A white eagle shot down by a root bird during hunting has a piece of cloth on its foot, which reads: "My name is Yan Zi. I went to the cauliflower on the cliff and fell into the canyon. Maybe only this white eagle can tell people the news. It's always with me. Now, I let it fly into the sky. I'm thirteen years old and I want to go home! Help me, help me, help Yanzi. "
This is the cry for help from this cloth. At that time, the root bird was still a child who was not sensible and had no dreams in his heart. From the first night after the discovery of this cloth, a girl with ragged clothes and shiny wounds kept appearing in the dream of Root Bird.
The girl called for help from a distance, but when he approached, the girl suddenly disappeared and was very hazy. Root bird is always at a loss after waking up ... He is thinking, is there any relationship between the person calling for help in the dream and the purple smoke on the cloth? Could it be the same person?
The root bird is eager for a verification, and the only physical basis is the cloth. A father will always support his son. Although he knows that his son is the father's sorrow. My father took a bird and searched all over the nearby valley, but there was no result.
But the same dream kept appearing, and never stopped for a day. Root bird is determined to look for purple smoke in the distance. It is said that it has been going west, where there is a white eagle in the Grand Canyon.
Root bird proposed to leave home to find the mysterious Grand Canyon, but his father didn't object. Father said, root bird, maybe purple smoke and Ben don't exist Root bird said that Purple Smoke was asking him for help, and dreams don't lie. Since then, the young root bird has walked out of the chrysanthemum slope and started the first journey of life with a dream of being a horse. Root bird didn't see the worry in his father's eyes that day.
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Root Bird is another illusory and realistic "initiation novel" after Cao Wenxuan's Straw House and Red Tile. Author Cao Wenxuan is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Chinese Department in Peking University. His academic background and consistent aesthetic pursuit seem to determine the strong symbolic and allegorical features and aesthetic pursuit in his works.
Generally speaking, there is no doubt that this novel has strong practical significance. When it expresses this reality, it uses a fairy-tale beautiful and fantastic writing style, and with the strong symbolic meaning contained in various scenes and wonderful plots, readers can enjoy the beauty between reality and fantasy and receive a spiritual baptism at the same time.
According to the scene * * *, this novel is divided into five chapters: Jupo, Qingta, Guigu, Mixi and Yingdian, and it is also based on "mystery, dream, parting, romantic mood, looking into the distance, the bud of love, right? The impulse to live in the world, yearning for ... "is the meeting point. Every scene, character and plot are carefully arranged by the author, with specific symbols and meanings, which are highly concise to the real world.
It is also mentioned in the novel that Genbird began to dream at the age of fourteen, and it took three years, but Mr. Banjin's family "suddenly stopped dreaming" after the age of eighteen. In fact, there is a deeper symbolic significance here: the struggle of Root Bird in reality and illusion, similar to Tang Xuanzang's arduous westward journey, is essentially an allusion and reflection on some current social values.
In this increasingly materialistic consumer society, money and desire are full of dreams. How many people will still have such a pure and poetic dream, and how many people will come to Wan Li for this?
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