Ramble - If life presses the pause button, you might as well take a trip around the room
Everything is sleeping, dreaming about travel.
In the dream, the moon was bright and bright, and the stars were changing. Tourists traveling long distances set up their tents. A gust of wind passed by, and small insects made a rustling sound in the grass. The stream mixed with the moonlight and gurgled into the distance. The wild flowers in the lonely valley ask the dreamer if he has seen spring passing by.
When I woke up from the dream, I was still in a familiar room. Leaning against the window and looking out, a peach tree is blooming under the dim street lamp, swaying in the wind, with branches intertwined and dense.
Spring is embracing the world gently.
Then I remembered a long-circulated advertising copy:
When you were writing the PPT, the Alaskan cod was jumping out of the water...
When you were looking at the report , the golden monkeys in Meili Snow Mountain just climbed to the top of the tree...
When you squeezed into the subway, the mountain eagles in Tibet kept circling in the clouds...
When you quarreled in the meeting, the eagles in Nepal The backpackers picked up their wine glasses and sat by the fire together...
At this moment, the continuation of the epidemic literature is probably "When you are isolated at home, the peach blossoms bloom all spring...
However, don’t be discouraged. Wise men and women from all over the world have reminded us that perhaps one of the meanings of travel lies in “what you can’t reach physically, but what you yearn for”
Country. Just like today, there were many days when the ancients loved landscapes but could not go out, such as due to long roads, lack of travel arrangements, or official duties. Busy and suffering from old age and illness. However, not being able to visit in person did not affect the ancients' interest in landscapes, but instead prompted them to develop the skill of "lying out". As the name suggests, literati painters traveled while lying on their beds. Between the scrolls, I unfold the scrolls from time to time, facing each other in an elegant way, studying the distant views in all directions, looking at the distant jungles and uninhabited wild scenes in the sky, lying down and meditating, and feeling like I am wandering among the mountains and rivers. It saves you the trouble of traveling, and you can go wherever you want without being limited by time and space. Today, you can also avoid wearing a mask for nucleic acid tests, which is truly zero pollution and zero risk.
"Sleep travel". It can be traced back to the Six Dynasties period. Zong Bing was a painter in the Southern Dynasties. He loved landscapes and lived in seclusion in Hengshan. In his later years, he returned to his hometown due to illness. Aging and illness weighed on him and he could no longer travel to famous mountains and rivers, so he sighed: "With old age and illness, it may be difficult to see all the famous mountains. We can only watch the Tao with a clear mind and lie down to swim around it. He painted the places he visited in his life on the indoor wall. Although he did not leave home, he still seemed to be among the mountains and rivers. "Sitting and lying down to watch, the interest is as full as before.
The Qing Dynasty Zhengkui's lying tour in the mountains and rivers is collected in the Tianjin Museum
The "lying tour" proposed by Zong Bing has been admired by literati of all dynasties. Su Dongpo and Huang Shangu of the Song Dynasty often mentioned "Zong Shaowen lying in his arms while sleeping" (note: Zong Bing, courtesy name Shaowen). Wang Shen also said "Zong Bing lies in his arms and wanders in his arms" ("Xuanhe Painting Book"). . Even the poets and painters of the Jin Dynasty often wrote poems about "taking a lying tour to Qizhai" ("Zhongzhou Collection" Ren Ji "Ti Zi Duan "Xiao Yin Tu" of the Yuan Dynasty). Particularly interested in Zong Bing's theory, Ni Yunlin praised Wang Meng and said: "Cheng Huai Guan Dao Zong Shaowen... there has been no such king in five hundred years. ”
The Ming Dynasty Shen Zhou’s “Walking in Rivers and Mountains” (Part) Collection of Tianjin Museum
The Ming Dynasty painter Shen Zhou inherited and developed Zong Bing’s view of “Wandering” and created the “Wandering in Mountains and Rivers” album. ” and “Wandering in Rivers and Mountains” etc., and mentioned in the postscript of “Wandering in Rivers and Mountains”: “Zong Shaowen exposed pictures of mountains and rivers on the four walls, and said that he was traveling while sleeping. This volume is only about a foot long, so you can sleep on the bed with your back, hold it in one hand, and flip through it slowly with the other, which is very interesting to read. Isn't it convenient to cover up when you are tired?"
A scroll of the Ming Dynasty Shen Zhou River and Mountain Travel (part) Collection of Tianjin Museum
A gentleman likes to live close to forests and springs, and to receive guests in mountains and rivers. , visit friends, drink tea, go boating; read, sing, play the piano, and watch the spring. Living in the mountains and forests, becoming an official and living in seclusion has been the ideal lifestyle of Chinese people for thousands of years, and landscape painting is like a true reflection of this ideal life. The mountains, rivers, cottages, huts, buildings, pavilions, streams, boats and carriages, dogs and horses, and human traces in the paintings are all the spiritual sustenance of Chinese people who appreciate mountains and rivers. For many enthusiasts, appreciating landscape paintings is the spiritual sustenance of them. The process is also a process of traveling into the spiritual realm with the painter's brushwork. The green mountains are speechless and more sentimental than me. The distance between you and the landscape may be just a painting.
Travel around the room as you please< /p>
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Coincidentally, there are also "lying travel" enthusiasts abroad, but they are not limited to landscapes; the things they use for "lying travel" are not paintings but books < /p>
In his book "The Art of Travel", the British genius Alain de Botton once interestingly introduced a way of travel described in Huysmans' novel "Countercurrent" - "travel around the room" ".
The protagonist of the novel is a world-weary duke named D'Essandis, who lives alone in a spacious villa on the outskirts of Paris. He almost never left home and often lay alone on the bed in his study, reading literary classics. Early one morning, de Essandis suddenly felt a strong desire to travel to London. At that time, he was reading a Dickens novel. The novel aroused his imagination about the life of the British, and he eagerly looked forward to seeing it with his own eyes. Before the train departed, he walked into the bookstore and bought a "London Travel Guide". The book's concise descriptions of London's scenic spots made him feel extremely beautiful. Then he walked to a nearby bar frequented by British people. The atmosphere in the bar is straight out of a Dickens novel. De Essandis felt a little hungry, so he went to a small British restaurant next door. The restaurant was dimly lit and filled with smoke, and the items on the counter were all British specialties...
"As the time for the train to leave the station approaches, De Essandis's dream of London is about to become a reality." Reality, but at this moment, he suddenly became tired and bored. He began to imagine how boring and boring he would be if he really went to London: he would have to rush to the train station, grab a porter to carry his luggage, and get on the train. He had to sleep in a strange bed in the car, and then had to queue up to get off, dragging his tired body forward through the London street scenes that Baedeker had already described so well... Thinking of these, his London dream Suddenly it was eclipsed."
Collection of British Silver Coins in Tianjin Museum
"If a person can just sit on a chair and roam around with a book, why bother to really travel? Are you already in London? The smell, the weather, the people, the food, and even the cutlery in London restaurants are all around you. If you really arrive in London, what else can you expect but new disappointments? " < /p>
As it turned out, de Essandis paid the bill, left the restaurant, and caught the earliest train back to his villa. He has never left his home since.
"There is no better way to experience the foreign culture you love than to admire paintings in a museum or read classic books at home." De Essandez began to travel around the room with great fanfare. He has arranged a variety of things in his home that make it easy for him to enjoy the essence of travel. "There are various colorful pictures hanging on the wall, marking foreign cities, museums, hotels... The bedroom is covered with frames and strips, all of which are liner schedules of major shipping companies. He raised some in a water tank. Water plants, and also bought a small sailboat, some ship's rigging and a small sailor model... With them, he can experience the greatest pleasure of sailing without any discomfort that may occur during the voyage."
Ending
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Lying down and swimming, your heart will move. The key lies in mobilizing extraordinary imagination and sensitivity: "Imagination can make Our ordinary real life becomes far more colorful than itself.” Yes, perhaps the best trip is to be free from all external interference, holding a painting or a book and traveling freely in the country of imagination. Traveling around the house requires us to discover the beauty and preciousness of the everyday things around us. For example, are there green buds sprouting from the long-abandoned flower pots on the balcony? In a corner that you haven't noticed, spring is growing.
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References:
1. Liu Lina: "Shen Zhou's "Wandering" Thought and Its Influence on Wumen School of Painting", Rong Baozhai, Issue 7, 2013
2. "The Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton, translated by Nan Zhiguo, Peng Junhao, and He Shiyuan, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2009