As a wise philosopher, The Book of 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 so much that his intelligence and hard work all saw the results.
Perhaps it is the envy of talented people. 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 in his youth, but he died of tuberculosis and liver diseases during his personal peak creative period. 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 the Prophet, covering love, marriage, children, sorrow and joy, crime and punishment, reason, friendship, work, good and evil, etc.
When the author created these works, he told 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 whole book consists of 322 short and pithy wisdom aphorisms.
In the book, the author writes: "There is a distance between man's ideal and achievement, which can only be crossed by his enthusiasm."
such a realistic truth still applies today.
the wisdom of a philosopher is not buried by time.
In Ji Bolun's short life, there was a close friend named Mary. Because of her age, Mary could not marry Ji Bolun. They fell in love and kept writing to each other. Mary gave great encouragement to Ji Bolun's creation.
Every artist has his own muse. Ji Bolun was lucky enough 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 didn't even think that he would meet Mary in his life.
"sand and foam" are short sentences, but they can tell the whole life. Wise people always hit the nail on the head and are accurate when they say a truth.
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 eastern and western cultures." Washington established a memorial center in memory of Ji Bolun to show his respect.
When Ji Bolun was 15 years old, he returned to Lebanon from Boston to study. After graduating at the age of 2, 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 to Europe, which broadened his horizons.
"Tears and Laughter" is the author's prose collection.
In one of them, "The Life of Love", Ji Bolun wrote his praise and love for the seasons in a beautiful style. Among them, a few words were written like this: "Look, Chunxiao has spread out the clothes folded in winter, and walnut trees and apple trees have put on spring clothes, just like the bride of Gadel's night." Full of emotions, I 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 the Arabic newspaper Expatriate from 194 to 198. Although it is Ji Bolun's early works, it contains the contents of beauty and nature, freedom and justice, and it is a warm-blooded youth's love and call for the world.
These works have made many people have different understandings of poets. It 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 essays by Ji Bolun that caused a sensation in the literary world.
Bing Xin, a writer, said, "In the language of pure and beautiful poems, the author tells the truth of being a man with lofty realm, far-sighted, profound and ordinary."
The author was about 4 years old when writing this book. By this time, he had almost a full picture of the world and life, and his writing field was richer. His prose content included the discussion and understanding of 26 problems in life.
"Prophet" is also an anthology that made Ji Bolun famous in the world. It has been translated into hundreds of languages and spread widely.
Ji Bolun wrote his own understanding of beauty in his 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 opinion about beauty. Liu Zongyuan, a master of oriental aesthetics, once said: "Beauty is not self-beauty, but shows itself because of people."
beauty is endowed by people.
Ji Bolun always has a particularly sober and different understanding of things.
For example, he once said about the relationship between children and parents, your children are not your children, but children born of life's desire for themselves. They came to this world with the help of you, but not because of you. You can give your children your love, not input 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 education cases can be reduced.
Among the series of books published by CITIC Publishing Group, this set of The Prophet's Encyclopedia is an illustrated collector's edition with pictures and text versions, and the content layout is very suitable for reading.
Ji Bolun is a writer who can't be ignored in the literary world, and he is also an artist with great painting talent. Life is very long, reading can refresh our cognition, broaden our thoughts, enjoy our body and mind and love life.