Dragon and China Culture was published 16 years, during which it was reprinted four times, and Taiwan Province Province published a traditional Chinese version. However, it is still liked by readers. In order to adapt to the current market, it needs to be revised in readability. When Xiong Zhi and I co-wrote a book, I paid more attention to its academic nature. In order to write this book well, I gave up my ceramic major, and almost never published a professional paper during my creative process. However, when this book was revised and reprinted, the Xiong Zhi brothers did not live to be 60 years old. At the age of 58, they returned to another world. I have to undertake the follow-up work independently.

I work in the crimson walls of the Forbidden City, and I am used to the mottled changes of the red walls and green tiles. The red wall has faded and has been painted again. The green tiles were broken and replaced with new ones; The old exhibition was removed and a new exhibition was published; The old leader died, retired, resigned, dismissed, transferred, and the new leader returned to office; Winter goes and spring comes, and flowers bloom and fall. Metabolism, circulation. There are only two things with the strongest vitality in the Forbidden City, one is cultural relics, and the other is weeds. After several generations of care and finishing, the number of the former has increased from nearly one million pieces to nearly 6.5438+0.5 million pieces, and the quality has become more and more refined. With the improvement of researchers' level, many historical connotations accumulated in ancient cultural relics have been deciphered one by one, revealing the true colors of history. The weeds in the Forbidden City are more tenacious than cultural relics. Whether it's a magnificent roof, a blue-gray crack exposed on the wall, or an artificially planted lawn, you will see the tenacious figure of weeds, and even bare roots will hug the soil tightly in the blue-gray color. Cheerful February orchids, lively wild chrysanthemums, calm rehmannia, simple alfalfa, strong medlar, piece by piece, complement each other with woodpeckers and lively squirrels in the quiet pine forest, forming an ecologically balanced symphony. Unfortunately, people always misunderstand the aesthetic function of weeds, and weeding is done as a political task every year. With the progress of the times, misunderstandings have gradually melted away, and the February Orchid in Tiantan Park has been protected, and finally it has become a beautiful scenery in Beijing when spring comes. The February Orchid in the Forbidden City once brought people joy, but a few years ago, a legal representative ordered all of it to be cut down and replaced with imported lawns. These imported lawns are really disappointing. Although many employees take care of it, after the baptism of nature, it is finally submerged by weeds such as February orchids that are left unattended. I am proud of these tenacious weeds.

It is not easy to express profound professional knowledge clearly in plain language. I remember that in 1960s, Mr. Wu Han once edited and published a series of popular science books. Almost all the authors were elite scholars at that time, and their popular language and clear organization benefited people my age a lot.

If my efforts can benefit contemporary readers, even if I only get a little knowledge from them, I will feel as relaxed, tenacious and free as the weeds in the Forbidden City.

Yang Jingrong

In July 2008 in the Forbidden City.