But what is a gifted scholar? Many of us may not know.
A gifted scholar generally refers to a cultural person with a wide range of knowledge, brilliant talent, free and easy temperament and great achievements in all aspects. Also known as the "Four Great Talents", it means that they are all good friends, and they are often regarded as a whole, or a literary society.
For example, when we talk about Hong Kong culture, we always think of David Henry Hwang who wrote pop songs, Ni Kuang who wrote delicious food, Cai Lan and Jin Yong who wrote martial arts. They just appear in your mind, just like coordinates, they are always related, and sometimes they always like to appear in other people's articles.
For example, in Cai Lan's new book A Thousand Flavors is Life, they show their faces from time to time. Cai Lan wrote that he returned to Hong Kong after holding a painting and calligraphy exhibition in Rong Baozhai on 20 17. Brother Ni Kuangxiong said to him: There are so many calligraphers in Beijing, how dare you run wild?
That's pretty close. It is a blessing that a person can still have a few intimate friends like childhood when he is 70 years old. It's a pity that David Henry Hwang and Jin Yong have already returned before them.
Life is nothing more than experience. Life is nothing but trying. All kinds of occupations and lives, including ups and downs, must be tasted one by one in order to earn a super return price. This is Cai Lan's life motto and code of conduct. Jin Yong said before his death:
In our impression, Cai Lan has always been an old child who enjoys drinking. As for what happened in his life, we certainly don't know, because he always presents us with such an optimist, while his old friend Jin Yong is different. He naturally knows Cai Lan's lost and unhappy experience, so he can speak his mind.
We can't learn from Cai Lan's open-minded philosophy of life, but we can get some enlightenment from it. I think it's ok.
In order to maintain our image or achieve a certain goal, many of us are always very stubborn in many small things to meet our physiological needs. For example, I am too proud to eat more on the wine table, and I am afraid of being said to be unsociable when I go out. Cai Lan, who works with China's largest travel agency, admitted that he had not eaten a real bowl of Vietnamese beef river for a long time and would go to his favorite Melbourne "Yongji" for a meal. In Melbourne, he wrote:
Some people may make such childish behavior, but few people dare to write it so bluntly in a book to show their "immaturity", and Cai Lan's maturity is precisely reflected in this cuteness. He can skillfully control life without being controlled by it.
When Wang Shengzhi wanted to shoot "Taste Puzzle" for Fujian Southeast Satellite TV, he thought of Cai Lan and invited Cai Lan as the examiner, but Cai Lan heard that he was going to the countryside. He flatly refused at the thought of being chased by mosquitoes on location. But Wang Shengzhi mentioned a kind of sheep that he had never eaten, and he was moved instantly. He said:
Look, Cai Lan is such a character. Although he knows that some things are hard for him to accept, he will try even if there is something that interests him. Of course, what he is excited about is not utilitarianism, but purely to try, and this possibility is just for a bite to eat. Is this almost naive innocence the same as a child who doesn't know how to weigh the pros and cons?
Cai Lan's interest lies not only in this, but also in his way of thinking, which is always different from ordinary people. He is always childish. For example, after he finally drank the mutton soup he dreamed of in Fujian, he compared it with the mutton soup in the hotel restaurant:
"I am really lucky to be able to drink this bowl of soup that is rare in the world. I envy other sheep idiots." In a word, this trip to Fujian ended perfectly, and director Wang Shengzhi's hanging heart was put down. The beginning may not be beautiful, but the end must be beautiful. This is Cai Lan's survival wisdom. He can always find the preciousness of what he has gained from what he has lost.
In the guide to self-help for young people, Cai Lan told a story:
Looking at the problem from another angle and looking on the bright side, is it the same method? It can be seen that diseases are caused by the mind. We know things from different angles and get completely different conclusions. If we want to live a happy life, many times we have to see things like Cai Lan. No one can escape physical illness, so why bother?
What the ancients told us was alarmist, but many people still don't understand this truth. They pity others all day and let themselves fall into pessimism and disappointment.
Look at the problem from another angle and deal with the small unhappiness in life in a humorous way, and all the troubles will become less important. For example, once I went to Australia to eat steak, Cai Lan wrote:
You see, he is so optimistic, and sometimes he has the spirit of Ah Q. He always thinks about what he has earned and never finds himself unhappy. Even if there are some minor flaws, they will soon pass. Reading Mr. Cai Lan's books, the most common ones are "paid the price in return" and "I have set foot on this trip", but most of the time it is only because of a cup of tea soup or a small crutch. If I go to Melbourne once:
Cai Lan always attaches great importance to these little things in his opponent's life, and never overshadows these little pleasures because of greater worries. For Cai Lan, life is his interest. No matter what kind of experience, it is a kind of gain for him. He is like a little boy who specializes in collecting happiness. He has no regrets about these little happiness.
As far as Cai Lan is concerned, as long as it is life, there is nothing that can't interest him. Not only piano, chess, painting and calligraphy, but also eating, drinking and having fun are his hobbies.
He often said that the confusion of young people is that they have no hobbies, don't know what they like, and don't know what they don't like. Cultivate an interest or hobby, study and then study, how can you be lonely and bored, how can you be confused? Here comes the interest. Learning all the way, I found a lot of books, my knowledge was deepened and broadened, and my execution was inadvertently improved. Not only the research is deepened, but also the interest can be cultivated into a career. Why bother?
Most troubles are much ado about nothing. I have a lot of time in my spare time, but I don't know how to spend it I have a lot of wealth, but I don't know what to do. If you have nothing, the most important thing is to ensure your own survival. No matter what dirty work you will do, you will not be bothered by your choice. If you have your own hobbies and are studying and testing every day, how can you be bored?
Therefore, people should first be curious and always have the spirit of exploration, and second, they should have the executive ability to dare to try. But most people, who have their own ideas, are always afraid of wolves and tigers, unwilling to give up their ideals and afraid of failure when they put them into action. How can people not entangle themselves?
I will always remember what Cai Lan said: If you try, the probability of success is 50%; Without trying, the concept of success is zero.
I'm not a writing enthusiast. Specifically, I haven't read books for many years. Besides fighting with the teacher at school and keeping my hand on an extra-curricular book every day, I have said goodbye to the book completely after I entered the work.
But later, with the rise of the Internet and the popularity of mobile phones, I brushed my mobile phone from time to time to learn about new media writing and put forward my own ideas. In this way, I also became a writer. He has won the title of high-quality author on several platforms, and will receive some manuscript fees from time to time. Although these are not achievements, they are still rewards for my actions. If I don't put the idea of writing into action, maybe it is still a bubble on the horizon and only exists in my fantasy.
Therefore, Cai Lan's "willing to try, the probability of success is 50%; Without trying, the concept of success is zero, and I am deeply touched. Are you afraid of failure? If you are afraid of failure, start to act, because that is the only way to get you out of failure. Although the probability of success is only half, you can't succeed if you don't take action.
Cai Lan worked hard all his life, being a producer at the peak of Hong Kong films and publishing books at the best selling time. He tried them one by one, including gourmets, columnists, program hosts and businessmen. He is one of the "four great talents" in Hong Kong, and the other three enjoy their old age, but Cai Lan continues to be the new favorite of the 2 1 century, active in various places, which is not unrelated to his love of playing.
"A thousand flavors are life" is just some essays on eating, drinking and having fun, but they are full of fireworks of life. Every food and every life is our life. Life doesn't need too many lofty truths. It is enough to always keep a loving heart to embrace and experience life.
In this book, we follow Mr. Cai Lan around the world, talking about food, talking about life and feeling about life. A bowl of rice and a cup of tea can be transformed into a vivid protagonist in his works. A chance encounter and a minor illness can form the story he tells, and his brushwork is casual, willful and free and easy, just like some casual fragments in our daily life. Although ordinary, every second is filled with the breath of life.