"If you don't know what brings you here, look up at the sky and clouds, don't ask about plants, birds and trees, and just look at the line of ants, then we have said hello.
If at this moment you are tired of the restless thoughts in your mind and are interested in walking on paper, and you don't object to going forward for a while, then in front of you is a jungle path with broken flowers around butterflies.
My memories are falling like tung trees in April, acacia flowers in May and Luan trees in September, which is quite suitable for sightseeing on sunny days and walking slowly on rainy days. "
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On the summer solstice, a sunny afternoon, I met Jian Zheng in the preface to Feelings of Fighting in the Wild. I don't know what brings me here at the beginning, and I was deeply attracted by Jian Zheng's words and experiences.
Jian Zheng (1961-), formerly known as Jian Minxie, is a native of Dongshan Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. He is a modern literary writer, famous for his modern prose, and graduated from the Chinese Department of National Taiwan Province University. She is the most undisputed powerful female writer in Taiwan Province. He has written more than ten kinds of essays, such as Shui Wen, Being in this Mountain, Private Book, Afternoon Tea, Daughter Red and Rouge Basin.
From 1985 to 1995, Jian Zheng published ten books, and won many prizes: in May 199, he won the 31st literary medal; In September of the same year, he won the third place in the third Liang Shiqiu Literature Award for his essay "Luhuitou"; In October 1992, Sleepwalking won the Luqin Wu Prose Award attached to the 14th United Daily News Literature Award, and The Mother won the first prize in the 15th Literature Award. In January 1995, "Rouge Basin" won the best book award of "Scholar" of United Daily News in 1994; In July of the same year, he also won the 2th National Literature and Art Award for his "Rouge Basin".
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The reason why Jian Zheng wrote this book "Walk with me" is that her writing habit for more than ten years has changed into writing focusing on specific topics. Many manuscripts accumulated in daily life can't be included in the book.
when sorting out these notes and some unpublished old manuscripts, Jian Zheng found that "returning" is a fascinating mystery. In the process of sorting out and compiling, he fully enjoyed the pleasure of "wandering", which is quite like walking in time, emotion or memory, so he named this book "Walk with me".
"Looking back" is an emotional gesture. In this collection of essays, Jian Zheng looks back on his life and examines his young self under the omniscient and omnipotent observation, and what comes to mind is indescribable feelings and emotions. She called it a jar of wine sealed in the tunnel of years and left it to herself. The name of this wine is "the taste of life".
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Life needs more than experience, and you must also give yourself an "interpretation". Looking back, after "interpretation", there are four trails left:
The first trail: "When a muse is meditating in a deserted street"
Looking back on this lonely road for more than 3 years, there are always throbbing on the manuscript paper and meditation outside the book worth talking about.
American poetess Emily? Dickinson has a poem:
Jian Zheng's review of the cause, pursuit, falling out of the country and feelings, as well as the * * * sound from readers, are unforgettable. The poet Bian Zhilin's poem "A few people" has a sentence "When a young man is meditating on a deserted street", which is borrowed and merged with the previous poem to transform "Athens teenager" into "Muse teenager". At the same time, it also means paying tribute to the two poets.
When reading Jian Zheng's words, there are always some feelings in my heart. Her use of words is eclectic, her sensibility contains rationality, her words are clean and smooth, and her emotions are keen and rich.
She likes reading. At the age of sixteen, she went to Taipei to attend high school alone. While her peers were still playful, Jian Zheng realized that she was different from them. When she was thirteen years old, a car accident took the life of her beloved father. Since then, as the eldest daughter, she has taken on the responsibility of taking care of her four siblings, which has made her more independent.
Because her background and ideas are quite different, she can't communicate with her classmates of the same age. Without intimate friends, she works hard. After reading more books, an impulse to say something arose in her heart, which prompted her to start writing. I got great pleasure and satisfaction between the lines in my writing, so I decided to take the road of literature.
Jian Zheng used his own experience to guide depressed young friends who didn't know where the entrance to the literary path was and the direction of life. She said that she would like to thank the "literary self" in her heart. We all dance solo in time, and literature happens to be an art about time and memory.
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The second trail: "Walking to the depths of manghua"
It's about life. "Everyone's path to creation is different. For me, the key factor behind it is the feeling of death, because I have witnessed death robbing all the order, robbing life and making all the lies and promises invalid; After all the shock caused by death, anyone must find a way to recover himself. Creation is my road to rehabilitation. "
Jian Zheng's use of words is quite free. A few words can create an image and a situation, regardless of whether it is in line with the rules. Such unconstrained words create lyrical prose with great aesthetic feeling.
Jian Zheng said, "My prose has the same theme, and that is life. Although many of my articles describe the beauty of nature, they are not indiscriminate. I write a flower or a grass, which is a tribute and an interpretation of life. "
Jian Zheng has been deeply involved in the field of prose, calling himself an "incorrigible prose worker". I have always stayed in the field of prose, and I have never left since I published my first collection of prose 34 years ago. Literature is an art about time and memory, especially prose.
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The third trail: "Relativity of Old Friends"
The fun of talking with two old friends, Li Huimian and Xie Banzhang. When we return to childhood and recall the journey of life, the times and social outlook of our generation reappear, and we can't help but feel deeply.
In the article "A Field Survey of Cocoon Dwellers", Jian Zheng wrote that his old friend, Monitor Xie, used to go to bed early and get up early, getting up at four o'clock every day and entering the office at six o'clock. Suddenly, when I was a child, I saw my monitor get 1 points and I only got 98 points.
Write a friend to teach her not to waste time when watching TV, and how to peel garlic perfectly; Soak it first and rub it twice. Learning to "brew soy sauce" and so on, the words are full of life interest.
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The fourth trail: "A person's barren path"
records the deep feelings about the ecology of arts and literature and the situation of literary friends. "If life is about to reach the end, how can I evaluate this life?" This is not the first time Jian Zheng asked himself.
After crossing the threshold of middle age, such questions become more and more frequent. What kind of life everyone wants, regardless of other people's opinions, respect their true inner voice, listen to their own inner voice, freely flow their initial desires, and write the chosen answers on paper.
The path of life is tortuous, and there is always a chance to step into the barren path. Some people misunderstand that life is a paradise where awards and gifts are continuously distributed. Once it falls into a barren path, it will be destroyed in the meantime. Angry, desperate and crazy press the destroy button in order to burn everything.
however, for a lifetime, the barren path is precious. Life is for experience, and you can experience life on a barren road and break through difficulties; Looking back, time flies, and each stage that has passed through the barren path has its own wonderful and rich life. "The sky in Wan Li is my crown with the sun."
"Every stage of life is like a trail, in which we are guided by inexplicable forces-the younger we are, the fewer choices we can make. However, in this rare opportunity, every choice we make has incredible power, which determines which path our life will take. Time pushes us forward, one path after another. When we walk in it, we feel that this is everything. Time is slow, as if we are in a cycle where there is no exit. "
I met Jian Zheng on a beautiful summer solstice afternoon. From then on, there is another place in the palace of literature where you can enjoy yourself.