Is humor right or wrong?

First of all, I want to tell you that there is no right or wrong humor, but humor is definitely not a joke (⊙ o ⊙)!

Second, humor is the expression of high quality and high taste, and it is the language expression that most people like; Joking is common, even a vulgar language expression. If it is not done well, it will affect emotional problems.

Third, I also like humor, but I basically don't take it too much as a joke.

I wish you a happy new year and all the best!

The following is a detailed explanation and application of humor, please refer to the study:

Humorous

It is a foreign word, transliterated from English words. This word in English comes from Latin, which means "body fluid". A doctor named Hippocrates in ancient Greece believed that human body fluids include blood, mucus, yellow bile and black bile. And their proportions are different. The widespread use of the word humor is attributed to the English humanist playwright Joan Sheng. His book "Different Personality" is famous for its humor. In his satirical comedy masterpiece Vulpone, the characters' personalities are defined according to their temperament. Probably because of the social function of literature and art, Jonson's humor theory spread like wildfire. However, Lin Yutang was the first person to move this word to China. This is a word with two meanings, and the expression is naturally just right.

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[Edit this paragraph] Humorous explanation

Silence: Kong Jing is humorous.

Interesting or ridiculous and meaningful: a humorous smile, funny will only make people laugh, and humor will make you come up with many reasons after laughing.

"Humor has a broad sense and a narrow sense. In western language usage, it often includes all the words that make people laugh, even vulgar jokes ... In a narrow sense, humor is different from depression, satire and ridicule. These three or four styles all contain jokes. But there are different types of laughter, such as wry smile, guffaw, faint smile and fake smile, and the attitude of smiling again is also different. Some are sour and sweet, some are gentle, some are contemptuous, some are sympathetic, and some are based on the whole outlook on life and have thoughts. The best humor naturally means "the brilliance of the soul and the richness of wisdom" ... among all kinds of styles, humor is the most emotional. " (Lin Yutang-On Reading and Humor, published by Contemporary World Publishing House)

③ English translation of humor:

humorous

Noun sense of humor

Humorous

Emotion, emotion

Temperament, temperament

[Edit this paragraph] The origin of humor

Humor is not a word that has existed since the birth of Chinese characters. Some people think that Chinese is extensive and profound, and many Chinese words have no exact translation in English, such as: Come on. In fact, some words are in English, and there is no direct translation in Chinese.

Most people think that this word was first introduced to China by Mr. Lin Yutang, a master of Chinese studies, in 1924. However, Zhang Jiping, a member of China Regional Culture Research Association and director of Shandong Folk Writers Association, thinks this is not accurate. Zhang Jiping told reporters that the first English word "humor" should have been translated into Chinese by Wang Guowei, a master of Chinese studies, which was 18 years earlier than Lin Yutang's first translation method of "humor".

1906, Wang Guowei published Qu Zi's Literary Spirit, in which the word "humor" was generally discussed and transliterated as "Omuya". He thinks "Omuya" is a philosophical attitude towards life, but it has not been discussed or discussed again. From 65438 to 0924, Lin Yutang wrote an article in the supplement of Morning News and named Humor as the Chinese translation of Humor. So strictly speaking, the first person who translated the word "humor" into Chinese should be Wang Guowei, and "humor" has been in China for 100 years.

It is understood that the word "humor" first appeared in Qu Yuan's Nine Chapters of Huaisha: "Wen Wan is meaningful and Kong Jing is humorous." "Humor" here means "Humor is silent". However, the word "humor", as a transliteration loan word, has nothing to do with the word "humor" in ancient China. Only with the refinement of the new meaning of the word "humor", as the original meaning of ancient Chinese vocabulary, "humor" was gradually replaced by the new meaning. Lin Yutang explained: "Anyone who is good at humor will be more reclusive;" And those who are good at appreciating humor, especially the inner silence, have a kind of inhuman taste. Unlike rude jokes, the quieter the humor, the more silent it is. "

Lin Yutang translated "humor" into "humor", and many cultural celebrities disagreed at that time. Lu Xun once thought it was easy to be misunderstood as "silence" or "seclusion", but he felt that this translation was inappropriate. Translator Li Qingya advocates translating it into "punch lines", but "punch lines all over the world" is an idiom with the meaning of "all talk and no action". Linguist Chen Wangdao intends to translate it into "oily", but he thinks it is not accurate enough and frivolous. Later, the linguist Tang translated it as "harmony and harmony", and thought that harmony and harmony constituted the whole "humor". Finally, Lin Yutang's translation method was recognized by the world and has been used ever since.

Since the 1920s, Lin Yutang, together with Lu Xun, the standard-bearer of China's New Literature Movement, used humor to fight against imperialism and feudalism in politics, ideology and culture, explored the theory of humor in junior high schools, and created a diaosi-style prose with high tone, humorous language and sharp allegory. Lin Yutang himself was also called a "master of humor".

χυμ? Etymological meaning: Humor in English and French comes from ancient Greek medicine. They think that there are four kinds of fluids in the human body to control health and mood, which are called "χ υ μ?" Chyloid is juice, including blood, yellow bile, phlegm and black bile. Depression is caused by too much "black bile" in the body, and the solution is to laugh. Humor has evolved into an interesting meaning in English, and Lin Yutang translated it into humor in English in 1924.

Humor in English can also be written as humor, but these two words are different. Besides, in the western world, the word humor does not necessarily have an interesting meaning. Humor (or Humeur) in French refers to emotion, not humor. John, an anatomist at Cambridge University? John hadfield believes that although human beings have begun to master the mechanism of anger and depression, their understanding of laughter is still very limited. Why we laugh when we see politicians sneering on TV is still a mystery.

[Edit this paragraph] Humor Overview

Humor is different from humor and satire. Humor is to expose the self-contradiction of things in teasing and gagging, so as to achieve the purpose of criticism and satire. Irony is to expose, criticize or laugh at bad or stupid behavior by metaphor and exaggeration. Humor is related to both, but there are differences. The explanation in Ci Hai goes like this: "innuendo, allegory and satire. Expose the fallacies and irrationality in life. " Lenin said: "Humor is a beautiful and healthy quality." Because of this, some people regard humor as a sign of maturity. Our life today is full of sunshine and laughter, but we might as well let humor act as a spiritual "masseur" after intense work. At that time, life will be more interesting Moreover, humor will make people live longer! Norwegian research shows that adults with a sense of humor live longer than those who lack the fun of life. The death rate of cancer patients with a great sense of humor is 70% lower than that of those without a sense of humor. Humor is a very hot topic. What is humor? There is no clear and consistent explanation. Humor comes from life and is also learned. Humor is a language form processed by art, and it is an artistic language. Humor is an artistic method of creating literary and artistic works with laughter as an artistic means.

[Edit this paragraph] Psychological interpretation of humor

Humor refers to the absurd and unexpected characteristics of something, but it is implicit or unforgettable in expression. For example, in the cross talk "Teasing You", the process of a thief teaching a child to call him "Teasing You" was very dull from the beginning, which made people feel a little puzzled at most. Stealing clothes, the result is ridiculous, until it suddenly dawns, while the horse's performance is tight inside and loose outside, orderly, vivid and subtle, which makes people laugh.

Interpretation of humor by psychoanalytic theory;

According to Freud's theory, humor can express repressed thoughts in a socially permissible way. In his book Jokes and Their Relationship with the Subconscious, he pointed out that through humor, individuals can freely express their attacks ("pranks") or sexual desires without worrying about the counterattack of ego or superego. When telling jokes, because the energy of anti-spiritual catharsis is no longer needed, this energy is released in laughter. Jokes, like dreams, are usually forgotten quickly because they are also used to deal with "dangerous" things. In fact, in order to make people laugh, a joke must contain something that stimulates anxiety. According to Freud, we can only laugh at some annoying things. A test of American humor shows that sex, extinction and death are the public's favorite themes, which may show a Freudian believer that they contain a lot of repressed thoughts. In fact, in their words, if you want to know what a person's subconscious is suppressed, you just need to test what kind of humor this person likes.

[Edit this paragraph] Humorous way

There are several ways of common humor:

Crosstalk: To achieve humorous effect through language or dialogue.

Joke: It makes people feel funny through an interesting little story.

Wulitou: It's funny to use seemingly illogical language and body movements. Parody: Imitation makes people feel funny.

Trick: Make the viewer feel funny by unreasonable means (such as drawing a moustache on the photo).

Black humor: a literary school that rose in the United States in the 1960s, making helpless and bitter cynicism about the absurd social reality full of contradictions. Later, it also refers to this helpless and bitter expression style. It is a kind of "black" and "humor" which combines ridicule, criticism, exposure and irony, fantasy and negation.

April Fool's Day: A day that can cause many jokes. People play jokes on people around them in various ways.

Dong: It is the translation of English "Stand Up Comedy". This translation is so "Cantonese" that many Hong Kong people find it vivid. Although the word originated in the West, it has many similarities with the cross talk of China people. It is only in this era of "seeking novelty" and "seeking creativity" that young people have accepted some easy-to-understand and vivid terms.

Cold humor: a little black humor, but different from black humor. It can be understood as humor without obvious intention. When the parties tell a cold humor, they don't mean to achieve the humorous effect. This is a very casual humor. It's up to you to laugh or not. "Cold humor" is a kind of faint humor that is naturally revealed inadvertently. It is the humor that makes people dumbfounded, puzzled, thoughtful, epiphany and laugh, and it is the humor that makes people memorable. It is called "cold humor" because it is not only humorous, but also "cold".

Czech humor: The characteristics of Czech writer Hrabal's works are permeated with thoughts and worries about people and society, which makes people feel bitter and depressed after laughing.

White humor: White humor teaches people to feel scared and funny.

[Edit this paragraph] Humor concept

The word "humor" first appeared in China Quyuan's "Nine Chapters of Huai Sha": "Gentle and embarrassed, Kong Jing is humorous." However, "humor" here means "silence". The word "humor" used as an aesthetic category now refers to an emotion that makes people laugh and have endless aftertaste. Laughter is humor. But laughter is not the essential feature of humor, because there are many kinds of laughter. From the form of laughter, there are satisfied smiles, embarrassed smiles and knowing smiles. ...

From the mechanism of laughter, there are physiological laughter, social laughter, psychological laughter and so on. Only "knowing smile" and "psychological smile" are related to the essence of humor. The so-called "knowing smile" is to make people understand something in laughter and get some enlightenment.

[Edit this paragraph] The origin of humor

Humorous jokes can only come from people. Laughter is what people seem to hear and feel. Communication between people depends on language, and language depends on whether there is humor in language.

China has a history of thousands of years of civilization, and its language and culture are becoming more and more mature. Language has a gradual process from primitive to evolutionary. Primitive people's way of working is very simple, just hunting and farming activities, and their language is very simple, talking about ordinary life and work. After the use of machinery, the mode of labor is complicated, and in collective activities, the relationship and communication between people are also complicated, especially in business and diplomatic activities, a little carelessness in language often causes trouble. In communication, people learn to use heuristic language because many words are not suitable for straightforward statements. For example, when an old man dies, he always says "dead", "gone" and "dead", instead of just saying "my father is dead". In the early years, when a woman mentioned her husband, or her husband mentioned his wife, she was embarrassed to say it directly. Instead, she said "the father of the child" and "the mother of the child". An old lady said that her husband was "the pole of our tobacco pouch", and they all turned a corner and expressed it in a tortuous and implicit way. At first people said "go to the bathroom" and "go to the bathroom", and later they said "go to the bathroom" and "go to the locker room". This is the result of language evolution brought about by the increasingly complex relationship between people and the progress of civilization.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, so does the use of language, especially in jokes, when people speak, they often use "Qiao". For example, when we say, "I am full by myself, but my whole family is not hungry", it is obvious that we are living a single life. Remember the writer Mark? Twain said: "Quitting smoking is the easiest. I have given up more than 200 times. " But when people listen, they understand. What he said is that you can't always quit! This statement is very clear and funny. Obviously, it is an artistic grammar and a creative language, which naturally comes from wisdom. This is humor.

[Edit this paragraph] Humorous remarks

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Recently, I saw several people talking humorously about how to keep a relaxed mind and laugh heartily, the attitude adopted when encountering setbacks and so on. This is also a question involving humor that scholars have talked about.

From the principle of humor, humor is a clever language method, which is characterized by being expressed in a tortuous and implicit way to make people understand, rather than being expressed directly. For example, there are many obscure sayings in common sayings. For example, if someone "doesn't sell oil, but only knocks on the bangzi", people will understand it as "all talk and no action". When two people quarrel, some people say that "it takes two hands to make a sound", but they also understand at once, saying that "no one is to blame for the quarrel, but both of them are responsible", or "when these two people are together, they will quarrel". Another example is "Man Qing's joke" in "Zi Qin Yi Yu": "A teacher is good at teasing and tastes a horse. One day, he lost his pommel horse and was shocked. Man Qing fell to the ground, and the servant hurried to help him lift the saddle. Man Qing said, I am a stone bachelor. If I were a bachelor of tile, wouldn't it be broken? " Hearing this, Shi didn't blame the horse and the servant, and said he didn't mind. This language method is unexpected and quite ingenious. It sounds interesting and will make people happy. So humor can also be said to speak in a relaxed and funny way, or to deal with problems in this way, as those mentioned above have said.

The phenomenon of teasing is commonly known as "funny" in China; Western countries customarily refer to it as "humor". It means the same thing. Later, scholars found that there are two kinds of jokes, one is natural or unintentional jokes; The other is a joke that people deliberately come up with. Here we use "funny" and "humor" to express funny ideas. There are still many scholars who confuse ridicule with humor. For example, many scholars often quote the words of the German philosopher Emmanuel in their papers. Kant wrote that humor is "an emotion when nervous expectations suddenly disappear". In fact, this is a very funny reason. Humorous jokes are often like this, and funny jokes are also for this reason. For example, children enlarge firecrackers and light them with incense. People on the side thought that such a loud firecrackers must be loud, so they plugged their ears and ran away. I didn't expect there was something wrong with this firecracker. It only stung Mars, but it didn't explode! The runner was very nervous at first, but suddenly there was nothing to be afraid of, so he felt funny.

[Edit this paragraph] Clever humor

When it comes to funniness and humor, the word "kit kat" is often used to summarize the causes of funniness and humor. Strange is surprising and unexpected; Joe is reasonable and understandable. Coincidence is coincidence. If it is reasonable, surprising and unreasonable, it is not funny. Speaking or expressing in a funny way is humor.

Disharmony is the common cause of humor, which is generally recognized by humor scholars, because disharmony is always unexpected, reasonable and understandable.

When I was studying in Beijing, I heard a joke: At that time, the zoo was called "Wansheng Garden". At the beginning of the ticket collection, there were two big men more than two meters tall. They should say "ticket" when collecting tickets, but they always say "gone with the wind" when there is a small movement, which makes people feel ridiculous. That's because of disharmony, which is understandable.

Some cross talk performances, where two people are fat and thin, or tall and short, can also arouse a sense of humor. This also has a coincidental effect. Writing articles will also be skillful. For example, Lu Xun wrote in "Three Literary Schools": "The nouveau riche climbed into the literary world, of course, and it was long-lasting. When there are more books and less money, they are qualified to really collapse. "

The coincidence of "more books" and "less money" in the article is ridiculous.

What about Europe? Henry wrote in Sacrifice of Love: "Joe will have paintings soon, and the old gentlemen with thin sideburns and thick wallets will scramble to squeeze into his studio to snap up his works."

The "thick purse" and "slender sideburns" in the article are also coincidental effects of contrast, which are very funny to read.

This kind of coincidental brushwork can often be seen in writers' articles.

Say nifty

The saying in northern China is "nifty", which means smart and interesting, and sometimes it means smart. One-liners are clever and interesting words. Usually say: "eat"! Change it to "fill your stomach"! It's a bit like a game. Everyone likes games. They always want to play and relax whenever they have the chance, and sometimes they want to show off their intelligence and make jokes. In general folk sayings, there are some quips, such as "don't sell oil, just knock on the bangzi", which means saying nothing. Another example is: "get off the donkey while walking the steps" and take the opportunity to stop; "Give a slap and rub three times" means to be calm after the fight; It's easier to understand that "eating tofu pays for meat". Metaphor has a clear meaning and a sense of humor.

There is a quip in the north, which is divided into two sentences. The first sentence is like a riddle, and the last sentence is like solving a riddle. Such as: "The dog bites the hedgehog-there is no place to talk", "Notice from the king of hell-nonsense" and "Tiger's ass-can't be touched". Metaphors are often used, and they are all very interesting and funny.

Humorous language, mostly witty. Su Shi's humor has been recorded in "Xie Bian": Po Gong is in Weiyang, and more than ten people are celebrities. Mi Yuanzhang was also present. After drinking half a cup, Bird suddenly praised himself and said, "Everyone in the world regards me as the top. I wish quality children look forward to it." Gong smiled and said, "I follow the crowd." (Mi Yuanzhang is Fu, Su Shi is Zi Zhan)

In modern terms, "I follow the crowd" means "I obey the majority", and "I follow the crowd" skillfully borrows a sentence from Confucius in The Analects of Confucius, all of which implicitly say: "It's just bumpy." Very witty and interesting. "Qi Yan Lu" records that Sun Shao was a teacher at the end of Wei Dynasty and asked, "How old is your wife?" He said, "Although I am old, I am still young." Then moved to Zhengqing.

A witty answer promoted Sun Shao from Shao Qing to Zhengqing, and he was by going up one flight of stairs.

Jokes are also humorous.

Because learning humor requires reading many humorous works, such as comics, cross talk, humorous sketches and novels, books telling jokes and so on. From these jokes, we can see that the jokes in the book are collected everywhere and created by individuals, which we have never seen. It can be imagined that short and pithy humorous sketches like Duan Zi are all out of wisdom. It's great to be able to make up three or five jokes, but it's really difficult to make up hundreds or thousands. If anyone can make up a joke book, I think it must be a very learned old gentleman. Such scholars are rare.

Fortunately, I really saw a collection of jokes made up by individuals. It was given to me by the author himself, and the title was "Quotations from Mr. Y". Open the book and pick a punch line. Is it interesting? It says:

Go into the mall and have a good time. Food on the first floor, clothing on the second floor, sporting goods on the third floor, children's toys on the fourth floor. Mr. Y said: "Eat well and dress well, exercise and have children, and the layout is reasonable."

Interesting, right? Does anyone else think so? Another wrote: A certain gentleman writes poems clearly, so he cursed obscure poems and couldn't understand them. Mr. Y said, "A poem you don't understand is by no means a bad poem. Since you can't understand it, you can't approve it. Since you can't approve, you can't say it's bad. Conversely, poisonous weeds can also be understood. "

This last sentence has some truth. Think about it carefully. Look at another one: Mr. Y has been nicknamed Little Y for many years. The secretary of the League branch asked, "Little Y, don't you have any shortcomings?" He replied, "Of course. The first shortcoming is that you can't see your own advantages clearly and need constant praise from others. " The secretary of the Youth League branch is a lesbian. She couldn't help laughing and asked, "What's the second shortcoming?" He replied: "I can't see clearly the shortcomings of others, and I need others to review them frequently."

Look at a few shorter ones:

1 sir. Y watched TV and listened to an actress singing patriotic songs, clapping and saying, "Little girl, don't evade taxes in the future."

2. Mr. Y visited the market, pointed to a white tile facade and said to his friend, "This store doesn't sell fakes, doesn't talk about prices, and doesn't give people kickbacks."

The side face of a friend looks like a public toilet.

3. Watch the history of "Cultural Revolution" at night and peep out the window. Mr. Y stared out of the window and said, "What I see is darkness, and what it sees is light. Rats and people cannot agree, even if they are close to each other. "

For those who are interested in humorous literary creators, reading this book is beneficial and more inspiring to the artistic creation of cross talk.

[Edit this paragraph] China people's humor

China people should know humor best. Humor is due to the evolution of social civilization, the complexity of social production, the complexity of interpersonal communication and the inconvenience of speaking directly in some languages, which gradually forms a humorous grammar. China has a long history and a continuous civilization record of several thousand years. The evolution of language will naturally form some commonly used humorous languages. For example, during the "Cultural Revolution", I saw that the crops in a field in rural Henan were withered, and they looked sparse and not like it. I asked an old farmer next to me what was going on, and he said, "This is a sanitary place." As soon as I heard it, I was happy, and I understood that he was talking about land without chemical fertilizer-farmyard manure was mainly used locally, not human and animal manure. It is ridiculous to say that there is no feces on the ground.

People's use of language is related to their cultural quality. The wider the cultural knowledge, the wider the use of humorous language and the more flexible it will be.

One more thing, China's spoken and written languages are different from those of other countries, and they are not combined with Pinyin. Every word has its own unique form, unique sound and meaning. There are many words that are the same and similar, and this homonym is easy to cause funny. Ordinary people often use homophonic words to say humorous words, which are generally difficult for foreigners to understand. At that time, I asked, "tracheitis, understand?" Several people who can speak Mandarin all laughed. They know it's a homophonic word for "henpecked husband" that China people often say, but people who don't know it can't understand it and can't laugh.

Homophony makes language rhyme, and rhyme has its aesthetic feeling. When writing poems, you can see beauty with rhyme, such as Li Bai's "Thinking of a Quiet Night": "I have a bright line at the foot of my bed, is there frost? Looking up, I found that it was moonlight, sinking again, and I suddenly thought of home. " Most people also use rhyming words such as poems, which are quite common in common sayings and proverbs. For example, for example:

Eating people is soft-spoken, and taking people is short. If an old dog barks, he gives advice. Veterans are out, one is worth two. Muddy is afraid of horizontal, horizontal is afraid of cold, and cold is terrible. Even a nanny with a low education level will sing children's songs: Thumb Brother (refers to the child's thumb), Second Thumb Brother (refers to the forefinger), Bell and Drum Tower (refers to the middle finger), Four Plays, Laughing at Niu Niu, Holding a tea tray (refers to the palm), Hanging a flower basket (refers to the elbow), Carrying water (refers to the shoulder) and listening to the wind. Shake it. Pick your chin to make the child laugh. )

These are all examples of humorous language used by ordinary people in northern China. Humorous words also belong to humorous grammar.

[Edit this paragraph] French humor (joke)

Every country has its own cultural traditions and living habits, and often makes up some jokes on this topic. Some people will understand after reading it, while others will pay attention after thinking about it. Many French people are very attractive and have made many jokes:

A scholar tried to analyze the nationality of each country. Each country chooses two men and one woman as a group and sends them to live on an uninhabited island. A few months later, the scholar came to the island where the British lived, and saw three people doing their own things aimlessly. Asked why, they replied, "You didn't introduce us!"

The scholar went to French Island again and saw a man arranging flowers and planting trees in the yard. The scholar asked him, what about the two men? He replied, "That woman was my lover three months ago. She has been his lover since yesterday. It's my turn to arrange flowers and trees. "

Another joke is: a little boy called the police: "someone hit my father in the street!" " "The police ran after the children and saw them fighting. The policeman asked, "Which is your father?" "I don't know, that's why they fight. "

There is another one: a general computer company holds an exhibition. Professor Angel paid a visit. The salesman said, "You can ask any question, and this computer will give you the correct answer."

The professor wrote down his question: "Where is my father?"

The lock pusher entered this sentence, and soon the answer came out: "Your father is fishing at sea."

"Nonsense!" Professor Angel said, "My father has been dead for ten years!"

"The computer can't make mistakes." The salesman insisted, "Why don't you try asking in another way?"

Then Professor Angel asked again, "Where is my mother's husband?"

The computer replied, "He has been dead for ten years, but your father is fishing by the sea."

[Edit this paragraph] What is a sense of humor?

Read widely and broaden your knowledge. If you accumulate knowledge to a certain extent and meet different people on various occasions, you will be prepared and comfortable.

Cultivate noble tastes and optimistic beliefs. A narrow-minded and negative-minded person will not have a sense of humor. Humor belongs to people who are broad-minded and passionate about life.

To improve observation and imagination, we should be good at using associations and metaphors. Participate in social activities and meet people with different personalities. Enhancing social skills can also enhance your sense of humor.

Empathy humor

Humor is because it is unexpected, incredible, exaggerated or strange.

This is the result of empathy.

Empathy is playing cards out of common sense, breaking away from normal thinking, giving people unexpected surprises and making people laugh and cry.

Similar to empathy, it is "going to extremes", expressing one thing, one person and one thing with exaggerated words and incongruous sentences.

Exaggerated to the extreme, you can get unexpected results and make people feel funny.