After reading Yu's prose, our reading notes will be finished. We students generally don't know how to express our feelings after reading it. The following are the notes of my essay "Millennium Sigh" after reading. Welcome to reading.
Notes on Yu's Prose "Millennium Sigh"
Every time I revisit history, I will have a lingering sense of vicissitudes. How many dynasties, how many reincarnation, once in a thousand years, but there is a sigh, gently and slowly, from the distant Aegean Sea, from the pyramids of Pharaoh, from the weathered ancient sites, from the banks of the Heng River.
When the glory of the past became lonely, when the temple was broken, people began to forget, sigh became helpless, civilization declined and history began to fade.
Open Yu's A Thousand-Year Sigh, and then follow them without hesitation, step by step. I am immersed in the desolation in front of me. There are no bright colors, no bustling scenes, only ancient civilizations that once flourished but have now declined so thoroughly.
The purpose of the "Millennium Tour" is actually to travel around the ancient civilizations of the world, appreciate the essence of all human civilizations and find the roadbed of ancient civilizations, but I think it is more like an adventure. On the way, they met many thrilling things that threatened their lives at any time. Weeds are vague, trenches are densely covered, and bandits are everywhere. They don't know what will happen in the next second. But Yu wrote: "I am willing to treat everything in a dangerous situation without protection mechanism, just like taking off my gloves and touching the scars of the old man."
So the adventure began. When I arrived in Greece, all I saw was narrow-mindedness, filial piety, senility and people's laziness. Clean pain will definitely precipitate into leisure, leisure is the compensation of pain, and pain is the buffer of leisure. Today's Greece is indifferent to the world and does nothing, but Egypt is different. Its past glory has been cut off several times, and no one can understand ancient characters and documents, and its ontology civilization is almost annihilated. Only from the weather-beaten ancient ruins and pyramids can we see the appearance of an ancient civilization. The restoration of ancient Babylonian ruins is even more speechless. They leveled the ruins of the ancient city and rebuilt it, but they also annihilated the strong sense of historical vicissitudes.
The decline of civilization has also directly led to the poverty of local people, and children always make people feel distressed. There are too many out-of-school children in Iraq who can't even read, but their ancestors were the first people who invented writing in the world. Very young children, who should be naive and happy, are forced to be related to politics. They only teach slogans such as "resisting the United States and the embargo" in school. The war left many children's fathers, and the burden of life was on the children's immature shoulders. Their sallow faces and deep big eyes indicate that they should not be heavy at this age.
River is the cornerstone of ancient civilization, but on the banks of Ganges River in India, I was shocked as never before. Countless people are immersed in the Ganges, thinking that they can cure their diseases, and some people are stuck in the river for a long time and die, because they can scatter their ashes into the Ganges. On both sides of the Henghe River, we can see that human filth, ugliness and death can be released to others and nature without restraint. The dirty smoke melted in the morning dew. On the other side of the Ganges, the faint red sun shows the rising sun, without dazzling light, just rising quietly. I thought to myself, how patient is it with humans?
Notes on Yu's Prose "Millennium Sigh"
If I say that I like watching fantasy novel in my freshman year, I will never watch it again, and I will forget it after reading it. Then I watched Yu's "A Thousand Years' Sigh" in my second year of high school, and constantly felt what was between the lines, which made me want to copy something, write something and think something. The most ridiculous thing is that after the mid-term exam, our Chinese teacher asked us to read a book and write reading notes. If you put it off again, you just don't have the impulse to write. But after reading A Millennium Sigh, no one asked me to write it, but I wrote a lot.
"A Millennium Sigh" is a diary, which records Yu's experience of hiking 40,000 kilometers with Hong Kong Phoenix TV's "Millennium Tour" off-road vehicle team at the turn of the Millennium.
They went to look for the roadbed of ancient human civilization, only to find that there were so many roads, blurred grass, dense trenches and bandits. The wheels of the jeep rolled one kilometer after another near the ground, and they had no idea what they would encounter in the next kilometer. All they know is a series of real horror stories: here, religious extremists shot and killed dozens of foreign travelers in a few minutes; There, three groups of foreign hostages were kidnapped by anti-government forces in the past two months; In addition, more than 30 policemen have just been killed by drug trafficking groups. ...
They flew from Hong Kong to Greece, and then Egypt-Israel-Palestine-Jordan-Iraq-Iran-Pakistan-India-Nepal.
Summary:
There seems to be no need to avoid the fact that the birthplaces of several major human civilizations we have seen this time have all declined without exception.
In contrast, the situation in Greece is better. Although its national strength is in decline in the western world, it is no longer an international cultural center, but Greek civilization has not declined, not only spread and promoted all over the world, but also understood and passed down as a direct descendant of this civilization. Its decline is only manifested in its failure to maintain its original prosperity, but which civilization can maintain its prosperity for thousands of years? The tragedy of Greece is that others can be resurrected by its glorious years, but it has never been resurrected. As for the direct cause of Greece's decline, I think there are two reasons. One is the protracted political internal friction between the Athenians and Spartans, and the other is the need to confront foreign enemies and continue the expedition, causing fatal strain, but this has little to do with the inherent character of Greek civilization. This background makes today's Greeks do nothing in the cold, only seeking historical honors and relics, such as the Olympics and the Parthenon, but enough is enough, showing an old health.
Egyptian civilization is different. From the beginning, he lacked Ming Che's rationality and indulged in the mystery of conceit. When it cut off the possibility of being fully understood by the outside world with its huge and majestic posture, it actually cut off its own continued life. The founders of Thebes (now Luxor) miracle only wanted them to live in the world or be resurrected in the form of mummies, and did not make practical arrangements for the continuation of their heirs. These pharaohs, who dominate civilization, like to fight. As early as BC15th century, they ruled West Asia, which was unfavorable to their mysterious civilization structure. When the Mediterranean trade center moves from south to north, it will no longer be beautiful; However, its geographical location made it the object of repeated crusade by Persians, Greeks, Romans and even Arabs. The glory of the past made every occupier try to cut off its history. As a result, after several times, no one can read ancient Chinese characters, no one can read ancient documents, and the ontology civilization is almost wiped out. Only the descendants of some allegedly pure-bred "French old people" on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor are constantly repairing their ancestral graves for outsiders to visit.
More than 4,000 years ago, the fully mature two rivers civilization took commerce as the center, and extended the legal spirit marked by code of hammurabi from the commercial civilization. However, this kind of civilization tends to be practical as a whole, lacking a profound humanistic foundation, with thin spirit, out of control of morality and supremacy of enjoyment. Civilization is more manifested in the distribution and competition of property. Therefore, there is no room for agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization that directly induce a large number of wars to destroy commercial civilization, and mutual retaliation is even more cruel. For a long time, Babylon, Assyria and other places have no cultural conscience, and their eyes are full of inhuman acts, which is really a great mockery of Hammurabi. The civilization of the two rivers also left the fruits of mathematics and astronomy promoted by commerce to the world, but at home, as many historians pointed out when evaluating the belligerence of Assyria, the war first destroyed all the advanced cultures, then deprived a nation of its bravest and healthiest life, leaving a lot of weak bodies without culture to bear all kinds of absurdities.
Hebrew civilization is noble, full of sadness, tenacity and lack of space. From the beginning, I was in a turbulent wandering, so I took religion as my own territory. However, this kind of civilization that lacks actual territory is difficult to establish its own big pattern after all. It can penetrate far and wide, but it is always in the tension of self-defense and survival. But it is precisely because there is no actual territory that it is not as easy to collapse as other civilizations, but there are always advances and retreats, and the prospects are unpredictable. This is why Jerusalem is always a long story. It has become a small' thinking trap' in our travel.
Persian civilization is another type, almost standing on the personal charm of two great monarchs. Without Ju Lushi and Darius, it might be difficult for it to rank among several major civilizations. I stayed in the ruins of Poseidon Bohris for the longest time, thinking about how these two ancient Asian giants put the world they knew into the list of tributes one by one, but I couldn't help feeling among the columns of the sunset: after all, this is only the private hegemony of geniuses, which is difficult to inherit and continue. Behind his door, there is already a school of incompetence full of powder gas, what's more, today is the world of foreign civilization, and few people remember the glory of ancient Persia.
As for the decline of Indus-Ganges civilization, I think at least half of the internal reasons are related to religious mistakes. Despise life, despise the world, be irresponsible, and finally even tolerate corruption, filth and slavery, which greatly reduces the power of civilization itself, so that good and evil are indistinguishable. When Buddhism with the highest degree of wisdom is finally eroded, it naturally becomes a slave. The cruelty of foreign forces makes the bad ecology at the bottom spread more and more. Even if national pride erupts from time to time, it also loses the dignity of civilization.
* * * The same law of the decline of several major civilizations;
Go on an expedition
Lose order
hard to understand
conservative
The reason why Chinese civilization only exists;
This situation can be illustrated by an image. On the streets of many cities in India, there are some "god cows" loitering. These cows do nothing, but they can eat whatever they want, whether in shops, stalls or passers-by's baskets. They walked in the middle of the road, blocking many cars, and no one dared to drive them away, so they had to follow. Extreme privileges make them extremely casual, calm, completely ignoring the world, and even their eyes are absolutely irresponsible. For me, only by seeing more of these cows can I really understand the China cows I used to look at since I was a child, and I can know how hard, obedient and docile China cows are in their eyes.
Judging from the ancient civilizations we visited this time, the early exchanges between them were relatively close, and even the clues of civilized exchanges could be found vaguely. However, due to the semi-closed structure of East Asian geography, Chinese civilization basically occurred independently and was completed alone. The basis of its occurrence and completion is not the influence of other civilizations, but the economic life form provided by the earth on which it stands. According to the historian Mr. Xu, this form of economic life is "intensive cultivation".
Only intensive cultivation can feed a large number of people on the land with less cultivated land; However, intensive cultivation will inevitably strengthen the gathering of families and relatives, attach importance to stability and continuity, and hate turbulence and migration.
"After parting, read it-this sentence contains a heavy review. We have been snuggling up to it, sucking it, but complaining about it, belittling it and accusing it. It took thousands of years of eyes and feet to find a way. We often laugh at why it doesn't go the other way. It managed to preserve the family business, reputation and dignity. We often catch these things rashly. We dote on it, sometimes it is too wrinkled, and sometimes it looks terrible. This time, we left it to look closely, finally surprised, finally ashamed and finally regretted. Our generation was born too late to speak and shout for you when you need it most. None of us bother to visit your distant relatives and neighbors as soon as possible to deeply understand your embarrassing behavior. We are often too trivial to understand the thick lines, and your image in the big outline is only poured out on the branches. But there is still time. The new century has just arrived, and we finally arrived in time. "
This is the last diary I wrote after returning from Nepal. He didn't return to China in the general sense. They walked back step by step along the desert of sinai, Golan Heights and Iranian mountains. They drink water from the Nile, Tigris and Indus rivers. They came back with a thousand years of tears and a sigh of ruins. They stood there with old doubts and real fears.
As mentioned above, we, born after 80s, know too little and talk too much. We have been talking about why you are not as powerful as Europe and America, why you are not as free as Europe and America, and why you are not as democratic as Europe and America. Why? There is a passage in Wolves: "Freedom? Is freedom and democracy really so enviable? Democracy is directly proportional to economic strength. Which African country I have been to is not' free'? Everyone can shoot people in the street. Too free. Democracy there is that warlords of all factions want to be independent and fight upside down. Is it very enviable? " Without the backing of economic strength, the United States would have been in a mess.
As Yu said, although we missed a lot, it's not too late now. The new century has arrived, and we finally arrived in time.
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