Chapter 12 Learn to be smart before you learn to be stupid

Recently I received a letter from Li Wei, a girl from Henan, saying that her teacher taught everyone to pay attention to the "beautiful words" in reading , and it must be written down and memorized, indicating that only in this way can the level of composition be improved. But Li Wei disagreed. She believed that "the soul of an article is not the language, but the meaning contained in it. If the composition is written according to the teacher's instructions, it is equivalent to abandoning the important ones and picking the secondary ones." Then she asked me my opinion.

Here I want to applaud this girl, because she is right.However, I must say: her teacher was right. Please don't think I'm trying to please both sides, first listen to me tell two stories—— In the third year of the Fine Arts Department of the university, I finally attended the class of Mr. Huang Junbi, a master of landscape painting in Taiwan.My landscape paintings at that time had participated in many exhibitions and won awards, and I thought I would be impressed by my teacher. But in the first class, when I got the drawing sent by the teacher, I copied it as it was, and it was exactly the same. I handed it in, but I didn't get "A", only "B".

I was very dissatisfied, and made another naughty "mistake", so I went home and unwrapped the teacher's plastic bag for the drawing, and then stuffed the one I was facing into and sealed it.In the second class, I showed the "fake drawing" to the teacher, pointed to a tree on it, and said, "Mr. Huang! How do you draw this? I don't know how you draw." Teacher Huang actually pointed to the "fake drawing" and analyzed it for a long time, but he didn't recognize that it was a fake thing made by me. I thought about it after class, and figured it out——

The teacher can draw like that, but he doesn't know that I am a "veteran", so he treats me as a beginner. Even if I draw the same as him, I can only get "B". OK! Let me tell you another true story—— When I was in my thirties, I wrote a book on painting theory, and I asked a scholar to write a preface. The scholar said that he was not free, and asked me to finish it by myself and "read it" for him. So I went back and wrote a big article and sent it to him. A few days later, I took the article back, and found that there were many revised handwritings on the first paragraph, but they were all crossed out. Just wondering, the scholar said: "I moved a lot at first, but later I found out that you wrote Very well done, with your own style and style,

I changed it inappropriately, so follow your instructions. " Now I come to another conclusion - you often can't let people see the skill of the article at a glance, just like the calligraphy of some calligraphers, which is outstanding, but if you only see a few words of him, you will feel very bad .Even Li Bai's handed down work "Night Thoughts", "Moonlight in front of the bed, frost on the ground suspiciously, look up at the moon, bow your head and think of your hometown." Was included in the "lime", was picked out. In the same way, you must know that when you participate in a composition competition for middle school students or write a composition for an exam, the mentality of the scoring teacher is to treat you as a "student".After the paper was sealed, he didn't know who you were, so he could only grade you based on those few words.At this time, those who will "drop the book bag", and those with rich vocabulary are of course easy to gain the upper hand.

When a great writer like Lao She writes about the overwhelming white snow, of course he can use "a large white sheet" to describe Containment, giving people the power of "intuition" and "directly pointing to people's hearts".But if you were a middle school student writing, I am afraid you would have to use some "white The descriptions of "white", "crystal clear", "rainy and snowy", "frozen and snowy" can be flattering. If you follow Lao She and use "white sheet" to describe it, unless you meet "wisdom eye", it is impossible to get it. high score.

I don’t know if you have read Zheng Banqiao’s famous sentence “It’s hard to be smart, it’s hard to be stupid, and it’s even harder to turn from smart to stupid”, and there is also the saying in the theory of Chinese painting that “Great clumsiness is a skill, and great skill is even more clumsy”.On the surface, both "stupidity" and "clumsiness" are higher realms. The problem is that you must not forget that ignorance comes from cleverness, and clumsiness comes from ingenuity. In the same way, learning to write also starts with being smart and ingenious. You should try your best to enrich your vocabulary, read more books, and memorize more good sentences from the ancients, so as to achieve "there is a reason for holding it, and it makes sense." Brilliant, and then further pursue the realm of returning to nature and creating nature wonderfully.

Remember! Prepare and not use, after all, it does not mean "not at all"!