Chapter 9 Seven, shadow painting

One morning, when class was about to start, Teacher Yang lowered his head to sort out the handouts in the office, when he heard a report in his ear, he raised his head and saw Jin Shanbao and Lu Zhunian standing in front of him.Teacher Yang thought to himself, these two students sent the thesis assignments of the whole class. Teacher, the day after tomorrow is Sunday, and our whole class will go to Yehliu to play. Teacher, please join us.Lu Zhunian spoke in his beautiful Mandarin.oh!So that's what happened.People who teach Chinese only have Chinese in their minds, but students have a lot of things in their minds!And math too!And English too!What's more, there is still the light and joyful happiness of teenagers!The weather has warmed up, and Jin Shanbao's apple cheeks are even redder. Looking down from upstairs, the leaves on the top of the tree are already green!People's hearts are flying outwards, and it is indeed a boring thing to practice writing papers.

Is Yehliu fun?Teacher Yang asked. My dad said it was fun.Lu Zhunian replied. My dad said it was fun!This is ridiculously naive.However, Teacher Yang immediately thought that this sentence would be very useful in class in the future.Maybe the trip to Yehliu is also useful.He decided to spend the day with the young men. On Sunday, the weather was fine and sunny.Jin Shanbao and Lu Zhunian, who were in charge of preparing for the trip, collected all travel expenses, rented a car, ordered a picnic, and set off together.They had heard from the weather forecast in advance that there would be a clear and fine weather on Sunday. It was indeed sunny and breezy, and the high-grade road surface was straight and flat. Everyone was very happy.

The place of Yehliu was originally an unnoticed coast. Over thousands of years, the tides and tides have shaped the rocks there into various shapes, which are very beautiful.Several photographers discovered this place, took a lot of photos, and took them to the city for an exhibition, calling Yehliu a forgotten paradise.That film festival attracted wide attention, and as a result of repeated influences, everyone wanted to see Yehliu, and Yehliu has become a hot spot for this year's spring outing.Those stones, in the eyes of a middle-aged person with aesthetic cultivation, can be said to never tire of looking at them, and the more they look at them, the more interesting they are; Once you see them, you don't pay attention to them anymore!They have gone to tease the sea!They went to take pictures!They chatted non-stop!In addition to these, there are clouds!And a picnic too!As long as these birds can temporarily leave the cage called the classroom and flap their wings outside, they can already get a lot of happiness!

At noon, the instructor blows the whistle to gather and distribute picnics, one box per person.The people who received the lunch boxes were divided into groups of three or five, distributed freely, and found a clean place to sit down, eat and talk at the same time.After Teacher Yang took the lunch box, he looked left and right, not knowing which rock to sit on, and was hesitating, when Lu Zhunian shouted: Teacher!Come and sit with us!Several other voices joined in.Teacher Yang wanted to go over to participate, but he caught a glimpse of Wu Qiang leaning on a stone alone and chewing rice.He changed his mind and went to Wu Qiang's side.

Wu Qiang, do you like the scenery here?Talk while eating. Wu Qiang said he liked it. Have you ever thought that describing landscapes is also related to writing essays? Wu Qiang never thought of it. Tomorrow, you come to my room and do one thing for me.I want to write an article about the relationship between talking and describing. I will dictate and you will take notes for me. That's it. What Teacher Yang meant was to take this opportunity to deeply imprint the key points of exposition and description in Wu Qiang's mind.In his opinion, Wu Qiang is the student who can best absorb this opinion.

Wu Qiang's record is very fast: Yehliu is a newly discovered scenic spot, and everyone who has been there expresses satisfaction.If we write a short essay, advocating the construction of Yehliu as a tourist area, we can probably arrange such a skeleton first: Places with good scenery should be built into tourist areas. The scenery of Yehliu is good, Yehliu should be built as a tourist area. The middle section is an important pillar. Those who make this claim must be able to prove that the scenery of Yehliu is indeed good.If this article is published in an illustrated magazine, it should be accompanied by many landscape photos.If this opinion is to be raised on the spot at a meeting discussing tourism, slides should be prepared and shown at the meeting place.If there is no such convenience at all, then only use words to describe the scenery of Yehliu.Descriptive and argumentative essays have a joint relationship here.

Description is an important means in artistic writing.Poems, novels, and pure literary prose cannot do without description.The so-called description is a kind of magnification. Thousands of words can be written on a house of a poor man, and thousands of words can be written on a woman's face.The length of the article is limited, and it cannot be fully enlarged. When describing, it can only be partially enlarged, that is, select the characteristics to enlarge.When describing, the writer puts more emphasis on subjective impressions. He said that Aunt Xinghou's hands are like catkins, but his hands are like catkins.Since description is subjective, it does not want readers to believe, but to feel.As long as you feel that the white hair seems to be three thousand feet long, that there are tears in the moon and pearls in the sea, and that the sun in Lantian is warm and the jade is smoking, the description is considered successful.Describing and expositing are quite different in purpose.Discussions are often used in general terms. It says that a woman's appearance is only moderate, and it is not necessary to draw a picture of a lady with fine brushwork.It puts forward concepts, and the usefulness of concepts is to make readers think by themselves.If it needs to elaborate on a certain point, it often uses sensible language, and it can measure the number of inches of the skull, and the number of inches of the embryonic bone.When it narrates in this way, the purpose is not to induce the illusion of the reader, the attitude the reader should adopt is: true, false, yes, no, for or against.

This simple argument has a weakness, which is the gap.You said that Yehliu should be built into a tourist area. You are right. You said that everyone should donate money for disaster relief. You are also right, but there always seems to be something in between, which is not real enough.That kind of pure discourse inevitably circles around at a relatively high level of abstraction, and it is relatively difficult to use abstraction to move people's hearts.Newspapers advocating disaster relief or the construction of tourist areas must use editorials, but if they are matched with photos and close-up text, they will be more effective.Editorials are abstract, pictures and features are concrete.The newspaper's approach can be said to separate the discussion from the description, and let the readers combine them with their own brains.Broadcasting does not have this kind of convenience, so we have to use descriptions at the same time as the discussion.A radio lady found out that there was a poor patient in the hospital who needed social assistance, so she made an appeal on the program.She said she saw the patient's mother, an old woman in her fifties, with bound feet in the hospital.The clothes this old lady wore were the kind that women on the Continent used to wear, our mothers, our grandmothers, all wore those clothes.This old lady often has to travel forty miles to see her son, in order to save money on the car.These forty miles were walked up and down, with her pair of little feet!This passage, which uses the method of character description, is sandwiched in an expository conversation, and it is very powerful. The audience was moved and donated a lot of money to help the old lady.

We believe that description enters an argument in situations where the reasoner needs a picture to support his reason.Description is the only effective way we know of to make pictures visible in words.Prosperity of the local economy can be used as the reason for advocating the construction of a tourist area in Yehliu, or the beautiful scenery can be used as the reason. The reason for the prosperity of the local economy does not need to be supported by pictures, but beautiful scenery.For things like scenery, you can’t say that there is 10,000 square meters of flat land, with 500 stones of various sizes scattered on it, and the mountain on the right is 300 meters high.You have to say that there is an endless beach here. After the tide ebbs, every grain of sand is clean, as clean as God just made it. The clean sea water and the fresh air can be imagined.There are many sedimentary rocks that have been formed into various strange shapes by seawater, like human heads, cradles, and breasts.These strange rocks can not only give people a sense of beauty, but also give people enlightenment, because they know the secrets of the vicissitudes of life.people at their leisure.When they come to Yehliu, their bodies and souls can benefit. This is already describing.

Below we have a description of the essay, and no description of the essay, for a comparison: Orphanage needs donations Form A: A person who is unable to live independently needs someone to take care of him.Young children are incapable of living, and they need to be raised. A person who is unable to live independently is usually taken care of by his relatives.If he has no relatives, social charity will be responsible, and social charity will rely on the joint support of the community.Usually, the parents are the ones who bring up the children. If the child has no parents, becomes an orphan, and has no suitable relatives to rely on, he will be taken in by an orphanage.Orphanages are a charity supported by social forces.

The city's nursery for young children is a charity organization for orphans, and it has a history of ten years.Over the past ten years, the nursery has established a good reputation. After a child loses his parents, if he can come to the nursery, the onlookers think it is a blessing among misfortunes. Perfect education.However, the hospital has very few funds and personnel, and it is very much in need of donations from the community. We hope that wise parents in the world will not only care about the happiness of their own children, but also care about how to reduce the suffering of other children.We sincerely appeal to everyone to do their best and donate a little money to the nursery for the benefit of orphans.This is the young, my young, and the young of people. Form B: A person who cannot live independently needs someone to take care of him.Young children are incapable of living, and they need to be raised. A person who is unable to live independently is usually taken care of by his relatives. If he has no relatives, social charity will be responsible, and social charity will rely on the joint support of the community.Parents are the ones who bring up children. If children have no parents or relatives, they will be taken in by orphanages.Orphanages are a charity supported by social forces. The city's infant nursery is a charity organization for orphans. It has a history of ten years since its establishment. Over the past ten years, the hospital has established a good reputation.After a child loses his parents, if he can go to the nursery, the onlookers think it is a blessing among misfortunes. The child will receive careful care and perfect education in this nursery. However, the funding of the nursery is very low. Little, very much in need of social donation support. The scale of the nursery is very small. At the beginning, it only took in 40 children, but now, more than 110 children live in it. Maybe that morning, the staff of the nursery opened the gate, looked down, and there was a child at their feet.These children sleep in specially-made cradles on three floors, and the dormitory is already very crowded.During the day, the children attend classes and play games, just like ordinary children.At night, when they were tired, they all fell asleep.It's just that at night, I didn't know the child, woke up from the nightmare, and yelled "Mom!"Crying loudly, immediately, all the children in this dormitory woke up, crying for their mother who did not actually exist.Once this crying starts, there is no way to stop it except to stop automatically when they are tired.The fifty-seven-year-old female director, when she heard this cry in the middle of the night, would often sit up from the bed and cry with the children from a distance.The dean, she is eager to raise a sum of money to build more dormitories so that too many children live in one house. He also hopes to hire more nannies and add more game equipment, Give the children some more love and comfort. We hope that wise parents in the world will not only care about the happiness of their own children, but also care about the pain of other children.We sincerely appeal to everyone to do their part and donate a little money to benefit the children in the nursery. This is the young and the young. Recommend Spring Breeze and Rain Form A Goethe wrote the troubles of maintaining youth. The hero Werther committed suicide after falling out of love. This book greatly affected the readers at that time. The number of suicides increased suddenly. Many people felt that it was a very honorable thing to value love and despise death. .Wilde wrote his diary in prison, pointing out that there are various shortcomings in British prisons. The British people read it and made a loud voice, demanding to get rid of the long-standing abuses in prisons. The government also accepted this request.There is a Romance of the Three Kingdoms in China, which deeply dominates the hearts of the people. Among other things, the later generations who worship brothers are all pursuing the Taoyuan sworn brothers of Liu Guanzhang. They are willing to inherit their legacy. .How great is the impact of successful literary and artistic works on society! Fox's literary film Spring Wind and Rain, starring Jane Simmons, is a successful work.It can carry forward the century-old ambition of cultivating people, and can also improve the spirit of respecting teachers and respecting the way. It can teach people to feel that their spirits are uplifting and their souls are pure.This film should be introduced to more people to expand its influence on society. Parents, please take your whole family to watch this film.As teachers, please take your students to watch this film.Those who are officers, please encourage your subordinates to watch this film! Form B In Goethe's "Trouble of Sustaining Youth", the hero Werther committed suicide after falling out of love.This book had a great impact on the readers at the time, and the number of suicides suddenly increased, and many people felt that it was a very honorable thing to value love and despise death.Wilde’s Diary in Prison pointed out that there are various shortcomings in British prisons. After reading it, the British made a clamor for getting rid of the long-standing abuses in prisons, and the government also accepted this request.There is a Romance of the Three Kingdoms in China, which deeply dominates the hearts of the people. Among other things, the future generations who worship brothers are all pursuing Liu Guanzhang’s Taoyuan sworn brotherhood. They are willing to inherit his legacy. .How great is the impact of successful literary and artistic works on society! The literary film Chunfenghuayu made by Fox Company is a very successful work.Here, Jane Simmons is a female teacher, with gray hair and wrinkled face, still with straight spine and straight neck, sitting in the classroom to monitor the conduct and homework of the students.Spring has gone, and spring has come again. Students have graduated, and freshmen have come again. She sits in the classroom every day and straightens her spine.For more than forty years.One day, her spine suddenly bent down and she fell ill.This disease has shown her greatness. The seeds planted by forty years of educational work have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.This film carries forward the century-old ambition of cultivating people, enhances the spirit of respecting teachers, and teaches people to watch it, improve their spirits, and purify their hearts.This film should be introduced to more people to expand its influence on society. Parents, please take your whole family to watch this film.As teachers, please take your students to watch this film.Those who are officers, please encourage your subordinates to watch this film! Type A is a pure argument, while Type B incorporates description. In comparison, there are two points that can be pointed out: (1) After the description is added, the readability of the article is increased.Essays are mostly rigid things, and they don't pay much attention to the reader's interest.In the past, when reading advanced papers, one had to close the door, concentrate on reading, wear glasses to read, frown to think, overcome the boring surface of the text, and find the essence inside.Now, the reading environment has changed. Reading and reading newspapers are often done on trams, trains, and traffic vehicles, in the sound of radios, airplanes, and car horns, and after busy work.The environment is so, the mood is so, they hope to spend as little energy as possible when reading.Therefore, there is no other era where writers deliberately please readers like today.They almost wish they could turn articles into melt-in-the-mouth shortbread.Essays mixed with appropriate descriptions are obviously much softer and easier to digest.That doesn't seem like a bad thing. (2) People who write papers always say that description is nothing but empty talk.The description does have the possibility of becoming empty talk, but as long as it is used properly, the description can avoid empty talk and enrich the content of the essay, which can be regarded as an unexpected effect.The reason for the empty theory is that we don't know much about the issues to be discussed.When discussing the construction of Yehliu, if you don’t know much about the scenery of Yehliu, if you recommend a movie, if you don’t know much about the content of the movie, it’s easy to talk irrelevant.Heaven and earth are the universe of the universe, and the common people are the young children of the people, Erlang, brother of Dalang, brother of Sanlang, father of Xiaolang, and son of Laolang.In this regard, description has the function of preventing epidemics, because before starting to describe, one must first observe the effort. When describing the scenery, one must watch the scenery carefully. When describing the characters in the play, one must watch the movie carefully. Now that you have observed it, you are familiar with it. Let’s discuss it Nature has something to say. Description is a kind of ability, which is usually acquired through practice.Imitation is indispensable for practice.Description is to transfer a scene to paper with words, and the difficulty to be overcome is how to turn the image into words.A traditional method is: to see how others write.We have seen farmers plowing fields, and perhaps we cannot write that scene, but, behold, someone has written: On the plowable plain, a young man with a good complexion drives a magnificent herd of cattle, and four pairs of young The black-brown bulls with shiny gleams on their dark coats, their short, curly heads, and their big, savage eyes, are still indignant at the yoke and whip.Whoever handles the cattle needs to clear a meadow full of centuries-old tree roots.This is his youth, his energy, and his four almost unmanageable oxen, an almost unmanageable labor.When a tree root caught the coulter, the farmer cried out in a powerful voice, calling each animal by name, and the cattle, irritated by the sudden resistance, jumped up and dug in the earth with their huge hoof forks.When the obstacles were overcome, the oxen resumed marching in orderly and solemn ranks. (George Sand: The Enchanted Swamp).We have all seen the port, and maybe it is not easy to describe it. Look, someone has written: In the trading port full of ships, huge ships, belly to belly, are moored there.Next to the docks, the masts stretched for several kilometers, and the masts were attached with sails, masts, and ropes, making the city's cleft like a big dead forest.Some seagulls are circling under the leafless forest, and when someone throws some debris into the water, they fly straight down like a stone falling.And a young boy learning to be a sailor fitted a tackle to the tip of a tall mast, and seemed to crawl upon it in search of a bird's nest. (Maupassant: Bill and Jian).We have seen a ship hit by strong winds and waves in movies many times. One day, we discovered that the scene could have been written like this: No matter how they escaped, the sea began to cover them, and the waves kept rising, crazy high Go up, and then break up one by one, people can see many huge light green pieces, that is, the waves that were thrown in all directions by the wind and fell down.Such heavy pieces sometimes fell on the deck with a crisp sound, so the hull trembled in pain, and a piece of scattered white foam made people unable to distinguish anything.When the squalling wind became more violent, the foam turned into thicker eddies and ran like dust on the road in summer, and the heavy rain swept across obliquely, whipping the boat like many whips. (Rorti: Icelandic fisherman).After reading many words like this, I gradually understood in my heart: Ah, so it is like this, so it is like this! In the paper, the description is only a supplementary means, it cannot be too much.If there are a lot of descriptions, the structure of the essay cannot be maintained.Also, in the essay, the description must be quite realistic, and the technique should not be too exaggerated, because the ultimate purpose of the essay is to make people feel credible, and the description that is too exaggerated will form a hindrance to credibility.The balance of gains and losses here depends entirely on the good grasp of the person who writes the article. After the article was finished, Teacher Yang revised it by himself, and added a note: The texts of the three novels quoted in the article are all based on Mr. Li Liewen's translation.A few words have been changed slightly for readability.