The Book of Rites Travel Notes in Hunan (1)

? Taoyuan and Yuanzhou is one of the essays in Hunan. Travels of Hunan is one of the representative works of Shen Congwen, a famous writer in China. Taoyuan and Yuanzhou is a travel note written by the author when he returned to his hometown of Xiangxi in 1934.

? "Taoyuan and Yuanzhou" begins with "The Peach Blossom Spring" and the scholar's search for the Peach Blossom Cave, which tells the yearning of outsiders for the Peach Blossom Spring, but people in the Peach Blossom Spring don't think so. It describes the romance of clients and the bitterness of prostitutes, as well as the tobacco trade and various local specialties. There are also lonely boatmen, vulgar boatmen: boatmen, stopped workers, sailors. Yuan's guests drifting on the water, the fragrant flowers in Qu Yuan's poems, went to the inn by themselves, and the sailors went to have fun. It shows a desolate and distant painting of Xiangxi customs.

? A prostitute who lives in Taoyuan, a sailor who speaks wild words and works hard to make a living, is the real life, which is quite different from Tao Jingjie's Taohuayuan people who don't know how to have a Han, but to some extent, they are so similar. They don't think like scholars, don't think about the meaning of life, and don't think about their talents. They all just follow the path taken by their ancestors.

? Many elders say that we young people are too impetuous and anxious. People in the past didn't think much about how to live. But now, as we are only in our twenties, we have to consider buying a car and a house, and whether there are any promotion opportunities in our present job. Before finding a partner, we should figure out what to do with the children's milk powder money and education. Rich people are busy immigrating, and those without money don't want to be adherents. No one knows what's going on in this society. We are only in our twenties, but we seem to see ourselves in their sixties and seventies. We don't want to get old, and we don't want to continue to be as tired as our parents. We also hear how comfortable Americans and Europeans are, so we can only think more and worry more. The more anxious we are, the less we know how to live. Maybe we should learn from those prostitutes and sailors on Yuan River and learn to "accept fate"?

Compared with beauty, the Taoyuan written by Shen Congwen is naturally not as beautiful as that written by Tao Yuanming, but the Taoyuan written by Shen Congwen shows the humanity of rural people-truth, goodness and beauty.