The fate of writing is similar to its spirit. Tang Nuo agreed with Russian literary critic Bakhtin: "Language is the imprint of social customs." Nowadays, young people are familiar with all kinds of cars, just like Genghis Khan, who can only bow and shoot big sculptures on a galloping horse on the grassland. Chinese characters are alive, with the process of gestation, birth, growth and death, and unpredictable changes, just like recalling someone's life, which contains stories, joys and sorrows, and even legends. The birth of Chinese characters is not a terrible situation of "rainy days, ghosts crying and wolves howling". In Tang Nuo's works, it is beautiful, intelligent, imaginative and generalizable, full of a China native's affection for his mother tongue and writing and a China scholar's affectionate interpretation of it.
At first, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's word "looking" was a person standing on a high place or looking up on a stone. This form reminds me of the legend of "Wang Fushi". Tang Nuo broke off the bun and elaborated on the stuffing, the composition and composition of characters, the meaning and shape of characters, and the similar difference between "seeing and not seeing". From Borges' theory of Ci to Li Bai's and Su Shi's poems and even the extravagant hopes of modern people, it links ancient times with modern times and makes a lot of love for Ci.
Why are there so many words that we can't understand in Oracle Bone Inscriptions for more than three thousand years? When I was a child, adults always said, draw a line, which is the earth, and then draw a circle with a point in it, which is the sun. Add up to the word "Dan", which means morning. Chinese characters are the most expressive characters in the world. During the New Culture Movement, Fu Sinian, Lu Xun and others strongly advocated abolishing Chinese characters and promoting pinyin. Although it has a special historical background, it must be the behavior of children dumping bath water together. Fortunately, it didn't.
In fact, it is impossible and impossible to achieve. All characters have pictographic meanings at first, such as birds painted on papyrus, which may represent the pronunciation similar to A, so a whole recording system is gradually formed, and pinyin characters are formed. The earliest handful of die-hards in Chinese characters persisted, and then the most important and largest pictophonetic characters in the following characters came into being, which was the basis. Chinese characters in pictographic, knowing and pointing stages are "picturesque and worth viewing with a picture frame." In fact, Chinese characters themselves are an art form, so we have the calligraphy art treasures left by Wang Xizhi and others.
A simple Chinese character, such as "the past", can even cover Chinese and foreign myths and legends, as long as you imagine it according to its original intention and glyph. Tang Nuo thought of the religious story of Noah's Ark according to the "past" when the sun was flooded. Who invented such a magical word? Of course, this is not Cang Xie, unless he is "doing nothing" in Bennett's eyes. Marx thinks this is right. Only those who have enough to eat and drink and are in a leisurely mood are in the mood to fiddle with these brain-consuming things, and it is not what later Marxists said that inventions come from labor. Of course, we can't generalize, but as far as the invention of writing is concerned, like Tang Nuo, I firmly support Marx's theory of leisure creation. I think those people-word games, certainly not one person can play well-wander around the street and look around. Take out the limited guy in the repair basket on Levi-Strauss's back, and make gestures and make a patchwork. This makes people laugh, which happens to be a Chinese character "De". The original appearance of the word "de" is to draw a curious look in the middle of the intersection. Moralists who have declined in the Song Dynasty will never accept such social idlers as advertising spokespersons for the word "virtue". Tang Nuo sarcastically said: "Today's word' De' is difficult to move except for inspirational naming."
Chinese characters have color, temperature and texture, and a few words can even show a picture of sexual production. From simple to complex, there are both flaws and flaws. Tang Nuo likes Chinese characters very much. This is the interpretation of Chinese characters by China literati with modern ideas. Thus, we saw the philosophical thinking like the drooping ears of rice, the prosperity like soaring for nine days, and the freedom of Benjamin and the magic of Marquez. What I appreciate most is his quiet irony, which makes the meaning and intuition of Chinese characters "black" and vivid. In the swaying kingdom of Chinese characters, we are fascinated, and the wind is born under our arms. It also feels like a Chinese character: on the dog days, a person opens his arms and draws a cross under his arm, representing a linen shirt or air conditioner-"cool". Chinese characters have strong vitality, such as the popular "embarrassing" on the Internet. The original appearance is to draw four slightly curved lines in a circle, which refers to a patterned window. If it knows what this means after 3,000 years, its expression must be "embarrassed".
Our Chinese characters used to have so many stories! Tang Nuo's interesting and personal narration made me feel ashamed of the dullness of my Chinese characters, and it also formed a historical contrast with this book review typed by my computer. This book goes back to the childhood of Chinese characters, and gives us some unique lip balm for our increasingly rough sense of words.
Tang Nuo is a literary critic in Taiwan Province. He is famous for his strictness. He often says that Taiwan Province saves good pens. His works published in mainland China are few, and what we see is mostly the words of his wife Zhu Tianxin. The story of words will certainly bring us a sense of surprise, just like Zhang's "Know a few words", which is definitely worth editing by Wei.
A, homophonic story:
He Shen: Assistant Minister Ji, Master Ji, what is this? Is it a wolf (assistant minister) or a dog
Ji Xiaolan: Shangshu and adults are easy to handle. Look at the tip of the tail The wolf hangs down and the dog stands up. Remember, Shangshu is a dog.
Next to a suggestion: eloquence! Wolves eat meat, dogs eat dung, and it eats meat. There is no doubt that it is a wolf (assistant minister) or a dog!
Ji Xiaolan: Although wolves eat meat, dogs won't stop eating meat. They eat meat when they meet meat, shit when they meet shit, and shit when they meet shit!
Second, the word order is reversed
"At pingkiang, Li Ciqing was born with a book, I don't know the soldiers. Zeng Guofan ordered his soldiers to fight, and he was defeated and fought repeatedly. The governors of this country were furious, and the proposed article was illegal, which was accompanied by the sentence "Repeated wars and repeated defeats". Those who have been comforting Li's cheeks in the curtain are called' repeated defeats and repeated wars', which means very different things. "