Excerpts from classic sentences of cultural suffering
1. If the promotion of every kind of knowledge is at the expense of the decline of life, what is the ultimate goal of secular knowledge? If brilliant knowledge civilization always brings such a heavy burden to people, then in another thousand years, will mankind not be submerged by its own spiritual achievements? If spirit and body are always contradictory, depth and youth are always out of reach, and knowledge and games are always opposite, then when can we care about the self-improvement that human beings have longed for since ancient times?
-Preface to the Cultural Journey
2. Passion for history will always increase the load of life, and the vicissitudes of history will lead to the vicissitudes of life.
-Preface to the Cultural Journey
3. These people who walk on the edge of life seem to have laid a tragic foreshadowing for the whole cultural history of China. They yearn for peace and are anxious all over. They strive for harmony and division everywhere. They marked their conscious cultural personality for the first time at a high cost of their lives. There may be no direct descendants in their lineages, but China's aesthetic culture began to stand on its own feet from their mental torture.
-"Distant Voice"
In Li Bai's time, the Chinese nation was not too dull, so it is not surprising that poets like today come and go in this land. They have no political and business feelings, only a pair of sharp eyes and a poetic atmosphere, wandering between mountains and rivers, and marrying the earth. It is enough to write rows of poems with no practical value and spread them among friends. They take this business as a serious matter and are not afraid of camping or long-distance travel. As a result, it was not the emperor, imperial concubine and general who stood in the center of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but these poets.
-Three Gorges
As long as you are smart, you will have an expectation of books for this nation. They know that only books can connect such a long history into a cable, unite such a huge race, and keep such a vast land alive with the fire of civilization.
-"Stormy Days"
6. Cultural conscience based on sound personality, or conversely, sound personality based on cultural conscience. Without this kind of thing, he can't be so firm, light what ordinary people value and light what ordinary people value.
-"Stormy Days"
7. Unfortunately, the cultural personality of this group has become increasingly dim in the history of China. When spring comes to Qiu Lai, the plum blossoms wither and the cranes get old. Culture becomes a kind of aimless waste, and closed moral perfection leads to overall immorality. The sudden advance of civilization has also been cancelled, leaving a pile of plum petals and crane feathers, which are sandwiched in the history of national spirit like bookmarks.
-"West Lake Dream"
8. If you can't realize your ambition in society, you will hide in the small natural world and entertain yourself. They destroyed their ambitions and gradually regarded this destruction as their own ambitions. The philosophical cultivation of caring for the poor and being happy has become a spacious cellar in China's cultural personality structure. Although it has a strong musty smell, it is safe and quiet.
-"West Lake Dream"
9. There is also the great reason of human nature hidden in social filth, and the realization of this great reason is often too weird for normal people to tolerate. On the contrary, the great light of society is often at the expense of many important propositions of human ontology. The ideal state of one-way perfection is mostly a dream. One of the great sorrows that mankind cannot get rid of is here.
-"West Lake Dream"
10. An extremely striking part of China culture can be called "culture of demoting officials". As a result, many cultural relics are also demoted officials. The relegated official fell out of favor and fell down, and the sense of loneliness and tragic climbed into his heart; Exiled to the outside, I walked here and looked there, so I had to make out with mountains and rivers. Now, there are articles and poems, which are often well written. After a period of time, or a dynasty, things changed, and even the court thought this man was good and restored his reputation. In this way, characters and literature are complete, passed down in history and recited by later generations. The landscape pavilion they made out with became a relic. The ground is passed by people, and people pass by the ground. They are all famous.
-"A Corner of Dongting"
1 1. What I am most impatient with is a few simple generalizations about China culture. Even its most magnificent pulse is always overbearing and always obliterates its rich life rhythm. Those who are wronged often answer blows with blows, holding their own flags to the unified overlord of generate. In fact, everyone is small. Numerous small groups have created a great atmosphere.
-"A Corner of Dongting"