Ji Xianlin, a famous Chinese linguist, educator, social activist, translator and essayist, mastered the Twelve Chinese dialects in his lifetime, and is a master of China's national treasure level.
I hadn't read Ji Xianlin's works in its entirety before, and this time I bought two collections of essays from the season. One is "Loneliness Like a Big Snake", and the other is "Be a Good Passing Good Man". This book "Lonely Like a Big Viper" is more interesting because of its name, so I read this book first.
Although the name of the book "Loneliness Is Like a Big Poisonous Snake" is strange, it actually records the fragments of Ji Lao's life.
When Ji Xianlin was young, he wandered alone abroad to study. Although I have been to many places and seen landscapes that many people have never seen in their lifetime, in such turbulent times, I can travel around the world by myself, although I can be broad-minded, but including these articles under such a book title shows that wandering in different places will always feel lonely.
In the first chapter, "The Moon is hometown Ming", Ji Xianlin wrote about what he saw and heard in a different place, but in the article, he could always feel that Ji Xianlin was nostalgic for the past. In the article "Sacred Cow", even if he sees these sacred and inviolable sacred cows in India, Ji Xianlin will compare the current state of the sacred cow with the past situation.
In the next few articles, most of them are articles that miss their mothers and miss their relatives. I could feel that Ji Xianlin was a very nostalgic person. Although he is abroad, his heart is in his hometown. The person who wrote these essays put them all together, making these thoughts and worries more accumulated as if they were about to overflow. This is the true emotion of a master of language, his deep love for his family and hometown.
In the second chapter, "The Master Is Gone", Ji Xianlin even remembered his long-departed friends. Mr. Ji Xianlin has experienced ups and downs in his life. It has undergone almost a whole process of Chinese cultural innovation. There were many twists and turns in the middle, I met new like-minded friends, discussed and communicated together, and watched them go through hardships one by one and leave. These masters left behind various immortal poems and legends. But in Ji Xianlin's eyes, they were living friends, comrades who had struggled together when they were in full bloom. Behind these friends, Mr. Ji Xianlin must have thought of them from time to time, and in his memories, the funny things of these masters seemed to have happened yesterday.
Looking at this chapter, I feel special emotion. Reading these masters' articles and learning about them from Ji Xianlin's articles, there will still be some subtle differences. This kind of master from the perspective of a friend should be closer to the real them.
In the third chapter, "Unforgettable Kindness of The Teacher", after reading Mr. Ji Xianlin's circle of friends and understanding the interesting stories of the lives of those masters, looking at this chapter, it is obvious that ji Lao's tone is much more respectful.
In this chapter, Ji Lao commemorates his teachers. Including Zang Kejia, Zhu Guangqian, Xu Guozhang and other famous historical figures.
Ji Xianlin's writing is different from what I imagined, with a very heavy mark of the times. Especially when I saw and heard those articles in a foreign country, it almost made me wear the soul of the primary school to learn the master Fan Wen. His writing is not gorgeous, not ethereal, with a simple sense of truth. It may seem like it's easy to learn, but in reality it's hard to copy. Because his articles are almost all based on his rich knowledge and knowledge, it can be said that the more you read Ji Lao's articles, the more you will find that Ji Lao's knowledge is profound.
Because the whole book is almost always missing your relatives, friends, teachers. It will make people feel that Ji Xianlin is extremely emotional and nostalgic. For him, in the future, the days when his relatives and friends are far away one by one are like the title of the book - "Loneliness is Like a Big Poisonous Snake".