“沧浪之水清兮,可以濯吾缨;沧浪之水浊兮,可以濯吾足。”阎真的长篇小说《沧浪之水》的首页,引用了屈原《渔夫》的这段话,这是一个隐喻,用水清濯缨比喻明世则仕,用水浊濯足比喻昏世则隐。两种社会情况,两条人生道路,皆鲜明可见,暗示整个故事将进入一种“归隐”之意境。书中以一名知识分子在官场的升降沉浮为线索,深刻地描写了他在当代社会的心路历程和行为方式的变异轨迹。然而,面对一个浮躁和喧嚣的世界,即便倾尽沧浪 “Canglang clear water, you can 濯 Wu Ying; Canglang water turbid, you can 濯 my foot.” “Yan Zhen’s novel” Canglang Water “home page, quoted Qu Yuan” fisherman “of this Paraphrase, this is a metaphor, clear water figurative metaphor Ming Shi Shi Shi, water turbidity enough analogy is the world is hidden. Two kinds of social situations and two paths of life are clearly visible, suggesting that the whole story will enter into a kind of ”hidden" condition. In the book, with an ups and downs of an intellectual in the officialdom as a clue, he profoundly described the variation path of his mentality and behavior in contemporary society. However, in the face of an impetuous and noisy world, even if the extravagant waves