Nothing more than a book-Juck Zhang Friends Circle

"People don't want to be idle and can't be idle. You can study when you have time, visit famous mountains when you have time, make friends when you have time, drink when you have time, write books when you have time, and the happiness on earth is great. "

Leisure is leisure, and reading and making friends is more fun than this. This "leisure book" is very suitable for browsing-reading at will.

Some people classify Shadow of Dreams as a "useless book", and I think it's okay to say so. Just like three or two bosom friends, they don't become friends because they are "useful". It is precisely because they are useless and most comfortable.

Juck Zhang is the second generation official and the second generation rich. His family has a mansion and real estate, many handmaiden servants, many treasures at home, and many books and cultural relics. In such a rich environment, he didn't grow up to be a dude. It is said that because his father is very strict, the family motto says, "The poor are poor without talent, and the lowly are poor without ambition." Therefore, Chaochao is an ambitious young man, but he has worked hard and made no progress in his career. Moreover, he loves reading and collecting books, so he turned to be a writer, editor and publisher.

Shadow of a Dream is the author's prose collection, which records some trivial things in daily life, as well as various feelings and associations when reading, and uses his artistic vision to judge landscapes, plants, courtyards and artifacts. As he himself said, "landscape is also a book, chess and wine is also a book", "articles are landscapes on the table, and landscapes are articles on the ground", so the world calls this book "romantic".

More than 200 pages of books, not too thick, recorded 2 19 short articles, with comments after each text. Reading is like reading Juck Zhang's circle of friends. From time to time, I talked about flowers, birds, fish and insects, romance and garden stones, suddenly expressed some feelings, wrote some comments, and gently sneered at life and current affairs and politics. A group of his friends also added comments, seconded, supplemented, extended, or joked at the back, and some comments were also wonderful-it was obviously a reply from a circle of friends.

Juck Zhang's character is calm and quiet, and he doesn't like luxurious and impetuous things, but he is very hospitable. He kept all the wise men in the world, and then drank and wrote poems together to help the poor guests. No wonder there are so many replies when you are in a circle of friends or paper products:

"The world has a bosom friend, not hateful. Not only people, but also things. Such as: Chrysanthemum takes Yuanming as confidant, Plum takes Hejing as confidant, Bamboo as confidant, Lotus takes Lianxi as confidant, Peach takes Qin as confidant, Apricot takes Dong Feng as confidant, Stone as confidant, Litchi Ether as confidant, Tea takes Lutong and Lu Yu as confidant, Herb takes Ling as confidant, and Banana as confidant. Once you reach an agreement with it, you will never change. If Song was at the beginning of the Qin Dynasty and Crane was at Wei Yi, it can be said that it cannot be connected with the people. "

This is a long book with many allusions. For example, "Banana takes Huai Su as her confidant". We know that Huai Su's Weeds is famous, but what does Banana have to do with him? It turns out that Huai Su planted many banana trees, and he used banana leaves instead of paper to practice calligraphy. Every sentence here has a source. If you don't know, you need to look it up. You can definitely find it online, but the pace of reading will become awkward. Fortunately, all the relevant allusions are indicated in the book, and the notes in the above paragraph are as many as five pages, which is also worth recommending. This book was originally asked by my son's Chinese teacher, and it is really suitable for middle school students. It has short words and detailed notes. )

"Flowers cannot be without butterflies, mountains cannot be without springs, stones cannot be without moss, water cannot be without algae, trees cannot be without vines, and people cannot be without addiction."

This is similar to Zhang Dai's saying that "people are not addicted and can't make friends, so there is no affection." The popular saying now is "be an interesting person".

"Listen to birds in spring, cicadas in summer, insects in autumn and snow in winter; Listen to chess in the daytime and flute in the moonlight; Listening to the pine in the mountains and the sound in the water is worthy of this ear. If the villain insults, if the wife scolds it, it is really not deaf. "

All kinds of sounds in nature are beautiful. It's really harsh to suddenly hear "young villain scolds and abuses, and fierce wife scolds", but suddenly I feel a smile when I see "if I am not deaf". There are such couples in life: the wife nags and reprimands, and the husband becomes "selectively deaf". There seems to be something wrong with his hearing. He often can't hear what the other person is saying clearly, but when he talks about other interesting things, his ears suddenly light up.

"The plum blossom is ancient in stone, the Panasonic stone is clumsy, the stone between the bamboos should be thin, and the stone in the basin should be skillful."

Everything in the world has its own spirituality. A flower and a stone can complement each other if they are properly matched. This aesthetic interest does not need to be recognized, but it can be used as a reference when placing plants, designing flower arrangements and taking pictures.

Plum branches are withered and pale, and ancient stones are placed next to them, which can not only take care of the simplicity of plum trees, but also set off the pride of plum blossoms; The stone under the pine tree is clumsy and steady, making it look more and more tall and straight; The rocks beside the bamboo branches are strewn at random, which can highlight the quiet temperament of bamboo; The stones in the bonsai should be exquisite and delicate, so as to have unique charm.

"For knowledgeable friends, such as reading different books; For elegant friends, such as reading celebrity poems; For cautious friends, such as reading the biography of sages; For funny friends, such as reading legendary novels. "

This metaphor is very apt. On the contrary, reading different books is like facing different friends.

"Affectionate people don't care about life and death, good drinkers don't care about hot and cold, and people who like reading don't care about leisure."

That's right. Whether you are busy or free, you can read some articles in this book.