"Letters from Fu Lei" 1, don't read Russian too fast, too fast to remember, and you have to start all over again in the future. At the beginning, you must take your time, remember the location and cases, and it's useless to memorize like an exam. Now, when you look at Russian, you have to have a concept, and don't be too ambitious. We still need to work hard on music theory. Foreign languages are always learned abroad, and progress is relatively fast. At present, if you are greedy, you will not actually benefit, remember to remember! I hope you can take the initiative to explain to the teacher that it will take at least two or three months to speed up the pace ... 2. Blame yourself for not taking action, which is the last thing I agree with. This is the basic style of being a person, not just for someone or something. I once told you that only facts can prove your thoughts and only actions can show your heart. You can't be so careless with your friends. People who are fickle in nature are the most wronged and the least worthy to act fickle. Just like a person who is not naughty gets hurt in the end when playing naughty, it is a truth. You know all the principles of being a man, but you lose because you don't show the facts. I hope you will remember this for a generation from now on. You have to explain everything to others! Secondly, you can't have a clear understanding and practice of time arrangement, academic arrangement, key points and priorities. This is where I am most worried about you. Because in the future, your life will be as busy as mine, or even busier. If you can't fully grasp the time and prioritize things, everything will be discounted. So, I hope you not only listen to my opinion, but also think about it yourself. If you think about it, you must find a way to implement it immediately. Everything that should be changed or adjusted should be changed immediately, and it cannot be delayed for any reason. 3. Self-confidence while maintaining the spirit of self-criticism is an important condition for all artists. Even if the critics are not completely correct or the game is completely wrong, there will still be a few words that arouse our introspection, give us an inspiration, let us discover the real shortcomings, or find another corner for us to pursue, or remind us that there are some details that can be supplemented, modified or improved. This is the dialectical relationship between what critics say and what can't be ignored. Last week, I told Min "Song of Eternal Sorrow" and "Pipa Travel", which I found wonderful. Bai Juyi deeply understands the relationship between syllables and emotions. Whenever you go to a sad place, you must use rhyme. The passage of "the major chord is noisy" and "the minor chord is cut" in Pipa is like staccato, just like the sound of pipa. And the phrase "silence is better than sound" is equal to a long pause. "Silver bottle ... water slurry burst" is another sudden attack [in], with great momentum. As for Song of Eternal Sorrow, its breath is detached, its writing style is unconventional, and its imperial spirit [everywhere] is even more remarkable. There are several different ways of reading: one is to read the ups and downs of the narrative in a separate paragraph; The second is to look at the sadness and joy of emotions, sometimes sinking and sometimes elegant; The third is to experience the changes of syllables and rhymes in the whole poem. Generally speaking, it is more fascinating and fresh to send the tragedy to the celestial world, but it is still full of human breath (such as what Taizhen said to the Taoist priest). Bai Juyi's skill in writing movements is also remarkable: "Moreover, because of her laziness, a servant girl is carrying her", "The emperor can't save her, so he can only cover his face" and "dreaming in her flowery canopy" are all so vivid! "Nine palaces are full of smoke and dust, and thousands of trips to the southwest" are written about the emperor's own spirit of fleeing imperial power. "The imperial flag opens the way, moving and stopping", what a vivid picture! Finally, there is another beauty: the whole poem is so tactfully and delicately written, but it is still elegant and elegant, without any minor illness! Delicate and delicate are very different. It is a tragedy, but it doesn't cry too much. What a golden mean, it is a wonderful example of romantic and classical beauty. You don't have any prose books at hand now, but Shi Shuo Xin Yu Yu Can can be read. The Japanese have regarded it as a secret treasure in their pillows for hundreds of years. I often miss the literary romance of Jin Dynasty and Six Dynasties, which is considered as the cultural peak of China. Young people don't understand the words on earth. It's no use reading this book if you don't have hundreds of poems and dozens of words in your stomach. Moreover, at present, Wang Guowei's aesthetics is "idealistic"; At this time, Yu Pingbo "ate and drank all his life", and Wang Guowei was also criticized. In fact, idealism and materialism are just two sides of the same thing, so there is no need to be so restrained! Personally, I think Tales on Earth is the best literary criticism in the history of China. Carry forward the spirit, this book is equal to a golden key. It is rare for a person who has no soul and talks about theory to become a modern pedant, a contemporary pedant and an expert in stereotyped writing! The most important thing in learning is "communication", so that the general ability is not rigid, pedantic, sour or rigid; "Communication" can cultivate integrity, mind and vision. "Communication" can become "big", and if it is not too big or too big, there is a danger of sitting on the well and watching the sky. I have always believed that people are the most important in learning art or making art, and a "person" should be developed as much as possible. You must learn to be a man before you can be called ××× home. Otherwise, no matter how clever the xx family is, it will not make much contribution to mankind. You've been tired of listening to this since you were a child, and I'm afraid it's even more annoying to listen to it again. 6. I feel the same way about the literary works of19th century mentioned in the letter. But things in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have not yet begun, and there is no big problem. I feel more and more that the aesthetic concept of China people is very different from that of westerners. No matter what era of western works I read, there are always some inappropriate contents. As for the severity of domestic introduction, I think the pollution problem of demolition is far less serious. I would like to ask, that is, in the nineteenth century, what famous works can make people read? People who don't understand the original text can't even figure out the meaning, let alone appreciate it! As for the new romantic atmosphere in romain rolland, I already have a headache. This retranslation is mostly for eating, not for hobbies. Of course, there are also many abuses, and it is this influence that ordinary young people often declare their outlook on life with big and inappropriate words. My own style of writing has also been greatly poisoned, and it was not cleaned up until I published "New Talk". Stendhal, I read several books twenty years ago, and it seems that there is not much fate. People's Literature Publishing House also asked me to translate Red and Black, but I didn't want to accept it at the moment. And wait until you have time to reread the original. In my opinion, Merimee's "Gao Yuan" is far less than "Garland", which is too like a detective novel, with a clever plot and a cheap romance. I wonder if you feel this way after reading it? Ye Junjian translated "Jamaan Jamaan". According to the letter, "Ye's translation syntax must be made of pig iron to make the pump stink, otherwise you can read it one ear at a time." On knowledge 1 in Bacon's Essays, knowledge can be used as a pastime, as a decoration, and also to increase one's talents. Reading can be a pastime when you are lonely. When you speak, knowledge can be decorated. When you act in the world, the correct use of knowledge means strength. Happy is the man who knows the cause and effect of things. Although people with practical experience can handle individual affairs, if they want to look at the whole and plan the overall situation, they can only do so by mastering knowledge. Learning too slowly will lead to laziness, studying for decoration is self-deception, and studying completely according to the rules of books will make you a paranoid bookworm. Knowledge can improve man and nature, and experiments can improve knowledge itself. Human nature is like wild flowers and weeds, and learning is like pruning and transplanting. Practical attempts can test the authenticity of the revised knowledge itself. Cunning people despise learning, fools envy learning, and only smart people are good at using learning. Knowledge itself does not tell people how to use it, but the way to use it is outside books. This is a skill. You can't learn without doing experiments. Don't read just for criticism and argument, but don't trust books easily. The purpose of seeking knowledge is not to brag or show off, but to seek truth and enlighten wisdom. Some knowledge only needs to be tasted, and some knowledge only needs to be learned. Only a few professional knowledge needs in-depth and meticulous study. Therefore, some books only need to read part of them, some books only need to know the outline, and for a few good books, we should read them intensively, carefully and repeatedly. Some books can be read by someone instead and then read the summary of his notes. But this is limited to books of poor quality. Otherwise, a good book will become as tasteless as distilled water! Reading enriches the mind, discussion makes people distinguish right from wrong, and taking notes makes people accurate. Therefore, if a person resumes taking notes, his memory must be strong and reliable. If a person only wants to explore alone, his thinking must be particularly keen. If someone doesn't study and wants to pretend to be knowledgeable, he must be very cunning to cover up his ignorance. Reading history makes people wise, reading poems makes people wise, calculus makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people cultivated, and logic rhetoric makes people able to contend. In short, "knowledge can shape a person's character". Moreover, all kinds of mental defects can be improved through knowledge-just as physical defects can be improved through exercise. For example, playing ball is good for the waist and kidney, archery can expand the chest and moisten the lungs, walking can help digestion, riding can make people react quickly and so on. Similarly, a distracted person can also study math, because math will make mistakes if he is not careful. People who lack analysis and judgment can learn scholasticism, because this subject is the most complicated and dialectical. People who are not good at reasoning can study law or something. These mental defects can be cured through knowledge. On the stage of love, love is much better than love in life. Because on the stage, love is only the material of comedy and tragedy, but in life, love often brings misfortune. Sometimes it looks like a seductive witch, and sometimes it looks like a vengeance. You can see that none of the truly great figures (whether ancient or modern, as long as their fame is forever engraved in human memory) are crazy about love. Because the great cause suppressed this feeling of weakness. Only Antony and Claudia of Rome are exceptions. The former is lascivious and dissolute, while the latter is a serious and resourceful person. This shows that love will not only occupy an open and broad mind, but also sometimes break into a heavily guarded mind-if the defense is lax. Epicurus once said a stupid thing: "Life is just a big stage." It seems that human beings who should strive for lofty causes should be like dolls, just taking part in accidental amusement. Although the slave of love is different from the beast who only cares about eating and drinking, after all, it is only the slave of eyes and colors. God gives people eyes for a higher purpose. Excessive pursuit of love will inevitably reduce the value of people themselves. For example, only in love do you always need that kind of high-sounding flattery. On other occasions, the same rhetoric can only make people laugh. There is a famous saying in the ancients: "The greatest flattery is always for yourself." -only flattery to lovers is an exception. Because even the proudest person is willing to belittle himself in front of his lover. Therefore, the ancients said well: "Even God can't stay smart in love." This weakness of lover is obvious not only in the eyes of outsiders, but also in the eyes of the pursued-unless she (he) is also pursuing him (her). So, this is the price of love. If you don't get love, you will get deep contempt. This is the eternal law. This shows that people should be very alert to this feeling. Because this will not only make people lose others, but also make people lose themselves. As for other losses, ancient poets have long told us that those who pursue Helen give up wealth and wisdom. When the human heart is most vulnerable, love is the easiest to invade, that is, when people are proud of the spring breeze, get carried away, get into trouble and be lonely, although the latter may not get love. People are most eager to jump into the flame of love at this time. This shows that "love" is really the son of "stupid". But some people, even if there is love in their hearts, can still restrain it and let it not interfere with important undertakings. Because once love interferes with emotions, it will hinder people from running firmly towards the established goals. I don't know why. Many soldiers are more likely to fall in love. Maybe it's just like they love drinking, because a dangerous life needs more joy compensation. There may be a universal love tendency in people's hearts. If we don't focus on a single object, it will be applied to a wider public and make him a kind person, just like some monks. The love of husband and wife makes human beings multiply. A friend's love helps others. But that kind of dissolute love will only make people degenerate and destroy! On beauty, virtue is like a gem, but it is more gorgeous against the background. Similarly, a dignified, serious and virtuous person who does not wear fancy clothes is admirable. Not all beautiful people have other talents. Because creation is stingy, he gives this to another. So many handsome people do nothing, and give up inner beauty because of the pursuit of external beauty. But this is not entirely correct, because Augustus, Phippas, King Philip, English Edward IV of England, Alsi Barthes, Ismail and so on. They are brave men and handsome men. On closer examination, the beauty of form is better than the beauty of color, and the beauty of elegant manners is better than the beauty of form. The highest beauty can't be expressed by the painter, because it is difficult to be intuitive. This is a wonderful beauty. There used to be two painters-Apparis and Diu Lei-who thought it was funny to paint in geometric proportions or to absorb the most beautiful features of different people to synthesize the perfect portrait. In fact, I'm afraid only the painter likes the beauty painted in this way. Beauty can't be standardized, and creating beauty is often an opportunity, not a formula. There are many faces, some of which are not beautiful, but they are very moving as a whole. Some old people look cute because their styles are elegant and beautiful. The Latin proverb says, "Autumn in late autumn is the best." Moreover, although some young people are beautiful, they are not worthy of praise because they have no beautiful cultivation. Beauty, like fruit in midsummer, is perishable and difficult to maintain. There are many beautiful women in the world. They had dissolute youth, but they were faced with regretful old age. So, combine the beautiful appearance with the beautiful virtue. Only in this way,

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