Chapter 6 4. Storytelling

One day, Teacher Yang met some students on campus.He stayed there and chatted with the students for a while. When talking about Chinese, Teacher Yang hoped that they would express some opinions on Chinese teaching.The student said: "Other teachers teach Chinese and often tell stories to everyone. Teacher, you teach Chinese. It is illegal to only tell stories. Why don't you tell us stories?"Teacher Yang said: Okay, I will tell a story in the next class. Dangdang, class is on.The students all knew that Teacher Yang was going to tell a story, and all of them opened their eyes wide and waited to hear.Teacher Yang stepped onto the podium and announced that this class will tell a story, and the audience couldn't help applauding; amidst the applause, Teacher Yang handed out a handout, and the students opened the handout to see that there was an article in it, the title of which was to learn a poem. Child niece.

It's an essay again!The students immediately felt disappointed and shouted together: "Teacher tells a story!"Teachers must keep their word!Teacher Yang smiled slightly, pointed to the handout with his finger and said: Of course you keep your word, and of course you tell stories. Read the handout once, and there are stories in the handout.The students read it from beginning to end: Are things difficult or easy in the world?If you do it, what is difficult is also easy; if you don't, what is easy is also difficult.Is it difficult or easy for people to learn?If you learn it, what is difficult is also easy; if you don't learn it, what is easy is also difficult.

If my capital is weak, I can't catch people; if my talents are mediocre, I can't catch people.Learn it once in a while, and don't slacken it for a long time; until it is accomplished, you don't know how stupid or mediocre it is.The wisdom of my capital is twice that of others; the sensitivity of my talents is twice that of others, and if I discard it and not use it, it is no different from mediocrity and mediocrity.But how can the functions of faintness, mediocrity, intelligence, and sensitivity be common? In the humbleness of Shu, there are two monks: one is poor and the other is rich.The poor talk to the rich and say, "How about the South China Sea I want?"The rich man said: "Why do you rely on the son?"Said: One bottle and one bowl are enough for me.The rich man said: I have been trying to buy a boat for several years, but I have not been able to.Why does the son rely on it?In the next year, the poor will return from the South China Sea to sue the rich, and the rich will feel ashamed.It is not known how many thousands of miles it is to go to the South China Sea from Western Shu; the rich and the monks cannot get there, but the poor can.A person's ambition is not as good as that of a humble monk from Shu.

That's why cleverness and sensitivity can be relied on but not relied on.Those who rely on their intelligence and sensitivity without learning are also self-defeating.Faintness and mediocrity can be limited but not limited.Those who do not limit themselves to being faint and mediocre, but who are tireless in mechanics, are also self-reliant. After the students read this article, Teacher Yang began his lecture: Classmates, you all like to listen to stories, and I also like to listen to stories. Almost everyone likes to listen to stories.Stories have a special charm that attracts us, makes us pay attention to it, like it, and keep thinking about it after listening to it.Where does this charm of the story come from?It turns out that a story can have two functions: first, it can give us fun, and second, it can inspire our thinking.Since it can inspire our thinking, its function, and the function of an essay, can be combined at a certain point.Just like Mr. Peng, the author of this article, he wrote an article for his children to read. He wants to tell those young people not to be afraid of difficulties in studying. There is nothing difficult in the world. Even if my own conditions are a little bit worse, there will always be a day of success.What Mr. Peng wanted to write was an essay. However, he found a story. After hearing this story, people could have a feeling that they should not be afraid of difficulties in doing things. It's almost certain to succeed.Mr. Peng felt that the effect of that story could be combined with the discussion he wanted to send to his children, so he used this story in this article for learning a poem about children.He said that in a remote place in Western Shu, there were two monks, and they both wanted to make a pilgrimage to the South China Sea.Among them was a monk who was very rich, and the rich were thinking of the rich. From Sichuan to Zhejiang, the road was so long and the cost was so much, the pilgrimage was not easy!Another monk is very poor, and the poor have their own ways. He walks forward with his own two feet. Suppose he can walk fifty miles a day, five hundred miles in ten days, and five thousand miles in one hundred days. It takes a year It's not a problem to come and go.He also doesn't need any travel expenses, and he begs for food when he is hungry on the road; monks begging for food is not called begging, but begging, and begging for money is not a shameful thing.As a result, the rich monk was not able to go, but the poor monk came back from the pilgrimage.Isn't there nothing difficult in the world?Doesn't this mean that you don't ask whether it is difficult or not, but only ask whether you are willing to do it?

As we said before, stories can not only inspire our thinking, but also give us a lot of fun. Using stories to match reasoning can make your reasoning clearer on the one hand, and make your articles more attractive on the other hand.Once, Mencius told his students that nothing in the world can be done quickly.In order to match his reasoning, he told a story. He said: There was a farmer who felt that the rice in his field was growing too slowly, so he stretched out his hand to pull it out. After pulling it out, the rice seedlings immediately grew taller. This method is very good, and it has pulled up every rice seedling in my field.He spent a lot of energy; but the next day, the sun was shining, and the rice seedlings were all dead.Can't you see that this can't be done quickly?During the Warring States Period, the State of Zhao was going to attack the State of Yan. There was a man named Su Dai who believed that the State of Zhao should not attack the State of Yan.He told a story to go along with his theory.He said: There was a clam basking in the sun by the river. He opened the clam shell to reveal his meat. A water bird saw it and thought the clam meat was delicious, so he stretched out his beak to peck it. Clamp the waterfowl's beak.Clam secretly thought: I want to watch you starve to death!The water bird also secretly thought, I want to watch you die in the sun!Unexpectedly, a fisherman came by and caught them both.You see, if Zhao Guo attacked Yan Guo, wouldn't it just create opportunities for others?Also, like Jesus, he was a great religious man, he persuaded many people to believe in him, and he was very good at using small stories to preach.He left a lot of stories. Let me give you an example. He said: A man has two sons, the elder son keeps himself safe, and the younger son wants to divide the family. The parents have no choice but to distribute the property to him.He took all the money, traveled outside, spent all his money on wine and wine, and ended up feeding pigs for a living. Sometimes when he was hungry, he ate what the pigs ate.One day, he completely awakened!He has to go back to his parents and accept any punishment.He knelt before his father and wept bitterly. His father completely forgave him and restored him to his original position in the family.This is the famous story of the prodigal son. Jesus told this story to persuade people to repent and believe in religion bravely.

Storytelling is originally a novelist's forte. From the novelist's point of view, the world is full of small stories.Yes, there are indeed many stories in the world. Everyone can discover stories, and novelists can discover more than others.However, when a novelist finds a story, he pays more attention to the process of that story, while a thesis writer pays more attention to the thoughts that that story can inspire.Once upon a time, when Confucius passed near Mount Tai, he met a widow who was crying. Confucius expressed sympathy for the unfortunate woman. The lady said: "There are tigers here, and they often come out to eat people. My son was eaten by tigers, and my husband was also killed by tigers." The tiger ate it, my life is so miserable!Ask her why she didn't move earlier?She said: The officials here are not too mean to the common people.Confucius said to his students, remember!If an official oppresses the people, he is more terrifying than a tiger!Also, during the Warring States Period, there was a man named Zou Ji, who he thought was a beautiful man, but he didn't know if he was the most beautiful man in the country.He asked this question to his wife, his concubine, and the guests who came to visit him, and they all replied in unison: In our country of Qi, only you, Mr. Zou, are the most beautiful.At first, Zou Ji also believed it; but after his own observation and comparison, he found that he was not that beautiful. In fact, people were afraid of him, loved him, or asked him for something, so they said he was the most beautiful person. please him.He had a feeling from this incident.He believed that after a person has a little bit of status, many people will come to deceive him; the king is the person with the highest status, how many people will surround and deceive him!There is a chance for him to listen to the truth!He told King Qi Wei of his feelings, which also moved King Qi Wei and promoted the political reform of Qi State.Both Kong Shengren and Zou Ji are theorists, not novelists. They discover stories with the eyes of writing essays; process stories with the mind of writing essays; those who practice writing essays may wish to learn from them.There was a little story in yesterday's newspaper. Yesterday was Sunday. There were many pedestrians on Chengdu Road in Taipei City. A lady was suddenly stopped by a man.The man said: Take off your high heels and return mine!The woman had no choice but to take off her shoes, walk barefoot by herself, and go to a shoe store to buy shoes.What's going on here?It turned out that the man once pursued the woman and gave his girlfriend a pair of high heels. Later, the woman got another boyfriend. It turned out that the man was very upset. He took off his shoes on the street yesterday, which was his revenge.When this news is published in the newspaper, people who write novels can see it, and people who write papers can also see it. Each has its own use.People who write papers can use this short story to attract and inspire readers when discussing the relationship between men and women.

That article is to learn a poem to show your son, and put the story in the middle of the article.This is the most common method. First post a section of discussion, tell a story in the middle, and then post a section of discussion.In recent years, another method has been adopted, which is to put the story at the beginning of the article.This method is better, it can grab the reader from the beginning and let the reader continue to read.There was an American who said that he once traveled to Africa, took a rickshaw in Africa, and chatted with the driver. The American said: Pulling a rickshaw is very hard!The coachman said: No way!But I won't be pulling the car for another two months.The Americans asked: Why didn't you pull the cart?The coachman said: I attend a correspondence school in the United States, and the credits have been completed. In two months, they will give me a degree, and I will be a Doctor of Philosophy.This is the beginning of an article titled The Crisis of American Education, which examines the shortcomings of American education, including the excessive granting of degrees.There was a man who left his home when he was young to find the meaning of life. He searched for twenty years and walked thousands of miles. He searched very hard. At last, he passed a farm house. At night, he saw the farmer Talking and laughing with his wife and children, enjoying family happiness.After watching it for a long time, he seemed to have come to his senses and felt that he had found the meaning of life, so he ended his wanderings and went back home.This is the beginning of an article titled, Don't Neglect Your Family.In Hollywood, male and female movie stars often go in and out. When they pass by, most people look at them very happily;One day, a male celebrity and a female celebrity walked past together. The people on that street had never seen these two celebrities walking together. They saw it today and talked behind their backs: When will the two of them get married!Later, those two celebrities got married and went out for a walk together, and the people next to them were discussing secretly: when will they get divorced!This is the beginning of an article, and the title of this article is Marriage is not a joke.It first pointed out that marriages in Hollywood are commonplace, and the harm is very serious.There was an American who went to visit Soviet Russia. One day, he visited a factory for manufacturing automobiles. Many private vans were parked at the gate of the factory.The American who came to visit asked who owns this factory?A Communist who accompanied him on the tour said: This factory belongs to the workers.After a while, the American asked again, who belonged to those private vans at the door?The Communist Party member said: It belongs to the cadres and comrades.While this American was visiting Soviet Russia, there was also a Russian visiting the United States. He visited the Ford Motor Factory, and there were thousands of private cars parked outside the factory.The visiting Russian asked, who owns the car factory?The Americans said: It belongs to Mr. Ford.The Russian asked again, who owns those cars at the gate of the factory?The Americans told him that it belonged to the workers.This is the beginning of an article entitled A Comparison of American and Russian Society.

As I said earlier, storytelling is the specialty of writers. They have left us many beautiful stories with deep meanings. People who write papers often borrow stories from writers.Cao Xueqin created a story called A Dream of Red Mansions. This story is rich in meaning, and I don’t know how much it helped the people who wrote the papers.The Dream of the Red Chamber is based on the old Chinese big family, and when discussing the shortcomings of the big family, later generations often bring up the tragedy of the Dream of the Red Chamber.Molière created a story, which we translate as The Miser. The protagonist is a miser who absolutely refuses to use his money. He suspects that someone will steal his money all day long.Once, his suspicion was so serious that he even thought that he would steal from himself.People who discuss the concept of wealth and people who discuss abnormal psychology may refer to this story.The Spanish writer Cervantes created a story called The Biography of Don Quixote, which tells the story of a man named Quixote who became fascinated by reading martial arts novels and wanted to become a swordsman himself.When he went outside, he was nosy everywhere, made a lot of jokes, and suffered a lot of beatings, which made him feel pitiful afterwards.He can't understand what other people do. In fact, they are not necessarily wrong, it is his vision that is wrong.He has a sense of justice, but it's all because he's too naive.If we discuss this kind of problem, we can also bring Mr. Quixote out.

Those of you who like to listen to stories have listened to a lot of stories, read a lot of novels, and watched a lot of movies and dramas. I hope you don’t forget that these are the materials for your thesis. When, or in the middle of the paper, schedule a story.A story is not the same as evidence, which is that the event actually happened, and a story is just a story.You can cite several more evidences for the thesis, and only one story is enough.Gong Mei, didn't you say that entrance exams can determine a person's fate?There is a story in Yan Xi’s Five Essays: There was a girl who took the college entrance examination after graduating from high school, but failed twice in a row. Her spirit was greatly stimulated, and she thought that her life was over. After going back and forth to take the entrance exam for the third time, she said that if she failed to pass the exam again, she would have to commit suicide.On the night when the list was released, the girl's whole family was extremely nervous, and everyone in the alley where her family lived felt nervous.Gong Mei, you may need this story.Jin Shanbao, don't you advise people to get up early?I heard that there was a wife who felt that life is too short and there are too few things to do. She hoped that her life span could be increased by another third. She went to the pastor, but the pastor said there was no way; she went to the doctor, The doctor said there was no way.Later, someone said to her: There is a way to prolong your life. If you are willing to get up early every day, your life will be extended by one third.Jin Shanbao, you may need this story.There is another story that Wu Qiang can pay special attention to. He wrote an article in which he said that if a person suffers setbacks in this area, he can develop in another direction. This is quite correct.There was a violinist who played the violin at a concert. As you all know, there are four strings on the violin, one of which is called the G string. The violinist was pulling the string, but the G string suddenly broke. What should I do?He didn't stop, he immediately changed to a tune, which can be used without the G string from beginning to end.He played very successfully, and the audience gave him warm applause.This is life, and so is life.

Let me tell you a few more stories.Many people have read Gone with the Wind, and the heroine's name is Scarlett Scarlett.Scarlett Scarlett's mother is a very virtuous wife. She has nothing to criticize for her husband, children, or housework.When she was dying, she called: Philip!Philip!This is the name of a man. This man is neither her husband nor her son. The whole family does not know who this man is. Only a black slave who came as a dowry knew that Philip was the first son of the deceased. a boyfriend.She really loved that man. After she got married, she became a wife, a mother, and a housewife for decades. On the surface, she seemed to be fine, but in fact, that Philip had always been hidden in her heart.I read your homework and saw a sentence that a person can never forget the one he loves.Immediately I thought of Scarlett Scarlett's mother, whose story fits your theory.There is another story written by France. He said: When God created man, there were not as many people as there are now. Everyone carried a big burden on their backs. Human beings often complained to God that their burdens were too heavy. , The burden of others is too light.One day, God asked these people to exchange their burdens. Everyone was very happy when they heard this order; however, after carrying other people's burdens, they felt heavier and less relaxed than before.I read your homework and saw a sentence that everyone is dissatisfied with reality. I immediately thought of France's story. This story can be matched with your theory.

In this class, you want to listen to stories. I have told so many stories, are you satisfied?