Do you think China people are humorous?

There is a song that sings: "Happiness is our hometown. Nowadays, people pursue happiness and health. Happiness and health are twins. In modern life, where the pace of life is too fast and tense, it is necessary to maintain a happy, relaxed and relaxed state of mind.

Therefore, people like humor, like humor, and like to laugh. I found that more people like the art of laughter. Crosstalk, sketch, light comedy and comedy are more popular than ever. Why? Because you need laughter, because you need happiness. A person's humorous personality and humorous language will always make people feel more intimate and close than those who are doing nothing. Lin Yutang said: "The best humor naturally expresses" the brilliance of the soul and the richness of intelligence ". Of all the styles, humor is the most emotional. 」

Are China people humorous?

Because of the relaxed environment and the improvement of life, we find that people around us are generally cheerful, humanized and humorous. Westerners are humorous, so is China?

This will not work for a long time. At that time, our Peking University was still in the red building on the beach, and our dormitory was in the North Riverside Third Hospital. One of my classmates, who later became a professor, couldn't find the toilet near Xinhua Bookstore in Wangfujing, so he ran back to the Third Hospital and blushed. After he came out of the toilet, he said easily, "going to the toilet is a great blessing in life!" To this end, the whole class criticized his outlook on life and made him pay the price for a whole semester. In the 1960s, we engaged in "four clean-ups" in Yangjiang, and we were hungry twice a day. A writer who is now 80 years old said at that time: "If only volunteers could stir-fry rice with a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow. The meeting criticized him for nearly a year, saying that he violated discipline. He muttered, "Did I eat fried rice?" ? Don't! Can't you tell jokes? 」

In fact, the same is true in history. In The Story of Waking Up Marriage, there are "fifteen jokes about Guan created a clever disaster" and later operas with the same theme, warning people not to "joke" that China can't have April Fool's Day like the West.

From a long history, humor, wit, humor and humor are all contrary to orthodox Confucian culture and Confucian morality. These things are considered as "banter", "clown", "madness" and "immorality" and are rejected. Silence, solemnity, doing nothing, abiding by ethics, etc. , is the most ideal etiquette. For a long time, it suppressed the development of human nature.

Historically, people who provided people with joy, laughter and pleasure through performances were demoted as "actors", and "actors" were looked down upon and had a low social status.

In ancient times, there were "cultivating sages" and "worshiping sages". People who say "humor" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi are "playful". "Xun You" is also an actor who plays burlesque. They often rap and joke for the emperor to entertain him. The emperor needs them, and they can sometimes play an ironic role. Not long ago, those who used the past to satirize the present with ulterior motives must be Rightists. They risked their lives, but their social status was very low. Hong Mai of the Song Dynasty said, "Be merciful to the dwarfs and make them the most humble and despicable people. The whole society discriminates against them, although their ability to laugh is excellent. Sima Qian did not look down on them. In Historical Records and Biographies of Funny Stories, he mentioned comedians "Dream" and Dong Fangshuo.

In today's words, "Xun You" is a comedian and "advocating Excellence" is a musician. Xi You is not so much a drama as a comedy. Since ancient times, China people like and are good at humor, but they have lost their sense of humor because of Confucian traditional culture, which is misunderstood as China people don't understand humor.

Musicians attach feelings to sounds, while dramatists attach feelings to dramatic conflicts, which are a concentrated reflection of social contradictions. Sometimes, this kind of reflection is to see the big from the small, use the past to describe the present, and make a little comment on the great righteousness. Sometimes, it is for the sake of irony and laughter, to say the right thing in harmony, and to convince people with clever words. So is the art of laughter.

In daily life, laughter, humor, humor and wit have no purpose, but only reflect the relaxed character of some people. For a long time, this character was degraded because of the Confucian concept of gentleman, and was regarded as a forbidden area after paying the price of blood for political reasons.

However, can people live without laughter? Do you lack humor? Can't! Sometimes, laughter and happiness are the oxygen in people's lives. As cold as iron, death is never welcome.

Li Ao made several speeches in Peking University, Tsinghua and Fudan University, which aroused different views. Some people call him a clown. Li Ao himself said, "My way is a bit cynical. Everyone is used to pretending to be sacred. I used the way of "teasing". On the other hand, it is joking, studying and singing. I express my ideas in a joking way. In my opinion, the argument about him is the contradiction between Mr. Daoism and human nature.