-Jia Zuzhang's Firefly
Mr. Jia Zuzhang is a famous popular science writer, and his Firefly is an excellent popular science prose full of scientific beauty and artistic beauty, which is pleasing to the eye and intriguing to read.
First, grasp the characteristics and highlight the key points.
As an expository article, Firefly captures the characteristics of firefly's "luminescence" and focuses on two issues: 1. "How did fireflies happen?" Through the introduction of A Simple Life History of Fireflies, the author criticizes the saying that "rotten grass turns into fireflies", popularizes relevant scientific knowledge and embodies the scientific spirit of seeking truth. Second, "fireflies, where did they come from?" The author introduces the structure and life habits of fireflies with accurate biological knowledge, and introduces the utilization of fireflies by human beings. Rich in content, wide in knowledge, organized into several prominent paragraphs, with clear details, themes and times, clear center and distinctive features, which make people get a clear impression.
Second, the structure is exquisite and the head and tail are coordinated.
At the beginning of the article, the author aroused the reader's interest with vivid descriptions, and then opened the following article with two questions. Readers read the following article with doubts, argue and solve doubts, and unconsciously gain a scientific understanding of fireflies, and at the same time obtain the satisfaction and pleasure of knowledge. The last paragraph describes the memories of fireflies and hometown life, taking care of the beginning, making the articles echo each other and enhancing the artistic beauty of the articles.
Third, the language is accurate and the image is described.
In the explanation, the author uses a variety of expressions, such as narration, description, lyricism, discussion and so on. For example, at the beginning of the article, the description and narration of the night scene of my hometown and the pursuit of fireflies lies in the author's "detailed description" of fireflies in the dark. You see, when fireflies fly, they are "flashing white light, like stars in the sky"; When they fly, they look interesting again. The author chooses the scene where fireflies chase each other to describe it. One flies in front, "the other keeps rushing to it", and after losing the goal, it is "hesitant to change direction". How dynamic the words "rush, hesitate" are, and how vivid fireflies write them. In addition, the author is good at giving these little creatures a stage to perform-night, shadows, reeds, grass, rice fields and water ... to create a quiet atmosphere in the countryside at night, and to give the night a "living" artistic conception in the contrast between "light" and "dark". Moreover, simple children's songs also add "childlike interest" to this night. All these make readers naturally associate with his colorful words, so the feeling of rural style permeates everyone's heart at this moment! Vivid and literary. When criticizing the statement that rotten grass is a firefly, the statements such as "so-called", "actually", "probably" and "general" are not only accurate, but also reveal the author's strong thoughts and feelings. In this way, the language with literary charm is used to convey scientific knowledge and show the literary value of scientific sketches. In terms of interpretation methods, this paper comprehensively uses a variety of interpretation methods, except enumerating numbers, definitions and examples. The most prominent thing is to draw inferences from others and cite examples and historical materials to make the characteristics of fireflies vivid and concrete, which not only enriches the content of the article, but also makes the article full of interest and literary charm.