In the Analects of "For Government", the son said: "I have five out of ten and am determined to learn, thirty and standing, forty and not confused, fifty and knowing the Mandate of Heaven, sixty and obedient, seventy and do not exceed the rules." "I don't know how Confucius did not confuse when he was 40 years old, anyway, as soon as I have doubts now, I will use the search engine, if I want to study in depth, I will go to the e-commerce platform to buy this monograph, and generally I can get the problem done." But when I reach the age of 40, I have to admit that my memory is not as good as before, so some things still need to be written down.
When I was a child, I always remembered some foreign celebrities wrongly, just like watching foreigners on TV, I felt that the length was almost the same, and it was inevitable that Zhang Guan Li Dai would be zhang. For some doubts when I was a child, I recently found a good way: simply pull out these famous artists who are easy to make mistakes, line up, discuss origins, have a difference, and have a connection, it is easy to remember. I know that there is a kind of comparative literature abroad, and I don't know whether this method of mine has entered the door of this kind of learning, so I have blindly pondered it myself.
Tagore, Voltaire and Tolstoy, the three I have not fully understood who is who, let's start with them and get to know them in a series:
1. Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, social activist, philosopher and Hindu nationalist. Representative works include "Jitanjali", "Asuka Collection", "Gardener Collection", "Crescent Moon Collection" and so on.
Born into a wealthy aristocratic family in Calcutta, India, Tagore was able to compose long poems and carol collections at the age of 13. In 1878, he went to England to study, and in 1880 he returned to China to specialize in literary activities.
In 1913, he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature with Gitanjali.
Lao Tai also has a more important resume, that is, he has visited China, and a number of Chinese cultural celebrities are staring at the moon.
Tagore's poems are ethereal and close to nature, and the aura of the people who have been inspired by the Buddha is indeed extraordinary.
2. Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), pen name Voltaire, was an 18th-century French Enlightenment thinker, writer and philosopher.
Voltaire was a titan of the French bourgeois Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, known as "the king of French thought", "the best poet in France", and "the conscience of Europe". Advocated an enlightened monarchy, emphasizing freedom and equality.
Voltaire was born into a wealthy middle-class family in Paris, the youngest of five children. His father, François Arué, was a notary of law and later a member of the Court of Auditors. Her mother, Marie Margaret Duma, came from an aristocratic family in the province of Poitou. Voltaire was educated in the Jesuits of Paris and then at the Louis the Great High School.
I don't know how I confused Voltaire among the three tais, probably because the book "Honest Man" tested who the author was when I was in school.
3. Tolstoy
From September 9, 1828 to November 20, 1910, the Russian critical realist writer, political thinker, and philosopher of the mid-19th century, whose representative works include War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection.
Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy entered Kazan University in 1844 and dropped out of school in 1847 to return to his homeland to try to reform serfdom in his own territory. In his later years, Tolstoy sought a simple civilian life, ran away from his home in October 1910, and died on November 7 at the age of 82.
Lao To also has a peer, that is, the Norwegian playwright Ibsen, whose representative work is "Doll's House".
It is said above that the conscience of Europe is Voltaire, but is the conscience of Russia Tolstoy? No. All I know is that the conscience of Russia is Solzhenitsyn.
Yesterday a comparative analysis of a large number of Russian literature everyone, 19 world stars shining. Suddenly I remembered that I had discussed with a classmate how so many outstanding people could emerge in the bitter cold land of Russia, and now I felt that there was a little possibility that they had been influenced by their West and blended with each other.
Finally, let's line up, talk about the elderly and young, and line up the generations:
Voltaire France Middle Class 1694 Qing Sheng Zu Kangxi Thirty-three years
Tolstoy Russian nobleman 1828 qing daoguang eight years
Tagore India Nobles 1861 In the year of the Qing Dynasty, a coup d'état occurred, and Xianfeng was left to rule