China's splendid civilization is being obliterated by time. I wonder if those people who reminisce about that sad history in the corner while lambasting historical sinners have really closed their eyes, calmed their hearts and returned to the indifference and rationality of history. I have always admired those scholars who know history and dare to criticize it. At the same time, I think Mr. Yu, a professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy, is a hero among countless scholars, and his Cultural Journey is the most outstanding top grade among thousands of literary and historical prose works.
This book is Mr. Yu's first collection of cultural essays. Some of these articles won the first prizes of various literary awards. The main purpose of this book is to seek the secrets of cultural soul and life with the help of scenery, and to explore the historical fate of China culture and the historical composition of China literati. These articles by Mr. Yu, with their profound knowledge of literature and history, rich cultural perception and artistic expression, not only reveal the great connotation of China culture, but also provide a brand-new example for contemporary prose circles.
Mr. Yu attracts readers with his unique writing charm, which is a bitter memory, an understanding after anxiety, a relaxation after meditation and a youth after old age. Like many educated youth scholars, he once sighed deeply in this book, but the same sigh appeared in different places, and the charm was far from the same. As he said, "I can be young", his life is flexible. He always upholds the passion of his youth and enjoys the leisure of his old age to spend his rich middle-aged time. Therefore, Yu Xiansheng is a half-breed at any time. So his articles are always mixed with different feelings. For example, his sadness about the loss of China culture is full of young people's insults to dissatisfaction, middle-aged people's helplessness to the world, and old people's regret for vicissitudes.
Maybe some ideas are completely unintentional, but the inspiration for writing this book is definitely intentional. Obviously, he discovered the dusty place of China's history and culture. In today's era of vigorously promoting China's splendid civilization, it is naturally more striking and thoughtful to put forward such a specious view. China's ancient civilization once created a prosperous time in ancient times. In order to preserve its prosperity, people handed down splendid culture from generation to generation, and successively built large buildings such as Mogao Grottoes and Dujiangyan. Even ordinary arched buildings and library buildings are printed with cultural traces. But people's ideals are always good, but time is against people and changes endlessly. What people want to preserve will still be washed away by time within a certain limit. Although some of them are artificial, in the final analysis, they still come from the blank of historical roulette. Some historical dust can't be left behind, and many scholars are sad and regret it. They always live in a past that doesn't belong to them, and they will never get out alive. Therefore, "facing up to the past and the present" is an important topic I have learned from this book, and I also think it is the subject of Mr. Yu's research and warning. Because only those who truly understand the historical situation can print their own rut marks on the basis of conforming to the wheel of history.
Smoke a wicker and break a peach branch. Have a cup of tea and read a good book.
Walk into the leisure, walk into the "cultural journey".