"Sunrise on the Sea" - Ba Jin Fragment and Appreciation
Quotation: Sure enough, after a while, a small half of the sun appeared there, and it was very red. , but there was no light. The sun seemed to be carrying some heavy burden. Slowly, step by step, it worked hard to rise upwards. In the end, it finally broke through the clouds and jumped out of the sea completely. The color is so cute.
Appreciation: This is a passage describing the birth of the sun. The second sentence uses an anthropomorphic writing technique, treating the sun as a "man carrying a heavy burden" rising "step by step" upward. This description not only describes the slowness of the sun rising, but also highlights the beauty, magic and spectacularness of the sunrise. This reflects the author Ba Jin's love for nature and meticulous observation of life. We should also have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering like Ba Jin, and be a person who is good at discovering the beauty in life. Only in this way can beauty be everywhere in life!
Excerpt 1: Reading has three purposes: one is to refresh one’s mind; the other is to add interest and elegance; the third is to develop one’s talents and improve one’s intelligence.
Anyone who spends too much time reading is due to laziness, someone who searches for chapters and excerpts too much seems to be pretentious, and anyone who relies solely on the dogma in the book to judge things is a pedantic bookworm.
The improvement of talent depends on reading, and the perfection of knowledge depends on practice. Because natural talents are like natural flowers and trees, they need to be pruned by knowledge. However, what is shown in books is often boundless, and their latitude and longitude must be defined by experience and experience.
Only wise and wise people use reading. This is not because the book does not show its usage, but because its usage is a kind of wisdom outside the book and higher than the book, which can only be obtained through observation.
Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people sophisticated, physics makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic and rhetoric make people eloquent. As the ancients said: Learning is all about nature.
Experience: The most important thing about reading is application. You should remember something and be more precise to help you talk. This is application; but the more important application is to internalize it, integrate it into your own knowledge and experience system, and become the "philosophy" that guides your work and life. This is This is a higher level of “applying what you have learned”. If it is just for curiosity and decoration, reading is really of no use; if you become a nerd after reading, it doesn’t matter if you don’t read the book!
Excerpt 2: True friendship is rare in the world, and this kind of friendship is even rarer between equally matched people. Xingxingxixixingxing is just the common exaggeration of the world. True friendship only exists between people of different status. Only this kind of friends can stand together through thick and thin and live together through thick and thin.
Experience: Is there any help and dedication without asking for anything in return? If there is, or it only shows the benevolence of the giver, it is not enough to explain the existence of true friendship. In addition to being free of any utilitarianism, the more important prerequisites for true friendship are spiritual communication, emotional acceptance, recognition of values, congenial interests and hobbies. In short, mutual happiness. The probability of this kind of acceptance and appreciation happening between people of the same sex is not impossible, but it is extremely low and is likely to "only exist between people with different statuses." However, if it happens between people of the opposite sex, it will inevitably have an element of love.
Excerpt 3: Beauty, like fresh summer fruits, is perishable and difficult to survive, and it often makes the young debauched and makes the elderly somewhat embarrassed.
If beauty is attached to a good person, it will make good deeds dazzling and make evil deeds shameless.
Experience: Beauty is like a double-edged sword, but it is a gift from God anyway. But relying too much on beauty will inevitably make people shallow and become the fruit of summer.
Excerpt 5: Young people's mistakes often ruin things, while older people's mistakes only make things that could be done more and faster be done less and slower.
Experience: It is better to miss than to make a mistake. Don't rush things. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Don't do anything that is only accomplished in one battle. Don't do anything desperate. There is room for maneuver in everything.