Autumn in the old capital

Autumn in the Old Capital? Author Yu Dafu

Autumn, no matter where in the fall, is always good; but ah, the north of the autumn, but especially to the clear, to the quiet, to the sad. My reason for traveling thousands of miles from Hangzhou to catch up with Qingdao, and even more from Qingdao to catch up with Beiping, is that I just want to taste this "autumn", the flavor of autumn in my hometown.

Jiangnan, of course, autumn is also there; but the grass withered slowly, the air to moist, the color of the day appears pale, and often rainy and less windy; a person sandwiched between Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Xiamen, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, the citizens of the past, chaotic, can only feel a little bit of coolness, the taste of autumn, the color of autumn, autumn moods and gestures, always look at the not enough to taste, appreciate the play to the full. Autumn is not a famous flower, and not wine, that a half-open, half-drunken state, in the process of appreciating the fall, is not appropriate.

Not meet the North of the fall, has been nearly more than ten years. In the south every year in the fall, always think of Taoranting's reeds, Diaoyutai's willow shadow, Xishan's insect singing, Yuquan's night moon, Tanzhe Temple's bells. Even if you don't go out in Beiping, that is, in the Imperial City, renting people a rafter to live in the morning, get up, make a bowl of tea, sit down to the yard, you can also see a very high and very high turquoise sky, hear the sound of pigeons under the green sky.

From the bottom of the acacia leaves, towards the east counting a sliver of daylight leaking down, or in the broken wall waist, quietly to the trumpet-like petunias (Chao Rong) of the blue flowers, naturally also able to feel very much of the fall. When it comes to petunias, I think that blue or white is the best, purple-black is the second best, and reddish is the lowest. The best, but also in the bottom of the petunia, taught to grow a few sparsely thin and long autumn grass, so as to accompany.

The acacia tree in the north is also a kind of embellishment that reminds people of autumn. Like a flower but not a flower of that kind of falling stamens, in the morning, will be spread all over the ground. Feet on it, there is no sound, there is no smell, only a little bit of very fine and very soft touch. Street sweepers in the shadow of the trees after a sweep, the dust left on a broom silken lines, looks both delicate, and feel free, subconsciously and also feel a little lonely, the ancients said that the sycamore leaves and the world knows the autumn of the distant imagination, about these deep places.

Autumn cicada's weak sound, but also the specialty of the North; because of Beiping everywhere all the trees, the house is low, so no matter where, you can hear their cries. In the south is not to go to the countryside or mountains to hear. The hissing of the autumn cicadas, and crickets and rats in Beiping can be the same, it is like every family has raised in the home of the family insects.

There is also the autumn rain, the northern autumn rain, also seems to be more than the south of the rain, under the strange, under the flavor, under the more decent.

Under the gray sky, a cool wind suddenly came, and then rested on the rain. A layer of rain, the clouds gradually rolled to the west, the sky is green again, the sun is showing its face again; wearing a very thick green cloth coat or jacket of urban idlers, biting the pipe, in the shadow of the slanting bridge after the rain, go up to the bridge under the trees to a stand, meet acquaintances, will use a slow leisurely voice, sighing and answering each other, said: "Alas, the day is really cool -" (the word "cooler"), said:

In the gray and dreary sky, suddenly came a cool breeze. -(The word "cool" is pronounced very high and dragged out.) ?

"It is not? A layer of autumn rain a layer of cool la!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Northern people read the word "formation", always always look like a layer of words, flat and oblique up, this misreading of the ambiguous rhyme, but came just in time.

Northern fruit trees, to the fall, is also a spectacle. The first is the jujube tree; the corner of the house, the wall, the side of the hut, the door of the stove, it will grow up one by one. Like olive and pigeon egg like this jujube balls, in the middle of small oval fine leaves, showing light green and yellow color, it is the full bloom period of autumn;

When the jujube tree leaves fall, jujube red finish, the northwest winds will be up, the north is the world of dust, sand and dust, only this jujube, persimmons, grapes, ripening to the eight or nine points of the turn of the month of July and August, is the North of the autumn of the good day, is the best and the best of the year, there is no Golden Days. The best thing about this is that it's the best Golden Days of the year, and there's no such thing as a Golden Days.

Some critics say that the Chinese literati, especially poets, are very decadent, which is why there are so many words celebrating autumn in Chinese poetry.

But what about foreign poets? I do not read a lot of foreign poetry, and do not want to open the account to do an autumn poetry prose bill, but if you go through the collection of English, German, French and Italian poets, or the Anthology of poems from various countries, you will always be able to see a lot of songs and cries of sadness about the autumn. The long idyllic poems of famous poets or the poems of the four seasons are always about the part of autumn, which is the most outstanding and the most flavorful.

Suffice it to say that animals with senses and human beings with feelings are always capable of arousing the same deep, distant, severe, and melancholy feelings for autumn. Not only poets, is closed in the prison inmates, to the fall, I think will also feel a can not help themselves deep feelings; autumn in the human, why there is a country, and more importantly, why there is a difference between human species class?

But in China, there is an idiom of "Autumn Scholar" in the text, and there is a very common Ouyang Zi's "Autumn Sound" and Su Dongpo's "Red Cliff Fugue" in the reading books, so I feel that Chinese literati have a particularly deep relationship with autumn. But the deep flavor of autumn, especially the deep flavor of Chinese autumn, must be in the north, to feel it.

South China's autumn, of course, also has its own special places, such as the moon on the 24th bridge, the Qiantang River's autumn tide, the cool mist of Mount Putuo, Lychee Bay's remnants of the lotus and so on, but the color is not strong, the aftertaste is not forever. Than the north of the fall, just like the yellow wine and white dry, rice and steamed bun, perch and crab, yellow dog and camel.

Biography of Yu Dafu

Autumn, the autumn of the northern country, if you can stay, I would like to fold two thirds of life for a one-third of the zero.

Yu Dafu (1896.12.7~1945.8.29), formerly known as Yu Wen (郁文), Dafu (达夫), a native of Fuyang, Zhejiang Province, is a famous modern Chinese novelist, essayist and poet.

Yu Dafu spoke three foreign languages, Japanese, English and German.

Born on December 7, 1896, Yu Dafu was born in Fuyang, Zhejiang Province, into an intellectual family. In 1911, he began to write poems in the old style and submitted them to newspapers and magazines; in 1912, he was admitted to the preparatory course of Zhijiang University, but was expelled for participating in a school riot; in July 1914, he entered the preparatory course of the Dai-ichi Higher School in Tokyo and began to try his hand at writing novels.

In 1919, he was admitted to the Department of Economics of Tokyo Imperial University, and in June 1921, he and Guo Moruo, Cheng Fuguo, Zhang Ziping, Tian Han, Zheng Boqi and others established a new literary organization, the Creation Society, in Tokyo, and in July, the first collection of short stories, "The Sinking," was published, which made a great impact at that time.

In March 1922, he returned home after graduating from Tokyo Imperial University.

In May, the inaugural issue of Creation Quarterly was published, and in July, the novel The Evening of Spring Drunkenness was published. 1923 to 1926, he taught at Peking University, Wuchang Normal University, and Guangdong University, and returned to Shanghai at the end of 1926 to preside over the Publication Department of the Society for Creativity, edited the Creation Monthly and the Flood bimonthly, and published a large number of literary treatises such as Novels and Drama. He published a large number of literary and artistic works, such as Novels and Drama.

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Xia Yan, former chairman of the Chinese Federation of Literature and Artists, said: "Dafu is a great patriot, and patriotism is the pillar of his life".

Political activist Hu Guizhi: In the history of Chinese literature, the name of Yu Dafu will be engraved forever, and on the monument of the Chinese people's war against fascism, the name of Yu Dafu's martyrs will also be engraved forever.?

Lee Ou-fan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an internationally renowned cultural researcher, said: "Compared with the rebellious, defiant and heroic "Prometheus-type" romantics represented by Guo Moruo, Yudafu can be said to be a representative of the passive and sentimental "Witte-type" romantics. The protagonist of "Down" can be said to fit the qualities of this type of character - "sentimental and neurotic", "melancholic and fatalist".

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