The tea break area is soaked in light, shadow and words

Text | Photography: Zhang

After a hearty breakfast in the hotel, take Mr. Mu Xin's "Feast of Fish and Beauty" and sit in the tea break area on the wing of the hotel lobby. Due to the deviation of geographical location, non-scenic spots and short buildings, the whole tea break area presents a posture of dressing up for guests. I am very happy to enjoy this kind of affectionate and exclusive feeling, and I am ready to let the happiness before, during and after shooting cycle here.

Mr. Mu Xin said: "Shallow knowledge is more disturbing than ignorance, and profound knowledge makes people stable. We just fell into such a shallow depth. " The sofa seats in the sun are in full bloom like petals, and the contrast between shallow and deep is particularly touching against the light and shadow. Time is hidden in this shallow depth. The sofa seems to be basking in the sun solemnly, talking with the past or some time in the future for an instant, but only you can hear and see.

The skills such as trisection, symmetry and nine squares learned from the mobile phone photography class of Panda class kept flashing in my mind. The above picture uses the skill of nine squares. The theme of the picture, delicate and charming flowers, is above the two intersections of the vertical and horizontal lines of Jiugongge. The sofa in the background was robbed by strong light, but it can still be seen that it is the same color as flowers. This composition is not rigid, but the theme is clear. Only by using new skills can you become yourself.

? Photography @ Zhang 20 18. 10.02

However, this shallow knowledge is still shallow after all. My mind has been troubled by the rustle of how to compose music. Although I haven't reached the level of anxiety, it's hard to reach Tao Ran's selfless state, or the shining end of "stillness, painting and me" as Mr. Mu Xin said. Let's sit down and read Mu Xin's Feast of Fish and Beauty!

"Childhood is enthusiasm, youth is enthusiasm, middle age is enthusiasm ... The evolution of enthusiasm is more mellow and clear than enthusiasm ... Melancholy is repressed enthusiasm."

The "enthusiasm", "enthusiasm" and "enthusiasm" in Mr. Mu Xin's speech bring people the richness and beauty of Chinese characters, which makes people savor them carefully. The interest sprouting in middle age is no longer a gust of wind or a rain; No longer suddenly come, suddenly go; No more coming, no more going; It should be sincerely triggered and sincerely accumulated. This interest may be for the sake of distinguishing features and blooming on the bar, but more people should listen to their inner voices and regain their inner enthusiasm. When enthusiasm is picked up and no longer depressed, it is actually a process of self-treatment of depression.

? Photography @ Zhang 20 18. 10.02

I looked up again and saw a different story. This time, it seems to be a long talk between two good friends, or a dialogue between "I" and "higher me". Aristotle said: Friendship is a soul living in two bodies. Here, whether it is a monologue of the soul in one body or a dialogue between different bodies, in short, such a dialogue is all about the soul.

? Photography @ Zhang 20 18. 10.02

A big French window, osmanthus in full bloom, fragrance floating in the bottom of my heart. The time when flowers are blooming and jade pots are shining is deeply hidden in the memory of wine glasses. They prefer to stare at the blooming flowers and the fragrance of the courtyard.

? Photography @ Zhang 20 18. 10.02

The bouquet on the coffee table reminds me of the heroine in the movie Out of Africa. She left her native land and married in Kenya in East Africa. After all kinds of life storms, she gradually fell in love with this magical land. Her servant never forgets to put a bunch of freshly picked wild flowers on her dressing table every day. Even when she left the manor, she kept changing them. According to the servant, it is to keep the fragrance in the house.

The bouquets on the coffee table here don't need to be changed every day, but they are displayed in the most perfect posture every day. Incense only exists in the bottom of my heart and is realized by imaginary imagination. The word "fiction" makes young middle-aged people who are pragmatic and keen on pursuing non-fiction disdain it.

But Nietzsche said, "Everything that can be thought of must be fiction."

Wallace Stevens also said, "Maybe what people finally believe is fiction."

Mr. Mu Xin also interprets Nietzsche in this way: "Everything that can be thought of is already fiction."

The bouquet in the vase not only casts an oblique shadow under the illumination of light, but also casts a mirror-like bright shadow on the ground. Except that the ground can't sway like water, it seems to be a real and unreal drama in broad daylight. Here one subject deduces two subjects, which reminds me of the "two selves" mentioned by Mr. Mu Xin. That's what he said when talking about his "memory theme": "What I like about the theme of Memories of the Past is not" the past ",but that I can get two" I "at the same time through memory, one is dead and the other is still alive. .......

Get two "bouquets" from light and shadow, one elegant and the other solemn; One intersects and the other separates; A clear, a fuzzy; As for which one to watch, let's make it up by our own imagination.

The wonder is not only light and shadow, but also words. In this quiet tea break area, the changing light and shadow and Mu Xin's words connect the past moment with the present. Perhaps Mu Xin, who was interviewed in "The Feast of The Mermaid", is talking on the sofa here. Listen, Mu Xin is saying:

"The life I have seen is just finished, and it doesn't matter if it is finished."