Autumn Verses: Beauty and Sentiment in Prose
Are you familiar with Chinese prose? Like Chinese poetry, it is also a precious gem of Chinese culture. With beautiful language, profound thoughts, and delicate emotions, it showcases the lives and aesthetic tastes of the Chinese people. This article will meticulously introduce several essays about autumn. Oh, what a poetic season autumn is! The golden rice fields, the fiery red maple leaves, the cool autumn breeze—all can become the most beautiful scenery in the hands of prose writers. Let us immerse ourselves in these prose pieces, feel the delicate emotions within them, and embark on a wonderful literary journey together!
Chi Zijian: "Autumn is a cruel landlord, and the flowers and leaves are helpless tenants; their contract has expired."
In the eyes of the renowned writer Chi Zijian, you can imagine autumn as a stern landlord. It's like when we rent a house, and if the landlord decides something, the tenants cannot change it. This landlord of autumn notifies the flowers and leaves, the tenants, that it's time to leave.
During spring and summer, the flowers and leaves are splendid, much like the vibrant and colorful beautiful things in our lives. They freely showcase themselves, bringing vitality and beauty to the world. However, when autumn arrives, it's as if the landlord has issued an eviction order. The flowers and leaves have no choice but to helplessly float down and wither.
This is akin to the beautiful things in our lives, perhaps a happy time or a special experience, but everything has an end. Just like the "contract expiration" between the flowers and leaves and autumn, the beauty in our lives may also fade for various reasons. However, this is part of life—where there is a beginning, there is an end, where there is blooming开花(kāi huā), there is withering. We must learn to cherish those beautiful moments and face their departure with acceptance.
开花 (kāi huā), verb, bloom
Examples:
- 这些花在阳光下开花了。
These flowers bloom in the sun.
zhè xiē huā zài yáng guāng xià kāi huā le 。 - 玫瑰通常在五月开花。
Roses usually bloom in May.
méi guī tōng cháng zài wǔ yuè kāi huā 。
Yu Guangzhong: "Rain should be a dripping soul, calling out to someone outside the window. Autumn should be a falling leaf, dancing with elegance in the wind's final embrace."
In our daily lives, you can understand it this way. When it rains, those raindrops() are like dripping souls. Have you ever heard the sound of raindrops雨滴(yǔ dī) hitting the window on a rainy day? It's as if this soul is calling out to someone outside the window. Perhaps it is calling for certain emotions deep within us or reminding us to pay attention to things we overlook.
雨滴 (yǔ dī), noun, raindrop
Examples:
- 无数的雨滴从天空飘落。
Countless raindrops fall from the sky.
wú shù de yǔ dī cóng tiān kōng piāo luò 。 - 雨滴打在窗户上。
The raindrop hits the window.
yǔ dī dǎ zài chuāng hù shàng 。
And autumn, like a falling leaf, is a time when tree leaves gently flutter down in the wind. This leaf dances in the wind, displaying its final elegance. Just like in our lives, there are beautiful moments that can still shine even as they face the end.
In autumn, as we witness fallen leaves, we may reflect on our own lives. We go through various stages, with beginnings and endings. Like this leaf, we can maintain grace even in the final moments, facing life's changes with composure.
Perhaps on a rainy day in autumn, as we watch the rain outside and the falling leaves, we may feel a deep sense of tranquility and contemplation. This is the unique experience that autumn and rain bring us.
Lin Huiyin: "The pride of autumn is in its fruits, not in buds. Life demands that you give away the fragrance you have accumulated; hand over each layer of color warmed by light; drip away every ounce of your most bitter regrets."
During autumn, we often see abundant fruits, the rewards after a period of nurturing and growth in nature. Fruits represent maturity and achievement, so the pride of autumn lies in its fruits rather than just budding. Similarly, in our lives, the efforts and accomplishments made after hard work fill us with pride.
Life demands that we do not withhold our contributions. We must offer our accumulated fragrance like blooming flowers. In life, we should share our talents, love, and positive energy with those around us, just as fruits bask in the sunlight, showcasing every layer of color. This means sharing our experiences, wisdom, and beauty.
Finally, drip away every ounce of your most bitter regrets. Everyone faces challenges and experiences that make us sorrowful and regretful. We must bravely confront these negative emotions and release them, just as we pour out our most bitter regrets. Only then can we embrace life with a more positive mindset, like fruits in autumn, full and enriched.
In this beautiful autumn, let us cherish a love for life and, like prose writers, use delicate hearts to feel the gifts of each season. Let us cherish every moment as time passes, bravely face the ups and downs of life, and write our own remarkable life story with grace and composure!