About Lin Yutang's example

19 12 Lin Yutang entered Shanghai St. John's University and taught in Tsinghua University after graduation. 1965438+went to the literature department of Harvard University in the autumn of 2009. 1922 received a master of arts degree. In the same year, he transferred to Leipzig University in Germany to study linguistics. From 65438 to 0923, he returned to China as Professor Peking University, Dean of Beijing Women's Normal University and Head of the English Department. 1924, he is one of the main authors of Yu Si. 65438-0926, went to Xiamen University as the dean of literature, writing essays and learning languages. 1927 secretary of the Ministry of foreign affairs. 1932 edited by the Analects of Confucius. 1934 founded Human World, and 1935 founded Cosmic Wind, which advocated "self-centered, leisure-oriented" essays and became the main figures of the critics. After 1935, he wrote "My Country and My People" in English in the United States, and wrote cultural works and novels such as "The Wind is Trembling" in France.

1944 once returned to China to give lectures in Chongqing. 1945 went to Singapore to set up Nanyang University as the president. 1947 director of fine arts and literature, UNESCO. 1952 co-founded tianfeng magazine in the United States. 1966 settled in Taiwan Province province. 1967 was employed as a research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1975 was elected as the vice president of International PEN. 1976 died in Hong Kong.

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Chronology of works:

1928: Xie Fuji Shanghai Beixin Bookstore

1930: China Amazon Letters and Wartime Essays Shanghai Ming Kai Bookstore.

1930: Enlightened English Reader (3 volumes) Shanghai Enlightened Bookstore

1930: English literature reader (2 volumes) Shanghai Ming Kai Bookstore

1930: Enlightened English Grammar (2 volumes) Shanghai Enlightened Bookstore

193 1: Reading Modern News Prose (Selected Modern News Prose) Shanghai Commercial Press

1933: Linguistic Papers Shanghai Ming Kai Bookstore

1934: Great Wilderness Collection Shanghai Life Bookstore

1934: My Words Volume I (Line Element Collection) Shanghai Times Book Company

1935: Lectures on Enlightened English (three volumes), edited by Lin Yutang and Lin You, Shanghai Commercial Press.

1935: Small Criticism: On China's Prose, Satire and Essays, Part I: 1930- 1932 (English Prose Collection) Shanghai Commercial Press.

1935: Small Criticism: On China's Prose, Satire and Essays, Part II: 1933- 1935 (English Prose) Shanghai Commercial Press.

1935: Conficus see Nancy and essays about nothing (Zi Jian Zi Nan and English Essays), the first edition of Shanghai Commercial Press.

1935: new york: Reynal &；; Hitchcock Company (a book by John Day)

1936: My Words Volume II (Pi Jing Ji) Shanghai Times Book Company

1936: the history of news and public opinion in China (the history of news and public opinion in China).

1936: University of Chicago Press

1937: the importance of living reynal &；; Hitchcock Company (a book by John Day)

1938: Confucius' Wisdom Random House, Modern Library.

Beijing Moment John Day Book Company

1940: use love and love; Satire (Satire Collection) John Day Books Company

1940: fallen leaves in the storm John Day Books Company.

194 1: Yutang Wencun (Volume I) Shanghai Shilin Publishing House, First Edition

1942: China-India Wisdom Random House.

1943: Between tears. John day books company

The vigil of John Day Book Company.

1947: Happy Genius: Su Dongpo's Life and Times (biography of Su Dongpo) John Day Books Company.

1948: China City Family A John Day Books Company.

1948: the wisdom of Laozi's bookstore

1950: on American wisdom.

195 1: Widows, nuns and famous prostitutes: three novellas translated and adapted by Lin Yutang from China (Widows, nuns and geisha: English versions of legends) John Day Books Company.

1952: a collection of famous short stories in China, adapted by Lin Yutang, a book company of John Day.

1953: Zhushanmen John Day Book Company

1955: Looking beyond prentiss Hall

1957: Mrs. Wu (biography of Wu Zetian) World Publishing Company

1958: Secret names (anonymous) Peleg, Strauss and Kudasi.

1959: lifestyle of China people (China) World Publishing Company.

1959: from pagan to Christian world publishing company

1960: Imperial Beijing: Seven Centuries of China Crown Publishing House.

196 1: Red Peony World Publishing Company

1962: the fun of unconventional world publishing companies

1963: Juniper Loa World Publishing Company

1964: the escape of Innocenti Putnam's son.

1965: An episode of Taipei Satellite TV.

1966: On Gao E Taibei Satellite.

1967: Talk about two episodes of Taipei Satellite TV.

1973: Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (Contemporary Chinese-English Dictionary) The Chinese University of Hong Kong

1974: Everything Collection: Taipei Satellite.

1976: A Dream of Red Mansions Name Index Taipei Huagang

1978: Yutang Enlightenment Collection

1986: Lin Yutang's Classics (Volume 1-35) Taiwan Province Jin Lan Culture Publishing House.

1986: Sketch of Literati (Prose Collection) and People Collection Chongqing People's Publishing House

1988: China people (essay) Zhejiang people

1988: Lai (novel) Hunan literature and art

1988: The Feast of Life (Prose Collection) Hunan Literature and Art

2002: Wisdom of Sages, Shaanxi Normal University Press.

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Two-legged eastern and western cultures

Dedicated to commenting on the universe-my words

Understanding and pain

The degree of a person's understanding is just equal to the depth of his suffering. -"My Country and My People"

Rare things

People who are proud of their feet are always extremely rare, and people who can give life satisfaction are rare in this world. -"My Country and My People"

No humor.

Without humor, people's culture will become more and more hypocritical, life will become more and more fraudulent, thoughts will become more and more pedantic, literature will become more and more dry, and people's thoughts will become more and more stubborn. -"One Night Talk"

If there were no women

Without women, there must be no manners, customs, religions, traditions and social classes. There is no man who is naturally polite, and there is no woman who is naturally rude. Suppose there were no women, we wouldn't live in the same alley, but in a house with triangular doors and windows and an octagonal bathtub, and we didn't know the difference between a restaurant and a bedroom. Men like to eat in the bedroom and sleep in the dining room. -Jin Shengtan's physiology

Man's insignificance

The insignificance of life in the universe is like China's landscape painting. In landscape painting, the nuances of the landscape are not easy to see, because they have disappeared into the blank of water and sky. At this moment, two small figures are sitting on a boat on the sparkling river in the moonlight. From that moment on, the reader was lost in that atmosphere.

-biography of Su Dongpo

A leisurely mood

Of course, it is much cheaper to enjoy a leisurely life than a luxurious one. It is only the artist's temperament to enjoy a leisurely life and spend an idle afternoon in a completely leisurely mood. -"The Art of Living"

Happy philosophy

Only happy philosophy is truly profound philosophy; I think those serious philosophical theories in the west have not yet begun to understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion, the only function of philosophy is to make us have a more relaxed and happy attitude towards life than ordinary businessmen. -"The Art of Living"

Pens and cones

A writer's pen is like a shoemaker's cone. The more you use it, the sharper it will be, and it will be as sharp as a sewing needle later. But his concept will be more and more extensive, just like a person's mountaineering and sightseeing. The higher he climbs, the farther he sees. -"The Art of Living"

Interview with the ancients

An ancient book allows readers to face the ancient people who have been sleeping for a long time. When he goes on reading, he will imagine what kind of form and person the ancient writer was. Mencius and the great historian Sima Qian both expressed this view. -"The Art of Living"

Stay alert and take your time.

Art should be a kind of satirical literature, a warning to our insensitive emotions, lifeless thoughts and unnatural life. It teaches us to be simple and sincere in a pretentious world. -"The Art of Living"

Poor world

..... If we have knowledge but can't understand, criticize but can't appreciate, have beauty but no love, have truth but no passion, have justice but no compassion, be polite but not warm, what a poor world this world will become! -"The Art of Living"

The most beautiful time

The most beautiful time for a woman is when she is standing in front of the cradle; The most sincere and solemn time is when she is holding a baby or taking a walk with a child of four or five years old; The happiest time, as I saw in a western portrait, was when I was holding a baby and sleeping on a pillow to tease. -"The Art of Living"

Passengers by boat

Life is really a dream. Man is like a passenger, sailing along the eternal river of time in a small boat. Get on the boat at one place and go ashore at another place so that other passengers waiting on the river can get on the boat. -"The Art of Living"

Enthusiasm plus wisdom and courage

Life is cruel, and a warm, generous and affectionate person may easily be fooled by smarter peers. People who are generous by nature often have wrong ideas because of generosity, and often get lost because they are too lenient with their enemies or trust their friends too much. ..... Life is harsh, and a warm heart is not enough to cope with the environment. Enthusiasm must be associated with wisdom and courage to avoid damaging the environment. -"The Art of Living"

Died three times.

Whoever tells the truth will hurt it; Anyone who tries to prove that it is disabled will distort it; Anyone who puts a sign on it and identifies a school will kill it instead; Anyone who claims to believe it will bury it. So a truth, when it was erected into a system, has died three times and been buried three times. -"The Art of Living"

An open-minded humorist

Those who are capable, intelligent, ambitious, arrogant, and at the same time the most cowardly and confused people lack the courage, profundity and intelligence of humorists. They are always dealing with trivial things. They don't know that a more open-minded humorist can cope with great things. -"The Art of Living"

Inflexible

Ordinary people can't appreciate the happiness of this earthly life, because they don't love life and make it ordinary, rigid and boring. -"The Art of Living"

Want to be someone else

A professor at China Modern University once said a quip: "A wife is good to others, but an article is good to herself." In this sense, no one in the world will feel absolutely satisfied. Everyone wants to be someone else, as long as this other person is not who he is now. -"The Art of Living"

Beauty of old age

We like old churches, old furniture, old dictionaries and old books, but most people forget the beauty of the elderly. This kind of beauty is worthy of our appreciation, and it is also very necessary in life. I think ancient things, perfect things and things that have changed a lot are the most beautiful things. -"The Art of Living"

Lack of human touch

I am against dictators because they have no humanity. Because unfriendly people are always bad. Religion without humanity is not religion; Unreasonable politics is stupid politics, and inhuman art is bad art; An inhuman life is an animal life. -"The Art of Living"

tourist

A true traveler must be a wanderer, experiencing the joy, temptation and exploration of a wanderer. Travel must be vagrancy, otherwise it is not travel. The main points of travel are no responsibility, no time, no communication, no curious neighbors, no visitors and no destination. A good traveler never knows where he is going. What's better, he doesn't know where he comes from. He even forgot his own name. -"The Art of Living"

silkworm

Scholars, like eagles, spit out the food they eat and feed it to birds; A thinker is like a silkworm. He vomited silk instead of mulberry leaves. -"The Art of Living"

Dating soil

Let me be friends with vegetation and blind date with soil, and I will be satisfied. My soul crawls comfortably in the soil and feels very happy. When a person is intoxicated with this land, his heart seems to be relaxed, just like in heaven. In fact, his six-foot body, why not leave the soil inch by inch? -"The Art of Living"

Food and clothing are black and sweet.

I once said that China people's concept of happiness is "warm, full, dark and sweet"-that is, the scene of going to bed after eating a big meal. A China poet once said: "The heart is full of beautiful things; The rest are extravagant. " -"The Art of Living"

Passing guests

We can adopt a relaxed and casual attitude towards life: we are not permanent tenants of this world, but passers-by. -"The Art of Living"

mermaid

If I can choose to be one of the writers in the world, I would rather be Andersen. Being able to write the story of mermaid, thinking about the thought of female mermaid, and eager to surface when I grow up, is really the deepest and most wonderful happiness that human beings feel. -"The Art of Living"

All scientific progress depends on this curiosity. Curiosity is interesting. Scientific invention depends on this interesting word.

In March 2007, Shaanxi Normal University Press published "Lin Yutang's Life is Nothing More". You can find the ebook /gy/ebook/ 1782.htm below.

Lin Yutang and Humor

Most people think that humor 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, 18 years before Lin Yutang first used this translation.

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".

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After September 2008, a sentence from Lin Yutang was widely circulated on the Internet: "There are such a group of strange people in China. They are the lowest class. Their interests are being harmed every day, but they have the consciousness of the ruling class. It is almost impossible to find such a retarded thing in the animal world. " This passage quickly became popular because of its sharp and precise criticism of China's feudal ideological heritage. One of them is from Lin Yutang's My Country and My People, but it does not appear in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People. Continue to search the pages with Lin Yutang and this sentence, all of which appeared in large numbers after September 2008, but after careful investigation and reading a lot of these pages, there is no evidence that they are Lin Yutang's.