Lin Yutang's Reading Prose

Introduction: Lin Yutang studied in the United States and Germany in his early years, and obtained a master's degree in literature from Harvard University and a doctorate in linguistics from Leipzig University. After returning to China, he taught in Tsinghua University, Peking University and Xiamen University. China is a famous modern writer, scholar, translator, linguist and a representative of Neo-Taoism. Next, I will bring you Lin Yutang's prose about reading, hoping to help you.

Reading and reading

Zeng Guofan said that reading is different. "The viewer besieges the city and expands the land, and the reader defends the land. The two are completely different and cannot be ignored or confused. " Reading, that's it. Zeng Guofan also said: it is useless to try to remember, and you can't remember it for a while. It will be easy to remember if you lose it for ten or eight days. This is from experience. The current primary and secondary education completely violates this psychological principle of reading without distinction between reading and not reading, and forcing memory.

Therefore, students are very anxious and waste their spirit. Of course, primary school putonghua should be read, and the pronunciation, meaning and usage of words should be clear and unambiguous. As for geographical knowledge, it is often a sin to remember what is improper and unnecessary. For example, there are Jinshan, Jiao Shan and Beigushan in Zhenjiang, which is common sense.

We should talk well and remember well, and it doesn't matter if we don't remember. In the future, we will remember it when we hear people talking about it or visiting this place. How many people in today's academic circles don't know that Zhenjiang has Gu Beishan, but they are still educated. Why bother demanding a three-foot man? Because the students have never seen Jinshan and Beigushan, they barely recite them and don't know what they are talking about. They only know how to recite three nouns. Yangzhou has Slender West Lake and Pingshan Hall, with Wansonglin in the east of Pingshan Hall, and Slender West Lake has former sites such as Wu Ting Bridge, Xiaojinshan Bridge and Twenty-four Bridge. This is common sense, you should talk about it, but you don't have to memorize it. In fact, the students don't know what Wu Ting Bridge and Wansonglin are, and even 19 teachers don't know what they are talking about.

In today's common sense test, the students said that Wan got zero in the west of Pingshan Hall and 100 in the east of Pingshan Hall. Is this not a joke? On the theme of health, it is good to know that people have small intestine and large intestine, but the large intestine is obviously one body and must be divided into ascending colon, transverse colon and descending colon. This is also a memorable term for no reason. Are you kidding? There are two sources of disadvantages: first, textbook editors specialize in copying books, indicating expert shelves. Second, the teacher doesn't know the difference between light and heavy, and the nouns in the whole class are what students need to remember. Stunned by the majesty of scores, the students gave in and had to learn by rote, from interesting common sense to boring rote learning. I don't know how much I remember after a while. Please feel your conscience and ask yourself. Why humiliate young people's spiritual time?

There are too many modern young nannies who distinguish "ancient books are poisonous", and it is inevitable that many good doctors' sons will die.

There are too many good young doctors in modern times. Everyone should tell him not to read this and persuade him to read that. Even young people themselves can become good doctors. When they are under 30, they are happy to make a fuss, pretend to be big brothers, forbid other children to watch this, and persuade other young people to watch that. Looking around the world, are you a nanny, a good doctor, a subject director and an inspector? I don't know what their kind of old people advise and what their kind of young people forbid. I just think everyone is good at interfering in other people's affairs. Just like Sister Thirteen said, "My young master, you are killing me." When the rich children climbed the tree, a loving mother shouted, "Come down quickly and don't fall!" " "When we reached the water, a nanny immediately turned around and said," Be careful, don't fall into the water! ""As a result, he became a weak white-faced scholar, unable to leave the house, see the market, climb trees, jump over ditches, get out of the sun and blow the strong wind. He fainted as soon as the sun shone. When the wild wind blows, Yushan stands down, full of youth!

I don't think so. Ancient books are poisonous. Let them taste them. Western books are poisonous. Let them have a taste.

In the past, Roosevelt (not the current president of the United States) taught his three sons to take them out to take rugged mountain roads, climb mountains and mountains, and jump streams and climb trees in hot weather. Before the war, the German navy had to sail out to sea and conduct drills in the ocean when the smoke enveloped the sea and the wind and waves met the sky. Personally, I once saw a German couple teach a four-or five-year-old child to jump stones in Xishan, Beiping. They chased him down the hill, ran down, fell down and started running. In education, I think the reason is the same. Slie has been skeptical and skeptical about attacking heresy. The flesh and blood can be practiced, and it doesn't matter if you fall a few times. The reason why civilized people's teeth decay is just because the snacks made of creamy white flour are crisp and instant in the mouth, and the teeth are useless, so no matter how you brush your teeth, you still have to decay your teeth. This is the reason why modern parents often let their sons chew the bread head of bones.

Ancient books are poisonous, but they are just the words of one or two revolutionary leaders at the moment. I don't want this young man who has been spoiled by the nanny for a long time to be simple-minded and believe it. Of course. Where the poison is, go there, swallow it without criticism or thinking. I don't believe that young people are so easily bullied, which is also caused by too many nannies. Juvenile symptoms have been caused! Gu Xuecheng cannot be disease-free, and modern people can't just read ancient books. Needless to say, when they see ancient books, they treat them as drugs, which is a bit suspicious of not drying or blowing wild wind.

Modern people know the past and the present like the back of their hands. Don't they specialize in reading some translations of the Russian version, reading foreign books, speaking foreign languages, typing foreign languages and spreading foreign pollution? Historical Records and Hanshu have never been entertained, and The Book of Songs and Zuo Zhuan are all ignorant. Isn't it also the poison of China and foreign countries? Isn't it poisonous to read like this? Therefore, poison is not poison, and people can make good use of his wisdom of distinguishing right from wrong, instead of putting ancient books on the shelf and claiming innocence. If the ancient books were poisonous, Hu Shizhi would have been tricked, Liang Rengong would have been crazy, Zhou Zuoren and Zhou Shuren would have been bleeding into seven holes, and Zheng Zhenduo and Fu Donghua copied the legends of the Tang and Song Dynasties, although they did not write A Brief History of Chinese Novels. Although the poison is not deep, they have to complain about the mattress! If young people are not sure about their academic ability, how can they know about Zhou Zuoren and Zhou Shuren?

And making ancient books toxic, foreign books and ancient books, except literature since the Soviet revolution, are not necessarily non-toxic. There are still many contradictions! People have bourgeois! However, how to distinguish toxic from non-toxic? Why can the old western novel Le Sid be translated, but the old China novel Elvis Presley can't be copied? Why don Quixote can read with confidence, but scholars are not allowed to read? Why can Plato appreciate it, but Mencius is not allowed to dabble in it? Socrates can be regarded as a canon, but Confucius is not allowed to say anything about human justice? Why can Clarissa Holloway satirize that A Dream of Red Mansions is not allowed to be watched by one person? Plato and Mencius were deeply impressed, Socrates and Confucius were right, Clarissa Harlow and A Dream of Red Mansions were touching, and Don Quixote and The Scholars were funny and ironic. Alas, Confucius, Mencius, Wu and Cao were all born in China, while Bai, Su, Richardson and Suo Fan were all born abroad!

Why didn't Confucius, Mencius, Wu and Cao have such good luck to become the ancestors of modern China people?

As far as poison is concerned, the first poison of Yi Xia's novels is to advocate loyalty, filial piety and righteousness (I don't know if it is true, only for the author who holds this statement); The second poison of romance novels is to learn from Baoyu's "The Rouge of a Beautiful Woman". The third poison of poetry and prose is to sing to the wind and make love to the moon. However, I said that the three poisons are not enough. Why? There are not many loyal ministers and dutiful sons in modern times. Nowadays, students in Greenwood are born with few skeletons, which is one of the disadvantages. Not many women in the world are willing to let you eat the rouge on her mouth. Occasionally it won't interfere with your study, which is a disadvantage.

Modern people can't sing the wind or make the moon. The wind can't sing, and the moon can't do it. Why bother? Although the wind doesn't blow because you don't sing and the moon doesn't shine because you don't do it, even if you do it, it has already become a "lovely spring". Even if "lovely spring" is advancing and "singing the song of the moon" is out of date, the wind is the wind and the moon is the moon. You do it for yourself and I do it for myself. There is no difference between Chinese and western styles and Chinese and western moons. Occasionally, you won't get hurt. Your sisters can also let them run in the back garden and walk in the big park. There is no need for everyone to be locked in the boudoir, and your brothers and sisters can also keep you innocent!