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—— Reading Chen Weiren's "Civilization of Landmarks" feels like

Zhou Junfang wrote

Ancient scholars advocated reading thousands of books and walked thousands of miles. Nowadays, it is not difficult to travel thousands of miles. The difficulty is that there are thousands of books and energy.

It has been 5 years to get the "Trace of the Landmark", and it has 10 years from the author to write this book. I have been looking forward to I can start, go to Western Europe, and bring this book. However, the world is changing rapidly, and the time of the white horse has passed. As a result, he was not moved, and his heart was far away. Open the first page, "The value of this book is greater than the reader's expectations. It is obviously our loss without reading it."

In the early autumn of 2012, the author Chen Weiren and his friends and moved to six European countries with a group for 11 days. Take a picture and take a photo, take the horse and watch flowers. However, with the keen and extensive knowledge reserves of the writer, he seized a few visits to the form of cultural prose, and welcomed the end of what he saw and thought, and explored the Renaissance, the French Revolution, Humanism, etc. European civilization has formed a series of unique historical discussions articles.

Approaching Florence, visiting Dante's home, the author wrote from Fei Lengcui to Dante, from architectural sculpture to "Ding Chuan", from the spiritual realm of "Divine Comedy" to "Dan Ding's awakening." A large amount of information comes up, the emergence of the European Renaissance is almost equivalent to a generation, Ding Ding, and the research of "Divine Comedy" of "Dream of Red Mansions". It really feels dizzying. What we are unfamiliar with is not a certain monument, a certain historical allusions or characters, but the civilization process of the entire Europe.

Those who have not been to Europe can be like me. With the footsteps of the author, they have walked through Dan Dan Dan Ding's House, Michelangelo Square, Santa Marco Square, Versailles Palace, Union Plaza, Paris Cavaliers, Royal Beer Hall, St. Peter, St. Peter, St. Peter The cathedral ... and the people who have been to, after reading it, will definitely be the first. Behind these iconic architectural attractions, there are such rich legendary stories, with such causes and consequences.

This is not a journey in a simple sense. At the moment of the development of information, if the writing travel notes stay in the injury and sigh caused by the scenery, it is too much. "Civilization of Landmark" is a new travel notes, "surpassing the scope and model of the past Yu Qiuyu and Lin Da cultural travel notes. A research theory ... "Zhang Hongping, a researcher at the Chinese Institute of Culture, commented that when you read such a book, you will feel that you can't think of what you can give you.

Writer Alai said: For the creators, "reading thousands of books, walking thousands of miles" is still the most effective way today. Wanli Road is to penetrate the people in depth and take root in the people. To the depths of real life, to increase experience, experience life, and breed emotions. Reading thousands of books is to continuously improve knowledge literacy and artistic cultivation, and enrich the reserves of culture and art. After all, accumulation is a prerequisite for creation.

Western humanities and geography are already manifestations. The author jumped out of the travel notes and only took the iconic location of the trip as a clue to bring a pocket of various door knowledge reserves. Obviously, there is no broad reading and deep thinking, it is extremely difficult to switch freely.

This is not only the scenery or oil painting, but not only architecture or sculpture, but through a point of appearance, but also see the profound significance. This is where the author is clever. What you see and hears, is concise and concise, and takes it through, and the important people and things, quoting the scriptures, were presented again and again, as if crossing time and space, lively, and pulled into the reader's eyes. "It has been staring at the breeze of Ding on the motionless wall for a long time, a hair curly, a sharp nose, and a dark complexion, but Ding Huosheng walked towards us ..."

"I glanced for a long time, but the relief avatars on Ding's residence, and some kind of perception suddenly risen in my heart: Dante's" Divine Comedy "made us get another pair of‘ eyes ’observed in the world?" ...

As an authentic Shanghai, Chen Weiren's vision and thought are relatively broad and avant -garde. In the discussion of Western figures, history, and ideas, he is not an aggressive praise, nor is he conservative opposition, but is full of philosophical reflection.

As a writer who knows Chinese traditional culture, in the course of exploring European civilization, he consciously views Chinese history and thinks about the current status quo. He believes that from Louis XIV from French autocraticization to the gentle monarchy, to the radical Reform Louis XVI, the author regards it as a trilogy of the era of the failure of the failure to the failure of the change. Extreme autocracy creates strong and glorious, gentle but like a short -lived, but the main reforms have intensified contradictions, falling into the calamity ... It seems a bit of paradox, but history is so real.

"I have been walking in the Plaza for a long time, one by one, one by one with the ruins of many story details in history. I stare at the silhouette below the subtle of light. Gaze is to find light with 'black eyes'. It is the space to surpass time. "His gaze was burned like the sunlight shot through the convex lens. In his eyes, the revolution interpreted on the historical stage of the square has a more vivid understanding; the Arc de Triomphe, which everyone watched and admired, saw the sadness and joy of "one will become famous"; A giant oil painting, thinking of a word of comedy master Blacht, "A era of calling for heroes is unfortunate."; From the Royal Beer Hall, I talked about Hitler's drums and shaking tongue, and my tongue was like a spring. "Determine Germany ... Whether it is the comment on historical figures or the explanation of religious development, the author stares with humanity and compassion, and the heart of love, quotes the scriptures, and sort out European history and civilization.

I love to read the writer's prose, and there are many of the contemporary writers. Wang Anyi "Porthaken Coast", Zhang Xiaofeng's "Go to the Mountain", Jia Pingwa "Jia Pingwa You Ji" Ye Weiqu "Zhou You Dream" and so on. The world is so big. Even if the high -speed rail of the plane is faster, how limited the places we can go throughout our lives can communicate with a soul with similar souls in a certain place, which is even more difficult. As a result, reading has become the lowest cost and convenient and fast way.

In the writers' calm or enthusiastic, or delicate or rough text expressions, they are immersive, with a sense of picture, frequent knowledge points, and classic sentences. It is probably more interesting than myself. There is a good saying in the old saying, "watching the scene is not as good as listening to the scene", because the scenery is solidified when watching, and when listening to it, it is more or less subjective and evil. As a result, in our minds, there is another association, just like the focus screen is covered, and its imaging effect is naturally extraordinary.

Our strangeness of the West is from the differences in the culture of East and West and the incompatibility of cognitive levels. Like southerners love rice and rice, northerners love steamed buns and noodles. In the end, whether to eat meat rice dumplings or sweet rice dumplings, the argument of the five -kernel moon cake or fresh meat moon cake has never stopped. It seems that no one has persuaded anyone. In the evolution of the world's civilization, more than just eating and drinking, there are legendary figures and classic paintings, such as annihilation, war killing, and praise poems and cross ... Generally, Lin Lin has disturbed, about history, which is the ups and downs civilization of civilization. course.

After reading the "Civilization of Landmarks", it seems that the iconic buildings of the six Western European countries stand in front of the eyes, as if the living people are gongs and drums on the stage, as if the picture is spread out, such as comic paintings, narratives, narratives, narratives A legendary story that comes out of breath. If I travel to Western Europe for one day, I still have a bit of impression in the book.

Fortunately, it is not difficult for most people to go abroad for most people. "Going to the world is conducive to gaining the" eyes of the world ", and washing your own arrogance and prejudice, inferiority and cowardice, narrow and shallow. In the hurried travel, I feel that my brother's eyes have become wide, clear, deep, deep, deep, deep There are many. In a sense, greatness is a kind of vision and mind, discovery and penetration. "Professor Wang Dongcheng, who was with Chen Weiren, said so.

Chen Weiren, who used to be the Secretary -General of the Shanxi Provincial Writers Association, created a blowout after retirement, and the old man continued to describe. Published "The Map of the Malaysia and the Yellow River", "The Shiku Tianshu of the Memory of Taihang Mountain", "Who Listening to the String", "Red Star Shining the Literature", etc., and it is not as good as young writers; especially the biography of the character "Tang The fifty years of the literary world "" Ten Facebook in Shanxi literary world "," Mozi Biography "," Liu Zongyuan Biography ", etc., their literati feelings and ingenuity are cited, which has attracted attention to the literary world. One of the representative writers.

In 2015, the article in the Book of Civilization of Landmarks was serialized in the Social Science Forum, causing the academic attention. Professor and critic Fu Shuhua of Taiyuan Teachers College and Wang Sanyi, a professor of history at Shanxi University, have been in the form of dialogue. One from a literary perspective, the other is from the world history, there is a derogation, a collision and difference, and the 15,000 words are sprinkled. Detailed discussion. In short, there are two conclusions: First, he thinks deeper than the average writer, and thinks more than researchers at the research institute. It is easy to understand than those European cultural history papers.

But for me, it is difficult to understand this book. For example, "with Freud's psychological analysis, we read more psychological connotations of Michelangelo. The anger savior in the Bible Moses became a thoughtful thinker of Michelangelo. Moses. "In a short sentence, multi -disciplinary knowledge such as psychology, sculpture art, and religious allusions.

It is a bit like reading "Dream of Red Mansions" to skip the poem subconsciously. The knowledge involved in the book is complicated. The perspectives of the discussion are mixed, running through ancient and modern, without sufficient knowledge reserves. It is undoubtedly a challenge to see a complete understanding.

Regarding the topic of reading thresholds, some writers believe that "should not avoid reading those difficult books", and I take it for granted.Popularity is only a kind of pastime, which is the value of a book.But it is not a higher level of cognitive improvement to make you rolling around and thinking about it.For 11 days of travel, some people have harvested hundreds of photos. Some people enjoy food and snacks in various places.The ability of the show, wrote the vigorous civilization and shining characters.This is really admirable!

Pay attention to learning everywhere, let us read thousands of books, walk thousands of miles, and be careless!

Friday, July 8, 2022

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