Lin Yutang is a wise old man. There are no complicated words in the book, and every sentence is very simple, but he does not forget to insert the historical background that the author experienced at that time. I want to read this book because of a sentence on the cover: it enjoys the reputation of a modern version of A Dream of Red Mansions. There is indeed such an atmosphere in the book. Just the name of the word "Ruby" is appropriate. There are clouds of beautiful women in the book and beautiful articles, but there is still a considerable gap compared with A Dream of Red Mansions. It's just that "Aftersound" is far from enough, perhaps because it has a clear ending. I don't think so. The main characters in "Clouds in Beijing" have their own characteristics, but also have a strong flavor of the Republic of China, mainly based on the life experience of the heroine Hua Mulan. Characters fluctuate with the changes of the times, which reminds people of the word "flowers on the sea". However, because the characters already have considerable opinions, there is a pulse of "man can conquer nature".
I am a shallow scholar, but in order to make progress with my three pig-headed brothers, I got up the courage to talk about my nagging at school and started:
"When I finished, I was in tears.
Dedicated to the Japanese invaders.
This is not hero's blood,
Who is a free man in China,
-Lin Yutang "
Chapter 1: The rich buried jewels in the back garden, and the people in Beijing avoided the military disaster.
1. Pen excerpt:
"In a person's life, some subtle things are meaningless in themselves, but they are very important. After things change, looking back at the causal relationship, I found that its influence is amazing. "
Sense: one way of saying it is: details determine success or failure; Another way of saying it is: a seemingly small decision in life is exactly what changes a person's life.
However, some things are not really over, and they will pop up from time to time, inadvertently, or pleasantly surprised, or melancholy, or painful.
2. Summary: Mulan heard her father say, "Impetuousness is harmful to the mind." His other reason is: "Integrity is self-sustaining, and external evils cannot invade." In Mulan's later life, there were many times when she thought of her father's words, which later became the guide of her life, from which she gained optimism and courage in life. A world that is invulnerable to all evils is naturally a beautiful world that makes people optimistic and struggle. People who naturally live in such a world will have courage, struggle and patience.
Feeling: Self-cultivation is extremely important. The wider the heart, the natural change ahead.
3. Note: Happiness comes not from the outside, but from the heart. If a person enjoys true happiness or all kinds of blessings in the world, he must have the virtue of enjoying happiness in order to protect the country. In front of the blessed people, an altar of clear water will become snow-white silver; In front of people who shouldn't enjoy happiness, a jar of silver will become a jar of clear water.
Feeling: The real blessing should be irrelevant to material things. A healthy and safe family is a blessing. Plain life is the most perfect life.
The second chapter is to prevent the stragglers from being separated, and to post advertisements and find people along the way.
1. Note: At present, everything is finally calm. A small oil lamp on the stove is bright, beautiful and steady. He took out his pipe and meditated. It was a quiet night that he seldom enjoyed for a long time. Later, when he recalled this night, he felt like a happy paradise. His relatives are sleeping in the other room, while he is smoking a bag of cigarettes and an oil lamp is burning and shaking on the stove table.
Sense: the most direct interpretation of happiness.
2. pen summary: the husband said, "I think I heard you shout in my dream." "
"Are you? Scared me a lot. I dreamed that Mulan called me in a distant valley. I woke up when I shivered. Fortunately, this is just a dream. " So she looked at Mulan, and Mrs Yao looked at the other children around her.
Feeling: It is common to use dreams as a foreshadowing in writing, but it is undeniable that as mothers and women, they also have certain sensitivity and a sixth sense that cannot be viewed scientifically. Perhaps it is because of the breadth of maternal love that they become predictors. Dreams are closely related to life. Isn't human life a dream?
Chapter III On the way to saving lives, Lord Zeng saved Miss Yao.
1. Pen excerpt:
He scolded: "I know you want to sell this child, you child thief!" " I know what you did! "
He said to Mulan, "I can't take you. I can't help it Be careful of this bitch! " Say that finish and left.
Feelings: "Zeng Daren" and "Zhen Baoyu" in Zhangmu echo each other from a distance. It seems that Mr. Lin is really poisoned by red poison.
After Mulan was separated from her family, she met Ugly and his boss's wife, and they took her with them all the way. A person's appearance is not necessarily symmetrical with his heart. When I was a child, I used to say, "This person is not a good person at first sight. Stay away from him." Later, I learned that not all good people have the word "good people" on their heads, and appearance is just appearance. They still have to look at their hearts with their eyes, calmly, and with the passage of time. Lao Ba wants to save Mulan, and the proprietress wants to make a fortune from Mulan. Mulan learned a lesson here: Don't judge a book by its cover.
2. Note: Uncle Feng walked all the way along the Wugu River to Texas, so he stopped to look for clues about Mulan at any time. He posted the following confessions in the teahouse in Dutou and the village:
Commended by the notice offering a reward for finding the lost girl: Yao Mulan, a 10-year-old girl, wearing a white shirt and red trousers, with regular facial features, black hair, pigtails, small feet, small face, fine white skin, three feet tall and a Beijing accent. ……
Feeling: if you describe a person's appearance directly, it will give the reader a subjective feeling, while if you describe it in the name of others, it will inadvertently enter the heart. For example, in A Dream of Red Mansions, there is no direct description of Daiyu's appearance. Both descriptions are based on the mouth of others, one from Baoyu's eyes and the other from the mouth of a servant. If it is looming, it leaves room for imagination on the basis of not losing the truth, and this beauty is more full and perfect. Mulan appeared in the first chapter, but only said a few words about her dress and attitude. Here, "looking for you" is used to interpret the beauty, nature and simplicity of her appearance, and the reader's sketch of Mulan is gradually clear and wonderful.
3. Pen extract:
Because most women's feet, regardless of size or angle, are not good-looking. So it's cute to wrap a pair of delicate and petite feet. The beauty of little feet, apart from the harmony of lines, mainly lies in the word "positive", which makes two little feet form the perfect base of a woman's body ... Her father read Liang Qichao's "The Theory of Tianzu" and was very yearning for the new theory that was popular in Beijing and other places at that time, and resolutely opposed foot-binding for Mulan. This is an event that affects the real life of China people after contact with sunset culture. After listening to her father's words, Mulan still regretted not wrapping her feet in her heart.
Feelings: Let's talk about judging people by their appearances. Foot binding has a certain historical background. The seemingly beautiful foot binding in those days is deformed in our modern eyes. It restricts women's "walking", deprives them of their ability to "run" and "jump" as human beings, and restrains women's behavior again in their bones. Here, I once again admire my father, Mr. Yao. It is this wise father who points out the direction for his daughter's future life. Having such a father means having the brightest lamp in life.