Suzhou, a 2,500-year-old ancient city, outside the window, "the ancient city is drooping with vines and the tiger hills are hidden in the night sky"; Indoor, it is the TV broadcast of the National Day of the United States and Australia; On the other side of the ocean, it is an "empty lane" to celebrate National Day. The author shows "the glory of America and Australia in 200 years" and the empty lanes of Suzhou in 2500 years by switching shots from overseas, to the streets of Suzhou and then to indoor TV broadcast. In the triple contrast, visual impact can not help but make people feel sorry and thoughtful. How did history treat Suzhou? Why did this "white-haired" venerable person receive such a cold reception? It also laid a strong emotional tone for the future of Suzhou.
Suzhou is a place where you can "soothe the wrinkles in your heart" and give people a "real rest". "Soft words, good looks, elegant gardens and deep streets" all show its ancient charm, and it is a pure land isolated from modern cities, just like Zhou Zuoren's Wu Peng boat. However, even with more civilized means of transportation, "Suzhou's position in the cultural history of China is unfair". Although Wu Yi's soft words appeased the literati, they were actually pondered by the contemptuous words of the literati, and historians' eyes "rarely stopped in Suzhou". In contrast, Suzhou has become an abandoned wife, from being liked to being abandoned and even being scolded.
The author said that Suzhou was unfair because it lacked the kingship of Jinling and could not open the battlefield. War in history is the beginning of endless suffering. Facing the language of literati, Suzhou, burdened with all kinds of charges, inevitably sits silently like an old man, adding a little elegance and harmony to elegance.
There was a war in Suzhou's history, but the victory of wuyue War was in Huiji, but Suzhou was the land of national subjugation and king subjugation. The struggle between wuyue is inextricably linked, but the people suffer the most. In historians' comments, Suzhou's value in Wu was narrowly belittled by the theory of monarch's success or failure. Suzhou people themselves ignore "you are king, he is king", keep a "warm heart" and live their own leisurely life. The contrast between historians and Suzhou people shows that Suzhou people are not individualists who only care about "self-improvement", but the image of an old man who is tolerant, open-minded and optimistic about history. Historians' comments are inevitably "politicized" and fail to comment on history from the perspective of the bottom people. The depoliticized life of Suzhou people is the most authentic and simple side of human nature. "Suzhou people are not reconciled to the tragedy of Shi's girl drowning after being used", so they adapted a new work with a happy ending, retaining the traces of Shi, making people respect Shi as a person, a woman, a wife and a mother, and reinterpreting her historical significance. This compassion shows "Suzhou's knowledge and measurement". History is a tool abandoned after the national subjugation, and Suzhou's position in history is unfair, which means that "the world is far apart". On the other hand, the attitude of Suzhou people is a respected person who learned to let go in adversity.
The gentle Suzhou people did not resist. "Lindong party member opposes Wei Zhongxian", and the whole city of Suzhou opposes the arrest of Lindong party member by Suzhou court. When China showed great respect for Suzhou, "Suzhou people just smiled and went back to live". By being realistic in history, I blame the literati's views on Suzhou people's "playthings" and the historian's comments on "Suzhou lacks the king of Jinling" in comparison. Suzhou, which has come out of history, is clearing its name and feeling the mystery of time and space and the heavy sense of history between "emptiness" and "reality"
Suzhou people are always at ease, ensuring talents. "If you buy and sell a green hill freely, you won't make money on the earth." The story of San Xiao is about Tang Bohu, a talented person in the south of the Yangtze River. History is inevitably heavy in the alternation of dynasties, but prodigal artists such as Tang Bohu are lively and full of vitality, just like hearing birds sing in an empty forest and finding red flowers on green grass, and they find unity of opposites and humor in the long river of history. In addition, there are many honest men among Suzhou literati. When the Ming Dynasty perished, Jin Shengtan was killed for crying.
As a white-haired ancient city, Suzhou has a bumpy road ahead. Compared with the modern city of the younger generation, it faces the fate of being buried. In the contrast and collision between "ancient culture" and "new culture", the future direction of Suzhou becomes blurred. What choice should it make? The closed door seems to be a story buried in history, but the opera house is full of modern literati's talk. In the big cultural background, this contrast is full of fun. The gap between ancient rhyme and present rhyme seems to be the fault of the times, or the gap between the older generation and the younger generation. As mentioned at the end of the article, the author puts the problem in the "deep alley" of Lu's works. If an old man comes out of the door, "I will be satisfied and sad"; If I were a young man, "I would be both happy and sorry." I think only by combining these two groups of opposites is the most satisfactory answer to the times.
In the whole thesis, the author uses the comparative methods of ancient and ancient, ancient and modern, modern and modern to show us all aspects of Suzhou and Suzhou people. Suzhou is full of vigor and ancient charm. Suzhou people are both gentle and enthusiastic, and they are strong. Through the transformation of time and space, readers can be "virtual" and "real", "ancient" and "ancient".
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① White-haired Suzhou is selected from Cultural Journey.