Hello everyone! A month of winter vacation is a time for both rest and for study and reflection. So, I will share with you my reflections.
First, reading a good book can benefit a person for a lifetime. Of course, life may be a little rough at times, but there are moments of benefit. During the winter vacation, I read Ma Boyong's The Lychees of Changan. The book tells of a simple-minded man named Li Shande who transported lychees from Lingnan. Lingnan corresponds to the Guangdong-Guangxi region. You may ask why Li Shande went to Lingnan: because Yang Guifei wanted to eat them, and she wouldn't eat the ones from Shu. After hardship, they were finally transported, but in the end Yang Guifei did not eat them.
The story's broad background takes place before the An Lushan Rebellion, and by then there were signs: relay stations destroyed, provincial princes not obeying the central government, the famous An Lushan who led Emperor Xuanzong in dancing the 'Little Ni Shang', and the court s internal power struggles involving Yang Guozhong and Yi Nei Mei, that is, the outward and inward struggles of the court. This leads us to... but what I want to emphasize more is the satire of reality in the literature/novel. Taking a single example: Li Shande, an honest man who exposes corruption among his superiors and colleagues, is then targeted by enemies and assigned a task almost certain to be deadly. How is this different from the modern workplace? And those tasks at the Tang court that are nearly impossible to complete, with a few departments passing the buck; do you think this is any different from reality? The novel springs from reality and rises above life, more or less like that, right?
Next is the picture. This is a rough drawing I drew after reflecting on Shi Tiesheng's essay during the winter vacation; it's crude, but it already expresses what I want to convey. In life, people inevitably encounter setbacks, and some can deal an irreparable blow. For example, Shi Tiesheng, in his twenties, with both legs visibly paralyzed, at the prime of youth! Obviously, Shi Tiesheng has reached this point. The fact shows that Shi Tiesheng, in the midst of this, realized the truth about life, then rose again from the ashes, yet did not fully recover to his former vitality, because the gunshot blow is irreversible; Shi Tiesheng cannot return to the Shi Tiesheng with two healthy legs, but a Shi Tiesheng without legs could not have achieved such enormous literary achievements either. Therefore adversity makes heroes; hardship can make people reborn. But see, there is a thin black line on this side; that line represents those who cannot get out. Those who cannot get out, trapped in obsession, will eventually perish. Admittedly, the low period cannot be as easily escaped as in the diagram, but as long as you endure, what awaits you is brightness.
And now the engaging exercise segment. Let's understand lines! Understanding, what is understanding? 'Li' refers to reason, objectivity, and 'jie' to explanation, analysis. Of course, the mathematical solution and this meaning aren't too different. So what does objectivity mean here? We all know objective questions are multiple-choice, not mixing personal feelings. So objectivity means presenting the original content without emotional involvement. Therefore the understanding emerges: analyzing the author's article without emotional involvement. The emphasis thus shifts: focusing on content. To put it simply, a motto: break down the content, capture the emotion; if you can't capture the emotion, capture the method. You may disappoint me, but you must not disappoint the topic. If you still can't do it, then that's fine.
Speaking of understanding, I thought of appreciation. With a smile, I opened my eyes; this is a famous line from Zhu Ziqing's 'Spring'. As for appreciation: you see below there's a 'shell' below? It
0c is about money. I found a hundred yuan today. Really? Or not? So I take it up, inspect the watermark and craftsmanship, feel the papermaking, shake it and listen to the papermaking process. Wow, it's real, so I accept it. In a parallel way, appreciating a poem also means we first evaluate the rhetoric, then analyze the writing techniques, scrutinize the language style, special words, artistic devices, etc. After going through this process, the tone of the question, the good poem, the score I accept as well.
I see some students are itching to try, so here's the question! Discuss your understanding of the underlined part. Please, students, provide a rational interpretation for us. Very good, it seems the students have grasped the true meaning of the verse interpretation. But this poem is not over yet.
The second-to-last section is some of my thoughts. As you can see, this is a modern poem with extremely orderly metrics: four stanzas, four lines per stanza, four characters per line. But what is modern poetry? Because it differs from classical poetry. The great Mrs. Dou Bao once said that classical poetry dances with shackles, while modern poetry shatters the shackles. Is this poem free? Not free; it is bound by metrical rules. It does not dance every day; it is bound in life. It is trapped by meter; how is it different from the eight-legged essay? No difference. So, to liberate it, there was a mighty person with the surname He who went and removed three 'zì's, breaking the shackles. Please Mr. Yan, tell us why you thought removing the three 'zì's was better at the time.
Okay, thanks to Teacher Yan, but don't hurry. I have two more questions for you, which is also the final part I want to share today. The first one is already on the PPT; the second on the PPT is just a schematic outline, the full version is in my Chinese language book. (Reading 'Selected Passages for Exam' P43) The above is the guess of the question stem; the question is, when you write '下' at the end, is it for commemorating or for forgetting? Please.
My sharing is about done, but thinking must never stop; I hope everyone, in the learning process, does not forget to practice more, think more, and write more. Thank you all for listening, and thanks to the students for participating and to Teacher Yan for the answers.
Hello everyone! A month of winter vacation is a time for both rest and for study and reflection. So, I will share with you my reflections.
First, reading a good book can benefit a person for a lifetime. Of course, life may be a little rough at times, but there are moments of benefit. During the winter vacation, I read Ma Boyong's The Lychees of Changan. The book tells of a simple-minded man named Li Shande who transported lychees from Lingnan. Lingnan corresponds to the Guangdong-Guangxi region. You may ask why Li Shande went to Lingnan: because Yang Guifei wanted to eat them, and she wouldn't eat the ones from Shu. After hardship, they were finally transported, but in the end Yang Guifei did not eat them.
The story's broad background takes place before the An Lushan Rebellion, and by then there were signs: relay stations destroyed, provincial princes not obeying the central government, the famous An Lushan who led Emperor Xuanzong in dancing the 'Little Ni Shang', and the court s internal power struggles involving Yang Guozhong and Yi Nei Mei, that is, the outward and inward struggles of the court. This leads us to... but what I want to emphasize more is the satire of reality in the literature/novel. Taking a single example: Li Shande, an honest man who exposes corruption among his superiors and colleagues, is then targeted by enemies and assigned a task almost certain to be deadly. How is this different from the modern workplace? And those tasks at the Tang court that are nearly impossible to complete, with a few departments passing the buck; do you think this is any different from reality? The novel springs from reality and rises above life, more or less like that, right?
Next is the picture. This is a rough drawing I drew after reflecting on Shi Tiesheng's essay during the winter vacation; it's crude, but it already expresses what I want to convey. In life, people inevitably encounter setbacks, and some can deal an irreparable blow. For example, Shi Tiesheng, in his twenties, with both legs visibly paralyzed, at the prime of youth! Obviously, Shi Tiesheng has reached this point. The fact shows that Shi Tiesheng, in the midst of this, realized the truth about life, then rose again from the ashes, yet did not fully recover to his former vitality, because the gunshot blow is irreversible; Shi Tiesheng cannot return to the Shi Tiesheng with two healthy legs, but a Shi Tiesheng without legs could not have achieved such enormous literary achievements either. Therefore adversity makes heroes; hardship can make people reborn. But see, there is a thin black line on this side; that line represents those who cannot get out. Those who cannot get out, trapped in obsession, will eventually perish. Admittedly, the low period cannot be as easily escaped as in the diagram, but as long as you endure, what awaits you is brightness.
And now the engaging exercise segment. Let's understand lines! Understanding, what is understanding? 'Li' refers to reason, objectivity, and 'jie' to explanation, analysis. Of course, the mathematical solution and this meaning aren't too different. So what does objectivity mean here? We all know objective questions are multiple-choice, not mixing personal feelings. So objectivity means presenting the original content without emotional involvement. Therefore the understanding emerges: analyzing the author's article without emotional involvement. The emphasis thus shifts: focusing on content. To put it simply, a motto: break down the content, capture the emotion; if you can't capture the emotion, capture the method. You may disappoint me, but you must not disappoint the topic. If you still can't do it, then that's fine.
Speaking of understanding, I thought of appreciation. With a smile, I opened my eyes; this is a famous line from Zhu Ziqing's 'Spring'. As for appreciation: you see below there's a 'shell' below? It 0c is about money. I found a hundred yuan today. Really? Or not? So I take it up, inspect the watermark and craftsmanship, feel the papermaking, shake it and listen to the papermaking process. Wow, it's real, so I accept it. In a parallel way, appreciating a poem also means we first evaluate the rhetoric, then analyze the writing techniques, scrutinize the language style, special words, artistic devices, etc. After going through this process, the tone of the question, the good poem, the score I accept as well.
I see some students are itching to try, so here's the question! Discuss your understanding of the underlined part. Please, students, provide a rational interpretation for us. Very good, it seems the students have grasped the true meaning of the verse interpretation. But this poem is not over yet.
The second-to-last section is some of my thoughts. As you can see, this is a modern poem with extremely orderly metrics: four stanzas, four lines per stanza, four characters per line. But what is modern poetry? Because it differs from classical poetry. The great Mrs. Dou Bao once said that classical poetry dances with shackles, while modern poetry shatters the shackles. Is this poem free? Not free; it is bound by metrical rules. It does not dance every day; it is bound in life. It is trapped by meter; how is it different from the eight-legged essay? No difference. So, to liberate it, there was a mighty person with the surname He who went and removed three 'zì's, breaking the shackles. Please Mr. Yan, tell us why you thought removing the three 'zì's was better at the time.
Okay, thanks to Teacher Yan, but don't hurry. I have two more questions for you, which is also the final part I want to share today. The first one is already on the PPT; the second on the PPT is just a schematic outline, the full version is in my Chinese language book. (Reading 'Selected Passages for Exam' P43) The above is the guess of the question stem; the question is, when you write '下' at the end, is it for commemorating or for forgetting? Please.
My sharing is about done, but thinking must never stop; I hope everyone, in the learning process, does not forget to practice more, think more, and write more. Thank you all for listening, and thanks to the students for participating and to Teacher Yan for the answers.