Chapter 60 Stream of Consciousness Literature

Chi Xueli stood on the steps outside the temple, looking at the endless rice fields outside the ancestral hall: "It doesn't matter, I want to see Emperor Cong and see the descendants who will succeed him. You should be very satisfied and happy to achieve what you have achieved today despite their legacy.”

“Elbow, I think you should put all of this into consideration. Write it down and publish it in a journal to let more people know the history and stories here.”

“I also graduated with a Chinese major, but I don’t know a lot of what you said today.” 
Zhou Zhi chuckled to himself, that's because this subject of knowledge is too complex, and today's university education is still biased toward quick courses, focusing on building skeletons and meridians.

These fleshy and textured things cannot be fully mastered by a four-year undergraduate degree.

And there is no search engine now. You can only build an index system in your mind through a terrifying amount of reading. Otherwise, even if you are given a library there, you won’t even know which book to read. .

And after spending so much energy to learn and master it, what will happen next?

Except for writing articles, there is almost no use for it.

So, this is a knowledge that is almost losing its life.

Unless the Chinese people begin to rebuild their national self-confidence and urgently need to fill the gap that makes the nation proud, and when the nation begins to re-examine and think about its own uniqueness and superiority, China's long-standing civilization, splendid culture, and its lasting vitality can Become the target of everyone’s investigation.

And this knowledge will not be revitalized until then.

Zhou Zhi smiled and shook his head: "There's no need for that. The next study tasks will be very heavy, so I need to focus my energy there."

Chi Xueli said anxiously: "I think it's necessary! Otherwise, you can finish writing Send it to me and leave it to me without worry. You don’t have to worry about it.”

Zhou Zhi thought for a while: “Then I’ll write a travel note when I get back. This shouldn’t be complicated. Come on, sister. Yang He and I took a group photo.”

Only then did Chi Xueli realize that her camera had been hanging around Zhou Zhi's neck at some point. She took it off and said, "Wait a minute, I'll put the camera on the stone pillar, and the three of us will come together!" 
Under the sunset at Wangcong Temple, with the main hall as the background, the three of them took a group photo with bright smiles.

On the way back to pick up the car, Chi Xueli asked: "Jiuzi, how did you get your knowledge of classical culture and history?"

Zhou Zhi said: "My fourth cousin I graduated from a private school, and later passed the exam to the Nanjing Institute of Education, the national government. I think I studied both internally and externally; and My godfather is also great. They laid the foundation for me."

Chi Xueli no longer regards Zhou Zhi as a high school student: "I just heard you quote "Wang Di Chun Xin Tuo Du Juan". , Li Shangyin’s poems are the most difficult to understand. I have never understood them. Can you understand them? ”

Zhou Zhi said: "Actually, the difficulty with Li Shangyin's poems lies in the "Untitled" series. What sister Xue Li wants to ask is this, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Chi Xueli nodded like a pound of garlic: "' The spring silkworms are dead, and the wax torches turn to ashes before their tears dry up. "The moon in the sea sheds tears, and the warm sun in the blue field produces smoke." The sentence is extremely beautiful, but what is the theme of the poem? "

"That's because Sister Xueli has entered a misunderstanding."

A few people were wandering among the ancient cypresses, and Zhou Zhi began to explain to Chi Xueli his theory of Li Shangyin's "Untitled" Explanation: "A few of China's most ancient poems are currently recognized."

"Among them, "Tan Ge" is a hunting poem: 'Broken bamboos are restored; flying earth is chasing corpses.'"

""Striking the Soil" is a farming poem: 'Work when the sun rises, rest when the sun sets. Dig a well and drink, plow the fields and eat. What do I have from the imperial power?'"

"There is also another poem , "Classical Literature" published by Yuelu Publishing House The first poem included in "Guan" is a celebration poem: 'With hands, dance. With feet, dance.'"

"No matter which poem it is, the systematic structure of Chinese poetry can be seen. , with a strong realistic narrative style, based on which Based on this, it is what the Book of Songs calls "Elegant Song, Fu Bixing""

"If you apply this to Li Shangyin's "Untitled", you will find a problem, which is what Sister Chi just said. The problem is that the theme is not clear. "

"Take "Jin Se" as an example. The first sentence begins with "Jin Se has fifty strings for no reason", recalling his own "Hua Yin" and delineating the content of the poem. Scope.”

"But the next two sentences, 'Zhuang Sheng' and 'Wang Di', actually only write about the disillusionment of hope and the emptiness of sustenance. It talks about 'unable to ask for'."

"'Canghai' and' Lantian's two sentences contain the Buddhist theory of cause and effect, including flaws and regrets. "

"The last words of 'reminiscence' and 'wandering' are the memories of the confusion. The loss of the most cherished thing."

"Throughout the whole poem, Li Shangyin did not say what he was disappointed with and lost when he was young."

"We can use our own understanding, it may be life span, health, family affection, love, career, wealth, family..."

"But is this important? It's not important. Because what the poet originally wanted to convey and express was a subjective emotion."

"Do we really feel this flow of emotions and thoughts? Of course. Feel it, otherwise they would not have become famous and passed down through the ages.”

“So "Untitled" is really untitled. It is about the flow of emotions and thoughts. We need to feel it. It is the flow of emotions and thoughts that the poet felt at that time, which was a mixture of sadness, regret, and regret."

"These emotions can be found in everyone, so the poet believes that his poems are not. What is needed is understanding, feeling and resonance. ""This has actually departed from the spiritual core of the traditional Chinese concept of "poetic expression", or it can be summarized as "poetry expressing meaning".

"And I think that Chinese ancient poetry is actually a magical process of co-creation between the author and the reader. The words left by the poet are actually intentionally esoteric, incomplete, and blank."

" These jumps, incompleteness, and blank spaces are left to the reader to automatically fill in their minds when reading. "

"This process creates an understanding of artistic conception, which is very beautiful. Express, The process of transmission and reception. "

"So in this sense, Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is of course a poem, and it is a very clever poem."

"He doesn't even need you to understand it. , that is to say, you don’t need to completely fill in the skips, incompleteness, and blank spaces. It also completes this beautiful process. Compared with ordinary poems, it is more romantic, fantasy, and ethereal.”

Seeing that Chi Xueli became more and more confused as he listened, Zhou Zhi sighed helplessly: "Or let me put it another way, maybe it's easier for Sister Chi to understand."

"You say."

"There is a genre in Western literature, which is generally considered by academic circles to be the origin of symbolism literature in the field of novels. Reflection."

"Because of its unique skills and high achievements, it is usually treated as an independent literary genre."

"This genre advocates the subjective feelings of the characters. Real', objectively and spontaneously reproduced on paper. ”

"At the end of the 19th century, the French writer Édouard Dujardin published the novel "The Chopped Laurel Tree". This novel always used the artistic technique of "inner monologue" and was regarded by later generations as the forerunner of this genre. ”

"The subsequent French writer Marcel Proust, whose masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time" practiced the author's 'subjective realism' artistic view, became a model for this genre."

" In 1919, the British The famous Chinese novelist Virginia Woolf created "The Spot on the Wall". The work reveals the richness and complexity of people's inner world through the infinite association process caused by a woman seeing a vague spot on the wall. Easy to change."

"Is Li Shangyin's "Untitled Jinse" also created in the same way?"

At this point, Chi Xueli finally understood: "Stream of consciousness literature? ! ”

"Yes! That's it!" Zhou Zhi said: "The techniques of this genre include inner monologue, inner analysis, own associations, montage of time and space, and another important point is poetry and music."

"With Li Shangyin expressed all these techniques incisively and vividly in just fifty-six words! "

"So no matter from the perspective of creative techniques, creative ideas or creative ideas, Li Shangyin greatly expressed them! "Untitled", only It is the earliest "stream of consciousness literature" in the world! "

"The works of these later writers actually contain a lot of realism materials. ', how can these poems Songs?"

Zhou Zhi began to be indignant: "So I don't understand, there are so many people who study foreign literature, don't any of them know about Li Shangyin's "Untitled"? br>

"There are so many people who study Chinese classical poetry, doesn't anyone know about Western stream-of-consciousness literature?"

"But why does no one connect it? Why does no one realize that Li Shangyin's "Untitled" ", is the earliest and purest stream-of-consciousness literature?"

"Why does no one realize that the creative method that was highly respected in the West in the twentieth century was an ancient Chinese poet who wrote in the 1000s? many years ago Just play with it, or is it something that most Chinese people are familiar with now? "

"This is the extreme lack of cultural confidence! We admire foreign countries and think that the moon in foreign countries is rounder than in China! There is no deep understanding of traditional Chinese classical aesthetics!”

“So the founder of stream of consciousness literature is not a Westerner at all; this creative method did not only appear in the 20th century.”

"The founder and great achiever of this important literary school should be our great poet Li Shangyin who was born in 813 AD and died in 858 AD!"

"The leader of this school The truly pure and classic masterpiece should be his "Untitled"! "

"Many people are impressed by Li Shangyin's talent and impressed by the beauty of "Untitled"! However, most people have ignored Li Shangyin’s pioneering spirit of daring to make breakthroughs and striving for innovation in the era of poetry that was solidified by the elegance of poems and poems.”

“Use the right words! Read Li Shangyin's "Untitled" with the attitude of stream-of-consciousness literature. Sister Chi, do you still find it difficult to understand it? "

Chi Xueli was so excited that she trembled.

This is the most effortless skill to pierce the window paper with one finger!

But it is also the most difficult skill!

Because many people have not even reached the window!

Grabbed Zhou Zhi's arm: "Elbow! You must write another article! Write this well!"

"Ah? Sister, are you waiting for me here?" Zhou Zhi After thinking for a while, he shook his head firmly: "No, I won't write this."

"Why?!"

(End of this chapter)