Talk casually-if life presses the pause button, you might as well walk around the room.

Everything is asleep, dreaming about traveling.

In the dream, the bright moon is in the sky, the stars move, and tourists who have traveled long distances set up tents. A gust of wind swept, and insects rustled in the grass. Mixed with moonlight, the stream gurgled into the distance. The wild flowers in the lonely valley asked the dreamer if he saw spring passing by.

I woke up in a familiar room. Looking out of the window, a peach blossom is in full bloom under the dim street lamp, swaying with the wind, and its branches set each other off.

Spring embraces the world tenderly.

So I remembered a long-standing advertising copy:

When you wrote PPT, Alaska cod was jumping out of the water. ...

When you read the report, the golden monkey in Meili Snow Mountain just climbed to the top of the tree. ...

When you squeeze into the subway, Shan Ying in Tibet has been hovering in the clouds. ...

When you quarrel in the meeting, Nepalese backpackers pick up their glasses together and sit by the fire. ...

At this time, the continuation of epidemic literature is probably "when you were isolated at home, peach blossoms opened in a spring." ...

However, don't be depressed. Wise people at all times and all over the world remind us that perhaps the meaning of travel (1) lies in "not coming, longing for it"

Landscape painting, lying and swimming.

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Like today, the ancients also had many days when they loved mountains and rivers but could not go out. For example, due to the long distance and insufficient travel expenses, you may also be busy with official duties and be entangled in old diseases. However, not being close to them did not affect the ancients' interest in mountains and rivers, but instead prompted them to develop the ability of "lying and swimming". The so-called "lying tour", as the name implies, is to travel in bed. Literati painters put mountains and rivers between scrolls, unfold scrolls from time to time, study the four-sided vision on the screen, watch the jungle and uninhabited wild scenery in the distant sky, lie down and meditate, and feel that they are wandering between mountains and rivers. This kind of play can not only save the fatigue of traveling by boat, but also be free from the limitation of time and space. You can go wherever you want. Today, you can also avoid making nucleic acids and wearing masks, which is truly zero pollution and zero risk.

"Sleep" can be traced back to the Six Dynasties. Zong Bing was a painter in the Southern Song Dynasty. He loved mountains and rivers, lived in seclusion in Hengshan Mountain, and returned to his hometown due to illness in his later years. Aging and illness are weighing on him, and he can no longer travel to famous mountains and rivers, so he sighed, "Old diseases are coming, and famous mountains are hard to visit." You just have to look at the Tao with a clear head and lie down and swim. " He painted the places he had traveled all his life on the indoor wall. Although he stayed at home, he seemed to be in the mountains and rivers. "Playing the piano, I want all the mountains to ring." Sitting and watching, full of interest, no less than that.

Tianjin Museum Collection Qingcheng Yan Zhengjiang Mountain Sleeping Tour Atlas

Zong Bing's "recumbent swimming" was convinced by scholars of all ages. Su Dongpo and Huang in the Song Dynasty often mentioned "Cheng Huai lies and swims in xiaowen" (according to the fact, the word is xiaowen). Wang Shen also wants to be "like Zong Bing". Even poets and painters in the Jin Dynasty often wrote a song "I was wandering when I was lying in the fast" (the ninth episode of "Zhongzhou Ji", called Ziduan, a small hidden picture in a snowy stream). Scholars and painters in Yuan Dynasty were particularly interested in Zong Bing's theory. Ni Yunlin praised Wang Meng and said, "There has been no such monarch for 500 years."

A Sleeping Tour in the Ming Dynasty in Tianjin Museum (Part)

Shen Zhou, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, inherited and developed Zong Bing's concept of "recumbent travel", and created "Recumbent Travel Atlas" and "Jiangshan Recumbent Travel Atlas", and mentioned in the postscript of "Recumbent Travel Atlas": "Zong Shaowen reveals the landscape on all sides and calls himself recumbent. This volume is only a few feet long. You can lie on your back in bed, holding it in one hand and reading it slowly in the other. It is very interesting. Cover it when you are tired. Is it inconvenient? "

A Sleeping Tour in the Ming Dynasty in Tianjin Museum (Part)

Gentlemen like to live near the nymphs, meet people, visit friends, drink tea and go boating. Read books, whistle, play drums and watch spring. Living in seclusion in the mountains and settling for second best has been an ideal way of life in China for thousands of years. Landscape painting is like a true reflection of this ideal life. China's mountains and rivers, cottages, huts, buildings, pavilions, streams, boats, dogs, horses and people are all reflecting on their spiritual sustenance. For many lovers, the process of appreciating landscape painting is also a process of entering the spiritual landscape with the painter's brush strokes. Castle peak is silent, better than my feelings. The distance between you and the scenery may be just a painting.

Walk around the room and follow your heart.

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Coincidentally, there are also "recumbent" fans abroad, but their gameplay is not limited to landscapes; It's not a painting, it's a book.

In his book The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton, a British genius, once introduced a way of travel described in Hausmann's novel Countercurrent-"Traveling around the room". The hero of the novel is De Sandys, a world-weary duke who lives alone in a spacious villa on the outskirts of Paris. He almost never leaves home, and often lies alone on the bed in his study, reading literary classics. One morning, de Sandys suddenly had a strong desire to travel to London. At that time, he was reading a novel by Dickens, which aroused his imagination of the life of the British people and eagerly looked forward to seeing it with his own eyes. Before the train left, he went into the bookstore and bought a London guidebook. The concise description of places of interest in London in the book made him feel beautiful. Then, he went to a nearby bar frequented by British people. The atmosphere in the bar is vivid, which is a scene in Dickens' novels. De Sandys felt a little hungry and went to a small English restaurant next door. The restaurant is dimly lit and smoky, and the food on the counter is some British specialties. ...

"With the approaching of the train departure time, De Sandys's London dream will come true, but at this moment, he suddenly became tired and bored. He began to imagine how boring and boring it would be if he really went to London: he had to rush to the railway station, find a porter to carry his luggage, get on the bus, sleep in a strange bed, and then queue up to get off the bus, dragging his tired body through the street view of London described so well by Badeck ... When he thought of this, his dream of London was suddenly eclipsed. "

British silver coins in Tianjin Museum

"Since a person can sit in a chair and wander around with a book, why really travel? Is he often in London? Isn't the smell, weather, citizens, food and even tableware of London restaurants all around you? If you do arrive in London, what can you expect except new disappointment? "

As a result, de Sandys paid the bill, left the restaurant and took the earliest train back to his villa. Since then, he has never left his home.

"The best way to experience the foreign culture you love is to enjoy paintings in museums or read classic books at home." De Sandys began to walk up and down the room with great fanfare. He arranged all kinds of things at home so that he could enjoy the essence of travel easily. "There are all kinds of color pictures hanging on the wall, which indicate foreign cities, museums, hotels ... The bedroom is covered with rules and regulations, all of which are liner schedules of large shipping companies. He raised some aquatic plants in the water tank and bought a small sailboat, some marine rigging and a small sailor model ... through them, he can experience the greatest pleasure of sailing, but he is free from any discomfort that may occur during sailing. "

End of movement

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Lying and swimming, the heart moves with it. The key lies in mobilizing extraordinary imagination and sensibility: "Imagination can make our ordinary real life far more colorful than itself." Yes, perhaps the best travel is to walk freely in an imaginary country with a painting or a book in hand without any external interference. Walking around the room requires us to discover the beauty and preciousness of everyday things around us. For example, in the flowerpot abandoned for a long time on the balcony, is there grass sprouting green buds? In a corner that you didn't notice, there is also spring growing.

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References:

1, Liu Lina: Shen Zhou's thought of "recumbent travel" and its influence on Wumen School, 20 13, No.7.

2. Alain de Botton, translated by Nan Zhiguo, Peng Junhao and He Shiyuan, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2009.