As a wise philosopher, The Prophet is the crystallization of Ji Bolun's lifelong wisdom.
Ji Bolun was born in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was a child. His childhood life was extremely embarrassing, but fortunately, his life loved him very much, and his cleverness and hard work all saw the results.
Maybe this is a jealous genius. Ji Bolun showed his talent in fine arts when he was a teenager, and later began to publish essays and poems. He was famous in Europe when he was young, but he died of tuberculosis and liver disease at the peak of his personal creation. That year, Ji Bolun was only 48 years old.
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The book of the Prophet includes three books: Sand and Foam, Tears and Laughter, and Prophet, covering love, marriage, children, sorrow and joy, punishment, reason, friendship, work, good and evil.
When the author created these works, he spoke 26 questions about life through the mouth of an oriental wise man.
Sand and Foam is the representative work of the author's prose poems. The book consists of 322 short and pithy wisdom aphorisms.
The author wrote in the book: "There is a distance between man's ideals and achievements, and only his enthusiasm can cross it."
Such a realistic truth still applies today.
The wisdom of philosophers will not be buried by time.
In Ji Bolun's short life, there was a close friend named Mary. Mary can't marry Ji Bolun because of her age. They fell in love and kept in touch with each other. Mary gave great encouragement to Ji Bolun's creation.
Every artist has his own muse. Ji Bolun was lucky to meet Mary.
Ji Bolun himself wrote: "Every man loves two women: one exists in her imagination and the other is not yet born."
Maybe he never thought he would meet Mary in his life.
Although "sand foam" is a short sentence, it can tell a lifetime. A wise man always hits the nail on the head when he says a truth, which is accurate.
For example, Ji Bolun wrote: "Generosity is not that you give me what I need more than you, but that you give me what you need more than me."
In this generosity, it is obviously giving up, warmth and love.
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Ji Bolun and Tagore are also called "giants standing on the bridge between the East and the West". A memorial center was established in Washington to honor Ji Bolun.
When Ji Bolun 15 years old, he returned to Lebanon from Boston to study. After graduating at the age of 20, he returned to Boston to publish prose poems and study art. With the help of his friends, he went to Paris to study and traveled around Europe, broadening his horizons.
Tears and Laughter is the author's collection of essays.
One of them is A Life of Love, in which Ji Bolun wrote his praise and love for a whole year in a beautiful style. Among them, a few words were written like this: "Look, Xiao Chun has spread out the clothes folded in winter, and the walnut trees and apple trees are all dressed in spring clothes, just like the brides on Gader night." I am full of emotion, and write the feeling of a brand-new spring on paper.
The prose works in Tears and Laughter are all thought columns published by the author Ji Bolun in Arabic newspapers Expatriates 1904 to 1908. Although it is Ji Bolun's early works, it contains the contents of beauty and nature, freedom and justice, and it is a passionate youth's love and call for the world.
These works give many people a different understanding of the poet. This also reflects Ji Bolun's fraternity.
Any author is basically writing about himself, his thoughts, beliefs and love.
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The Prophet is a collection of Ji Bolun's essays, which caused a sensation in the literary world.
Bing Xin, a writer, said: "In pure poetic language, the author tells a story about a person's lofty realm, far-sighted vision and profound and ordinary life."
When writing this book, the author was about 40 years old. At this time, he almost had a complete picture of the world and life, and his writing field was richer. His prose includes the discussion and understanding of 26 problems in life.
The Prophet is also an anthology that made Ji Bolun famous in the world. It has been translated into hundreds of languages and widely circulated.
Ji Bolun wrote down his understanding of beauty in the book. He said that beauty is not an unsatisfied need, but a kind of infatuation and happiness. Yes, beauty is not a thirsty mouth or an outstretched hand; But a fiery heart, a soul intoxicated with joy.
Everyone has his own view of beauty. Liu Zongyuan, a master of oriental aesthetics, once said: "Beauty is not self-beauty, but is manifested by people."
Beauty is given by people.
Ji Bolun's understanding of things is always particularly sober and unique.
For example, he once said to the relationship between children and parents that your children are not your children, but children born of life's desire for themselves. They came into this world with your help, not because of you. You can give your children your love instead of inputting your thoughts.
This passage is very calm and objective in today's family relations and educational concepts.
If people accept this passage and treat their children rationally, it is estimated that many failed educational cases can be reduced.
Among the series of books published by CITIC Publishing Group, this set of "The Prophet Encyclopedia" is a collection edition with pictures and texts, and the content typesetting is very suitable for reading.
Ji Bolun is not only a writer who can't be ignored in the literary world, but also an artist with great talent for painting. Life is very long, reading can refresh our cognition, broaden our minds, delight our body and mind and love life.