Seeking 1000 words on kunqu <A Dream in the Garden> Appreciation.

Theme and Appreciation of the Novel "A Dream in the Garden" In this novel, the author painstakingly creates the imagery of "dream". Dreams and fairyland are very similar, but only one point is very different: fairyland is eternal and dreams are short-lived. Human beings are often unwilling to face the "life is limited", "the world is impermanent" of the bitter truth, but hide in the "everything is the same as before" in the self-delusion of fantasy. However, as the saying goes, there is no such thing as an unending banquet. Tonight Mrs. Dou this building "up and down lights, bright as if burning general" building public hall, where to hold for how long, in the blink of an eye will be lights out, burned to ashes. Tonight's Mrs. Qian is tomorrow's Mrs. Dou. Lan Tianyu, the main character of the novel, has become the wife of General Qian from a kunqu artist, and was once limpid and famous, "In nine cases out of ten, she took the first place at the banquet." However, all this was "in the old days when Qian Pengzhi was around", but now she is just a downtrodden lady, a swallow in front of the Hall of Wang Xie, falling into the people's homes. The contrast between the popularity and the decline is stimulating. For the decline, is the helpless reality, Mrs. Qian is unable to change, so there are only memories and nostalgia, they can not transcend out of all this as if floating clouds. The cars on both sides of the door of the Dougong Mansion are mostly public black cars, and "when the taxi Mrs. Qian was in drove up to the door she ordered the driver to stop". This detailed action shows that Mrs. Qian still cares about her own face and hides the reality of her decline. During the banquet, Mrs. Qian remembers several times, consciously or subconsciously, the scenes of her limp days, comparing them with the real banquet, reflecting Mrs. Qian's nostalgia for the past. The author's reminiscence of her past life is more of a psychological and emotional attachment to her homeland. Here, the old country is not only the motherland or the old homeland, but also a kind of emotion, a kind of psychological identification and sense of belonging to the old time. The old country is more of a psychological emotion, and the motherland and the old homeland are only the carriers of this sentiment. This sentiment is expressed in the form of nostalgia. For example, Mrs. Qian always feels that "Taiwan's clothing is rough and shiny, especially the silk, where is it as delicate as mainland goods, so soft and ripe?" "Taiwan's flower carvings in the end is not as mellow as the mainland's, drink down the end of a little cut throat." This sense of disapproval of Taiwan, and not only from Mrs. Qian himself, but the general psychological mood of the people who lost Taiwan. For example, after decades of coming to Taiwan, Dou Gongguan still uses Shanghai's cooks for its treats, and Lieutenant Liu still stubbornly speaks with an accent from northern Jiangsu. These are overall manifestations of the nostalgia of those who have gone to Taiwan. They do not have a sense of identity or belonging to Taiwan or its current situation, but stubbornly cling to their past lives (such as the Ticket Club) and are stubbornly attached to the mainland. These people are a group of "wandering Chinese" according to Paik, who have retreated to the mainland and cannot integrate and belong to Taiwan, they do not have their own homes, and are in a state of psychological and emotional wanderlust, so they have a strong attachment to their homeland. Bai Xianyong has a deep sense of identification with traditional Chinese culture, and the choice of a gathering of kunqu enthusiasts in the novel A Dream in the Garden is also symbolic. In the 1960s, Kunqu, "one of the most exquisite and perfect forms of Chinese performing arts," had declined and was subjected to the strong impact of emerging cultures such as European and American movies. In the novel, those who insist on loving and remembering the traditional art of kunqu are some of the relics from the mainland, such as Mrs. Qian, Mrs. Dou, and Senator Yu. They are both political and traditional cultural relics. Taiwan's native people detached from the mainland's native culture of the motherland, these traditional culture does not have much ability to appreciate, and there is not much attachment. As a reality, the cultural relics are powerless to change, so they can only admit that their insistence on and love for Kunqu is merely a nostalgia for the old culture and a manifestation of the author's cultural nostalgia. Our traditional Chinese culture has a glorious past. However, because it is too concerned about pure beauty and pure spirit, and refuses to accept the pollution of the real world, in today's common people's world, it has been almost completely disconnected from the lives of ordinary people, and can no longer be appreciated and understood. Therefore, everyone abandons the ancient and beautiful Chinese culture, and tends to welcome the new and popular Western culture, just as in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the popular "Flower Department" chaotic play finally replaced the beautiful "Elegant Department" of the Kunqu Opera. In this way, Mrs. Qian's feelings of the past and present, as well as the mourning of the past, have a deeper meaning, and "A Dream in the Garden" seems to be the author's elegy for our 5,000 years of traditional culture. In this way, the novel A Dream in the Garden expands from the vicissitudes of Mrs. Qian's personal life to the vicissitudes of traditional Chinese culture, especially aristocratic culture. The same implied meaning can also be extended to the issue of social patterns, that is, alluding to the decline of the aristocracy and the agricultural society, and the rise of the commoner class and the industrial society. At the end of the novel, Mrs. Dou asks Mrs. Qian, "You haven't been here for a long time, can you find that Taipei has changed a bit?" Mrs. Qian muses for a long time and replies with a sidelong glance, "Changed more instigated." As she walked to the door of her room, she added softly, "I don't even recognize it anymore - so many new skyscrapers have been built." The word "change" is the central theme of this story. The word "change" is the central theme of the novel. "Many new skyscrapers have been erected" is a metaphor for the rise of industrial and commercial society. We also note that the rising star who sings "Tour of the Garden" at today's banquet is "Mrs." Xu, not "Mrs." Xu. The author implies that although the "upper class" still exists, the "aristocracy" has disappeared. The author's complex emotions have been deconstructed and interpreted several times, and finally converged into a main theme of spiritual connotation - nostalgia, or nostalgia. This nostalgia contains several levels of structure, one is the nostalgia and remembrance of the past life, the other is the nostalgia for the psychological and emotional feelings of the homeland, and the attachment to the old cultural traditions. .