Wujiang mustard tuber advertising language

Peter Hessler left, and he left Huo Wei in Fuling.

Thoughts on Reading Jiangcheng-Wang

A week ago, I signed up for a non-fiction writing class in Nan Zhou. In the next two months, I will intensively read four books under the leadership of Nan Zhou. Jiangcheng is one of them.

One,

This week, I wolfed down Peter Hessler's first novel Jiangcheng. Pick up a book and go back to the 1980s. Together with heisler (Chinese name, He Wei), he went "downstream" to Fuling, a small town in Sichuan, China, and entered the gate of Fuling Teachers College. Together, we performed the China version of Shakespeare, ran across the "Baiheliang" to measure the water level in the gorge, and felt the calm and indifference of the people in the "Dam" reservoir area on the shore. Participate in the Opium War with teachers in normal colleges and travel in the wind and rain together; Watching dad go to church under the guidance of the priest; Being molested by a young lady, celebrating the New Year, savoring Fuling people's obsession with money, experiencing "another spring" and leaving Fuling, Sichuan and China "upstream".

Within a week, He Wei and I laughed, mourned, moved and helpless together. I couldn't help laughing a few times, wry smile, sadness, understanding and worrying; While reading, out of context, while enjoying the wonderful homework of Mr. Bao Limin and his reading friends. Until I finished reading Shanghe, I was vaguely unhappy and even painful, as if "I was worried about sending my husband to the river, and the grass grew and the warblers flew." Drunk and speechless, it is rainy in the countryside. "feeling.

Looking back on the diary of punching in these six days, I am ashamed of my superficiality and arbitrariness. I read Jiangcheng with my own mask, frame, brain and glasses, which is a bit like heisler just started to see Fuling. "I only saw what I wanted to see."

"Jiangcheng reflects the ever-changing theme of the small town of Fuling. The first and second chapters pave the way for the whole book, and complete the background introduction of this book from the external factors such as the appearance of the small town, food, clothing, housing and transportation, ecological environment, and the internal factors such as Fuling people's cognition, attitude and behavior to this change. "

"There seems to be a bright line and a dark line." "The author has really studied non-fiction writing, and the frame structure is intentionally designed, at least before writing." "The author's writing technique is also very skilled, using contrast, metaphor, slogans, homework, montage, ridicule, self-mockery and so on. And unconsciously adopt the local language consistent with the identity and personality of the interlocutor. "

"It is not surprising that Fuling people talk about money without saying anything. It's no big deal, why not talk about it? "

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The tone and knowledge of a solid middle school student.

Second,

When reading through Jiangcheng, sometimes there will be moments when you can't stand it, which is very trivial. However, after reading it slowly, I have to sigh the author's skill of "writing articles at your fingertips and learning everything".

The author wrote from the perspective of the moon man, so he saw that it was not easy to live on the earth. Here during the day and there at night; Here, "have as many children as you want", and there, "just have one"; It's noisy outside, but it's quiet inside. ...

People on earth have many experiences, such as regional disputes, racial discrimination, cultural barriers and gender equality. Rain in the south, rain in the north, wind in the west and dust in the east are just bigger and smaller problems. The big stream is surging and rushing, and all beings have their own experiences regardless of race and color. There is a deep gap between them, and someone is badly needed to build a bridge.

"Huang, the owner of the snack bar, invited me to dinner, so I have never seen the teacher?" I asked myself this question.

At that time, I was also teaching thermodynamic isolated systems in a university. If I were a teacher in a normal college, would I invite our foreign teachers? His monthly salary is 1000, and mine is 86; He lives in the expert building, and I live in the tube-shaped building where mice run around.

I didn't care about Fuling at that time.

I'm also curious. He Wei doesn't like Fuling mustard tuber very much. Wujiang mustard tuber was mentioned only once in the article, and it appeared on his favorite advertising brand, not on the table of sashimi. It's a pity that I didn't read the taste of Fuling mustard tuber when I was reading Jiangcheng.

The small Fuling mustard tuber, although there is no mysterious story and it is unremarkable, has achieved a great event silently, that is, it has captured the gastrointestinal tract of people from the north and the south at the same time and become one of the few delicacies in the catering industry that can calm the "debate" between the north and the south.

Inadvertently, will "Jiangcheng" become a side dish to satisfy the appetite of the East and the West?

Third,

I have worked in an NGO, and we often talk about "changing the world" beyond our ability. An author who can understand the values of democracy, freedom, independence and rationality does as the Romans do, although? "The more I think about it, the more pessimistic I am about the education students receive." Sometimes, you will "walk on thin ice" and even worry that you will break the ice in the future.

? "I won't teach 45 people with 45 ideas. I'm teaching a group, "heisler is sober. He doesn't want to give anything, keep anything, change anything, or affect anything. He even said, "I'm glad I didn't build anything, organize anything or make any major changes to this place." If there is any imprint, he hopes that it is a few poems in the English and American literature class he attended, and a character in the novel ... can stay in the students' memory ... "。

In the intensive reading stage, I will learn from He Wei, bend down and put myself in. I can't stand on the bank of Wujiang River and watch the fire from the other bank.

In order to finish punching in, I read and wrote down those "descriptions and sentences that touched you the most". I found his opinions everywhere:

"History is never far away and politics is visible." ?

"They saw what they wanted to see." ?

"There is still a silent fear lurking in people's hearts." ?

"Over the years, the people of China have deliberately and diligently destroyed everything valuable in their traditional culture."

……?

The story of Jiangcheng is also very dull, but some words will never be forgotten.

Off topic,

On the eve of non-fiction writing in Southern Zhou Dynasty, I saw a news: An American writer today entrusted his friend He Douban to make an English statement, and will temporarily leave China because he failed to get the teaching renewal of Sichuan University.

I saw Jiangcheng last week, which is still specious for non-fiction writing, but it also gained something. I realized that Peter Hessler would come back because he left Huo Wei, China.

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