I have more than one hometown, and all the places I have lived are my hometowns. My hometown has no special affection for me, just because I caught a glimpse of Sri Lanka. I met him day and night and got acquainted with him. Just like my neighbor in the country, although not a relative, I sometimes miss him later. I have lived in eastern Zhejiang for more than ten years and in Nanjing and Tokyo for six years. These are my hometowns. Now I live in Beijing, so Beijing has become my hometown.

A few days ago, my wife came back from Xidan market to buy food, and when she talked about selling shepherd's purse there, I thought of things in eastern Zhejiang. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is a kind of wild vegetable that people in eastern Zhejiang often eat in spring. Needless to say, in rural areas, as long as people in the city have a backyard, they can eat it at any time. The woman and the child each took a pair of scissors and a "seedling basket" and squatted on the ground to search. This is an interesting game work.

At that time, the children sang, "I want Malantou, and my sister is getting married at the back door." Later, some villagers in Malantou brought it to the city to sell, but shepherd's purse is still a wild vegetable and needs to be picked by itself. There has always been an elegant legend about shepherd's purse, but it seems to be dominated by Wu. "West Lake Tour" says: "On March 3rd, both men and women wear cauliflower. As the saying goes, flowers are worn in three spring, and peaches and plums are ashamed and prosperous. " Lu Gu's Jia Qinglu also said: "Mustard flower is commonly known as potherb flower, because there is a saying that ants go to the stove mountain on March 3. On the third day, people put potherb flower on the stove to hate insects and ants. Children who enter the village in the morning keep selling. Or the female hairpin prays for the bright eyes, and the vulgar eyes are bright. " But people in eastern Zhejiang don't pay much attention to these things. They just choose to cook or stir-fry rice cakes.

Huanghuamaiguo, commonly known as rodents, is a compositae plant with small round leaves, white hairs on the surface, yellow flowers and tufts at the top. Young leaves are picked in spring, mashed to remove juice, and mixed with flour to make cakes, which are called yellow wheat cakes. The children are full of praise:

The fruit of yellow-flowered wheat is tough and knotty,

You have to eat when the door is closed,

Half a napalm, eat one.

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, some families-probably those who kept the ancient customs-took yellow flowers and wheat fruits as offerings, but did not make cakes, made them into small pieces with big fingers or thin strips with little fingers, and made five or six pieces into one set, which was called cocoon fruit. I don't know what it means, or because silkworms hold sacrifices when they go up the mountain and use this kind of food, so it is said and unknown. I haven't seen cocoons since I went out to visit my grandparents' graves at the age of 12 or 13, and I have lived in Beijing recently, and I have never seen the shadow of yellow flowers and maiguo again. Japan is called "Imperial Shape", and it is one of seven grass in spring with Qi cuisine. It is also used as a snack, shaped like Ejiao and called "grass cake". I also eat it around the vernal equinox, but it will always be Japanese, and it is no longer the yellow flower wheat cake when I was a child.

There is also a kind of wild vegetable that is often eaten when sweeping graves, commonly known as grass purple and Chinese milk vetch. After the harvest, farmers sow seeds in the fields and use them as fertilizer. It is a despised plant, but it tastes as delicious as pea seedlings when dripped from tender stems. The flowers are purplish red and dozens of acres are contiguous. They are magnificent, such as covered with gorgeous carpets. They are very beautiful, with flowers like butterflies and chickens, which are especially popular with children. There are white flowers in the middle, which are said to cure dysentery. It is very precious, but it is not easy to get.

The Japanese haiku dictionary says, "This grass and dandelion are familiar things, and they have been familiar since childhood. There may be no women who have not picked Chinese milk vetch. " There were no garlands in ancient China, but the flowers of Chinese milk vetch are something that children often play with. I am thankful for those little people of this level. Eastern Zhejiang advocates grave-sweeping, so teenagers often watch Jiao Jiao on a grave boat with music. Although people who have no money have never advocated it, there are always some bouquets of Chinese milk vetch and rhododendron under the bow window, which is conclusive evidence of the grave on the ship.

Enjoy 1:

Wild vegetables in my hometown was published in February 1924, and it is also the representative work of Zhou Zuoren's prose Peace and Dilution.

Zhou Zuoren is a writer who attaches great importance to elegance. However, the elegance in his works is often born out of wildness. In this article, the author took pains to introduce shepherd's purse, Malantou, Huanghuamaiguo and their shapes, colors and uses, as well as the folk customs around them in eastern Zhejiang, and described vivid folk pictures, folk customs and folk songs for readers.

Artistic achievements: First of all, it has a peaceful and diluted style. Everyone has homesickness, but the author says that his hometown has "no special feelings" for him. This kind of homesickness seems to be too light, but he is obsessed with several kinds of wild vegetables in his hometown, and his writing is not full of interest, which invisibly reveals the depth of family ties and the deep homesickness, which is the consistent style of Zhou Zuoren's prose. Secondly, the system of soothing natural language expression and combining narration with discussion is a model of conversation style. Zhou Zuoren claimed to write an article to chat with "imaginary friends" and "just a conversation I wrote on paper". His articles are casual and intimate in gossiping. The so-called "words and wrists are legal", and it is free to speak at will. The wild vegetables in my hometown saw shepherd's purse from my wife's shopping, thought of the things that women and children in rural areas in eastern Zhejiang bought vegetables and the songs that children sang, quoted the relevant records in Travel Notes of the West Lake and Lu, and also thought of mouse grass and children's praise songs, as well as sesame seeds and grass cakes provided during Qingming grave sweeping. In the impromptu chat, I conveyed a carefree interest, writing about wild vegetables and folk customs. With his own personality and talent, he combined the style of western prose, the lyrical charm of China's prose, and the pen and ink interest of Japanese haiku, and formed a writing system of narrative discussion, which is "like coherence without trace, like rambling without foreshadowing, unable to stop, unable to delete, reading his words like hearing his voice, listening to his words like seeing his person". Reading Zhou Zuoren's prose is like sitting in a "bitter rain camp" and listening to the host's free, interesting and warm chat, forming a natural rhythm of "celebrities talking about the sky and wandering in the wild". In just 300 words, it is too simple to add one point and too short to subtract one point, but it is like mountains and rivers, with layers and changes. In this paper, three kinds of wild vegetables are written in different ways to make the writing more diverse. Thirdly, the integration of interest and knowledge fully shows the characteristics of scholar-like prose. Zhou Zuoren's knowledge is surprisingly profound. At all times, Chinese and foreign countries often use his prose to discuss problems and clarify things. This kind of discussion and quotation is so natural and effortless. For example, when writing shepherd's purse, I first saw the vivid picture of rural women and children squatting on the ground with a pair of scissors and a seedling basket, and then heard interesting folk songs and read them out. Fourthly, the concise, quaint, implicit and dignified language style has an astringent and simple taste, which is chewy and memorable. Zhou Zuoren did not attach importance to "pure oral style" prose. His language is based on spoken language, mixed with Europeanized language, ancient prose and dialects. It's astringent and tasty.

The aesthetic forms displayed in Zhou Zuoren's essays have made indelible contributions to enriching and prospering the categories of new literature and breaking the superstition that "vernacular Chinese can't write beautiful literature" in the early period of new literature.

Appreciate II

Zhou Zuoren is good at picking small topics that people don't say, and writing them with letters and pens is full of fun. Wild vegetables in my hometown is a novel describing the local customs of my hometown, which is full of fresh wild interest.

In this article, the author took pains to introduce shepherd's purse, Malantou and Huanghuamaiguo, which are familiar to him in his hometown. They are commonly known as sage and Chinese milk vetch, their shapes, colors and uses, and the folk customs in eastern Zhejiang. However, "shepherd's purse Malantou and his sister got married through the back door." "Huanghuamaiguo, when the door is closed, it is tough and hard: I want to eat it myself." Wild fun is really full of boiling. This is as Zhou Zuoren himself said: "Wang Ruanting's evaluation of Meng Lianggu is that his prose is indecent and gentle. It is no wonder that folk life is not as elegant as the literati expected, but it can be interesting and elegant if recorded truthfully, but it is not known to them. " However, if all of them are "truthfully described", it is likely to be mixed with some bad customs. Although families without money do not advocate it, the bouquets of Chinese milk vetch and rhododendron are always exposed under the canopy window of the bow. "The pen is extremely concise and clear, thus conveying the author's aesthetic taste. It can be seen that the folk customs are faithfully described in plain language and the wild interests are preserved; One of the opportunities is to taste this essay and some of Zhou Zuoren's essays with unique aesthetic standards. Not only that, Zhou Zuoren often promoted the folk customs of eastern Zhejiang to a profound cultural background. Although "Wild Vegetables in My Hometown" is only 1200 words, the quotation accounts for nearly one sixth. Among them, he quoted Tian Rucheng's Journey to the West Lake and Lu Gu's Jia Qingji, and took ancient times as an example. The folklore in eastern Zhejiang has been promoted to the level of cultural history, blending ancient and modern. Because of the author's unique life experience, he likes to attach photos to the customs of the East. For example, when he talks about yellow flowers and fruits, he compares it with the "imperial shape" of Japan. " Beijing has always had a Japanese flavor, but it is no longer a childhood yellow flower wheat cake. When describing Zi Yuying, he quoted "Fei Sentence", which fully reflected the author's common sense.