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Humor overview:

The word "humor" is no stranger to today's readers. But, do you know its origin?

It was originally transliterated from the English word humor, which comes from the Latin word humor, meaning "body fluid". A doctor named Hippocrates in ancient Greece believed that human body fluids include blood, mucus, yellow bile and black bile. Their proportions are different.

People's different temperament will be formed. The widespread use of the word humor is attributed to the English humanist playwright Joan Sheng. His two works, Different Personality and Different People's Habits, are both famous for their humor. In his satirical comedy masterpiece Vulpone, characters are defined according to temperament, including "fox" and "fly", and Jonson's humor theory also spread like wildfire. Lin Yutang was the first person to move this word to China. This is a transliteration word, and the expression is naturally just right.

Humor is different from humor and satire. Humor is to expose the self-contradiction of things in ridicule and gag, so as to achieve the purpose of criticism and satire; Satire is the use of metaphor and exaggeration to expose, criticize or laugh at bad or stupid behavior. 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.

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: it is a kind of "black humor" which integrates 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.

What is humor?

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.

Humor ramble

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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 Immanuel Kant in their papers, arguing 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.

Humor of China people

China people should know humor best. Humor is a tortuous way of language 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 nursery rhymes when coaxing children:

Thumb (pointing to the child's thumb),

The second thumb (point the index finger),

Middle (bell) drum tower (point middle finger),

Four plays,

Laughing at Niu Niu,

Serve tea tray (finger palm), hang flower basket (finger elbow) and carry water (finger shoulder).

Listen to the wind (nod your ears), watch the lights (nod your eyes), smell the incense (nod your nose), and eat (nod your mouth).

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.

Originality of 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.

For example, O 'Henry wrote in Sacrifice of Love: "Joe will have paintings soon, and those 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.

French humor

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 uninhabited islands. 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."

Why is humor difficult to understand?

Fang cheng

For a long time, scholars have been divided on the discussion of laughter and humor, probably because it is not just a joke, but also involves people's psychology, personality, thoughts and attitudes towards life. Lin Yutang said: "Humor is a state of mind. In other words, it is an opinion and an outlook on life. " Therefore, people think that the problem is very complicated and must be studied from the aspects of philosophy and psychology in order to explain it clearly.

In fact, everything happens for a reason. Just look at these reasons, the context is clear and the nature is obvious. Humor makes people think it is humor. Scholars believe that humor comes from wisdom, but no one disagrees. Therefore, humor must come from the relationship between people. Because except people, other animals and inanimate objects can't think, show wisdom and laugh humorously. Communication between people depends on language, so humor is most likely to come from language. Actually, humor is an artistic language, an artistic language, an artistic language. It is also an art, an artistic method. Comics, cross talk, various comedy programs, and many humorous literary works are all created by humorous artistic techniques, so we must first understand the nature of humor and where humor comes from. Find out its source and its essence will be easy to understand. From the long-term social development and the evolution of civilization to examine the changes of human language, we can know that humor is a tortuous and implicit language way naturally formed by the evolution of social civilization. In ancient times, the mode of production was simple, the interpersonal relationship was simple, and the language was naturally not complicated. With the continuous progress of production methods, interpersonal relationships are becoming more and more complicated. For example, when you receive visitors every day, you should pay attention to your words. Academic gatherings and political activities, especially diplomatic occasions, need to pay more attention to the use of language. If necessary, you can't say it directly, you must say it implicitly in another way. When you are familiar with the tortuous language, you will skillfully use it, which makes it ridiculous. Language is easy to use skillfully when joking. We can know its characteristics from humorous literary works and performances, and we can also know that we are always relaxed, calm and quite confident when using humorous language, otherwise we would not be able to say such funny things. With this emotion, we can infer this person's personality, attitude and psychological activities. It can be said that humor can reflect people's personality, attitude, psychology, attitude towards people and even outlook on life and world. There is always a reason why many people like to get along with humorous people.

The nature of humor does not seem as complicated as some scholars think. I once wrote a definition of humor, which was published in the sixth issue of Journal of Wuhan University-Humanities Edition in 2003. Before, many scholars said that humor could not be defined, and so did the Irish writer Bernard Shaw. People who are interested in studying sense of humor will gain something by reading funny books.