The Cultural Connotation of Yu Qiuyu's "The Bitter Journey of Culture

? The Cultural Connotation of Yu Qiuyu's Bitter Journey of Culture

? Abstract: The Bitter Journey of Culture is the first collection of cultural essays written by Mr. Yu Qiuyu in the late 1980s and early 1990s while he was on his way to give lectures and study tours at home and abroad. The author of the whole book seeks the cultural soul and the true meaning of life by virtue of the characters in the landscape, and explores the historical destiny of Chinese culture and the personality spirit of Chinese literati. This paper tries to explore the cultural connotation of Yu Qiuyu's "Bitter Journey of Culture" from the four levels of regional culture, vernacular culture, humanistic culture and spiritual culture.

Keywords: cultural connotation? Regional culture? Vernacular culture? humanistic culture? Spiritual culture

? The Bitter Journey of Culture is a book by Mr. Yu Qiuyu, a famous contemporary prose writer. It is loved by readers because of its literary grace, vigorous writing, keen thinking and unique insights. The author seeks the soul of culture and the true meaning of life by virtue of landscape characters, exploring the historical destiny of Chinese culture and the personality spirit of Chinese literati. The author has the courage to break through the shackles of stereotypical ideas that have shrouded Chinese culture for many years, and for the first time interprets historical figures and events from the perspective of a large culture and fresh cultural concepts. The author's heart and mind intertwine and blend with them in the landscape, surveying them from a unique perspective, and communicating and interacting with them with his heart and soul. In that era of inheriting the old and initiating the new, "I stood in the same position where the ancients must have stood, surveyed the natural landscape that seldom changed with the same black eyes as those of my forefathers, and quietly listened to the sound of the wind and the birds, which did not differ in the slightest way a thousand years ago",① while the real steps of the Chinese culture were realized on the mountainous and vast land. I personally think that this book has four kinds of culture: regional culture, local culture, humanistic culture, and spiritual culture, that is, the pursuit of places of interest; the review and attachment to the countryside; the interpretation of the characters and events; the sublimation of their thoughts and spirits during the "bitter journey" and the analysis of the thoughts and spirits of the whole Chinese people. I think more: the author uses his own unique footsteps and vision to search for the history and culture of China. To seek is to search and pursue. One is to follow the steps of Chinese cultural people to search for Chinese history in order to explore the depth of Chinese culture; to follow the vicissitudes and romance of Chinese famous monuments to search for Chinese culture in order to understand the depth of Chinese history. Secondly, it is to follow the steps of Chinese culture to listen to the heart of Chinese culture in order to explore the Chinese culture in one's own heart; to follow the voice of one's own heart to pursue the vicissitudes and romance of Chinese history, strengths and gaps ...... introspection and encouragement, in order to make one's own understanding of China's future and analyze it. The study is an inquiry. At the level of Chinese history to explore Chinese culture, Chinese culture, Chinese culture people, Chinese monuments, the cultural connotations embedded in nature, horizontal spatial cultural implications; at the level of Chinese culture to explore the rise and fall of Chinese history, prosperity, compassion and lamentation, vertical cultural journey of time. This can be seen everywhere in Mr. Yu's writings. Whether it is for Chinese culture or for Chinese history, Yu's endurance and persistence can be seen. Because of this, Mr. Yu will make such a big breakthrough to the "bitter journey". "I can not not old, but I have the possibility of young. I don't dare to wish or pray for our overly large culture, but I hope that my own words will have a bitter aftertaste, a heartfelt afterburning, a relaxation after meditating, and a youthful after growing old." ② Indeed, "Cultural Journey" allows us to see a "mountain of doubt, dark flowers and a village" of a philosophy, overflowing with "toughness", which is precisely the author of the text to bring us a kind of attitude.

? A regional culture

? From the book's title, "Cultural Journey" with a "travel" word, this "travel" is not a simple "travelogue", not simply walk a place, travel a place, but the author to the national This "travel" is not a simple "travelogue", nor is it just a walk or a tour, but the author takes the process of visiting the cultural relics of the country as the leading clue, and explores the cultural heritage of China with profound thoughts, heavy tone and old language. The author started from his hometown Zhejiang, no plan, no direction, walk a place to admire a place, traveled half of China: "the most interesting place" "Three Gorges"; "the most exciting project" "Dujiangyan";" The "white-haired Suzhou", which "gives people sensual tranquility and solace"; and "Thoughts on Qing Yun Spectrum", which "can provide so much touching desolation to the history of Chinese art". ...... The author's pace is diffuse and casual, but his heart is sincere in the pursuit of culture and exploration. The author's pace is diffuse and spontaneous, but the author's heart for cultural exploration is sincere and sincere, heavy but also listless, the author in admiration or in regret, the heart is heavier than once, these cultural relics stored in thousands of years, not only for them, but also for our Chinese history and culture, and for our own human beings to send out all kinds of sighs. These relics they flicker with their own release that history of the old light, exudes their unique cultural charm, attracting the author step by step towards them, step by step to understand them, and then fall in love with them. Everywhere, the author is full of emotion, hate to melt into one with it, to this way of heart to refract the cultural connotation of China. The author admires them, for example, writing about Suzhou with a large handwriting and a large chapter, rendering everything in Suzhou with a large cultural perspective. We usually write about Suzhou, should start from the people and landscape of Suzhou, soft and gentle language, pretty face, refined gardens, deep streets, heavy ink and colorful portrayal of Suzhou's elegant and exquisite, but the author took a different approach, the whole chapter is almost all about monuments, historical events, with a big background and big culture perspective, penetrating more than 2,000 years of loneliness in the capital of Suzhou. The author first describes those events that happened in this land characters, to measure Suzhou, Suzhou, examine the time as a clue, from the Spring and Autumn to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, to the "I", driven by the two years of Suzhou's history of spatial changes, cultural changes, the long history of Suzhou's culture is embedded in the events of the characters, do not say but visible everywhere. Then the author unfolds the imagination, searching for this Suzhou: time will not stop, life continues, Suzhou over two thousand years, in this monumental city, those who have preserved the core of the charm of Suzhou's soul, has disappeared, history will remember them, and we are still going on, history will remember us, add a touch of color to this Suzhou? "I can't find the answer for a moment", in fact, the author already knows the answer, the answer is yes, Wen Yiduo wrote this poem: "came a generation, went a generation, this is the turnover". Suzhou is pivotal in China's history, which is reflected in the author's pen. The reason why the author has such associations and expectations of Suzhou is not only the admiration of the admiration of Suzhou, but also a kind of thinking about Chinese culture, and even more so, a kind of thinking about ourselves.

Second, the native culture

? Who is not homesick? Throughout the history of China, whether it is ancient, or modern, in the long five thousand years of history, there are many themes: love, war, etc., but there is always a bright and dark theme in the history of the shuttle, it is homesickness. In this essay, the author used part of the ink to describe his hometown, in the recollection of his early childhood, back to describe what he saw and heard, describing the rise and fall of his hometown, describing his hometown's characters and events, folk customs on paper, splicing in the history of China's architecture, characters, customs of the missing treasures, so that some holistic culture dodged, so as to understand the "homesickness" from their own point of view. In order to understand the meaning of "homesickness" from one's own point of view, one then derives and explores the cultural connotation of homesickness in China. This is only a small part of "Cultural Bitterness". But its power should not be underestimated. Once the idea of homesickness takes over the hearts of the majority of the readers, a warm reaction will emerge. For example, compared with other texts in Cultural Journey, "Window of the Old House" seems so simple and plain. Perhaps, facing the window of the old house of one's childhood memories, looking at its old and simple traces of history, all grand narratives will be a kind of childish showing off. The author does not give up the old house, because although the old house is old, but preserved his childhood memories, warmth of affection, back to the old house, the author's mind has a home. "All the minutiae of the house were still stored in the bottom of my mind, and all of them came tumbling out when I met." "I looked around the week, and stretched out my hands along the wall and stroked the past, just like stroking my own muscles, my own soul", the old house window is the starting point of the author's dream; it is the author's eyes to open up the world; it is the author's road to the outside world. Today, decades later, the old house is about to be sold, the author returned to this, looking at the unchanged structure of the old house, just more historical washing, the author does not know whether in the reality and memories of the intertwined, the mind jumped to the past picture, "a steep rise in memory violently into the mind", and then the whole article is centered around this old house with the "Then the whole essay is centered on the old house and Hongying. Through the growth of "Hongying", the author describes the tranquil and remote environment of his hometown, the lively and pure children, and the past "I" and "Hongying", "Chen Migen" of the two small and innocent feelings and the contrast between the present and the past, "the two best friends of childhood are cut off", the author will be his own beautiful memories of his early childhood jumped to the paper, with happy memories, pure and simple folk, elegant environment and the sale of house The author saves many emotions, such as reluctance, sigh of time passing, and sorrow of various changes of his friends, and feels "homesickness" exactly in the plain and simple language, which makes readers cannot help but think back. In the "old house window", "the house of cards", "temple" and so on have the author's homesickness. But it is worth mentioning that these three articles all appear a character image that affects the author's life, that is, "female teachers". This is also one of the ideas put forward by the author in the "vernacular culture", that is, the "liberation of human nature". For example, in the article of "Pai Fang", the author observes the vernacular humanities with a childish and innocent eye; he expresses the vernacular humanities in a light and distant tone. The overall appearance of the "female teacher" in the level of "homesickness" more in-depth exploration of human nature; in the memories of the pagoda will be liberated from human nature, breaking through the shroud of years of feudal culture, feudal etiquette; in the surface of the pagoda, "chastity" in the examination of human nature. Chastity" on the surface of the pagoda to scrutinize human nature and call for the liberation of human nature. The author describes a large number of scene descriptions, on the one hand, the folk customs on paper, so as to nostalgia for the quiet and beautiful hometown; on the other hand, it is the use of scenery to emphasize the unfairness of feudal etiquette to women. Thus calling for the liberation of human nature. Therefore, in the vernacular culture, the author, in the context of homesickness, nostalgia for all the beautiful memories of the past and the characters and events (women) of the experience of each other, homesickness and at the same time call for human liberation.

Third, humanistic culture

? The so-called humanistic culture, according to my meaning is in the region linked with the historical footprints of celebrities, whether it is a person because of the region and the name, or the region because of the name of the name of the person, between them in the history and the descendants of the veneration in the fusion of one, leaving only that was eroded by the age of the remnants of the ridge, silently standing in place waiting for the arrival of another character, and the original person has long since disappeared without a trace, leaving behind that intriguing story, for those who came to talk about friends and family. The original person is long gone, leaving only the intriguing story for the person who comes to chat with the friend to meet, and in the sound of stopping to reminisce about the previous person and explore the spirit of the character's personality. The author in each piece of work will be inserted into the character events, because there are places will be people, people will have culture, culture will have history. The cultural atmosphere of each region is different, and the characters have different occurrences, so the author has mixed feelings about these character events; some of the author admires them, and some of them are cross-eyed, which gives this work a certain philosophy to ponder over. For example, the author of "Taoist Pagoda" with a heavy tone, old language to face the loss of cultural relics in the Mogao Grottoes, with a sharp tone to recount the crimes of Wang Yuanzhuan, examining the spiritual pathology of the Chinese people at that time, China's humiliation, the nation's sadness; the "Qingyun Spectrum of Reflections" on the compassionate pity for the eight mountain people; the "Dujiangyan" in the admiration of Li Bing ...... These emotionally charged words, like a note, or Wan Er Qingli, or dull and heavy, a hammer and a tone of the hammer on the Chinese history, the aftermath of the sound curls, resonating in space, time, thought. With their own insights to open the reader's heart, so that an insight into a myriad of insights. Culture is the spiritual foundation of a country, the author in such an environment, perseverance in the exploration of Chinese culture, this "tough" strength, it is worth learning.

Fourth, spiritual culture

? When the author traveled, all of them had certain thinking and unique insights into Chinese culture. The author of Night Boats takes the traditional transportation of night boats in the southern water towns as the topic, and describes the author's childhood memories and imaginations of night boats from the book of the same name by Zhang Dai, a literati of the Ming Dynasty. The author describes the author's childhood memories and imagination of the night boat. He shows the social environment in which the "night boat culture" arose, and criticizes the tradition of ancient Chinese scholarly culture, which was old-fashioned and detached from the people and the reality. It reflects the author's vision of culture and academia as a modern intellectual. The author's outlook on culture and academics, as well as his vision that the "night boat culture" is finally beginning to be replaced by a culture with a new color and atmosphere in modern times. Another example is "Daoshi Tower" the author walked through the Daoshi Tower means that also walked through the history of this humiliation, but Daoshi Tower still means that this history is still there, the author wants to tell us not to forget the national shame, although we can not change the shame, but we must remember the shame, do not repeat the same mistakes, and once again submerged into the tragedy of history.

? The author walk walk walk, written by the "Cultural Journey" that is the investigation of Chinese culture to understand, but also on the Chinese cultural phenomenon of a correct treatment, correct scrutiny. The Chinese culture is analyzed in depth. I think: then I feel that the road of this life will not be short as it goes further and further. I think it is short, where is the meaning of the words "sadness and happiness"? The road is built by people, so let people walk on it, and if they are free to do as they please, then it is "short and long". This is also a kind of thinking that this book gives me.

Notes: <1> ① Yu Qiuyu. The Bitter Journey of Culture [M]. Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House.2104

<2> ② Yu Qiuyu. The Bitter Journey of Culture [M]. Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House.2104

Main references: <1> Yu Qiuyu. The Bitter Journey of Culture [M]. Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House.2104