Selected famous quotes by Ba Jin:
1. Struggle is life, and life can only move forward.
2. Reading is to build one’s own thoughts with the help of other people’s thoughts.
3. I write not because I have talent, but because I have feelings
4. What people fear most is not falling into the abyss, but being thrown up and then falling back in again. .
5. Ideals do not abandon those who pursue them diligently. As long as you do not stop pursuing them, you will be bathed in the glory of your ideals.
6. I often say that I live by friendship, and friendship is my guiding light.
7. Silence can easily alienate people from their friends. Passionate speaking and freedom bring people closer to each other.
8. Be a person who offers help in cold weather and comforts in pain.
9. The meaning of life lies in giving, not in receiving, nor in striving for.
10. I am not worthy of being a beacon, so let me be a piece of wood!
11. The meaning of life does not lie in , nor in .
12. I love my motherland and my people. Without it and them, I cannot survive, let alone write.
Ba Jin’s background introduction:
1. Overview: Ba Jin (1904~2005), whose original name was Li Yaotang and whose courtesy name was Fu Gan. The pen name is Ba Jin. His ancestral home is Jiaxing, Zhejiang. He was born on October 19, the 30th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (November 25, 1904) in Zhengtongshun Street, North Gate, Fucheng, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. A modern writer, translator and publisher, one of the most influential writers since the "May 4th" New Culture Movement, and a giant in contemporary Chinese literary circles. Died of illness in Shanghai on October 17, 2005.
The pseudonym "Ba Jin" comes from a classmate named Ba Enbo whom he met while studying in France, and the Kropotkin translation that Ba Jin translated when this classmate committed suicide. book. He took one character from each of the two names and made them his pen names.
2. Life: Ba Jin was born in a bureaucratic landlord family in Chengdu, Sichuan. My father once served as a county magistrate in Guangyuan County, Sichuan. He was an upright official. After the Revolution of 1911, he resigned and went into seclusion. His mother died in 1914. In 1917 his father also died. He studied with a teacher at home since he was a child. Acceptance of democratic and anarchist trends during the May 4th Movement. At the end of the lunar calendar in 1920, his grandfather passed away. Ba Jin was glad that "no one in the family could control" his actions. From 1920 to 1923, he studied English at Chengdu Foreign Languages ??School (one of the predecessors of Sichuan University), participated in the work of the progressive publication "Half Moon", participated in the organization of "Junshe", and carried out anti-feudal propaganda activities. In 1922, he published new poems such as "The Cry of the Abused" in "Jiji Xinbao·Literary Tenth Issue".