Chapter 60: Stream of Consciousness Literature
Chi Xueli stood on the stairs outside the hall, looking at the rice fields that could not be seen at all outside the ancestral hall: "It's okay, I want to see the two emperors Cong, and I should be very satisfied and happy to see their descendants inherit their will and achieve today's achievements."
"Elder, I think you should write down all of these and publish them in journals so that more people can know the history and stories here."
"I also graduated from Chinese, but I don't know a lot about what you are talking about today."
Zhou Zhi laughed secretly because this science is too large, and today's university education is still fast-growing, focusing on pulling the skeleton and building meridians.
These plump and fleshy things and textured things cannot be fully mastered in just one undergraduate degree in four years.
And there is no search engine now, you can only establish an index system in your mind through the horrible amount of reading. Otherwise, even if you are given a library, you will not even know which book you should read.
And after spending so much energy to study and master it, what can I do afterwards?
Apart from writing articles, there is almost no place to use it.
So, this is a science that is almost about to lose its life.
Unless the Chinese people begin to reshape their national confidence and urgently need to make up for the gap that makes the nation proud, and when this nation begins to re-examine and think about its own uniqueness and superiority, China's distant civilization, splendid culture, and its lasting vitality can become the object of everyone's roots and roots.
And this science will not be able to revive until then.
Zhou Zhi smiled and shook his head: "No need for this. The next learning task will be very heavy, and I need to focus on that end."
Chi Xueli said anxiously: "I think it is very necessary! Otherwise, you can send it to me after writing it and hand it over to me with confidence, and you don't have to worry about it."
Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "Then I'll write a travel note when I go back. This shouldn't be complicated. Come on, my sister will take a photo with me and Yang He."
Chi Xueli realized that at some point, his camera had already run to Zhou Zhi's neck and hung it. He took it down and said, "Wait, I'll put the camera on the stone pillar, let's come together!"
Under the sunset of Wangcong Temple, with the main hall as the background, the three of them left a photo with bright smiles.
On the way back to pick up the car, Chi Xueli asked, "Zhangzi, how did you get the foundation of classical culture and historical knowledge?"
Zhou Zhi said: "My fourth cousin came from a private school and later was admitted to Nanjing Education College, the National Palace Museum, which is considered to be a study inside and outside. My godfather is also very good. It is the foundation they laid for me."
Chi Xueli no longer regards Zhou Zhi as a high school student in ancient Chinese: "Just just heard you quote 'Wangdi's spring heart and entrusting the cuckoo'. Li Shangyin's poems are the most difficult to understand. I haven't understood them. Can you understand them?"
Zhou Zhi said: "Actually, the difficulty of Li Shangyin's poem lies in the "Untitled" series. Sister Xue Li wants to ask, is this, right?"
"Yes, yes!" Chi Xueli nodded like pounding garlic: "'The silkworm will not be able to die until it dies, and the candle will not dry until it turns into ashes'.'The moonlight in the sea has tears, and the sun in the blue field warms the jade produces smoke'. The sentence is extremely beautiful, but what is the theme of the poem? I can't understand it."
"That's because Sister Xue Li has entered a misunderstanding."
Several people wandered among the ancient cypresses. Zhou Zhi began to explain his understanding of Li Shangyin's "Unt title" to Chi Xueli: "There are several ancient and distant poems in China that are currently recognized."
"The "Pan Song" is a hunting poem: 'Broken bamboo, continue bamboo; flying soil, chase the burrow."
"The "Bitting the Soil" is a farming poem: 'Written when the sun rises, rest when the sun enters. Dicing a well and drinking, and plowing the fields and eating. How can the imperial power be with me?'"
"There is another poem, which is included in the "Classic Literature Grand View" published by Yuelu Bookstore, which is a celebration poem: 'Hand it, dance it, dance it'."
"No matter which poem it is, you can see the systematic structure of Chinese poetry, and the realistic narrative style is strong. It is used on this basis, namely the "Feng Ya Song, Fu Bi Xing" mentioned in the Book of Songs."
"If you put Li Shangyin's "Untitled" like this, you will find a problem, that is, what Sister Chi just said, the topic is unclear."
"Taking "Jinse" as an example, the first sentence begins with "Jinse" and "Fifty Strings of Unreasonable Brocade", recalling one's "Chinese Years" and circling the content scope of the poem."
"But the next two sentences of 'Zhuangsheng' and 'Wangdi' are actually only written about the destruction of hope and the nothingness of sustenance. They say 'you cannot get it'."
"The two sentences 'Canghai' and 'Lantian' contain the Buddhist theory of cause and effect, including flaws and regrets."
"The final 'remember' and 'lost' are the loss of the most cherished thing in the ignorance."
"Looking at the entire poem, Li Shangyin did not say what was the destruction and loss, regret and regret when he was young."
"We can use our understanding, which may be lifespan, health, family, 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."
"Did we really feel this flow of emotions and thoughts? Of course, we feel it, otherwise they would not have become famous works and passed down through the ages."
"So "Untitled" is really untitled. It writes about the flow of emotions and thoughts. What we need to feel is the flow of emotions and thoughts that the poet at that time blends with sadness, regret, and regret."
"These emotions are found in everyone, so the poet believes that his poems do not need to be understood, but only feel and resonate."
"This is actually separated from the spiritual core of the traditional Chinese 'poetry expresses one', or can be summarized by 'poetry expresses one'."
"And I think that ancient Chinese poetry is actually a magical process of co-creation between authors and readers. The text left by the poet is actually deliberately free, incomplete, and blank."
"And these jumps, incompleteness, and blank spaces are left to readers to automatically fill in their minds when reading."
"This process creates the realization of artistic conception, which is a very beautiful expression, transmission and reception process."
"So in this sense, Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is of course a poem, or a very clever poem."
"He doesn't even need you to understand, that is, you don't need to completely make up for those jumping, incomplete, and blank spaces. He also completes this beautiful process. Compared with ordinary poems, it is more romantic, fantastic and ethereal."
Seeing that Chi Xueli became more and more confused as she heard it, Zhou Zhi sighed helplessly: "Or let me change it, maybe Sister Chi is easier to understand."
"you say."
"There is a genre in Western literature that the academic community generally believes are the embodiment of symbolist literature in the field of novels."
"Because of its unique skills and high achievements, it is usually regarded as an independent literary genre."
"This genre advocates the 'reality' that the characters are subjectively felt on paper objectively and spontaneously."
"At the end of the 19th century, French writer Edua Dujardan published the novel "The Cut-down Laurel Tree". This work was regarded by later generations as the forerunner of this genre because it always used the artistic technique of "inner monologue".
"The French writer Marcel Proust, whose representative work "Remembering the Years Like Water", practiced the author's artistic conception of "subjective truth theory" and became a model of this genre."
"In 1919, the famous British novelist Virginia Woolf created "The Spots on the Wall". The work reveals the richness and ease of change of the human inner world through the infinite association process caused by a woman seeing a blurred spot on the wall."
"Is Li Shangyin's "Untitled Jinse" the same way of creation?"
Speaking of this, Chi Xueli finally understood: "stream of consciousness literature!"
"Yes! That's it!" Zhou Zhi said: "The skills of this genre include inner monologues, inner analysis, self-association, montage of time and space, and another key point is poetry and musicalization."
"Li Shangyin used only fifty-six words to express all the above techniques to the fullest!"
"So, whether in terms of creative techniques, creative ideas or creative propositions, Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is the earliest 'stream of consciousness literature' that appeared in this world!"
"The works of these writers in later generations are actually mixed with a lot of realistic materials. How can they be compared with these poems in terms of 'purity' and 'beautiful'?!"
Zhou Zhi began to be angry: "So I can't figure it out. There are so many people studying foreign literature. Doesn't anyone know about Li Shangyin's "Untitled"?"
"So many people study Chinese classical poetry. Doesn't anyone know about Western stream of consciousness literature?"
"But why no one connects it, why no one realizes that Li Shangyin's "Untitled" is the earliest and purest stream of consciousness literature?"
"Why no one realizes that the highly respected way of creation in the West began in the 20th century. It is an ancient Chinese poet who played the rest more than a thousand years ago, or is it a familiar thing for most Chinese people today?!"
"This is the extreme lack of cultural confidence! I admire foreign countries and believing in foreign countries, believing that foreign moons are rounder than Chinese ones! I have not deeply understood Chinese traditional classical aesthetics!"
"So the founder of stream of consciousness literature is not a Westerner at all; this method of creation did not appear in the 20th century at all."
"The founder and great achiever of this important literary genre should be the great poet Li Shangyin who was born in 813 AD in China and died in 858!"
"The true and pure classic masterpiece of this genre should be his "Untitled"!"
"Many people were impressed by Li Shangyin's talent and moved by the beauty of "Untitled", but most people ignored the era of poetry that was solidified by Feng Yasong Fu and Bixing. Li Shangyin's pioneering spirit of brave breakthroughs in creation and striving to innovate!"
"With an attitude towards stream of consciousness literature, reading Li Shangyin's "Untitled", Sister Chi, do you still find it difficult to understand until now?"
Chi Xueli was so excited that she shivered.
This is the lightest skill that you can pierce the window paper with one finger!
But it is also the most difficult skill!
Because many people haven't even done it when they walk to the window!
Grab Zhou Zhi's arm: "Eelbow! You must write another article! Write this out well!"
"Ah? Sister, are you waiting for me here?" Zhou Zhi thought for a while and shook his head firmly: "No, I won't write this."
"Why?!"
Chapter completed!