初读菡萏的散文,我很快就联想到了章怡和的《往事并非如烟》。对于这种想法,我自己也觉得有些无厘头,菡萏与章怡和所表现的完全是两个世界:章先生笔下都是名流鸿儒,他们在庄重的会场或在雅致的客厅里,喝着咖啡,指点江山,激扬文字;而菡萏笔下的却是普通人,抑或是有些小资情调的女子,关注的都是日常生活,最多是在人生、爱情、事业上发一点感慨和哲思。但我还是固执地认为,两位作家的精神内核是贯通的,这就是文学最需要的高贵精 First reading 菡 萏 prose, I quickly thought of Zhang Yi and “past is not smoke.” For this kind of thought, I myself also find it a bit nonsense. Both Emu and Zhang Yihe show two completely different worlds: Mr. Zhang’s works are famous celebrities, who drank coffee in dignified venues or in elegant living rooms , Pointing Jiangshan, exhilarating writing; and 菡 萏 pen is ordinary people, or some of the petty bourgeoisie of women, are concerned about daily life, up to life, love, career, made a little emotion and philosophy. But I still stubbornly believe that the spiritual core of the two writers is through, which is the noblest fine literature most needed