广陵集 2020 Diligent Studies in Guangling 2020 第 12 篇 Section 12
十二月 喧嚣的文化背后 December: Behind the Cultural Clamor
返回 广陵集 2020 Back to Diligent Studies in Guangling 2020这几年，两季《中国诗词大会》的冠军惊艳了所有人，人们无不为武亦姝的才情，雷海为的逆袭所动容。诗词大会是一个充满包容的舞台，是彰显和传播传统文化的载体，同时也为古老的诗词带来几分新的元素。由此我们最好跳开那恢宏的舞台，去仔细探寻文化背后隐藏的东西。
Over recent years, champions of the Chinese Poetry Conference captivated audiences across the nation: all were stirred by Wu Yishu’s brilliance and Lei Haiwei’s triumph against the odds. The Poetry Conference provides an inclusive arena, serving as a vessel for celebrating and disseminating traditional culture while infusing ancient verse with contemporary freshness. Hence, we would do well to step beyond the glittering stage and examine the currents moving behind the culture.
在诗词大会上，选手大战“百人团”的流程贯穿全场，这无疑是节目的一大亮点。也许是为了更好的普及，面对大多数对诗词不甚了解的观众，除了这样没有别的办法了。然而，这却折射出现代文化背后觉醒的形式主义，一种盲目的文化继承。
On the show, contestants battling the “Hundred-Member Corps” forms a dramatic highlight. Perhaps to broaden appeal for viewers unversed in classical poetry, no other format would suffice. Yet this reflects the emergence of formalism behind contemporary culture—a blind, mechanical mode of cultural inheritance.
文化并不是一种形式的东西，更不是谈笑间的冠亚军，我们要的只是它的芳魂，而不是她的躯体。我们常常可以听到看到所谓“国学热”的风潮，谁今天读《史记》，我明天就谈老庄。虽然说用通俗的外衣包裹传统讲学，更能适应大众， 但在商业的炒作下，许多东西已经偏离了其原本的方向，开始逐渐暴露出弊端。以现如今许多城市小学改用“国学读本”为例，在课本中加入许多干巴巴的国学释义，这就相当于给幼小的孩子一根甘蔗，让他们死命去啃。这样的做法是毫无意义的。
Culture is not an empty formal shell, still less a prize fought over in banter; what we seek is its living soul, not its corpse. We frequently witness waves of the so-called “sinology fever”: someone reads Records of the Grand Historian today, and another discourses on Laozi and Zhuangzi tomorrow. While cloaking traditional learning in popular dress helps reach the public, commercial hype has derailed much of it, exposing mounting pitfalls. Take urban elementary schools adopting “sinology primers” filled with dry, rote commentaries: this is like handing toddlers unpeeled sugarcane and demanding they chew through the rind—an exercise in futility.
《中国诗词大会》应当是一个契机，来鼓励大众品味领悟古诗词文化，而不是有空就跑过去听一下讲学，过把文化瘾，在接受灌输时自我陶醉。毕竟“文化快餐”确实方便，吃完后打几个饱嗝，别人亦会肃然起敬。于是大众的观察方向也开始出现偏离。
The Chinese Poetry Conference ought to serve as a catalyst inspiring the populace to savor and assimilate classical poetic heritage, rather than merely dropping in on lectures to indulge in cultural self-intoxication. Fast-food culture is convenient: belching after a quick meal, one easily commands superficial awe from peers. Consequently, public attention has begun to drift from substance to spectacle.
文化的内核应是文化自豪精神，一种千百年流传下来的情感。武亦姝、雷海为身上散发的“闲看花开花落，漫随云卷云舒”的从容淡定，正源自于其对文化内核的尊重，源自于澄静的文化积淀。只有我们内心持有这一份情感，文化才真正成为我们生活的一部分，才开始焕发出它真正的魅力。
The core of culture must be cultural pride, an emotional heritage transmitted across thousands of years. The serene composure radiated by Wu Yishu and Lei Haiwei—“Leisurely watching flowers bloom and fade, drifting at ease as clouds unfurl and curl”—springs from profound reverence for cultural roots and quiet accumulation. Only when our hearts harbor this devotion does culture become a living part of existence, radiating authentic allure.
我想象着文人墨客在竹林流水旁的弹奏，铁骨铮铮的士大夫的忧国忧民，这千百年的优秀文化带给我们的冲击远比几本大部头来得猛烈。我不愿化身为故纸堆里的书虫，压抑在那发霉的文化下；也不愿沉湎于物质的虚无中，在喧嚣里日益消沉。
I envision scholars and poets strumming zithers beside bamboo groves and flowing waters, and unyielding statesmen agonizing over the fate of nation and people; the impact of millennia of brilliant culture strikes far deeper than dry tomes. I have no wish to become a bookworm burrowing in yellowed papers, stifled beneath moldy antiquities; nor do I wish to drown in material void, sinking amidst the clamor.
相比这些，我更愿意执着于这份情感，化身为过去与未来的文化长链上的一环，任自己徜徉在文化长河中，回望过去，书写未来。
Rather than these extremes, I choose to hold fast to this emotion, becoming a single link in the unbroken cultural chain connecting past and future, wandering freely along the great river of culture—gazing back at the past, and writing the future.