This is a hymn of life and strength.
In the article, Ansai waist drum is not only a carrier and a symbol of human life force; In itself, it is the condensation of human life force, the most full and thorough performance. In this way, the author naturally has to devote all his enthusiasm and pen power to singing and praising. If one song and two praises are hard to get incisively and vividly, there are three songs and three praises.
in the author's works, it is almost impossible to tell which is form and content, and which is object and subject, and the two have truly achieved a seamless unity.
Don't take long sentences that are tedious and dull, but many short sentences that are concise, powerful, crisp and loud; There are no long and complicated paragraphs, and a few words are self-contained.
parallelism is widely used, and the forms of parallelism are diverse: there are parallelism within sentences, more parallelism between sentences, and parallelism between paragraphs, and they can be linked down and staggered.
Not only does it directly describe the majestic energy released by this waist drum, but it also plays up its peculiar effect in many ways from people's feelings, people's associations and the echoes of surrounding environments such as mountains and the earth.
From beginning to end, the moving and dynamic description is adopted, instead of static description, and the movement of the human body and the sound of the waist drum are mutually excited and dissolved in the tense of * * *, and the two are combined into one, which artistically forms a whole that represents the source of life and the source of strength.
-all these formal pursuits have created a fast-moving rhythm, a blazing atmosphere and an overwhelming momentum in the article, which is just in line with the life force of the people whom the author wants to praise.
Ansai waist drum belongs to the Loess Plateau. Only the people who live on this land can create such wonders and release their inner power with it. The author is from Shaanxi province. From his description, we can see his infinite longing and love for the Loess Plateau and Ansai waist drum. Only in this way can he write heartily and beautifully.
This article is similar to Qiao Liang's Plateau, My China Color. If Qiao Liang's works are the overall grasp of the Chinese nation's personality characteristics, then Liu Chengzhang's "Ansai Waist Drum" is to objectify and concretize it. If readers can read the two works together and compare them with each other, they will surely have a deeper understanding of the true nature of our national character and the expression of its life force.
(Jin Mei, selected from China Prose Appreciation Library? Contemporary Volume, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 1993)
II. Appreciation of Ansai Waist Drum
Musical instruments are often used to create momentum, render atmosphere and express feelings. They are classified as "western" and "national" because of different regions and nationalities, and there are wind music, string and percussion because of different structures and ways of playing.
Ansai waist drum is a unique skill in the Loess Plateau, and its rough, vigorous and dynamic style is integrated with the local natural environment, geographical features, folk customs and so on. Another point is quite interesting: it is a combination of man and drum, and no musical instrument can require the combination of man and musical instrument to reach such a height like it. People's performance and musical instrument "performance" are completely blended together, and they complement each other. Therefore, the successful performance is that people borrow the drum potential, the drum borrows the power of others, and it is hearty, and the essence, qi and spirit are unimpeded.
The essay "Ansai Waist Drum" just captures this feature of "Ansai Waist Drum" and puts the description of people and drums in the same position.
at first, people were quiet, as quiet as simple sorghum. The wind blows the leaves, which shows their quietness. The drum is the same, "dull" and "never seems to ring". Hundreds of drummers on the Loess Plateau with sorghum as the background are doomed to have an extraordinary performance!
suddenly it broke out and exploded. The author uses figurative parallelism to create this magnificent, bold and fierce battle: shower, whirlwind, frog, spark and tiger fight. Waist drum has changed people's feelings and aroused people's association, and the highest state of all this is "breaking free"-"binding", "breaking through"-"fetters", "knocking open"-"blocking".
True poetry needs to be sung repeatedly, which is a tradition since The Book of Songs. Repetition and parallelism are necessary means to create rhythm, render atmosphere and express feelings. It should be reminded that "repetition" is not "repetition", nor is it the simple appearance of the same word, sentence or paragraph more than twice. In Ansai Waist Drum, every sentence "What an Ansai Waist Drum" has a new feeling, a new connotation and a new scene.
"What an Ansai waist drum" determines the basic pitch, color, atmosphere and main spiritual trend for the whole article. No matter how swaying, germinating and lyrical in the upper and lower parts, it will not go too far. This is one of the writing conventions and the root of the article's "this way" rather than "that way". The "spiritual connotation" of this article is also here: "No fetters, no fetters, no blockages. It' s such a strength to break free, break through, and break open! " These two closely connected paragraphs are the unchanging soul that flows in all actions, situations and chapters, and every sigh and discussion in the future never leaves it.
Please pay attention to the following places: in the paragraph "Bold and magnificent passion ...", the phrase "The occurrence and relief of labor pains ..." expresses the excitement and pride of the motherland entering a new era after the reform and opening up; "In addition to the Loess Plateau, where there is such a thick soil layer!" It can be understood as a metaphor for the splendid history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and it is a solid premise and foundation for the nation to stand on its own ground and create greater glories; The appearance of four short paragraphs and short sentences in short paragraphs has played a role in deepening the theme, heating up feelings and enhancing strength.
The beginning is quiet, and the end is quiet as "another planet". Obviously, this sudden outbreak and sudden stop is an ingenious arrangement. Its direct effect is that the main part has become more fiery, lively and imposing because of the silence at the beginning and end.
The connotation expressed by Ansai Waist Drum is extremely rich, but different people can have different understandings of "endless poems". Just feel it, the rhythm, momentum, color, the youthful vitality, the pure pleasure of reading.