If it is Johnson, his smoking and frequent visits to the Fourth Law School in London are also valuable historical materials. The spirit of this great man reflected the social environment at that time in a unique way and influenced us. Their outstanding genius can influence and accept the influence of what he touches. They are influenced by the books they read and the women they communicate with. If you put people with low mental ability in their position, you will not find features. Therefore, in a great man's life, he lived the life of the whole era. They absorb everything that can be absorbed and reflect with the most beautiful and powerful sensitivity.
But when it comes to studying the whole country, ordinary people must not ignore the past. Not all people in ancient Greece were Sophocles, and Elizabethan English could not spread the seeds of Bacon and Shakespeare everywhere. Talking about Greece, only thinking about Sophocles, Perikles and Asia will inevitably confuse the truth of the Athenian nation. We also need to think about Sophocles' son suing his father for family disputes. More importantly, we need to think about aristophanes's contemporaries. They don't completely love beauty or pursue the truth, but they binge all day just to get drunk. The arguments are varied and become cunning and mercenary, which is really typical of ordinary Athenians. The mercenary and treacherous character of the Athenians helps us to understand the subversion of Athens, just as Perikles and aspasia help us to understand the greatness of the Athenian nation. If evaluated individually, their value is almost equal to zero, but if observed collectively, their influence on the national movement is extremely grand. Is it because in the past, it was impossible to transform them, but in modern countries, the so-called ordinary people never left us for a moment, so Ann can take it for granted?
But who are ordinary people? And what is the image of ordinary people? The so-called "people of China" is just a general abstract concept in our mind. Regardless of the unity of culture, culture is the basic factor that unites the people of China into a whole nation. Southerners in China are generally different from northerners in temper, physique and habits, just as residents along the Mediterranean coast in Europe are different from Normans. Fortunately, in the track of China culture, only the concept of province exists, and there is no rise of the concept of race. So under the autocratic monarchy, centuries were peaceful. A valuable common French style, written language, has been passed down from history. The problem of language unification in China is solved by the simplest method. China's cultural harmony can be gradually and quietly planted in several centuries, and it can assimilate docile indigenous people. This has established a spirit of fraternity for China, which is still desirable in Europe today. Even spoken English is not as difficult as the differences in Europe today. If a European crosses the southwest border, such as Yunnan, it is a little troublesome, but he can still express himself and be understood. Language skills gradually expanded his planting career in China, and most of them have been covered by words, which is a clear sign of China's reunification.
This cultural assimilation sometimes makes us forget that there are racial and bloodline differences in China. After careful observation, the abstract consciousness of "China people" disappears, and an impression of different races emerges. Their attitude, temper and understanding of differences are obviously traceable. If we use a commander from the south to control the army from the north, we will feel the difference immediately. Because on the one hand, we have northerners who are used to simple thinking and hard life. They are tall, strong, sincere and anxious. Like green onions, they don't hesitate to smell them. They are funny and often naive. They are close to the Mongols in every way. Moreover, people living near Shanghai are more conservative and don't care much about the decline of racial consciousness. They are the makers of boxing bandits in Henan, thieves in Shandong and usurped soldiers. This generation has provided a great deal of materials for the dynasties in China, which enables people who describe war and chivalry in many old novels in China to use their characters.
Along the Yangtze River to the southeast coast, the scene is very different, and the typical life of its people is also very different. They are used to being comfortable and gentle, being clever in deception, losing their intellectual development and physical strength, loving elegant affairs, being quiet and moving less. Men are moist and short, and women are slender and delicate. Bird's nest and lotus seeds, jade bowls and golden cups, delicious cooking, and rich food and drinks. If you are indifferent, you will be smart; If you hold a halberd, you will retreat; Beautiful poetry and brilliant talent; Don't fight the enemy, call your mother and call the servant. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China held his breath under the occupation of the Tatars, and those who crossed the river to enter the official position by virtue of beautiful poetry art were mostly descendants of prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River.
After going south to Guangdong, the people there have a different style, and there is a strong national consciousness. Obviously, its people deserve to be human in diet and work. Be enterprising, worry less, be bold and enterprising, regardless of the consequences, spend money like water, dare to take risks and be enterprising. There is also a strange custom, that is, Cantonese people also inherited the inheritance of the ancient snake-eating indigenous people, so they are addicted to snakes, which shows that Cantonese people contain the power of the "Baiyue" ethnic hybrids of ancient South China residents. In the north and south of Hankou, the so-called Central China is inhabited by Hubei residents who are crazy about swearing and cheating. There is a saying in China that Hubei people are smart and tough, and they are quite spicy, but they still have to fry them, and then they become addicted. Therefore, they are compared to the mysterious nine-headed bird. For Hunan people, they are brave and hardworking. Xiang army is famous all over the country, and Gai is the descendant of ancient Chu soldiers, which is more gratifying.
Due to the migration of trade, the scholars who took the examination in the imperial examination era were sent out of the province as officials, which naturally promoted a little bit of heterogeneous mixing and greatly eased the differences between provinces, but they still existed on the whole. There is a remarkable fact that northerners are good at fighting, while southerners are good at trading. Emperors are never from north to south. According to legend, people who eat rice in the south are not blessed with the throne of dragons, and only northerners who cook steamed buns can enjoy it. In fact, with one or two exceptions, for example, the founders of the Tang and Tuesday Dynasties were all from the northeast of Gansu, so they were suspected of being Turkic. Emperors of other major dynasties were unable to establish a relatively closed mountain area near the Longhai Railway, which included Henan in the east, Hebei in the south, Shandong in the west and Anhui in the north. If the Longhai Railway is the center of the emperor's production area, then its width and radial distance are not difficult to measure. Emperor gaozu began in Pei county, now Xuzhou; Jinshi's ancestral home is Henan; The ancestors of the Song Dynasty originated in Zhuoxian County in the south of Hebei Province. Ming Taizu Zhu Hongwu was born in Fengyang, Anhui.
Today, except for General Chiang Kai-shek, who is from Zhejiang-his family lineage has yet to be verified-most of the generals are from Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Henan, and the Longhai Railway is also the center. Shandong has produced Wu, Zhang Zongchang, Sun, and other celebrities. Hebei produced Qi, Li, and Lu Zhonglin; Yuan Shikai was born in Henan; Feng Yuxiang and Duan came out of Anhui. There are no generals in Jiangsu, but several excellent hotel waiters. Fifty years ago, a man named Zeng Guofan was born in Hunan Province in central China. This seems to be an exception, but it is enough to prove the above law: because Zeng Guofan is a first-class scholar and a first-class general, he was born in the south of the Yangtze River and thought he ate rice instead of making steamed bread, so his fate was destined to be a noble minister, and he could not create a new dynasty for the Chinese nation. Because to start this kind of work, we need a typical rough and unconstrained attitude in the north, a heartless and simple and lovely character, a man who loves war, works tirelessly and is good at self-interest-he despises knowledge and Confucian ethics, and it is not called the emperor's genius until the bottom of the overall situation. At that time, the Confucian thought of respecting the emperor was used by him, and then he talked about his way of respecting Confucius.
The difference between the rough and heroic North and the gentle and docile South can be observed from their language, music and poetry. You can compare Shaanxi's songs with Suzhou's songs, and immediately you will find that they are completely different. On the one hand, Shaanxi songs are sonorous in timbre, and musical instruments sing harmoniously with percussion instruments. The syllables are loud and clear, quite like pastoral songs in Swiss mountains. When the songs move, they dance in the air, like on the top of the mountain, like in the wilderness, like in the sand dunes. On the other hand, there are Suzhou's low-key songs, which live easily, with a tone like a long sigh, like a groan of a patient suffering from asthma for a long time, and hiss because they don't want to hum, which is a trembling melody. That is, from ordinary conversations, we can also perceive the clear and clear Beiping Mandarin, and its tone changes clearly and happily; Suzhou women, on the other hand, have sweet and soft trills and mellow vowels, which are characterized by no need for high notes, just stretching their soft and euphemistic voices at the end of the sentence. The difference between the two is obvious.
There is an interesting story about the differences between North and South languages. It is said that once, a northern officer tried to go to the south to inspect a company of Soviet troops. When the officer shouted, "Let's go!" At that time, all the soldiers stood still and repeatedly gave orders, all of which were invalid. Just when they were unable to carry out the order, their company commander, who had lived in Suzhou for a long time, got used to the customs of the Soviet Union and asked the officer to give him another spontaneous order, which the officer allowed. The company commander is a clear and definite "step ... go!" Shortness of tone, and brought out the indirect temptation of Suzhou accent, "Sure enough, all the troops responded and moved on.
In poetry, this different color is particularly strong in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries. At that time, the northern part of China was ravaged by the Tatars for the first time, and the Han educated people crossed the river south. At this time, lyric poetry was popular in the Southern Dynasties, and many ruling classes in the Southern Dynasties were experts in lyric poetry. A unique romantic ditty "Midnight Song" is widely circulated among the people. Comparing this passionate poem with the new vigorous and simple poem in the north, the difference between them is profound and obvious. Let's take a look at the song style of the Southern Dynasties at that time:
Read a song
Kill chickens,
Pop up the blackbird.
May it never start again,
There is dawn every year.
Midnight song
The road is rough, no one walks,
Braved the cold to find each other.
If you don't believe in agriculture,
But look at the snow trail.
On the occasion of the Southern Song Dynasty, another kind of lyric poetry with complex rhythm and liveliness appeared, which was called "Ci". Its content generally describes women's deep always in my heart, embroidery hurts spring; Or sing black eyebrows and powder cheeks, and make up; Or chanting red candle columns and silk screens; The pain of acacia, the love of love. "Red candle has no good strategy to feel sorry for itself, and it is cold and empty at night to cry for others." "I am sorry to bend my eyes." It rhymes more like this. It is a natural result that people are accustomed to the repression of this kind of love poems and are conquered by the northern nationalities who express bold, simple and short poetic feelings. Poetry in the north is directly taken from the desolate scenery in the north without modification. The following song is a good example:
Chilechuan,
Yinshanxia
The sky is like a vault,
Cage covers four areas.
The sky is gray, the land is vast, and the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep are low.
Reading one of her poems is amazing. According to legend, a general in the Northern Dynasties was able to use this short sentence to collect the rest, inspire the soldiers and revive the army because he was able to rally and return to the battlefield. The following poem was written by another northern general, which is an affirmation of his new purchase, and its emotional style is suitable for comparison with southern love poems:
Buy a new five-foot knife,
Hanging beam and column.
Rub it three times a day,
Played by fifteen women.
Another more gorgeous style and tone:
Looking at Jinmeng River,
Yang is swaying;
I'm Hu Jiaer.
I don't understand China's nursery rhymes.
A good athlete must be fast,
A fast horse must be a good athlete;
Under the yellow dust,
Then don't be a man or a woman.
Poems like this-the contents and techniques of the works in the north and the south are completely different-have made great contributions to our study of the composition of the Chinese nation and the similarities and differences between the two genealogies in the south and the north, which is worth pondering. Here, we can further understand why we have a history of kowtowing for 2,000 years, are used to indoor life and lack of national sports, but can degenerate and collapse without following the dust of Egypt, Rome and Greece. But how can China avoid such bad luck? I love my motherland.
On the map of the world, the first thing I saw was the China part like a cock with its head held high. Whenever this time, I will proudly think that it is my great motherland, and I love my motherland!
I love my motherland. I love the great rivers and mountains and splendid culture of the motherland. There are 300 poems in Tang and Song Dynasties, including "River of No Return, Romantic Figures through the Ages". There is also a description of the Yellow River, "Nine bends of the Yellow River in Wan Li sand, waves scouring the wind from the end of the world." "The Yellow River is far away from the white clouds and is an isolated city, Wan Ren Mountain." And "once you climb to the top of the mountain, you will see that other mountains are short under the sky." Describe the five mountains. In a word, a song, some surging, some passionate; Some are gentle and gentle, tender as water; "Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit." China has a splendid culture of over 5,000 years. Poets, writers, military strategists and politicians are numerous and talented. There are countless literary works, such as the four classic novels, historical records, Sun Tzu's Art of War ... China has unique Peking Opera, calligraphy and Chinese medicine ... Whenever foreigners give China a thumbs-up and say "Very good!" At that time, I was so proud in my heart that I really wanted to say to them loudly, "Look, this is my great motherland-China!"
I love my motherland. Turn the time back to 1949, 10, 1. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, President Mao Zedong stood in Tiananmen Square, and everyone's face was full of sunshine. The chairman excitedly announced the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC). "The people of China have stood up since then!" At this point, all China is boiling. Although it is afternoon, the sun is gradually setting in the west, but everyone's heart has raised a red sun, a sun that never sets. China, the dragon that has been sleeping for a hundred years, finally woke up on this day and began to take off!
I love my motherland. Since the reform and opening up, the life of the people of the whole country has undergone earth-shaking changes. I often hear my grandparents say that before the reform and opening up, life was extremely hard and I had to buy tickets for everything. There are many children, not enough to eat and not warm to wear. But now, as long as you are willing to work hard and earn money, you can buy whatever you want, and your life is completely different from before. There are high-rise buildings and traffic everywhere ... Every time I hear them talk about their happy lives in the past and present, their faces will be filled with satisfied smiles.
I love my motherland. The people of the motherland are kind, United and beautiful. Whenever any part of the motherland is hurt, compatriots all over the country will not hesitate to extend a pair of warm and powerful hands to help the injured compatriots. At that time, no matter which nationality, region or place, everyone had the same idea. We will always be a family and descendants of the Chinese people, and our hearts will always be tied together! That line is my beloved motherland.
I love my motherland. Since the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China and the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up, the motherland has experienced many hardships such as financial storm, snowstorm, earthquake, smashing, looting and burning ... So many difficulties, the people and the motherland have come together. Therefore, the success of the Beijing Olympic Games has made the world know this big country better. It is beautiful, open, enthusiastic and generous ... The successful launch and extravehicular flight of Shenzhou VII has brought China one step closer to space research. Now the motherland is prosperous, just like a beautiful gem. But, I think, we will polish it brighter bit by bit!
I love my motherland. The great motherland will always be my greatest pride. Like Premier Zhou Enlai, I will "learn for the rise of China and the prosperity of China!"