Appreciation of Mu Zhi's Prose Joke, Book Margin and Poetic Road

Recently, I met a long-lost good friend, and he suddenly asked a joking question: "You have been participating in the revolution for decades, and you haven't mixed an official position. How did you become a writer and poet? "

Be speechless.

If you have never been an official, your heart is fine, but if you are an official, be sober, but your friend is a man with a prosperous career. He jokingly questioned the sudden attack, which shattered what he called calm and cold-eyed. Although you can't say that being an official is necessarily superior, you can't say that writing is necessarily short, but you have had enough of the anecdotes in your life.

One day, I went to find a monitor because of something urgent, and I felt that I was a little famous. In addition, this class leader once came to ask for the book I just published, so I thought, even if things can't succeed immediately, at least people have to explain politely why they can't. But the result is that people put their faces aside and scold themselves in a more terrible bureaucratic way than the governor. They were so embarrassed that they had to leave in anger. Since then, I often ask myself, who do you think you are?

Later, I remembered a joke by writer Lin Yutang: "If you can be a warlord, you will be an official, a bandit, and if you can't even be a bandit, you will be a scholar." Of course, Mr. Lin's joke is that he came to you and me in heavy depression. Let's not take it seriously. But if we become officials, poets, writers or rich people, we should not take ourselves seriously. If we take ourselves too seriously and always want to look down on others, we will lose ourselves. Once we encounter embarrassing things in real life, we can't extricate ourselves.

People often say that only they know themselves best. In fact, what we know best is not ourselves, but others. One day, I was bored and didn't want to write, so I had to stare quietly at the birds flying by occasionally outside the window. After no birds flew by, I suddenly made a comparison with my friends or friends. Later, I found that I was not as good as others in many places (I was very proud of myself before this whim). Today, I have to laugh at myself: "What are you?"

Yes, around me, some friends have been promoted, and some friends have made a fortune leisurely. However, when people's hearts are throbbing, when others are busy moving and getting promoted and getting rich, they deceive themselves by writing indifferent, contented and lonely poems and compositions, deceiving their restless hearts and brewing a tragic situation, which is really a bit like saying that they are worried about adding new words. Of course, although I don't call myself China's "Tagore" just because I have just published a few crooked poems, I dare not boast that just a few anodyne novels are a dream of red mansions. Looking back, what role did you play in this arduous career of writing poems and compositions? Is it a tragic figure? Or a comedy character? Until now, I know that what I know best is the pain of my body, and a living cultural person who can write poetry and composition besides the pain of cold and warmth may not be clear about his value orientation, living state and relationship with society.

Sometimes when I am bored, I will knock on the door of my friend who is taking a nap and drink his revolutionary wine with speculative heart. I told my friends about the past, the present and the future like a fortune teller, and told them that all my friends were very happy and in high spirits. Then there was the vastness of Hu Kan, accompanied by some folk stories with different meat and vegetables. A friend suddenly woke up and felt that he had been calculated again. He turned around and asked himself what he had been busy for so long, and then quickly gave a helpless mysterious smile and said, "I was thinking about something." Hearing this, my friend had to give a helpless and mysterious smile instead of asking questions.

Sometimes, in order to get what you like, you think about it day and night, and even ask someone for advice, but in the end, it falls into the hands of others. At this time, the gloomy psychology of depression, impetuousness and shallow inferiority that even you hate will pop up on yourself, but you can't say any good reasons to stop it.

When I put down my pen, I faced the mirror in front of me, ready to seriously examine myself again. For an instant, I remembered the lyrics in the TV series "Heaven is Above": "A mountain without a backbone will collapse, a tiger without a backbone will be king, and a man without a backbone will be a man, so make a rice bag. Drink a glass of white wine as the backbone ... "

No wonder, people, just born in the world, first "wow" and then "bitter" and "bitter" cry.

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Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Reading is like breaking ten thousand volumes, and writing is like a god." Although I think I have read some books, I still don't have a brilliant pen when writing, which may be related to the fact that ordinary people like me are born dull and clumsy. Naturally, I can't understand the romance in the book, and I can't find Yan Ruyu, but reading is still an unforgettable and enjoyable thing for me.

In retrospect, when I was a child, I didn't seem to have any special hobbies except tearing books, folding paper corners, rolling hoop, playing gyro and playing rubber slingshots with friends. The love of books begins with reading comic books in the third and fourth grades of primary school. Although I still have a little knowledge when I look at it, I am still at the stage of looking at the picture. However, a cartoon with distinctive characteristics of the times and outstanding characters such as White-haired Girl, The Story of the Red Lantern, Longxugou and Taking the Tiger Mountain Outward has subtly influenced myself, and the enlightenment education for literature may have started from reading cartoons.

Although the Buyi village where I was born is only five or six kilometers away from the county seat, the poverty at that time still plagued the wandering days of Buyi village every day. I can't get rid of it if I want to, and I can't get rid of it if I want to.

Sunset and sunrise, no matter how hard it is, I have to face it every day, but my father, who knows that knowledge can change fate, often tells me, son, only by studying hard can you get out of the mountains and change your destiny.

So, in the late 1970s, my father gritted his teeth and sent me to the county junior high school, hoping that I could change my destiny because of my knowledge. At that time, it was a good time to resume the college entrance examination. People's thirst for knowledge was as urgent as the thirst for rain and dew in the arid and cracked land. In order to jump out of the farm, get out of the land where my ancestors lived and see how wonderful the world outside the mountains is, studying hard and visiting bookstores have become the best way for me to understand the outside world and get out of the land where my ancestors lived.

At that time, I always pooled my father's pocket money and went to Xinhua Bookstore to buy books. Sometimes I like a book very much, but because I don't have enough money, I have to go to Xinhua Bookstore anxiously after school to see if the book I want to buy is still there through the glass counter. Sometimes I can't help it. I will ask the clerk to take the book out of the glass counter with trepidation, then gently open the title page of the book, smell the attractive ink and look at the lines that make me move. I didn't want to return the book to the clerk until I saw the clerk's unhappy eyes and said that I would save enough money to buy it. Then I stared at the book that the salesman put back on the glass counter and walked out of the bookstore step by step. Several times, I collected all the money for books and went to the bookstore with joy to buy the book I had long wanted. The salesman said that the book had been sold out. For this reason, I often can't help crying on my way back.

Now, although I have walked out of the land where my ancestors lived and lived in an impetuous town through reading and writing, I have the so-called future that my father wants to see, and I have also seen how wonderful and helpless the world I wanted to know when I was a child.

Reading and writing can't bring me the so-called fame and fortune that some people value, but at least they teach me to face the impetuous and noisy society and stay away from the numbness and helplessness of life. Searching and thinking in the book will make you reflect on reality, always remind yourself to face the bitterness and sweetness, sadness and joy, lightness and saltiness, beauty and ugliness of reality with a calm and peaceful mind, and learn to be grateful for life, others and society.

Reading a good book will help me understand the true meaning of life. When I am confused, a good book is like a bright light in the dark, which will illuminate my direction, let me adjust my mentality, purify my soul and guide my life.

Goethe said, "Reading a good book is talking to many noble people."

For me, the fate with books will be a lifetime.

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Poetry is a way of life for me, just like some people like photography, traveling, climbing mountains and singing. ...

And I, like poetry, like poetry creation.

In the chaotic world, in my pursuit and understanding of life, poetry has become a part of my life, integrated into the bone marrow and blood of my life, the spark of life from generate in my soul, the key to my pursuit of the true meaning of life, and the spiritual monologue of my dialogue with the world.

Because of poetry, I can travel in the world of life and death, and I can wander between heaven and hell.

Because of poetry, I can keep calm and calm in this world.

Because of poetry, I want to dig deep into my heart, no matter what happens, no matter what happens, no matter what flowers bloom and fall, no matter what clouds roll. ...

Because of this, I have no regrets about loving poetry. ...

As a result, some people extended the poem "I have a bottle of wine to comfort the dust" in the Tang Dynasty poet Wei's "Jane", made a slight change, and lamented "I have a pot of wine to comfort the dust" on the Internet.

In this noisy and impetuous world, poets are lonely in the world, but their hearts are colorful and surging.

Poetry is like a beam of light in the distance, illuminating me living in a low place. It seems to be the spiritual leader in my confusion, which makes my humble head hold my head high, makes my life full of sunshine and rain, makes me find my confidence and strength in life in poetry, makes me cross the poverty, paleness and mediocrity of life in a colorful way, and obtains the beauty and calm, dreams and hopes of the world in loneliness and heroism.

Poetry, whether it is Chun Xue or Xialiba people, as long as it is branded with an immortal mark in the image and artistic conception of the poetry expressed, even if it has remained in the poet's mind for a long time, as long as it has a spark of collision with the reader's mind, the attractive poetry will gush out. It can transcend time, space, region and language, let more people feel the most simple and sincere emotional appeal, comfort the soul and save lives.

True poetry, whether facing the soul directly or looking up at the vast universe, every soul is equal in poetry. Whether it is beautiful, sad or desperate, poetry can make it lively and agile. It is not only the sustenance of human soul, but also another interpretation of the truth of life.

Poetry is the cohesion of human nature, Taoism and understanding, and its purpose is to let the poet be in a noble spiritual world and let his soul fly in the sky of poetry without being polluted by secular material desires.

Gao said that "the world is not only the immediate existence, but also poetry and distance", which has aroused many people's discussion. In fact, poetry is far away, and poetry can take you far away. People who have no poems in their hearts, people who have not been touched by poems, have traveled all over the world, but they still have not gone far.

The famous poet Wang Guozhen said in his poem Love Life: I don't think about whether I can succeed. Since I have chosen a distant place, I only care about bitterness and difficulty.

Think about it, for poetry, or through thick and thin, no matter success or failure!