Ji Xianlin: The best state of life is to live realistic

"From ancient times to the present, at home and overseas, there is no 100 % complete life, and incomplete life is life."

"I always feel that nothing is done. In fact, there are so many things, but I don't want to start when I don't force it."

"For many years, I have a good wish: I am nice to everyone, and I hope everyone is good to me."

—— Ji Xianlin

July 11, 2022 is the 13th anniversary of Ji Xianlin's death. As a "master of Chinese studies", Ji Xianlin has left a lot of literary wealth in his life. What he said often contains truth and worthy of careful taste. The book "Ji Xianlin's Autobiography" published by the Yangtze River Literature and Art Society recorded Ji Lao's life experience from poor farmers' families to the end of his life, read this book, and commemorate Mr. Ji Lao.

Chinese class

Mr. Hu Yelang taught the Chinese language; however, he never taught the Chinese language seriously. Hu went to Donglai, the teaching style changed greatly. Teacher Dong explained the theory of literature and art seriously, and carefully modified the student's composition. He is a person, honesty, loyal, pure, sincere, unpredictable, indifferent to peace, and not saying a gossip in the classroom, thus being loved by students. As for myself, from writing classical Chinese to writing vernacular, according to theory, this transition process should bring me great difficulties. However, in fact, I have no difficulty at all. The reason is not complicated. Since I was studying at a teacher, the tide of the May 4th New Culture Movement was surging and spreading to the whole country. After the "camel speaking" incident, I was very interested in reading the articles of everyone in the literary world in the early May 4th period. I can't imagine, I can understand it completely; however, no matter if I have a broom or broom in my hand, I can always understand something. Coupled with the "leisure books" I read in Xinyu Elementary School, the "Peng Gong case" and "Ji Gong Biography" and the like are all close to vernacular. So I turned from the classical Chinese to vernacular. Not only did I have no meaning at all, but I also felt a little bit of water.

Picture source network

I write here, I want to write a few words outside. Children are more happy now than us. I do n’t know how many readings specially compiled for young people and children, what kind of children, what comic paintings, what to read pictures, etc., the printing is extremely beautiful, and the illustrations are very beautiful. Compared with the "Leisure Book" of "Peng Gong case", it is simply different. At that time, there were also "leisure books" with paintings, which were called embroidery. They only printed some characters on the first few pages. As for the books below each page, there are also, but very rare. I think that there are too many pictures of children's readings today and too little text. This is too low to estimate the ability of children to absorb. It is not conducive to writing articles and not conducive to their ability to read. These words look out of the topic, but if you think about it, it is really in the question.

Well -known illustrator hand -painted Ji Xianlin portrait portrait

I think that I rewritten vernacular by writing classical Chinese without feeling any unwillingness, which is related to me. I can't say that every such "idle book", the article is very beautiful, and it is a wonderful pen. However, in general, the articles are smooth and fluent. Moreover, the structure of the article also pays great attention, and it is by no means a hammer on the head and a hammer on the buttocks. In addition, when I read the ancient Chinese texts, I felt that almost every articles circulating for hundreds of years or even one or two thousand years have attached great importance to structure. In the subtle way, when I didn't realize it at all, whether I wrote a classical Chinese or vernacular, I paid great attention to the structure of the article. The layers must be clear, and there must be a sense of rhythm. Pay special attention to the beginning and end of the article. It is better to have a hard language at the beginning, but it seems that it is bland, but it is meaningful to be bland. Readers must continue to read the first few sentences. The end of the end is that the words are exhausted and endless, such as olive, the remaining taste is more beautiful. To this day, after writing more than 70 years of prose, these opinions have not only decreased, but also stronger and clearer. I have advocated bleak operations in many articles, opposed to looseness, and opposed to raw words. I have persuaded young students, especially young writers to read more ancient Chinese and Chinese novels. If possible, read more foreign works to improve their cultural cultivation and aesthetic taste. My pursuit of well -proportioned articles, especially the pursuit of the sense of rhythm of the article. Before I was completely clear, I broke the point. In a relatively long composition, Teacher Dong approved the "one rhythm", "another rhythm" and so on in the blank space on each page of the composition book. He keenly discovered the rhythm in my composition, which surprised me. What he hasn't realized yet was broken by the Enlightenment teacher. Can you not be ecstatic? This incident affected my life's writing. Teacher Dong probably appreciated my composition. He wrote a long criticism behind one of my compositions. There were a few of them: "Ji Xianlin's composition is the same as the class of the king of the class. The crown. "These words are similar to the couplet and fan surface of Wang Tingyuan, which greatly enhances my sense of honor. Although I studied Western literature in Tsinghua after graduating from high school, I governed India and ancient literature in Germany, but literary creation has never stopped. I think that scientific research and literary creation not only have no contradictions, but also can help each other and help each other. All of this is inseparable from Teacher Dong's encouragement. I never forget.

(Selected from "Ji Xianlin Autobiography")

"Ji Xianlin Autobiography"

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Ji Xianlin

Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction: This book is the autobiography of Ji Xianlin, reviewing his childhood reading life, early teaching career, ten years of leaving Germany, education at Peking University, and his academic summary, life perception, etc. He comprehensively told him from Shandong Lin. A child of a poor peasant family in Qingxian grew step by step into the life course of academic masters who academic Chinese and Western, well -known at home and abroad. The language is simple and flat, and the emotions are sincere and touching, showing his personal struggle experience and the inner emotional world.

The famous writer Liang Heng once commented: "The mantle of the scholar learned, and his own professionals were passed on. All of this is reflected in the works of the sir. "The book" Ji Xianlin Works: Student Edition "recently published by the Yangtze River Literature and Art Club, which is the philosophy of the students' centennial life wisdom, and the Chinese special teacher Mei Qing wrote Introduction, a text appreciation one by one to help young people understand the spirit and thoughts of Chinese masters.

"Ji Xianlin Works: Student Edition"

(Appreciation series of famous teachers of famous works)

Ji Xianlin

Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction: "Ji Xianlin's Works: Student Edition" is a selection of Ji Xianlin's works. The selection includes the philosophical prose of Ji Xianlin's talk about life, Chinese traditional culture and reading, and also includes the wisdom of life, hometown, and life. The book is divided into five series, namely "talking about life", "culture and reading", "all things in the world", "hometown and other hometown", "free life". From Mr. Ji's sincere, simple and philosophical text, you can experience the family feelings of a generation of intellectuals and the realm of high life. This book invites Wuhan teaching and researchers and Hubei special teachers Mei Qing to write a guide and comment to the book to help students readers comprehensively understand the content and artistic characteristics of each article.

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