Chapter 27 Chapter 27: Never do it

Before I conclude, however, let me give another example of written Chinese to illustrate what I mean by simple and unadorned feelings, even in that low-level classical Chinese as well as in formal and common Chinese. visible.This is a four-line poem written by a modern poet on New Year's Eve. The Chinese language is as follows: show inside(36) Mo Daoist poor die every year, The north wind has been cold several times; The tree in front of Taoliu Hall next year, I also look at your eyes full of spring. The poem, translated word for word into English, is— Don't say home poor pass year hard,

Northwind has blown many times cold, Nextyearpeachwillowhallfronttrees, Pay-back you spring light full eyes see. If you are a little more liberal, it can be translated as follows: TOMY WIFEFret not, though poor weyet can pass the year; Letthenorthwindblowneersochillanddrear, Next year when peach and will oware in bloom, You II yet see Spring and sun light in our home. Here I can cite an even older work.It is a poem by China's Wordsworth and Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu.Below I first give my English translation, which reads: (s-15) MEETINGWITHANOLDFRIENDInlife,friendsseldomarebroughtnear;

Likestars, eachoneshinesinitssphere.To-night,_ohwhathappynight[Wesitbeneaththesamelamplight.Ouryouthandstrengthlastbutaday. You and I_ah! our hair saregrey. Friends! Halfareina betterland, With tearswegraspeachothershand. Twenty more years,_short, afterall, Ionceagainascendyourhall. Whenwemet,youhadnotawife;Nowyouhavechildren,_suchislifeBeaming, they greet their father ^ chum; they ask me from where I have come. Before our say, we each have said, The table is already laid. Fresh salads from the garden near, Rice mixed with millet, _frugalcheer. When shall we meet? tishard to know. And solet the wine freely flow.

This wine, I know, will dono harm. My old friends welcome is so warm. To-morrow Igo, _tobe whirled. Again in to the wide, wide world. We don't meet each other in life, but we move like participating in business. Tonight and any other night, let's share this candlelight. How long can a young man last?The temples are all gray! Visiting the old half is a ghost, exclaiming hotly. How can I know that after twenty years, I will return to the gentleman's hall. In the past, Mr. Bie was unmarried, and his children came together suddenly. Yiran respects my father and asks me where I am from,

Questions and answers are unfinished, children Luo wine pulp. Spring leeks are cut in the rain at night, and yellow beams are in the new cooking room. The Lord said that it was difficult to meet, and it was exhausting in one fell swoop. Ten cups of wine are not drunk: the sense child is deliberately long. Tomorrow, across the mountains, the world will be boundless. (37) I admit that the above translation is almost clumsy, it only translates the general idea of ​​the Chinese poem.But in this poem, in its colloquial simplicity, there is an ineffable grace, nobility, and sadness, all of which I cannot express in English.Perhaps, that will never be done.

John Smith (38) in China The Philistines not only ignore all living conditions that are not their own, but also require other human beings to adapt to their way of life. Goethe Mr. Stead (39) once asked: "What is the secret of Mary Gallery's popular popularity?" His own answer was: "There are such readers as there are writers. Because those who read novels , John Smith, the loyal believers who are immersed in the world of Mary Gallery, hold her as an authority in this field. They live in it, move in it, and embody its value in it." In the UK, Ma Lee Gallery is to John Smiths what Arthur Smith is to Chinese John Smiths.

But this is also the difference between those who are really educated and those who are half-educated.The truly educated man wants to read books that tell things as they are, but the half-educated man prefers to read books that tell him what he wants, and how he wants things to be, stimulated by vanity. .Chinese John Smiths all want to be superior over others, but Arthur Smith wrote a book based on this, and he finally proves that he and John Smith are actually far superior to the Chinese .Therefore, Arthur Smith naturally became a very close person to John Smith, and his "Chinese Characteristics" became John Smith's bible.

Yet, says Stead, "it is John Smith and his neighbors who now rule the British Empire." So lately I have been reading books that gave John Smith ideas about China and the Chinese.