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Chapter 35 2. About "Da Huang Ji"

Lin Yutang's Autobiography 林语堂 1236Words 2018-03-16
I thought of the title of the collection because I wanted to collect the zero articles from the past five or six years into one book for preservation.The names of Chinese anthologies have always been very elegant, just like the names of the study, which can be thought-provoking.Therefore, thinking of the already published "Jian Fu Ji", it is interesting to think that the name of this episode should be somewhat consistent with the meaning of the name of the previous episode.When I first thought of "Caoze Collection" and "Liangshan Collection", I thought it was inappropriate.So I thought of the term "Da Huang Ji", because the meaning is elusive, I don't know how to interpret it, or there are many interpretations, so I think it is very good.Fleeing from the grasslands into the wilderness, after the wilderness, what kind of landscape will be like, no way to know, but the good thing is that no one knows, just go, go, go.

But there is one thing, the wild traveler is different from the deep forest hermit.Retiring from the world is really too lofty. Its literary ease and poetic genius imply that it does not eat the fireworks of the world, but I have not yet been able to do so.Maybe the Gobi desert used to be a deep forest, intersecting with trees and stones, swimming with deer and hogs, then the next anthology must be named "Deep Forest Collection" or "Deer and Hog Collection".All in all, people in the wilderness don't know yet. People who wander alone in the wilderness also have a special meaning, which seems to be close to aloofness, but it is not necessarily so.I think it's just that sex is happy and lonely.The best thing is that I walk my own way, one day or two or three miles or a hundred miles, no one interferes, no need to care about, no need to discuss.Or watch the grass and insects, observe the autumn hair, or watch the bird tracks, watch the sky, let me be free.I do my own way, which has its own fun.And in this lonely solitary travel, it is easy to know yourself, the universe and life.Sometimes a person's change is just thinking about it in loneliness, or getting a serious illness, or suffering from heatstroke midway, being unconscious for three days, or going to the wilderness, Jesus, Paul, Rousseau... all have precedents.

I have read very little in my life, regardless of Chinese and foreign literature.Because I'm not as good as Ah Shi, I don't rush to read the books that are fashionable.But sometimes when you get a good book by chance, or discover a new author, you will be very happy, and you will benefit endlessly from reading it again and again.This is the joy of the solitary wanderer.But I believe that everyone who studies should be like this. They must benefit from the strength of one family, and they must not read extensively, so that they will become erudite without becoming famous.Zengzi is higher than Zixia in this point.Reading should be done intensively by those with similar temperaments, so that it is easy to be inspired in terms of insights and thoughts. As time goes by, you can naturally achieve success.Ordinary people's learning and thinking always take up the majority of learning and little thinking, because what they learn is the learning of the times, and it may not necessarily have a relationship with their own thoughts.It is better to think more than to learn less, so as not to waste energy, but to do so, you must take a solitary method.It is not enough to live in the emperor, to become famous, and to follow what others say.I think it would be good to read along the road calmly and slowly, like a wild tour.I admire writers who are lonely and self-admired like Samuel Butler.

Some people publish a book because they first thought of a title by accident, thought it was too good, and decided to publish it, and then went to do it.Some people finish the book first, then think of the title, and even change the name many times, just like Ning Xin'er at home, when her husband came out, she gave her a name, but because of her love, she picked up three or four nicknames in succession, and let it happen naturally. But it doesn't feel repetitive.Ordinary people don't know the origin of the name, and sometimes parents don't know it either.Most of them are always exhaled by accident, and I think it is easy to pronounce and the rhyme is pleasant, but it has something to do with a minor accident. "The Great Wilderness Collection" is the first to come up with the title, which belongs to the first category.Thinking of the title of this book this morning, I feel that the rhyme is very good and the meaning is also desirable, so I also wrote a preface of my temporary thoughts.After writing the preface, I feel that I have to quickly search for old works and compile them together, waiting to see if it can match the title of the book?

This can only be regarded as the title of the preface, not the preface.As for the content of the book, they are all works after the revolution.But it is expected that there will be no frankness in "Jian Buddha Collection".And it does not include my best post-revolution work.The best ones are my one-year travels in Europe with my children, and the best parts of those correspondences are not written by me.
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