101 On Writing (45) "Curved Brush"

Curved pen

1. In ancient times, it refers to the record that the historian did not write directly according to the facts and deliberately covered up the truth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The technique of info writing began with the writing of history. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Cui Zhu, the minister of Qi, connived at others to kill the monarch Zhuang Gong, and the historian wrote: "Cui Zhu killed Zhuang Gong". Cui Zhu saw that something was wrong and killed him; the historians were all hereditary, and when the elder brother died, the younger brother picked up the pen and wrote "Cui Zhu killed Zhuang Gong", and Cui Zhu killed his younger brother again; and the other younger brother came and wrote the same way. Cui Shu was probably frightened by this formation, and finally didn't make any more moves. However, later historians were not so lucky. After Ming Chengzu Zhu Di captured Nanjing and seized the throne of his nephew, he asked Fang Xiaoru to draft an edict on the throne, which was actually to let him perjury in history. Fang Xiaoru wrote "Yan thief usurped the throne" when he put pen to paper, Zhu Di asked him to rewrite it, and threatened to kill him of the nine clans, Fang Xiaoru was not convinced, and stiffened his mouth: "Don't say the nine clans, why don't you talk about the ten clans!" Zhu Di said, okay, I will destroy your ten clans. Since the historian is not used by me, it is a big deal to kill a few more people.

2. It refers to the penmanship that deliberately leaves the topic when writing and does not write directly. After bloody lessons again and again, in order not to anger those in power, historians began to use curved pens to seek a balance. The way to do this is, on the one hand, to write completely according to the wishes of those in power, and to speak nonsense without conscience, and on the other hand, to express one's position on the basis of retaining facts, such as the Qing Dynasty's destruction of the Ming Dynasty in accordance with the principles of heaven. The former is not a minority, and the latter is the most commonly used. Under the pressure of fear, the pen is almost like dancing on a tightrope, on the one hand, conscience, on the other hand, with sticks and machetes, and it is not easy to dance beautifully without falling off! There are some "curved pens" in "The Scream", which add a wreath to the grave of Yu'er in "Medicine". The novel "Medicine" not only writes about the tragedy of the destruction of the two families in China due to ignorance and numbness, but also writes the sorrow of the revolutionaries who are not understood because they are separated from the masses. This innocent, sporadic flower adds a little heat and brightness to the work, implying that the revolutionaries shed blood and sacrificed, and there are successors, giving people confidence and hope, and people have reason to believe that Xia Yu's sympathizers and successors will definitely carry forward the spirit of Xia Yu, and the time will come when the light will come. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that this "wreath" is "added". The so-called "Pingtian" not only refers to the fact that there is no foreshadowing in front of the novel, and there was no custom of using garlands to express mourning in the late Qing Dynasty, but also refers to the inappropriate elevation of the historical status of the old democratic revolutionaries who were seriously detached from the masses.

3. Don't write about your own emotions, but write about your own emotions through the feelings of others about yourself. Du Fu's "Moonlit Night" "Tonight, the moon in Yanzhou, I only look at it alone in the boudoir." Pity the little children, and do not understand the memory of Chang'an. The fragrant mist is wet, and the clear jade arm is cold. When will the tears dry under the guise of the void?" The third couplet in the poem depicts the image of the wife looking at the moon alone, which is completely the scene imagined by the author. When I think of my wife's worries and sleepless nights, I can't help but cry sadly. In fact, he misses his wife and children at home, but he does not directly write about his own thoughts, but writes about his wife's thoughts, which is actually a kind of antiphon in the pen.

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This is a kind of brushwork that 101 happened to see today, which originally originated from the historian, which is interesting.

Personally, I feel that the author of the online article will not use a curved pen, it seems that the cat is tired of using it more, and 101 will try to use it in the future, and it will make the novel more in-depth if it is used well, and it is worth reading carefully by readers.

Well, in fact, the opposite of the curved pen is the straight pen, the concept of the straight pen is very simple, according to the facts and truthful narrative is the straight pen.