On China's Contextual Reading Thought

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Reflections on China's Context

I have finished reading China Context by Mr. Yu, with 425 pages. It is difficult to express my feelings in my clumsy language. The deepest feelings should be: hearty, stirring and warming people's hearts. In one word, cool!

Taking China as the context, Mr. Yu comprehensively combed the development of China literature. His knowledge is as shallow as mine, and he holds it up with "clear at a glance", which frees me from the "fear" of textbooks, but makes me consciously and naturally approach the history of China and the development of China literature. In the process of reading Context of China, it seems that we can hear the breath of ancient China people and feel their body temperature from Mr. Yu's words.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to comment on China's thread on the Internet as "the most beautiful brief history of China literature".

Turn to the opening, as a review and aftertaste:

China context refers to the highest level of life undercurrent and aesthetic undercurrent in the literary development of China for thousands of years.

This kind of undercurrent is difficult to find near, and can only be appreciated from a distance, just like a skyline connected by a stubborn ridge.

It is this kind of skyline that lets us know the size of that world and the boundaries of that world, and also lets us appreciate a cultural ceremony that is destined to surround our lives for a long time.

Because it is too important and hidden, it is particularly easy to misunderstand. Therefore, we must start from the beginning, point out the most common theoretical bifurcation, and don't let them interfere with the undercurrent of context-

First, this undercurrent, in most cases, is not the official mainstream;

Second, this undercurrent, in most cases, is not the mainstream of the people;

Third, this undercurrent belongs to literature, not to the philosophical school;

Fourth, although this undercurrent is important, it is not big;

Fifth, this undercurrent is not consistent, but intermittent, with more interruptions and less interruptions;

6. This undercurrent attracts and repels other literary phenomena around.

Finding this undercurrent is the result of subtraction. I have always advocated that learning culture and literature should be added first and then reduced. Subtraction is more important and more difficult.

Restore the tendon, restore the spirit, and restore the pulse.

Subtraction is difficult to do, first of all, because people have been in a state of cultural deprivation for thousands of years, respecting words, believing words and fearing books, and have no psychological height to dare to choose; Secondly, even if there is a psychological height, there is a lack of tasting height. Compared with most popular cultural phenomena, people who "feel the pulse" don't have so many confidants.

A bold choice requires a sharp axe. However, people with this kind of axe are always cutting a path. Most of the people who just sit under the arbor and make irresponsible remarks know nothing about axes. The pioneers didn't have time to participate in the comments, which led to the inversion of the level and the loss of context.

Grade is the life of context.

In the world, the rank of official career is determined by rank, the rank of wealth is determined by amount, the rank of doctor is determined by curative effect, the rank of star is determined by communication, and the rank of literature is completely different. The level of literature has nothing to do with rank, wealth, curative effect, communication and other factors, but is determined by something without obvious signs, which is called taste.

Other industries also stress taste, but that's just an addition, unlike literature, it's unique.

In a word, rank determines rank, and rank constitutes context. But there are no clear road signs for all the processes in the middle. Now, things are in trouble.

Looking around, now more and more "successful people" want to dazzle themselves with words and even educate the world with words. The result is worrying. In order to create a "corporate culture", some "Confucian businessmen" forced employees to recite ancient classical Chinese with low cultural level; Some TV people always tell vividly the cultural fragments that should have been withdrawn from public memory long ago; Some contemporary "celebrities" are infected with the ancient "scab addiction". As Lu Xun said, they praised the redness and ulceration in the distant years as "gorgeous as peach blossoms".

What is quite disturbing is that some cultural relics appraisal auction programs on TV at present will raise the author's cultural status indefinitely as long as they involve Ming and Qing dynasties and modern calligraphy and painting. On the first day, it is understandable to praise the ancients, but the repetition of such things will subvert the basic level of culture. Just like a ten-story tower, the outline is clear, and suddenly the lower floors have to form their own roofs, and the upper floors can only collapse. Just think, if Tang Bohu and Gan Long become "the first-class poets in ancient China", then we can only burn the whole Tang poetry quietly. Calligraphy is the same. A medium-level pen and ink cost an astonishing sky-high price, just like a pile of gold shattered the balance of China's calligraphy history.

Faced with this situation, I once sighed deeply: "The vein is hidden, and the mountain is called the peak; The healthy wings are far away, and the residual feathers are full. "

Cultural relics experts don't know the context, and billionaires don't know the culture. This is normal. But now, the infiltration of modern media and the strong misleading of auction funds make it difficult for many people to accept this unprecedented "cultural rewriting", and the result is a bit scary.

Some people say that literature should be freely available to people, and there should be no hierarchy. This is a typical "literary populism", specious. Personally, without basic education, how can it be achieved? Short-sighted, the frog at the bottom of the well sees the sky, which just violates the original meaning of "freedom"; Generally speaking, if there is no difference in spiritual culture, we will lose the national avenue and human dignity, and everything will get out of control in the noise.

If everyone in time and space is allowed to enter and leave freely regardless of their height, can China literature still select Qu Yuan who is wandering on the grass and is about to throw himself into the water? Can you choose Sima Qian who was tortured and ashamed to write? Can you choose Tao Yuanming who lives in decadence and works hard? They later became known to the public, which was not people's own behavior. Moreover, if you know them, you can't understand their connotation. Therefore, I dare to assert that any populist free sea election, no matter how many people and funds, has nothing to do with excellent literature.

This is not the sorrow of literature, but the nobility of literature.

I advocate that in the field of cultural conscience, which is doomed to loneliness at present, we should restart the thinking of context and the wind of yeast, re-establish the ancient and modern coordinates and rebuild the universal model. Therefore, we should try our best to get rid of glitz and excitement, stay away from the war of words and enter into in-depth discussions. The choice can be different, but the goal is the same goal, that is, cleaning the foundation, removing sundries, gathering high walls and huge bricks, finding the foundation of columns, making room for spacious space, washing everyone's eyes and ears, calling for great strides and expecting the genius to come again. Therefore, the revival of China culture is possible.

In the process of reading, I have a very direct idea: if I really live in a foreign country one day, I will definitely take a series of books and works of Mr. Yu on the plane, because he will let me know where I came from at first, what kind of people live there and what happened. And a part of me must be closely related to them.