Qijun, known as "the shining star in Taiwan's literary world", is one of the very few writers who engages in real literary creation and has best-selling works. One of the important reasons why her works are so popular among readers is The reason is that she believes in the famous saying "No one who touches people's hearts is good at emotion". She always has a simple and compassionate heart and sees the world with "eyes of love". Therefore, under her works, there is love everywhere and everything is sentimental. Whether she is nostalgic for the customs and customs of her hometown, describing interesting life experiences in her childhood, or recalling the friendship between her parents and mentors, they all show the truth, goodness and beauty in her unique spiritual system.
Qi Jun, whose original name was Pan Xizhen, was born in 1917 in an old-style family in Quxi Township, Yongjia, Zhejiang. Due to the early death of his parents, he and his brother were raised by their uncle's parents and then adopted by his uncle Pan Guogang, who had served in the army for a long time. He was regarded as the apple of his eye by his aunt and uncle, and he freely followed his tutor to learn traditional culture. Later, he studied under Xia Chengtao, the "poem master of his generation". As she grew older and more experienced, her proficiency in Chinese became higher and higher, and she published many works. After the 1950s, essay collections such as "Smoke Sorrow", "Red Gauze Lantern", "Osmanthus Rain", "Midnight Dream Book as Pillow", "Water is the Sweetness of Hometown", "Mother's Heart, Buddha's Heart" were published one after another. Mr. Xia Zhiqing once said: "Qi Jun's prose and Li Houzhu's and Li Qingzhao's lyrics belong to the same tradition, but her achievements and realm are higher than those of Li Qingzhao. I am really proud of contemporary Chinese literature. I think, Qi Jun Many of your essays should be handed down from generation to generation." He believes that "A Pair of Gold Bracelets" and "Bun" should have replaced "Hurry" and "Back View" as middle school textbooks, and even be included in the "Nobel Prize". This is Mr. Xia's high evaluation of Qi Jun's works. A very important reason why Qi Jun's works have received such high evaluation is the "compassion" promoted in her works. She always sees everything with tenderness, and Not just confined to your own little world.
1. Compassion is kindness, compassion is compassion
In the inherent Chinese concept, kindness and compassion are almost connected together. When we behave in the world, we often say that compassion is compassion, which means to be compassionate. Be tolerant and compassionate. In the words of the Buddha, kindness is kindness and compassion is compassion. Loving all sentient beings and giving happiness is called compassion, and feeling compassion for all sentient beings and removing their suffering is called compassion. In Qijun, "compassion" seems to have another meaning. She is a sentient person through and through, and the ultimate of this sentient being is the heart of a Bodhisattva, which is compassion. But her compassion is not the attitude of a divine being who rules over the world, nor is it the great mercy of rescuing the suffering. She is just a devout believer who believes in the kindness and compassion she believes in.
2. Compassion is kindness to all living beings
Qi Jun has always pursued a spiritual realm of perfection in his works. The author's own moral cultivation of loyalty and forgiveness. It always reminds the author himself and reminds us to be tolerant to others and care for all living beings.
(1) Be tolerant to others
Qijun is the apple of the eyes of the great master Pan Guogang. Especially after her brother passed away, Pan stroked his head and said sadly, "Dad, you are the only child." "" This shows her high status and favored status. But as a lady from an official family, she never put on airs. Instead, she became very good friends with the long-term workers in the family, old and young. Listening to Uncle A Rong telling stories, playing Maokang chess and guessing beans with Uncle A Biao, and accompanying his grandfather to watch temple operas with A Xi... In Qi Jun's tender narration, that rainy day squatted behind the big barn to push Pai Gow, Ah Rongbo, who peeled and fried beans for himself to eat, was her other grandfather. Ah Xi, who often had red-faced quarrels with her over the quality of temple operas, was simply her other brother. They get along with each other in an orderly manner, but there is no distinction between seniority and inferiority. They live in harmony and are full of the warmth of a big family.
Qijun is also very tolerant of people who have hurt him. For example, my aunt took away her mother's beloved husband, leaving her mother depressed all her life. She also didn't like Qi Jun, and often bullied her unreasonably, took away her beloved doll, and changed it beyond recognition... All these, Qi Jun did for I didn’t want to make my mother sad, she just covered the quilt and cried secretly but never said anything. In order to get access to more books, she often stood in the distance and listened to her aunt read aloud the books her father bought for her to relieve her boredom. Later, his father passed away and his mother was gone, leaving his aunt alone. Qi Jun put aside all the past grudges and took good care of her life regardless of past grudges.
Another example is written in "The Debt", a sum of money that the family relies on for their livelihood was thrown away by a friend. We all have to itch and curse for this kind of harm to our friends, but Qi Jun did not complain, she The idea is that "this will help us understand how to live in poverty and remain humble, and how to enjoy boundless family fun amidst poverty and humility." She always kept thinking, and kept thinking only the best. From here, we can also see her realm.
Qi Jun also treated the poor people with a tolerant and gentle heart. In "Three Strokes of Ah Wang" and "My Clam Shell Shoes", it is written that she is also full of sympathy for beggars. From "Uncle Arong", "Little Fairy Boy", and "A Pair of Gold Bracelets" we can also see a thrifty, Qi Jun is kind, tolerant and charitable.
(2) Be kind to other things
In addition to writing about people, her pen is also inseparable from her beloved animals and plants. Her debut novel is "My Little Yellow Dog and Me". She writes about cats ("Five Cats in the House"), dogs ("The Lonely House Dog", "The Lost Dog", "The Old Shoemaker and the Dog"), monkeys ("Goodbye Dude"), and even mice ("Of Mice and Men", "Pregnant with Rats in the Year of the Rat") Ants ("Guarding the Ants"), the words between the lines reveal deep kindness and love for animals.
The one that impressed me the most was "Sending Pigeons". Although she didn't understand treatment, she still cheered up because of her love for the injured pigeons, thinking about saving the pigeons through her own efforts, and the pigeons were under her care. It actually got better. Qijun was so happy that he often took the pigeon for a walk, and he even called it "the pigeon". I remember when I was a kid in the countryside, my grandma once threw a lot of little ducks into boiling water to make a dish. A friend and I fought hard to save a little duck whose feet had been scalded. Duck, applied medicine to it, and took it for a walk. Later, the little duck died because of the serious injury. We were all very sad... Over the years, I grew up little by little, and life simply made me lose a layer of skin. , the caring little girl and I were getting farther and farther apart, lost in the impetuous air. One night, when I was reading "Giving a Pigeon" under the lamp late at night, I seemed to see that ignorant and innocent person shedding tears for the little duck again. The little girl was so moved that she didn't know whether it was for Qijun or for her little self.
Qijun also takes good care of plants. She seems to be partial to orchids, and her works often mention her meticulous care of them.
Qijun has kind thoughts towards people and things, and "being happy with all living beings" is always her pursuit.
3. Compassion is compassion for the world
Someone once said that this world is a comedy if understood based on reason, and a tragedy if understood based on emotion. Qi Jun has always been a person of temperament, so her works have a pessimistic temperament, not the kind of thrilling and profound, but a kind of helplessness that makes people sigh. Just like several years ago, when I first read "The Chronicles of Xiangjixuan", "The Essay on the Twelve Langs" and "The Essay on the Sisters", the suffocating sadness was really indescribable!
In Qi Jun's writings, I believe there is an image that must be deeply rooted in people's hearts, and that is the aunt who was called "mother" who was kind to her and treated her as her own. The mother she writes is a typical good wife and mother in traditional Chinese society, gentle, respectful, thrifty, submissive, and full of Buddhist heart. However, such a virtuous and almost perfect woman was suffering from huge pain in her heart. No one will forget the powerful hairpin on the second mother's head that stung the mother's heart in "The Bun"; no one will forget the ruthlessly rejected mother in "A Little Plum Blossom" who painstakingly embroidered the plum blossom hairpin given by her father. plum blossom handkerchief; no one will forget the husband in "Eating Dishi" who changed his mind but took good care of his life as always. Under the eaves of the stone corridor, he squinted in the weak sunshine and gave a large bowl of boiled water to his wife. The woman who plucked the feathers from the bird's nest... her mother was simply a victim of feudal marriage. Although she and her father were childhood sweethearts, their love happened after marriage. Later, her father changed his heart, and she has always lived in resentment.
Qi Jun saw all this, and she sympathized with her mother's misfortune. Therefore, in "Bun", when Mrs. Chen scolded her mother for not being worthy of asking Bao to comb her hair, she cried angrily. Later, she learned to comb her mother's hair and gradually understood her mother's hair. , to be considerate of her mother; so in "A Little Plum Blossom", when her father impatiently returned the plum blossom handkerchief, she told her mother a white lie and secretly hid the handkerchief in her schoolbag; so Qi Jun complained for her mother and defended her. She wrote the novel "Oranges Are Red" as if setting up a monument as a biography, and it was so forbearing and profound! Bai Xianyong even said: "Qi Jun is creating a portrait of a bygone era. The faint images all tell basically the same old story, with warmth and sadness... so many touching and good articles. , we saw a good woman with a bodhisattva heart who silently endured inhuman pain and humiliation after being abandoned by her husband. These are unforgettable for her and us.
There is another character. What impressed me the most was her gizzard uncle who specialized in stealing gizzard liver and eating it. He was idle all day long and was addicted to gambling. He was very annoying! But he is a bit unruly. She laments that he has abundant talents but cannot be used correctly, and laments that he has a simple but unobtainable love for the female worker A Yue. In her impression, "Uncle Gizzard Gan said, 'She should be "I don't deserve to like the second brother." From this point of view, Uncle Gizzard Gan is a very kind-hearted person. No one is an absolutely good or bad person. She saw another side of him. She said: "I taught Ayu how to recognize Second sister-in-law also bought a complete set of stories about great men for her. Uncle Gizzard Gan said, 'Let her read the Twenty-Four Filial Piety, so that she can serve her second sister-in-law wholeheartedly. She will not be reconciled to reading the new book, and she will cry.' , He was right, Ayu endured it and cried all the time, and later she was married to a boatman while crying, and the whole family drifted on a black-awned boat. "... How come such simple words with hidden sadness are not moving?
Later she went to Taiwan and worked in the judicial field for many years. She saw all kinds of life. She said, "Sometimes the motive of murder is... It is pityable. In addition to the general rules, there are deeper considerations when it comes to right and wrong. "So she always treats her work with a compassionate heart, so there is no outright bad guy in her works. She is tolerant to them because they are kind souls.
In Qi Jun's works Such tender compassion is inseparable from the accumulation of the writer's life and the influence of others. Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on her is her mother who is full of "mother's heart and Buddha's heart". She is a devout Buddhist who is kind to all living beings. In her eyes, she is like "a pool of still water. When there is no excitement on the surface, she never speaks evil words... Some people make long remarks or short remarks." Her words were hurtful, so she waved her hands and said, "Don't say that. When you enter the underworld, the King of Hell will pull out your tongue and put it on an oxen for plowing!" '". She taught her to sympathize with the weak, be kind to life and cherish blessings. Mother's teachings not only cultivated Qijun's kindness and kindness, but also the source of her compassion and compassion for all living beings. At the same time, it also deeply touched and influenced me. I since I think I am a petty person who is not broad-minded enough. I often get sulky over trivial things for no reason, and I can’t understand many things. But when I read Qi Jun’s works and the mother she wrote, I suddenly felt that I should be a kind person. Girls should always have a bodhicitta and be sincere and tolerant towards others.
Qijun received court training in her early years. Her tutor was a Mr. Ye, who was also a devout Buddhist. She simply put on a long robe and wandered around to become a monk, and what her husband taught her, in addition to a solid foundation in Chinese language, was to be generous.
Later in her schooling career, she met someone. Xia Chengtao, the "poem master of poetry", became his female disciple. Teacher Xia had a profound influence on her. Qijun benefited a lot from her creation of poems and her enlightenment of Zen principles, and even in her life. It was Teacher Xia's teachings that made her know how to treat others with kindness. It was Qi Jun who was able to write with a conscience and write so many good and beautiful articles. The awe-inspiring father-in-law, the God of Wealth, was kind and kind to everyone, even the ants. He braved the wind and snow to support the worst troupe, and even gave them a silver dollar to buy hot wine; When the thief was caught, he did not beat him up, but gave him two silver dollars to help him overcome the difficulties in life. He knew how to maintain health and never got angry, so he lived happily until he was over ninety years old and died without any illness.
Such a charitable old man often teaches her the philosophy of life and guides her to pursue a life of truth, goodness and beauty.
Childhood life, personnel, relatives, friends and teachers occupy an unshakable position in the writer's mind. Their influence later penetrated deeply into the writer's works, and gradually evolved into A unique complex and personality build an eternally compassionate Qijun for us.
In fact, compassion is compassion
People often say that compassion is compassion. The Buddha said that kindness is to bring happiness, and compassion is to relieve suffering. My understanding of compassion in Qi Jun's works is that compassion means kindness to all living beings, and compassion means compassion for the world. But I think, regardless of compassion or "kindness and compassion", what they promote and pursue is to help all living beings escape from pain and ultimately gain happiness based on a true awareness of life. In this regard, they are connected.