Chapter 109: Start with the Du Gong Department
What is there to write about Du Fu's love?
The career is not smooth, forced to make a living, and they will never give up, and they will grow old.
Tang Mingyao tried to write a beginning:
[Autumn is high and cool in August, and red dates are all over the garden. Lang Dufu, a young man who was born in the northern scholar clan and had a wealthy family, could recite poetry at the age of seven, and was still playing jujube at home at the age of fifteen, would never have thought that he would spend the next few decades of his life in ups and downs and displacement......]
Stop writing.
After thinking about it, it's too floating.
The entry point is also not right.
I opened the magazine "Sprout" that I bought at the newsstand, and read the concept of the New Concept Essay Contest again, with new thinking, new expression, and real experience......
Du Fu's love, the first two concepts can be conveyed in the text, but there is no real experience, it is not grounded, and it always feels like a layer apart.
After pondering for a while, Tang Mingyao decided to start with the small things around him.
At the beginning, in the middle of the night, everything was silent, and suddenly there was a commotion from the neighbor's house next door, followed by a ghost crying wolf, and a man shouting "Murder!" Kill! "Wake up all the neighbors.
People got up in their sleep, got dressed in their sleep, went to check, and found that it was a fight between two people.
Because men have no ability, can't make money, all kinds of promises to get married, now they are not fulfilled, the days are getting more and more difficult, women are not satisfied, they find fault at home all day long, and they make a big noise about a little thing, this time in the middle of the night because of snoring and quarreling again, the woman went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife to cut people, so there was the cry for help heard by the neighbors.
The neighbors kindly persuaded him, but no one could persuade the mad woman, so he had to call the police, and someone from the police station came to mediate, and the trouble was not until dawn.
The "I" in the article has a lot of sighs.
Parents are short, and a relationship will deteriorate after being filtered by firewood, rice, oil and salt?
Are the feelings of adults really as stated in Yuan Zhen's poem, "I sincerely know that everyone has this hatred, and poor couples mourn everything?" â
This led the topic to Du Fu.
Tang Mingyao wrote: [One day 1257 years ago, in Chang'an, ten miles of red makeup, a sedan chair parade street, twenty-nine-year-old Du Fu was dressed in fresh clothes and angry horses, and married his wife Yang, who was ten years younger than him, into the door......]
After that, Du Fu's life experience of being unwilling in middle age and encountering war and displacement was revealed one by one.
Tang Mingyao checked the life, habits, and uncomplaining support for Du Fu's family and country ambitions one by one from Du Fu's poems.
For example, when he wrote that Du Fu defected to Tang Suzong, was captured by the rebels on the way to Chang'an, had no way to escape, and was homesick, he used the "Moonlit Night" he wrote at that time to summarize.
Tonight, é (fÅ«) Zhou Yue, the boudoir only looks alone.
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 leaning on the false pretense, the tears of the double light are dry.
Compared with his life experience at that time, it immediately became very tear-jerking and touching.
The article also emphasizes the birth of the Yang family, which is the child of an official eunuch, who has been clothed and fed since childhood, but after marrying Du Fu, he had to take care of the housework himself, and he used to make clothes and rice.
At that time, Du Fu wrote inexplicably sad in the poem, one of which described his wife: "The old wife is sent to a different county, and ten people are separated from the wind and snow." Who can ignore it for a long time, and share hunger and thirst. â
That year, Du Fu was only forty-four years old, and his wife, who was ten years younger than him, was only thirty-four years old, but because of her long-term housework, she was full of wind and frost, and she had already become an "old wife".
In addition, Du Fu also called his wife a "thin wife" in other poems, and described in the poem that "after going to the thatched hut, the wife is dressed in a hundred knots", which shows that life is hard.
But even with such a miserable and poor life, the Yang family still never gave up on him.
In Du Fu's life, the Yang family has always supported him without regrets, and the former official eunuch has become simple and hardworking for the sake of the family, bravely picking up the burden of life, and always sticking to it.
Finally one day, Du Fu was old and couldn't move anymore, and a song "Jiangcun" next to Huanhua Creek was full of family fun: the old wife drew paper for the chess game, and the child knocked the needle as a fishing hook.
A few years later, due to the death of his backer, Du Fu drifted again and died on a river boat at the age of 59.
His wife died shortly after, at the age of forty-nine.
Thirty years of mutual affection, not to be born in the same year, but to die in the same year.
What a touching love story this is?
Compared with today, the husband and wife next door are fighting over a trivial matter, and it can be seen that the key to love is not at home and rich, but in the hearts of people.
He wrote more than 2,000 words.
Finally, Tang Mingyao summarized the full text in one sentence:
People, the most difficult thing is to endure loneliness and keep the original intention.
After the full text is written, roughly count, not exceeding the word limit, put your mind at ease.
The text makes extensive use of Du Fu's poems, which run through the whole article very naturally, making the article both in-depth and beautiful.
It was still early before the deadline for the preliminary round of the new concept essay, Tang Mingyao did not rush to submit the article, but put it on hold for two days, and after emptying the sentences written in his head, he went back and reread it, revised some of the words that were not so smooth, and deleted some redundant words and sentences.
It took more than a week of revisions before the final draft was finalized.
After thinking about it for a while, this article may be a little different from the style of the competition essay written by most middle school students, but it must also meet the requirements of the competition.
At least he thinks that this article has a theme and thoughts, and it is a step above many articles that moan without disease.
As for how people judge when it comes to the judges, it is not something he can master.
It's best to be able to enter the semifinals, if you can't get in, then forget it, don't force it.
After all, writing is just a craft for him, and he has been pondering and planning his main business in the future, and he doesn't want to be a full-time writer behind closed doors.
At the end of the week, I filled out the registration form and sent it out with the article.
This is the end of the matter for the time being.
Because the deadline for submission for the preliminary round is late November, when the results of the preliminary round come out, I'm afraid I will have to wait until the winter vacation, and the time is still early.
Tang Mingyao refocused his attention on studying and reading.
It's about to expire, and the first exam of your high school career is approaching.
The current study task is much heavier than that of junior high school, even he does not dare to be sloppy, and in the face of the upcoming exam, he has already started to review in advance.
In addition, his extracurricular reading has also been replaced with new content.
All the history books have been stored in the bookcase, and the new ones are "The Book of Songs", "Aesop's Fables", "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Homer's Epics", "The Collected Works of the South and the North", including famous works, classic fables, poetry collections, essay collections, etc., covering a wide range of topics.