1. "detachment" and "contradiction"
Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is an excellent landscape essay. Written in July 1927, Zhu Ziqing taught in Tsinghua University and lived in Tsinghua University West Campus. The lotus pond mentioned in this article is located in Tsinghua campus. At that time, the Great Revolution failed, and white terror enveloped the land of China. Zhu Ziqing is also in anguish and hesitation. He himself knew that "only by participating in the revolution or counter-revolution can this panic be solved", but he finally chose "a temporary escape method". What is the reason? He once said to his wife Chen Zhuyin, "I only advocate a kind of neutralization in daily life." He also said that "my wife and children all mean my life" and "I should be detached for a while" (Chen Zhuyin's Yi Xian). But after all, he is a patriotic Democrat. Facing the dark reality, he can't be at ease with this "detachment". In "A Letter", he confessed: "These days seem a bit strange, like a boat in the boundless sea, like a hunter in the boundless forest ... my heart is in a mess, or it can be said to be a fire. Seems to be struggling. I want to understand something, but I don't seem to understand anything. " Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is a true portrayal of the author's thoughts of "detachment" and "struggle".
2. Wandering and depressed, not in cahoots with the secular.
This work was written in July 1927, during the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup. At this time, Zhu Ziqing's thoughts were very depressed. He is dissatisfied with the reality, but he can't see a way out. Under the influence of neutrality, he felt that "it is better to be detached for a while" and "be willing to forget for a while and do something he loves" ("Go there").
The article begins with a sentence: "I'm very upset these days." What is "restless"?
In a letter (September 27th), he wrote:
After living in Beijing for more than two years, everything is a dull past. If you want to say blessing, it is also a blessing. Because ordinary, like "rare", "confused", especially these days. ..... Now all I see all day is the same face, rigid sky and dusty ground; The Great Liu Gao Locust is just the Great Liu Gao Locust. So ruthless, there is nothing in my heart; Some are just themselves, their own homes. I tremble a little at the thought of my smallness; After all, it is not easy to enjoy happiness.
It seems strange these days. Like a boat in the boundless sea, like a hunter in the boundless forest. It takes a lot of effort to walk and talk; It's not satisfactory yet. Psychological mess, can also be said to be a fire. I seem to be trying to understand something, but I don't seem to understand anything. "A 17-year history, where to start?" You can borrow it as my recent footnote.
After reading the above words, it is obvious that the author was dissatisfied with the social reality at that time. The year before last, the March 18th massacre occurred in Beijing, and the author angrily wrote "The Executive Yuan Massacre" and "Mourning Wei Jiesan" (Mourning the Tsinghua students who died on March 18th). In the year when this article was written, a counter-revolutionary coup took place in Shanghai on April 12th, and the whole country was in a state of white terror. Isn't all the above the background of the author's "quite restless heart" It can be seen that Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is not for idle people to entertain themselves. After reading the article carefully, "I" swam to the lotus pond in the dead of night, treated the lotus flower and the bright and pleasing moon, and expressed my faint joy to eliminate the "uneasy" emotion, that is, the inner contradiction and depression, which showed that some intellectuals in that historical period did not collude with the secular and maintained their noble and upright feelings.
At the end of the article, "How much I miss Jiangnan" is the finishing touch, which implicitly reveals the reason why "my heart is quite restless". Zhu Ziqing in Jiangnan period, under the influence of * * * *, once struggled and appealed for revolutionary democracy. After the failure of the Great Revolution, the harsh reality of struggle plunged him into extreme depression and hesitation. On the surface, the word "static" is everywhere in the works, which describes and renders the "static" of the lotus pond from all directions and in various ways. In essence, the sentence "My heart is quite uneasy" was detained everywhere, precisely to highlight my inner "uneasiness" when the wind wrinkled a pool of spring water, and also to express my anguish and hesitation in looking back on the struggle career in Jiangnan.
3. Disillusionment, the pursuit of immediate peace
He used "quietness" in his article-the quietness of the path, the quietness of a person walking, the quietness of the lotus pond and the quietness of the moonlight, which reflected that he was "quite restless in his heart", "the road was gloomy and foggy" and the moonlight "fell in the jagged shadow, as if it were a ghost. The disillusionment of the ideal makes the moonlight landscape of the lotus pond shrouded in faint sadness, and we can no longer see the soft, lively feelings and vibrant spirit in the green.
In order to gain temporary peace of mind, he strolled on the lotus pond path with his hands behind his back, and suddenly felt "like going beyond his usual self and entering another world". This "world" is the realm of "the beauty of solitude". In this realm, you can think about everything and think nothing, and then feel that you are a free person. This freedom to enjoy the boundless fragrant moonlight without attachment is a reflection of his desire to get rid of the "restless heart" disturbed by reality and pursue instant peace of mind.
Under what background was Moonlight on the Lotus Pond written, reflecting the author's mentality there at that time, which is worthy of in-depth discussion.
1. "detachment" and "contradiction"
Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is an excellent landscape essay. Written in July 1927, Zhu Ziqing taught in Tsinghua University and lived in Tsinghua University West Campus. The lotus pond mentioned in this article is located in Tsinghua campus. At that time, the Great Revolution failed, and white terror enveloped the land of China. Zhu Ziqing is also in anguish and hesitation. He himself knew that "only by participating in the revolution or counter-revolution can this panic be solved", but he finally chose "a temporary escape method". What is the reason? He once said to his wife Chen Zhuyin, "I only advocate a kind of neutralization in daily life." He also said that "my wife and children all mean my life" and "I should be detached for a while" (Chen Zhuyin's Yi Xian). But after all, he is a patriotic Democrat. Facing the dark reality, he can't be at ease with this "detachment". In "A Letter", he confessed: "These days seem a bit strange, like a boat in the boundless sea, like a hunter in the boundless forest ... my heart is in a mess, or it can be said to be a fire. Seems to be struggling. I want to understand something, but I don't seem to understand anything. " Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is a true portrayal of the author's thoughts of "detachment" and "struggle".
2. Wandering and depressed, not in cahoots with the secular.
This work was written in July 1927, during the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup. At this time, Zhu Ziqing's thoughts were very depressed. He is dissatisfied with the reality, but he can't see a way out. Under the influence of neutrality, he felt that "it is better to be detached for a while" and "be willing to forget for a while and do something he loves" ("Go there").
The article begins with a sentence: "I'm very upset these days." What is "restless"?
In a letter (September 27th), he wrote:
After living in Beijing for more than two years, everything is a dull past. If you want to say blessing, it is also a blessing. Because ordinary, like "rare", "confused", especially these days. ..... Now all I see all day is the same face, rigid sky and dusty ground; The Great Liu Gao Locust is just the Great Liu Gao Locust. So ruthless, there is nothing in my heart; Some are just themselves, their own homes. I tremble a little at the thought of my smallness; After all, it is not easy to enjoy happiness.
It seems strange these days. Like a boat in the boundless sea, like a hunter in the boundless forest. It takes a lot of effort to walk and talk; It's not satisfactory yet. Psychological mess, can also be said to be a fire. I seem to be trying to understand something, but I don't seem to understand anything. "A 17-year history, where to start?" You can borrow it as my recent footnote.
After reading the above words, it is obvious that the author was dissatisfied with the social reality at that time. The year before last, the March 18th massacre occurred in Beijing, and the author angrily wrote "The Executive Yuan Massacre" and "Mourning Wei Jiesan" (Mourning the Tsinghua students who died on March 18th). In the year when this article was written, a counter-revolutionary coup took place in Shanghai on April 12th, and the whole country was in a state of white terror. Isn't all the above the background of the author's "quite restless heart" It can be seen that Moonlight on the Lotus Pond is not for idle people to entertain themselves. After reading the article carefully, "I" swam to the lotus pond in the dead of night, treated the lotus flower and the bright and pleasing moon, and expressed my faint joy to eliminate the "uneasy" emotion, that is, the inner contradiction and depression, which showed that some intellectuals in that historical period did not collude with the secular and maintained their noble and upright feelings.
At the end of the article, "How much I miss Jiangnan" is the finishing touch, which implicitly reveals the reason why "my heart is quite restless". Zhu Ziqing in Jiangnan period, under the influence of * * * *, once struggled and appealed for revolutionary democracy. After the failure of the Great Revolution, the harsh reality of struggle plunged him into extreme depression and hesitation. On the surface, the word "static" is everywhere in the works, which describes and renders the "static" of the lotus pond from all directions and in various ways. In essence, the sentence "My heart is quite uneasy" was detained everywhere, precisely to highlight my inner "uneasiness" when the wind wrinkled a pool of spring water, and also to express my anguish and hesitation in looking back on the struggle career in Jiangnan.
3. Disillusionment, the pursuit of immediate peace
He used "quietness" in his article-the quietness of the path, the quietness of a person walking, the quietness of the lotus pond and the quietness of the moonlight, which reflected that he was "quite restless in his heart", "the road was gloomy and foggy" and the moonlight "fell in the jagged shadow, as if it were a ghost. The disillusionment of the ideal makes the moonlight landscape of the lotus pond shrouded in faint sadness, and we can no longer see the soft, lively feelings and vibrant spirit in the green.
In order to gain temporary peace of mind, he strolled on the lotus pond path with his hands behind his back, and suddenly felt "like going beyond his usual self and entering another world". This "world" is the realm of "the beauty of solitude". In this realm, you can think about everything and think nothing, and then feel that you are a free person. This freedom to enjoy the boundless fragrant moonlight without attachment is a reflection of his desire to get rid of the "restless heart" disturbed by reality and pursue instant peace of mind.