The 2015 Shandong College Entrance Examination essay topic: Luffa vine and nutmeg
There is a proverb in the countryside, "Luffa vine and nutmeg, you can't tell them apart." It means the vines and meat of luffa Once the bean vines become entangled, it is difficult to separate.
A child wanted to distinguish the difference between the two, and ended up tearing off the tangled stems and leaves of the luffa in his yard.
My father saw it funny and said: "They are grown to be picked for eating, not to distinguish them!" You just need to take care of them until they grow up and pick melons and beans to eat."
Luffa and nut beans, form and connotation
The luffa vines and nut beans grow together. The child insists on separating them, but the adult stops the child's behavior and talks about it. It's for food. For children who are curious about everything, it is most important to distinguish between luffa and beans, because they want to know the truth. For adults who only value results, they can eat melons and beans. is the most important thing. This is not to discuss the issue between adults and children, but to express the difference in thinking between adults and children.
In a sense, the former is regarded as a formality. The latter can be regarded as connotation. After repeatedly thinking about this issue of form and connotation, we return to the issue of "discrimination" and "eating". If we put this issue into daily life, we will. From this I thought that form is not important, connotation is the source of everything.
In the 1920s, the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China, accompanied by Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin. Newspaper reports at the time said: Lin Huiyin had a peach blossom face. Tagore's celestial spirit, long robe and beard, and Xu Zhimo, who is thin on a cold island in the countryside, are like the picture of three friends with green pines, thin bamboos and spring plums. However, after careful appreciation, you will find that our society is becoming more and more beautiful. We lack this kind of "Three Friends".
What are the "Three Friends"? The "Three Friends" are the faithfulness of a gentleman that is hard to follow; , and then the refined cultivation of a gentleman. If a person loses his "three friends", even if he is smart and elegant, he will inevitably fall into the cliché and become a vulgar person, because this is just a formality.
In today's society, beauties emerge in endlessly. , but the appearance is becoming more and more uniform, and when you look back and smile, you are no longer charming; there are too many film and television works, but the theme is becoming more and more sub-culture, and recalling youth has not cleansed people's hearts. "Years in a hurry" and "Little Times" are flooded with youth literary films, as if youth can only mean the loss of dreams. What have these literary films brought to young people? Nothing more than materialism, consumerism and restlessness. < /p>
We are always reflecting on what has been lost in this society. Why does youth always lack the color of struggle? In fact, it is people who lack the spiritual food to cleanse and sharpen their souls, and blindly pursue form and quantity, resulting in The homogenization of many aspects of society has led to the proliferation of subcultures.
Tagore, Xu Zhimo, and Lin Huiyin have different specialties and completely different personalities, but their touching points are the same: their spiritual atmosphere makes people cheerful. "Preaching, teaching, and solving doubts." We are becoming more and more obsessed with "karma" and neglecting "Tao". The result is that even if a person wears a gold silk eight-treasure bun with pearls on his head, a necklace on his neck, and a skirt The bean green palace ribbon cannot cover up the "smell of copper" on the body.
As the Chinese classics master Jao Tsung-i said: "Human life is like a candle, which burns brightly but burns out quickly. It is better to use a green flame to burn for a longer time, which is more economical. "Once our lives are dominated by formalism, the humanistic spirit of the entire era will be out of control.
Why bother to separate loofah and nut beans? As long as the connotation is not deviated, why bother to dwell on the irrelevant form?