Today, I just finished reading Mr. Ye Shengtao's book "Twenty-Seven Literature Lessons for Youth", and out of the inertia of this scholar, I wrote this book review:

The cases in the book are from famous artists, and the selected works are also very representative, which makes people feel shocked by the depth and beauty of literature.

Reading all the masterpieces, selecting the essence to take them as an example for future generations, and leading the younger generations to pursue, I have to say that Mr. Ye Shengtao has completed the mission of "leading people to the beginning" very well.

After that, I want to see the works of Hu Shi, Zhou Zuoren, Bian Zhilin and Chekhov. ”

Next is the "good sentence" from the book written by Mr. Ye that I excerpted today!

1. "Whoever lifts up his eyes and looks up."

Thank you for turning a shovel of dirt and a shovel of mud. ”

——This sentence comes from Bian Zhilin's "To the Workers Who Build the Airport"

I think this sentence also applies to those front-line medical staff and soldiers who go to the front line and risk their lives to bring the light of life to more people, as well as everyone who sticks to their posts to maintain the normal operation of people's lives, and also applies to those who inherit the ancient skills of the Chinese nation, because because of them, the security of our nation and the security of our national culture are guaranteed. ”

2. "Raise the camera and shake anything for a while, of course the thing is filmed, but it is inevitably chaotic and trivial, and it is not a valuable film." Before a painter or a director can do it, he must first think about what he should describe from the body of the object, so that the thing can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Their effort is to guide the viewer to observe and feel this 'what'. The audience really observes and understands this 'what' and feels this 'what', which is the success of their description. ”

——This sentence comes from a suggestion on character description written by Mr. Ye Shengtao after citing Xiao Qian's novel "Deng Dongshan" as an example. It brings me to performance metrics and goal-oriented management, haha. Yes, there are highlights to bring enough enjoyment to readers.

3. "I don't want the words to be elegant, but to have power, activity, and soundness." My method is to think of several sentences not just one sentence before I put pen to paper; If these few sentences are good, they will be kept; Otherwise rewritten. I don't dwell on the words in a sentence, but pay attention to the momentum and sound of each verse, and whether the meaning of the passage is correctly revealed by the arrangement of the sentences. In this way, the elegance of the text is no longer a problem; I want the natural beauty of words. After writing a large paragraph, I read it again, to myself or to others. The revisions are almost all in syllables and meanings, and they don't bother with half the words. ”

——From Mr. Lao She's article "I Refuse to Ask for Help in Wenyan". I have heard that translated works should be "Xindaya", and "Xindaya" first came from Mr. Yan Fu's "Example of Translating the Theory of Heavenly Evolution", "The content of the translated work should be faithful to the original text, the words should be smooth, and the literary style should be elegant". Faith is to be faithful to the original text, Da is to be fluent in words, clear and clear, elegant is to have literary brilliance, and can use gorgeous rhetoric and quotations to write the article charmingly.

Mr. Lao She does not seek "elegance", but only seeks strength, activity, and loudness - it can be said that when Mr. Bai Juyi writes a poem, he must read it to the old woman by the well, until she can understand it, and this pursuit is similar to the same thing.

In fact, each writer's style is different, and it is impossible to generalize who is good and who is bad, but in my opinion, as long as the words are scrutinized and the person who spends a lot of effort to polish a work, even if he is responsible for the position of "author" or "writer". That's it.

And because each author is working towards the "sweet spot" of the heart, we are able to see a variety of different works, which also makes me feel that I am particularly lucky to live in an era after them or in the same period, and it is a feast for my eyes.

4. "Keeping a travel diary is the same as keeping a diary, you have to give up the ambition to record it completely, because it is impossible and unnecessary. ”

——From Mr. Ye Shengtao's advice on writing using Xu Ying's travelogue "From Xingyang to Bishui" as an example.

If you record everything that happened, like my original circle of friends, because of the lack of necessary connections between the materials, the whole circle of friends will look particularly chaotic, especially some very short materials are displayed separately, sometimes because of the lack of "preface" and "afterword" - that is, the explanation of the background of the sentence, in fact, it is easy to give people the feeling of not knowing what you are talking about.

If it is a separate article, I also think that if you choose a topic, and select, cut, and supplement the materials you want to use around this topic, so that you can combine and polish it, and the article will look beautiful in the end.

Sure, my essay doesn't seem to be that pretty, but it's sincere, isn't it?

5. "Maybe we haven't achieved the 'maximum' ourselves, so we can only work harder." Maybe someone else has not yet achieved the 'maximum', then we should not despise him, but we should instruct him, encourage him, help him, and achieve 'maximum'.

Let us work hard separately under the great goal of national liberation! ”

——This sentence comes from Mr. Tao Fen's "Separate Efforts"

This sentence reminds me of what a judge said in a rap competition, he saw that the contestants diss each other (verbally attacking and belittling each other), so he said to the contestant who dissed the opponent very badly, if the other party does something wrong and does not understand what is wrong, I would prefer you as a senior to teach him what is right, rather than disss him directly. There is a better way to solve things.

Well, I said, it's "Rap Listen to Me" The judge is Ice, and the game being reviewed is the competition between Kozay Yu Tianshi and Brother Duck, Kozay beat Brother Duck super badly, and finally sang and sang and sat on the sofa where the judges were sitting, saying that xx didn't come to the championship is Lao Tzu.

The beginning of this paragraph is not because I thought of it, when there is something I am not used to, let's not attack directly, but to help others understand that this idea comes from this variety show I watched in July 2020. And the main material of this essay comes from the circle of friends I wrote on February 22, 2020, that is, things and things associated with it do not belong to the same time and space, which makes me hesitate, after all, now it's me in February. Ahem, since I said that, I'll say more.

In fact, Kozay, a big old rough man, is very crazy when he sings, but I feel that in real life, he is actually humble and easy to get along with. The first time I noticed it was his collaboration with Wang Jiangqing (a girl with a shaved head) "The Stars in the Sky Don't Speak", which was super nice and super moving, and I cycled it at least thirty times, from the time I discovered it in July to the present in October. I'll attach the lyrics they wrote at the bottom of this essay in a moment, this is Mr. Ye Shengtao's "Home of Twelve Literature Lessons for Youth". I think the storytelling of rap and the domineering that can be so fast-paced really appealed to me.

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I would also like to mention my favorite article in this book: Mr. Hu Shih's "Biography of Mr. Almost". A gentleman practices the principle of "almost" in everything he does, his mother told him to buy brown sugar, he bought white sugar, Mr. Xuetang asked him a question that the answer was Shanxi, he answered Shaanxi, and later worked as a guy in the money shop, often wrote the cross into a thousand words, complained that the train was not late for two minutes, and waited for him - these were similar things, and then one day he was sick, and his family could not get a doctor, so they hired a cow doctor, and the cow doctor treated him in the same way as a cow, and he died after a while. When he was dying, he said, "The living are like the dead, and everything is about the same, so why take it too seriously?" "Emmm, he didn't breathe until he finished the aphorism.

Wait, the story is not over yet: later, everyone praised this "Mr. Almost", because he saw everything very well, refused to be serious and cared about all his life, and was a truly virtuous person, so everyone named him "Master Yuantong". Then he became more and more praised and praised, and countless people followed his example, and everyone became Mr. Similar. - However, China has since become a lazy country.

When I saw this "Biography of Mr. Almost", I only felt deafening, and my heart beat violently, what about you? Of course, I may not feel so strongly paraphrasing, so you can see the original work written by Mr. Hu Shi for yourself. This is probably the most short story I have ever felt my soul shaken to a great extent. Of course, I think so, or maybe I'm reading too little and it's disturbing.

Today's Xiaolai: "Everyone should be honest about their responsibilities, this is what we can do. - Teacher Luo Xiang's words, remember.

In addition, remember the part of the lyrics of the song "The Stars in the Sky Don't Speak" that touched me the most:

Cozay：

I wasn't old when my dad left

She cried red eyes, clenched the corners of her clothes, and held back from speaking

She was told not to be stupid

Find an easy path

But she never asked for leave for my food and clothing //

I like to test her patience with rebellion

The words are as if I am a foreign guest

How many nights crying call me

I turned off my phone and just didn't want to go home //

She often said what evil she had done in her previous life

Why bear all this alone

I heard that other people's children have completed their bachelor's and master's degrees at Tsinghua University

His son, Hang'er Lang, was supposed to imitate black people in making music

I kept worrying and was scared and frightened all day long

My hair went from long to short, black to white, I didn't want to live up to her expectations//

(- Can you imagine?) It was from the beginning of this song to the point where I wrote in the previous line that I could hum myself word for word. It's "the year my dad left" that I can't sing well, I'm afraid of beating my parents. But this part is really, and when I see it, I immediately "wow-" and start to feel sad, and then I like the melody again.

Coupled with Miss Wangjiangqing's particularly gentle and clear female voice, "The stars in the sky don't speak, the doll's eyes blink and blink" - wow, it's the first time I've seen rap and cry. I really didn't listen to rap much before, but it was after listening to this song that I started to notice rap, and then I went to watch a lot of other raps, and then I realized that wow, rap can be so moving. Coupled with the fact that rap is fast-paced and has more words that can be used to express myself, I began to like rap more and more storytelling with melody and more outpouring of it. ）

That's all for Kozay's lyrics, I'll go and watch this song twice first, and I'll update the next one.

2020.2.22