Comments after reading Bai Shuo
I remember that when I read Bai Yansong's last book "Are You Happy?", I shed tears and was deeply moved. The new work "Baishuo" collects his speeches on different occasions over the past few years. The text is straightforward, the reasoning is clear, and there are not many profound things. Because some of the words were written a long time ago, Bai Yansong continued to write about his current feelings after each article. In comparison, I prefer Bai Yansong's current expression, which is down-to-earth and unremarkable. After reading "Baishuo", there is no "Baishuo", and several words made me think deeply.
Bai said: When you have feelings, you cannot express them immediately, you have to pursue them. After a long enough pursuit, when everything matures, there will be perfect expression.
Eager to express has become a common problem for most people in today's society, including myself. People often judge the authenticity of things based on their first impression and are eager to speak out. I understand that the advantage of "pursuing" lies in thinking hard and seeking verification. In an information age where people “speak freely”, inner peace, continued patience, and persistence in rationality are extremely valuable.
Bai said: When reading, first select works that are higher than you. You have to look up to them, and then climb up. In most cases, we will choose someone who is congenial to our own temperament, someone you like, and someone who is close to your level. This kind of reading at the same level makes people lose the opportunity to challenge themselves.
People who are exhausted in the workplace, family, education, and medical care have long lost the courage and strength to climb. In my limited reading time, one third was given to popular reading. I comforted myself like this: Life is tiring enough, why bother yourself, reading "obscure" classics in a state of physical and mental exhaustion, wouldn't it be good to read some chivalrous and tender feelings? Reading itself has the function of leisure and entertainment. However, I cannot stand it if all reading is popular reading. For those who develop reading habits, they have inner requirements for themselves. Many popular books create short-term forgetfulness and illusion. They make people addicted when reading and listless after reading. They paralyze the spirit instead of nourishing it. They will never be able to enjoy the joy of body, mind and soul brought by high-quality reading. Real reading is to find spiritual resonance and spiritual reflection. Reading that can give people power must be of high quality and teach us how to deal with the troubled life with our heart.
Bai said: The most important thing in learning is to like what you don’t like and adapt to what you are not comfortable with. Open yourself up and try to understand and accept those different voices. Just like reading, it is not good to dislike a book just because its theme or expression is unfamiliar.
Talking about reading, I often easily reject writers and works that are unfamiliar to me before I have read them, and wander around in the themes and language styles that I am familiar with and accustomed to. Can you open yourself more deeply in reading and tap into the potential of your spirit and soul? The ultimate goal of reading is to read yourself. Since life has gradually lost the possibility of choice, why not try to give yourself more opportunities in reading? Read the undiscovered self?
Bai said: You read some books when you were very young, thinking that you have read them, but in fact you have missed them. When you are too young, you cannot read the flavor of some books. And when you really reach the age where you need it, you don't get along with it again. This is a pity.
I have always believed that fate is needed for people and books to meet and get to know each other. In order to avoid meeting good books too early and missing the perfect acquaintance, you need to read them frequently. I read "John" when I was in junior high school. "Christopher", so many years have passed, what did I read at the beginning? I can't remember much. There are too many books that need to be re-read, and I hope I will have few regrets in my lifetime.
The two months of 1989 and 1989 seemed very busy, and I had very little time to read. Apart from "Baishuo", the only book I have read completely is Rabindranath Tagore's "The Birds" translated by Feng Tang. Not only did I finish reading it, but I also copied a lot of it, which made me feel like I was back in middle school. In an era when my peers were keen on poetry, I was immersed in Qiong Yao and Jin Yong, and had little interest in reading poetry. But today, I am more and more interested in reading poetry. The poem uses a simple combination of words to perfectly interpret the emotions that I long to express in my heart. Bai said: Why read poetry? Because Chinese has infinite possibilities, everyone who plays with words may have a new invention. Thousands of Chinese characters are placed in front of you. When you write the words that everyone has in their hearts but not in their pens, each word is not new, but they complete a brand-new combination and once again invented the Chinese language. . I think that if you read books for a long time and get close to words to a certain extent, you will definitely fall in love with poetry, because there is the most beautiful Chinese language.
Lala Zaza, what touched me most after reading "Baishuo" was about reading. I am not indifferent to what the book says about the Tao Te Ching, human nature, development, and the world, but I have read too much and have lost the freshness and flexibility of my thinking. Among the "clichés", there are also bits and pieces of wonderful sayings, such as: The evolution of human nature is very slow; there are no benefits, only good details are beneficial; the conclusion is dangerous, but the process is safe. . . . . . . Every time I read these sentences, I have to stop reading, close my eyes and think.
I have read many works by media people, and the best one in my mind is still "Seeing" by Chai Jing. Due to stylistic limitations, Bai Yansong's "Bai Shuo" has a large capacity but little emotion. The most important thing about good works is the word "love". If the author doesn't use "love", readers will naturally not be tempted.
But as a media person, there are two words that run through the writing, which is "responsibility." From this point of view, Bai Yansong's "Bai Shuo" is worth reading and respecting. < /p>
How to learn? Good reading and rational thinking.
My thoughts after reading Bai Yansong's "Bai Shuo"
Today I took the time to read the book Lao Bai's Bai Shuo that I bought a few days ago. The beginning of the book talks about me. The question that I have been thinking about in the past few years is, what are the benefits of living? The book says that most middle-aged men in mid-life crisis will think about this question, but I am only 26 this year and I often think about this question, which shows that I Are you experiencing a mid-life crisis early? .
What are the benefits of life? When I was a graduate student, I sometimes asked my supervisor. The supervisor said that there is no benefit in talking about this issue. The direction of philosophical research has long been far away from ontology (that is, it no longer discusses the origin of the world, life (the benefits are actually related to the origin of the world), we should focus on more specific issues. I was not satisfied with the tutor's answer, but the tutor's rude attitude of rejecting my question prevented me from asking further questions.
I really like the story of Sisyfris pushing the stone in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The benefits of human beings are just like God punishing Sisyfris for pushing the stone. Desires are stones. Satisfying one desire will produce the next desire. , so Sisyfrius kept pushing the stone to the top of the mountain and then the stone slipped to the bottom of the mountain. Repeatedly, think about life, it is not the same.
Shi Tiesheng said that life is inherently without benefits, but having no benefits is a terrible thing. Therefore, we must give life a benefit ourselves. This benefit is to set goals for our own lives and then try our best to achieve them. To achieve this goal, the important thing is not to achieve the goal, but the process of achieving the goal. The process is the benefit. If you achieve this goal, set the next goal until the end of your life. Although this short sentence sounds reasonable at first glance, if you peel off some of the packaging of the words, it is actually the same as the story of Sisyphlis. The so-called goals and desires are not much different.
Schopenhauer said that a person’s life is filled with disappointments. Although there is joy in life, generally speaking, the moments of failure will be longer than the moments of joy, and joy is always short-lived, while sadness is. Very long lasting.
Camus said that human life is meaningless, and human beings are of no benefit to this world and the universe.
A few days ago, I saw a relatively novel discussion about why people must have benefits in life. It is also good to live without benefits. I think it makes sense.
When I wrote that, I remembered the story of the shepherd boy. His father had been herding sheep since he was a child. When I asked him why he herded sheep, he said that my father told me that by shepherding sheep, I could buy more sheep, and by selling the sheep, I could buy more sheep. Marry a wife and have a baby, give birth to a baby and then herd sheep. When we hear this story, most people who are highly educated like me will think that the life of a sheep-herding boy is a cup of tea, without any interest, and unhappy. But in the heart of a sheep-herding boy, we are really Can you feel it? I don’t think so, because if you think about it carefully, we are not the same as the shepherds. We have been taught by our parents since we were young to study hard and go to college, find a job after college, find a job, marry a wife, and marry someone. After the wife has a baby, she will study, work, and have a baby. I think it is actually no different from a shepherd boy, just as sad.
This is a difficult question about what the benefits of life are. In the end, my realization is that when you are troubled by the question "What is the benefit of human life?", the reason is just that you realize that life needs a benefit, but whether there is any benefit in life is another question. If you didn't think about whether there is any benefit in life, your troubles would never exist. After all, life is nothingness.
Feelings after reading Bai Yansong's "Bai Shuo"
I have been reading Bai Yansong's "Bai Shuo" for the past two days and I have some feelings. This strong feeling prompted me to suddenly want to write something. From the name of the book "Bai Shuo", you can probably guess its main material, which is Bai Yansong's insights on life and living. I usually don't like this kind of books. In my opinion, life is different, and success and life trajectory cannot be copied. But I am curious about what society and the world look like from the eyes of a journalist.
At this moment, my heart rate is faster than usual, which shows that this book has given me gains and excitement. I have been browsing Weibo and Moments for too long, and I haven’t had this sense of surprise and happiness of meeting a close friend in a book for a long time. Just like what Zhang Ailing wrote: "It turns out you are there too." It's like being in a rainy alley paved with bluestones, suddenly turning around and seeing the Lilac girl holding an oil-paper umbrella. This sense of happiness has been missing for too long. I began to agree that reading a good book is like falling in love. During this period, I had a spiritual connection with the author and had disagreements, but I couldn't argue or turn away. After a while of reflection, I still couldn't put it down.
When Bai Yansong talked about his way of reading in the book, I almost burst into tears.
He said that you thought you had read it, but in fact you missed it. I think what I missed is indeed a pity. During my four years in college, I spent a lot of time going to the library and borrowed many books on history, philosophy, psychology, literature, etc. But what makes me want to borrow and read it again is "The Politics of Eastern Jin Dynasty" by Mr. Tian Yuqing. It would be wrong to say that I love this book because I love history. The encounter with this book is not so romantic. If it were not for the assignment assigned by the university teacher, I think I would have missed it in this life. However, although I have encountered it, I did not have a vigorous relationship. This is also my biggest problem so far. Pity. At that time, I regarded reading "The Politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty" as a task. I fell in love with it while waiting for the train in the noisy waiting room. When I saw the interesting stories and characters of the Eastern Jin Dynasty written by the author, at that moment I felt like I Time travel, I didn’t know at the time that I would still be so obsessed with this book four years later. I have read too many history books, but I rarely have the feeling that history is something very funny. Most people are always too awed by history, so the works they write always feel far away from reality. History is indeed a distant concept, but I think the best way to restore history is to write about the distant concept with the feeling of yesterday! Of course, there are many works written by everyone. Whenever I read Huang Renyu's "The Ten Wanli" "Five Years", I think Mr. Huang Renyu must be a very funny person. In fact, I have never come into contact with the author. The reason why I read what I think is the author's character is because his works are really funny and I really like them. Of course, this is also closely related to personal literary heritage and historical background. As everyone or senior researchers, maybe they find the fun in history that seems boring to us, and then help us discover the fun in it. What we are reading now are all processed by them on the basis of original historical materials. Just like they process ingredients into food. It’s just that most people are good at processing ingredients, but only a few people can make delicacies that are delicious, delicious, and mouth-watering. I am still very grateful to my freshman professional teacher. It was she who made me know about Chen Yinke, Qian Mu, Gu Jiegang, Jian Bozan, Huang Renyu? There are amazing things in the works of these people. Of course, the amazing thing is the conclusion I came to after reading it. . After reading extensively, I discovered that what kind of books you read and who you read are very important. After reading a good book, it is like saying goodbye to a lover. The sweetness and sourness can only be experienced and understood by oneself slowly.
Sometimes, we may gain more by reading without any purpose. Just love it, so I am willing to read voraciously in a noisy environment. As Bai Yansong said: Reading should also pay attention to adapting to fate and cherishing fate, and don't be utilitarian or impose. As you grow older, it slowly becomes an integral part of your lifestyle.
Nowadays, success studies are popular in society, so I will also use success studies to express my feelings! I believe that success in life is to make the boring feeling that most people think is interesting, and the success of scholars is Make what most people consider boring writing interesting but without distorting the facts. When reading a good book, maybe you will burst into tears, maybe you will laugh and clap your hands. Maybe?
What I want to do most at the moment is to re-read "The Politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty" several times. Although my youth and ignorance made me miss it before, I will appreciate its fun and value even more when I meet it again. Because I missed it, I cherish it even more. It turns out that reading a good book once is not enough.
1,000 words after reading "Baishuo"? Years Chapter
Let's talk about Boss Bai first, I know his name, he is from CCTV. For those who know him, Chai Jing mentioned it in "Seeing". The real love he got to know was in "No Generation's Youth is Easy" and "My Story and the Chinese Dream Behind It", which matched my previous fragmented thoughts and made up for it. Pieces of China that I didn’t know existed.
Talking about the book, what is written in the book is: a collection of speech materials given by Mr. Bai on various occasions in recent years.
My feelings after reading the book: Listening to you is better than ten years of reading.
There are some information that I don’t understand yet. Some known concepts made me reshape them again. There are some concepts that I am more determined about, and there are some practices that I must learn.
Years? Life is not either win or lose.
1. Happiness can be infinitely close, but cannot be completely reached.
In the title page of the book "Family Heirloom" given to his students, Mr. Bai wrote: Life is like tea, which must be sipped slowly, and years are like songs, which must be listened to quietly.
Feeling impatient, I forced myself to read it slowly and carefully, but I still didn’t understand what it was about.
Understand that no one is perfect and nothing is perfect. Therefore, happiness for me consists of just the right material, suitable emotions, and abundant spirit.
Desire is appropriate. Believe that everything will be arranged for the best.
2. Do something useless
Since when have we always dealt with others with purpose? Do everything with the benefits and shortcuts in mind. As a result, we miss many experiences and scenery that we should have.
I have also asked pointed questions in lectures and actions. Please tell me directly what I need to do to achieve the results I want.
I feel ashamed thinking about it now.
Because of the eagerness for quick success and quick gain, there are many things that are self-defeating and many things that are ruined, and there are only so many successes.
After bypassing the necessary steps and encouraging the seedlings to grow, I discovered that what should come will always come.
After that, I no longer have to worry about everything I do. What is the benefit? I know that as long as I am happy and as long as I put my heart into it, there will always be unexpected surprises.
Therefore, I was in a daze, wild and wild, and felt that I was different from my previous self.
3. Beautiful failure is another kind of success
Lose decently and with dignity. This paragraph mentioned that when he reported on the London Olympics, the Olympic Organizing Committee responded: Sports teaches children how to win, and at the same time, teaches children how to lose decently and with dignity.
We all know that Chinese education has shortcomings. From the education in the 1980s to the 1990s, parents in the 1980s still educated their children after 2000. Reality tells me that we are really just talking, don't care.
There is almost no parent, teacher or school that educates children to lose decently and with dignity.
From generation to generation, we pass on other people’s children, other people’s parents, and other people’s teachers. We attach great importance to success and greatly magnify setbacks, but no one tells us what kind of mentality and coping ability we should use to deal with it.
We keep tossing and tossing, telling ourselves with tears that I have to be strong, I am an invincible little strong, and then, if we continue to toss and toss, few people can break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly. Even though we still keep in mind that failure is the mother of success.
However, please remember that defeat can lead to change, provided that you have the will and potential. Success or failure is not in the present, but in history.
***Xiang Bai Boss’s words: In a big era, if you receive a lot of grievances or unfair treatment, don’t worry, leave it to time. Stay calm and move on.
4. To youth: be a person who races against yourself.
I have always felt that I have low self-esteem, that I cannot think and do not have my own way of thinking. He is a person with changeable views. One day, I suddenly discovered that I had no independent vision and lacked language expression potential. However, I am willing to learn and I am still on the way to learning. One day I will become better at learning. I will also become an irreplaceable person and shape myself into a person with an independent personality and a unique way of thinking.
Also about writing: it starts with "feeling", goes through a long "pursuit" and finally reaches perfect "expression"
Recommended Taiwanese literary film series "They Write on the Island" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden" "Dragon" "Schindler's List"
Nothing can have only one answer, please go find the second answer.
1000 words after reading "Bai Shuo"
Beautiful failure is another kind of success
After reading this title, do you feel that there is actually something in Bai Yansong's work that It all feels like "big principles". The words are still those words, and the principles are still those principles, but when it comes to Bai Yansong's hands, it feels completely different.
At present, we are surrounded by too many success studies. People in our era are too keen on success studies, which has led to a deformed decision-making standard. Only if you are successful, others will think highly of you, only if you are successful will you have status, only if you are successful will your life be successful. When we all want to succeed, most of us are unsuccessful. As an old Chinese saying goes, "Nine times out of ten things will go wrong in your life." We can also see from this sentence that most people are unsuccessful. If you don't succeed, you will be depressed, your will will be weakened, and your self-confidence will be lost. Such standards are unacceptable.
From birth, people are on a one-way street, heading straight to death. Even if you win the whole world, you cannot win the outcome of death. What should you do in the face of such a big failure as death?
Success is good, but failure is okay. What matters is what we gain from the process. A person who has never experienced failure or setbacks is like a pure glass ball. If it is a little worn, it will lose its dazzling originality in the eyes of others. It's always cold at high places. The more successful you are, the higher you stand, and the harder you will fall when you fall. If we have experienced setbacks and failures, the pain will be greatly reduced when we fall again.
A person who has an unsuccessful life is a failure. However, if a person has not experienced setbacks and failures, he is likely to die on the road to success.
Do something useless
After "happiness", you need to be free. The second part of Bai Yansong's book is titled with such words, which shows Bai Yansong's attitude towards this matter.
I am doing useless things at the moment. I read some leisure books, spend time writing my thoughts after reading, share them with everyone, and do crowdfunding planning. This thing itself is useless, I can't get anything. But I am happy to do it, and I am doing it happily. Although useless, it has become an indispensable thing in my future life.