Winter in Jinan
For a person who is used to living in Beiping, it is a miracle that it doesn't blow in winter. There is no wind in winter in Jinan. For a person who has just returned from London, it is strange that I can't see the sun in winter; Jinan is sunny in winter. Naturally, in tropical places, the sun is always so poisonous, so loud and a little scary. However, in winter in the north of China, Jinan is really a treasure house with warm and sunny weather.
If there is only sunshine, it is not surprising. Please close your eyes and think about it: an ancient city with mountains and water is basking in the sun, sleeping warmly and comfortably, just waiting for the spring breeze to wake them up. Is this an ideal realm? The mountain completely surrounds Jinan, except for the lack of some food in the north. This circle of hills is particularly lovely in winter, as if Jinan were put in a small cradle. They whispered, "Don't worry, it will be warm here." Really, people in Jinan laugh in winter. As soon as they saw those hills, they felt that they had landed and leaned over. When they saw the mountains from the sky, they unconsciously thought, "Tomorrow may be spring, right? With such warmth, the grass may turn green tonight? " Even this fantasy can't be realized for a while, and they don't worry, because there is such a charity winter, what else do they want!
Best of all, it snowed a little. You see, the dwarf pine on the mountain is getting darker and darker, and there is a bun of white flowers on the top of the tree, like a Japanese wet nurse. The top of the mountain is all white, and there is a silver edge on the blue sky. On the hillside, there is thick snow in some places, and grass color is still exposed in some places; In this way, one is white, the other is dark yellow, and the mountain is covered with a floral dress with water patterns; Looking at it, this floral dress seems to be blown by the wind, which makes you want to see more beautiful goatskin. When the sun goes down, the yellowish sunshine is obliquely sprinkled on the hillside, and the Bo Xue seems to suddenly blush with shame, showing a little pink. It's just a light snow. Jinan can't stand heavy snow. Those hills are so fragile!
Ancient Jinan, the city is so narrow and spacious. There are some small villages lying on the hillside, and there is some snow on the roofs of the small villages. Yes, this is a small ink painting, probably painted by a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty.
What about water? It did not freeze, but steamed on the green duckweed. Seaweed is really green, and all the green stored all the year round is taken out. The clearer the sky, the greener the algae. With these green spirits, the water can't bear to freeze, and those weeping willows with long branches will take a picture in the water! Look, slowly rising from the clear river, the sky, mid-air and sky are so clear and blue from top to bottom, and the whole is an ethereal blue crystal. In this crystal, there are red roofs and yellow grass hills, like the gray shadows of small flowers on the carpet. This is Jinan in winter.
Appreciation of Winter in Jinan Winter in Jinan is a successful landscape prose. His landscape painting art is commendable. To sum up, the art of landscape painting in the article has the following points.
(A) firmly grasp the main features of the scene to write, so that the full text of the same tone, color harmony.
Although Jinan is located in the north of China, there is no strong wind in winter, but there is plenty of sunshine. The most striking climate feature in winter is "warm and sunny" (warm and sunny). The article firmly grasps this point, so that all kinds of scenery in the pen are closely linked with this "warm and sunny" weather, which constitutes a warm and sunny winter picture of Jinan. Articles about mountains, water, cities and people are all painted with a layer of warm sunshine. Even writing snow scenes is still related to warmth-because of warmth, "it is best to have a little snow"; And can not do without sunny-because sunny, so there is a "wait until the sunset, pale yellow sunshine slanting on the hillside, that wave of snow seems to suddenly hurt shame, slightly red" scenery.
If the second paragraph mainly focuses on the panoramic view of Jinan, the third and fourth paragraphs mainly focus on the mountain view of Jinan, and the fifth paragraph mainly focuses on the water view of Jinan, then the full text is a long axis composed of these interrelated and relatively independent drawings. And this long axis is unified by this "warm and clear" tone, giving people a harmonious and consistent aesthetic feeling.
(two) the level of the scene, properly arranged, so that the scene is immediate and orderly.
The ancient Jinan, with beautiful scenery, is known as "every family springs, every family inserts willows" and "a city with mountains and half a city with lakes". How can we better show these perfect scenery to readers? This is a question of writing the order of scenery. The article first gives readers a bird's-eye view of the whole city (the second paragraph), then gives readers a full view of the mountains and the sunset after the snow (the third and fourth paragraphs), and finally leads readers to the weeping willow bank to enjoy the waterscape where "the water is not frozen and steamed on the duckweed" and the algae are greener (the fifth paragraph). Write from big to small, from mountain to water, with distinct levels and clear context. Naturally, this is for all levels, and there are similarities and differences within each level. For example, the second paragraph is about scenery and people, the third paragraph is about snow and sunny, and the fifth paragraph is about water and sky. The style of writing is vivid without losing the purpose of uneven levels.
(3) the distance and the size of the scene are appropriate, so that the scene is either a hundred miles long or a thousand miles long.
Let's see, in the author's pen, a huge Jinan can be placed in a small cradle surrounded by mountains, and the magnificent scenery is just an "ethereal blue crystal". This is the farthest thing from the scenery. Look again, "There is a bun of white flowers on the top of the tree, like a Japanese wet nurse", "The seaweed is really green, and all the green stored all year round is taken out", which is the closest thing to the scenery. Long-term vision makes people broaden their horizons and feel relaxed and happy; The close-up of a small scene makes people look carefully and listen attentively, making the scene more vivid. Moreover, the long-term vision can break through the limitation of "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but toward which corner of the mountain", while the short-term vision can avoid the disadvantage of "seeing the trees but not the forest". The ancient poem goes: "The distant mountains are colored, and the water near them is silent." This means that unless you look from a distance, you can't see that the mountains are actually colored, and unless you listen carefully, you can't feel that the running water is silent. Thus, regardless of distance, landscape writing techniques can not be ignored. If used properly, you can kill two birds with one stone.
It is worth noting that when this article writes about landscapes, it not only uses distance, but also details are big and small, and it is often from near to far, from small to big, or from far to near, from big to small, and the writing is closely related to promoting nature. For example, the scenery in the fifth section, from near to far, from fine to large: first, the water is steaming, then the algae, then the weeping willows, and then the sky above the water, even the air and the sky. The scenery in the fourth paragraph is from far to near, from big to small: first write outside the city, then write on the hillside outside the city, then write on the small village on the hillside, and then write about the snow on the roof of the small village. This kind of writing not only conforms to the logical order of narration, but also meets the visual needs of readers. No wonder the author is willing to adopt it.
(4) Appropriate methods of setting off the scenery make the images of the scenery more vivid in mutual setting off.
Some scenery is beautiful in itself, and it is even more beautiful against other scenery. There are also some landscapes that are not so beautiful in themselves, but they are beautiful against other landscapes. Of course, some scenery itself is beautiful, but once it is set off with other scenery, it loses its original beauty. As Lu Xun said, "It is still called a" work of art "to carve a preface to the Lanting Pavilion on an ivory tablet, but if it is hung on the wall of the Great Wall in Wan Li or at the foot of the Zhangba Buddha statue in Yungang, it is too small to be seen, even if enthusiastic people try their best to give directions. Therefore, the key to writing a good landscape is not only to set off, but also to set off just right. If set off properly, they can complement each other and turn mediocrity into magic.
In this paper, a group of white flowers is set off on the top of the tree with short pine, green and black; Set off the blue sky with all-white peaks; There is a piece of white on the hillside, which sets off a dark yellow; With a yellowish sunset, Bo Xue's slightly pink is set off. Colorful and pleasing to the eye, they are all wonderful pens that set each other off.
The "Yellow Grass Mountain" and "Little Gray Shadow" mentioned in the article are not very beautiful in themselves, but the article puts them in the following passage to show their beauty:
Look, slowly rising from the clear river, the sky, mid-air and sky are so clear and blue from top to bottom, and the whole is an ethereal blue crystal. In this crystal, there are red roofs and yellow grass hills, like small gray shadows of flowers on the carpet; This is Jinan in winter.
Please close your eyes and think about it. Open your eyes and have a look. This is a world made up of colored dots! However, "Huangcaoshan" and "Little Gray Shadow" are indispensable parts of this beautiful painting.
(5) The combination of reality and reality in scenery description makes the scenery look like a fairy tale.
It is undoubtedly necessary to write the image of the scene, such as the article "There is a bun of white flowers on the top of the tree, like a Japanese wet nurse" and so on. However, if we want to be more vivid than description, we have to rely more on imaginative writing. Therefore, in the author's pen, Jinan, which is sunny in winter, has the expression of "sleeping warmly and comfortably, just waiting for the spring breeze to wake them up"; A circle of hills surrounded by the city will also whisper "don't worry, it will be warm here"; Bo Xue will have a sense of shame of "showing a little powder"; Algae will have the spirit of "taking out all the green stored all the year round"; As for water, you can have a kind heart for seaweed. As for the hillside with uneven light snow coverage, it is natural to "put a floral coat with water lines on the mountain" and "those weeping willows with long branches should take a picture in the water", which is also a vivid sentence in the article.
(6) Point the topic appropriately to make the benefits contained in the landscape itself more obvious.
One of the reasons why a painting has an inscription is that the inscription can make the benefits contained in the painting more obvious. It should be said that the inscription is an organic part of a painting, although it is not the scenery itself. Similarly, it is permissible for the author to directly point out the theme of his landscape. If he points out the theme, it is not dispensable. The topic of this article is very targeted, and a few words will make the finishing point. For example, after describing the snow scene in the hills, the article suddenly turned the corner and asked the author to talk about the topic as a commentator: "It just snowed, Jinan can't stand the heavy snow, and those hills are too delicate!" This can be said to be not only outside the described picture, but also within the described picture, because it is inherent in the picture and a little unclear. As soon as it is pointed out, the beauty of a little light snow (not heavy snow) in Jinan will come to my face.
Don't digress, and don't overdo it. The title of this article is just right. When we ponder the full text and read the last sentence "This is Jinan in winter", there seems to be a feeling of wanting more. It seems that we can start a new paragraph and add two sentences to end the full text: "I love Jinan in winter, I love Jinan in winter." But if you think about it carefully, it is superfluous, because the readers of Ming Min should and will come to such a conclusion from the scenery described in the article and the feelings expressed. Why wait for the author to rap again? What's more, following the logic of the article, readers have the right to think more, bigger and farther, such as loving their hometown and motherland, and so on. These questions are endless. This may be the reason why the author brought the article to an abrupt end.