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Chapter 52 7. I don’t wear a suit

Lin Yutang's Autobiography 林语堂 2754Words 2018-03-16
①The original title of this article is "On Suits". Many friends ask me why I don't wear a suit.Although this question is small, it can already see a person's virtuousness, ignorance and elegance.If a person is not an ordinary person, can use some natural intelligence, and does not suffer from seasonal obsessions, there will be no one who is willing to wear a suit, I think.For ordinary young people, wearing a suit is forgivable, especially in the period of chasing the opposite sex, because although wearing a suit is inconvenient, it can be favored by women everywhere.As for a married person with a group of children, if he wears a suit, it must be a sign that he has submitted to the opposite sex.People are neither dim nor fearful, and they would never be proud of wearing that dog collar all day long.Among dignitaries, it is a clear and obvious fact that the fearful of men prefers to wear suits.It's not that women like to play tricks on men and make them suffer.However, most women seem to think that suits are indeed more modern.Besides, suffering for Iraq, even if it is a little inconvenient, is a sign of love.There are many ancient heroes who go through fire and water for women, kill demons and snakes, and go through hardships to show their hearts.The legacy of this kind of female psychology still exists today to some extent, so there is no need to be surprised.A suit can only be regarded as a disguised courtesy for a man.But in all fairness, the only reason why suits have become a fad and are popular with modern ladies and gentlemen is that ordinary people are shocked by the name of Western cultural relics and want to imitate them; in terms of ethics, aesthetics, and hygiene, they have absolutely no foothold. According to.

For some reason, Chinese clothes and Chinese clothes are secretly in line with the Chinese character, and sometimes it can be seen from this that a person's progress in Chinese can be seen.Those who are full of English but can't speak Chinese must wear a suit, or those who have cheated foreign doctors with a green feather, read three or two books of literary criticism, rampage everywhere, talk about literature, and nail women must also wear a suit.However, as a person grows older, his literacy is getting deeper, his affairs are getting better, and his spirit is getting calmer, he will definitely abandon his western clothes and return my first clothes without a doubt.Or a person who has achieved a considerable status in society and achieved considerable success in his career will definitely take off his western clothes when he no longer needs to wear western clothes to cover up his lack of English and his childishness.All the exceptions are easy to count, except for those who are seasonally obsessed. The staff of the foreign firm, the waiters of the YMCA and the servants are one category. , Paul, Peter, Jimmy, etc., making it convenient for the Western Taipan to call.Another category is a secretary with a monthly salary of 100 yuan, an overseas student who has not got an errand, and a small politician who has no ambitions.The children of overseas Chinese, the youth of the party department, the son-in-law and the nephew, the wealthy businessman and the master who shaves his head are another category. Can't say why.Among this kind of layman, we can cite Pu Yi as the most obvious example.I suspect that people like Puyi or his wife must have gold teeth, although they can't be seen in the photos.You can imagine that pair of blue (black) glasses, thick lips and his English name "Henry".Therefore, under the wings of the Emperor of Japan, Puyi can be called the emperor as much as possible.It is a bit difficult to restore the restoration in the Chinese customs.That suit and the English name alone are discouraging.Do you think "Henry Henry" is still called the emperor of China?

About the philosophical difference between Chinese and Western clothing is that the suit is intended to express the human body.The middle dress is intended to cover the body.However, the human body is like a monkey mantle, stripped naked, most of the time it is not very beautiful, so it is better to cover it up than to praise it.Most of the semi-naked bodies of Gandhi and Indian arhats cannot arouse any sense of beauty.Only a society without aesthetics can accommodate suits.Anyone who doesn't believe this can go to the shores of Coney Island, New York, and see what happens to the bodies of men, women, and children who bathe in the sea.Most of the nude beauty is drawn by the painter who picks out a few beauties with a good figure. However, Chinese painters have deeply felt that models with a well-proportioned figure are hard to come by.Therefore, I am in favor of suits for women under the age of 20 to 35, because suits can really praise the beauty of their bodies, and suits for women who are light in figure and evenly fat and thin really take advantage.However, we have to think about the majority of people. For example, a forty-year-old lady in New York who has been doing nothing all day long is shocking when she wears night clothes and shows her chest and back.This kind of woman can hide her clumsiness by wearing Chinese clothes, which takes a lot of advantage.Because Chinese clothing is more equal, free and equal, beautiful people can't praise their bodies as beautiful as possible in front of the public, and ugly people can hide their clumsiness more easily, so they don't show too much, so the Chinese clothing is very suitable for the spirit of Democracy .

The above is about the aesthetic aspect.As for hygienic synaesthesia, there is not enough room to argue for western devices.Dogs don't like to wear dog collars, and people don't like to wear suit collars. Anyone with a little sense will admit that this disguised form of the relics handed down from Sir Walter Raleigh and Cardinal Rioheliou in the Middle Ages is unhygienic.In the West, people often stand up and declare that they want to abolish the dog collar.Western women's clothing has indeed been liberated a lot in the past 30 years, but men's clothing is still old-fashioned and has not been improved. The society always thinks that men's necks are unsightly and immoral, and they must be fastened with collars.Wearing this collar hinders cold protection in winter, hinders ventilation in summer, and hinders thought in all seasons, making people unable to be free.Scholars always take off this collar first when they are writing at home. If they dare not take off the collar when they are at home, then they are fearful and have other difficulties.

Below the collar, a suit is useless.Westerners can invent radio planes, but they can't realize that they are free with only the head and face.Those who wear suits must wear close-fitting hygienic underwear that tightly seals the flesh, so that the pores of the human skin lose their effectiveness.The advantage of Chinese clothing is that it can not only breathe through the pores, but also fit comfortably in both winter and summer, extending in all directions, and can scratch any itchy place.Westerners especially have to wear woolen undershirts with tattoos in winter.The underwear of sanitary underwear cannot be without pleats, so that every time it accumulates in the abdomen, it will resist, so it has to be changed into a unionsuit with the upper and lower parts of the body.In addition to the inner garment, a shirt must be added, and a tight belt must be tied on top of the shirt to make it conform, but whether to conform or not will often become a problem.Anyone who wears a dress shirt knows the pain.In addition to the shirt, a vest must be added.This vest is the most unreasonable, it is neither wide nor tight, the middle point must be obtained by moving the hook belt on the back, otherwise it will either hang down the belly when it is wide, or hinder breathing when it is tight.Anyone who has used their brains a little knows that unless the human body is standing upright, the straight line between the chest and the back is always different. If you bend forward, the chest flexes and the back extends, and when you lean back, the chest extends and the back bends.However, the western vest is assumed to be of equal length between the chest and the back, and no one is allowed to lean on it.But a person can't stand upright all day long. As a result, either when bending forward, the vest can't be freely folded into several sections, oppressing breathing;For a fat and heavy person, the rising curve of the abdomen cannot be hidden, and the bottom of the vest becomes the most outward point of the curve. From this point, it is narrowed down by the waist of the trousers, and exposed to the world in the long run. , and the belt is in jeopardy all the time.With such a restraint method on the human body, it is no wonder that Westerners advocate nude sports and abandon all restraints for the sake of hygiene.

But if humans were still reptiles, belt belts wouldn't be in jeopardy.As long as it is like the belly belt of a saddle, it is not a problem to tie it on, and it will never go up or down.But although humans have evolved to the point where we can walk vertically, we still assume that we are reptiles.Abortion of women often suffers from this vertical position, because although human beings have taken the standing position when walking, the muscles of our abdomen have not yet evolved and transformed, so that the extremely stable setting for crawling and carrying the weight on the transverse spine occurs when it occurs. Risk of abortion.Now the posture is complete, but the woman's abdomen and thighs are still streaked, not carrying the weight on her shoulders.And men's trouser belt is also the same sometimes can't grasp the trend and is affected by the gravity of the earth.The only remedy is to fasten the trouser belt as hard as possible, which hinders the circulation of all viscera and indirectly affects the freedom of breathing.

From this layer alone, we can see that the Chinese clothing, which places all the weight on the shoulders and makes the clothes hang naturally, is the only reasonable human clothing.As for the change of seasons in winter and summer, Chinese clothes can be added or subtracted at any time, but suits are seldom negotiable.The heat of the sky cannot be reduced, and the coolness of the sky cannot be increased.People who don't want to please women will never wear such inhuman clothes to suffer. The advantages and disadvantages of Chinese and Western clothing are so obvious, but people have never considered the trend of the times, so I think that people's wisdom, foolishness and worthlessness can probably be seen from this, right?

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