Life can be so beautiful.

? What is life? Faced with this problem, most people may think of houses, cars, children, and rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Like most people, I used to think that life is more about the present, and poetry must belong to the distance. Leave home, leave chores, and travel outside to relax. This is life. We have always advocated the enjoyment of life, and the life we want to enjoy is very vain. Either like Bai Qian, Sansheng Sanshi, with wine in his hand and nothing in his heart, or like a backpacker, "a sword and a sword wander the rivers and lakes, a pot of eternal hatred, two feet rummaging all over the world, with heaven as the cover." Lin Yutang's The Art of Life seems to give us a heavy blow, which makes me realize that we have to go thousands of miles away to pick roses, and we have lost too much beauty.

? Life, besides being alive, can also be very artistic. We can deeply analyze many aspects of life art, including life, nature, life, travel, culture, thoughts, human feelings and so on. The enjoyment of life alone includes housing layout, food, medicine, alcohol, conversation, tea making friends, sleep and many other contents. List a few points to discuss with you.

? (A) the beauty of life

? Let's talk about enjoying life first. Everyone has a life. Do we enjoy life? How many people can appreciate the theme of life, its slow melody and the final decision like a grand symphony? A person has childhood, maturity and old age. There is morning, afternoon and dusk in one day and spring, summer, autumn and winter in one year. Maybe we don't have to disagree too much about the meaning of life. We just need to be clear about "what is good in that season".

? "Life is not perfect. The human spirit is unreasonable, stubborn, biased, capricious and unpredictable, so it is lovely. " In modern society, driven by desire, we want to have everything. We are eager to be one in a million, impeccable and not as real as PS, which is hard for us to accept. But imagine that if we all have a perfect mind, there will be no surprises in the world, which means that 40,000 to 50,000 spectators are as boring as watching horse races. They already know in advance which horse won the gold medal. The fallible nature of human beings is the essence of life color, and how many of us enjoy the beauty of life color?

There is a concept in the book that I like very much: "What is the purpose of life besides enjoying life?"

(B) the happiness of making friends

If you want to enjoy life, the first necessary condition is to make friends with people with the same temperament.

? The story of a small window says that you must make good friends when enjoying flowers, make light friends when watching prostitutes, make relaxed friends when climbing mountains, make cold friends when boating, and make romantic friends when learning arts.

? Come to think of it, have we made the right friends? Have you ever enjoyed the friendship of "everyone laughs at the moment, which is not an eyesore"? Mencius listed the four poorest people as widowed. Nowadays people often talk about "loneliness", but they don't know that "loneliness" refers to young children who have lost their fathers, and "independence" refers to old people who have no children. If we have parents, children and friends around us, why are we "lonely"?

? (3) the elegant taste of tea

China people can't enjoy life without tea. Tea is different from wine. Tea is like seclusion, and wine is like luxury.

? The book says, "The joy of making tea and drinking tea are equally divided, just like the joy of eating melon seeds, and the joy of biting melon seeds with your teeth is equally divided. The first bubble is like a girl of 12 years old, the second bubble is a school-age girl of 16 years old, and the third bubble is a young woman. " As far as I can see, it seems that there are fewer people making tea and more people enjoying "young women". Not to mention the ten ways to taste tea.

? (3) Interest in drinking

? Pay attention to the mentality and place when drinking. "Drinking should be appropriate, drinking should be elegant, drinking should be small, drinking should be drunk, drinking in spring should be suitable for the court, drinking in summer should be suitable for the suburbs, drinking in autumn should be suitable for the boat, drinking in winter should be suitable for the room, and drinking at night should be suitable for the moon." Drinking is essential, and at the same time, we should play some interesting games, such as telling stories, telling jokes, guessing riddles, drinking orders, swimming around the water and so on. Modern people drink more for a purpose, without the dowry wine married by Shaoxing's daughter and the wine culture and taste of "flower carving" aged for 20 years.

Rich diet

In China, there is no distinction between medicine and food. It's hard to say whether some pharmacies have more medicines and fewer vegetables or more vegetables and fewer medicines. Cooking books such as Diet Digest are actually equivalent to a prescription book. In addition to 24 cooking methods such as steaming, stewing, frying, roasting and roasting, you can make a feast that satisfies the sense of smell, sight and taste, and you can also choose ingredients to nourish or treat diseases before they occur. Stewed chicken in raw land is an excellent tonic. Compared with aspirin tablets, Dr. China can give patients a big bowl of herbal tea to sweat. Therefore, our concept of not distinguishing between medicine and food can reduce the medicinal properties of medicine and increase the edibility of food. Maybe when we really calm down and think about the art of life, we can give up fast food and carefully study how to save time and money in the kitchen to go to the hospital and enjoy life. Wouldn't that be soon?

? In view of the art of living, this book compares ancient and modern, China and the West. Both Tao Yuanming's Farewell Speech and Li Bai's "Why bother to play on the string when you know the interest of the piano" have gathered the wisdom of the ancients to understand life. Maybe today we can't use fan-shaped windows and plum blossom windows to repair the courtyard like the ancients, but at least we can see the beauty of the world and life with our eyes, taste the taste of medicine, tea and wine with our mouths, listen to the joy of birds in the stormy waves with our ears, smell the books, fruits and flowers with our noses, feel the warmth of rocks with our hands, and experience the love of family and friends with our hearts.

Everyone has his own life, and he has the right to decide how he wants to live. May your life not be like crying, but a poetic ode.

Life is so artistic, do you see it?