On both sides of forgetting and remembering

Xi Murong said: "Life is an endless river, and we are all the ones crossing the river." On the left bank of the river of life It is forgetting. On the right bank of the river of life is remembering. We took our own boats and shuttled between the left bank and the right bank, and then we realized that we should forget what should be forgotten and remember what should be remembered. (Poetic and philosophical opening, cleverly clarifying the theme in quotations and metaphors)

Walking on the road of life, we smile and look at the flowers blooming and falling outside the window, withered leaves falling, and quietly watching the clouds rolling and relaxing in the sky. The wind stops and the wind rises. On the road, we experienced too many mixed joys and sorrows. In the process of sailing on the river of life, we learned to forget the joys and sorrows that should be forgotten, and learned to remember the bits and pieces that should be remembered.

Dongpo looked up to the sky with his hair disheveled and shouted "The great river goes eastward". The troublesome and trivial matters he faced instantly sank into the rolling waves and disappeared without a trace. The majestic surging river made Dongpo choose to forget, forget those frustrations, sorrows, and the dissatisfaction of his official career. Tao Qian leisurely picked chrysanthemums under the east fence accompanied by the dancing butterflies in "Zhuang Sheng's Dream of Dreaming of Butterflies". Facing Nanshan, Yuanming chose to forget, forget the ugliness of the officialdom, and forget all the unhappiness he encountered. This is the choice of the soul. This is the wise choice made by people crossing the river on both sides of the "river". This is even more important. It is a wise "ferry". (Take Dongpo and Tao Qian as examples to explain the "wisdom" of "forgetting" the joys and sorrows. The smooth text contains rich cultural connotations) People stayed on the left bank of the river. Beyond this, there were also people on the left bank of the river. People living happily on the right bank. Sitting in the pavilion by the pool, drinking alone with tears in her eyes, Yi An told me in her words that she would always remember every bit of her experience in this life, which was what she had done on the way to "fighting for the crossing". choose. Haizi used "Facing the sea, spring flowers are blooming" to tell me that "from tomorrow on" he will remember all the "water" in life, because that is the "jade dew" he uses to "water" his "flowers". Sanmao used her words to forever remember the soul of Sahara. Van Gogh forever remembered his "ship" with "Sunflowers"... (Parallel examples prove the eternity of "remembering". The brushstrokes cover ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and the rich materials add to the humanistic connotation of the article, which is thick and smart ) These are lives on both sides of the river of life. This is the choice between forgetting and remembering. The wind blows the petals like bursts of broken childhood, and the ancient music of the wilderness interprets the gap in the soul. Hiding in the depths of dreams and memories, listen to the flowers and the night sing away nightmares, sing out prosperity, and sing out the origin of all memories. With clear smiles and unknown tears, we can forget the unhappiness and triviality that should be forgotten, and remember the profundity and eternity that should be remembered. The white rabbit wanders here and there, its clothes are not as good as new, its people are not as good as before. Sail on the "river of life", sit on your own unique boat, and know that - forgetting is on the left, remembering is on the right, and there is endless shuttle in the middle! (Kickback opens with the image of the "endless shuttle" of the ship of life, which contains profound philosophy, is poetic and thought-provoking)

Comments: This is a poetic and philosophical article. Its brilliance is mainly reflected in two aspects: First, it is rich in materials. From Xi Murong to Van Gogh, the author's writings span ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. There are poems and articles, some are comprehensive, some are detailed and some are sketchy, some are "forgotten" and some are "remembered". The associations from here to there and the exploration from different angles enrich the content of the article. Second, the artistic conception is far-reaching, with strong poetry and profound philosophy. Xi Murong's poems are mentioned at the beginning and end of the article, using "river" as a metaphor for "life", showing the philosophical meaning that life is a shuttle between the "left bank and the right bank"; and the typical characters and typical works involved in the article are all rich in The humanistic connotation and the thickness of the materials add to the weight of the article, and supplemented by the language full of connotations and poetry, it is naturally poetic, implicit and meaningful. This article can get a high score because of its profound connotation, rich materials, and brilliant literary talent.

Xi Murong - References

1. "Collection of Xi Murong's Poems"

2. "On the Love Theme of Xi Murong's Poems"

3. "On the Modern Feminine Consciousness in Xi Murong's Poetry Creation"

4. "On the Universality of Xi Murong's Nostalgia Poems"

5. "Poet Xi Murong Releases Inner Mongolia Complex" 》("Xinmin Weekly")

Xi Murong, female, a famous Taiwanese poet, essayist, and painter. The full name of the Mongolian people is Mulun Xi Lianbo, which means mighty river in Mongolian. Originally from Inner Mongolia, he was born in Sichuan in 1943. He spent his childhood in Hong Kong and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from the Fine Arts Department of National Taiwan Normal University, he went to Europe for further study. In 1996, he graduated with first place from the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, Belgium. He has held many personal art exhibitions and won the Belgian Royal Gold Medal, the Brussels Municipal Government Gold Medal, two bronze medals from the European Artists Association, the Golden Tripod Award for Best Lyrics, and the Zhongxing Literature and Art Medal New Poetry Award. He has been a professor at Hsinchu Normal University in Taiwan for many years and is now a professional painter. His representative works include "A Flowering Tree" and "Qili Xiang". In 2002, he was appointed as an honorary professor of Inner Mongolia University. The lyrics of "Father's Grassland and Mother's River" written by him are widely sung by Mongolian children who stay in their hometown and those who are drifting away because of their strong homesickness.

Xi Murong - Characteristics of Works

Xi Murong's works are written in simple language, but the writing is profound and full of emotion.

The beautifully carved writing style is good at using repeated sentence patterns, which makes her articles present a soothing musical style and full of pastoral pastoral mood. In the management of syntax, in addition to focusing on the overall effect, she also pursues the beauty of words. . Xi Murong's articles are all centered on characters. In the plain description, it is easy to see the author's sincerity.

Perhaps because Xi Murong is a professional painter who graduated from the art department, he often incorporates the meaning of painting, so that readers can appreciate his works and immerse themselves in the vivid pictures as if reading a painting book. This writing The method is what makes Xi's work so distinctive.

As a Mongolian, Xi Murong had never set foot in her home territory in the early stages of her creation, but her poems and prose could not hide the consciousness of the Mongolian nation, such as expressing the Mongolian grasslands and history. The culturally related nostalgia and the Buddhist and Zen concepts that have the characteristics of Mongolian national philosophy and religion are very different from writers of other ethnic groups.

Xi Murong - Influence of Works

"Boundless Memories"

In the history of modern Taiwanese poetry, Xi Murong is a very special case. As soon as he appeared, he became an "upstart" in Taiwan's poetry circle and created the "Xi Murong phenomenon" of "soft poetry". Xi Murong's collection of poems has become prominent on the best-seller list; his works have become treasures in the hands of girls in universities and middle schools; his name has become a hot topic in newspapers and radio stations; Xi Murong himself is even regarded as Taiwan's "Qiong Yao in poetry." All this has become something new that has never happened before in Taiwan’s poetry world.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, Xi Murong crossed the Taiwan Strait again and set off a "Xi Murong whirlwind" in mainland China, becoming the idol of many young poetry lovers.

Xi Murong is also the first person to be a modern poetry writer who can become what contemporary critics describe as "a certain phenomenon" - although this group of commentators use the term "Xi Murong phenomenon" , which is somewhat of a critical review.

Xi Murong - Prose Analysis

The biggest features of Xi Murong's prose works are two aspects, one is the description of flowers, and the other is the use of color vocabulary. As for the description of "flower", all kinds of flowers can be included in the article, among which lotus has the closest relationship with her. Because Xi Murong is a painter herself, her use of color is naturally more appropriate than other writers, forming a characteristic of hers.

(1) Description of flowers

In Xi Murong’s prose, in addition to people, flowers are mostly used as objects, or flowers are interspersed in words to imply some kind of meaning. Symbolic meaning. For example, "The whole big tree is covered with white flowers. The thick, green and dark leaves make the white flowers shine particularly brightly. You can see it from a long distance... Such a big tree, planted deep on the cliff by the sea. Ten years ago, when those people who came across the sea first started to live on this island, this cliff must have been covered with this kind of coastal plants, right? I think when that group of people just started living here, right? When they built their cabin under the trees, they must have thought that it was just a temporary stay and that they would be able to leave soon, so they built it in such an embarrassing and messy way, right?"

Xi Murong likes to combine the characteristics of certain flowers? combined with some type of story. Although the flower may only play a quiet role in the story, it occupies an important position in the whole story. For example, in "There is a Song: A Very Short Story of Flowers", Xi Murong wrote the story of a man and a woman, which begins with the blooming of the epiphyllum and ends with the withering of the epiphyllum.

"Many years later, every time she smells the same flower fragrance, the girl will think of the boy who picked off the epiphyllum under the moon. They have not seen each other since that night. He should not give her one. Epiphyllum. I heard that it is a sign of misfortune."

Express Murong's feelings about flowers in the form of a story. Flowers also play the role of catalysts. For readers, even if they have never experienced similar or identical situations, they can have a deeper feeling and immersive feeling through the atmosphere created by Xi Murong's writing. Perhaps this This is also one of the reasons why Xi Murong’s works are always loved.

Every writer has his or her favorite thing, and Xi Murong is particularly fond of lotus. She painted and wrote about lotus flowers. However, she rarely praises the lotus alone. She always connects the lotus with people, or brings out the lotus through something. In literary criticism, there is a saying that "literature is like its people", which places special emphasis on the relationship between the writer's living environment and the style of his work. To explore the relationship between this phenomenon and Xi Murong, we can find the answer from Xi Murong's living environment and growth process.

Xi Murong published a book entirely devoted to writing and chanting about lotuses, called "The Token". The content of this book uses Xi Murong's articles and needlepoint drawings to create the atmosphere of the whole book, showing the praise and love for lotus. Not only the scenery is described objectively and carefully, but also the emotions are described subjectively, so that the whole work presents a sense of blending of scenes and a situation where things and I are one.

(2) The use of matching colors

Xi Murong, who is also a painter, describes the colors of flowers in the article more sensitively and delicately than ordinary writers, making the work more vivid feeling. Most of the construction of its imagery is based on the use of color. The article presented to readers is no longer just a rigid two-dimensional text, but a three-dimensional picture.

Murong uses colors to match the description of flowers to clearly and clearly visualize the abstract ideas she wants to convey. It makes it very easy for readers to enter the emotions Xi Murong wants to express when reading the work.

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"Xi Murong and Her Inner Mongolia"

Xi Murong's full Mongolian name is Mulun Xi Lianbo means a mighty river. She is the queen of the Mongolian royal family. Although she did not grow up on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, she grew up in a traditional Mongolian family. Before the age of 5, Xi Murong could speak Mongolian. Xi Murong was born in Chongqing. Due to the turbulent war years when he was young, he moved with his parents to Chongqing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and finally to Taiwan.

"Nineteen Ancient Poems" is the first poetry reading book that Xi Murong came into contact with. It contains many poems expressing nostalgia, such as "Homesickness makes people grow old, and the years are suddenly too late." From then on, a touch of nostalgia and longing for hometown became associated with Xi Murong. Xi Murong wrote poems in her diary to balance her inner world, and nostalgia became a deep imprint and complex in her inner world. As a painter and poet, Xi Murong wrote his nostalgia in poems and painted it on paintings.

Many of her works contain longing for her hometown, and even the shadow of the grassland and desert can be seen in the background of her works. On a desert, a tree leaves its long shadow. It is a scene that can only be seen in his hometown. Xi Murong painted such an oil painting when he had never been to his hometown. An old Mongolian living in Taiwan saw her paintings and said in broken Chinese: "This seems to be my hometown."

On August 22, 1989, Xi Murong returned to Inner Mongolia for the first time. . Since then, Xi Murong has been living in Taiwan, but has returned to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia with a frequency ranging from one to four times a year, and has traveled all over the grasslands of Inner Mongolia.

The trip to his hometown in 1989 can be said to be a watershed in Xi Murong's creative career. The melancholy and lonely Xi Murong who wrote "Qili Xiang" can never go back. Back in Taiwan, she wrote behind closed doors, writing a prose of five to six thousand words in three days and two nights. She lived like this for a full year. During the year, she postponed all art exhibitions, canceled all other plans, and focused on writing about her feelings about traveling to Inner Mongolia.

Xi Murong said that in the first ten years she set foot on the grassland, she was sad and scared. The grasslands have been destroyed, desertification has become serious, there have been too many immigrants, and the grassland culture has gradually disappeared. However, in the last three to five years, she has become optimistic. "All things have animism and all living beings are equal" is what Xi Murong repeated again and again. "Every nation has its own culture, and there is no reason for us not to respect the culture of others. Everyone should try their best to preserve the cultural characteristics of their own ethnic group and not forget their roots."

Reference: " Poet Xi Murong Releases Inner Mongolia Complex" ("Xinmin Weekly")

Xi Murong - Representative Works

His works include more than 50 kinds of poetry collections, essay collections, picture albums and anthologies, with readers all over the world at home and abroad. In recent years, he has devoted himself to exploring Mongolian culture, taking his hometown as the theme of his creations.

The prose and poetry works include: "Shell", "Youth without Resentment", "Qili Xiang", "Nine Chapters of Time", "In That Far Place", "Song of the River", "One Day" "Song", "Three Strings", "Written to Happiness", "My Home is on the Plateau", "Mountain Moon", "Zen", "Andante Cantabile", "If", "A Spring Afternoon" ”, “History Museum” and so on.

"A Flowering Tree"

For this

I have been praying to the Buddha for five hundred years

Begging the Buddha to forgive me We formed a mortal relationship

The Buddha then turned me into a tree

Growing by the road you must pass

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Under the sun

The flowers bloomed carefully

Every bloom is my hope in the previous life

When you come closer

Please listen carefully

The trembling leaves

It is my passion for waiting

And when you finally walked by without a care

What fell on the ground behind you

Friend

Those are not petals

That is my withered heart(

< p>Reference material: "Collected Poems of Xi Murong")

"Qili Xiang"

The stream is eager to flow to the ocean

The tide is eager to return to the land

In front of the fence of green trees and white flowers

I once waved goodbye so easily

But after twenty years of vicissitudes

Our souls are still at night Returning at night

When the breeze blows

it turns into a garden full of tulips (reference "Xi Murong's Poetry Collection")

Xi Murong - other people's comments

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Critic Shen Qi believes that the reinterpretation of "Xi Murong's poetry phenomenon" aims to redefine and reposition the entire normal poetry writing. Chinese new poetry, which has long been free of destiny and blindly changing its form, is gradually waking up to a period of healthy development in which it insists on keeping things constant and seeking change, and the importance of normal writing is becoming increasingly prominent.

Re-reading Xi Murong from this point of view, one can read some embarrassing revelations - the market has pushed the avant-garde posture from the mainstream to the margins, and the times have pushed a "marginal light and shadow" into the market's hot spot; the market is innocent, but the times are impermanent, Xi Murong It just passively served as the "favorite" of popular poetry voters, and inadvertently opened up people's new understanding of the value of normal poetry writing - and in this value field, Xi Murong's poetry undoubtedly occupies an important place, and it is not a wrong love or misunderstanding. .