Chapter 101 Reading Chinese Novels: Experience the touch of life in the passage of time

Reading Chinese Novels: Experience the touch of life in the passage of time Feng Tang The overall level of Chinese novels is low In the beginning, let me express my point of view: Chinese novels are inherently deficient, and overall they are not impressive. No matter in terms of quality or quantity, Chinese novels and Western novels are not in the same weight class as a whole.American Modern Library selected the top 100 English novels of the twentieth century.Afterwards, Asia Weekly followed suit and launched the Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century. Soon the dust settled, and the rankings of heroes from all walks of life were arranged.When I read this news, I felt happy at first, as if I heard that Tsinghua University selected the top 100 beauties on Tsinghua campus.The second feeling is desolate, "there are no heroes in the world, and it is only by making Shuzi famous".The third feeling is exhilarating, as if Xiang Yu saw Ying Zheng sitting and running around shopping, "he can replace him".I told my mother how I felt, and my mother said, you can't change it.

After so many years, my opinion is still the same as that of Lu Xun: if you like novels, read more foreign novels and less Chinese. There are two reasons for the overall low level of Chinese novels. The first is that the Chinese characters are too clear and concise to bear the burden.The second is that Chinese literati are Confucian outsiders and dignified inside, and they don't endure hardships. It's not about destroying one's own prestige. It's really a matter of quantity that Chinese or English is better.The number is small, less than two or three crosses, and Chinese has an absolute advantage.Sometimes, a word in Chinese is a kind of artistic conception, such as the word "jia", a piece of eaves, a fat pig, a house to sleep and meat to eat is home.Randomly flipping through the lyrics, sometimes, a word card with three Chinese characters is a feeling, "Drunk Flower Yin"-lilac is just right, the spring sun is shining, he is pillowing on your lap, do you feel the shadow of the tree through the heavy wine? Said something that made you blush? "Crimson Lips" - After applying lipstick and lip liner, did you think about his eyes when you looked in the mirror for the last time?Five-character quatrains, sometimes, twenty-character is a world, such as Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue", there is heaven, earth, people and birds, and time and space.The number is larger, such as two to three thousand words, and the Chinese and English are basically the same.Three Yuan Zhang Dai's essays are as muscular as the prose of Lamb and Priestley.If the number is larger, such as 200,000 to 300,000 characters, English has an absolute advantage, and almost all Chinese novels cannot be criticized as complicated and lengthy, while many English novels are full of power.

There are also historical reasons for this.Chinese is a pictograph, and the amount of information in a picture is worth a thousand words, so the letter sent by the spaceship to the aliens uses a lot of diagrams, so an electronic erotic palace takes up more hard drive space than the tens of thousands of characters of "Dengcao Monk" , so there is no need to write Chinese so long.In addition, when Chinese first came into existence, paper had not yet been invented, and tortoise shells and animal bones were used for writing.Wild animals can run, turtles can bite, and tortoise shells and animal bones are not easy to get, so literati have to be clear and concise.English is a phonetic text. After English was formed, paper appeared. Without too many restrictions, English tends to be nagging.With the accumulation of bits and pieces and the precipitation of years, this kind of nagging gradually gained strength.

Chinese literati pay attention to happiness and overall harmony since childhood.They never lead their swords out of the palace for their ideals, they seldom show mercy to others, they are secretly happy in the back alleys.They intentionally break the logic or let the logic prove itself in a circular way. They say "you know the truth, but the beauty is hard to tell you." They say that there are lions on the road.But a good novel needs every bit of logic, impeccable memory and self-injurious calmness, inner anger, expressive passion and desire to find out.Our literati are afraid of pain.

Fiction reading is a very personal thing Simply put, there is no reason to read fiction.It's a big reason, but it's not worth what you like.The smell of books is in his chest, and it has nothing to do with Zhang San, Li Si, or Fatty Wang next door.It's like eating and drinking, some people like spicy food, some people like sweet food; some people like thin calf and tight mouth, some like face like a full moon and smile like a big peony flower.There is no reason at all. There is no high or low in reading novels.Ranking art is itself a comical thing to do.If you imagine a piece of ripe, waxy orange amber in front of a bubble of dog urine in the snow, it can only show that your skill is extraordinary.If you like a deaf-mute girl and feel that she has nothing to lack, and other women either speak too viciously or are too narrow-minded, it can only show that you are a lover.There are no taboos in reading novels.If you eat beef again, you will not become a cow, and if you watch it eight times, you will not have seven wives around you.We are all too old to change.Now that there is the Internet, you can find anything around the corner, and you don’t have to wait for the sun to go down and then go to the book stall to borrow it from Mr. Wang secretly.Let us not be afraid of strange powers and chaos.The reason why Shennong did not die suddenly after eating the poisonous weeds was because he ate a hundred kinds of poisonous weeds in one go.When I was studying medicine, I took a public health class. The little old lady who taught the class had a small nose and a small mouth, and she was clean. She said that the secret of her health was to eat a plate every month at the dirtiest and messiest state-run restaurant on the streets of Dongdan. Shredded pork with Beijing sauce, so as to maintain the balance of the intestinal flora.

Experience the touch of life in the passage of time in the reading of novels What exactly is a good novel?What should be the standard of a good novel?Every bad novel is bad in its own way, but good novels have some things in common. The text is wonderful.The text of a good novel must have its own texture, thick or light, tough or smooth, or Dongpo elbow or mapo tofu, but it cannot be a plastic foot wrap.Good writing is like good skin, which hides all ugliness. Even if the eyebrows and eyes are average, some people still can't help but want to touch it.Therefore, southern girls are easier to marry than northern girls who grew up in sandstorms, so Nokia only needs to change the metal case of the mobile phone for two thousand yuan more.

Well structured.A good story is like a good face, and a good structure is like a good figure.In the long run, a good figure is more attractive than a good face.A good face is just a good story, read it, know what's going on, and don't think about it again.A good structure should be turned on and off, should be convex, should be flat, should be tight, should be sparse.Let people see the feet from the head, then the head from the feet, the buttocks from the chest, and the chest from the buttocks. Brilliant.Talent is not an idea, and a good novel is not an essay. You don't need to talk about ideas, but just talk about talents and distractions.Just like a good girl can have big breasts and no brains, but she can't be incomprehensible and considerate.A good novelist looks at the world through the eyes of the navel, pinches your itch from another angle, or gives you a slap in the face when you are defenseless.Just like some girls with temperament, skin like No. 5 sandpaper, flat breasts and no buttocks, but they are still fascinated when they see the moon sad, shed tears while listening to the opera, and ask if you can give her a hug.

In the end, it doesn’t matter if the writing is bad, the structure is not good, the talent is not good, the most important thing in a novel is to make you feel touched by life, just like the most important thing for a girl is to make you feel love.I don't believe in any ghosts until I have read a sufficient amount of good fiction.However, a good novel simply injects the life experience of an author thousands of years ago into my life through black and white, allowing me to experience the indelible touch in my life.I began to doubt the existence of the soul. Twenty-two kinds of beauty, twenty-two kinds of emotion

I have listed a list of Chinese novels below, which have touched me in different lives.The rise of the novel is the most important driving force for the change of Chinese language after Qin Shihuang burned books and buried Confucian scholars.Although we are inherently deficient, we still have a bright future when we explore the pre-Qin period and source from Europe and America. The list is as follows: 1.Purely personal opinion. 2.names not listed in order. 3.Some people's essays and prose are too strong for their novels. Not being shortlisted does not mean that I do not admire their writing.These people include Lu Xun and Li Bihua.

4.Move outward to avoid enmity, and move internally to avoid relatives.Qiu Yu, relatives and friends, and my own things are not recommended. "Warring" There is logic, stories, humanity, conflicts, and poverty.Care about world affairs like a taxi driver in Beijing, think carefully and act like a management consultant.Familiar with half of the book, it is not a problem to get a round stomach on the street. My important source of writing.Liu Ling and Ruan Ji won't be bored in Beijing, Sanlitun has high-priced counterfeit wine, and Ziyunxuan and Mustard Shop both have a proprietress who used to be alluring.

The first forty chapters When I was a child, I liked to watch Lin Daiyu get jealous and Jia Baoyu deal with the triangular relationship. When I grew up, I read about Qi family governing the country and the world.I don't know if Cao Xueqin hid it too deeply or the world made me too vulgar. "Water Margin" It depends on the version of Jin Shengtan's comment.The details are unique.There are too many elements in it: murder, adultery, homosexuality, living elsewhere, living in a low place, pursuing ideals, seclusion, disillusionment, strategic decision-making, tactical handling, mergers and reorganizations, and the convergence of Confucianism, Taoism and Zen.People have to like it. "Meat Futon" Back then, there was no Internet, so what I read was the English translation borrowed from a foreign teacher.At the same time, I also watched Feng Menglong's Three Words and Italy's.I feel that "Meat Fu Tuan" is the most clean and neat Chinese novel I have ever seen. It is full of human feelings in the market, and it is recommended that managers of small and medium-sized enterprises read it intensively.Compared with "Meat Futuan", its pornographic description is extremely blunt, and it is suspected to be a forgery of later generations. "Biography of Niu Tianci" For the generation in Beijing, no one can do without Lao She.Without Lao She, there would not be so many idlers in Beijing today, and the real estate market would not be so hot.If Lao She was born today, Wang Shuo would not be able to meet young literary girls. Qian Zhong's novel written by Lao Haigui is still fashionable.It's just that readers usually don't have the old and western knowledge of the past, and there are some obstacles in understanding his delicate jokes.If God has eyes, make him and Zhang Ailing a pair, and see who is meaner than the other. Eileen Chang is an anomaly.You may not like to read, but you can't find any shortcomings.Under the shadow of Eileen Chang's huge cheongsam, how can cutting-edge female writers emerge without taking it off? Shen Congwen has only studied in elementary school, and has contributed more to Chinese than all the people who have studied Chinese Ph.D. It also writes about the life of intellectuals, and it is also about husband and wife.Yang Jiang knows better restraint and control than Qian Zhongshu, and is a better novelist and stylist. "Platinum Nude Statue" Heaven is jealous of talents, and died young at the age of twenty-seven.The mediation arrangement of this article is much better than Yu Dafu's desk literature "Sinking". You can know that you have profound family education and childhood skills, and you don't know where to find such writing in the future. If more words like this do not come out of that group, it will be the Gang of Four's fault. Wei Xiaobao is a more typical character than Ah Q.Liu Bang, Liu Bei, and Zhu Yuanzhang must be close relatives of Wei Xiaobao in terms of genes and blood. Gu Long's autobiography, at that time, didn't seem to be under too much pressure, and it was written with rare ease.Gu Long has a magic pen and is definitely a big shot. "Ordained" The essay is written in the style of a sketch, and you can smell the lotus fragrance in the south of the Yangtze River when you open the window when reading.But hundreds of years later, when evaluating Wang Zengqi's achievements, Shajiabang is probably the first to be recommended. Looking at it again, it feels a bit contrived, not as restrained as his current essays.There are also problems with writing that is too restrained and sophisticated, as if the milk is too thick and the output is severely limited. Yu Hua's earliest novel, his best novel, is also the best novel among his group.I don't believe that he can surpass the height reached in this article in this life.It's better to learn from Ge Fei and find a university to teach. Sometimes a treatise on the Cultural Revolution with tens of millions of words is not as good as a novel with tens of thousands of words. This is an example.I wrote it too hastily, and a good subject was wasted.If I had sunk back then and written a long article on this topic, I would have had the capital to lay the bottom of the coffin. Life is splendid and life is beautiful, even the Gang of Four cannot destroy it.Fortunately, there is Xiaobo, or everyone thinks that Wang Shuo has full authority to represent the spirit of Beijing. "The article hates fate", if Aunt Qiong Yao is admitted to university, what will happen to the world?I still remember how Lin Qingxia acted, with her cheeks on her hands, like a lotus flower blooming.Now that the lotus has withered and has produced lotus seeds, I am not a man or a woman.