The first essay that Govin intended to write was the one he had read, written by Yu Qiuyu, "The Taoist Tower".

In Yu Qiuyu's "Taoist Tower", he is deeply saddened by the loss of Chinese objects in the Mogao Grottoes, and deeply reflects on the social roots of the unbearable national cultural tragedy. His intentions are good, but they are unfair between the lines.

For example, Yu Qiuyu simply blamed the destruction of the Dunhuang documents in the Mogao Grottoes on an ordinary Taoist priest, which is definitely not what a rigorous writer should do. Prose is not xiao, prose is mainly lyrical realism, lyricism, is the author's feelings, an author should not impose hearsay and his own subjective imagination on the real object he wants to describe, which will bring readers strong cognitive errors.

Therefore, when Gewen planned to write "Taoist Tower", he did not intend to simply copy Yu Qiuyu's "Taoist Tower", for him, Yu Qiuyu's article just provided him with a good material, a writing enlightenment. As for Yu Qiuyu's values and methodology in "Taoist Tower", he will not copy them. How can the depression and cynicism in the heart be used to pinpoint the ignorance and ignorance of the old Chinese peasants? Especially since this peasant is not as conscienceless and irresponsible as he writes!

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties in China, there has been a discussion of "the theory of doom", and almost all experts in literature and history believe that the war 1uan in history will cause unprecedented damage to the national cultural relics and classics, and the real culprit of the destruction of the cultural relics and classics of the previous dynasties is the war 1uan and the warlords, who have nothing to do with the common people. However, Yu Qiuyu's "Taoist Tower" sets a precedent by blaming the new "cultural doom theory" of old peasants like Wang Daoshi for the destruction of history and culture. This is clearly not true.

However, Yu Qiuyu's prose, which has deep humanistic feelings and ultimate questioning, needs to be studied seriously by Gewen. Therefore, Govin intends to write his own "Taoist Tower" with his own pen.

In fact, Govin did the same, but the process was not so easy and overnight.

No matter how noisy and noisy the external world is, the writer must always keep the inner jīng god intact, precipitate what he sees, hears, knows and feels about the external world, and savors it carefully. He needs to always maintain a world of his own jīng gods, let the jīng gods loosen their ties here, meet with artistic hearts here, ponder and ask questions here, and make the poetic state possible.

This is the creative philosophy that Ba Jin taught him before. And because the writing of cultural essays has more elements of jīng divine thinking, it is more necessary for writers to chew on history and real life in silence. Otherwise, it will be a mere formality and become a disease-free moaning yín.

Cultural essays often select some historical fragments, telling about the past through the dust of time, these things cannot be the author's personal experience, so Govin had to rely on historical materials when writing "Taoist Tower".

He collected information that could be used from the records of the Taoist pagoda in the Mogao Grottoes, from the historical documents that recorded the passage of the Mogao Grottoes that were stolen abroad, and even sought advice from experts who studied the historical relics of Dunhuang...... Govin knows that only in this way can we clearly restore the truth of history, rather than subjective assumptions.

It's a tedious process, but Govin enjoys it because of his strong desire to create.

So a stroke began to appear on the manuscript paper, and the beautiful words that were full of Gowen's depression slowly flowed out—

One

Outside the big mén of Mogao Grottoes, there is a river, there is a vacant land across the river, and several monks are built high and low. The tower is round, close to the gourd, and the exterior is covered with white sè. Judging from several collapsed, a wooden stake is erected in the center of the tower, and the surrounding is made of yellow clay, and the base is made of blue bricks. Historically, the monks of the Mogao Grottoes were not wealthy, and proof can be found here. As the sun sets, the wind is cold, and this dilapidated tower group looks even more sad.

There is a tower, which is relatively well preserved due to its relatively recent construction. There is an inscription on the body of the tower, if you move to read it, you will appear, its owner, is the king Yuanzhen!

History has recorded that he has found the Tibetan scripture dong, which has more than 50,000 documents, paper paintings, silk paintings, embroidery and other cultural relics in 7 centuries; That is, after he reported to the court many times to no avail, he silently guarded these cultural relics alone; It was also he who sold these artifacts to adventurers from the West, such as Stein.

I've seen pictures of him, dressed in homespun cotton clothes, with dull eyes, a Chinese commoner who could be seen everywhere in that era. He was originally a farmer in Macheng, Hubei, and fled to Gansu to become a Taoist priest. After several twists and turns, he came to the Mogao Grottoes, and at this time he was close to the age of huo. So the wandering Taoist priests stopped here, settled in this sacred unguarded treasure cave, and consciously became the patron saint here, protecting the most splendid culture of ancient China.

It is a true Taoist priest to protect the holy places of Buddhism, what kind of yīn poor yang and wrongly created nong people.

He had already been a Tibetan soldier, and he repeatedly reported his situation to the mediocre court, and he received very little money from foreign adventurers to transport away countless boxes of Dunhuang relics.

And today, the experts of the Dunhuang Academy had to buy microfilm of Dunhuang documents from foreign museums again and again in humiliation, sighed, and walked to the magnifier.

We can pour out the flood of wrath on Him. However, he was too insignificant, and the biggest outpouring was only to play the piano to the cow, in exchange for an indifferent expression. Let him, a person who has already done what he should do, fully shoulder this heavy cultural debt, even we will feel bored in our hearts.

This is a great national tragedy. Wang Daoshi is just the little horn sè who was pushed onto the stage in this tragedy. A young poet writes that that evening, as Stein, the adventurer, was about to set off with a cart full of boxes, he glanced back at the bleak sunset in the western sky. There, the wounds of an ancient people were dripping blood.

……

Cultural prose is clearly not an easy topic, not something that people lazily sit on the sand in their chairs after a busy day, flipping through them in the middle of a TV drama and throwing it away. After all, it is somewhat burdensome, it is a kind of cultural reflection in the form of art.

So Gowen's thoughts poured out with the tip of the pen, and fell into that heavy historical atmosphere-

The British Stein Eli youhuo Wang Daoist: "Aren't you a Taoist Wang who wants to clean the Dong caves, build wooden buildings, and erect wooden bridges?" I can buy some ancient scriptures with silver ingots, so that you can have the money to fulfill your ambitions. ”

Seeing that Daoist Wang still refused his request despite hesitation, Stein changed his way and deceitfully found an excuse that good people could not refuse: "I worship Xuanzang very much, I came from my country, followed the footsteps of Master Xuanzang, crossed the mountains and deserts from India, and came here after a lot of hardships. I'm here to learn the scriptures, just like Master Xuanzang once did......"

So the simple and kind old Taoist priest who did not realize the value of the more than 50,000 cultural relics he protected was finally moved, coupled with the fear of the common people for the official - these people also held local official licenses, so the darkest scene in Chinese history was born - Stein only bought 7,000 ancient manuscripts, engraved scrolls, fragments and scattered pages, Buddhist silk paintings, Buddha flags and other precious cultural relics for only forty horseshoe silver ingots.

……

Gowen seems to see the jīng spirit-culture of a people, scarred and bloodstained under the bayonets of the great powers, a tall cultural giant groaning and groaning in agony before the times.

He began to write bitter begs and calls:

Please wait, wait......

This is a Chinese cultural relic, you can't so quietly transport away the bequest given to us by our ancestors!

But what if the convoy full of artifacts was really stopped? I had to send it to the capital at that time, and the freight was not counted. But at that time, wasn't there indeed a batch of Dong cave documents sent to Beijing? The scene is that there is no wooden box, only 1uan bundle is used, and the officials along the way reach in and take a handful, where to rest and have to leave a few bundles, as a result, to the capital has been scattered and not the same.

In the huge China, there are not even a few volumes of scriptures! Compared to the scene of being abused by officials, I sometimes even want to say cruelly: I would rather keep it in a London museum! After all, this sentence is not very comfortable. Where should the convoy that I stopped go? It's hard here, it's hard there, I just let it stop in the desert and cry.

I hate it!

It's not just me who hates. The experts of the Dunhuang Academy hate them even more than I do. They were reluctant to express their feelings, but they just kept an iron face and studied Dunhuang documents for decades. The film of the literature could be bought from abroad, and the more humiliating it was, the more intensive it was to study. I once contacted an expert on Dunhuang literature and heard about this incident:

An international symposium on Dunhuang studies is being held in the Mogao Grottoes. A few days later, a Japanese scholar made a note in a heavy tone: "I would like to correct a statement from the past. The results of the past few years have shown that Dunhuang is in China, and Dunhuang studies are also in China! ”

The Chinese experts did not move much, and they silently left the venue and walked in front of the Yuan Death Pagoda of the Taoist priest.

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