The first word is "fate", you must accept it. For example, you can't choose what kind of family you were born in and what you look like. Being born in a poor peasant family is definitely different from being born in a rich family. This is fate, you can't choose. It's called destiny takes a hand Second, I think it's luck and luck. This "luck" is dynamic. If "fate" is doomed and fixed, then "luck" is dynamic. I often feel "lucky" and unlucky. Many times, you feel that you have done nothing but have some kind of "luck". For example, at that time, we just graduated from university and ran a publication, Contemporary Heroes. For this reason, the anti-rightist movement of 1958 is almost over, but I was added and classified as the extreme right. I left academia for more than twenty years. Later, when I was engaged in comparative literature, my luck really changed. It was 198 1 years ago. I was 50 years old. I don't know how to choose me to go to Harvard. Besides, I spent a year at Harvard. At that time, someone from Berkeley University came to Harvard for a meeting. He met me and invited me to be a special researcher for two years. I don't know! How is that possible? Berkeley and Harvard are both very good schools. Later, I believed in this "luck", that is, "luck turns." "Luck" can't be forced, and it is useless to force it when "luck" doesn't come. Don't worry when you are unlucky. When you are lucky, don't feel good about yourself. It is driven by a force you don't know, but it is not your own greatness. The third word is "virtue", which means "virtue" of morality. Morality should be "cultivated" at all times. Confucius said, "It is my worry not to cultivate morality, not to learn morality, not to move if you are not good at it, and not to change if you are not good at it." If we don't talk about "virtue" and "learning", it will be a great trouble. In any sense, I always feel that I want to be a good person. I think this is a very important factor in Chinese traditional culture. As Mr Fei Xiaotong said, it is the gene of People's Republic of China (PRC) cultural tradition. Ordinary people don't necessarily want their children to succeed, but they want their children to be good people, not bad people. This is the gene that lives in our common people's culture. In my most difficult, wronged and puzzled time, I feel that there are two words that are the pillars of my life, and that is: "If you are rich, you will help the world, and if you are poor, you will be immune to it." Although I am deprived of any rights, I can still be a good person. When I was supervised in the countryside, it was the age of great famine. The leader asked me to create a miracle, fattening four piglets for the New Year, and not feeding them. I was in a hurry about this task. Let the pigs feed in the fields every day and weed everywhere. Later, the pigs were raised well, but they were not fat anyway, but I felt good that everyone had a good time during the Chinese New Year. So anyway, even in a very difficult environment, I still have to go all out to be a good person, so my fellow villagers like me very much. At that time, in the family where I lived, the old man was a shepherd. When he was herding sheep, he found a walnut and half a peanut and brought them back for me to eat. At that time, the decentralized cadres all got edema. I don't have edema because there is not enough food. That's because we can often eat walnuts, peanuts and sweet potato heads. Moreover, our aunt keeps chickens, and there will always be a few left over from the egg quota. The three of us have an "egg feast" almost every few months, and we eat eight eggs! So I haven't been swollen and I'm in good health. If you can't see the future at that time, you will be completely depressed and don't want to do anything, or you will be indifferent to the people and will be very resistant to everyone. If you don't have the confidence to be poor, you will feel that you can't live. The fourth word is "knowledge", the "knowledge" of knowledge. "Knowledge" is what you require, that is to say, you should have knowledge and wisdom. At this point, I think I have never given up. Even when I release pigs, I read English words while releasing pigs, without losing my English foundation at all. I used to like foreign literature, especially Russian novels like Turgenev. The revolutionary women he wrote had a great influence on me. On the other hand, I also like People's Republic of China (PRC)'s ancient poems. I'm surprised. On the one hand, I appreciate the kind of Russian literature that is particularly enterprising, and I like what I like. I am determined to do something for others and the public. On the other hand, People's Republic of China (PRC)'s poems, especially those negative things in Yuan Qu, have a great influence on me. For example, Lao Bei's Yuanqu: "Although it is dark in the morning, it has turned to snow at night", "Go to bed with different shoes", "Life is limited, how many festivals to climb" and so on. These "knowledge" are very important for me to embark on the road of comparative literature in the future. Because I know a little about the West and People's Republic of China (PRC), I was lucky enough to come to Harvard University and be exposed to the subject of comparative literature, which made me want to engage in comparative literature, especially like this subject, and I also saw that the future development of this subject is limitless. Therefore, this "knowledge" is very important to people, and sometimes it will determine a person's life. If you don't have knowledge in this field, haven't read relevant books and don't touch it at all, it's impossible to develop in this field, you will be isolated and there are few roads for you to choose. So I attach great importance to the word "knowledge". The fifth word is "OK". Everything mentioned above will eventually be put into practice. This "line" is actually a choice, that is, how do you choose when you face a barrier. People often face many choices and many contingencies. Even if you do the first four words well, in this last step, when you cross it out and go to another road, or you are slow or fast in this step, you still won't get a good result. I think I have many such barriers. For example, when I went to the Soviet Union for a meeting, the leader really retained me and told me that you could go to Moscow University to study and be an international student, but I decided to go back to Peking University. Later, when Mr. Ji Xianlin prefaced one of my books, he said that Le Dai Yun's choice was correct, or that People's Republic of China (PRC) lacked a female diplomat, but People's Republic of China (PRC) had a brilliant pioneer in comparative literature. In other words, choice is very important. People's life, sometimes the choice is right, sometimes the choice is wrong! If you choose correctly, you can't do without luck. I remember when I graduated from college, Mayor Peng Zhen asked me to be a secretary. I choose not to go, but it's not up to me! Unexpectedly, my file was lost after a while, and I didn't want to look for it, so I forgot it later. In this way, I stayed at Peking University, which is a combination of choice and fate. What is the five-character life sentiment? 2 classic articles Life sentiment Sorry for our parents. The superior leader will come to check on Sunday, and the unit requires overtime. When I entered the door in the early morning, I heard my colleagues complaining about their loved ones. No one wants to take care of her children. My mother goes to church every week, and her mother-in-law says she should take care of her sick father-in-law. She had no choice but to take her nine-year-old child to work. My colleague said angrily with tears in his eyes: Is it so important to go to church? Why not go less once? Grandpa just caught a cold. Why can't he look after the children? They are so selfish! Listening to my colleagues' complaints, I inexplicably felt as heavy as lead, and immediately remembered my father who had made me complain and felt guilty. I have always held a grudge against my father when he was alive. My father has been a leader for many years. He is always bossing around at work and at home. We all hate his bullying behavior. For example, watching TV, he never asked us what we thought, and chose the theme of war and history. I have never watched any TV series with romantic content, such as "Blood Suspicion" and "Bian Ka", and I can only listen to my classmates' comments eagerly. Even A Dream of Red Mansions is a replay of later holidays. At home, my father is the absolute authority, and we must obey him, otherwise the family will be overcast and the atmosphere will be too depressing to go out. After I got married, my father and ex-husband had a quarrel over family chores. Because I love my husband deeply, I always blame my father, thinking that he is unreasonable and makes trouble. Later, my father fell ill and was still the head of the family. My sister and brother and my mother were just dumb. We were wronged by our mother, but we were helpless. We think that all the contradictions in our family are caused by our father, because he is too picky and willful. My family didn't like my dad at that time, really. Shortly after marriage, my father was diagnosed with severe kidney disease and later gradually turned into uremia. They all say that "there is no dutiful son before a long bed", not to mention that we are not very filial. When my father was hospitalized for the first time, I was busy with my work and taking care of my young children, and seldom went to the hospital to visit my father. At that time, my marriage also went wrong. I struggle with my emotions every day and seldom think of my sick father. I always thought that my father's illness would not be so serious. Later, although I had to start hemodialysis twice a week, every time I saw my father, I always felt that he could persist for several years without considering life and death. My marriage finally came to a dead end. I decided to divorce and raise the children alone. My decision was unanimously opposed by my mother, brothers and sisters and informed friends. First they opposed my divorce, and then they opposed my divorce and having children. I came to my father's bed in frustration and asked him what to do. He said, son, respect your inner choice. If you can't get through, just go. Dad knows that children are your favorite, so go. I fell on the bed and wept silently, moved by my father's insight. After I cut off my emotional entanglements, I can wait in front of my father's bed every day, accompany him day and night, listen to his life experiences, career ups and downs, life experiences, understand my father more and resent him less. It is precisely because of this last period of company that it is a little comforting to think of it today. But once there is a gap in my life, I still can't stop thinking of my father-thinking of all the love he gave me when I was a child; Think of his encouragement and connivance to me when I was a teenager; Think of his strong support to me when I was divorced ... those bits and pieces of the past penetrated into my heart and became regretless pain, which was heartbreaking. In my words, they are all full of love for my father, leisurely telling those loving memories and those beautiful past events. We are willing to tolerate and forgive all people, why do we have to compete with those who love us the most? We are willing to be kind to strangers passing by. Why should we blame the people we love? Forgive some shortcomings of our parents. Think they are ordinary people, although they also have shortcomings and problems. Although sometimes they can't meet our expectations and do worse than other people's parents in one thing or several things, they are the people who love us the most. They gave us life, a warm home and wings to spread our wings. Isn't that enough? Are we asking too much of them? Even if they really can't satisfy us sometimes, please treat them a little more, just like our children. When we were young, didn't they just indulge us and treat us well? The past cannot be traced. Think about it carefully. The past is gone forever. I can still remember this feeling, but I am already disconsolate.