Reflections on the Reading History of College Students

The following are my thoughts on college students' reading history. Welcome to reading. For more college students' post-reading feelings about history, please pay attention to the post-reading feeling column.

How do college students feel after reading history? Reading the history of Herodotus requires great patience. First of all, it's because the geographical span involved in this book is too large, the age span is too long, and there are too many clues about people and things. In terms of space, Herodotus has covered India in the east, the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, the Arctic Circle in the north and the source of the Nile in the south. In terms of time, there are 200 years from the rise of Lydia Kingdom (about 680 BC) to the Greeks repelling the Persian invasion (479 BC). This is just the main line of the book. If you add other events mentioned in the interpolation, some of them can be traced back to a longer time.

In addition, the author's special way of telling is also one of the reasons. He kept interrupting his narrative and constantly inserting relevant background introductions in the middle of a thing. This kind of interruption is about once or twice in a short time, but it will grow. The longest paragraph is the second volume, an introduction to the famous Egyptian customs. The whole volume of section 182, except section 1, has nothing to do with the main narrative line. What's more, in this interruption, sometimes he has to insert another paragraph, so it is formed? Interrupt in the interrupt? . For example, in the fifth volume, section 55 (abbreviated as 55, the same below), Herodotus talked about arista and Golas? The main leader of the Ionian uprising against Persia? Go to Greece for support. He went to Sparta first, but in vain, he turned to Athens. Here, the author inserts a long narrative (May, 55-May, 96) to introduce to readers how Athens got rid of the tyrant's rule and established a democratic system. This is not too much. But in May, 1957, he inserted a passage, introducing the origin of two heroes who killed Hipax, the brother of the last tyrant of Athens, and finally triggered the people's uprising? Gephyraei。 That's not all. In the following May of 58, he began to talk about the Phoenicians who settled in Greece with the Gefila people, and then began to discuss one of his own research results? He believes that the Greek alphabet comes from Phoenicians and uses three sections (59 to 5 1) to illustrate it. It is true that this research result is very insightful, but what does it have to do with the Gefila people? What does it have to do with the Athenians getting rid of tyrants? What does it have to do with the Ionian uprising? This kind? Interrupt in interrupt. Interrupt in interrupt. What do I call it? Cubic interjection is not the only place in Herodotus' book. Like this? Cubic interjection? After it's over, that is, before May 1996? A party cut in line? How many paragraphs are there before we finish? Second interjection? And then what? Cubic interjection? . If I'm a little harsh, even? Second interjection? Can find out.

(Of course, history is not completely without a main line. Interruptions are more obvious only in the first five volumes. The last four volumes have begun to directly describe the Greek-Persian war, so the interruption has been greatly reduced, and modern people should feel relaxed when they see this. )

If you need to introduce some background knowledge that is not directly related to the topic described, today's author will probably solve this problem through footnotes. But Herodotus didn't. I feel that even if there were footnotes in his time, he wouldn't use them. Interruption is a characteristic of his way of telling, but footnotes can't meet his needs? No one has seen it in modern works. Footnote, footnote, footnote? This kind of thing, right?

This kind of narrative mode that is divorced from the theme from time to time, or the narrative mode with unclear theme and unclear main line, you can think that it is the result of imperfect literary skills at that time. But if you are more open-minded, you can also think that this is a particularly attractive narrative way. I think anyone who has read The Arabian Nights Haven't Changed can understand this, right? The story in the story? In fact, its structure is not uncommon and monotonous. This is a way to flow with the flow of language/narrative/∕ logos itself. This is a river of words that can be diverted, traced, rotated and reorganized at any time. What is the so-called in modernist novels? Stream of consciousness? 、? Life flow? Borrowing such terms, I can also call it Herodotus' way of telling. Narrative process? , or? Logos stream? . What it wants to show people is actually not a fixed discourse object with a clear cause-result-beginning-end, but a combination of subject and object with many clues, which can be separated at any time and interpreted from different perspectives and different purposes. Not only can readers approach it in different ways, but if the author Herodotus doesn't want to talk about the Persian War, he can completely restart his narrative with the topic of "Local Records of Greece and its Surrounding Areas" or "Political Evolution of Greece and its Surrounding Areas" according to the materials at hand. And if such a book, instead of history, spreads to today, the information people can get from it is not less than 80% of today's history, but it will exceed 100% in some aspects.

? Flow? With what? Road? The difference is that the flow itself does not have and does not require a clear direction. What is this? Speaking of which, where is it? Yes, people have to face it? Go with the flow? Share; No matter how complicated the road is, even if it becomes a road network extending in all directions and ubiquitous, as long as people set foot on it, what is their purpose? where am I going? Mentality is inevitable. so this is it？ Stream of consciousness? Can't scream? The road to consciousness? Reason. ? Road? Always out of the original environment, by? A lot of walking? Something different from the original environment, and? Flow? But it is the original thing that surrounds you and confuses your sense of direction. For history, it is both a misunderstanding and a helplessness for us modern people to pursue a distinct structure.

Reflections on the history of college students II Herodotus's history is divided into two volumes. I read the first volume and have some feelings about some words in the first volume. I made the following summary:

Solon, an Athenian, visited the monastery of Sardis during his overseas inspection. Cloisonne asked him: Who is the happiest of all the people he has met so far? Solon, on the other hand, was honest and selfless, and replied without flattery that all the people in front of him were ordinary people. At this moment, Alex lost his temper and said, guests of Athens! Why do you take my happiness so lightly and think it is not as good as an ordinary person? Solon answered this question:? Everything in the world is completely unpredictable. Speaking of yourself, I think you are extremely rich and are the king who rules many people; However, as for your question, I can only give you an answer when I hear that you have ended your life happily. Undoubtedly, even a very rich person cannot be said to be happier than an ordinary person who can only maintain his life for one day, unless he happily enjoys all his great wealth until his death. Because many of the richest people are not happy, while many people with only moderate wealth are happy. Unfortunate people with great wealth are superior to happy people in only two aspects: but happy people surpass the former in many aspects.

Rich people are better able to satisfy their desires and bear the blow of catastrophe. Of course, the latter can't satisfy their own desires like the former and can't stand such a disaster. However, his luck prevented these disasters from befalling him. In addition, he will enjoy some happiness: he will not be disabled, ill, and will not encounter disasters. He has a good child and always feels happy. If, besides all this, he gets a happy ending, this is exactly the person you are looking for, that is, a happy person. Indeed, as Solon said in his article, a rich man is more capable of satisfying his own desires and bearing the blow of catastrophe; Of course, people who have no money can't satisfy their desires and can't stand disasters like rich people, but I think they will live a simpler and more natural life without so many constraints. In the movie Titanic, Stephy was deeply called? Upper-class network? The bondage of, let her out of breath, feeling suffocating; Carl, on the other hand, enjoys aristocratic treatment and thinks that money is everything. Jack, a bohemian boy, has nothing. Even the tickets for the Titanic were obtained by gambling, but he lived happily. Before Ross and Jack met, she was a rich girl who lacked everything, but every day she was like a walking corpse and didn't feel happy. After knowing Jack, although Jack has no money, he can show her the happiness of life every day, which money can't buy.

Snobbish Carl invited Jack to dinner to see him make a fool of himself. However, Jack did a good job. He has no inferiority complex. He told his story, and the nobles listened to him carefully. This is undoubtedly something they have never experienced or felt. They find it novel. I feel that the appearance of Jack has also injected new blood into the rigid aristocratic society. There is such a scene in the film: a rich girl has to learn all kinds of manners since she was a child, and she is still practicing the necessary things for drinking tea in a rest tea restaurant? Fold napkins? This makes me feel sad.

We ordinary people sometimes envy those rich people and buy whatever we want, but they are not happy under the aura and will worry about whether they will be kidnapped one day. And ordinary people have never been so worried. In fact, happiness is very simple, and there is no need for anything vigorous. As long as he quietly completes what he wants to do and dies well, then he can be said to be a happy person.

After reading history, it took college students a month to read the first and second volumes of Herodotus' history. The first volume gave me a completely different feeling. The content of the first volume is not like a history book about war, but more like a review essay written by Herodotus when he traveled around the world. The content of the first volume has no strict main line, including geography, culture, mythology, customs and politics.

When Herodotus compiled history, his purpose was to record what he heard or saw, whether it was correct or not. Therefore, when reading the history of Herodotus, we should also pay attention to the correctness of historical materials and look at this book with suspicion.

What follows is my harvest and feelings after reading Herodotus's History.

From the history of Herodotus, it is not difficult to find that when Greece and Persia were engaged in major events, such as wars, they were all entrusted by the gods, which was very similar to the divination in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in ancient China. This kind of deity is equivalent to joking about the fate of the country, but they believed it very much at that time. For example, in the first volume of History published by the Commercial Press, page 3 1, part 66, the Kailadai League sent someone to ask if they could conquer the whole Arcadia. Petya told them that they could not, but they could attack Tiechia. Kaila Daimeng people believe in it, instead of occupying the real armor, they become. And there are many such events that are entrusted by God, so I won't list them here.

For me, the most exciting story in the first volume of history is the story of Ju Lushi and his grandfather Asduagus. Although Asdua Arzeus wants to maintain his own rule, I am ashamed of his cruel persecution of his grandson Ju Lushi. However, there are similar behaviors in ancient and modern times, such as the change of Xuanwu Gate in China. Perhaps, if you want to rule for a long time, you just can't have too many personal feelings. Ju Lushi can survive, and Ha Pages is indispensable. However, Ju Lushi was able to return to Persia later, which was inseparable from Ju Lushi's own wisdom and courage. As the fifth line of History, Volume I, page 60, written by the Commercial Press, Asduagus looked at Ju Lushi and asked, Are you a son of a bitch who dares to make trouble with the son of the most important person in China? Ju Lushi was not afraid of the king's questioning, and answered his questions very calmly. I think this is something that many children can do, and it is also a necessary character to become a king of a generation. Sure enough, Ju Lushi returned to Persia safely. With the help of Harpagus, he gathered the Persians and joined those who defected from Medea to get rid of the rule of Asduas. Finally, he defeated crois and became the master of the whole Asia.

In addition, in the history of Herodotus, many stories are thought-provoking and philosophical. For example, paragraph 18 on page 45 of Volume I of History of the Commercial Press says: No one will be stupid enough to love war more than peace. It is not the son who buries his father as usual, but the father who buries his son. ? I think this sentence profoundly reveals the pain brought by war to mankind, and where you will go has become the normal state of war. Philosophic and gorgeous language can touch people's hearts. When Ju Lushi heard what Cloisonne said, Ju Lushi not only didn't kill him, but also asked him to sit beside him and take good care of him. Having said that, I have to mention that I think Ju Lushi is a broad-minded person who values talents. Ju Lushi hoped that Cloisonne would express its dissatisfaction with him and sincerely seek a solution. This is not something that every monarch can do. His qualities are indispensable for him to become a wise king. Back to the philosophical story, I think there is a story here that is very useful even for us today. This is the story about Darius opening the queen's tomb to get money written on pages 93-94 of History, the first volume of the Commercial Press. When he opened the grave, all he saw was the body and a line: If you were not greedy for money and didn't do anything to get it, you wouldn't open the coffin of the deceased. ?

This story is very instructive to people who are money-oriented. We should put the money in the right place. No money, really not, but money is not supreme. We can't pursue money indefinitely, let alone do things that violate ethics for money.