Author: Lu Xun
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There is a big garden behind my home, which is called Herb Garden according to legend. Now it has been sold to the descendants of Zhu Wengong with the house. Even the last meeting has been separated by seven or eight years, and it seems that there are only some weeds. But it was my paradise then.
Needless to say, green vegetable beds, smooth stone wells, tall acacia trees and purple mulberry trees; Needless to say, cicadas are singing in the leaves, fat wasps are crouching on cauliflower, and the swift call to the son of heaven (lark) suddenly rushes from the grass to the sky. Just around the short mud wall, there is infinite interest.
Oil flies sing here and crickets play the piano here. Turn over the broken bricks and sometimes meet centipedes; There is also Mylabris. If you hold down its spine with your fingers, it will clap and spray a puff of smoke from the back. The vines of Polygonum multiflorum and Manglietia are intertwined, Manglietia has the fruit of lotus house, and Polygonum multiflorum has bloated roots.
Some people say that the roots of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb are human-shaped, and they can become immortals after eating them, so I often pull them up, and I have been involved in pulling them up constantly, and I have broken the mud wall because of this, but I have never seen any roots like human beings. If you are not afraid of thorns, you can also pick raspberries, like small coral beads, which are sour and sweet, and their color and taste are far better than mulberry.
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From Herbal Garden to three pools mirroring the moon is a beautiful piece of music about childhood. In this well-known prose, the author described a world of childlike innocence for people with poetic brushwork.
The world is made up of two scenic spots with different colors and different moods. First, the Herb Garden, as its name implies, is a desolate place. As the work says, "It seems that there are only some weeds in it", but "it was my paradise at that time". The "grass garden" became a "paradise", during which it was full of childlike interest, and the work was composed around this.
Children's greatest psychological feature is curiosity. The natural form, natural emotional appeal and natural sound will inevitably arouse their interest and arouse endless associations. The cicada's "singing", the oiled bird's "singing" and the cricket's "playing the piano" are all children's curious imagination of the insect's "language". What Lu Xun described in the Herbal Garden is the paradise of children in the natural environment.
In the author's pen, the Herb Garden is a life world full of colors and sounds, and even in the green wild grass, there is a touching story. This story is full of sound and emotion, but it is glittering with gold, the wind is rustling, the ghosts are the narrowest, there is a lot of evil spirit, it is terrible and vivid.
Some people think that this is like idle writing. In fact, it seems to be an interruption with a pen, but it is very ingenious. As we all know, this is an ancient folk legend, and Lu Xun enriched the content of his works from another side with great interest. From the structural point of view, this story was triggered by the legend of "there is a big red snake" in the grass in the garden, which is full of literary spirit and has no sense of detachment.
More importantly, it reflects children's psychology and excavates the mysteries hidden in their hearts. As you can imagine, children love and fear the story of the beautiful snake. Technically, this interruption is to turn narrative into description, which opens up a new world for the work. As soon as the Herbal Garden permeates human feelings, it becomes more attractive, which is really a wonderful story.
Another landscape of the Herbal Garden is winter. The works focus only on catching birds in snowy days, how to set up institutions, how birds enter the country, how the father of Runtu teaches methods, and how he can't do it himself. Although there is not much ink, it is quite vivid. It is an animation full of children's fun. You can simply see the children jumping around and hear happy laughter from it.
When writing about summer, we use heavy ink and heavy colors, while writing about winter is an understatement. The transformation of this path is also very pleasing. Connecting these two pieces together constitutes a panoramic view of the Herb Garden, which shows "infinite interest". It is a children's paradise without worries and worries, and can laugh freely.
The situation in three pools mirroring the moon is completely different. Because of the different understanding of it, there are many speculations about the theme of the work and the author's creative intention. Some people think that three pools mirroring the moon outlined by Lu Xun is a feudal prison, which imprisons children physically and mentally, so the author intends to criticize the feudal education system. Others, on the other hand, think that three pools mirroring the moon, like the Herb Garden, shows children's fun.
Right and wrong, only by facing up to the reality of the work and making a realistic analysis can we get a more appropriate answer. Three pools mirroring the moon is a private school, as the works say, "it is the most severe school in the city". Its appearance is very old, what is "three flavors"? It is actually a book of classics, history and philosophy, and the name "three pools mirroring the moon" clearly shows the educational purpose and content of this private school.
In his works, Lu Xun vividly describes the stale flavor of three pools mirroring the moon. When students enter the school, they first salute Confucius memorial tablet, followed by Mr. Bai. They can only concentrate on studying Confucian classics at ordinary times, and they are not allowed to ask about other knowledge.
The daily course is also arranged in a very rigid way. Every day, you can only study the classics, "learning Chinese characters at noon and having classes at night". The number of books is gradually increased, and words are gradually added to the classes, "from three words to five words, and finally to seven words". The book house has a ruler for beating people, and there are also rules for kneeling.
In a word, three pools mirroring the moon is by no means a children's paradise like the Herb Garden. It is a veritable "most severe bookstore", where children are bound by rules and there is no freedom.
However, Lu Xun did not write the book house as a prison for children, which was not his original intention. After reading this work, everyone will truly feel that there is a cordial atmosphere flowing in the boring three pools mirroring the moon, which is children's humor.
There are three beautiful pictures, which are worth noting. One is the "Garden Drama Picture". There is a small garden behind the bookstore, and students sometimes sneak out of the classroom to play in it. Then there is the "Reading Map", where both teachers and students open their throats to read, but after reading it, the students' voices gradually dropped and even quieted down, and only the teacher shook his head and read aloud. This scene is really interesting.
Finally, there is "playing in class". During the class break, when Mr. Wang is "absorbed in reading" alone, the children will be naughty. These three humorous pictures seem to be a little out of proportion to the "most severe bookstore", but they just reveal Lu Xun's creative intention and show children's irresistible nature and instinct in the "severe" environment.
The structure of "Herb Garden" and "three pools mirroring the moon" is indeed in sharp contrast, but although the bookstore is a typical feudal private school, Lu Xun's intention is not to criticize. The title of this essay is "From Herbal Garden to three pools mirroring the moon", which points out the original intention and content of the creation, that is, describing the process and mental journey of oneself from "paradise" with "infinite fun" to "the most severe bookstore" in the whole city.
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