those mentioned above, are indispensable for the psychological treatment effect of the courtyard, and the natural rhythm is the most symbolic embodiment. In summer, deciduous trees have thick leaves, which creates a cool place. In winter, the dead leaves shake off and let the sun penetrate. Needless to say, spring is the season when trees sprout, and the leaves in autumn are dyed, so there is a landscape that changes with the seasons. But an important reason for this juxtaposition is that deciduous trees have a good influence on indoor climate. Of course, according to the change of seasons, deciduous trees need to make great adjustments to the natural operation of trees.
I have lasting feelings for the kindness of the trees that fall leaves every year in my home. The yard in front of my parents' house is a slender pattern from north to south. The southern end of my home is almost connected with the boundary of the foundation. There is no yard here. Fortunately, the adjacent plot is a park, and the place with deciduous trees makes me enjoy the adjustment of the sun. In summer, the lush leaves set off the green in the room, which looked a little gloomy. In winter, it shines into the room through the weak sunlight of dead branches. If it is sunny, the room doesn't even need heating until the end of the day, so it is warm and harmonious.
As I have described, the courtyard strongly demands to reflect the changes of the four seasons. It can be seen here that "scenery" is the greatest significance of the courtyard, which seems to be a unique view of the courtyard in Japan. How to surround the private atmosphere, and then artificially, the Japanese have a natural miniature model for pursuing the style of the courtyard. This natural ambition has always been the case when choosing a tortuous courtyard, such as using stones to describe mountains and sand to describe water. Such a result, as an object, should not overcome nature, but create a friendly environment. This is the origin of the Japanese view of nature. Of course, it can also be said that my love for miscellaneous forests is influenced by it.
The author introduces:
Shin/Kloc-0 was born in Yokohama in 1938, graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University in 1962, and completed his doctoral program in the same university in 1969. In the same year, he started a new design firm in the form of a personal studio, and five years later he was reorganized into a legal entity. At present, he is engaged in design activities centered on personal residence.
Yamagura Hitomi, 1926 to 1995, a novelist, was born in Tokyo and graduated from the National Academy of Sciences. The most famous book is コピーラィター, which is good at describing the emotional life of ordinary Japanese.
Flower introduction:
Ajisai, also known as hydrangea and hydrangea, observes deciduous shrubs of the family ユキノシタ. In early summer, there are spherical inflorescences with only four sepals and many developed decorative flowers hanging down. There are seven color changes from blue to purple.
Murasaki shikibu, a deciduous shrub of the family クマツヅラ, bears spherical fruit in autumn and is purple when it matures. It is said that it imitates the author's name Murasaki shikibu of Tale of Genji.
Japanese view of nature;
The Japanese don't think that nature and human beings should be antagonistic. On the contrary, they surround nature and enjoy its benefits. They think they should live in harmony with nature.
Japanese comprehensive course book 6 lesson 6?
life
Abe Akira
One.
There are three cats in my family at present. Children are very realistic recently. They asked their father, "What's the use of keeping a cat?"
I am speechless.
Indeed, in this way, keeping a dog can prevent thieves, pick up the thrown ball and do something for people. But what about cats? Since mice rarely appear recently, cats eat and sleep, go out for a walk, come back when they are hungry, and then eat and sleep. That's all, it doesn't contribute anything to people.
"Nothing is good? Because it's interesting for them to stay here. " When I have to answer, I can only answer like this. I'm afraid this is not the answer to the children's questions.
In short, just watching the activities of animals will make me feel happy. Whenever I see them leaping several meters vertically along the trunk of a pine tree or locust tree and leaping high in the air to catch flying insects, it seems that only then will I sigh: how accurate their actions are, and there is no futile move.
As despicable as an animal, such words are in human language, but we can't say that they are all like this. Some mothers hate having children, even abandon them or let them die. In such a world, the cat's parenting is full of careful love and infinite patience.
It is said that it is parenting, and it is not that the old cat lets the kitten eat snacks to buy toys, but only brings the four-legged snake he caught on the grass to the kitten.
They called the kitten with a wonderful cry. The kittens came, and they put down their prey with a bang, and then inadvertently watched the kittens play with the four-legged snake. Just as a human mother looks after her children, she looks at them with satisfaction and reassurance.
In addition, when the kitten is eating the food on the plate, the old cat has been waiting in the distance until the kitten finishes eating, before eating the long-awaited leftovers.
When persuading the kitten, the old cat bites the kitten so gently, and hits the kitten's front paws to retract into the toes so measured that it will never punish the kitten or anything.
"Even the dumb animals around you like their children so much, let alone people?" This poem by singer minamoto no sanetomo is true.
What's more, it's a pity that they are frightened by human civilization day and night. Hearing the sound of a vacuum cleaner will make you tremble with fear. When jets fly low overhead, you will hide in the shadows, and low eyebrows and shame will make them look shorter.
If it is difficult for human beings to survive, it is even harder for them to survive.
Two.
Due to the increasing number of cats, scattered small animal bones can be seen everywhere in the house, starting from four-legged snakes, such as ephemera, locusts, mantis, bees, scarabs, butterflies, moths, crickets and sometimes even crickets. It would be nice to play outside, but cats will take them indoors to make the world whenever they have the chance.
There seem to be many four-legged snakes on the warm grass by the sea. Most of the four-legged snakes that fell into the cat's paw were bitten off. This is not because cats want to eat them, but because they have been played as toys for a long time. They were injured and weakened under the cat's paw until they finally died. The cat suddenly picked them up and caught them with its front paws. If it escapes, it will catch up with them before, or catch them with two claws and throw them into the air. When you are tired of playing, abandon them and leave them alone.
I was lucky enough to get my life, but I managed to climb out, but I couldn't escape if I wanted to, so I stayed behind the furniture and under the mat and became like a dried fish.
I feel that maybe after that, some people survived somewhere at home. One day at some time, a four-legged snake suddenly jumped out of its hiding place and scared me.
Because of this, I became very close to a four-legged snake. I was unhappy when I saw reptiles, so I had to drive them away with sticks or something. But recently, whether dead or alive, I dare to hold it in my hand.
In this way, something like a four-legged snake becomes a lovely animal that doesn't stick to its appearance.
Not only that, I think the four-legged snake is really a complicated guy.
One day, I saw the four-legged snake, which had been played by the cat, bravely confronted the cat.
The four-legged snake grabbed the cat's front paw with its small upper and lower jaws-the skin exposed behind the cat's paw.
For this unexpected counterattack, the cat didn't flinch so much, but it just seemed helpless. It kept shaking its paws, trying to get rid of the quadruped snake, but the quadruped snake just wouldn't let go.
I can't help laughing. It's not just cats that beat mice. If a quadruped snake is cornered, it will fight a huge opponent like a cat. Knowing this, I have to applaud it in my heart.
The other day, I witnessed a four-legged snake biting the cat's beard and hanging in the air.
I have rescued the poor quadruped snakes from the cat's claws many times and put them back in the grass, but they may be caught by the cat again sooner or later.
There are many wild birds around here, and cats often go home with sparrows in their mouths.
Before dawn, it is time for sparrows to suffer. The cat hid in the grass or branches early and lay there waiting for the sparrow to come.
When I got up in the morning, I saw the corner of the corridor like a broken duvet and cushion, and the feathers of birds were everywhere. The cat ate all the birds except a lot of feathers, not even a beak and claws.
I couldn't help but feel uneasy and trembling when I heard the cat squatting in the grass and crunching a live sparrow with bones. This feeling is not without. Their method is very simple and clear.
But not long ago, on a sunny afternoon, I was working in my room. From the nearby grass, I heard some animals screaming: hmm, hmm, hmm. ...
Suppose it's a bug. It's a little loud, and it doesn't sound familiar.
When I saw it, it was a kitten-although it was a kitten, it was as big as a big cat-chasing an animal to the wall.
I walked out of the corridor, where a yellow-backed green parrot struggled like a prisoner between the pine branches that were almost stuck to the ground and the weeds growing below.
I was about to reach out to save the bird, but the cat ran faster than me. It let out a roar, picked up the parrot at the same time and fled to the denser Woods.
In this way, I was embarrassed and gave up the idea of chasing cats. Instead, I put myself in the other's shoes-everything the cat catches belongs to the cat, and it naturally claims its ownership and will eat it all in less than five minutes.
However, the parrot's whine shows no sign of stopping. As a cat, you may want to enjoy a long-lost meal slowly. Smoke, smoke, smoke ... I gradually can't keep calm after hearing such intermittent desperate screams.
Bird lovers may be indignant at the author's lack of enthusiasm for saving parrots. However, no matter what animal it is, it is by no means for people to watch. It is human beings who make them live happily, and it is also human beings who lock them up and force them to live an unfree life. Not only that, are humans who raise a large number of animals for use with the power of civilization and kill them efficiently qualified to say that cats are cruel? Isn't it more in line with the common sense of nature that animals pounce on each other and are hunted, compared with human killing? )
Nevertheless, I went out again and chased the cat in the yard, and finally succeeded in saving the parrot from its mouth.
The root of the parrot's wing, compared with an adult, is seriously injured under the armpit, but it looks in good spirits.
To prove this point, she suddenly almost bit the fork of my finger, which is the intersection of my fingers as a savior! And do your best! The parrot fell on the tatami in my room, quickly stood up again, and then staggered there, leaving pink feces on the bedding I had never folded. In this way, I had an idea: just prepare a cage to raise it.
However, in the final analysis, it was because it was too late to get it back from the cat. After two or three hours, she fell down again and was cold all over.
Three.
I want to write stories about animals-although as you can see, my situation is not even qualified to write, as a reader, I can't put it down for Lionel's Carrots and Natural History, which skillfully describes the posture of small animals.
Generally speaking, looking at the works of those writers, I feel that even if they can't catch up with us, they are completely different from us, because their ancestors brought guns at an early age and had close contact with animals through hunting. It is also because they must be familiar with each other's habits when shooting animals, so naturally their observation is more serious and their eyes are more acute. It can be said that they have a deeper understanding of nature in their bloody dealings with animals again and again.
That's the case with Lionel. Hunting is a common occurrence for him. Natural history is not only the product of observing beautiful nature, but also his articles are elegant and cruel.
However, if we read renard's diary, we will feel that people in their thirties, after half their lives, suddenly get tired of killing for nothing. Determined never to hunt again, so that future generations will never hunt again. Next, he gave a wonderful description of the squirrel-
... squirrels. Squirrels have neither the talent of magpies nor the difference between sticks and guns. It climbed the tree and hid, thinking it was safe. I only see its nose. At the first shot, the squirrel slipped down in fear and clung to the branch. Is it dead? Not yet. It is still moving. The second shot, the squirrel fell. I killed this harmless and docile animal. When it rains, it will put its tail on its face to avoid the rain.
cold-blooded/poikilothermal animal
(Translated by kishida fumio)
Renard also wrote in his diary: "Regret is rolling in my heart."
It is not clear whether he did what he said, and then ended all the killing. But when describing the story of the squirrel, when he said, "This harmless and docile animal, sticks its tail to its face for shelter from the rain", we can see from this sentence that Learnard is a kind-hearted person. His heart was connected with the poet's, and the poet shouted "Even a dumb beast …". After reading this, I have more mutual affinity and love for this author who has always respected me all my life.
Having said that, human beings have done their best for their own affairs, and there is not much room for animals to consider. On the one hand, he is interested in raising animals, on the other hand, he is willing to bear the notoriety of cold-blooded animals out of carelessness.
Looking at the dogs in the street listlessly through the gap in the fence all day in chains.
A kitten howling in the rain.
Birds that have forgotten how to fly in the air are getting colder and colder in cages.
How similar and terrible their misfortune is to our misfortune that they can't speak!
Nevertheless, I sometimes meet them and want to talk to them intimately:
"It's very kind of you. You have no language, no money, no unnecessary nagging and no need to worry about tomorrow. Compared with lying and greedy humans, you don't know how many times better ... "
Needless to say, no matter what they say, they won't answer, as if they think I'm wordy. Look at my face.