This cat's personality is really a bit odd. Honestly, sometimes it's really good. It will find a warm place, sleep all day, be carefree and ask nothing. However, when it decides to go out to play, it will run away for a day and a night, no matter who tells it not to come back. Call it fun, and it is. Why else don't you go home for a day and a night? However, when it heard the mouse's voice, it was so conscientious that it held its breath for hours and waited for the mouse to come out without pulling it down!
If it is happy, it can be gentler and kinder than anyone else: rub your legs with your body, stretch out your neck and ask for scratching, or jump on the table and poke a few small clubs on the paper while you are writing. It will also enrich the multi-cavity appellation, with different length and thickness, and try to avoid monotony. When it doesn't bark, it will purr to amuse itself. It all depends on its happiness. If it is unhappy, no matter how many good words others say, it won't say a word, or even half a plum blossom will not be printed on the manuscript paper! Stubborn!
Yes, cats are really stubborn. Look, in the greatest show on earth, any lion, tiger, elephant, bear or even donkey can perform some tricks, but who has ever seen playing with a cat? I just heard yesterday that there are cats in a circus in the Soviet Union. Of course I haven't seen it with my own eyes. )
This little animal is really strange. No matter how nice you are to it, it won't follow you to the streets. It is afraid of everything and always wants to hide. But it is so brave, let alone dare to hit the snake when it sees bugs and mice. Its mouth is often stung by bees or scorpions.
Once cats start talking about love, people in the street can't sleep well. Their cries are so harsh that people feel that if there are no cats in the world, it will be calmer. However, when the mother cat gives birth to two or three kittens like cotton balls, you don't hate it anymore. He takes care of his children very seriously and doesn't even want to go for a ride at home.
Lang Mao is not so responsible. He doesn't care about his children at all. He either sleeps or shouts in his room, and fights with his neighbors every chance he gets. His hair was rolled into a blanket, and his face was covered with scars. He looked really disgraceful. Fortunately, it doesn't have the habit of looking in the mirror. It's still swaggering. He ate two bites in a hurry, then challenged himself to fight. Sometimes, it doesn't go home for two days and nights, but when you think it may have gone far, it limps straight to the kitchen to ask for something to eat.
The kitten after the full moon is really cute, and her legs and feet are not stable, but she has learned to be naughty. Mom's tail and chicken feathers are all their good toys, and they can't stop playing for 7 days. When they play, they don't know how many somersaults they will fall, but as soon as they fall, they immediately get up, run and fall again. Their heads hit the door, the legs of the table, and each other's heads. Don't cry when you are in pain.
Their courage is getting bigger and bigger, and they are gradually opening up new game places. They came to the yard. The flowers and plants in the yard were badly damaged. They wrestled in flowerpots and swung with branches. When they passed by, branches broke and flowers fell. You won't punish them, they are so lively and lovely. However, you also love flowers. This contradiction is not easy to handle.
Now, there is a new problem: rats are almost eliminated, what's the use of cats? And since cats can't eat mice, they will try to steal chickens or ducklings and start a meatless diet. Isn't that a problem?
There are many cat lovers among my friends. I wonder if they have noticed these problems. I remember when I lived in Chongqing twenty years ago, the cats there were so precious that I had to spend money to buy them. At that time, rats were so rampant there that kittens had to be kept in cages to avoid being eaten by rats. It is said that it is not easy to see mice in Chongqing at present. So, where is the cat? Are you no longer in a cage, or do you not have a cat at all? This needs to be consulted.
I still remember eating cat meat once on a French ship thirty years ago. I don't know what kind of meat it is in advance, because I don't know French and can't read the menu. Cat meat is not bad, although it is not very delicious, but it has no strange taste. Should we send all the cats to a French ship? It is difficult for me to make a decision.
The status of cats has indeed declined, and there have been some minor problems. However, I'm not too worried about the fate of cats. Think about it, if it weren't for the great success of the rodent control campaign and the elimination of great harm, how could the prestige of cats be reduced? Compared with the two, killing mice is much more important than loving cats, right? I think, one day in the world, everything will be mechanized, won't even donkeys and horses have some problems? But who can give up mechanization because they are worried that donkeys and horses have nothing to do?
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Creation background
1950 In April, Lao She, his wife Hu Jieqing and their children moved into a small yard in Beijing. He planted many flowers and plants in the yard and kept many cats. Ordinary friends visit and invite them to see flowers and cats.
Lao She once had an ugly kitten. At first, she was worried that it would not live long, but a miracle happened. After eating boiled corn and cheap rice for a few days, the kitten is alive and kicking. Two days later, Lao She got up early in the morning to open the door. The kitten proudly shouted at Lao She, and then at his feet, it was a half-dead mouse.
Looking at this lovely little creature, Lao She felt that talents were the most helpless animals. Weakness and incompetence are two different things. Lao She is a veritable "cat-loving party". He has raised many cats in his life, and his love for cats is often beyond words.
Cat is a kind of prose created by Lao She, which was published in New ObservationNo. 1959+06. This article describes Lao She's domestic cat, and its image is vivid in Lao She's works, which makes people never tire of reading it. With the feeling of loving cats, through careful observation, I wrote the character of cats and expressed that the author loves cats for a reason. This paper has been selected into the fourth grade textbook of primary school textbooks published by People's Education Publishing House.
Famous comments
Ji Shu, deputy editor-in-chief of People's Literature Publishing House, said: "The author described the habits and characteristics of female cats, male cats and unborn kittens with vivid, delicate and humorous style. Due to the success of the rodent control campaign, the prestige of cats dropped sharply."
Director of the editorial department of Cheng's Theory and Practice of Primary Education: "This article focuses on pen and ink. The screenwriter did not directly introduce the cat's personality, but described the cat's actions: First, it was "very good"; The second is "playful"; The third is "due diligence". Readers seem to have seen what the cat is doing with their own eyes. After reading it, the eccentric character of' Cat' is vivid and unforgettable. "
Chen Zishan, a researcher in the Chinese Department of East China Normal University, said: "Among modern writers, Lao She wrote as many cat articles as Bing Xin and Liang Shiqiu. Lao She, as a writer, observed the naughty and lovely animals like cats in detail, and described their habits well. If it were a holiday, he might write a new and wonderful cat poem. "
The story of China literati and cats
Scholars in China have always had a "cat-loving" complex. They prefer cats to many other animals. Scholars and cats are related, which seems to be destined, and sometimes they even become one, regardless of each other.
Scholars and cats are more or less similar. Cats are more self-centered, more independent, and often appear aloof or even lofty. And many literati just don't want to be attached to it, like to pursue freedom, and sometimes they are a little pretentious. From this perspective, cats may be a spiritual sustenance of literati. When a scholar has his own mood, only a cat can understand himself.
1. Guo Zhongshu, a painter and philologist in the Five Dynasties and the Early Song Dynasty, greeted everyone regardless of rank and called himself a "cat". He has a special function, probably learned from cats, that is, in the hot summer sun, he does not sweat, but chisels ice to take a bath in snowy winter.
2. Wen Zhiming, one of the four gifted scholars in Jiangnan, is also a cat lover, which is greatly influenced by his painting teacher Shen Zhou. Shen Zhou once had a picture of a cat with a unique composition pen, which is still praised today. Wen Zhiming wrote a poem "Begging for a Cat" and drew a sucking cat for his domestic raccoon.
When Li Shutong was young, he was respected by the poor, but despised by the rich. He likes to keep cats and respects them. When he was studying in Japan, he once sent a telegram to ask his family: Is it safe to love cats?
Feng Zikai was influenced by Li Shutong all his life, and he was also a famous cat lover. He once took such a photo: wearing a robe, wearing black-rimmed glasses, wearing a black square hat with a cat squatting on it. Knowing that he loves cats very much, his friend gave him five cats at once. These five cats often steal fish in groups, causing public outrage. However, Feng Zikai defended cats' gluttony, because they didn't have enough to eat, so he told his family to improve their living conditions and buy more cats and fish.
5. Liang Shiqiu once wrote such interesting articles as Five-year-old White Ryoma Echizen, Six-year-old White Ryoma Echizen and Seven-year-old White Ryoma Echizen. In the winter night, a white cat broke through the window on the roof of Mr. Liang's house and entered his study, leaving a plum blossom mark on the desk. The cook at home caught the cat with his own skill and wanted to punish it severely. Mr. Liang was very kind and did not pursue it.
6. Ji Xianlin loves cats, perhaps the most among the literati. He has two cats, one is called "nothing" and the other is called "Mimi". During the day, he walked in Yanyuan, and two cats followed him closely, which became a famous scenery in Yanyuan. Not only did he let two cats sleep in the same bed with him, but he also cared so much that he couldn't bear to wake the cat's dream.
7. Also like cats is the painter Xu Beihong. As we all know, Xu Beihong is good at drawing horses. Besides horses, he painted cats the most. One of the works depicting cats is for Xu Zhimo. Interestingly, the inscription on this work reveals an anecdote between two artists. The inscription said: "The island loves cats. I wrote about the black and white cat next door, but I removed its claws and praised its loyalty."
This painting was created on 1930. Previously, Xu Zhimo and Xu Beihong had different views on western impressionism, and even had an argument in a magazine. This picture of a cat with its paws removed shows that Xu Beihong extended his hand of friendship to Xu Zhimo and expressed the meaning of reunion.
Both Qian Zhongshu and Jiang Yang like cats very much. After liberation, they lived in Tsinghua. They have a very clever cat named Huahua. Qian Zhongshu praises flowers all day. Huahua grows up and likes to fight with other cats in the middle of the night. Qian Zhongshu specially prepared a long bamboo pole and leaned against the door. No matter how cold it was, as soon as he heard the cat meow, he quickly climbed out of the hot bed, took a bamboo pole and drove out to help his cat fight.
Qian Zhongshu is still very defensive. At that time, Qian Zhongshu and Liang Sicheng and Lin were neighbors. Lin also has a cat. The cats of the two families often fight and are jealous of each other. If Qian Zhongshu sees that his cat is bullied by Ms. Lin's cat, he is not at all polite. He always teaches his "opponent" with a bamboo pole.
Lin is not a vegetarian. She likes her cat very much. Whenever she sees Qian Zhongshu lecturing her cat with a bamboo pole like a child, she always protects her. Jiang Yang said, "I'm worried that Zhong Shu will hurt the harmony between the two families because of that cat. Beating a dog depends on the owner's face, so beating a cat depends on the housewife's face! " Qian Zhongshu doesn't care about "the face of the master" and "the face of the housewife", and he doesn't miss it. He also said: "Theories are always formulated by people who don't practice."
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