Wang Zengqi has made great achievements in the creation of short stories, and has also made in-depth research on drama and folk literature and art. His works include Taking the Ring, Fanhua Collection, Notes on Making a Big Scene, etc.
Rain in Kunming is a reminiscence essay.
In this essay, Wang Zengqi recalls what he saw, heard and felt in Kunming 40 years ago, taking us through time and space, into the beautiful Kunming city and back to the years 40 years ago.
Everyone has a place where he was born and raised, and that place is called his hometown. Besides, when we live far away from home, we often meet another place, which leaves our best memories. That place is called our second hometown.
The relationship between hometown and second hometown is just like the relationship between body and soul. One is where we were born and grew up, where our lives began; The other is a place where the spirit is happy and peaceful. Although it is only a short stay, it can warm the heart for a lifetime.
Kunming belongs to Wang Zengqi as Jinan belongs to Lao She and his second hometown.
1in the summer of 939, Wang Zengqi went from Shanghai to Kunming via Hongkong and Vietnam, and his first choice was to be admitted to China Literature Department of National Southwest Associated University.
During the war-torn Anti-Japanese War, Wang Zengqi spent his most precious seven years in Kunming. Forty years later, he still couldn't forget everything in Kunming, so he wrote this article "Rain in Kunming".
At first glance, you will think that this article is just a cultural essay introducing the customs of Kunming.
In his article, Wang Zengqi took the rain in Kunming as a clue, and wrote about the cactus hanging upside down in Kunming, all kinds of delicious mushrooms, bayberry in rainy season, osmanthus fragrans and Muxiang flowers in rainy season. The author, like your old friend, takes pains to tell you everything he knows about Kunming.
You listen to him talk about mushrooms, all kinds of shapes, all kinds of flavors, charcoal plums, from shape to taste, and talk about the customs of Kunming. He can tell you that you are not tired all day and night.
The first time I came into contact with Wang Zengqi, I was attracted by his food articles. Wang Zengqi likes food and is good at cooking. His food prose is unique.
In this article, Wang Zengqi once again showed his love for food. Look at all kinds of bacteria he wrote: Boletus, Penicillium, Ghost Umbrella, Dry Bar, Ghost Umbrella, with different shapes and tastes:
Are you drooling?
He talked about Yangmei in Kunming, a veritable charcoal plum. "It's as big as table tennis, and its color is black and red ... it's really like a burning charcoal! Not sour at all! " Imitate the appearance and taste, and present the characteristics of things to you from all directions and angles.
He said that Muxianghua in Kunming "climbed onto the shelf and covered the yard tightly." The dense and finely divided green leaves, countless half-opened white flowers and full flower bones are all soaked by the rain. "
Use verbs such as "crawling" and "covering" to make still plants full of vitality, and use adjectives such as "dense" and "countless" to write the irresistible enthusiasm of leaves and flowers for life.
The flowers, fungi, fruits and flowers written by Wang Zengqi all have souls.
Because the author is a person who loves nature and life, he endowed these plants with vigorous vitality with spiritual language.
This is also one of the reasons why I Rainbow Zeng Qi. Reading his articles will not be boring, just like tasting all kinds of mushrooms, which are delicious and delicious.
He wrote about nature from the aesthetic point of view, writing about every grass and tree, every dish. Everything can be written in words, and everything has beauty worthy of praise. Calling Wang Zengqi an "artist of life" is well deserved.
Rain in Kunming is not only the presentation of Wang Zengqi's aesthetic life, but also his deep affection for Kunming.
In Kunming, Wang Zengqi met his teacher Shen Congwen and his wife Shi, and spent the most unforgettable seven years of his youth. How many times are there youths in life? What's more, it was at the National Southwest Associated University, the best university in China at that time.
Because I spent the best years in Kunming, even the grass and trees in Kunming have become Wang Zengqi's proof and all emotional sustenance.
His feelings, separated by 40 years, are very heavy. The author tried to restrain his tone, saying "I miss the rain in Kunming" was the strongest emotional catharsis.
He hid his feelings in a relaxed and lively language and pinned them on the description of everything. Without affection, who will remember those trivial details forty years later?
Because the memory is profound, the longer the time interval, the clearer the impression, and I will never forget it in my life, unforgettable Kunming, unforgettable years!
Wang Zengqi's ancient prose is profound and his language is elegant as a scholar. There are no traces of ancient poetry, such as "the grass grows in spring, and the grass grows in Xia Meng". He quoted two poems.
"All vegetation is spring" comes from Du Fu's "Spring Hope", "Although the country is broken, the mountains and rivers will last forever, and all vegetation is spring". "Xia Meng has long grass" comes from "Xia Meng has long grass and trees beside the house to help the poor" in Tao Yuanming's Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
At the same time, Wang Zengqi is not limited by the literati temperament, absorbs the characteristics of vernacular Chinese, integrates spoken English into articles, uses a lot of short sentences, and has lively and free sentence patterns.
Wang Zengqi's language features of appealing to both refined and popular tastes, elegance and harmony are formed by combining the literati language with the spoken vernacular.
Rain in Kunming has many short sentences, vivid and interesting language, and natural and deep emotions. It is very suitable for reading aloud, and with soothing light music, it is a kind of beautiful enjoyment.
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