Commemorate the 120th anniversary of Shen Congwen's birthday: eyes and affection for the vision of human beings

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Shen Congwen and his wife Zhang Zhaohe

Both I and Mr. Cong Wen are from Xiangxi, drinking Tongjiang. The water is so clear and so soft. It is the vitality of the child and the village. Water is a spiritual thing, nourished by the earth and the sky, and nurtured generations of workers. I think, before the water, maybe we are connected. Lishui is of great significance for Mr. Cong Wen: Living on the side of Chen River, understanding personnel, learning knowledge, and knowing the world in Tang Tangliu. So Mr. said: "The thoughts of things benefit from the water." Where there is water, there are others; where there are people, there is Chu Ge. After reading the letters that Mr. had sent out, most of them were written to family members, some were written to friends, and some were written to young students. In the letter, the Mr. He had shared what he saw and heard with his family, and talked to his friends with his hearts, and gave the young juniors unlimited tolerance and deep encouragement. However, everywhere, the most reflected in the remembrance and thoughts on the personnel of Xiangxi. What the gentleman is concerned about beautiful mountains, soft water, and the simple person. If Mr. Congwen answered the question "Who am I", I think he would not hesitate to say, "I am a rural person." Among the landscapes and villagers in the hometown, people who love hard work and kindness live in the earth.

Before going out of my hometown, my husband was just three words "Shen Congwen" on the statue of the statue. Since then, the appearance of Mr. has begun to become clearer, blood and flesh, so that he has become a bright lighthouse that knows himself and knows west of Hunan and China. Reading "Border City", "Long River" and "Xiangxing San Ji" were shocked first, and then moved. The western Hunan world under Shen Congwen's writing, brutal, natural, cruel, tender, ugly and good. For the first time, I realized that people were complex and complex in western Hunan. "Knowing yourself" in front of the temple of ancient Greek Delphi, Shen Congwen's literary creation is a real literary temple, reminding us that in addition to the poplar trees on the shore, another world may be more realistic. This is the reflection of the poplar trees in the lake. This reflection has endless humanity. Shen Congwen associated his strong life consciousness with the fate of the people at the bottom of the Chinese, especially with the fate of people living in the Lishui Basin. The display of the destiny of various characters seeks the perfection of our nation and even human life. With the simplicity and great human nature of the rural people in the hands and feet, the healing the human nature that has changed under the vigorous squeezing of society.

Throughout the ages, all excellent literary works are based on "people" as the starting point and settlement point, and exist for people's needs. In the end, the spiritual pursuit of "humanistic care". The same is true of Mr. Shen Congwen. At the same time, the more core power in his literary writing is to pursue truth, kindness, and beauty, so the true, heavy, mysterious and longing of Xiangxi in his pen. Due to historical and cultural reasons, foreigners always look at the land of Xiangxi and the western Hunan who are born in Sri Lanka with a strange look. Foreign perspectives lead to the symbolization and conceptual or excessive "others" of the image of the Xiangxi image, while Shen Congwen's observation of Xiangxi observed from the perspective of inside people is more manifestations of understanding and tenderness, providing the outside world with a more real and reliable and reliable outside world. Xiangxi Tu Jing. This subversion and transcendence of collective imagination, behind it is exactly the way of survival in western Hunan, the workers in Xiangxi can provide energy and reference for the positive spiritual culture of contemporary countries, nations, and individuals. "Rebuilding ethnic morals", hopes to provide a reference blueprint for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Knowing self is the middle road to maintain independent personality. This is a process full of pain. It must be squeezed like sand and stones. With the negative existence of others, it is possible to appear in self and find the possibility of self. "To be or not to be" is a philosophical question, a question of life choice, and answering the question "Who am I". Shen Congwen found a passionate self with a few ups and downs of life. From remote places to bustling metropolises in Beijing and Shanghai; from rural people to well -known writers and university professors; from infinite scenery and ambition to suppressing self, spiritual collapse and suicide. The taste and bitterness, Mr. Wei knows. However, suicide became the beginning of Shen Congwen's life, "I must do something for a new country! I want to do a new life in order to do something in the new era." "I", the me ", from this, born to death. It should not be simply understood as Shen Congwen's "negative retirement", but it should be another continuation of life form. Awe.

Shen Congwen's research history of material culture has paid attention to the labor, wisdom and creation of ordinary people in daily life for thousands of years. Isn't that the same is true of the literary world? As Wang Zengqi said: "He later changed to the research of cultural relics, and he was not tired of it. He died daily, and he sat down for more than ten hours. It was also related to this poet's temperament. , Clothing, they are 'things', but what he sees is human, human being, creative, human art love and perseverance. He is so excited when he talks about these things. It looks really naive. The cultural relics he do, I really want to give it a name, called 'lyric archeology'. "There is no doubt that literature and cultural relics together constitute a complete Shen Congwen, whether it is the literary world or the material In the world, all he is pursuing is a simple heart of "people". As Shen Congwen said in the article "Novel Author and Readers": "A good work will make people be in a really beautiful feeling, and there is also a kind of" facing good "power." In the practice of historical research, under the drive of truth, kindness, and beauty, Shen Congwen always stares for the vision of human beings. It is also the affectionate eyes for the vision of human beings. Shen Congwen has achieved himself and surpassed himself. It also inspired me to wait for my hometown juniors. Essence

Content source: "Literature and Art" August 12, 2022, 3rd edition

WeChat editor: Lu Yimeng

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