On 23 April, World Book Day, on this day that is particularly bookish, is there a book that you would like to share with everyone if you had only the only chance?
Chocolate Cat Cat Head:
If I want to choose a "book of life", I would like to choose Zhang Ailing's "Half Life" as a book that I will definitely recommend to everyone.
Zhang Ailing,"Half-Life"
The earliest Zhang Ailing to watch was "Love in the Fallen City" and "Color Ring", only to feel that it was mean, and she held the subtle nature of human nature in her hand, and the irony was the tao. Until we opened "Half Life", we were shocked to realize that Zhang Ailing's grasp of love and hate was directly touching people's hearts.
Gu Manzhen is an idealized female figure. Although she came from an ordinary family, she had a noble personality. She is independent and strong, and after being jointly victimized by her mother and sister and forced to marry her brother-in-law, she still does not despise herself and has a pursuit of resistance and freedom. Gu Manzhen's tearful abandonment and farewell is a symbol of her last dignity, she is always like a tree, quietly and firmly standing. In contrast, Gu Manlu is a typical female figure who has turned from exploitation to exploitation, like a decent mad dog, who transferred the evil sores in her life to her own sister and personally created this all-round tragedy.
In the evaluation of many readers, Shen Shijun is always the one who is fiercely refuted. In terms of the fate of the characters, he embarked on the path that a well-off prince should take. For me, I always have some sympathy for him: his weaknesses and failures are not bad enough, but they are sad enough. Zhang Ailing once wrote a short story called "How Much Hate", which is to some extent the epitome of "Half Life", with similar character personalities and common tragic fates. If she didn't go, if he wouldn't let her go easily—it was as if she were hovering on the edge of a cliff, and life and death were just a thought. One of the signatures reads: "Mo Huanxi, Assembly, Empty, Joyful, Joyful, Secretly Groping for water moon mirror flowers, castles in the air", this sad and poignant signature is the fate of the heroes and heroines in this article, and why is it not Man Zhen and Shi Jun? Unlike "How Much Hate", I think Gu Manzhen and Shen Shijun always have less room for choice, which also makes people feel resentful when watching the former, but the latter is repeated and deliberated, and finally can only sigh.
I have shared this book with many friends, "too miserable to watch" is a classmate's reply to me. Zhang Ailing is always like this, people are going around in their fate, no matter how beautiful the personality will always be destroyed, and all the smooth roads will become bloody roads. The end of this love is so lonely that in the end there is only a tearful "Shi Jun, we can't go back".
"Half Life" is her most successful work in my heart, if we can always hold a trace of compassion when looking at her others, then when watching Man Zhen and Shi Jun get involved in the torrent of fate with only half a life, it is like falling into a dry well and it is difficult to call for help. Zhang Ailing is always writing about male and female love, among which men and women are rolling in the red dust, but no one always gets what they want, and no one is happy. I admire Zhang Ailing, her genius writing is as noble as silk, but the silk print is often the most hurtful in the world. I always have some special perception of love and death: these things that cannot be grasped are also the most romantic and heartbreaking sources. In addition, her elegant but profound and decisive words always make my heart tremble with pain, and make me addicted to it. Whether it is the construction of the plot or the delicate brushstrokes, in the process of reading, this book brings me a rare emotional experience, which is why I want to recommend it to everyone.
Dreron：
Now the book "Crests and Valleys: The Political Civilization of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties" is in my hands, and I would like to introduce this book to you on World Book Day.
Yan Buke, "Peaks and Valleys: Political Civilization of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties"
The book aims to clarify the political changes of the Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin dynasties from the relationship between the political system and political forces, and the author mentions in the preface: "The group research of the Wei and Jin southern and northern dynasties has become saturated, and it is better to combine people and systems to open up a larger space." Indeed, the books on ancient Chinese political studies that I have read seem to choose to focus on one side of the political system or political forces (it may also be that I have read less), and it is rare to see works that combine the two. In addition, "tending to saturation" is really silently blackening the academic community.
The author absorbs The view of Mr. Tian Yuqing, arguing that the basis and "normalcy" of ancient Chinese politics is still imperial power politics, and the door valve politics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties is nothing more than the "perversion" of imperial power politics, and will inevitably return to imperial power politics, and uses Fourier transformations to compare the influence of "perversion" of different factors on the normal political state (it is a ghost!). ）。 Due to the problem of perspective, the characterization of dynasties will also be different, for example, the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties are "feudal" eras from the perspective of economic relations, and "aristocratic politics" from the perspective of power groups, but there are some temporary and transitional characteristics that belong to the chaotic world, and perhaps the better way to deal with them is to superimpose them into "cyclical waves" as different rhythms. The author of the common view of "imperial power does not go to the countryside" in ancient politics is rejected, based on the non-staff officials recruited by the county magistrate himself and the demarcation of administrative divisions such as townships, pavilions, and li, and personally feel that this view may be biased, such as the production of the Ming Huang Book, which really realized the "imperial power to the household", but other scholars have emphasized that it may be the distortion and alienation of the imperial power after reaching the township level, rather than the author's belief that the county below is autonomous, and it may also be accompanied by a process of political decay. In addition, with regard to the dispute between Confucianism, Taoism, and Law, the author believes that magic is a theory of political administration, Huang Lao Daoshu is a political philosophy, and only Confucianism is an ideology, which I also think is debatable.
I have always been more interested in books related to history and politics, and what is interesting about this book is that when the "Sinicization" of the Southern Dynasty became a kind of "perversion" and deviated from the normal, the "Huhua" of the Northern Dynasty promoted the return to the normal, and in terms of Chen Yinke's theory of "barbaric and fierce blood outside the Country", absolutism was born with a violent and institutionalized side, and from this point of view, it may also be explained that the Ming and Qing dynasties after the Yuan Dynasty became the most developed dynasty of centralized power. I think this book can provide an excellent cut-in for some history and politics enthusiasts like me to learn more about it.
YOU:
The book I would like to recommend is a semi-fictional autobiographical work written by the famous Italian female journalist Farage, "Letter to an Unborn Child". As a war correspondent and a famous "female fighter", Farage rarely shows her fragile and hesitant side as a real "person" in her book, and it is this hesitation that makes this book show unparalleled human strength.
Oriana Farage, "Letter to an Unborn Child"
In this book, Farage uses "I" as the main language, telling the psychological journey of a professional woman with strong willpower and strong self-awareness after an unexpected pregnancy. Farage completely slices the "I" and examines the world with an unprecedented realistic attitude, "I" talk and even quarrel with the fetus in the womb, "I" desperately want to get rid of it but will vaguely expect it. In fact, the question of whether another life should be brought into this world does not only mean that the author is wavering about the departure of this one life, but also that the author thinks about the value of each life that exists in this world. This kind of thinking is not completely self-contained, nor is it completely socialized and mechanized, it is the result of the collision of reason and sensibility. As the author writes on the title page: "Dedicated to those who dare to question / Dedicated to those who tirelessly ask why at the cost of ordeal and death / Dedicated to those who place themselves in the dilemma of giving life / Or refusing to give life / This is a book dedicated by one woman to all the women in the world." ”
Monkey Lord in the Tree:
For me, the only book I want to share with everyone on World Book Day is probably Eagle Man.
Jin Yong", "Divine Eagle Hero"
This book had a deep impact on me, and it can be said that this book made me fall in love with reading. It was about the summer vacation of the fourth grade, and I begged my parents to buy me a book by Jin Yong. After the book arrived, I read "The Condor Heroes" for three days and three nights. For the first time in my reading career as a primary school student, I felt the kind of intoxication and lack of soul, which also impressed me.
During these three days, I really seemed to enter that wonderful martial arts world with the characters in the book. I often think that reading as a teenager will really shape a person's spirit, or that the book itself has some kind of self-contained correspondence with my personality. To this day, I feel that the ardent pursuit of love, the most affectionate attitude to life, the personality of love and hate in "Divine Eagle Heroes", and the unique chivalry, righteousness, and brotherhood in martial arts novels have had a great impact on my personality. Although I have become more rational in the future, I will no longer be so black and white when looking at a problem, and I will have more of my own understanding and understanding of society, etc., I sometimes feel that I am still the fourth grade child who is obsessed with watching "The Condor Man". I always remember a sentence that Yang Guo said in "The Condor Heroes": "Why did the world ever love me, why should I love the world?" "That love-hate attitude touched me very much. As the years have passed, when I have become a more mature adult, I have also learned more professional theoretical knowledge, know how to try more to transcend personal emotions, to understand the pain of others, to think about the boundaries of society, and so on. But in addition to this maturity, I always recall that I still feel that Yang Guo's hot impulse has greatly affected me, and I will always have a dream of a one-armed god eagle in my heart.