In the summer vacation of p>219, my son and I traveled to Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Nagoya for ten days, and stayed in several homestays of local people. Although both sides communicated in broken English, it did not prevent visitors from expanding their pupils to observe and admire Japanese scenery.

Every China person who has been to Japan will be confused. Before traveling, he may be confused about the order and neatness of Japan, and after traveling, he may be confused about the contradictions in all aspects of Japan.

The horror and darkness displayed in the opening ceremony of the 22 Tokyo Olympic Games shocked the whole world, and people who have been to Japan are even more confused. Which one is the real Japan?

Mr. Cai Lan, one of the gifted talents in Hong Kong, wrote a book "Japanese Scenery" more than ten years ago, which made readers appreciate the beauty of Japanese Scenery through words and his aesthetic perspective.

The two main writers of Sanlian Life Weekly collated many articles about exploring Japanese culture in recent years, and assembled them into The Story of Japanese Scenery to show the aesthetic origin of Japanese culture's sadness, mystery and silence.

Even the geography, food and culture in a foreign country are described in two dimensions to show the imaginary experience of the thinking space. Even readers who have never been to or even heard of this place can open their senses and gradually become clear in their minds.

Japanese Scenery is different from travel notes. Every article explores the producers, appreciators, traders, families and enterprises that have a deep influence on it, and then a Japanese cultural appeal, which gradually forms a concept from dominance to invisibility, and then into cultural awareness.

in Japan, scenery poems (Japanese: scenery poems/ふぅぶつしし) refer to things that are representative in the seasons and can be reminiscent of other seasons.

the scenery poems of a season are often closely related to people's customs and life in this season, which can be natural phenomena, cultural activities, sensory experience, biology, seasonal commodities, and so on. This is also the difference between the scenery poems and the seasonal language in Haiku. Compared with it, the scenery poems are not limited to several traditional words defined since ancient times, but can better reflect people's actual life and the deepest season in the current society.

Tao Qian, a poet in the Jin Dynasty, wrote a poem preface in You Xie Chuan: "The weather is peaceful and the scenery is beautiful." The word "scenery" was first used. However, from ancient times to the present, the meaning of a word also includes a kind of cultural connotation from concrete objects.

Japanese people have a reverence for "things", and "things" that are lifeless and useless will be carefully and meticulously taken care of by their owners. This was deeply felt during my trip to Japan. The items in each hotel are not as few as possible like convenience hotels, but as harmonious and stable as everything grows in the corner.

that kind of stability, if you don't move too much, you won't be in danger of falling. That kind of stability, if you don't observe it with your eyes wide open, is hard to pay special attention to. I can't describe this feeling of letting guests not move around at will, just wanting to enjoy it quietly, which is rare in China.

The two words "Jane Su" and "worshipping things" mentioned in Japanese Scenery made me suddenly enlightened. Yes, these two words are hardly used in China, but they are really appropriate to describe the small objects displayed in Japanese houses.

Later, I realized why these two words fit so well. It turned out to be a fundamental philosophical category in Japanese culture. Being in Japan, being in a Japanese family, and being immersed in Japanese culture wholeheartedly, as a foreigner, I am constantly looking for words to describe that strange feeling. These two words are not just descriptions of objects, but an understanding of the unity of people, things and environment.

Today, more than 1 years after the Meiji Restoration, Japan has passed the crossroads of cultural conflicts between the East and the West. Obviously, its journey does not follow a certain straight line or ray, so it gives people a dizzy feeling of three-dimensional painting, and when you squint, you can see the core of China's traditional culture clearly.

After reading Japanese Scenery, I finally understand the root of the contradiction, and I also understand any contradiction that my eyes and ears can touch. Japan is the country with the best preservation of tradition in the world, and it is also the country with the most thorough "separation".

Tang objects in Zhengcang Courtyard remind people of the flying sky in Dunhuang, while the mountains and rivers in Austria remind people of the Book of Songs. The author says that it is most appropriate to describe Japanese mountains and rivers and look for Wang Xizhi's poems and fu. At the same time, the matchbox-like townhouses are well designed, and the stairs and bathrooms used by just one person reveal the ultimate of human wisdom everywhere.

The opposition between "big" and "small" really gave me an inexplicable "sadness" when I lived in the imperial city. I'm not sure that it was the "sorrow of things" in Japanese aesthetics, but I have understood the hidden feelings behind this concept since then.

The deeper you understand it, the more you understand that perhaps the confusion is getting farther and farther away from the cultural core of Japan, and perhaps contradiction is the cultural attribute of Japan.

Walking on the sloping road in Kyoto, sometimes I suddenly think of Natsume Soseki's delicate and deep sadness, and sometimes I am aroused by colorful kimonos and Japanese fans, and I walk into the crowded storage, home, convenience stores and modern places around the corner, and I am actively emphasized by the modern spirit of changing from complexity to simplicity.

In a century-old town house in Nara, the hostess is a Japanese stay-at-home housewife, who takes her two sons to pick up and drop off tourists by car and take care of all the living facilities and hotel transactions at home.

She spoke softly, dressed in Muji's plain clothes and a brown sun hat, and walked quietly and simply through the crowd.

Walking in Japan, many people, like me, have unspeakable ambivalence, which is the evil influence formed by the intangible consciousness of history. "What I have to admit is that Japan has really absorbed China culture", and after the economic take-off, I saw its hardships in the process of "self-seeking and self-confirmation for a long time", which is the reason for the contradiction of Japanese style spirit.