Cultural Thinking on Nostalgia Prose

Tears on the wandering pillow stay in people's hearts in autumn. Photographers travel across mountains and rivers to explore the Range Rover, often in order to gain spiritual experience and reach the hometown of the soul. On the eve of Qingming Festival, during the tea-picking season in the south of the Yangtze River, the Green China Theme Photography Alliance entered Quzhou, Zhejiang. This song "The Mystery of West Zhejiang" has the artistic conception of "boating tonight, dreaming of falling flowers in a leisurely pond", so "looking for homesickness" has been designated as one of the creative themes.

For a long time, southwest Zhejiang has been on the edge of Jiangnan cultural circle. However, with the acceleration of urbanization, the background color of Jiangnan has faded in southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places, and the secret territory of southwestern Zhejiang, which is rarely disturbed, can almost be said to be the last territory of "Plain Jiangnan".

The residual cracks on the earth wall reveal the taste of the old days; The mountain breeze caresses and blows up childhood memories; Smoke curled up from the kitchen stove, which was an indelible homesickness. Homesickness belongs to memory, and photography is also a memory. When we walk out of the bustling city, enter the cycle of the four seasons and approach the source of civilization, everything becomes simple and relieved, and our hearts are calm after all, and we are no longer afraid. It is also often the pursuit of simplicity, thinking about real photography, the most touching.

However, walking in the countryside of western Zhejiang, young faces are as difficult to see as hide and seek. In front of and behind the house, only sporadic left-behind elderly people sit alone. This kind of atmosphere is a bit lifeless, which is far from the bustling and laughing village remembered by the wanderer.

I once interviewed a NPC deputy from the grassroots level. She always looks sad when talking about the situation in the countryside. For many farmers, their cultural life is close to desertification. Some farmers lamented that "you don't have to worry about food and clothing, but you will worry when it gets dark." There are basically no young people in the village. Some college graduates and young migrant workers are reluctant to return to the countryside even if they can't find satisfactory jobs in cities. Traditional folk art is facing the dilemma of no successor, and the trend of decline or even extinction is almost irreversible. ...

The dual pattern of urban and rural areas caused by decades of rapid development has gradually made the countryside become the edge of lost civilization. The radical urbanization movement in some areas has destroyed the rural landscape and environment under bulldozers and replaced it with "the boring side of 1000 cities"

Lijiang's popularity in Dali is very important, because they have well preserved people's memories of traditional China, whether in appearance, spirit or customs. A hundred years ago, ancient towns and villages like this were everywhere, but now they are rare. It is really a tragedy of the times. Lijiang, Dali, entrusts the people with the homesickness of the whole nation, and behind it is the loss and loss of homesickness, so that some humanistic intellectuals have expressed the feeling that they can't return to their hometown.

Homesickness is what everyone needs. It is the spiritual destination and warm corner of the wanderer. Only by stopping in a hurry and looking back at homesickness through a thought can we get a little peace of mind and feel that we are living in this land in a down-to-earth manner. There is hope only when there is homesickness. I hope that the life of the villagers will get better and better, the hometown will become more and more beautiful and rich, the legacy of the fathers will be passed down from generation to generation, and the blood of the spirit will flow forever.

Traditional China is an agricultural country, and its historical picture is a picture of farming in China. The countryside is the origin of civilization and everyone's original home. A writer said, "We are all descendants of the first generation of villagers". Homeland is the source of our nation's life, culture and the soul foundation of the Chinese nation. Our traditional values, ethics and folk art are all products of China's farming civilization.

The fall of the countryside means the loss of spiritual carrier, and culture has become a castle in the air. We can only accept the westernization and assimilation of foreign cultures and lose our national characteristics and unique beauty. More seriously, once we lose our cultural self-confidence, once we can no longer see or hear the call from our distant ancestors in our bones, we will lose our way and lose ourselves. Once we begin to forget the lush trees of civilization and heavy historical accumulation, our national cultural identity and national soul foundation will actually disappear invisibly.

Some people say that civilization is not static, and the changes of times and lifestyles have naturally changed many places and naturally dispelled homesickness. An artist who has been wandering abroad for many years once went back to his hometown to catch the local accent and drove a minibus around villages. But villagers don't beat drums or hum songs when picking tea, scattered old houses will be flooded by houses, and children can't understand operas full of dialects when singing pop songs.

Homesickness may not last long? It depends on whether we are really afraid of homesickness and how willing, knowledgeable and determined we are to keep homesickness. Throughout the world's cultural powers, all the heritages left by ancestors are regarded as national sacred and carefully cared for from generation to generation. France and Italy are both fashion kingdoms, but their artistic inspiration comes from the traditional essence and historical treasures of the nation. The interpretation of homesickness has become the carrier of cultural confidence and national identity in these countries. For the artist mentioned above, the memory of childhood experience and the landscape and humanities of his native land have become the source of his creation. The memory of rape blossoms in his heart, and his hometown continues the fragrance of earth in his dreams and writings, so that his works can be registered in the international fashion hall.

Whether homesickness will come to blowing in the wind depends on our cultural innovation. Lijiang is prosperous not only because of its great culture, but also because it has always maintained an inclusive heart, followed the trend of the times and constantly evolved and regenerated. In June 5438+last year 10, an international high-level video conference was held in a century-old farmer in Lu 'an, Anhui Province, showing the world significance of local symbols. Prague, Czech Republic, has evolved and grown on the basis of preserving the ancient city and has become the dream of the world. Nowadays, the development of Internet and modern logistics has broken the limitation of time and space. People's offices can be placed in any corner of the world, and the countryside may be prosperous. Whether we can retain homesickness will test the cultural wisdom of Chinese people.

The ruins record the wrinkles of the years.

The ancient stone road carries the memories of childhood.

Maybe only they can understand the hardships of life.

Perhaps only they are the kindest.

I dare not say that their smiles are the most beautiful.

But I see hope in it.

A weak dream

One day it will become a grass.

Manshanshanpo

Dare not to fix the sun.

Just ask that the light that belongs to him still shines.

Don't ask for the whole piece of gold

As long as the rice in those baskets is still so fragrant.

There are thousands of songs in the world.

There is only one song that will be sung there forever.

Just like the camellia in memory.

Always open your heart.

Moonlight in the city

Not as bright as in the country.

The distant sky

Makes me want to go back to that land ...