Clear autumn night rain, lights reflected the window. After reading Six Chapters of a Floating Life for three times, I was stunned for a long time and touched a love-hate relationship of my predecessors.
Few love stories of literati can touch me. For example, Li Longji Yang Yuhuan's tragic only makes me feel sorry, Li Qingzhao's drift from place to place in Zhao Mingcheng only makes me feel sorry, Jiang Lutan's Huang Wanjun's close look only makes me feel distressed, and his nine-year kindness in Dong Xiaowan only makes me sad. ...
However, I was moved by the love between Shen Fu and Chen Yun. I admire the poetry of their ordinary life. I am loyal to their sincere love until death do us part. I look up to their ordinary but open-minded life, unrestrained and detached from the world.
Shen Fu was born in Suzhou during Qianlong and Jiaqing years. His father's staff lived a good life, and then his family came down. Although he is an ordinary man with no fame, he is a versatile intellectual. His family was poor, even hungry and cold for a while. However, he and his wife, Chen Yun, have lofty aspirations and have the same feelings from beginning to end. They are interested in poetry, painting, outing, friends gathering and cooking. Later, due to the damage of feudal ethics and family education, it experienced many ups and downs, and finally the heaven and man were separated forever. After the death of the cloud, "I am restless and bustling, and I don't know when I will wake up."
If he hadn't bought his manuscript "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" at a street stall in the third year of Guangxu (1877) and went to Fu Zi, no one in the world would have known Shen.
At that time, there were only four chapters left in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, and the last two chapters were gone.
Six Chapters of a Floating Life can be divided into boudoir music, leisure, ups and downs and troubles, and the speed of loaf about. The last two chapters are suspected to be pseudographs of Sun Yat-sen Calendar and Health Care. This is an autobiographical prose collection, four of which are intertwined and interrelated. Although they are daily chores, they are honest and sincere, not coy at all, not pedantic, but delicate and diluted, and read like a breeze.
Turning to the story of the boudoir, Shen described a beautiful and exquisite image of her daughter: "It has a long shoulder and a long neck, thin and unobtrusive, with fine eyes, but only two teeth are slightly exposed, which seems unsightly." A lingering state makes people's meaning disappear. " This is the first time he saw Chen Yun when he was young. That night, Yun made him homemade pickles and warm porridge. When it was delicious, cousin Yun squeezed in and joked, "I want to eat porridge, but it's specially prepared for your husband!" " Hehe, Shen and Chen blushed at that time. I will also smile when I read this, and a happy marriage will lead me to it.
Then they got married, which was the happiest time. I was moved by their true love again and again. Their love is not earth-shattering, nor is it a lost love, nor is it an eternal farewell. I'm just deeply moved by the little things in their most ordinary and subtle daily life.
Husband and wife talk about poetry over tea, saying, "Du Fu's poems are free from vulgarity, while Li Bai's poems are chic;" It is better to learn from Du Zhi than from Li Zhi. "
In spring, I want to take the clouds for an outing. Yunnan is very skillful in dressing up as a woman. When people ask him, he looks at him with his cousin's eyes. Hehe, no one knows.
Xia Tianyun wears jasmine, joking that bergamot is a fragrant gentleman and jasmine is a fragrant villain. Why kiss the villain and stay away from the gentleman? Yun also laughed: "I laugh that gentlemen love villains." A husband plays tricks on his wife and laughs at vulgarity as elegance.
Reading and reading, I can't help admiring Shen's wonderful and superb wife, and I can't help admiring Chen Yun. Her participation in daily chores also reveals ingenious wisdom and embodies originality, dictatorship and poetry. What a clever and lovely woman this is!
Couples and relatives were sweeping graves on the mountain. They picked up a pile of white stones with ridges and stripes and took them home. They stacked them into a mountain peak with Yixing rectangular boxes, which looked like a stone mountain near the water. Plant duckweed yourself and dill on the stone. In late autumn, dill hangs on the wall between rocks, and the water is full of white ping, which is a good picture of "flowing water falling out of flowers", but there is no trace of axe chisel.
Three glasses of wine, don't like many dishes. She made a "plum blossom box" from six two-inch white disks. Open the box and have a look, such as vegetables in petals, a box of six colors, two or three confidants can eat at will, and then add them after eating.
It's sunny in summer in the library, and the cloud is wrongly built with several black pillars, and the middle is wrapped in old cloth. It can cover up the decoration without spending money.
Sanbai and his friends care about the appearance of flowers and worry about the hot and cold food. Yunyun had a brainwave, hired a wonton burden from the city, and brought tea, warm wine and hot rice. The wine and vegetables are all ready and chewed up. The crowd said, "This is beyond your wife's power!" Laugh heartily.
Look, what a beautiful woman! Her cleverness and virtue are endless! No wonder Mr. Lin Yutang highly praised Chen Yun, saying that she was "the loveliest woman in China literature".
However, I am surprised that such a well-informed and unique aesthetic has gradually lost the favor of my husband's family.
Read the whole book carefully and you will understand. Although Yun's thought is superb, there are still some shortcomings in personnel handling. The disadvantages of large families are well known, and the love of young couples often becomes the cause of envy. Family etiquette in Shenyang is very serious. Parents, brothers and daughters-in-law all live together. At first, my mother was cautious everywhere, and then she gradually relaxed. In public, she also sits side by side with Sanbai. Of course, some people don't like it and start gossiping.
One year, working outside with his father, Shen Fu said that Yun could write a letter for Shen Mu. Later, there were some rumors in the family. Shen Mu thought that Yun could not write clearly and wouldn't let her write. Father Shen said angrily, "I miss your wife's disdain for ghostwriting!" " Non-success son afraid of shen mother unhappy, then don't explain.
When Sanbai was in Zhou Zhen, his younger brother Tang Qi borrowed money from his neighbor and asked his sister-in-law Yunniang as a guarantee. At the request of neighbors, Yun wrote to tell her, but accused her sister-in-law of meddling. Shen Fu also mistakenly thought that Yun borrowed money from himself but slandered his brother-in-law. He opened the letter and called Gu (Shenmu) your mother (your mother) and Weng (Shenfu) an old man (old man), but he flew into a rage and rebuked Yun for his outrageous behavior. Yun was afraid of hurting feelings, but he didn't explain. After reading this, I sympathize with her, but I can't help blaming her. Maybe I can call her "your mother" or "old man" in private, but it really shouldn't be in the letter. I don't agree with you if you don't explain the matter of borrowing money. I'm afraid my brothers are not in harmony and I want to compromise. Explain what should be explained, why look around. As a detached and generous mother, Nuo Nuo is the only one in the family! It can be seen that feudal family education harms people!
Sanbai is a man who values affection and righteousness. Because of this, he got himself into trouble. He helped his friend borrow money, but his friend absconded with the money and disappeared. Creditors come to you and harass you all day. Father Shen was furious: "I am a well-dressed family, how can I owe a debt to a villain!" " "It's hard to put it down, there's really nothing to do. After three or five major events, Sanbai and Yunniang were finally sent out of the house and lived in a friend's house in Lou.
Two years after moving to Xiao Shuang Building, Shen Fu took them home again. However, with the gradual decline of his family, coupled with concubinage and silly garden, Yun's health was hit and his family was bored, so he had to quietly go to the countryside to recuperate with his friends. This time, she was sick and worried, and finally died in another country! After reading "Sweet and Bitter Memories", Yun took a night boat to the countryside to bid farewell to his son Feng Sen. Feng Sen suddenly burst into tears and cried, "Mom won't go home!" After that, it was forever! That scene made people cry and burst into tears!
And the fool's garden is what I can't understand the most-mother sheep should take the initiative to take a concubine for Sanbai!
I really don't know what that mother thinks. Is it because you love Sanbai so much that you love it wholeheartedly? When she mentioned concubinage to Sanbai, Sanbai looked blank at first, and then strongly opposed it. And Yun accidentally went to visit a geisha she liked, named Hanyuan. Repeatedly refused, Sanbai had to prepare a concubine in Nanshan Garden. But then another rich man took Hanyuan away. Yun regretted it, but Gu Weng insisted: "Collaborate with prostitutes and ruin the family style!"
Alas, concubinage is really much ado about nothing and boring for three reasons. Later generations may not think that she is generous and tolerant. More importantly, she has deep feelings and similar interests with Sanbai, who is not a rich man. What do ordinary geisha know about elegance?
The Hanyuan incident reminds me of the love tragedy of Jiang Lutan, the author of the Collection of Poems of Yunshuilou, and his concubine Huang Wanjun. Huang Wanjun is also a geisha. She became a concubine when Jiang was nearly 50 years old. Although her family is poor, she is still very harmonious. Unfortunately, later, Jiang failed to borrow money, became ill and worried, and committed suicide by drowning. A group of poets and friends forced her to commit suicide because she was "poor and uneasy", regardless of the international nuclear accident level. Alas, it seems that love needs a material foundation, and it is difficult for poor people to expect perfect love.
In China's literary world, there are many hungry and cold literati, such as Du Fu and Liu Yong, who are the leaders of these impoverished literati. Shen's life is full of ups and downs. For a time, he even reached the end of his rope, with dry cakes hanging from his waist and mud shoes on his feet, sleeping in wild temples and borrowing money everywhere. But in the face of poverty and adversity, he is still open-minded, optimistic, patient and indomitable in dealing with life. He is really the best among the poor!
Whether he is on a business trip or working hard, he is still excited, maintaining his optimism in difficulties and experiencing countless scenery. Shaoxing, West Lake, Hanshan, Huizhou, Wangtengting, Guangdong, Hanguguan and even Taiwan Province Province. Idle fun, not happiness! He painted Twelve Books of Pushan Scenery with great interest, enjoying the moon in Shihu, playing the piano and flute, pointing out the landscape with friends, evaluating the scenery, enlightening the soul, and clearly standing out from the scenery admired by everyone.
I read "Travel Notes of the Waves" with great joy, and I sighed again and again in my heart. Look, despite the ups and downs of life, this is still a carefree loitering! Modern people's life is so lonely and monotonous that they are exhausted when they encounter trouble. How can they be as detached as Sanbai and laugh at suffering?
The words in Six Chapters of a Floating Life are as clean and elegant as pearls and jade. I have read about their hardships, their rock-solid will, and their noble and extraordinary spiritual qualities, whether in calm prosperity or in rough adversity.
Mothers don't care about jewelry, they often give it away generously, but they cherish those broken books and paintings. Collect residual books as "abridged fragments"; The damage to the painting and calligraphy collection is "abandoning the rest of the collection". After reading this, I deeply don't love red makeup, but concentrate on cherishing literature and art and pursuing a higher spiritual realm.
In the poor and humble room, there is still a quiet leisure. In the most common rice, oil and salt, it creates a little pleasure of "listening to the sound of the waves at night". Even a piece of stinky tofu can be enjoyed, which is a profound culture. After the cultivation of this culture, even suffering and vicissitudes will show peaceful beauty. It's just that this culture is almost beyond our power.
In the poor life, I have always maintained a fun heart; In the noise of the world, we always have an open-minded and peaceful heart.
"The country of July, and non-success fishing in liuyin. Buy chrysanthemums, plant them everywhere, and flowers will bloom in September, which makes Tao Ran very happy. Yunxi said:' This year, he and Junbu will build a garden around the house, buy ten acres of land, teach servants and grow melons and vegetables as wages. You paint and I embroider, thinking you need poetry and wine. You don't have to go far. ""From what he said, I know that he is really a man with a broken reputation, and I can really see where the fun comes from and where the fun comes from. The husband and wife put all their energy into nature, mountains and rivers, nymphs and the exploration of each other's wisdom and wit, but they don't care about the enjoyment of real material life.
"On the seventh day of July, in the Palace of Eternal Life, we secretly told each other in the quiet midnight world." The gorgeous love between Tang and Yang Guifei is too far away from us ordinary people, so we can only look at it from a distance and sigh. But the love between Sanbai and Yunniang is so vivid that it really makes my eyes moist. Their love for life and understanding of happiness are so pure and bright whenever and wherever. Mr. Yu Pingbo said: "Six Chapters of a Floating Life is like pure crystal, with no contrast in the bright shadow, only implication and no traces of production." Shen played down the clever words and explained the interest, joy, sadness and quickness of life. In the most ordinary life, he realized the truth of ordinary happiness.
Quiet and far away, indifferent to Zhi Ming. How many people have been able to do this for thousands of years? And Sanbai and Yunniang have really reached such a state!
I think, in this dusty and arrogant secular world, it is also a kind of Zen to light a lamp in front of the window, discover ordinary happiness with a clear book, and be suddenly enlightened in a lively field and in a bumpy and sad environment.
Postscript:
After writing this article, I suddenly couldn't find a suitable topic, just like writing Jiang Lutan at that time. I was shocked and confused.
The love legends of ancient literati in China are mostly tragedies. For example, he lived in seclusion in Taihu Lake and became a butterfly. And most of them are the sympathy of the world for their misfortune, which has become a happy ending.
The eyes of the world are mostly focused on famous legends. The love of people in cloth like Shen Yun is unknown if it is not recorded in books. Although their love is so extraordinary, they are small and ordinary people after all.
However, it is the love of ordinary people that deeply touched me. The most subtle impermanence reveals the love for life and the pursuit of a beautiful realm of life.
I think of a sentence in the Diamond Sutra: "The heart has no home." The heart is vast and boundless, but I don't care where I stay.
Chen Shen's love is like this. No matter where he is, he keeps the purest heart and is open-minded.
So I set the topic as "Heaven rewards diligence, floating life is sincere". No matter how rough and sad the floating life is, there is no place for his sincere Ming Che.