Chapter 16 14. Pens and brushes

one After class, Mr. Yang was washing his hands in the office when he heard someone shouting: Teacher! It was Liu Baocheng.He held a piece of paper in his hand, and on the paper were written three big characters, Ji and Qun.He asked: Teacher, what should be done on this topic? Teacher Yang said: This topic requires us to discuss two concepts at the same time, one is an individual concept and the other is a group concept.These two concepts are opposite and at the same time complementary.Caring only for the individual reduces the strength of the group, and caring only for the group may destroy the self-esteem of the individual. This is the opposite; but individuals form a group, and the group protects the individual. If there is no individual, how can there be a group?Without a group, individual talents may not be able to be brought into play, and personal value may not be displayed.Write this kind of topic, compare the two, explain their relationship, and you can make a decent article.

Liu Baocheng bowed and left. In the evening, the classrooms on the second and third floors were brightly lit, and the third-grade students were all immersed in their self-study. Standing downstairs and looking up, there was no one in sight.Teacher Yang walked upstairs, admiring the hard-working and angry shots of the students.Lu Zhunian ran to him, quietly handed him a note, and asked in a low voice: Teacher, I don't know how to do this topic.Teacher Yang saw that the note said loyalty and filial piety.He also replied in a low voice: This topic is for us to discuss two concepts at the same time. These two concepts are opposite but complementary.A child must be filial and must serve his parents at all times. However, a young man must leave his parents if he wants to be faithful.However, the meaning of the word filial piety is very broad. Contributing to the country and the nation is also filial piety, which is called great filial piety for the nation. In this way, loyalty and filial piety are both.Write such a topic, compare the two concepts with each other, and then explain the relationship between the two, you can write a passing article.

At noon the next day, Jin Shanbao, Zhao Hua and others came to Mr. Yang's room after finishing their bento, and immediately asked, "Teacher, do you think it's better to work hard or to work hard?" It's hard to say.Mr. Yang said.There was a big boss of a department store who worried about business every day and suffered from insomnia every night. He kept a bottle of sleeping pills by his bedside, and he could not sleep unless he took sleeping pills.Later, the business failed and the company went bankrupt. He took sleeping pills, took half a bottle, and fell asleep forever.In the alley where he lived, there was a tricycle driver at the entrance of the alley. He was sweating from riding a tricycle during the day, played the huqin at night, and fell asleep soundly in bed.Of these two people, one works hard and the other works hard, which one is better?

Work well.student said. There was another man who worked as the editor-in-chief of several newspapers. Every afternoon, the newspapers sent workers to his home to pick up articles.Sometimes, workers from the two newspaper offices came together, and his article had not been finished yet. The workers stood waiting at the door, and when they picked up the article, they jumped on their bicycles and sent it back to the library for typesetting.Of these two people, one works hard and the other works hard, which one is better? Work hard. Einstein was a laborious person, sitting in the laboratory every day to use his brain and come up with many equations.During World War II, he copied an equation and gave it to President Truman of the United States. Truman handed over the equation. Many factories were busy, technicians and workers were busy, and a product was produced, loaded on a plane, and dropped into Japan. Go, Japan surrendered to the Allies.This thing is the famous atomic bomb.Think about it this time, the person who wrote the equation worked hard, and the person who made the atomic bomb worked hard.Both are important, aren't they?

Everyone nodded. How did you come up with this question?Mr. Yang asked back. Because, Zhao Hua said: There is a composition question that none of us can do. This question is: labor and effort. Topics such as laboring mind and labor force require us to compare these two concepts and point out the relationship between these two concepts. At this point, Mr. Yang stopped suddenly. He thought: self and group, loyalty and filial piety, labor and heart and Labor, how strange!Why do you encounter such a problem so many times? In the afternoon, Mr. Yang met Director Hu and raised this strange question.Director Hu said: Brother Yang didn’t know that for the past three years, the composition questions in the entrance examination for admission to higher education have been XX and XX, so there is a deduction among this year’s fresh graduates that this year’s entrance examination questions are still XX and XX.

oh!It turned out to be such a thing! There are many unknowns about what questions will be asked in this year's entrance exam. How can we infer based on the questions from the previous three years? That's a good point.However, now that students are very interested in this question, we might as well take this opportunity to teach them to write this kind of topic.If you teach at this time, they must listen carefully and get twice the result with half the effort. How do you think about it? According to the school's calendar, there will be a composition competition next week, so we will come up with a topic and everyone will write essays.Do you like that topic?Director Hu has already prepared many topics, including:

Further education and employment Goods and Encouragement health and disease emotion and reason War and Peace pens and brushes Seeing the last question, Teacher Yang applauded.The two agreed in this way, and after the approval of the principal, relevant preparatory work began.When the news came out, students guessed the questions one after another. Some students said that the topic this time must be an essay, which is the duty of middle school students.How do you see it?Because it is currently advocating that every citizen should keep their points.What is the duty of middle school students?Of course it is a good study!Another student said that he has been doing dissertations recently, and he is really tired of doing them. Maybe he should change his taste. What kind of topic should he change?The melancholy of a rainy day.It rains a lot here, and it's raining outside.When a student heard this topic, he said, "it rains every day, it's really annoying, and my feet are wet every day, so it's really sad to sit in the classroom."Another said: Isn't it?My raincoat was torn, and my mother didn't give me money to buy it.

Whenever it rains, I want to take a car.Said a girl. What's so good about taking a car?The crowd was full, and everyone's raincoat was dripping.Her peers offered contrary opinions. You're stupid, I mean, in a car all by yourself. Oh, you want to be the rich man's concubine. What words!All the aunts and wives are sitting in the car?bias!bias! two After entering the examination room, I opened the paper and watched the invigilator write on the blackboard: steel, steel?pen?pen.Advantages of fountain pens?Pen's downside?What about the pen?Pen and, pen and me?Pens and Times?Pen and brush So is it a pen and a brush?Yes, pens and brushes.There are brackets below: essay.All the students in the audience were relieved, and some of them immediately became worried again.

When judging the papers of the composition competition, the school has a rule similar to avoidance, that is, teach the third graders to read the second grade's articles, and teach the second graders to read the third grade's articles.Therefore, Teacher Yang cannot immediately see how his students are doing.There are also good articles in the papers he reviewed, such as: pens and brushes Brushes are inherent to us, and fountain pens are foreign.In China, brushes have a long history, while fountain pens have a short history.The writing brush is like an old pedant with a long robe hanging on the horse, and the fountain pen is like an overseas student in a suit and leather shoes. Most of what comes out from the tip of the brush are old things, like poems and songs, and most of what comes out from the tip of the pen are new things. Such as sound and light.

The writing brush, when the Qin and Han people made it, of course it was also a young tool.Its situation has been maintained until the Qing Dynasty, and the fountain pen invaded with Western civilization.At first, the fountain pen took up very little space, and it could not be compared with the brush. The brush looked down upon it, but its territory expanded rapidly. Now, it has squeezed the brush into a small corner.The government stipulates that students must write brush characters when they compose. This is the most effective way to preserve brushes. Otherwise, thirty years later, people who wrote brush characters will pass away one after another, and there may be no one who will hold a brush in the future.

Mr. Yang thought: This article is really good!Just draw ninety points in the scoring column. After finishing my work, I went to another group to inquire about the grades of my students. The teacher who graded the papers said: Come on!There are good articles!Mr. Yang saw that the handwriting was Wu Qiang's: Pens and brushes could have existed side by side, but now they seem to be mutually exclusive.This is because students like to use pens, but the school stipulates that writing and calligraphy must be written with a brush.When students are writing brush characters, they feel wronged in their hearts, as if they have been deprived of some kind of fun and rights.In the minds of the students, this forms a situation where the pen and the brush are fighting against each other. The fountain pen is civilization, and the brush is the quintessence of the country.The fountain pen writes fast, and the brush writes beautifully.These two tools should be able to coexist in society.It is of course impossible to use a brush to drive away a fountain pen, and it is a bit unimaginable that a fountain pen can completely eliminate a brush.Calligraphy is a unique art in China. To complete this art, only brushes are used. Therefore, as long as calligraphy exists, brushes will exist.In addition, brush characters appear more solemn and elegant, so some documents are written with brushes; as long as people seek the psychological existence of solemnity and style, brushes will also exist. Some people strongly criticize the brush, saying that it is too inconvenient to write with a brush, which is true.However, inconvenient things do not necessarily disappear.For example, how convenient it is to listen to records, but it is very inconvenient to buy tickets to attend concerts, but can records replace concerts?The more opportunities a musician has to record, the less chance he has to perform in public?not.Cooking every day is quite troublesome, but opening cans is very simple, and the possibility of canning instead of cooking is still very small.Cooking, concerts, although troublesome, will not be eliminated, they exist on other merits.The same is true for the status of the brush. Of course, presence is not necessarily universal.It is an indisputable fact that there are few people who write brushes in society, but many people who write fountain pens.For most pen users, speed is more important than beauty, and convenience is more important than style.It is good to be in a somewhat leisurely mood when writing calligraphy. Nowadays, people are too busy. Take students for example, catching trains, grabbing basketballs, running 100 meters, watching TV, and feeling short of breath all day long. In life, it seems that tools such as pens should be used, and suddenly sitting down to write a few brush characters is too incongruous. Several teachers watched and applauded unanimously.Some people suspect: Could it be copied?Whose word is this?Mr. Yang said it was Wu Qiang.The teacher who graded the papers said in a reassuring tone: Wu Qiang can write such an article!A teacher said: ordinary students can only look at the problem from one angle, but Wu Qiang can discuss it from several angles, being impartial, amazing!The gentleman who checked the papers said: Speaking of looking at the problem from one angle, here is an article, which is worth reading Now, outside is the world of pens, but the school stipulates that some places must use brushes, so that in this atomic age and space age, we still can't get rid of this ancient awl. The worst thing about writing with a brush is that it is slow.As a student today, I am so busy with homework that I don't have much time to waste.The speed of writing brush characters and writing pen characters is one to five ratios. The time taken to write one brush character can write five pen characters.Think about it, what a waste of time.What's more, to write with a brush, you first need to grind the ink, which is really tedious, hard work, and boring.The ancients called the inkstone inkstone field, which is really good. The taste of grinding ink is similar to plowing a field. When writing brush characters, the second problem is dirty.The writing with the fountain pen is clear, and the paper is still white; as for the brush, when I was in composition class, there was ink everywhere, ink on the paper, ink on the table, and ink on the clothes.Ink even pollutes the air, and the classroom is full of stench.The most nerve-wracking thing is getting your clothes dirty because doing laundry is a hassle.In the barber shop, someone wants to dye their hair black, and the barber wears a black dress to adjust the dye, so as not to stain the clothes.Students should also make a special black dress and wear it in composition class, just like changing clothes in physical education class. Brushes are dirty and slow, and will definitely be eliminated by fountain pens in the future.Don't worry about students who can't write well with brushes. When they enter the society to work, the brushes will probably be eliminated. Everyone watched and laughed.The teacher who graded the test papers asked: You are a really good student, who is it?Mr. Yang said: It's Gong Mei.One teacher said: Outspoken and aggressive.Mr. Yang asked: Are there any objections to pens?The examiner said: Yes!Some people object to fountain pens on the grounds that if the fountain pen falls on the ground, the nib will be broken, but the writing brush will not break.Some people said that he had bought several fountain pens, but they were all taken away by pickpockets. The brushes are absolutely safe, so it is better to use them.Everyone laughed for a while, and took out another copy to read: My dad said that brushes are more important than fountain pens. Someone chuckled and asked, "Why did you carry Dad out?" Writing with a brush is like a dragon and a tiger alive, so foreigners also come to China to learn calligraphy with a brush.Writing with a brush is not as fast as a fountain pen, but my father said that this is the advantage of a brush, which can train a person to be careful and change his temperament.Dad said that you should sharpen the ink yourself when writing, and those who can sharpen the ink can endure hardships and stand hard work and overcome difficulties.Also, the brush can write large characters, but the fountain pen can only write small characters.The writing with a brush is good, and the writing with a fountain pen is good.Also, my dad said that the writing brush can be further improved A teacher said: Why is it all his father's opinion?Is it he who came to participate in the composition competition, or his father?Another teacher said: father's content, son's words, father-son cooperation.Mr. Yang said: I once told them that authoritative opinions can be quoted when writing a thesis. At that time, I took what my father said as an example, but the child didn't understand it.Who is this kid?Liu Baocheng! With that said, the chef came to invite everyone to have dinner, and several examiners quickly packed up and went to the dining room. three Markers held a two-hour meeting to evaluate the winners of each grade. Three winners were selected for each grade, and the top three winners for the third grade were: Wu Qiang, Zhu Chengcheng, and Li Danxia. Wu Qiang won the first place, and Mr. Yang was very pleased.This seems to have an explanation to someone.Some students in the class always thought that Mr. Yang favored Wu Qiang, but now after a fair competition, it has been proved that Wu Qiang is indeed superior.The other two award-winning students, Zhu Chengcheng and Li Danxia, ​​have not been taught by Mr. Yang, so the impression is very vague.He thought: I'm going to take a closer look at these two students. Rankings followed by a discussion of prizes.Some people advocate that the first place will be given a pen, the second place will be given a brush, and the third place will be given a pencil. Director Hu said: In this way, it seems that we put more emphasis on fountain pens and less on brushes?So someone proposed an amendment, and the pens and brushes were given away together. The first place got a good pen and brush, the second place got an ordinary pen and brush, and the third place got a pen and brush that was not very good. Some people advocate that when the award is presented, the winner will tell a paragraph about how I write an essay.Mr. Yang quickly said: This design is very good, but unfortunately one of the winners was eating so badly that he couldn't speak.Others also said: When receiving the award, the students were very excited, and it was not easy to speak in an orderly manner.But everyone was reluctant to give up on this idea, and decided to ask the winners to write down their experience in writing essays and publish them in the school magazine. The school magazine temporarily kicked out the special issue, and Mr. Yang paid attention to Zhu Chengcheng's article.The child's writing is methodical, with a mature tone.He said that he was very silent and didn't speak much, and spent most of his time listening to others. The secret of his writing essays was to listen to others.Ordinary people speak with very few lyrical texts. They are often talking about their own reasons, such as how Zhang San feels sorry for him;Zhu Chengcheng gave an example. He said that he once heard a policeman ban a street vendor, and the vendor refused to accept it: Police: You can't set up a stall here, move away! Vendor: I will not move.I want to eat, you also want to eat, right? Police: Of course.You want to eat, why do you have to set up a stall here? Vendor: You want to eat, why do you have to be a policeman here? Police: That's not the case.It's not that I want to interfere with you. According to the regulations, no business can be done in this place. Vendor: Who stipulated it?you come to him Police: You stipulated it yourself. Vendor: What?I? Police: Now is the era of democracy. Laws are formulated according to public opinion. You are a part of the nation, so you also have a part. He gets his inspiration from these places.He said: "I don't know how many times the students have talked about the issue of pens and brushes. The talkers are not interested, but the listeners are interested. There are a lot of good materials in it."Seeing this, Mr. Yang couldn't help sighing, he really has a heart.However, if you use this method to write an essay, you should only talk about specific issues related to life, such as sunny days and rainy days, pens and brushes, etc. If the topics are more abstract, such as evolution and revolution, it will be somewhat difficult, because ordinary people’s daily conversations do not involve much. There is no material for such a question. Look at what Li Danxia wrote again.The girl said that she didn't like essays, but her father forced her to read them.Dad collects readable articles everywhere, and asks her to read one article every day, except for special accidents, without interruption. Up to now, she has more than 300 extra-curricular supplementary textbooks, cut and bound in two volumes.This extracurricular homework will continue.Having read 300 Tang poems by heart, she could recite poems even if she couldn't, and with more than 300 essays as a basis, she gradually had some opinions, and when she saw ordinary topics, she would not have nothing to say.However, she was clearly aware that her thoughts were limited within a very small range, which was what she had read. If she exceeded the range, her mind was still blank.Therefore, whenever she was writing a composition, she prayed secretly, hoping that the composition questions would not be outside the scope.The method she uses is the traditional old method. Apart from persistence, the choice of teaching materials is of great importance.It seems that she has a good father. Finally, look at Wu Qiang's.Wu Qiang said, of course he reads textbooks, of course he reads model anthologies, but the most powerful ones are not these books, but novels!He was originally a fan of novels, but later he wanted to write good essays. He felt that writing essays and reading novels were in conflict with each other.Soon, the conflict was reconciled, and it turned out that the novel was full of essays!These arguments are fragmented and scattered, and are often not easy to be discovered.He said: The essays written by novelists are really top-notch.A black man fell in love with a fair-skinned lady. The black man went to the lady's father to propose marriage, but was severely rejected. The parent thought it was a shame to marry a black man.After the pleading was ineffective, the black youth took out a small knife, cut his arm, let the blood flow down, and said: Look, although my skin is black, my blood is also red!In Wu Qiang's view, the last sentence has the skill of an essay.Wu Qiang memorized aphorisms from many novels: Love is a blood vessel connecting two people, once it is cut off, both of them will bleed to death. People don't plant flowers when they are happy, but those who want to be happy plant flowers. People always lack self-knowledge. They don't know who is inferior to them and who is worse than them. In life, we should learn to live with disappointment. The Chinese can maintain their peace, but when necessary, they are willing to sacrifice their peace. Seeing Wu Qiang's opinion, Mr. Yang was pleasantly surprised.He felt that Wu Qiang's discovery was very valuable, so he took down a thick world novel Grand View from the bookshelf. Four Originally, novels can have a critical effect on life.However, this kind of criticism is through the story.As for the critical power that stories can carry, Mr. Yang has already mentioned it when he told stories.Now, inspired by Wu Qiang, Mr. Yang has noticed that the novel can directly help the writers of the thesis on the surface of the text and between the chapters and sentences. To open the Grand View of World Fiction, first read Hugo's Prisoner.It describes a prisoner who is deeply loved by other prisoners in prison and arouses the jealousy of the prison boss.Hugo said that the jailer had a secret, passionate, and irreconcilable hatred for this beloved prisoner.This is the poisonous hatred which the authority of law has for the authority of fact.It is the hatred of material power for spiritual power.Nice sentence! Also read The Miller's Secret by Daudet.In Dude's hometown, many people owned mills.Open the old-fashioned mill powered by windmills, and people from all over the world transported wheat to grind flour.Then the flour-grinding machine was invented, and all the old-fashioned mills closed down, except one, Papa Coyle, who kept on going.In fact, he had no customers coming to his door, but he kept the windmill spinning because of suspicion.His persistent nostalgia touched those who had wheat to grind, and they continued to support his business, only supporting his family.After the death of Father Coyle, the sail grinding of this last mill ceased its activities forever, and the industry of old-fashioned mills was eliminated forever.what else can we do?In this world, everything has an end.We ought to believe that the time of the wind mill is past, as are the barges on the Rhone, the House of Lords of old, and the garments embroidered with gold.Nice sentence! A Swedish writer said that when the two countries were at war, a group of enemy soldiers rushed in and sought accommodation in civilian houses.There was an enemy soldier who was well received by the people of his family.He wanted to pay some rewards to the common people, and the other party smiled and said: Put away the money bag.Selling food privately to the enemy is a crime of treason; but giving food to the hungry is not a wrong thing even in times of war.Isn't that reasonable? A Japanese writer said that there was a lady who paid great attention to politeness and etiquette, and often picked on others in person, which was very offensive.Once, she told others that when drinking coffee, don't clink the spoons and plates, that's the behavior of a maid.The other party said: Huh, that's not bad at all, the maid is very busy, so she will ring the cups and plates, and your wife is idle all day, so of course she won't ring the cups and plates.Isn't this also reasonable? It seems that novels are also textbooks for writing essays, and they are the most vivid.