Biography, one of the 20 17 reading reports

20 17 read more than 50 books, including 8 biographies:

Biography of Einstein, Autobiography of Tesla, Biography of Confucius, Autobiography of Franklin, Life of Frida, a Mexican Legendary Female Painter, Dream of Red Plums, Poems by Ye Jiaying, Autobiography of Gide, If the Seeds Don't Die, Biography of Jiang Yang.

To my surprise, the autobiography of Franklin is an enlightening book, but it is a bit like the biography of Confucius. But there are obvious differences between the two.

First of all, it should be said that Franklin's autobiography is quite true, telling the history of personal struggle and the evolution of personal character. It is simple and sincere.

In fact, the requirements of the East and the West for personal morality overlap in many aspects.

For the success of personal life and career, there are many similarities between Confucianism in the East and pragmatism in the West, but orientals like to hide their heads and tails. The Biography of Confucius will not directly tell you how to make others like you, but will focus on morality, self-cultivation, rules and etiquette. Therefore, unless you know the doorways well, it is easy to go into dogmatic, rigid and stubborn misunderstandings.

Relatively speaking, reading the former can undoubtedly get more direct lessons. Westerners speak bluntly, he will directly tell you how to struggle and improve your personal cultivation, so that more people will like you, pursue you, be willing to help you and cooperate with you, and everyone will win.

I read the Biography of Confucius, and I think it must be a super disciple of Confucius talking nonsense, but it's okay.

Although the content obviously has the worship color of Confucian disciples, it is somewhat readable. Confucius himself is actually a very realistic and smooth person. There are many dialogues about learning and ambition in The Analects of Confucius, which are quite lively and interesting to read. What Confucius said is still very interesting and has great feelings for students. It is also a sincere cultivation for yourself.

Later, Confucianism became the state religion, and most of them were concocted by later generations for personal name and profit.

Mu Xin said that Confucius knew that he would become a saint in the future.

I guess all his "talking without doing" and his life's performance art are partly his nature and partly because he knows that such moral cultivation and ethical rules are conducive to social stability and harmony. However, the individual has no place in his religion.

Compared with Franklin's autobiography, we can find that Franklin is also talking about restraint, diligence and caution, but all his starting points are to make this person "more competitive."

All the moral standards mentioned in the Biography of Confucius point to one goal, "let individuals better integrate into society".

Regardless of the pros and cons, friends can think for themselves, which of these two different moral starting points is more real and vital.

Among these biographies, my favorite is A Dream of Red Mansions-Ye Jiaying on Poetry, which can also be compared with Frida-the legendary life of a Mexican female painter and Biography of Jiang Yang.

Mr. Ye's life has experienced bereavement (losing his mother as a teenager and his daughter as a middle-aged man), wandering (first arriving in Taiwan Province Province with a baby girl, imprisoned, unemployed and homeless), frustrated marriage (different from his partner's three views, different cultivation, different abilities and even enduring violence), but because of his love for poetry, he has always endured violence.

Look, she is talking about learning and poetry as well as personal accomplishment. Her knowledge, her personality, and her academic rigor and originality are particularly admirable. When it comes to the standard of poetry, a layman like me can hear it, which is the best I have ever come into contact with. Her knowledge is wide and deep.

However, I deeply feel sorry for her.

Her book is really beautiful, and her speech is particularly attractive. How I wish she were young enough to have a more complete life.

Immersed in old knowledge since childhood. Accepting the traditional concept of obedience, Mr. Ye didn't understand love at all and made a hasty decision on marriage. If she can be like Mr. Jiang Yang, how happy life should be.

The encounter of life seems to be accidental, but it is by no means pure luck. Mr. Wang knows how to judge people, and his education since childhood is different from that of Mr. Ye.

Therefore, I am opposed to letting children recite the Disciples Rules. What's Disciple Rules about? Obey, obey the elders; Superstition, superstitious authority.

Too many rules will psychologically affect children's understanding of the world. A narrow life enlightenment is totally unacceptable.

Mr. Ye said in his book that children should recite poems more when they are young, and they will understand them more and more deeply when they grow up, whether they understand them or not.

This is really good.

But what to recite, we must make a choice, it is not a mess, as long as it is ancient poetry, as long as it doesn't matter, it is good.

Traditional culture, to a great extent, teaches boys to be stubborn and girls to obey.

This is not a good character.

Unfortunately, Mr. Ye's husband is weak and stubborn, and Mr. Ye can only bear it silently because of her upbringing.

Let's compare the Mexican female painter Frieda. Her life can be said to be more legendary and colorful.

In her life, she experienced two accidents: one was a car accident, which almost crushed her body and reorganized. One is love. She suffered intense love and betrayal again and again, and her spirit was broken and reorganized.

Just as Mr. Ye has the art of poetry, Frida has the art of painting.

Her paintings are superego, with strong personal feelings and pure and primitive vitality.

However, did she win anything by art?

Overcome physical pain? She has struggled with pain in her spine and toes all her life. I have undergone many major operations, but I have never cured her pain.

Overcome the pain of the soul? All of her paintings, almost all of her self-portraits, are expressions of overexertion, with a frown and no smile, and seem to be enduring great pain.

Moreover, who and how many people have really overcome anything?

Last holiday, I watched a small talk all night, which contained three questions about Cuba and Castro.

Has such a successful big shot really overcome anything in his life?

His leadership position seems to have fallen from the sky. Everything about him seems to be innate, handsome, good at sports, good at speech and full of personal charm. These things, you don't have to practice hard, they are all gifts from the sky.

When the revolution wins inexplicably, the position of the revolutionary leader must be his.

Then, he became a headstrong leader all his life.

Did fate kidnap him, or did he master it?

I can't find any evidence that he ever, even a little, struggled with his personality.

Anyway, this leader's favorite things in his life are diving, cigars and women. Do these things need a little confession? It's all fun.

He made a rich country as poor as our little neighbor. Don't bother, just be willful.

Sometimes reading biographies has a strong sense of nothingness in life.

There are so many people that everything seems to fall from the sky.

Castro fell from the sky. It's full of minced meat cakes. Where is Frida? Knife.

However, Mr. Ye Jiaying's biography does not give people a sense of nothingness in life.

Although I have just read half of it, I should have almost finished reading it now if I hadn't written this book report. Mr. Ye's biography is one of the best books I have read this year.

Unlike Mr. Jiang Yang, her story is full of life, feelings and happiness. Mr. Ye is wandering around, and his feelings are completely pale and thin. But her story is very rich, and the way of telling it is particularly vivid and rich.

She is not only telling stories, but also talking about the appreciation of poetry, the feelings behind poetry and the people behind it.

Because of poetry, she forged a teacher-student relationship and a friend relationship and embarked on the road of life.

The words and content are so full, and the characters in the story are so affectionate and full of beauty. This is really the greatest enjoyment of reading.

In Mr. Ye's life, although there are bereavements, there are also feelings of loss, as a poem by Tao Yuanming said: "The wind can't make a glorious tree, and the shadow can't die."

I strongly recommend you to read this book.

Who can live like Castro?

No matter how many tests life gives you, it is the best way for us ordinary people to make a living by doing what we love to the extreme like Mr. Ye.

Finally, talk about other books. The Biography of Einstein is also a book I like very much. I specially wrote "Einstein's Seven Questions" before, and interested friends can have a look at it through the link.

Autobiography of Tesla is not recommended for friends to read. The first few chapters are ok, and the second half is super obscure and ugly. Besides, Tesla is too legendary. Some people say that he is a time traveler. There is also a lot of space in his own biography to write some sudden thoughts and inspirations.

In short, after reading it, there is nothing to gain, and I still feel that life is ridiculous.

If the seeds don't die-Gide's autobiography is not bad.

I wrote it sincerely, but I didn't have a whole grasp of that period and that era. I just finished reading this book and feel very fresh.

Biography is my favorite kind of book to read this year. Biographies are often rich in content, full of characters and interesting stories.

And everyone's biography has a strong personality. Unlike reading novels, I often feel bored in the middle, because the language may be boring, the story may be deja vu, and my thoughts are awkward and blunt.

So my book list is full of biographies, travel notes and notes of my predecessors.

Tomorrow, I will try not to be lazy and finish my book report diligently. The second one is going to write science fiction.

Stay tuned.

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