Location. The early articles in The Analects of Confucius can still touch the disadvantages of the times, and there is irony in humor. After 1934, the edge of irony has weakened day by day, and humor has also flowed into telling jokes and having fun.
Lin Yutang's prose has both essence and deficiency in content.
The characteristics of * * * include not only obvious mistakes in politics and viewpoints, but also some of his ideas and propositions, such as calling for bourgeois freedom and democracy.
Thought, self-centered bourgeois individualism, etc. At that time, it had positive anti-feudal significance, but today, especially in connection with Lin Yutang's personal changes, we can see both his historical limitations at that time and his reactionary class nature.
Gossip Prose: ① Lin Yutang integrated Britain.
The art and tradition of China's ancient prose created the style of gossip prose and improved its stylistic status. (2) In terms of content, there are a wide range of materials. "The big universe and the small flies can all be made of materials"; Talk about everything from war diplomacy and national prosperity to suits and toothbrushes. (3) Formally, various styles are used together, not limited to any one mode. "In addition to the inscriptions and postscript of travel poems, the diary of a calf with a sequential scale is also given, with special emphasis on Jun Qing's argumentative essays and reading essays." (4) In writing style, talk about things and places in a very free prose style, and use it harmoniously, turning seriousness into ease, just like a heart-to-heart conversation between close friends, without ceremony or eight flavors.