reading essay Preface Ye Lingfeng is a painter, writer and bibliophile. He came out of an art school, and it seems that he entered the literary world before he entered the painting world, and he came to It is not as good as being a real painter to become a writer. The old saying is that the title of the painting is concealed by the name of the text. He stopped painting in the late thirties.Many who knew him had never seen his paintings, except He may still have some of the first or second cover designs of the early years, but he always keeps them secret. To show others, although he did not "regret his little work".

As a writer, he wrote novels very early, but later, at least after entering the 1940s, So I hardly write novels anymore, but it’s not that I stop writing articles. Not only do I write, but I write very frequently. Most of them are prose and essays, and most of them are reading essays. This is because he is first of all a "true book lover and bibliophile", who likes books and reads Books; and because I am a writer, it is destined to produce a large number of reading essays. Book lover, this title is rarely heard but often seen in his works, guess He prefers to be called a bibliophile rather than a bibliophile.

Although he collected thousands of books in Shanghai in his early years, they were all lost during the Anti-Japanese War.After settling in Hong Kong, he It is estimated that buying and collecting books from scratch should not be less than the number of "scrolls" in Shanghai, but he Afterwards, the family members gave the collection of books to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After sorting out, it was said that there were more than 6,000 volumes. This "volume two" The numbers are somewhat surprising.In terms of time, the time for this "roll down" is much longer.

There are not tens of thousands of suicide notes, but more than one million suicide notes. When he passed away in 1975, he left behind only reading essays and other articles. Words, no less than one million words, including published and unpublished. Among them, "Literary Essays", "North Window Reading" Both "Records" and "Miscellaneous Records of the Evening Sun" have been published in separate volumes.published forty years ago of Shanghai. "Literary Essays" and "North Window Reading Record" were published in the early and late 1960s respectively

In the early 1970s, "Miscellaneous Notes of the Evening Sun" came out in the early 1970s (most of which are general prose, Essays, due to the style, this book only selects articles related to reading), they are all from Hong Kong publications.Not compiled into volumes, "Hong Kong Book Records", "Shuyu Gossip" And some related translations have only been published in Hong Kong newspapers.In general, the earliest texts The chapters were written in the 1920s and 1930s, and the latest works were written in the early 1970s, almost half a year before and after. century.When they were published, in addition to the name Ye Lingfeng, they also used Lin Feng, Ye Linfeng, and Ren Feng.

The pseudonyms of He and Shuangya. These essays prove his own words: reading is very complicated, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, thread-bound and western-style clothes, He loves to read both serious and "non-serious" books.Among the miscellaneous, but also has its own focus: literary, Art and Hong Kong—the first two categories show his true qualities as a writer and painter, and the latter category is exactly his The characteristics of the place where the second half of life lives.Read something and write something, that is, the upper, middle and lower volumes here. A 100,000-word article.

Here is an article "Book Crazy", which records a print: the library, the walls are directly sky A book on a flower board, an old man with white hair stands on the top of a high ladder, with a book under his side, between his legs There is another book in my pocket, I am reading a book in my left hand, and I reach out to take out another book from the shelf with my right hand, A ray of sunlight slanted on the old man's book and body from the skylight above his head.The author said, He is deeply infatuated with everything shown in this painting, including of course the white-haired book lover.

But when he wrote this article, he was still a young man with "red lips and white teeth" described by Mr. Lu Xun. He said in this essay: "Reading is a pleasure, and collecting books is even more a pleasure. But this kind of Fun is not available to everyone, nor can it be recruited anytime, anywhere.scholar's reading Books, holding the ambition of "opening the book is beneficial", assessing the value of each word in the book to decide whether to choose, This is shopping, not reading.The edition family's collection of books, compares the format of editions, and collects

Whether there is a family seal or not, he is collecting antiques, not books.As for the nouveau riche and the big-bellied Jia, In order to decorate the front, sit on a hundred cities overnight, that is the enemy of books. "That's right It's very interesting, but the "shopping" type of "not reading" reading he said is still Inevitably, he himself said in "This Year's Reading Desire" that he must read some books from time to time. Books that I didn’t want to read, took up a lot of time. It goes without saying that many of them must be for Although he suffers from the books he reads temporarily for "shopping", he still earns money by reading them.

You must feel uncomfortable. This is probably the feeling that many scholars and writers have experienced. Accept it. When talking about his study life, the author said that the study is alive. "The life of the study is Rely on the book itself to maintain.A study is not constantly nourished by new books, it is a library The building is the library, and it has no life... The life of my study is often maintained by new books. This is the life of my study, that is, the life of my writing. "In this way, I often buy Books, also often read, keep my study alive and make my writing life

Gaining new nourishment” also made his reading essays maintain new growth. He emphasized the need to prevent book To prevent the precipitation of the study air, it is necessary to keep the study air fresh.Believe he has done it all, it is from his You can also feel his reading essays, his articles are always fresh. He hoped that in this living study, one day he would be able to write "full, richer, newer Works of life", according to my understanding, may refer to works larger than essays, which is why Zhi Wei It is regrettable. In the postscript of "Literary Essays", the author said that because the time of writing was more than ten years apart, Inevitably there are repetitions or discrepancies.The articles that are now gathered together are even more separated from each other. For decades, such a situation has become even more inevitable, although care has been taken to avoid it. A writer and a book lover, this book is an essay written by a writer who has loved books for decades.Charge It is not only full of love for books, love for literature and art, love for life, but also love for family and country. Love books and love reading, "How is the joy of reading?" I remember such a poem, and it is also Spectrum becomes song.Our author has enjoyed it all his life.Reading his posthumous text, we may Those who can enjoy the direct and indirect pleasure of reading again and again, the direct ones are those fascinating Sheng's essays are indirectly the books he told us that can be read both at home and abroad. Swee November 1985