Chapter 18 Chapter 5 The Art of Humor

Contradiction, ingenuity, accident, abnormality, failure, and confusion are the inevitable attributes of humor. As the saying goes: "If the reason is not crooked, there will be no joke." Humor does not arise from mediocrity and paleness, but from unexpected shocks.The famous humorist Norman ?Holland believes that the greatest characteristic of humor is incongruity.This makes perfect sense.This humor best illustrates this point: A business owner wants to ask a bishop to do an advertisement for him.But he didn't fully explain what he said, he just asked him to preach... Business owners first bid $100,000.

The bishop just shook his head without speaking. "300,000." The business owner tripled the price at once.The bishop still shook his head in silence. "500,000!" The bishop shook his head even more. At this time, a clergyman stepped forward and said to the bishop in a low voice: "My lord bishop, 500,000 yuan can do a lot of things! Why don't you want to?" The Bishop replied, "Do you know what he wanted me to say after the sermon? He told me not to say 'Amen' but to say 'Coke'." The demands of business owners are outrageous. How can a bishop substitute commercial advertisements for serious teachings?It is this incongruity that generates the humor.

At the same time, contradictions can also produce humor. The two apples on the tree looked at the world.One of them said: "Look at these people beating and killing...they can't get along with each other. Maybe one day, the world will be ruled by us apples." The other replied, "Give it to us? To the red ones or the green ones?" From Apple's dialogue, it is not difficult for us to feel the humor that can be produced when words and deeds contradict each other. Singularity can also generate humor.Novel and unexpected expressions can give people an unexpected feeling, which makes people feel abrupt, and humor is also generated from this.

There are three friends living together on the 45th floor of the hotel.One night the elevator broke down, and they didn't want to move to another place, so they climbed the stairs together.To combat fatigue, one of them kept telling jokes.After finally climbing to the 43rd floor, everyone was already exhausted, so they decided to take a rest.The one who had been talking said to the other, "Now it's your turn, Peter. Tell a longer story with an interesting plot and a sad ending." So Peter said: "The story is not long, but it is very sad, because I left the room key in the lobby on the first floor."

The ending of this story is surprising, so the humor is born spontaneously. Abnormality can also produce humor.The way of thinking of human beings is generally constant. If you don't follow the rules and blindly abnormal, you will have a sense of incongruity. One day, the king asked Avanti, "Avanti, if you had money on one side and justice on the other, which would you choose?" "I am willing to choose money." Avanti replied. "What's the matter with you, Avanti?" said the king, "If I were you, I would definitely want justice and never money. What's so special about money? Justice is not easy to find!"

"Whoever lacks wants what he wants, my lord." There are some ambiguities in life that don’t need to be detailed, such as how many grains of rice you eat every day, how many steps you take every day, etc. If these things are also counted carefully, it will be ridiculous.Pretending to be precise is to use very precise numbers to express where there is no need for precise calculations, or to make precise divisions where it should be vague. A statistician who never took care of his own children reluctantly agreed to take care of his four young and active children when his wife was going shopping.When his wife came home, he handed her a note which read:

"Wipe tears 11 times; tie shoelaces 15 times; blow up toy balloons for each child 5 times; average lifespan of each balloon is 10 seconds; warn children not to cross the road 26 times; insist on crossing the road 26 times ; I would like to have another Saturday like this ten times.” A statistician is precise, because without precision his scientific research cannot be carried out.However, "precise" has become his habit and occupational disease. Therefore, it is not only uncoordinated, but also ridiculous to conduct accurate statistics even on "non-scientific issues" such as watching children.

Bill violated the rules and went to get a haircut during working hours, but happened to be discovered by the manager. The manager said, "I saw you getting a haircut during work." "Yes, sir," Bill said quietly, "but the hair grows out at work." "Not all of them," said the manager. "Some hairs don't work long hours." "Sir, you are right." Bill said politely, "so I only cut off the part of the working hours, and left the part of the spare time on the head!" Bill must be a slack and loose person in normal times, but he was very rigorous and delicate in this debate.The manager's eloquence is really not very good.It was a sophistry when Bill said that hair grows during working hours. The manager did not point out the fallacy in time.At this point, Bill caught the conversation. Bill used this reasoning to fine-tune the division: some hairs are long in working hours, and others are long in spare time. Keep it all.Bill defends himself by dividing hair into those with long working hours and those with long spare time, and the wit and humor of his argument can be seen in the subtlety.

Absurd hyperbole almost always elicits laughter because it involves incongruity, which can produce strong humor. Take the cross talk "A Study of Laughter" as an example: A: As the saying goes, a smile is a little less. B: No, it should be: Smile, it’s ten years old. A: Ten years younger when you smile? B: Ah! A: You are regular!I am on a regular basis. B: The two of us are depositing money. A: Your theory is unreliable! B: What? A: Then who would dare to listen to cross talk? B: Why don't you dare to listen? A: How old are you this year? B: Forty. A: Laugh once and leave thirty, laugh twice and leave twenty, laugh three times and leave ten years old, dare not laugh any more.

B: What? A: No more laughs!Ride a bike when you come, and take it with you when you leave!The theater has been converted into a nursery! This is hyperbole.But the hyperbole here is not pure, ridiculous hyperbole.By pure, absurd hyperbole, I mean bragging without the hassle.It can be said that if cross talk is not exaggerated, it is hardly a cross talk.Exaggeration is also an important cornerstone of humor. It can magnify ordinary trivial matters in life, thereby producing a strong sense of humor. There are not only Chinese bragging kings, but also many foreigners. If an international bragging competition is held, it is unknown who will win the gold medal.

A Frenchman, an Englishman and an American brag about how fast their trains are. The French said: "In our country, the trains are so fast that the poles next to the road look like fences in the garden." The British quickly picked up and said: "The trains in our country are so fast! We have to keep pouring water on the wheels, otherwise, the wheels will become white hot and even melt." "What's the big deal!" The American said disapprovingly, "once, I was traveling in the country, and my daughter sent me to the station. As soon as I sat down, the car started. I quickly leaned out of the window to kiss me daughter, but accidentally kissed a dark-faced old country woman six miles away from my daughter." There are many bragging jokes, which you can collect or create.Sometimes you might as well try bragging. Anyway, bragging is not taxed and there will be no other troubles.There is a braggart club in the United States, which specializes in absurd exaggeration, which shows the practicality of this humorous technique. "Cross-hitting right" is a humorous technique in which causation is very free.It is characterized by the irrelevance or disproportionation of cause and effect. Just open a Western comic book, and you will not find it difficult to find the chain reaction of chance and coincidence.For example, a gentleman rushed into a living room and happened to bump into a lady. The lady's teacup fell on an old gentleman, but the old gentleman smashed a window pane, and the window pane fell. On the street, he happened to hit the policeman in the head, and the police mobilized his companions from all over the city to track him down, and so on.The more non-necessary and non-causal elements, the more it can arouse people's sense of comedy.This style of comedy is traditional in Western literature and art.Try to recall Cervantes' Don?Quixote, there is an inn scene in which the muleteer, purely by accident, beats Sancho, Sancho hits Marithones, and the boss falls on Marithones.In modern Western comedy, this belongs to pulp comedy, and the reason is superimposed by pure chance.Bergson called this form the "snowball" form. Its function is that a series of misunderstandings make the original normal cause become a distorted result, and it becomes more and more distorted and farther and farther away from the original purpose. . The reason why many comedies in our country have no comedy taste is because they are not good at hitting the right way. In fact, they are not good at making readers and audiences suddenly, accidentally Accidentally and unexpectedly turning failure into implementation.The "Tale of Donald Duck", which is popular in the West and China, often accumulates failures to the extreme, and suddenly surprises the audience with the fulfillment of wishes. There are few such incisive and vivid comedies in Chinese classical orthodox literature, but there are many fine works of this style in folk literature and art.There is a stand-up comic called "Little God", about a superstitious professional physiognomist who is good at creating sensational effects.One day, an old man squeezed into the field with a Yixing pot in his arms, and was burning a young man's arm, and the two quarreled.In order to keep the spectators safe, the little fairy said to the old man, this pot of yours is out of specification, and it will be broken in three days today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. Liancheng is better than a cornucopia.The old man immediately went home and looked for a safe place, and finally cut a hole in the wall and put the pot in it.Unexpectedly, the neighbor only had a set of guest clothes, which he wore during the day and washed at night, and he had to set up a bamboo pole in the room to dry, nailing the partition wall, and a hammer hit the old man's pot, and it really shattered. This is a classic case of a bad hit, where serious consequences are contrasted with completely irrelevant causes. Sometimes it is not necessarily the fulfillment of expectations, but on the contrary, in the process of layer-by-layer evolution of expectations and wishes, they suddenly and helplessly come to nothing.This is a common technique in Western classical comedies or humorous novels. The so-called "big words and small uses" is to use some words with heavy semantic weight and large semantic scope to express some small and minor things. It creates a relationship where the words do not match the truth and the contrast is out of balance, which leads to the humor that makes people laugh.For example: At a grade-teacher meeting in a certain school, the last topic was to determine the specific time and place for the students' spring outing.Teachers hold their own opinions and have many opinions.Finally, the grade leader proposed to lead the students of all grades to visit Mount Qingcheng in three days.This proposal quickly gained "consensus". In the midst of laughter and joy, a certain teacher said seriously and loudly: "The team leader, 'the strong wind knows the grass, and the country's crisis knows the loyal minister', I firmly support you, and I will follow you every step of the way. The head can be broken, the blood can flow, when the time comes The mountain will never abandon you!" An ordinary person who couldn't be more ordinary, faced with a trivial matter and the grade leader who can't be called a "seven-rank sesame official", actually said words similar to "standing in line" in the "Cultural Revolution", and used them Words used only for leaders.These "significant" words suddenly "condescend" to this relaxed and easy-going context, which seems extremely incongruous.However, it is this imbalance of words and contexts between "big" and "small", "heavy" and "light" that creates a humorous charm and enliven the communicative atmosphere. Writer Feng Jicai visited the United States. A very friendly Chinese couple brought their child to visit. When the two sides had a good conversation, Feng Jicai suddenly found that the child was wearing leather shoes and jumped on the bed sheet.This is a very unpleasant thing, and the child's parents are unaware of it.At this time, any dissatisfied words or actions may cause embarrassment for both parties.How to get the child out of bed? Feng Jicai solved it easily. With his experience and adaptability, he humorously said to the child's mother: "Please bring the child back to the earth." Both the host and the guest smiled knowingly, and the matter was successfully resolved. Here Feng Jicai only played tricks, replacing "floor" with "earth", but the whole meaning is quite different.The floor is relative to walls, ceilings, tables, beds, and the earth is relative to the sun, moon, stars, etc. The concept of "earth" integrates the spiritual space of both the host and the guest into the background of the vast universe.At this time, the contradiction between the child's shoes and the white sheets is downplayed by the relationship between the child and the earth. Applying some more serious language used in solemn occasions to express the daily life of "ordinary people", this is the humorous technique of "big words but small use". The award-winning skit starring the famous actor Zhao Benshan has such a line: "When you are young, your parents will take care of you, when you get married, your husband will take care of you, and when you get old, your children will take care of you. When will you be able to contract a section for yourself? It's up to you. Also: "The letter of the children, the parents see it as the leader's review." Here, the author cleverly uses terms in political and economic life such as "contracting" and "leadership review" in daily life.The audience's laughter and applause proved its humor and charm. When an author wrote an article introducing the famous actor Ge You, he said: "There is a tall building near the Yanjing Hotel, and one of them lives in a young man with a forehead that says 'the vast world has great potential'. His name is Ge You." Here, the "Quotations from Chairman Mao", which was used to call on intellectual youths to go to the mountains and the countryside, is used to describe the image of Ge You. It not only makes people think of his appearance with a high brain, but also makes people think that his success is in the art of comedy performance. His skills and his promising future. In social activities and daily life, the end of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman is similarly referred to as "severing diplomatic relations", the first day of work after starting work is called "taking office", and even a husband who suffers from "strict wife control" The wife's conversations are joked as "ask for instructions early and report later", etc., all of which belong to the type of "big words and small uses". As one of the humorous techniques, "big words and small uses" will bring more and more joy and laughter to people's lives with its wide application in daily life and modern social activities. "Casual Fun" is a comprehensive use of various techniques to produce humor. At first glance, it sounds like a nonsense, but on second thought, it is intriguing. The randomness we are talking about here is not as illusory and elusive as a mirage, but it is close to life.You can use a mahjong-playing term: self-touch. Randomness means letting nature take its course, only then can it be fun.Withered vines, old trees, dark crows, small bridges and flowing water, people... This is a classic charm; White Swan Hotel, Golden Triangle Entrepreneur Club, New Air Art Troupe, Cicada Bookstore, Ashin Snack Bar, Mimi Hair Salon... are quite modern breath. If you come to a bottomless pit nightclub, Liaozhai coffee house, wild boar forest dance hall, with such nondescript names, who would dare to patronize them? Therefore, to use the humorous technique of "casual fun", the following two conditions must be met: one is harmony, and the other is naturalness. On a summer night, someone was sitting at a friend's house. With a snap, he killed a mosquito.When I touched it, there was a big lump on my arm. "Hey! Why does this mosquito only bite outsiders?" "This is our family's housekeeper mosquito!" The host laughed. "Huh!" The hostess took advantage of the topic and said, "Even my mosquitoes have learned to love the new and dislike the old." For a moment, I didn't know what was in these words, and the guests didn't sit or leave. "Hmm... ah... I understand..." The guest suddenly murmured to himself. "Who are you talking to?" asked the hostess in surprise. "Didn't you see that the housekeeper mosquito in your house is biting my ear?" "Then what did it tell you?" The dark cloud on the hostess' face dissipated. "It said humming and humming. Do you understand?" "I'm not a mosquito!" The hostess couldn't help laughing. "It told me that I only knew you were a man after I bit you. Otherwise, I would still treat you as a third party." Everyone laughed.Humor dispels an impending turmoil between the husband and wife.This is harmony. "Borrowing words as a bridge" means that one party in a conversation grabs a word from the other party's discourse, uses it as a bridge for transition, and uses it to organize a sentence of his own that the other party does not want to hear, and counterattacks the other party. A transitional bridge has a characteristic, that is, the two ends are connected, and they must be in line with nature, one end is connected with the original words, and the other end is connected with the meaning to be elicited, and the seamlessness is the top priority. Mark Twain once browsed books in a neighbor's library and found a book that was very attractive.He asked a neighbor if he could borrow it. The neighbor said: "You are welcome to come and read anytime, as long as you are here to read. You know I have a rule that my books cannot leave this house." A few weeks later, the neighbor visited Mark Twain and borrowed a lawnmower from him.Mark Twain said: "Of course, but according to my rules, you have to use it in this house." Mark Twain's sense of humor is manifested in borrowing the other party's words to express the meaning that is contrary to the other party's wishes. The difficulty of the method of "borrowing words as a bridge" is not to find words that match the two ends, but to pick out a word from the other party's speech, and this word should be easy to form your own sentence.This is like elementary school students doing sentence-making exercises, but there is one more requirement than elementary school students' sentence-making exercises, that is, the meaning of the sentences they create must not be consistent with or similar to the other party's wishes, but can only be opposite to the other party's wishes. British writer Richard?Savage suffered from a serious illness, but thanks to the doctor's skillful skills, he was saved from danger.But he couldn't pay off the medical expenses owed.Finally, the doctor came to the door to demand. Doctor: "You have to know that you owe me your life, and I hope to pay you back." "I understand." Savage said: "In order to repay you, I will use my life to repay." After that, he handed over two volumes of "Richard?Savage's Life". It's a lot more fun than saying no to the other person or pleading for a reprieve.The method is not complicated, it just takes the other person's word (life) and then distorts it, turning "life" into "life".Obviously, the two are not consistent in connotation, but they can be linked conceptually. The method of "borrowing words as a bridge" has many functions, and not all of them have to be used for witty banter, but can also be used for general ridicule.Its characteristic is to seize a word in the opponent's Huatou to form a non-offensive sentence. "Borrowing words as a bridge" means that after taking over the Huatou, you have to spread the wings of your imagination, dare to think in places that are divorced from reality, in places that are absurd and illusory.Don't be stubborn and stupid, the more daring and good at talking nonsense, the more likable you are. "Simulated humor" is to replace the original language situation that everyone is familiar with with a new meaning, and form a contrast with the original meaning, so as to produce incongruity and create a sense of humor. To use "simulated humor", you must grasp these three words: name, heat, new, and name, that is, what you are imitating should be well-known famous articles, famous sayings, famous sentences, or familiar idioms, lines, common sayings, etc. Hotness means that the content you want to express should be in tune with the times. It is best to be a hot topic that people care about or think about, so that it can quickly arouse people's associations and resonate. New is a new point of view.This is the soul of mock humor.That is to say, it is not enough to put new wine in old bottles, it must also be filled with new flavors to create a humorous and intoxicating atmosphere. The techniques of "simulating humor" include parallel analogy, reverse analogy, different analogy, personification, etc.The key to imitation is to unexpectedly bring together irrelevant things. The more irrelevant the content, the better, and the greater the distance, the more surprising it will be; the closer it is in form, the more humorous it will be. The method of parallel imitation is to formulate new content along the old format.Since this technique is mostly used for improvisation by touching the scene, new meanings and occasional words can often emerge. The anti-imitation method is to use the idiomatic expressions in our daily life and occasionally reverse their meanings to create a novel sense of humor.Comparatively speaking, reverse analogy can leave a deep impression more than smooth analogy, which is the effect caused by contrast. There is a leader who makes a report at the conference.In order to fight corruption to the end, he resolutely said: "Who said we always kill chickens to show monkeys? We also have to kill monkeys to show chickens!" Anti-corruption is related to the life and death of our party and the country. Doesn’t the anti-corruption humor of “killing the monkey and showing it to the chicken” play an appropriate role in this struggle? The anti-imitation method seems simple, just to reverse the ready-made words, but it must be on the point to have a sense of humor.As long as you understand the truth of point to point, twisted melon is also sweet. The imitation method is to draw up a humorous imitation, which is what we often use intentionally or unintentionally.For example, we call those fathers who arrange a bright future for their sons "filial sons". This is no longer "filial sons and virtuous grandchildren" referred to in feudal ethics, but "filial sons" who are filial to their sons. Don't imitate the method to be natural and appropriate, and avoid mechanical imitation. You should pursue a natural wit and the less artificial traces, the better. Why do we use the simulation method to make the sense of humor innovate in the simulation?On the one hand, it complies with people's psychology of liking the new and loathing the old, and on the other hand, it does not ignore people's psychology of liking the new and loathing the old. By transplanting these two psychology together, the mock humor method is produced. It is an exaggeration to say that a good work can never be tired of reading.No matter who you are, as long as you have too many mantras, you will lack a sense of humor. At this time, the most economical way is to use the "simulated humor" method to bring forth the new. Being subtle is an art and a great skill of humor.As the saying goes: "Words have been exhausted, but meaning is endless, and meaning is contained in words." "Implicit expression" is to deliberately hide the important part that needs to be said, but let others understand what you mean, and put humor in it. The humorous technique of "implicative expression" has certain difficulties. It requires the art of speaking and an elegant sense of humor.It reflects the speaker's ability to control language and the skill of expressing humor implicitly.At the same time, it also shows trust in the imagination and understanding of the audience. If the speaker does not believe in the rich imagination of the audience, and tells all the meaning, it will not only fail to achieve the effect of humor, but also be bland, poor in speech, and tiresome.Therefore, some words do not need to be said directly, and even the words that could have been said directly are deliberately expressed by "implicit expression", thus producing an intriguing humorous effect. Let's look at an example of "reserved expression" and "hard-edged expression". There is a barber shop with a couplet posted in front of the door: "Whether you sharpen your knife, ask the world how many heads are on it; try it out, and see how the old man is!" , Scared away many customers, so naturally there are few customers. The couplet in another barber shop is subtle and humorous: "When we meet, we are full of people who play the crown, and there should be no one who is going to scratch the head." The situation of taking off the hat and flicking the crown.The second line means that everyone is satisfied and the mood is comfortable.Compared with the two barbershops, the effect is self-evident. The humor technique of "implicative expression" is sometimes a way that people deliberately move their words around, which neither violates the language norms, but also gives people a sense of humor.If some actors laugh at themselves for their poor looks, they say that they are "difficult to look at" and "I'm sorry for the audience": when a salesperson encounters a situation where a customer has bought a product without paying and is about to leave, he will ask: "I gave you some change." Is it?" Most customers will immediately reply, "Oh, I haven't paid yet!" And saying that a person is "snooze" as "high interest rate on the bed" and so on are all uses of this technique. "Reasoning humor" is the use of one-sided and accidental factors to form distorted reasoning.It mainly uses the unstable premise of the other party or the premise assumed by oneself to deduce some specious conclusions and judgments.It is not the inevitable result of common sense logic, but the accidental and unexpected result of going astray. People's speech or behavior, under normal circumstances, cannot be as rigorous and comprehensive as scientific reasoning, and they are always changing and vacillating.People with a sense of humor are better at grasping this point, reasoning out unpredictable tricks, and teasing each other or themselves. Therefore, it is easy to find the humorous premise of "reasoning humor". As long as a person has free thinking and quick thinking, he may apply it freely. "Reasoning humor" is of great practical value in your social life. It can always allow you to find reasons in your favor under constantly changing conditions, even if the reasons are against each other, you can also use them for yourself. Someone invited Avanti to preach.Avanti stepped onto the podium and said to everyone: "Do you know what I want to tell you?" "No, Avanti, we don't know." Everyone said. "What am I going to say to someone who doesn't know, what else can I say?" After Afanti finished speaking, he stepped off the platform and left. Later, Avanti was invited over again.He stood on the podium and asked: "Hey, folks! Do you know what I want to tell you?" The people who had learned the lesson immediately replied in unison: "I know!" "You know, what else can I say?" Avanti left again. When Avanti stepped onto the podium for the third time and repeated the questions of the previous two times, half of those smart people shouted: "I don't know!" The other half shouted: "Know!" They thought it would be difficult for Afanti, but Afanti smiled and said: "Then let the half who know tell the other half who don't know!" go. Avanti's excellence is that he uses the two unspecific and illusory reasons of "knowing" and "not knowing" to deduce a result that is completely opposite to everyone's expectations, and responds to all changes with the same, regardless of the other party. No matter how the situation changes, the reason will also change, but the behavior will not change at all.This is the beauty of the "reasoning humor" method that can make you extraordinary and chic in social interaction. What is "suggestive humor"?That is to say, it is a humorous skill to express one's own views on things, not through direct speaking, but through all kinds of possible twists and turns, and achieve humorous effects. "Suggestive humor" is widely liked by people because it takes care of people's face in many ways.For example, self-esteem is hidden behind face. If someone hurts you in some way, and you stab him in a blatant way, no matter whether his self-esteem behind face is cultivated or not, it will not allow himself to be stabbed, so hatred and revenge are From this was born. If "suggested humor" is used to solve it, first of all, his face will be taken care of, while the tactful and twisted words can achieve sharp substance.On the one hand, he will retreat in the face of difficulties, on the other hand, he will have admiration and gratitude to you for taking care of his face. There was a couple, the husband did something wrong, the wife not only didn't understand, but even made her nagging annoying.So, the husband said angrily: "Please stop nagging like this, okay, otherwise, I will slap ten times on the table." "It's none of my business, hit it, hit it." Thinking that it wasn't her own heartache, his wife added fuel to the fire. "But," said the husband, "after ten slaps, the eleventh slap on the flesh will be enough." The wife stopped abruptly.Probably she understood the anger in her husband's heart and didn't want her face to be used as a sandbag for him to practice kung fu. In this humor, the husband slaps ten times, and the location of the eleventh slap is a hint.This hint contains the following meaning: I am very angry and annoyed, and I need understanding and peace.Now I can't get these, but suffer another kind of torture, I can't bear it anymore.So you'd better keep your mouth shut, or don't blame me for being rude. The word "Kung Fu" assumes the task of humor, which is "suggesting humor". There is a pair of lovers who are passionately in love.One day after dinner, they went out for a walk together and came to the green river beach, where they saw a cow grazing silently and moving slowly.The young man pointed to the cow and said: "Look at that cow, it's so good, it's so leisurely and content, it's too much fun to go back." The girl smiled slightly and said, "That cow is good, but there are also things that are not as satisfactory." The young man said, "How can I be as good as I want?" The girl said: "If the cow has eaten dinner, it will be satisfactory if it takes all the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen and washes them." The young man smiled shyly, obviously accepting the girl's humorous hint, remembering his habit of throwing away the bowls and chopsticks after dinner at his future mother-in-law's house, which might make the mother-in-law raise her mouth. Writers often use anthropomorphism when creating fairy tales, animations and fables.Readers can also find humor in fairy tale kingdoms, animation worlds and fables. In order to express the eternal theme of peace, someone painted a bullfight, but tied the two sharp horns into a bow, and let the bull smell a flower leisurely. It is no more possible for a bull's horns to be tied into a bow than for a wolf to wear a peaked cap, but it is from this impossibility that a sense of humor arises. "Anthropomorphic humor" is the communication and dialogue between people and all things in the world, making people and nature more intimate and harmonious, which is also an effect that humor wants to pursue. One day, a Frenchman went to visit his English friend.As he approached a friend's house, a large dog came out and barked at him.The Frenchman stopped in fright.At this moment, his English friend came out and saw him, and said quickly, "Don't be afraid, there is a proverb that says: 'A barking dog does not bite', don't you know?" The Frenchman immediately replied: "I know the proverb, and you know the proverb, but the dog...does it know the proverb?" The brilliance of this humor lies in the last sentence. The French deliberately compare people and dogs, anthropomorphize the dog, and treat it as a thinking animal, so as to vent their displeasure without losing politeness. .The humorous technique he uses is "anthropomorphic humor". From a certain point of view, we cannot say that animals have no emotions, but animals lack motivation after all.Anthropomorphism, on the other hand, endows animals with strong emotions and certain motives, and turns some unconscious results into conscious and conscious behaviors, from which humor often arises. Consider the following conversation: —How was your horse riding yesterday? — not too bad.The problem is that my horse is too polite. --Too polite? --Yes!When riding to a fence, it let me go over first! Everyone knew what happened as soon as they heard it. The horse threw the gentleman off, not on purpose, but because the hurdling skills were not up to standard.But the owner interpreted the experience of being thrown as the "politeness" of the horse.The master uses anthropomorphic humor to pursue a self-deprecating comedy effect. "Anthropomorphic humor" can not only produce the effect of self-deprecating, but also use it skillfully to achieve a strong humorous and satirical effect of mocking others. Please read a story "The Donkey's Friend" by Avanti. A newly appointed county magistrate heard that Afanti was witty, so he was very unconvinced and threatened to tease him. Knowing this, Afanti rode a donkey to the yamen and said to the county magistrate, "I'm coming!" Seeing him coming in with the donkey, the county magistrate deliberately greeted him loudly, "You two are welcome to come together!" Afanti patted the donkey's back, and the donkey raised its head and brayed, kicked its legs, and wagged its tail.Afanti said: "This stupid donkey of mine said at home that its friend has become a magistrate, so I must bring it to meet him!" The magistrate blushed and said, "That's your donkey, what has it to do with me?" Afanti said to the donkey: "I told you not to come, your friend will not recognize you once he becomes a magistrate!" The villagers laughed together. In this joke, the county magistrate and Avanti both use personification to personify the donkey, but Avanti has a better skill and vividly describes his donkey as the county magistrate's friend, to the point of mocking the magistrate humorous effect. Language is created by human beings and is a patented product of human beings, so it is easy for humans not to enjoy the same language treatment as animals.But at certain times and on certain occasions, it would be more interesting to let animals speak human words.Do not believe, you try.