Riva River

Liwa river is the school river of Shanghai East China Normal University. It is located in the North Zhongshan Road Campus of East China Normal University. It is the poetic name and pronoun of China Normal University. The works completed in this campus are often signed by the author as "on the Bank of Liwa River", so it is famous.

Riva River

Liwa river is the school river of East China Normal University in Shanghai

The Riva river is not only a small river in the south of the Yangtze River

Liwa river is also the context of East China Normal University.

You can't find this river on the map, I mean, Riva River

Years are brought and taken away. Thousands of students come in and thousands of Riva rivers are remembered.

Li Jie, a writer, said, "before I left school, almost every morning I ran to the river and sat on the grass beside the river to meditate. Talk about life, talk about nightmares and daydreams with girls. " Later, his novel had the same name as Riva river.

Poet Song Lin

After leaving East China Normal University and living in Paris with her beautiful French wife for several years, the poet Song Lin wrote in a letter to her friend: "if there is a heaven in the world, it is the grass, trees, sand and stone by the Riva river of Normal University." I went into the garden to visit the river which is regarded as paradise. There are few people on the road. The grass on the roadside has already withered, revealing the black and yellow soil. There is no smell of oleander and clove. This is an ordinary winter afternoon in Shanghai. The air begins to smell of snowflakes. The dried branches of the Wutong tree are striking.

Green Riva River

The waves are moving

The wind fluttered across the water, and the waves of the Riva River were still moving. The willows were lured to the water, and the short palm tree leaned slightly towards her. The green Riva river has been running for many years, and probably no one among the students can tell the exact number. However, in midnight written by Mr. Mao Dun in his illness several decades ago, the place name Liwa Lida was mentioned everywhere. In midnight, it is written that many young girls are enjoying the new freedom after the May 4th movement, Dancing Solo, tango and singing Riva Lida.

The legend of liva

According to the old alumni, it was the site of East China Normal University, but it was called Daxia University at that time.

It can be traced back to the early 1920s when a Spanish expatriate named Jos é Mario Fernandez bought it at a very low price and built the first country resort since the opening of Shanghai as a port. Most of the contacts were made by wealthy European and American expatriates. The garden soon became the private garden of a Russian nobleman who was exiled in Shanghai after the October Revolution. The nobleman had a beautiful daughter named liva. Liva fell in love with a Chinese young man, a poor scholar, who was obstructed by her father Petrovic. Finally, on a rainy spring night, she jumped into the river.

Love river

The river got its name. Liwa river is known as the love river of Normal University. It is said that the water of the river has become clear since then.

Petrovich, a Russian aristocrat, suddenly realized that the atmosphere in the garden was not suitable for young boys and girls. It was too poetic, too romantic and too irrational, so it was easy to have an accident. In order to be responsible for the other children, he resolutely moved out of the garden.

This is a little-known sad story. When LV Yue, who knew the story, was still studying on the campus of China Normal University, he insisted that "the Russian nobleman was shirking responsibility for his daughter's death, or finding an excuse to comfort his guilty heart." If he can stay there forever, maybe he is right.

The river of illusion

But when he finally left, he recalled: "after many years, I finally understood the words of the Russian aristocrat Petrovic. I paid a lot for that. " It's a garden that can make countless young people hallucinate. It's a river that can make countless young people hallucinate. Who would have thought that many years later, she would be confined to the university campus, the time of Riva river does not flow, and how many boys and girls will meet here at the age when they are emitting incalculable energy. Fresh lips, foggy eyes. Neither earlier nor later.

There was a time when love was still in the mysterious forbidden area. At that time, they have reached the age of love, but still can not love calmly. Under the cover of calm, waiting wholeheartedly. Zhang Jie's "love, can't forget" published in that era splashed the excited water of the Riva river. So the students rushed to pass on the story of love, and spontaneously and endlessly discussed what is love, what is the essence and rules of love in the classroom.

So, liva River smiles, watching the thin and sentimental figure in the middle of the night riding a broken bike through her arms, secretly throwing inferior poetry into the girl's mailbox. Riva River smiles, listening to the lonely girl whispering in her ear "lotus's heart": "I've stood in the pavilion, and I'm not worried or afraid - you are not destined, either too early or too late." But in this era, love in university is as vigorous, lush and publicized as grass. It is said that this river once engulfed the body of the girl students who were heartbroken because of the lovelorn. However, no matter how many tragedies happened in this river, the boys and girls still ran to the river to kiss and caress warmly. They talked to each other affectionately and held hands to look at each other in tears. Some people bet that if you drain the Riva River, you will find countless pieces of paper with the words "I love you".

Two tributaries

In the middle part of the garden, the Riva River becomes two tributaries, which encircle a summer rain island. The island was once covered with flowers, willows and bamboo, but its layout was very complicated, just like the peach blossom island in huangrong. The enchanting and fatal peach blossom malaria is love.

Many years ago, the worries of the wise Russian aristocrat were staged here. It belongs to the night, to the lover. A lot of love starts there and may end there. When the plum rain season comes in the south of the Yangtze River, the misty Riva River, the weeping willows on the bank, the summer rain Island, the small stone bridges and the distant flute sound are like dreams.

More and more people come to Liwa river with the dream of Qinhuai River. Most of the people who have traveled like this have expressed two impressions: one is that there are too many policemen, and there is a campus policeman hidden behind almost every tree; it is even said that lovers would be fined for holding hands openly for such a period of time. Second, the river is too bewitching, young lovers are really more and more unrestrained. For the sake of your health, it's better to ride a bicycle so as to speed through this high-risk area.

So, on a normal day, when the campus couples wake up overnight, they suddenly find that the winding willows and bamboos on the Xiayu island surrounded by the Riva River have disappeared overnight. The garden of Eden is no longer.

The school, like the Russian aristocrat Petrovic many years ago, finally realized at a certain moment that it was the LOVA River and Xiayu island that were so affectionate and lingering that they attracted so many disturbing affairs.

Now I see the island at a glance, into its deepest. Along the Pavilion by the Riva River, on a row of reddish brown stone bricks, I have a surprising discovery. On each brick wall above, the names of two people are written in correction liquid, one is a girl, the other is a boy, and the middle is a heart. The names are so dense that each two of them nestle together and fill the whole brick wall. I'll wait for you here. a lifetime.

Declaration of love

It's a declaration of love.

The discovery by the Riva river is something that people can hardly meet again when they leave the campus: passion, creation, personality, freedom, romance, and even aestheticism. Why can these words, which are now like isolated words, be as natural as breathing here? When did the opposition between beauty, love and the truth of existence begin?

When the streets start to flow with desire, you still can't find the river on the map, I mean, Riva River

Literary works

Author: Li Jie

Publishing House: Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House

Published in 1999

Content introduction:

Liwa river is a disappearing landscape, a story that makes people sad and happy, cry and laugh, and finally can't laugh or cry. This story is especially true because of its emptiness. The whole story begins with the disappearance of the protagonist and ends with the protagonist's return in people's speaking and reading. People can read the desire hidden behind the knowledge from the story, and can also read the love opened out in the desire cluster. This is a novel written by a famous critic. You have to peel off the cultural details like an onion to read it. It turns out that only the innermost things are truly memorable

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