Salty taste of soil
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When eight kinds of wooden heart works were published, I bought them for nothing. The first article, the ninth day of September, made me feel like I was struck by lightning from the beginning. I just think it is vast and far away, and it is thousands of miles away. Reading all the way, lamenting the night of meeting.
20 1 1 1Mr。 Mu Xin died in February. Chen Danqing recalled that after Mr. Mu Xin returned to Wuzhen, some readers would always wander in front of his house.
Mu Xin is very critical of visitors, hoping that they will be interesting and decent. But how difficult it is to be both interesting and decent, so the old man simply closed the door and thanked the guests. I can't help but feel lost when I think of this scene. The old man was lonely when he was young, but in his later years, he was still busy for him.
When I was in high school, I flipped through my husband's complete works, which almost touched my sincerity and spirit throughout my long adolescence. I went to Wuzhen and saw Mu Xin Art Museum and Mu Xin's former residence. There are many Mu Xin's calligraphy and paintings, his documentaries and even his images during his stay in new york in the art gallery. There, he had a good face, a well-proportioned figure and good health, and told a group of people about the history of literature.
I just found out that Mr. Mu Xin is very naughty with children. For example, a Greek statue, he will imitate posing, and everyone will laugh. He will respond cunningly at once, pretending that he doesn't care, or remembering it at once and saying one-liners
Before designing this "Wind, Water and Bridge" art museum, Mr. I.M. Pei's disciples came to Wuzhen for discussion. The latter said, "Mr. Bei was right at all stages of his life, but wrong at all stages of my life."
This is not without helplessness, but he still loves this wrong life.
An "outsider" in Wuzhen
Enough has been said about Mu Xin's growing experience. I am very interested in his upbringing and aesthetic growth, and Memoirs of Literature gave me a glimpse of the leopard.
Born in Wuzhen to a wealthy family named Sun. Sun's garden and Mao Dun's garden are in the same street. At the age of seven, Mu Xin's father died and he was taken care of by his mother. He was spoiled from childhood until he was seven or eight years old, and he needed a maid to carry him out. Teenager, no shopping experience.
Mu Xin liked reading when he was a child, but he was too shy to speak or cope. After Mao Dun's father died, Shen Mu made a couplet. Some people say it's rare, others say it's average, and some people say that Mrs. Zhang Taiyan's poems by Tang Guoli are good. He couldn't help saying, "Writing poetry, at least Du Like Fu." Relatives and elders burst into laughter, but whenever they see it in the future, they will ask, "Have you read Du Fu's poems recently?"
Chen Danqing said that the reason why he likes Mu Xin is the "Zhejiang Nature" in Mu Xin's works. He thinks that Mu Xin is a real Zhejiang old man.
I often wonder what Chen Danqing's Nature in Zhejiang is, because I grew up in this local environment, and the scenery I came into contact with is not the same as that of Mu Xin. But when I was young, I was able to read the sentence "When I walk up the mountain road, the mountains and rivers will be submerged" in Shi Shuo Xin Yu, and I was suddenly surprised and vividly remembered.
Because of this background I have experienced, even if I started reading Lu Xun very early, there won't be too many barriers. The scenery is warm and green, sweet and melancholy, and people speak with a southern accent, sincere and simple. These are probably the so-called "Zhejiang Nature" written by Lu Xun, Hu Lancheng and Mu Xin.
Undoubtedly, Zhejiang folk tradition has a far-reaching influence on Mu Xin. Storytelling is very popular in this area, and Mu Xin likes storytelling since he was a child. He thinks this is a great enjoyment of cultural life. He said, "Midnight and home will be wonderful if the storyteller tells the story differently. Storytellers know art, but Mao Dun and Ba Jin may not. Mr. Storyteller has a teacher, but there was no teacher in the May 4th Movement. "
Growing up in Mu Xin in the 1920s and 1930s, there were pianos and western picture books at home. In fact, the process of westernization in Jiangnan region began very early, which is an interesting topic. For example, Mao Dun's private library collects mostly western novels.
In his later years, Mu Xin wrote the word "sitting in the east and thinking about the west", saying that he was in the old country of the East, but he was thinking about western literature and art, which hit the nail on the head. Such is his life, and he refuses to settle down. Proust, Gide, Hardy, Joyce, Kafka and other world-wide literary landscapes are deeply rooted in his mind.
Although this novel "Huaixi" exposed him to the stream of consciousness, surrealism and other western thoughts very early, it secretly bid well and brought him jail in the future.
Mu Xin has never been a person who goes with the flow. He called himself a "Greek" in Shaoxing, which reminds me of a sentence that Shakespeare said in Hamlet: "Although I am Danish, I am an ancient Roman in spirit."
Mu Xin followed the aesthetics in his instinctive consciousness. This kind of aesthetics makes him look like an outsider of an era, or rather, he overcame this era on his own.
When I was a child, my mother taught Mu Xin: "Don't go to crowded places." Servants are only allowed to take him out to play occasionally. In his later years, he remembered his mother's words with great significance. A writer's personal destiny is often inconsistent with the great destiny in the history of literature. "Historically, it's really wonderful not to go to crowded places." "Pay attention to personal works, don't follow the trend of literature and art, it is always vulgar."
"You want me to destroy it, I don't want it!"
The wooden heart in youth is really beautiful. Thin figure, clean short hair, handsome and gentle, wearing a solid color semi-high collar, simple and generous.
Chen Danqing recalled that in his later years, Mu Xin was very surprised to see the photos of his youth. "He said fuck, and then began to cry, because I haven't seen his photos when he was eighteen or nineteen for so long. This is the only time I have seen him cry, and he can't help crying. "
We can't know what Mu Xin was thinking when he cried. Bad luck and bad life in the first half of my life. He is the kind of person who breathes smoothly even when the world is difficult. He has a noble spirit that often makes his life out of place.
Two American directors have made a documentary about Mu Xin, which is called "Dream Against the Current". He said in the film: "This kind of resistance is not a direct resistance, but comes from the fundamental (resistance) of people. You want me to destroy it, I won't! "
I like Mu Xin's resolute "I don't want it!" . He is Icarus who flew out of the maze. He didn't fix the eagle's feathers with wax like Icarus. When he was close to the sun, the wax melted and his wings fell off. Literature and art are the wings that let the imprisoned wooden heart fly to inner freedom. These wings have been integrated with his life, so powerful that he is like an eagle.
Mu Xin did not exaggerate the meaning of suffering to him. He has a sharp eye: "China once said that the more bitter you eat, the more profound your knowledge is. I think this is a lie. Who wants to suffer? I don't have this homesickness. I don't miss my old life. " As a literary creator, Mu Xin surpassed the writers of "root-seeking literature" and "scar literature".
"I just prove that I can create art when I am alive." Listen to this. It's still on the floor.
"Aesthetics is my exile"
When Mu Xin first stood on the streets of new york, he was over half a year old.
When he first arrived in new york, he was penniless and went out to repair antiques at $3.50 an hour. At that time, he felt very painful, even more painful than going to prison, because there was food in prison, but there was no food in America. It was also at that time that he began to write a lot.
Although Mu Xin doesn't want to exaggerate the meaning of suffering, it can make a poet and a writer, and "give it to vicissitudes". He wrote a book about Milan Kundera's Rooted Wanderer, but it is more like his autobiography. He wrote: "Rooted drifters, drifters in the spiritual world, always meet back and forth during the voyage."
Fortunately, Mu Xin also had his "experience". His paintings are incomprehensible at home, but they are appreciated and envied abroad. At 56, he held his first solo exhibition. He regards literature as his son and painting as his daughter. As we all know, the daughter got married and the son made a public appearance in Taiwan Province Province.
Mu Xin in new york, the most memorable is probably the five years when he talked about the history of literature. This is a very touching scene. In a foreign country, an old man who is over 500 years old and full of energy is telling everyone about his past spiritual exile in literature and art.
A group of young people are sitting around him. Although their studies are different and their future is uncertain, they still gather together with enthusiasm and passion and listen to him talk about literature all night until dawn.
Shi Naian wrote a preface to The Water Margin: "On a snowy night, there are five or six people listening to my story, seven or eight people in rainy days, and ten people in sunny days. I read, everyone listens, and I am very happy. There is no other idea. " Idealism always carries such an emotional appeal, which makes people sad but not hurt. It is not noisy, and even joy is gentle and compassionate.
After leaving his hometown for more than half a century, Mu Xin returned to Wuzhen to settle down. "Follow him in Wuzhen, follow its pieces. When I can't see my reasons, I'm hungry. Follow Wuzhen Town and return to its rules. Seeing the old village, I don't want to abandon it. "
In this way, he firmly grew into a camphor tree in his native land, with fallen leaves deposited over the years and the bitter fragrance of autumn scattered. Pick out one of his many branches and leaves, which is enough to make restless people clear and thorough. Mu Xin's subtle words and just actions, even if he is arbitrary, can always inspire people.
In his works, he became a counselor of Burroughs, a guest of the king of ancient Persia, a witness to Peide's cut wrist, a friend who saved money, a joke of Zhuang Zhou and Qu Yuan, and a free and easy sword hanging. His broad history of spiritual growth is never shabby, modest and wild, and grand and conscious.
Mu Xin is a master of literary style, just like Montaigne and Nietzsche, fragmentary, intermittent and flickering. Future generations will inevitably be at a loss when they see mountains and peaks, but they also know that these are just the tip of the iceberg, and they can't see the real iceberg.
People with clear minds and insight into their worries are the most thoroughly desperate, but there is nothing wrong with despair. Once they clearly understand the source of misfortune and pain, they will calmly look at the desire, greed, greed, stubbornness, boredom and boredom of life. So much for the so-called life.
For example, he talked about his attitude towards "slanderers" and once cured me: "You will definitely succeed in the future, and you will definitely pull out some feathers for others to use. The best attitude towards this kind of thing is cold and fresh. "
"The so-called' cold' is that your friend refuses, so stop playing. You can't. Never, don't go back and forth, go back and forth again, it's over, go down by yourself. People are just afraid of this kind of relationship, good, bad, bad and good, and then fry some beans and send them there (send them there, the bowl didn't come back, it was so noisy). Ordinary people, mediocre people, are all like this. " Sage "means that after breaking up, don't go against others and let them go their own way." They are going to fall, very well, the cliff abyss, the future of Wan Li. If they have a conscience, they will lose sleep. "
However, there are many people in this world who can't sleep. Those who can't sleep are those who are snowing heavily in the dark. The world gave him gossip, and he responded with a heavy snow. "I don't know what to forgive, but I really think the world can be forgiven."
This kind of understanding is probably the compassion of Youpite. "Even so far, I have only had a brief conversation with humans."
Mu Xin told a story. Before Gide died, he received a letter from a young man from Africa, saying that the world was beautiful and promising! Gide said, "This young man is talking about the salty taste of the earth. I will die with my eyes closed for this salty taste. "
To me, Mr. Mu Xin's words are the salty taste of the earth.