Han Haoyue's fate with college entrance examination essay writing
Zhang Jiahong
Since 2010, every June, I will write the college entrance examination essay questions of that year with tens of millions of candidates, and many articles have been included in various language examination papers at all levels, which is enough to see the beautiful fate of Han Haoyue and middle school students' writing. Inviting such an author to write about the college entrance examination is a feasible move in line with the background of the times, which is the practical significance of the publication of "The Rhyme of Articles". The first series of this book, "Records and Observations", and the fourth series, "Casual Feelings and Summaries", are certainly the words that high school readers are eager to read. The former is a hot topic essay that may become a college entrance examination essay topic in 2022, and is Han Haoyue's exclusive voice for major events in reality; the latter is a private experience sharing of college entrance examination essay writing ten lectures, from how to use famous quotes, how to write moving essays, how to make citations add points to the article and other angles to make a detailed analysis.
Having said that, it would be a narrowing to include this book in the category of teaching aids. As the author puts it, "This is still a literary book." In my opinion, "The Rhyme of Articles" is actually a collection of essays. Teaching and auxiliary books focus more on the combing of skills, and this book points to the most sincere and authentic self in more space. Sincerity of heart is the origin of prose writing.
In "The Taste of Grain", Han Haoyue recalls the aroma of cooking smoke when his mother cooked on the fire, the step-by-step actions of his mother when she made steamed buns, and the aroma of cooked sweet potatoes picked out of the pot by her mother. After that, I ate sweet potatoes again, and there was no taste at all. "Years later, I realized that it was a great joy, because I could feel my own existence and the pain and pain of this existence itself in the dialogue with nature." "It's a feeling that comes out every time I remember lying on the roof of a bungalow as a child, looking at the shining stars in the vast night sky." The time when "the heart was filled with empty silence" was incomparably beautiful. Years later, when people reach old age, the stars on those nights are still shining and shining.
The self that writing deserves to return to is not just the author himself, but more of the self that people should be. The way to self-realization is not single, sometimes with the help of memory, sometimes by imagination, sometimes by the silent guidance of a noble personality, sometimes by the natural flow of compassion, and there are many more unspeakable paths.
In the double speed era, how to extend the progress bar of life? Han Haoyue took the post-70s and post-80s as an example, believing that "childhood, literature, and growth have become the composition of their lives." Their childhood was slow, and they played many games that were intimately related to the earth and nature. Their reading time is slow, and their literary memory is not barren but rich. Many good books have just come to light like that, and the sadness and joy in the books are still impressive. Why is growth slow? Because growth is related to the cultivation of reading, growth is related to the enlightenment of nature. Even so, the slowness that once was there will not be the past tense, and these bits and pieces precipitated in memory can actually enlighten the present and the future. With this as the source, there is a final and resounding conclusion of the article. "Those who dare to defy and control the rhythm of life may get a sense of accomplishment in another sense."
In peacetime, the topic of heroes has been repeatedly mentioned due to some special events. Who are the heroes? When Yu Yifei, Liu Songfeng, Yu Tao and others reached out to strangers in distress during the rainy disaster in Henan, they did not need much thought, and it was often a simple decision in a moment. After some stripping, the author borrowed the line "Save one person, that is, save the world" in "Schindler's List" to define the hero's ordinary and extraordinary. A person is part of the world, and a person is the whole world. Saving one person is saving the whole world, such a person is not a hero, who else is a hero? Then, in a certain moment, everyone has the possibility of becoming a hero, including Han Haoyue and readers, even if everyone is an ordinary person in the daily fireworks.
Returning to one's true self is the foothold from which anyone relates to the world around them. Through the combination of square words, express what you see, hear and feel, of course, you can't keep yourself out of it. Borrowing "record and observation" to discuss the current hot spots is only a symptom, Han Haoyue's intention is to tell the new generation of middle school students, in the face of the complex, complicated, and chaotic world, how to adhere to the pure human nature and noble personality, how to eliminate the redundancy and noise until clear and quiet. If you lose yourself, going with the flow is doomed and cannot be escaped. It is important to pay attention to hot spots, but if you lose yourself, no matter how hot the hot spots are, it has nothing to do with yourself.
If the moment a person lifts the pen is doomed to the disappearance of the self, then the writing can only be a castle in the air or a mirage, not only false but also illusory. Therefore, Han Haoyue's college entrance examination essay writing, which lasted for eleven years since 2010, is the biggest criticism of test-taking essays such as false words, faint words, and big words. The heart is not sincere, and the louder the slogan in the text, the more hypocritical it is destined to be. From falsehood to illusion to hypocrisy, it is actually the three stages of this kind of composition going from one road to black. Ridiculous, pitiful and terrible, such compositions are still popular and marketable today. This is where the book's critical character lies, although the author does not say it in a clear light.
How complex the situation of life is, how ups and downs the ego is. However, between situations and states, there is a category of words that are destined to connect with each other and are missing. Such words are qualities or wills or cultivation or personality, and it is they, rather than situations or states, that determine the greatest difference between people. In the end, these words have a guide to the reader's truth, goodness and beauty. If the reader only stops at the acquisition of techniques or methods, it is inevitable that he will stop at nothing. Through technique, beyond the method, to the deepest part of human nature, is the fundamental reason why this book should be encountered.
Therefore, this book can be called the rhyme of the article, and it can also be regarded as the way of man; it is not so much to teach you to write a good composition, but to teach you to be a good, honest, and brave person. "Teaching" is not the author's serious face in front of the reader, but the selfless sharing of those with certain experience to those who urgently need to get out of the predicament. Based on this, readers should pay more attention not to the word "teach", but to the word "rhyme". In front of Yun, Han Haoyue and the reader's status is equal, and the two are only prioritized, and there is no difference between superior and inferior. Behind the rhyme is the various tastes and experiences in Han Haoyue's more than twenty years of writing experience, which is not a secret like a secret. Different writers are destined to have different tastes or experiences because of different life backgrounds, life experiences, and life experiences.
In the final analysis, how to return to, persevere and grow up in the noisy modern society, before the complexity of the world, is the inspiration that this book gives readers far more than those experiences or techniques. Experience or skill is discarded after use, and how to face the self is a proposition that must be solved in a lifetime. In this way, the readers of this book, not only high school students or high school language teachers, but also people who write or do not write can get something from it.
(Han Haoyue, "The Rhyme of Articles: Han Haoyue Teaches You to Write Good Compositions", China Workers Publishing House, April 2022 edition)