2023 is still mainly entangled with a few old books, and occasionally I get new books, like a pomegranate flower, bright and bright.
Hu Wenhui, The Chinese History of Kissing, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, June 2023
The author realized that this was talking about kissing from a poem, so he took notes at any time during the years of reading, extracted the relevant content of the poem and novel, and merged similar items to form this book, which is a bit like an article in "Pipe Cone Weaving", which is just expanded before and after. Its path is to seek specialization in Bozhong, and it is still dominated by Bo. Just like watching Fan Fanshan and Yi Shunding write poems, we feel that the secondary rhyme poems are too difficult to write and have too many constraints, but they feel that "it is easy to tie up"; this kind of material for finding kisses from poems seems not difficult but is not easy, and the quality of this kind of work depends to a considerable extent on the quality of the author's taste. The author said that "kissing is just a trivial matter" and "it is only a matter of skill, not academic, not historical", but when he wrote it, it became a matter worth studying, involving the history of kissing, the form of kissing, the expression of kissing, the pictures of kissing, the regret of kissing, etc. Among them, the regret of kissing involves oral hygiene, so the appendix is "The problem of bad breath in Chinese and its solution", I used to read Mr. Shu and other edits "Liao Hui Yao", I saw that some animal bones were unearthed in the Liao tomb, and some eyes were hit in the flat place, but there was no hair, only holes, scholars think it was a toothbrush - that was quite late, how to clean teeth before? I am more interested in this part. It is stated that the book was compiled early and published late, and the material collected by the author of this book is much more complete, but I don't like to read purely introductory text, the author's text is more research-oriented and fascinating. On page 178, the Ming Dynasty anonymous "Ten Things in the Boudoir: Tooth Stick": "The fragrance is full of fragrance. The Quartet is small, and the heart is empty. This body is not tired of frequent restraint, the taste of the world is sparse, and it does not come out of the flesh on its own. For the time being, Yun is in possession. In the open place, the spring fiber is half-bent, and the stamens are bee whiskers. The author's interpretation of the last sentence is as follows: "At the end, 'the opening place, the spring fiber is half-bent, and the bee whiskers are on the stamens', which seems to refer to the woman's casual use of the tooth cane as a hairpin when talking and laughing, and the 'bee whiskers' originally refers to the bee's tentacles, which is generally a metaphor for a woman's hair." ——It is worth noting that the use of 'spring fiber' to describe the tooth stick here seems to be a legacy of the name of 'tooth picking' in Lu Ji's "Plain Book with Brothers". "Press, the tooth cane may be difficult to half-bend, "spring fiber" refers to the woman's hand, "half-bend" is the orchid finger to pick the teeth, "the bee whiskers on the stamen" can not refer to the solid, probably refers to the residue that is removed on their own hair or the beard of the male guest, and the use of Du Shi to increase the humor. The author has contributed more than a few heavy works to the academic community before, and he is able to do anything, and I sincerely look forward to his new work.
Xu Hong, "Yandong Garden's Left Neighbors", Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, January 2024
I had read several of these books online before, and I didn't expect them to be published in a collection. I have read a few articles before, and the two that impressed me more were Jian Bozan and Dong Tiebao.
The author is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University, and former deputy director of the news department and Beijing bureau chief of the China News Service. Her writing style is a bit of a news interview, the layout is from Yandongyuan No. 21-24 Building, No. 31-37 Building, No. 39 Building, No. 40 Building, who has lived in these buildings in turn, hastily cups and plates, Yongyong laughter, with the building is a person, the entry is clear. Emotions also uphold the characteristics of journalists, occasionally low and silent.
In other words, books like "The Legend of Luoyang Jialan" are certainly not written for the purpose of documenting architecture, nor are they so deeply related to religion, so what are these authors writing? Personally, I am not satisfied with the answer sheet handed over by the author of this book, but my respect for the author is not diminished by this. Copy a paragraph to end, page 402: "In 1940, when the autumn semester of Yenching University began, hundreds of freshmen wrote the same topic "Self-Statement", and the teacher read the paper and sent the good one to Mr. Lu Zhiwei for review. Mr. Lu selected two articles and commented: 'Li Zhong wins with meat, and Chen Xixiang wins with bone. Li Zhong was a freshman in the Department of Economics, and later changed his name to Li Shenzhi. Lu Huahua used the words of commenting on calligraphy to comment on the article.
Sun Yinggang, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, October 2023
Mr. Sun Yinggang talks about "Sui and Tang Dynasties" in three volumes, the first volume "The Formation of Empire" talks about Taizong, the second volume "Traces of Civilization" talks about Wuhou and Xuanzong, and the third volume "The Turn of Civilization" talks about the Anshi Rebellion and beyond. According to the revision of the speech, it can be seen that after putting in great efforts, I still feel that I am sometimes tight and sometimes loose, and when I am loose, I am tired of speaking. The overall clarity is not clear, and some words are not clearly spoken, and the reader understands it for himself. For example, Wu Zetian's dictatorship, she did not start a big war, it was an internal struggle among the bureaucracy, you fight, anyway, it is impossible not to fight, and the common people are less involved. This is a sober understanding, you can't take the interests of one family and one surname as the interests of the common people all over the world after a long time, the common people are very simple, just don't toss, you really have to toss, and limit it to the Li family or the martial court. Wu Zetian is good because she can take it, don't be unable to control it, overflowing this range is a humanitarian disaster. Xu Jingye's rebellion had just been suppressed, and Wu Zetian felt that he was unstable and in danger at all times, so he appointed cool officials and adopted a reign of terror. It is extremely absurd that whistleblowing is the norm and everyone is at risk. Fortunately, the time is not very long, about two years or so, Wu Zetian also knows that many of them are chasing after the wind and shadows, and there is no reality, in this atmosphere, there are indeed many people who will be implicated because of some trivial matters. The harm caused by the cool officials involved in the army, and many names were to be purged, and the overall combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Two years later, the regime of Wu Zhou gradually stabilized, the politics of terror could not last long, and the cool officials became a burden, Wu Zetian quickly turned his hands into clouds and cleaned them up, and their descendants were not allowed to be officials for generations; Zhang Yizhi's brother killed the heirs of the Li family and the Wu family, and put himself to death. For this extremely absurd history and the sober traders behind it, the author has long let go of the superiority of "reading history and knowing today's events", and told a lot of stories on the front and back, concise and to the point, which has received miraculous results.
Chen Xiaoping, "Detective Cases of Near-Persons and Recent Incidents", Nanjing University Press, August 2023
The author believes that "reading history is pleasant, and governing history is pleasure in suffering", and sometimes, readers can empathize with the author's happiness. For example, the author synthesizes historical materials and peer scholars' research to find the prototype of Wei Xiaobao, the well-known character of Jin Yong's novel, which is indeed fascinating, which is the collection of "Wei Xiaobao" prototype Wei Baoshan and Xingzhonghui". As a comprador of the bank, Wei Baoshan is one of the most prominent Chinese in Hong Kong, and is the third Chinese sir in Hong Kong, and is associated with the fictional character Sir Wei. Cantonese people bet on guessing the surname of the person who tried the Chinese style in the township, this kind of gambling is called the gambling of the "surname Yan", and there are Wei Baoshan brothers behind the shares. In October 1895, the first Guangzhou uprising of the Xingzhonghui was denounced, and the whistleblower was Webster, and the accusation engine turned out to be an uprising, which would cause great losses to the gambling business. The author says that "the goal of the uprising was to establish a republic, not another dynasty," but it failed without firing a shot. Historians have their own interests, and one is to look for the "scar next to the heart". Wei Baoshan later assisted the Qing court in assassinating Yang Quyun, the leader of the Xingzhong Society, without revealing his head and tail, "After that, Wei Baoshan continued to speculate between the Hong Kong government, the Qing court, and the revolutionary party, and allowed Chen Jinghua and other revolutionaries to work in his foreign firm" "After the Wuchang Uprising, Wei Baoshan traveled between the revolutionary party and Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong naval division, and contacted Li Zhun to surrender to the revolutionary party" "Guangdong was restored, Hu Hanmin organized the Guangdong military government, and still hired Wei Baoshan as the general adviser." In fact, I would like to ask whether he was a big man or a small man, I am afraid that it is relative, and it is difficult to say that he influenced the course of history, or conversely, had no influence on the rise and fall of the world. Recently, a certain historian commented on Chai Qingfeng's "Xie Sanbin Examination", saying, "If a scholar reads this article, what wisdom will he add to the so-called survival of the world in the late Ming Dynasty?
Finding prototypes, indexing, is always interesting. I read on the Internet that the researcher investigated the old things of Jin Yong's Huguang Farm, and believed that the prototype of Yu Yutong, the fourteenth master of the Red Flower Society, in "Book of Swords and Enmity" was Jin Yong himself (Niu Azeng's "Huguang Farm and Xiangxi Old Love-Jin Yong's Life New Examination"), Jin Yong fell in love with his colleague's wife on the farm, and Yu Yutong fell in love with his sister-in-law, "Yu Yutong" is "Yu and Tong", that is, I am the same as him. "Wei Xiaobao's Prototype", introduced in the study, studied in the introduction, shot not the first arrow, but also of great interest to readers.
In 1921, Wei Baoshan died secretly with a full stomach and was buried in the Aberdeen Chinese Permanent Cemetery.
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