This book will feel a little sad just by reading the title of the book, "Life is always saying goodbye". If so, can you not say goodbye?
The answer should be: No if.
So life will always be accompanied by farewell.
But please believe that every goodbye is for the next better encounter.
I like Wang Chen in the preface to the book "Life is Always Farewell": "A post is an encounter."
Similarly, a book is also an encounter. Every encounter is exciting and sad.
In the book "Life is Always Farewell", Wang Chen wrote the biography of life of 15 literary and artistic celebrities. Including Jane Austen , William Shakespeare , Antoine de Saint-Exuperi, Li Shutong , Sanmao , Gu Cheng , Anita Mui , Andersen, Monet , Coco Chanel and other famous figures.
15 encounters, 15 legends, 15 hot lives. After reading every story, it will make people feel like they have gone through their life experiences. There are touching, regrets, reluctance, shock, and admiration.
Wang Chen's writing style is very smooth, every word is gem, and 15 different life tones are written in 15 stories.
What I regret the most among them is the story of Li Shutong that Wang Chen wrote at the beginning.
" Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the fragrant grass is green all over the sky. The evening breeze blows the willows and the sound of the flute is gone, and the sunset is outside the mountains..."
If you accidentally hear this song "Farewell" outside, will you consciously sing a sentence or two along?
That’s right, Li Shutong’s song “Farewell” has long been well known. But few people know where it really comes from.
Although we all know that this is about parting, we don’t know who is about parting with whom.
One winter, Li Shutong's friend Xu Huanyuan came to his residence to find him. Xu Huanyuan told Li Shutong that their family had gone bankrupt like Li Shutong's family, so he was about to leave Shanghai and came to say goodbye to Li Shutong.
Li Shutong looked at his friend's lonely back when he left, and an indescribable sadness arose in his heart. So he wrote this song "Farewell" to express his reluctance to his friends and his lament of the impermanence of the world.
But in fact, Li Shutong's life is also a farewell song, or the world is impermanent and joyful.
Li Shutong is his father's old son. Although he is a concubine, he is considered to be in a wealthy family and has been living in wealth since childhood. But often, there are unexpected situations. When he was five years old, his father passed away, which made his and his mother's life plummet.
But after all, the young master of the Li family is the lean camel bigger than a horse. Even without the protection of his father, he and his mother depend on each other and can still live a turbulent life safely.
He studied under Cai Yuanpei, Feng Zikai is his student.
A poem "Farewell" written by him tells the separation of the world and the impermanence of the world's feelings, and has become a work that has been passed down from generation to generation.
He is a famous musician, art educator, calligrapher, drama activist, and one of the pioneers of Chinese drama.
The works he wrote throughout his life had a profound impact on later generations.
He is called "a rare genius in modern history."
But it is such a genius. When he was 38 years old, he made a decision that everyone regretted. He chose to ordained as a monk and received the full precepts under the seat of Master Huiming of Lingyin Temple. His Dharma name was Yanyin and his name was Hongyi.
From then on, Li Shutong completely bid farewell to this world of worldly affairs and went to a day when only the green lamps and ancient Buddhas were accompanied by each day.
What Li Shutong left to the world is not only the art books and self-carved seals he collected in his life, but also the sighs that made people sigh after sigh.
On October 13, 1942, 62-year-old Master Hongyi passed away in Wenling Nursing Home.
If Li Shutong lives before the age of 38, he lived for his mother and the world, then after the age of 38, until the moment he left the world at the age of 62, Master Hongyi truly lived for himself.
Isn’t life just to find your own “way”? So, no matter whether he is Li Shutong or Master Hongyi, he is himself.
Wang Chen said in "Life is always farewell" that in fact, under the body of the mortal body, each of us is just an ordinary person, with a mediocre heart, and just want to live at our own pace and live the life we want.
Li Shutong is the case, and the same is true for Anita Mui, Chaplin, Andersen and others in the book.
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