From "quiet and elegant studio" to "elegant room"
All good readers in ancient and modern times like quietness and dislike noisy, and hope to have a place to study alone. A quiet place like a "study or small room", of course, the more spacious and quiet the better if conditions permit! Therefore, there are various elegant names for study rooms, such as "room, studio, pavilion, garden, pavilion" and so on.
All good readers hope to have an elegant residence such as a "room, studio, pavilion, garden, and pavilion" for their work. Even if it is simple and small, it is not an exaggeration. The ancients once said that "the poor are poor in literature and rich in military affairs". The life of most scholars is naturally relatively poor. The lighter ones can't eat enough, wear too much clothes, and are in an embarrassing situation. Their lives are still precarious. Therefore, the requirements for the study room can only provide enough for them. Just study and learn by yourself. In the Tang Dynasty, there was Liu Yuxi's "Inscription on a Humble Room", which is a model of a simple study room. Of course, there are also those with superior conditions who can build a decent study room for themselves. In the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Mei renovated Suiyuan into a study room in Xiaocangshan. He stored thousands of books in it and regarded himself as the "master of Suiyuan". During the same period, Pu Songling created "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", a collection of stories about ghosts, foxes, gods and monsters that satirizes the present in a simple "Liao Zhai". Became a strange flower in the literary world of the Qing Dynasty. Cao Xueqin, the owner of the "Mourning Hongxuan" in the Qing Dynasty, has written "A Dream of Red Mansions" for several years and has become the first of the four famous classics in my country's national quintessence. Its literary value and historical significance are among the best.
My desire for a study room started from "Jingya Zhai". "Jingya Zhai" was a pure land at the beginning of my career. In 1991, when I was under 18 years old, I was hired as a contract worker in my father's company and got involved in the booming railway construction. At a young age, I was away from my family and wandering alone. When I was lonely and bored after work, I could only borrow books to relieve my loneliness and homesickness. Gradually, I developed a hobby of reading. During this period, I studied as a profession and had almost no books. Without reading, here I came into contact with "Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four great classics, for the first time, met Qian Zhongshu, a humor master known for his humor, and met Jia Pingwa, the heir to the "Yam Egg School" who is funny and "old-fashioned" for the first time. The wonderful writing is brilliant. For the first time, I experienced the magic and sublimity of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", for the first time I understood the profundity of Laozi's "Tao Te Ching", for the first time I appreciated Freud's thorough psychoanalysis of human "subconsciousness"...,,,,,, My father learned that I like to read. preferences. So I tried to drag people to bring me various books. (Most of the books I read came from this!) My father provided many conditions for my study and was my first teacher to cultivate my love for literature. During this period, I deepened my love for literature. During the foundation stage of the necessary literary foundation, I was in a wandering engineering team. Due to conditions, five or six people lived in about two linoleum bungalows, and I only had three or four square meters of space, which could really be regarded as a "dwelling". I remember an old worker who lived in the same room once said: "The conditions in the engineering team are difficult, and our personal "home" is the activity area near our beds and boxes." In this limited space, the awareness of "home" is also the same. The order is clear. The bed in my "home" is also a bookcase and an "office desk". One day during a public holiday, I went to play at my father’s workplace (although I was a contract worker in my father’s workplace, I didn’t work in the same place. My father was in the logistics department and I was at the front-line construction site). My father loved calligraphy and many people often asked him for it. "calligraphy".
He was very happy about my arrival and wanted to encourage me to study, so he wanted to write a word for me. He asked for my opinion, and after our discussion, he decided to write "Jingya", which means "quiet and suitable for study, elegant". The picture is as follows:
? Jingya
It is suitable to study quietly,
Elegance changes vulgarity.
After getting this picture, my "dwelling" became known as "Jingya Zhai". "Jingya Zhai" is the holy place where I laid the foundation for stepping from a layman to the threshold of literature. It is the "Garden of Eden" that is always worthy of nostalgia in my heart
"Wen Yuxuan" is another pioneering place in my literary career. The origin of "Wen Yuxuan" is that I passed it It took a lot of ups and downs and hard work to enter School A in the Adult College Entrance Examination. I was lucky enough to catch up with the last train of the adult committee of my unit during the two years of "weak championship" and the lucky ones at the same time. After transitioning from the adult college entrance examination to campus, everyone seemed mature to each other. When we first entered the apartment, we came up with suggestions for naming the dormitory. There were many opinions. One of the community members named our dormitory "Wen Yuxuan" and said a lot of reasons. The most important thing is The special thing is that the bathroom is right opposite the door of our dormitory. Every time it is time to wash. The sound of rushing water can be heard in our dormitory, and it sounds like the sound of rain to our ears. "Xuan" is the study room where ancient people studied, so it is most appropriate to call it "Wen Yu Xuan". After everyone's approval, our dormitory was named "Wen Yuxuan". In "Wen Yu Xuan" we spent the most nostalgic years of our youth, leaving behind our golden age fantasies and longing for a better life in the future. During the day, everyone is busy and rushing about their homework, and "Wen Yuxuan" seems to be a hotel for us to stay temporarily. "Wen Yuxuan" in the evening has returned to our memories. After the evening self-study, there was about twenty minutes of washing time. In a hurry, it was time to turn off the lights. At this time, "Wen Yuxuan" Like a sparrow's nest that exploded, everyone had a wide range of opinions and unscrupulous banter. Some talked about the difficulty of the homework, some talked about the teacher's gains and losses, some lamented the past, and some imagined the future. The most talked about issues at this increasingly mature age are of course the issues related to the opposite sex. They confide in each other about their first love, the sadness of lost love, and the most realistic future distribution of employment, wages, housing, etc. In the end, everyone talks about it. I fell into deep thought. For us "students" with social experience, reality is greater than empty fantasy. After all, we are adult students who have experienced pain. ,,,,,,
In the hustle and bustle of "Wen Yuxuan", my first essay about the study, "The Compartment", was born. Although there is a trace of bookishness in it and the arrogance and unruliness that is contrary to "Wen Yuxuan", this There is also an element of "deep love and deep responsibility" in it, and it is also due to the elegance I expect from "Wen Yuxuan"! In any case, it will contribute to my future literary creation, and here I will deepen my understanding of the true meaning of literature (humanities).
My other short article about the study room was accidentally discovered when the unit moved to Hubei for construction.
The full text of "The Inscription on the Elegant Room", which is imitated from the "Inscription on the Humble Room" by Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty, is as follows:
If the mountain is not high, the immortal will be famous; if the water is not deep, the dragon will be spiritual , This is an elegant room. Only the house is standing alone, the grass is green in the curtains, poems and books can express aspirations, photography is full of emotion, and you can enjoy your "destiny". Reading "Life", there is no trivial labor, no pedantic distraction.
To the east is Xiaoyaoju, with the sound of snoring reaching my ears from time to time, and to the west is Yangguan Road. Occasionally there is heavy traffic. The sound of music is accompanied by snoring. It’s fun to laugh at the same jokes. Si people said: "What does an elegant room belong to?" I said "elegant and vulgar ***appreciation"
From the "inscription", it can be seen that the noise in the elegant room is accompanied by silence, and the elegance is also accompanied by silence. Not exempt from vulgarity. When the hustle and bustle is noisy, I will be wild and crazy. When I am quiet and lonely, I will study or draft my "Elegant Essays". During this period, most of the essays published were written many times in elegant rooms. Brewing masterpieces at your fingertips. The "elegant room" is my creative garden and my lonely residence. Although my so-called "elegant room" is small, it only has one room and a small suite, and I only occupy three or four square meters of space in it. Fortunately, there is an aphorism to comfort myself with, "If there are not many flowers, how big is the elegance of the room?"
If "Jingya Zhai" is a "pure land" where I first entered life, then "Wen Yuxuan" is an "oasis" that nourishes my youthful growth. Now The "elegant room" is the fertile ground for my growing maturity, where I will cultivate the "virgin land" of my literature. As a literary "ascetic", I will trek through the unknown cultural journey from "Jingya Zhai". Going to the "elegant room" is also the growth history of my life journey, showing the ordinary life of a wandering prodigal!