Chapter 11 three ways of writing

We often describe boys chasing girls as "gentleman loves to eat", which comes from "Guan Guan Jujiu, in the continent of the river, a gentleman loves to be a gentleman." There is also a song "Rogue" in the book, which describes the free love between a man and a woman, and it is also written very vividly-"Chi Chi, the gangster, hugs Bu Maosi, the bandit comes to Maosi, and I come to you." It means "stinky The boy smiled and held the cloth in exchange for my silk, but he didn’t really come to exchange the silk, he just wanted to get close to me.” Don’t you think it’s pretty?

Although the Book of Songs is 3,000 years old, its writing skills are very sophisticated. In the examples I mentioned above, the three writing methods of "bi", "xing" and "fu" have been used. "Bi" is a metaphor, like "a beautiful woman is like a cloud". "Xing" is Talking from a distance, first talk about the singing of waterfowl on the sandbar on the river, arouse everyone's interest, and then lead to the theme of a gentleman's love for money; Ah, it's my idea!" If you are careful, you may have discovered that I love to use the technique of "Xing" in my writing.

For example, in the previous articles, in the article "Hot Pen and Cold Pen", I clearly talked about writing skills, but at the beginning I said that when Americans marry their daughters, there is a custom that the father leads his daughter to dance, and the guests singing beside... In the article "Trace Elements in Reading", although my topic was about reading, I first said that I had asthma since I was young, and then I talked about Shiquan Dabu Decoction. As for the "Articles Everywhere" written in the last issue, although it talked about the method of studying things to gain knowledge, it first talked about Turks using coffee grounds to tell fortunes.

why i write like this The answer is: in order to arouse everyone's interest from the beginning.Because I know that people are particularly interested in superstitious things such as the custom of father leading his daughter to dance, the function of Shiquan Dabu Tang to cure asthma, and fortune-telling. bring it up. "Xing" is indeed often roundabout, it is the exact opposite of the straightforward "Fu".To cite a few well-known names as examples—— Tao Yuanming wrote at the beginning: "Jin Taiyuan, Wuling people, fishing for business." They all cut to the chase, and explained the protagonist in two or three sentences, which belongs to the way of writing "fu".

But when Ouyang Xiu wrote "The Story of the Drunkard's Pavilion" and used the wording "Xing", it was different.Obviously he wrote "Drunkard Pavilion", but he started from "Huan Chujie Mountain". "Ting" was named by the local prefect. It was not pointed out until the last sentence of the article: "Who is the prefect? ​​Luling Ouyang Xiuye." It turned out to be the author himself. In the same way, if you write about your own home today, you can use the way Tao Yuanming wrote "Wuling people" and directly say: "How many people live in my family and live in a certain street in a certain city?" You can also use the method Shen Congwen wrote:

"When you arrive in Kaohsiung and leave the airport, you will see a blue 14-storey building. The roof of the building looks like a park with many trees. If you have good eyesight, you can often see it in the green shade In the middle, there is a white head, which is probably my grandma flowering in the air. Garden watering flowers. "Then introduce your home step by step. Similarly, when you write today, you can go straight to the point like Mencius: "My father is a civil servant who works from nine to five. Since I was very young, he has..." You can also learn from Ouyang Xiu: "Watching the news of the Lotus Festival on TV, and seeing a lot of lotus, reminds me of when I was a child, my father always took me to the botanical garden to enjoy the lotus. My father always held me with one hand and the camera with the other. Come across..." So you fade from TV news to lotus, think of the botanical garden, and then recall your father who took you to appreciate lotus and take pictures.

From the many examples above, we can know that "Fu" is strong and direct, while "Xing" is lively and euphemistic.Therefore, it is suitable to use the former when writing essays, essays or press releases, and the latter is more suitable for writing scenes, romances and novels.Of course, "writing has no fixed method", any When you have a topic in hand, you can think about the three methods of straight to the point, seeking knowledge, and devious leading, and choose the most suitable one to start with.It is even possible to combine the three, bring them in in the way of "Xing", argue in the way of "Comparison", and write in the way of "Fu".

Knot.I believe that as long as you keep exploring and practicing, you can follow these three paths to resolve any difficulties you encounter.