Ivy League halls, and Xu
There is no reason, I am particularly fond of this plant vines. Very young, there is such an ideal, if we can live in covered with dazzling vines of a house, the window is the slightest strands of vine hanging down to be windows open too long, then the yellow Nennen The vine will be playful exploration into the windows rolled up and the first house to. Such a place, it can be called a true green radish window.
Later, after reading a little book, knowing there Fanglangxinghai Shaoxing Ming another masterpiece of literary talent and Xu Xu Wei, and his home would perhaps ivy halls, naturally aroused my very fascinating.
I also know, Hsu Wen-long drama is so well written articles not just poetry, or freehand ink painting and calligraphy master generation, in the eastern Zhejiang is a humorous folk games eolian legend cracker chic. Eastern Zhejiang dialect spoken, the words and Xu went so far into the qualifying adverb, such as this matter does not matter, say "matter and Xu get a get on the list", meaning casual Nongnong will do. Hsu Wen-long infectious personality can be seen in the folk calendar stream wind awakens five hundred years without decline.
Mid to late eighties, I was in Shanghai when the school was once something to emulate the ancients of old books, eager to visit the book textbook. Antiquarian bookshops in Fuzhou Lu Zhonghua Book Company in 2083 to see the typography of this paperback first edition of the four, "Xu Wei collection," simple binding generous, printing results are very clear, limited print run, only more than ten thousand sets. I like this, "Xu Wei series", but the price is a bit delicate, to more than five money for poor students like me, tantamount to a huge sum. Under a little hesitation, that go back first and think about it, but when I determined the time of purchase and collection, this book Jingru Yellow Butterfly Gone, disappeared without a trace. The "Xu Wei's series" became my little collection a cold room heart disease.
Last year in September, in Shanghai, travel, revisit the classics more than 10 years ago Jiuyou old haunt bookstores, even occasional in 2099 as China's classical literature the basic set of books reprinted, "Xu Wei's collection." Print run of less than the first, only a mere 3000 units. After the business and economic prosperity can be seen, though Marie airflow and Xu, but also no longer have the number of fans acclaim. Reading a price, an increase of more than 10-fold, laser photo-typesetting in the printing quality of the printed volume seems to be worse than in the past many, regarded as the side effects of development of market economy. Though a bit Renxinbugu regret, but "Xu Wei's series" This time missed from time longer, otherwise, the third printing, etc., I am afraid they would take sixteen years.
In the even have to "Xu Wei set" before the late nineties, I have a small town in the East China Sea has a small bedroom Jiaojiang, as the resettlement of thousands of volumes and the leisurely and carefree mood of the place. The first thing is to grow wisteria. Spring, when farmers in the mountains north shore Jiaojiang digging to Wisteria stumps, flowers and birds brought to the market for sale, inexpensive, robust branches will be able to buy one. Our wisteria planted in the living room on the north window, and through the summer and autumn growth, then the iron bars on the windows in the north spread to, really has become a chic green radish window. I do not know what tree wisteria is not in the summer season, such as other general out Wisteria Ying Luo general strings of purple flowers come. However, I have been very satisfied with their own entertainment in the possession of a few piles of books named Fujiya cold fast. Mr. Xu elder gods have known, when no one will blame my admiration ivy book store.
But unfortunately, for so many years pass by a few hastily Shaoxing, have failed to have some free time to the Ivy House Random House paid homage and Xu.
One day this summer, I drove alone to the Shaoxing wanted to wander around and escape relax. Around noon, the heat intolerable, suddenly, a modicum of health, why not go look for ivy halls, a long-cherished wish was awful for years.
To find a casual passers-by inquired, Ivy Book Store in downtown Shaoxing. Compared with many economically developed cities, Shaoxing be more concerned about the protection of traditional culture. And Xu had normal hit erratic, lonely Xingyin get the first view of Mahayana Lane is a narrow alley where the deep, brick paving, vines climbing walls, reveals a long period of old-fashioned. In the same situation, is suitable for autumn rains among the holders of the old-fashioned yellow Youzhi San Yibing, where traveled alone, but in the end will be met, "the general Chouyuan clove girl" or Changran losing their leaves and freely roam the insanity of the Ivy League Yamahito it? Hard to explain.
Ivy Book Store on East pai lou is a small garden, with banana DiCui, tall bamboo trees, Stones exquisite, flower diameter, twists and turns, elegant quiet. On pai lou 2 Bookstore in North and South. Southern Window abbot under a wide stone masonry pond, is the famous Tianchi. Tianchi Nishigashira corner of the vines planted lush Qiu Jin 1, which is the name of the origin of the ivy Random House.
March 1981, I have admired scholar Su-Huang Chang Tour Ivy House Random House books when the books had also Stanford in Shaoxing Ming Wanli years turn to a different version of inter-carved, "Hsu Wen-long series" residual copies of three, and now you want to be able to see a zero thick waterproof silk piece of paper is also an wish for. Destruction of the Cultural Revolution was a decade later, when Random House was being renovated ivy, Huang Shang records, "During the month pai lou next to an ancient camphor wood, and then in front of the Ivy League should be a well-known where it was located, but not seen anything, saying it was to be transplanted elsewhere come. "
Ivy is now beautifully refurbished Library, of course, in addition to the old camphor trees remain, the transplant over the ivy grown very well, dendrite attached full roof wall and become cool Cuigai. Huang Chang Chen Hongshou not seen the title "Ivy Library" plaque, and "Stone Flower delicious thin," "comfortable rock" and other old places, full of echoing the slogan has long been decorated. These can be regarded as historical re-progress result.
However, already vanished forever disappeared. Xu Changsheng, when woods, should succeed in crazy self-mutilation, but his traditional Chinese ink freehand painting, graceful calligraphy, elegant poetry, Smart's dramas, has been integrated into the water, such as fog Qingyuan melodious essence of Jiangnan culture. Hsu Wen-long was born in Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka's old ivy halls, after almost five hundred years precarious, whether it is ruined in the spider web of grassland, or repair was refined and elegant, for Hsu Wen-long run, have been important.
Ivy League halls, but gradually disappearing from our culture, a faint shadow of Jiangnan.
November 2002 Horse in the late autumn rain, Fujiya Ming Chan
Author: ttzrb
