Writing on the topic of breakthrough?

Living in this halfway house far from downtown, there is silence, but loneliness comes, sometimes fierce, especially in the middle of the night. I had to walk around the room alone, pull down the curtains, separate the cliff standing outside the window from the rolling tide, and occasionally glance at the milky telephone beside the bed. It rang unexpectedly and rushed over. It's from China Times in Taipei. An unknown female reporter said that my book "Cultural Journey" sold well in Taiwan Province Province, so she wanted to do an overseas telephone interview. Asked me a lot of questions, including my background, experience and hobbies. The last question is: "Who is your favorite writer in the cultural history of China?" I replied: Su Dongpo. She asked again, "Which of his works do you like best?" I replied: An article about Huangzhou Chibi. Without pause, the reporter said, "You mean Nian Nujiao's Nostalgia for the Red Cliff and Fu before and after the Red Cliff?" I was right. I was happy for Su Dongpo at once. His works are the master password of China literati, just a little bit, even halfway up the mountain, blocked by the strait, unknown.

When I put the phone down, I immediately thought of Huangzhou Chibi. I just went there last summer, and I was still very impressed. I remember that before I went there, my friends from Wuhan dissuaded me because the famous Battle of Red Cliffs was not there to play. Su Dongpo misses the past and is in the wrong place. Now let's pay our respects seriously. To put it mildly, we were wrong. To put it bluntly, we were wrong. It's so hot and the road is so far. Why bother? I know that most historians don't believe that Battle of Red Cliffs really played there, and most say it was played in Jiayu County. However, in recent years, several young and middle-aged historians in Hubei hold the opposite view, arguing that there is nothing wrong with Su Dongpo's nostalgia for the past, and that Huangzhou Chibi was the main battlefield of the war at that time. I have always been interested in this debate. Regardless of the prospect of the debate, I still want to see Huangzhou, not from a historical perspective, but from an artistic perspective to see Su Dongpo's feelings. Even if a great artist is wrong, he will make mistakes in charm. As Oscar Wilde said, there is only beauty and ugliness in art, and there is no right or wrong. So I went anyway.

This is Huangzhou Chibi. The steep stone slope of ochre is next to the mighty river flowing eastward. There is a dangerous road on the slope to climb and overlook, and there is a boat on the river to paddle and look up. The place is not big, but leaning down and leaning up will have momentum. With the contrast between the big and the small, there will be the variation and inversion of the visual space, so there is the value of sightseeing and meditation. The objective scenery only provides an aesthetic possibility, which is realized in different degrees by different tourists. Su Dongpo used his spiritual strength to inject meaning into the natural scenery of Huangzhou, and it is this meaning that makes the lifeless natural form beautiful. Therefore, Su Dongpo is not only the discoverer of natural beauty in Huangzhou, but also the determinator and builder of natural beauty in Huangzhou.

However, the complexity of human feelings lies in that natural beauty can also determine and construct people in turn. Su Dongpo fulfilled Huangzhou and Huangzhou also fulfilled Su Dongpo. This is really an interesting relationship, which complements each other. Su Dongpo's masterpiece in Huangzhou not only declares that Huangzhou has entered a new aesthetic level, but also declares that Su Dongpo has entered a new life stage. The two aspects can be promoted together, and no one can do without anyone.

Su Dongpo has been to many places, many of which are far more beautiful than Huangzhou. Why can a remote Huangzhou give him such a big surprise and shock? Why can he put such profound historical significance and life significance in Huangzhou? Why can Huangzhou become the most important life station in his life? It all depends on the reason and mentality of his coming to Huangzhou.

He came from prison. He came with a small official position. In fact, he came as an exiled criminal. He came with the dirty water poured on him by officialdom and literary and art circles. He came with luck and despair. He was detained, far away from his family, and was not qualified to choose any place outside Huangzhou, and walked towards this desolate town at that time.

He was tired and embarrassed. He went out of the capital of song dynasty, across Henan, across Huaihe River, into Hubei and Huangzhou. The unhappy Huangzhou did not prepare any shelter for him, so he had to live in a temple. He wiped his face and held his breath. There was silence all around, not even a friend. He closed his eyes and shook his head. He doesn't know that at this moment, he has completed a cultural breakthrough that will go down in history forever. Huangzhou is destined to have a magnificent dialogue with this scarred breakout.