Sea Loves 》
Many of my friends, hearing that I had gone to Dalian to rest in summer, to Zhanjiang to spend the winter, and to Japan and the League to go to a meeting, wrote to say, "You are again beside the sea that you love, and you have seen the traveling companion of your childhood ear to ear, and you may or may not have written much more. ...... "?
Part of my friends' expectations were realized, but most were not. I seem to think that the Sea of Japan, the Mediterranean Sea,......, and even Dalian Bay and Guangzhou Bay are not like the "sea" of my childhood, just as the best friends of my life are not necessarily my childhood travel companions.
My childhood companions are in many ways inferior to the friends I made when I was growing up, but I know my childhood companions with great familiarity and intimacy.
Their names, voices, smiles, and even the short locks of hair on their temples and the red mole on their brows are still fresh in my mind after decades! I'm getting more and more forgetful, often because I can't remember the names of people I know well even after half a day of pleasantries and greetings, and I'm secretly ashamed.
Therefore, I am always amazed at the mirror-clear pictures of my childhood that come before my eyes, and at the same time, I feel a deep mixture of joy and disappointment - an emotion that, like a gentle pinprick, pierces through my weak and tender heart!
Speaking of the sea - I don't know how many majestic seashores I've been close to and how many brilliant seascapes I've seen in the decades since I left the seaside of my childhood.
If there is a palace of memories in my mind, then I don't know how many pictures of seascapes of different shapes and sizes are hanging on the walls of this temple. But the plainest, the broadest, and the most thrilling is the large painting on the north wall of the main hall!
On this large painting, on the right side is a hanging scroll-like rolling south mountain, on the left side is a band of enclosed hills, the soil slope is layer upon layer of wheat fields, in front of the flat and endless yellowish sandy beach. Between the beach and me, there is a cluster of farmhouses of varying heights up and down the mountain, nestled affectionately into a small village.
In front of the vast beach is the sea! This sea stretches across the north and south, covered with the eastern sky, the sky has a few strokes of light ink painted island, that is Zhifu Island, there is a lighthouse on the island.
The composition of the painting, that's all. But this picture of the sea, is in my childhood, the brain is still a plain white paper, clear and sensitive memory, give me day and night, a stroke with a copper hook and iron scratches painted up, profound to never be erased.
My piece of the sea, is in the north of the motherland, near the beautiful mountains and forests, high springs and waterfalls. Winter comes and goes in the fall, the earth is yellow, the sea water is also gray-blue gray-blue, looks very depressed. Spring came, the grass to the tall south mountain put on new clothes, far away from the top of the village house, the occasional exposure of one or two trees peach blossom.
The sea water reflected to the brightness of spring, slowly also rippled with green waves ...... This is the stage of my childhood activities, never change the set. I was the "one-legged" on this broad stage, sometimes wandering monologue, sometimes in the knees meditation.
I watched everything with open eyes of wonder. In the early morning, I saw the golden basin of the morning sun, from the dark black, light gray, fish-belly white clouds, suddenly surging up; at that moment, space roared, and thick gold splashed over the sea and colored the heavens.
Gradually the sound calmed, a faint white smoke rippled from the sky, and the tops of the masts were seen, and the hulls of the ships, and the seafarers from wherever they had come, came to visit our little city under the northern mountains.
In the dusk, I saw the silver plate like the moon, trembling cupped out of the level, the sea into a road layer by layer, from thick ink and silver gray, gradually rippled into a shimmering bright piece. Pale ink-colored fishing sails, wing after wing, moved slowly past, orange-red lights flashing on their sterns.
I knew that in the pale white smoke, in the orange-red light, there were people - people I knew from the mouths of grown-ups, from books, from the pages of a Thousand and One Nights, busy with their work, laughing and talking noisily.
I could not see them, but in my imagination I worked and talked for them: they chugged and washed the decks with coconut shells, and cast heavy nets with a clatter; they put large thimbles in their palms, and sewed a thick piece of canvas with great effort, and they put their stout fingers in their mouths and sucked them, and then lifted them to their heads to measure the weights of their hands, and then raised them to their heads to measure the weights of their hands. They put their stout fingers in their mouths and sucked them, and then raised them to the side of their heads to gauge the direction of the sea breeze.
Their conversation was tense and lively, they talked about the social play in front of the Heavenly Queen's Palace, the pear blossoms on the top of the Jade Emperor's Peak, they talked about the storm of a few days ago ...... That's when my heart beat wildly, my mouth simulated a humongous holler, my hands clenched to produce a hot sweat, and my body tensed so much that it stood up from the beach! ......
The scenery of my memories: windy mornings, moonlit evenings, snowy fields, starry skies, like a kaleidoscope, changing in an instant; and my fantastical activities that go along with these scenery are also like a different play, staged day and night. But each play was performed on the same stage with the mountains and the sea as the backdrop.
This stage, which is absolutely silent and boundless, I am both the actor and the playwright. Although I was single and alone, I felt infinite joy and freedom. It would be impossible to say more about the past, and that is not all I have to say.
I mean, every man has his own childhood memories, happy or bitter, which are the deepest memories of his heart and soul. I happen to be close to the sea from childhood, love the sea, and other people are close to love other scenes, they say and write will not inevitably "love".
In fact, specifically, the love of the sea also, love something else also, all love is our own land, our own people!
Saying that we love the sea, we love is never any piece of the four endless sea. Each beach has its own sand, its own rocks, its own trees, its own village, to form her own unique, loveable "character".
Her beaches and rocks define the geography, her trees and villages mark the labor of the people. Inside her character, there are history, culture and customs that are linked to our flesh and blood. She belongs to us, we belong to her, she has nurtured us and cultivated us;
We are attached to her, we defend her, we wish her happiness and prosperity, and we will never tolerate bullying and aggression by others against her.
It is this strong and sincere feelings, inspired us to write how many beautiful and majestic poetry, how many unprecedented great cause, these examples, ancient and modern, still need to list it?
And, I love the "sea" of childhood, is not love Dalian Bay and Guangzhou Bay? No, I don't think so. I've grown up and the sea has expanded, and they are still our own!
As for the Sea of Japan and the Mediterranean Sea -- when I met the children of Japan's Inner Banks who took part in the campaign against the U.S. military bases, and the children of Port Said who took part in the war of resistance against the British and French aggression, I took their warm hands and looked at the blue sea behind them, and my childhood love of the sea came to my heart in a tide of fury.
How lovely the children of Japan and Allianz, how lovely the Sea of Japan and the Mediterranean Sea heh!
Extended information:
Bingxin's creative features:
1. Novels
Bingxin in the portrayal of characters, most do not use heavy ink and color, but also less detailed carving, only with the sketch of the pen, a few strokes, the character image as if the hibiscus out of the water, freshly floating on the water.
Sister Six One, Miss Winter, and Little Orange Lantern portray three young girls living in different times.
Bing Xin portrays a series of ideal and perfect young women in her novels. Most of them are kind-hearted, gentle and beautiful, lively and generous, steady and dignified.
They are youthful and energetic, and they win the dignity of women with their wisdom and talent; they gain the respect of men with their brilliant achievements in their own careers.
In addition, there are a series of young people who love the motherland, a great mother who is compassionate and gentle, a reasonable grandmother, and a learned and funny old professor, and many other images, revealing warmth.
In artistic expression, Bing Xin is good at drawing on and using lyrical techniques. In her works, she expresses her emotions directly in the tone of the narrator, and reveals the subjective attitude of the author through the language of the characters or the psychological activities of the characters, which makes the novels carry strong lyrical colors.
Bingxin often likes to use the first person narrative technique. Taking "me" as the clue to unfold the story, full of deep emotion, she tells me what she sees, hears, suffers, feels, and touches, so that readers can feel everything that happens in the novel.
It's all about the reality of life, no fictional weaving, no romantic colors, no artificial dramatic conflicts, no kitschy witticisms, and a sense of realism and intimacy.
This gives the author greater freedom to be more flexible in the beginning, end, twist and change, and the author's strong sentiments can be expressed more readily.
Bingxin's novels are less grandiose, more fresh and timeless treasures. Many of her works seem to have simple plots, but they have far-reaching meanings, leaving people with endless memories.
She captured a fragment of real life, a piece of chance in the journey of life, and showed one side of the intricate social life. There are no bizarre twists and turns, no jingoistic feats, but a philosophical pursuit.
She often observes society and scrutinizes life with a keen eye; from the collision of human relationships, sparks erupt, and she captures the philosophies embedded in life, and sends out her own sentiments, which are rich in refreshing philosophical and poetic meanings.
In the structure of her novels, she mostly adopts a two-way structural framework, mirroring each other's format. She often uses two families, two characters, two events, two sides of the ocean as the main line, balanced development, the development of the end, but very different. Through the sharp contrast, to give people enlightenment, thought-provoking.
In the novel's descriptive techniques, she often uses the technique of white description, with concise ink, without baking, sketching out a clear image, showing her unique poetic temperament.
Bingxin's works often arrange the time of the character's activities in the morning, dusk, moonlit night; the scene of the activity is set in the seaside, lakeside, park, mountain, boat;
With the help of the natural scenery of the description of the character's beauty and the environment of the beauty of the integration of the situation to achieve the integration of the situation, resulting in a specific cozy atmosphere.
2, prose
Bingxin's prose, a wide range of subjects, deep meaning. Through the delicate description of his own experience, Bing Xin vividly and imaginatively reflected a century, China's turbulent and complex social life of certain aspects.
In Bing Xin's prose, one can see the tragic scenes of the oppression and ravaging of the Chinese people by imperialism, feudalism, and the bureaucratic and mercenary classes in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China, as well as the images of the heroic people and patriotic young people who rose up to fight against them and struggled bravely.
At the same time, Bing Xin's prose subject matter also extends to the history, geography, culture and customs of many countries in the world, as well as the sufferings and struggles of the people, from which the readers can obtain a wealth of international knowledge, such as the ancient cultures of Egypt and India;
The far-reaching Sino-Japanese relations; Italy's present and past; the folk art of Scotland, as well as the development of the cultural exchanges between China and the world, and the influence of the people of the world on the people of China. development, and the deep friendship of people from all over the world to the Chinese people, etc., which give people new enlightenment.
Bing Xin's prose reflects the unique style emphasized by Bing Xin herself.
Bingxin is good at picking up pieces of life, weaving in his own emotional waves, with a keen eye and meticulous thinking, the inner deep feelings and external triggers dissolve together, feelings in the scene, the scene, giving readers the enjoyment of sublime beauty.
Bingxin pays great attention to the beauty of the connotation of prose. Her prose is novel and deftly conceived. In the seemingly ordinary subject matter, the creative surprise, the composition of good change. This is by her thought attainment and life environment cohesion into the beauty of the sentiment.
Bingxin in the process of creating prose, pay special attention to the expression of feelings. Bing Xin tends to express her own aesthetic psychology and aesthetic ideal with the help of natural scenery.
Bing Xin's prose is not only clear words and phrases can be picked up everywhere, and the whole text is written very essence. Bing Xin is good at picking up the essence of the literary language, will be those refined, vivid, accurate, fresh language, woven into the work, so that Bing Xin's prose has a beautiful language like poetry.
And also the inner rhythm and rhyme, like the third and the tenth of "Past Events (Part II)", from the mood of the high and low, to the rhythm of the fast and slow, the length of the sentence, are very careful.
Bingxin's prose is not only readable, but also recited, and reads with a natural sound and rhythm, so that the reader can feel the beauty of music in the flavor of chanting.
3, children's literature
Bing Xin's children's literature is full of love and hope for children and teenagers. Bing Xin from the characteristics of children, education in the fun, to feel people.
Bingxin never appeared as an educator of children and teenagers, not with vague preaching, hard admonition to educate children, but with children and teenagers in a heart-to-heart way, in a kind, euphemistic tone, to describe their own life and inner feelings, and recounted that interesting, that melodious, as if there is a kind of magic attracting the young readers.
Bingxin in pouring out their feelings and is so emotionally simple, moody, and quietly touched the hearts of children and teenagers, prompting them in the excitement, happiness, and exhilaration, unconsciously by the works of the theme of enlightenment, and to get the benefit of the teachings.
Patriotism education for children and teenagers, inspire children and teenagers of national self-esteem, national pride, Bing Xin children's literature is an important content.
But Bing Xin's works do not directly discuss how great and lovely our motherland is, why we should be patriotic and so on, but with exquisite ideas and vivid scenarios, expressing love for the motherland.
In the children's literature after the founding of the People's Republic of China, patriotism is more strongly expressed. The author's heartfelt praise of the motherland, not abstract, empty, but through Bing Xin's personal feelings, naturally expressed.
This feeling is based on hearing and seeing, the old and new contrast; coupled with the author's careful observation, the combination of art, vividly and imaginatively reflected.
Bingxin in his own children's literature, often based on the characteristics of children and young people's desire for knowledge, artfully interspersed with some astronomy, geography, history, science and other aspects of knowledge, to instill in young readers.
But Bingxin is not simply imparting knowledge, neither as systematic as textbooks, nor as similar to popular science books, but in the description of the line of clouds and water, contains a wealth of knowledge.
It can be said that the knowledge in the image, with artistic techniques, through the depiction of vivid, lively images, so that children and young people in the interesting reading, expanding the knowledge, adding new wisdom.
Bingxin used children's literature to educate children and teenagers about beauty, but it was not abstract and conceptual, but closely related to a specific social life.
For example, the verdant trees, neat as a green carpet of wheat fields, the setting sun puts the golden light of the artificial lake, this magnificent fish, rice, flowers and fruits of the countryside, is a hard-working, courageous, intelligent people, the desert mud accumulation of the earth, rebuilt. Here are the beauty of flowers, trees, mountains and rivers, the beauty of the city and countryside.
In the natural beauty, the beauty of social life is integrated. Such beauty education can inspire children and teenagers to love life, love life, love their career, and motivate them to fight for the transformation of the world and strive to create a better future.
Children's literature, like other arts, "contributes to the struggle, upward mobility, and beautification of all kinds of actions."
Expanded Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Bing Xin