The Splendor and Disadvantages of Traditional Culture in Yu's Prose

"Yu Qiuyu, who came out more than thirty years later than Liang Shiqiu and Qian Zhongshu, integrated knowledge into sensibility, lifted his weight as if it were light, and walked through his Bitter Journey of Culture with a floating coat." This is a passage from Mr. Yu Guangzhong's "Knowledge and Sensibility in Prose". Mr. Yu Guangzhong compares Yu with Liang Shiqiu and Qian Zhongshu. Indeed, for more than ten years, Yu's prose has received many readers and favorable comments. Some people comment that: from the space it entered the people, from the time into the history of prose, set up a prose peak. After reading from the "Cultural Journey", "Notes on Mountain Dwelling", "Frost and Cold River", "Fragments of Civilization", "Autumn and Rain Prose" to the recent "A Thousand Years of Sighs" and "Walkers Without Borders" several collections of prose, the heart can not help but feel a thousand feelings, great Sven, great beauty for the United States!

Mr. Yu's prose is a typical cultural prose, we are accustomed to seeing the exquisite and flexible works of prose, it presents us with a bright and fresh landscape, such as a strong wind blowing. It got rid of indulging in the small world of the small family, and performance for a more generous and heroic feelings of the great prose, of course, is not the length of the big, but embodied in a heavy sense of history and the vicissitudes of life, a kind of HaoYeYongGon not pretentious grace and atmosphere, a kind of look up to the sky and earth and the ancient and modern inner impulses and feelings, a kind of surging with the wisdom of passion and spirituality and thinking. Mr. Yu's prose, in the rich cultural association and imagination to complete the rational interpretation of the object of expression, the integration of Zhuangzi philosophical prose of the heavenly, unrestrained thinking and the two Han fugue style of narrative and exaggeration, gorgeous and heavy rhetorical style, so as to show the spirit of rationality and the inner interest of the poetic characteristics. The writing is like flowing clouds and water, and the spirit splashes between the scrolls, with elegant cultural connotations, and the pen is dipped in a deep sense of national anxiety, and the words are filled with the wise philosophical thinking of the millennium

If Yu Qiuyu gives a rich and vivid image of culture from the angle of life, it is from a micro perspective, then the concern of the nation and the state is a macro perspective of the structure of culture.

This concern is embodied in the author's integration of his motherland's landscape, national feelings and Chinese culture into one. He regards culture as the soul of the nation, and puts the emotion of the nation on the landscape. The author of "Taoist Pagoda" associates the cultural relics of Mogao Grottoes with the invasion of foreign barbarians and the national disaster, "a young poet wrote that evening, when the adventurer Stein's oxcart full of boxes was about to set off, he looked back at the bleak evening sun in the western sky. There, the wounds of an ancient people dripped blood." More than just a few boxes of cultural relics were shipped away, the author clearly saw a national genie - culture, in the Great Powers bayonet bruises, blood stains, a tall cultural giant in front of the times in pain, groaning.

Through the form of Yu's prose that integrates the motherland, the mountains and the rivers, the national emotion and the Chinese culture, we will see the deeper cultural meaning implied, that is, the essence and the kernel of the Chinese culture--nationalism and patriotism. "I even want to kneel down to him and beg him in a low voice", "Please wait, wait ......", "It's hard here, it's hard there, I can only make it stationed in the desert, and then cried out", ...... we seem to see the author of the fist of the heart, full of the national culture of the treasured and the motherland's deep emotions, his poignant begging and calling, not only to preserve the cultural heritage of the Mogao Grottoes, but also more profoundly embedded in the patriotic Connotation.

...... Yu Qiuyu's bitter travel "culture", not only has a strong sense of life, sense of the nation, but also more rich sense of history. Yu Qiuyu's prose profound thinking, rich and grandiose connotation, are derived from his profound and exquisite historians training. The historical sense of his "culture" is not a rigid white depiction of the past, but rather the history as a long and unceasing river, and culture as a close link between the past and the present. In him, culture is like a rolling wave full of vitality, driving the Chinese nation forward.

The author looks at culture from the perspective of the history of mankind, which has become the accumulation of history, and culture and history have become an inseparable whole. His "landscape" is "humanistic landscape", "which is caused by the long charm of Chinese history and culture and its long-term influence on me, and I can't get rid of it even if I want to. Every place, there is always a heavy historical air pressure over my whole body, so that I am touched for no reason, no reason to sigh" ("Preface"). Mogao Grottoes" in the article is more typical of the description, "where the historical sites have been passed down, there is always a unique endowment of unending life, spit a hundred generations", "Mogao Grottoes can be proud of the monuments of foreign countries, lies in the place, it is more than a thousand years of the layers of the cumulative. Look at the Mogao Grottoes, not to see a thousand years of dead specimens, but to see a thousand years of life. A thousand years and always alive, blood flow, breathing even stop, this is a kind of how magnificent life!" The flavor of history can be said to be strong! Mogao Grottoes" where the article is the appreciation of cultural relics and monuments, is really the vicissitudes of China's thousands of years of history of the living reappearance. He is from the color flow of the portrait, but the thousands of years of civilization to see a luscious. History and culture in his place, there is no more indifference and grim, historical anger to drive away the "cultural journey" monotony and dry, presenting us with a lively and unrestrained, perhaps this is also the "cultural journey" one of the reasons for the enjoyment of it!