Chapter 64 Ninety-ninth Art: The Magical Charm of Suspense

Suspense, originally intended to be concerned, is extended here as appetizing, that is, to use the curiosity of the listener, first ask only one or a few questions, keep secret, to raise the appetite of the listener, let the listener guess and analyze by himself, and then put Tell the whole story.This is a speaking skill, which is widely used in cross talk and sketches. For example: Once, a Taiwan tour group visited the Wuzu Temple in Huangmei, Hubei. When visiting the historical and cultural relics exhibition room of the Wuzu Temple, a female guide pointed to a waist-shaped stone and said to others:

I wonder if you gentlemen and ladies have noticed?There is a small hole in the middle of this waist-shaped stone. Do you know what it is for? The sights of tourists immediately turned to this stone, many of them let out an ah, and approached happily to see that there was indeed a small hole, some said it might have been hung up to ring a bell, some said it might have been used as a pillow .There were different opinions, and they all surrounded the female commentator, asking her to solve the mystery. Only then did the female guide announce the answer to the mystery, telling everyone that this is a precious cultural relic, which was used by the sixth patriarch Huineng when he was a fire monk.Then, he told in detail the age, purpose and process of the story of this falling waist stone.

The tourists listened one by one, and there was no sound. They felt that they had broadened their knowledge and knowledge, and it was a worthwhile trip. The female narrator uses the suspense technique here, first to arouse the appetite of tourists, and then slowly untie it.It not only improves the tourist's mood of visiting, but also makes the content of the explanation lively, and integrates knowledge and interest into one furnace, achieving a good explanation effect. There is an old saying: Literati look at mountains and see injustice.The same is true for speaking. If a little suspense technique is used properly during the conversation or introduction, it will give the listener a fresh feeling and thus endless interest.