At the end of last year, he chatted with a fellow children's literature writer, and he said that he hoped that his son would have a career, be a good man, and be a macho man. I couldn't help but joke with him, that must read "Dream of the Red Chamber".
He was completely confused and asked me why? Isn't "Dream of the Red Chamber" a very fat novel? Writing a woman's story, even the male protagonist has a daughter state.
I don't have time to elaborate. Just one example. There is an old passage on the Internet that "not turning is not Chinese". This "Dream of the Red Chamber", if you don't read it well, it is not a Chinese.
This is not what I said, it was Chairman Mao who said it. Chairman Mao cattle or not cattle? Fierce or not? China, a groundbreaking figure in the past hundred years, has established a new China, a hero and a good man among heroes and good men. On reading, he super admired "Dream of the Red Chamber".
"As a Chinese, since you have the ability to read, you must not read "Dream of the Red Chamber", and if you don't read it, you can't understand China's feudal society. It is not okay to read it once, at least three times, and it is not possible to speak without reading it three times. ”
In October 1938, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee was held in Yan'an, and Mao Zedong said during the break: "China has three novels, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Dream of Chinese the Red Chamber". Xu Haidong said that he had seen others, not seen "Dream of the Red Chamber", Mao Zedong laughed and said, then you are half a Chinese. (Liberation Daily)
Tianzi No. 1 macho is reading "Dream of the Red Chamber", as a father, I hope that my son will become a talent, I sincerely recommend that you read this book well.
Why do we still read "Dream of the Red Chamber" today? What's the use of reading it?
The biggest use of reading is actually to prepare for life. You have not lived a top life, others have lived, tell you what is going on, you have a little basic understanding, so that you can think clearly about how to spend your short life.
What are you asking for? How should you view the prosperity, wealth, prosperity, and decay and collapse of life, old age, illness, and death?
The stories written in the classics of famous books, you have a certain probability of experiencing, war, separation, uprising, wealth, sinking... Most of the works specialize in the same, only "Dream of the Red Chamber" is written about the life of the emperor who is at the peak of the rich, involving all aspects of society, and has never been humane to outsiders. To this day, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is still interesting and rich, and it is unattainable.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" wrote about the talented and beautiful person, what is love, Teacher Cao broke it and crushed it, so that you can understand that true love is like this. It is three thousand weak water, and only one scoop is taken to drink. The thirty-sixth time of "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Recognizing the Points and Fixing the Feelings of Li XiangYuan", the rich man Jia Baoyu finally enlightened and understood, no matter how beautiful he was, how rich he was at home, how many women around him, love this thing, everyone got a certain share.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also wrote the inside story of the officialdom and the political and legal story. The fourth time, "The Thin Life Woman Meets the Thin Life Lang, and the Gourd Monk Arbitrarily Sentences the Gourd Case" begins with a typical story of trafficking by human traffickers. Xiangling was abducted and sold, Xue Pan beat Feng Gongzi to death, and the local official Jia Yucun, the four major families, and the talisman took turns to play. Next, Wang Xifeng gained power and took people's lives.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also wrote food, clothing, shelter and travel, and poetry collections. China's current middle class has just become rich, and in fact, it does not know how to enjoy life and material things. You don't understand, Teacher Cao taught you. Lin Daiyu's fur, Xue Baochao's Kaisimi, and the fashionable crane cloak of the immortal figure. And the eggplant that looks ordinary and actually requires dozens of chickens to serve.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also understands the psychology of corrupt officials. The ancient corrupt officials were too far away from us to know their true thoughts and expressions. Modern society now has television, and we can finally watch the performances of real corrupt officials. Thus understand why "Dream of the Red Chamber" has an immortal charm. The limited lifespan of the flesh determines that corrupt officials are essentially the peak experience of luxury and wealth.
The money that cannot be used or used up in a lifetime is not to solve the problem of materialism, but to addiction. Once the author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the corrupt officials on CCTV Zero Tolerance are on the number, there is a three-dimensional perception. It turns out that people can really relish that their buildings are so exquisitely built, and at the same time, they laugh and laugh about their own buildings. You see, the corrupt official who built the garden was originally a high-achieving student at Tsinghua University, and he was quite proud when he talked about the garden he built. Think again about the Grand View Garden of Jia Province, the author of the novel wrote a splendid huazhang, relishing it.
You don't have to say that corrupt officials also have a chain of contempt. The kind of person who is greedy for a room of money, who dares not use it himself, and who will not use it, is also a fool who is ridiculed among corrupt officials. If you want to be a negative teaching material, you also have to look at your intelligence.
Integrity is a university question, corruption is not just a system can be eradicated, this is still a psychological war. If you don't beat this sense of superiority, corruption is the same all over the world.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also wrote about education, to see how the rich and nobles "teach their children to be generous". Jia Yu publicly educated Jia Lan - "Our children should have read some books, but they understood a little better than others, and they could not run away from an official when they could become an official." Why bother to make a nerd. Therefore, I love his poem, and I have not lost the spirit of our Houmen. ”
This is also a living dad. This concept of education, of course, has cultivated a bunch of losers who eat, drink and have fun. Jia Amnesty this kind of fool, his houmen arrogance, that is, a small wife on the left and a small wife on the right, do not know how to maintain the blessings, so that the mother Jia Mother is not waiting to see. Fortunately, Jia Lan has a sensible mother who still studies hard. Jia Lan's mother, Li Feng, is the daughter of Shuxiang Mendi, and the daughter of Guozi Jianjiu.
If your child is rebellious, can he rebel against Jia Baoyu? If you can't get through the emotional barrier and the academic barrier, Jia Baoyu is a living negative example. Jia Baoyu's naughty son, who is still very smart, read a few crooked books, and will take the Buddhist scriptures to raise the bar, can you use the Buddhist scriptures to calm down? You don't know anything about the sutras, you've only heard of Amitabha, and your son rolled his eyes and looked down on you. Unless you have a few clever cousins in your family who know the story of Rokuzu Huineng's "Bodhi is not a tree, and Spiegel is not a platform".
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also wrote how to correctly give advice to the leaders and find out the psychology of the leaders. Jia Baoyu was very clever: "Who doesn't die?" As long as it's good to die. Those bearded eyebrows, only know the wen death advice, martial death battle, these two deaths are the death of the big husband, how good is not to die! There must be a dark king, he advises, he only cares about the name, fight to the death, where will he abandon the king in the future? There must be swordsmen, other sides of the battle, fiercely fight to the death, he only cares about the name of Tu Khan Ma, where will he abandon the country in the future? So, this is not death. ”
Jia Baoyu concluded: "I know that those who die are all selling their names, and they don't know the righteousness!" Teacher Jia's words actually represent the attitude of Teacher Cao, the author of the novel.
Are you convinced? This novel has been written for hundreds of years and is not outdated at all.
Let me be honest: although we all know that in "Dream of the Red Chamber", the Jia Mansion will fall, and the inner bag will be exhausted. A hundred years of family gentleman Zeze V and beheaded. One generation of hard work, two or three generations of knighthood, everyone has survived to the fifth generation, and the sixth generation of Lan Gui Qifang, although the continuation of the book is difficult to determine, is also a model family.
The vast majority of families and families of the rich generation can not stand up, playing dead themselves. Not to mention the second generation. After three or five years of cooking oil on fire, flowers for seven or eight years, the game ended.
Teacher Cao borrowed Qin Keqing's mouth and suggested: "Buy more farms, houses, and acres of land near Zumu for sacrifice and supply; It fell, and the children and grandchildren went home to study and farm, and there was also a regression. ”
Do you dare to look down on the influence of culture, education and literature? Reading more books can prolong your life. Reading "Dream of the Red Chamber", you are a complete Chinese. Only to know how to educate children well, even if they are admitted to prestigious universities and become officials, they must have a psychological preparation in advance.
Reading the classics can benefit you for a lifetime.
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Shen Jiake: Famous writer, scholar, critic, member of the China Education Society, member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, and member of the China Miniature Novel Society, he has published nearly 70 novels, novel collections, and prose essay collections, including personal monographs and books. His representative works such as "Life Ferryman" (People's Daily Publishing House), "Shen Jiake's Selected Works (3 volumes)" (Oriental Publishing House), "May You Live Calmly" (Tsinghua University Press), etc., have sold millions of copies and won the Literary Contribution Award. Humanistic essays and social commentaries have been widely published in China Culture Daily, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily, Southern Weekend, Beijing News, Southern Metropolis Daily, Procuratorial Daily, Liberation Daily, etc. Current affairs views have been reported by the New York Times, The Globe and Mail, South China Morning Post and other English media.
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