The works of 1 volume are the object and the reader is the subject. It is the extraordinary refraction and simple and pure beauty of the object that infects the readers and stimulates their understanding and pursuit of beauty.
Works are objects and readers are subjects. It is the extraordinary refraction and simple and pure beauty of the object, which infects the readers and stimulates their understanding and pursuit of beauty.
As early as ten years ago, a book, Qilixiang, with a strong flavor of the year, spread all over Chinese mainland. Perhaps it is in the bookshelves or drawers of students who were still studying that such a thin book of poems with a dark blue cover is still preserved. In middle school or university campus, as long as the name of Taiwan Province writer Xi Murong is mentioned, everyone knows that Xi Murong's works are deeply loved by young people in their teens and twenties.
Although "Chasing the Murong Family" has passed the age of "youth without resentment", the profound and beautiful feelings it expresses still make many people unforgettable. Perhaps this is the charm of Xi Murong's works.
"In the valley of time, what I keep thinking repeatedly is the echo of countless calls in your heart and mine. Weaker and farther each time, but more surprising each time. ..... Many years later, if I call you in the distant wilderness, will you come as promised? With our white and innocent hearts when we were young, with the faint starlight of a long way. ...... "... It is said that a poem about the bride written by Xi Murong was widely read and used as an advertisement to promote a commodity on TV, which produced an unexpected contrast effect and showed the classic and rich meaning of its language. Reading Xi Murong's works, you will have a feeling of looking up at the beautiful, magnificent and vast Milky Way where the stars gather in the sunset sky, giving people a feeling of rippling blue waves and refreshing. Works are objects and readers are subjects. It is the extraordinary refraction and simple and pure beauty of the object, which infects the readers and stimulates their understanding and pursuit of beauty. Here, some people may ask, how does Xi Murong look at the beauty in his heart and the surrounding environment? Obviously, she clearly saw and felt so many beautiful things and feelings that she could only write them down after brewing them into words in her heart. This explanation, which looks like a footnote, is simple, without in-depth analysis of more why. With such questions, we can only seek more answers by analyzing her works when we can't interview her directly.
Rodin, a famous French sculptor, said: I hope you can understand that all fields seem to be the most exposed side of the volume pushed behind. Imagine that the image is facing you and stands out to you. All life comes from a central generate, and then grows, germinates and blooms brilliantly from the inside out. Many people have seen Rodin's masterpiece Meditation, which gives people a condensed and huge three-dimensional inner beauty, and at the same time reflects his exquisite sculpture skills. It seems that each of his works is based on the theme of "Flowering from the inside out", and the charm of his works is enduring. Xi Murong is thinking leisurely between the lines, deliberately fixing what he sees and understands in an image. He not only sketched the outline of things on a plane, but also described the inner beauty of things through an elevation, that is, the reason of beauty sublimated from the surface of things and his subconscious, forming an emotional "outflow" and condensed into an irresistible emotional impulse. Xi Murong captured the readers' yearning and feelings for beauty and held the readers' heartstrings. One by one, she profoundly demonstrated the beauty she found and felt, and attracted readers to keep reading with fresh, elegant and graceful beauty. Readers are deeply intoxicated with Xi Murong's rich artistic charm while savoring it. The core of beauty in her works is the word "love". Who knows how much philosophy this word contains?
Xi Murong is a writer with strong quality and ability, which may be the reason why her works are so popular.
Diderot's summary of "man" is that man is a complex of strength and weakness, light and blindness, smallness and greatness, and he is not accusing people, but defining them. Rodin also thinks: Before you become an artist, you must become a person! When Xi Murong began to write that poetic prose, he attached great importance to "people". Rodin also believes that everything is beautiful for an artist, because her keen eyes can find "character" in anyone and anything, in other words, she can find the inner truth revealed under the surface, and this truth is beauty itself. Perhaps, Xi Murong, as an artist, wrote the beauty hidden in his heart with his profound psychological feelings about life. It can also be said that it sings a kind of psychological depth for readers.
Character is fate.
Xi Murong's personality may determine her starting point and aesthetic appreciation of beauty.
Her personality characteristics can be summarized by four-word idioms: the outer circle is the inner side.
The outer circle and the inner side are the epitome of China's history, culture, social art and culture. Among them, it condenses the exquisiteness, richness and grandeur of oriental art and is a fulcrum with aesthetic thoughts. In ancient times, people's views on the earth, the world and the universe were: the earth is square, the universe is round, the heart of man (gentleman) is square and ups and downs, and the social and cosmic environment in which man lives is round, unpredictable and unexplained. From ancient times to the present, after thousands of years of wind and rain, the inner side of the outer circle has been continuously inherited and sublated, which seems endless today. Through Xi Murong's articles, we can deeply feel this intangible but tangible truth. Outside the circle, Xi Murong faces a "universe" as different as everyone else. She described a dazzling "universe" with beautiful, straightforward and friendly words. In this, everything she did and wrote in her poems showed her inner square, calm and indifferent, and also showed her passionate and romantic thinking about life. In Looking at Modern Life from Pictures, she has such feelings about "Shouting and Anxiety": Really, in the oriental ideology, "silence" is a very beautiful feeling, even in the running universe, human beings can find a quiet corner by themselves. Xi Murong inherited the essence (square) of oriental humanism and Confucianism, and combined it with western ideology and culture, radiating unique highlights. Of course, this is suspected of being partial. In a word, it can't reveal the whole essence of things, which leads to a question, how is the inside of her excircle reflected in her works? It is the aesthetic of seeking truth and beauty.
San Mao, a writer in Taiwan Province Province, said: We have experienced the past, but we don't know the future. Because we don't know, life is becoming more and more magical and beautiful. Indeed, if everyone knows what his future will be like, that person's life will be too simple. Different aesthetics will make you feel different. Sanmao's writing style is clean and fresh, and his pen is quite good. Readers who have seen her "The City of Allure" must have a deep impression on Sanmao. Sanmao's vivid and meticulous description is impressive. Sanmao takes life as the aesthetic plane foothold and has a broad vision. From Sahara to Spain, his life experience is very rich, and the narrative plot is vivid and exciting.
Xi Murong's vision is not as broad as San Mao's, but judging from her life experience alone, she is very profound. In Information of Life, she wrote: "Plants actually have a keen response to the world around them. When you treat it with knife and axe salt, it knows that it is a kind of injury and a kind of crisis, and the plant instinct used to fight this crisis is the result of desperately blooming and desperately. That is, when it feels that its existence is threatened, it will try its best to pass on this life. " This is a realistic aesthetic. If San Mao wrote it, it must be something else Why did Xi Murong write like this? However, it is her anxiety about the crisis of plant survival and her feeling of not wanting to lose the beauty of existence.
It is with such rationality that Xi Murong seeks truth, goodness and beauty in the world he lives in. Many people have seen Xi Murong's poems and paintings, which contain many descriptions of flowers, especially the "artistic conception of flowers" expressed in his prose. Everyone has a love of beauty. What's wrong with being a person who appreciates and discovers the beauty of flowers? With this feeling of appreciation and discovery in mind, people can be intoxicated and influenced by it through the examination of beauty, which is a very beautiful thing in life. Beauty is happy, and beauty is evil. Only those who have deeply felt what beauty is feel the deepest. In the process of reading her articles, readers are infected by beauty and can also be inspired. "Beauty" is a truth that runs through Xi Murong's articles. "Beauty" is neither at the beginning nor at the end, but it always gives people the feeling that the author is leaving "beauty" (in the article), and she is also trying to get rid of it and look at herself from a more rational second perspective. Her candid monologue in Book and Time: When I was forty years old, I opened the book again and found that the world in this book had always existed, but it was different. Reality and feeling are different, and there is a distance, but it is commendable that Xi Murong can seek truth, goodness and beauty to the maximum in his life and constantly improve himself.
Some people say that excellent literary works cannot be separated from the author's life accumulation and literary accomplishment in the process of growing up. Works and authors are like the relationship between mother and child. As a mother, her innate genetic quality, growing environment, life experience and life experience all play an important role in the production of children. Children always look like their mother. Xi Murong was born in the war-torn China, and suffered from being displaced from place to place. 2 1 year-old went to the Royal College of Art in Brussels to specialize in oil painting. Back to Taiwan Province Province from 1970 after marriage. Obviously, Xi Murong was influenced by eastern and western ideology and culture, but he inherited the square character of the East and absorbed the broad ideological and cultural essence of the West. Her aesthetic view is: "The real aestheticism is to start from nature and truth, and to discover and discover all beautiful experiences from life. Such feeding beauty is healthy. Because such efforts are self-help, not self-deception. " It is such a frank and sincere feeling that overflows. Xi Murong's poems and essays left a strong aesthetic and real impression. Since 13 years old, she has been writing "poems for herself" in her diary. What she didn't expect was that the willow was planted unintentionally. Unintentional actions in childhood have yielded fruitful results many years later. Of course, Xi Murong's copperplate prints and laser paintings are also very famous, which can be described as a talented woman with both poetry and painting. She has always regarded beauty as "a true, natural and generous attitude towards life", which is vividly reflected in that famous poem:
Let me shake your hand.
Then gently pull out my hand.
Know that missing takes root from now on.
Clouds and mountains are more solemn and gentle every day.
Let me shake your hand.
Then gently pull out my hand.
Time stopped from now on.
Tears flow into a river in my heart.
It is such a helpless stare.
I can't find a flower to send to the ferry.
Pin your blessing on your lapel.
What about tomorrow
Tomorrow is another world.
After reading the above lines, I really experienced the parting just now. It turned out to be so sad and sad, giving people a deep feeling. It turned out that there was such a beautiful parting drama in the world! As if there is a love swan song in youth. Truth is true, and the truth of beauty is even more true. But on the whole, people's ability to understand the true meaning of art is limited, and their pursuit is infinite, which requires whether the artistic vision developed by the author has enough depth and breadth, which Xi Murong did. She is not a god or an innate talent, but she rubs visual space art from painting into poetry and prose creation, and there is a beautiful poetic feeling between the lines.
In Fire, she wrote: The flame of art touched us and was a positive inspiration in the deepest part of life. This is where our gratitude to artists lies and where it lies. In the exploration of her artistic world, she integrated her personality with the artistic subject and gave her real and calm side to the readers, which is commendable. She is extremely diligent in describing her thoughts in the art of life with popular and civilian life scenes, which makes people see crystal stars in the turbidity and feel lonely in the silence, as if they have entered a vast and profound universe and meditated to know "truth?" Under the influence of beauty. This is an encouragement to vitality, and it will not calm the heart for a long time. After the "lost generation" affected by the war scars in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, we have entered a brand-new era of "new economy" and "network digital society". Although civilization and culture are quite developed, the world in which human beings live is still full of negative factors such as war crisis, energy crisis and deterioration of friendly relations between people. People are full of disappointment and pessimism about life. The "new and new human beings" who eat, drink and be merry in time may be outstanding representatives. They have the positive side of pursuing innovation, emancipating their minds and boldly expressing themselves. But they don't seem to have a correct and perfect belief in life, and regard conformity and ruthlessness as "a scourge". Their aesthetic starting point is by no means hidebound, absolutely unconventional and pursuing fashion. They are similar to hippies in America. However, life is a never-ending drama. No matter how beautiful and brilliant it is, it is only a short moment. No matter how sweet it is, it is only a bright spot in life, not the whole thing. There is no attitude of loving beauty and life, and it is not unreasonable to focus on the brilliance and romance of the moment of pursuing the beauty of life. But for the "new and new mankind", this is not the real demand for beauty, and of course it is impossible to understand the beautiful life. Every time we read Xi Murong's works, we can find the beauty, the hope of life, the comfort of the soul and the place where we believe in a better life.
In Xi Murong's works, our impression of her is always so wise and strong, but in life, Xi Murong, as a woman, is inevitably "sentimental". In a life as calm as water, she is afraid of seeing bloody and cruel killing scenes. She doesn't want to listen to Xiao Sha's sad autumn story on the radio any more, and she is more afraid of the war years and the wandering life. She is affectionately called "ostrich" by her friends. She also suspected that she was an ostrich when she was introspecting. See if the questions are always answered with a positive attitude, but she has been working hard and trying to create. She hopes that she can get rid of these confused thoughts and strive to achieve a simple and real life realm. She kept writing, shouting beautiful love and the beautiful meaning of life with a unique voice. On a flowering tree, she wrote:
How to let you meet me
In my best moment, for this.
I prayed in front of the Buddha for 500 years.
Begging for it makes us have a dusty relationship.
Then the Buddha turned me into a tree.
Follow the path you may take.
The sunshine is full of cautious flowers.
Every flower carries my previous hopes.
Please listen carefully when you approach.
The trembling leaves are my passion for waiting,
When you finally ignore it.
On the ground behind you
Friend, that's not a petal.
It is my withered heart
It seems that there is a scene of poetry and painting in front of me. How can such love not be touching? Some readers once asked her: Are the feelings in your poems true? It is difficult for her to explain why artistic creation in literary works is so difficult to understand. !
Xi Murong's works include Li Qixiang, Youth Without Complaints, Traces of Growth, There is a Song, and Drawing a Rainbow in My Heart. Not only has it been reprinted many times, but her essays and poems have also been published on well-known literary websites or online book fairs. How many boys and girls have been touched by the tenderness and affection in the poem "Youth Without Complaints"? During the period of 1984, Xi Murong was named "Xi Murong Year" because of six bestseller lists published by two famous bookstores in Taiwan Province Province. However, instead of becoming a best-selling female writer, Xi Murong became obsessed with fame and fortune and stood still. Sometimes she doesn't follow the trend, she goes her own way and writes about my heart. She jumped out of ordinary life and thought deeply about society, life and beauty in order to discover deeper truth. In the description of life, social events, affection, friendship and love, she can always write her own true feelings, impress readers with her own thoughts and feelings, and let readers know that what she wants to express is true, not virtual. From Xi Murong's works, many people, including me, have always thought that she is a strange garden in a greenhouse, with a dull, stable and happy life, and has never experienced the painful experience of great sadness and great joy in life. However, after consulting the information, I know that in real life, Xi Murong, like every ordinary person, has suffered cold reception and injustice, as well as great setbacks in life. Her works always interpret "great sadness and great joy" so safely. Maybe this is just a writing style, or a calm state of mind. Perhaps the best proof is her defense of beautiful works: "In today's world, many people don't want to believe that beautiful and sincere things are actually in front of them. In order to protect themselves, they would rather conclude from the beginning that all good things are just a hypocritical effort. In this way, when everything is lost, they will not feel sorry and hurt. " Obviously, she has never had an unforgettable experience or such a beautiful dream, and she can't write the above feelings.
In On Creation, she reveals that the part that urges us or inspires us to create is actually not about wisdom and knowledge, but a primitive call, that is, life was buried in the mind when it was first formed. ..... I don't know if it is because there is always pain and regret, so many people always hesitate and dare not answer such a phone call. In Loneliness, she wrote: Lonely people always think that he is the only one in the world who has this idea, but they don't know that in every corner and in every world, there are others who have the same idea and are as lonely as him. One day, an artist finally sang a lonely and sad song. This song may be hesitant at first, but in the middle of singing, new voices will join, and with new friends, the song will become louder and louder, and finally there will be an echo and become an ode to life. Qin Wenjun wrote: Loneliness is the greatest enemy in life. But the real loneliness in Xi Murong's works is another realm. Xi Murong is neither arrogant nor impetuous. In clear words and allegories, her nameless loneliness is charm, but it is shocking. It can be said that every writer has a different starting point, and the same thing has a different name. Perhaps invisibly, the true meaning of her writing art is to get more songs, which is also a high-level artistic realm. Under Xi Murong's stripping analysis, loneliness also has the aesthetic feeling of spiritual examination.
There is a passage in Xi Murong's influential prose "There is a Song": "In my heart, there has always been a song. I can't name her or sing all her tunes, but I know where it is, in the softest corner of my heart. Whenever the moon is particularly clear at night and the wind and sand are particularly heavy at dusk, or you walk into the corner of a mountain road and walk through a vast grassland full of wild flowers, or in a city where the lights are just on, on the platform where the train slowly leaves; At a certain moment, a deja vu sadness will attack my heart, and the slow but familiar tune will appear on time. I know it's my song-a song that belongs only to vagrants. ..... That year, she returned to the Mongolian prairie, where she was troubled by dreams. At that time, she may really understand why her father gave her a Mongolian name with the meaning of river
She also deeply realized that when a song was sung, it was moved by a different profound aesthetic feeling. Facing the sky, the mirror and the vast expanse-Mongolian prairie, she felt so kind, warm and beautiful that she cried. Is this the highest standard gift from God? She choked up and said, "I hope I can go upstream and get to know the ancient and beautiful nation that belongs to my parents more truly every day."