During the winter vacation, in addition to being busy with the New Year, busy eating and drinking, and satisfying appetites, they also had to read, replenish spiritual food, and add food to the soul. Take advantage of the big break and quickly read it.
Yesterday I finished reading a small book "The Strange Man of the World", which is the first book I have read since the winter vacation, which should be celebrated, huh. Just commemorate it with this article!
This book is the work of Mr. Feng Jicai, and it is also a collection of short stories that I have always wanted to read. Because one of the story characters in it, Clay Man Zhang, is what I knew in my elementary school textbooks! Not long ago, I read "The Thief" in "The Reader", which even more aroused me to read this "Strange Man in the World", which is amazing!
This book is a collection of short stories about folk strange people and strange things. Most of the things told in the book are set in the city life of Tianjin Wei in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and each article tells a legendary story, and the material is mostly collected in the folklore circulating in Tianjin. Each story tells a "strange person" in the "world", called "strange person", because they are famous for their good craftsmanship and good skills, and they have amazing "unique jobs". Brush Li brush wall can not stick a drop of mud, clay man Zhang pinch clay man art furnace fire pure blue, Zhang Dali is infinite, the divine doctor Wang Twelve medical skills are superb, a gust of wind martial arts and so on. Of course, there are also some demeaned small people here, such as Bapi who is out of the ocean because of his admiration for the outside world, Chen Si who is good at giving gifts to drill camps, Ma Er who learns from others to eat mixed meals, and the narrow-minded golden finger... But whether it is positive or negative, it is amazing to read, the legend is extremely strong, and it is as easy and witty and interesting as listening to Tianjin Allegro.
Although it is a collection of novels, it is still quite touching after reading it. The one who feels it the most is this "unique job". What is a "unique job"? It is what others do not have, and what others cannot do or cannot imagine. "Tianjin people recognize the unique life, serve the unique life", is this not the case in modern society? It is often said that "to do one thing to the extreme can be successful". Your unique work does not need to be sacred and great, nor does it need high technology, as long as it is full of life or grounded. For example, singing well, drawing well, dancing well, writing well, reading well, writing well... No matter which one is stronger than others, it is very popular, can eat open, and can make people impressed. How did the "unique work" come about? In the book "Forty-Eight Samples", Liu Erye pointed out to Yu Liu: "The first is to be pondered, and the other is to practice." "Ponder—you have to think about making something fresh to show you these forty-eight things; practice—you have to think about making a way to recruit people to buy them." For example, can you not make tweezers, Tianjin Wei selling medicine candy in his hand full of such a thing. "The unique work is innovation, that is, hard work." Whose job isn't this way?
A colleague at the school once made a deep impression on me when training new teachers, he said: "To make up for shortcomings, we must practice hard work." "I said I'd understand this sooner, and maybe I'd become a master too." I practiced calligraphy for a while, but I gave up after a while; I learned English and passed the exam; I wanted to practice reading, but I gave up as soon as I got busy... So far, nothing has been outstanding. Each of us wants to "learn from each other's strengths and make up for our weaknesses", take the time to make up for our own shortcomings, and make ourselves "all-rounders", and the result is that no matter how much effort is spent on the "short board", it is not as good as others are already good at, and no matter how much skill we practice, we are not refined, and there is no one who can get his hands on it, so he often feels inferior or has a sense of not meeting talent. Such as the Qingyun Landlord in the book. He was a small man of letters, "He could write and draw, he could engrave seals, even in the matter of mounting; but the viables said that his hands were a little rough." For this reason, the sale of Tianjin Wei did not have a plaque he wrote, and his paintings were not hung on the walls of the restaurant's medicine shop. He is in the line of calligraphy and painting, both in the line and outside the line. So I tasted the taste of "nostalgia is not met". This is exactly what my mother used to say, "I can do everything, there is no quilt on the bed."
Therefore, each of us should choose the innovation and hard work that we are best at, and finally it is the "unique work". With "unique skills", is it not easy to succeed?
#亲子欢乐过大年 #