I curse the ruins, and I sympathize with the ruins.
The ruins swallowed up my expectations. I clearly remember pieces of rubble scattered among weeds and broken stone pillars standing in the sunset. The records in the book and childhood fantasies were all destroyed in the ruins. The glory of the past turned into ridicule, and the ancestors of entrepreneurship roared in the cold wind. As night fell, the unknown moon smiled bitterly and hid in the clouds, casting a shadow over the ruins.
However, the accumulation of generations is not a historical story. Ruins are destruction, burial, farewell and choice. The power of time should leave traces on the earth; The great ship of years should crush the bumps between lanes. There is no yesterday without ruins, and there is no today and tomorrow without yesterday. Ruins are textbooks, let's read a geography as history; Ruins are a process, and life is to start from old ruins and move towards new ruins. At the beginning of the construction, I thought of its future decline, so the ruins are the destination; The renewal construction is based on the ruins, so the ruins are the starting point. Ruins are a long evolutionary chain.
A friend told me that he once walked into a famous ruin and looked up with tears in his eyes. The composition of this tear is very complicated. It is a monk's hatred, a loss, and not entirely. The ruins show stubbornness, like a disabled tragic hero. The ruins show the vicissitudes of life, and people can see the deception of the national steps. The ruins are the instructions of the dying old man, so you can't help but be moved.
Ruins have a kind of formal beauty, which transforms the beauty from the earth into the beauty attached to the earth. If there are many teenagers, they will become dirt and completely melt in the dirt. The stage that won't melt is a ruin. The mother smiled to encourage her sons' creation and accepted it with a smile. The mother is afraid that her sons will be too tired and the world will be too congested. Have you ever seen yellow leaves fluttering in autumn? Mother is afraid that they are cold and embraces income. There is no autumn without yellow leaves, and the ruins are the yellow leaves of the building.
People say that the meaning of yellow leaves lies in feeding spring. I said yellow leaves are beautiful, too.
Two friends argued in front of me. One said that he likes to walk alone in the ruins on the night when the stars and the moon are gone, or sing poetry or sing until the east turns white. Another said that with the expectation of morning light, this kind of night outing would be gone. His habit is to take advantage of the twilight of the waning moon and find a path to walk back quietly.
As for me, I am older than them, and I don't have such arrogance and energy. I am afraid that people will refresh, repair and rebuild all the ruins.
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I can't imagine. The Colosseum in ancient Rome needs to be rebuilt. The ancient city of Pompeii needs to be rebuilt, the Hogg Cave in Cambodia needs to be rebuilt, and the Mayan cultural sites need to be rebuilt.
It's like we can't imagine that the ancient bronzes in the distance need polishing, the broken halberds on the ground need nickel plating, the books in the Song Dynasty need plastic surgery, and the old lady in the Han Dynasty in Mawangdui needs skin grafting, breast enhancement and heavy makeup.
As long as history does not stop and time does not go backwards, everything will grow old. When you are old, give the world a kind of beauty peacefully. Pretending to be naive is the cruelest form of self-abuse. Grandma without wrinkles is terrible, and old people without white hair are sorry. Life without ruins is too tiring, the land without ruins is too crowded, and the act of covering up the ruins is too deceptive.
Let history return to reality and life return to the process.
This is the great wisdom of mankind.
Of course, not all the remains are worth preserving, otherwise the earth will be scarred. Ruins are envoys sent from ancient times to modern times, which have been selected and screened by historical kings. Ruins are feats launched by our ancestors, which gathered the local strength and essence at that time. The ruins smashed to dust are not ruins, but they should have the strongest ligament in history. Ruins can provide the possibility of reading, and the ruins exude the magnetic force that makes people linger. Yes, the ruins are a magnetic field. Extremely old. Very modern. You should feel the compass of your mind strongly here. If you lose magnetism, you will lose the life of the ruins and will soon be eliminated.
Not all repairs are absurd. Carefully clean up, reinforce without showing traces, and then painstakingly design to keep the original flavor and easy to watch. This kind of work is the gospel of ruins. The ultimate goal of all work is to make it a veritable ruin, a ruin that everyone is willing to mourn. Restoration always means a certain degree of damage, and it is the long-cherished wish of all real ruins restorers to minimize the damage. Not all reconstruction needs to be denied. If even the ruins are gone, it's no harm to rebuild one to realize the ambition of modern people to swallow the past, but that's just the classical style of modern architects, using an old name out of humor. The Yellow Crane Tower has been rebuilt and can be installed with elevators. If Epang Palace is rebuilt, it can be used as a hotel. If the Knee King Pavilion is rebuilt, a shopping mall can be opened. This has little to do with history. If there are both ruins and reconstruction, then I suggest that the ruins be preserved and rebuilt next door. It hurts to fly a plane in the ruins.
Whether it is restoration or reconstruction, the essence of the remains lies in preservation. Yuanmingyuan site is one of the most historic cultural relics in Beijing. If it is completely razed and a brand-new Yuanmingyuan is built, it will not be worth the candle. The Qing dynasty is gone, the raging flame is gone, the haze of the nation is gone, the feelings of history are gone, the story of last night is erased, and the dream of last night is cleaned up. However, it was not last night's dream that was cleaned up, but today's game.
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China has always lacked ruins culture, and the word "ruins" is very scary in Chinese. Either winter is full of nostalgia or pragmatism. Those who yearn for the past only want to make use of the ancient present, while those who follow the times only want to destroy the ancient present. As a result, both sides fought and lost, which hurt history and modern times. Bloody and scarred, such a big country, in front of me, where are those lost times? Behind me, where are the future generations? I was alone, and my tears fell.
Leave some blank in the hearts of China people! Let the ancients leave a few footprints in modern times, and let modern people calmly stare at the inspirational poems of the ancients. In ancient times, ruins were not shameful, and there was no need to cover them up. We are too good at covering up.
China's history is full of tragedies, but China people are afraid to see the real tragedy. In the end, everyone has a happy reunion to win emotional comfort and psychological satisfaction. Only Qu Yuan, Du Fu, Cao Xueqin, Kong, Lu Xun and Bai Xianyong did not want a happy reunion. They preserved the ruins and purified the tragedy, so there appeared truly profound literature.
There is no tragedy without tragedy, and there is no sublimity without tragedy. Xuefeng is great because the hillside is full of the remains of climbers; The sea is great, because there are sunken ships floating everywhere; The moon landing was great because of the fall of Challenger. Life is great, because there is white hair, farewell and helpless loss. Ancient Greece lived by the sea, and countless warriors who yearned for the other side went wave after wave, so there was a brilliant Greek tragedy.
Sincerely but naturally admit the failure after the struggle and the loss after the success, we will only be more calm. If China people want to become atmospheric, it is impossible to drive all the ruins out.
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The survival of ruins is a symbol of modern civilization.
The ruins reflect the confidence of modern people.
Ruins will not stop the market and hinder progress. Modern people have a profound vision and know where they stand in history. He won't dream that there is a high platform under his feet. Therefore, he is happy to look at all the steps behind him.
What touches the ruins is modern historical philosophy, and historical philosophy also needs to find materials. Only in the hustle and bustle of modern times can the tranquility of ruins have power; Only in the meditation of modern people can the ruins rise to fables.
So the ancient ruins are really modern buildings.
Modernity is not just a period of time. Modernity is tolerance, modernity is tolerance, modernity is vastness, and modernity is vastness.