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It is said that in all lies, art is true and pure.
"Don't worry about where you put me in history, there is no place but a trace. I have no teacher and no successor, and I never flaunt it-a brand-new ruin. "

This sentence comes from Mr. Mu Xin, a contemporary writer and painter in China. This is a monologue he left in a small building in the late years.

So, do you know Mr. Mu Xin?

Mu Xin has created many works, including essays such as Random Notes of Jumeika and Essays One, and poems such as Three Trees in Spain and Baron. Novels include Diary of Windsor Cemetery, etc. The collection of paintings includes "Mu Xin Hua Ji" and so on; And oral works such as Memoirs of Literature.

since 1982, he has lived in new york, USA, and is engaged in fine arts and literary creation. His literary works are often found in the literary supplement of Overseas Chinese News.

In p>1994, Mu Xin returned to his hometown Wuzhen. Because his ancestral home was no longer the same year, Mu Xin, who was disappointed and sad, wrote the article Wuzhen, in which he described: "In the concept of habit,' hometown' is the most familiar place, but at present, I only know the place name, right, dialect, and nothing else ...

After that, this article was published in Taiwan Province China Times in December 1998. In 1999, Chen Xianghong, a design expert in Wuzhen Scenic Area, saw this article and decided to invite Mu Xin back to his hometown.

In order to know more about Mr. Mu Xin's life details and research results, in the book "I am for me, only in other people's places: All Views on Mu Xin" (hereinafter referred to as "All Views on Mu Xin"), * * * has six episodes for us to elaborate.

This book is written by two authors * * *. One is Xia Chunjin, a young scholar, a reading promoter, a special researcher of Sino-American Muxin Research Center of Hangzhou Normal University, who was selected into the talent pool of "Sino-Dutch Project" in Zhejiang Province, and has written Textual Research on Muxin, Robinson Crusoe of Literature: The First Half of Muxin's Life, Chronology of Mr. Muxin, etc. The other is Tang Fang, a Muxin reader and a teacher of Tongxiang Zhendong Middle School.

The contents of the book mainly focus on the memories and explanations of Mu Xin's past life, and make a comprehensive comment on Mu Xin, including the academic comments on his specific works, the analysis of his paintings and music works, and an overview of Mu Xin Memorial Hall and Art Museum.

The contents of this book have not been included in the previous special issue of Muxin Memorial.

For readers, Mu Xin has high hopes, but also respects him to the utmost. He is equal to himself and higher than himself. He even cherishes readers as the ideal he pursues in his heart.

For example, Mu Xin once said, "'reader' is a mighty and graceful concept in my mind. This concept is almost all my aesthetics. You are my reader, that's not bad. "

People's attention to Mu Xin first comes from painting, and then focuses on literature.

However, the article "Looking at the Natural Landscape of Mu Xin" written by Chen Yingde and his wife gave Mu Xin great care and encouragement.

Therefore, Mu Xin regards this incident as his "first major event in the history of art" and wrote in his thank-you letter: "If I am finally known by people, it will start with two prophets."

Also, there was an early reader who was attracted by Muxin, named Tong Ming, who taught at California State University, Los Angeles. Guo Songshu, a novelist, introduced Xiang, and thus began to know each other for more than 2 years.

From the reader's identity to Mu Xin's best friend, they have been together for a long time to discuss literary topics in depth.

It can be said that Tong Ming's knowledge background and creative style of Mu Xin can be described as "knowing the root", which is why he can always extract the literary texture of Mu Xin accurately.

Therefore, when he prefaced Mu Xin's book Bao Bian, he was able to transcend the cultural context and capture the essence of Mu Xin's creation, which made people read "like the morning breeze evoking memories, fresh and surprising".

Like Tong Ming, there are also a group of domestic readers who have a keen sense of smell for Mu Xin's literature. They include Chen Zishan, Sun Yu, Li Jing, Sun Meng, Xia Lie, Hu Yunyun and Zhao Kun ...

For example, Chen Zishan has made outstanding achievements in modern literature and overseas literary historical materials because of his unique eye.

Let Mu Xin return to the vision of mainland readers with a decent attitude; This kind of vision is also reflected in his new work Zhang Ailing under Mu Xin's pen.

There is another reader, Professor Sun Yu of Renmin University, who is a knowledgeable writer-scholar. This book just includes his article "Wood Heart between Beijing and the Sea", which provides a different perspective for us to understand wood heart. Professor Sun Yu not only laments the "otherness" of wood heart, but also reminds people to really understand it.

in fact, these readers, like you and me, have all gone from ignorance to real understanding of wood heart. However, they found the answer from research and demonstration before us.

Therefore, Mu Xin is to readers and readers are to Mu Xin, which is really true and commendable.

Mu Xin once said, "An artist is a chooser at first ...". It can be said that this sentence is a true portrayal of Mu Xin on the road of art.

In Muxin's bumpy art and life, he once faced repeated choices. Every time I come to the fork in the road in life, it is actually a turning point in Muxin's fate.

There are many difficulties. Every time he makes a choice, Mu Xin relies on his education worthy of art and sticks to his original heart.

So, what kind of life choices did Mu Xin experience?

In p>1943, when Mu Xin was 17 years old, he left Wuzhen and went to Hangzhou, intent on becoming an "artist who knows what is easy but difficult".

In his later years, Mu Xin recalled himself when he was young. Why did he run away from home? The reasons are as follows:

First, he was forced to get married at home, and he wanted to use "life to imitate art" and ran away.

Second, the problem of choosing a job. His family wanted him to study law or become a doctor, but he only liked painting and literature, and he was bent on applying for the National Hangzhou Art College, which was opposed by his family.

Even so, Mu Xin didn't give in to fate. He made the most important choice in his life.

Because of the persistence in art and the "self-help" in reading when I was young, a lot of reading opened Mu Xin's vision.

Therefore, Mu Xin said, "My hometown is as quiet as an ancient temple in the mountains. Books tell me that the world is full of wonders, and rich life experiences are what I yearn for. I know that if I don't break out of my house, I will definitely rest in this life."

So Mu Xin chose to continue to pursue his dream.

In January, 1946, Mu Xin was admitted to Shanghai Fine Arts College as a placement student and entered the first year of the three-year western painting major.

This struggle with fate made Mu Xin accept the most advanced and professional art education in China at that time. The school is composed of Cai Yuanpei, Liu Haili and other predecessors, who have devoted their efforts to creating an inclusive and academic freedom, which makes Mu Xin appreciate it.

In this regard, he sincerely said: "The' freedom' I enjoyed in Shanghai Fine Arts College is simply the same as the sky and the sea."

On the road of pursuing art, Mu Xin faced the second choice, which happened around the founding of New China.

Since the spring of p>1949, Mu Xin has been teaching in Hangzhou Senior High School in Zhejiang Province, and he "follows the crowd and is deeply loved by students". During his work, Mu Xin also briefly participated in the South Cultural and Art Troupe of the 21st Army of China People's Liberation Army as a cultural officer, mainly engaged in propaganda work.

However, a sentence by French writer Flaubert deeply influenced Mu Xin: "If you decide your life by art, you can't live like ordinary people."

So, in 195, Mu Xin quit his well-paid and "ordinary" teacher job. He firmly believes that warmth, stability and richness are harmful to his artistic life.

Therefore, Mu Xin's choice of art is pure.

Professor Sun Yu said that Mu Xin is an unclassified writer.

That is to say, ordinary writers often have their own labels in the history of literature, which is the so-called academic habit.

Professor Sun Yu gives examples in the article. Realism or romanticism, Beijing school or Shanghai school are all positioning for writers.

However, Muxin doesn't need to be classified or defined, so it's called "the guest outside the door" for the time being. Professor Sun Yu also thinks that in the history of contemporary literature, there is no fixed position suitable for Muxin.

Moreover, he also thinks that such a classification is to lock a person's mental state with a definite concept, which is problematic.

Therefore, Professor Sun Yu is "not interested in the topic of typicality".

in fact, if you look through the historical materials, you will find that many geniuses that have appeared in history are not in the daily concept at all.

For example, there were many strange people in the Six Dynasties, and Mu Xin liked them very much. Because he transcended the concept, he was not in the general spiritual classification.

Mu Xin added: "Ji Kang's talent, style and manners are typical? I feel sick when I hear the word' typical'. "

It can be seen that Mu Xin rejects, even despises, the concept of typicality. He believes that the uniqueness of human beings should be respected and cannot be simply treated and defined; Otherwise, it will be far from human nature.

Mu Xin has such an idea because of his experience.

When Mu Xin was young, all kinds of doctrines were popular; He can't avoid customs, and he has been involved in various trends.

But after the experience, Mu Xin was "tired of those ideological trends and began to look for the existence covered by socialism". He said: "All ism is awkward, and socialism means awkward."

You see, from Mu Xin's words, we seem to feel a slight pain. Because, Mu Xin believes that a good artist can never be described simply by concept.

Therefore, Professor Sun Yu pointed out that Mu Xin's idea is very similar to that of Mr. Kant-he is wary of the empirical form of human cognition.

The reason is that people's cognitive experience is often subjective, while the object described is objective and inaccurate.

if you describe it with a very precise concept, you will fall into "antinomy".

what is antinomy?

Professor Sun Yu explained that just as a person has both eyes of a judge and eyes of a lover, this leads to "antinomy".

Mu Xin said, "Have you ever felt that there is a gap between the two laws, and the gap between the two laws that are contrary to each other is the venue for my game and writing?"

From the example of the two laws, we can see that Mu Xin's way of understanding the world is completely different from the writers we know.

Some people say that reading his articles will remind you of Nietzsche and the way of understanding "being" expressed in Chinese Buddhist scriptures.

In a word, Muxin is unique, and it doesn't need to be defined.

A Talk about Mu Xin makes a comprehensive and detailed analysis of Mu Xin, a writer and painter who is a guest outside the door, which makes us feel like seeing a "living, three-dimensional" Mu Xin.

Flaubert said that among all the lies, art is true.

And Mu Xin is just like this-his thoughts, cognition and persistence in art are real and pure.