Literati in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty liked to use the word "test", which means to try briefly and stop, which has a temporary nature and does not mean to devote yourself wholeheartedly. Do it impromptuly, when enough is enough. After practicing one kind of behavior, then change it to another, always keeping the interest fresh and physically and mentally suitable; it is not the original intention of the culture for future generations to do it as a career. Wu Congxian, a scholar at that time, summed it up well: "Take advantage of the excitement and do not let your expression become too dry." He clarified his work philosophy.

The literati of the late Ming Dynasty paid attention to elegance and pursued leisurely taste. Milan Kundera famously said "the unbearable lightness of life", while the literati of the late Ming Dynasty were "the unbearable weight of life". The ancients are not like us. We are slow in some aspects, but we have made progress in some aspects. So we learned about going online and offline, blogging and online dating, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, corruption and bribery, but the ancients still had leisure time to "have poems as evidence" even when they were sleeping. We don't care about writing anymore. In addition to adhering to their "four basic principles" (basically no distinction between traditional and simplified Chinese, basically no punctuation, basically using brushes, and basically hand-polishing), literati before the Ming Dynasty could also play with a kind of "elegance". But you don’t just play one way all day long, you play “elegance” in a variety of ways. Elegant and interesting but not flattering. Just like me.

Let’s see what they do after eating and flossing their teeth. Chen Jiru made the following summary:

Burning incense, testing tea, washing inkstones, drumming and harp, correcting calligraphy, waiting for the moon, listening to the rain, watering flowers, lying high, surveying squares, walking meditators, carrying Xuan, Fishing, painting, rinsing the spring, holding a stick, worshiping Buddha, tasting wine, sitting at a banquet, reading scriptures, looking at mountains, writing posters, carving bamboo, feeding cranes...

There are many names, like the medicine drawer in a traditional Chinese medicine store . It’s already a bit dizzying.

These are all considered petty bourgeois lifestyles. During the "Cultural Revolution" period in China, it was inevitable to be sent to the "May 7th Cadre School" for labor reform. Even in today's modern economic era, doing these things is not the main theme. Behind the scenes, people will definitely roll their eyes, and it is not within the scope of doing business. Block, cover the screen.

Modern life has long made it difficult for people to find leisure and elegance. The speed of time determines the style and speed of people's lives. "Gu Ya"'s legs hurt and he could no longer keep up.

Faced with all kinds of performance art from the ancients and above, I had no choice but to copy it, just to make a journey on paper, and just use the words to express obscenity; euphemistically called "word obscenity". In fact, my writing is a kind of obscenity.

Literati in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty liked to use the word "test", which means to try briefly and stop, with a kind of short-term nature, not to devote yourself to it. Do it impromptuly, when enough is enough. After practicing one kind of behavior, then change it to another, always keeping the interest fresh and physically and mentally suitable; it is not the original intention of the culture for future generations to do it as a career. Wu Congxian, a scholar at that time, summed it up well: "Take advantage of the excitement and do not let your expression become too dry." He clarified his work philosophy. Adding "suitable" to "dry" is like sprinkling two drops of water on a cement board. There were two drops of cat urine on the counter.

These behaviors, at least for those literati in the late Ming Dynasty, were an ideal and perfect form.

For example, the "Appreciating Paintings" are mostly hand scrolls, which need to be opened section by section, which is equivalent to our interest in reading pornographic jokes on mobile phones today. The difference is: the ancients read from right to left, and they need to open it section by section. To read frame by frame, we read from top to bottom on mobile phones, which requires sufficient power. The form determines that the directions of today and the ancients are different, not to mention the essence? Another example is as follows: Burning incense.

It is to enter the realm of "Zen art blindly". Since the Song Dynasty, non-mainstream writers have been familiar with this way to promote literary prosperity.

Negative communication.

To put it bluntly, it means "bathing in the sun shirtless." The folks in my hometown in the North Central Plains often do this during the slack season. The colloquial saying in the North Central Plains is "Shai Nuan'er". At this time, there is no need to repay the debt when borrowing sunshine. Different from "mortgage loan". The earth is wide and the sun never lends usury. Earlier people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties would remove lice from their clothes in this state. Not only did they socialize, they also played with a few props and played with the round lice to compare their size and weight. If you don't just look at the thighs, the girls wearing bikinis on the beach today can be considered a bit "negative". They look cleaner than the people of Wei and Jin. The difference from Wei and Jin Dynasties is holding mobile phones. Feed the crane.

I have never fed cranes, but I have fed chickens and turtle doves (turtle doves are vulgar, but cranes are elegant).

One year during the spring sowing of wheat in the North Central Plains, a farmer in Lincun picked up a crane in the field that accidentally ate pesticides, called a Demoiselle Crane, and gave it to a friend of mine. The friend said that he would give it to him after a few days of raising it. I. A week later, my friend told me in frustration that he thought he had raised the crane, but unexpectedly it flew away as soon as he opened the cage. It seems that I don't have the demeanor of Lin Hejing's "Plum Wife and Crane", so I will continue to feed my common animals, chickens and turtle doves, as always. Got turtledoves and chickens. Waiting for the moon.

Looking forward to the rising and setting of the moon. A modern poem is called "I have a date with the moon." But modern times are not a moon era, and the economic growth rate has long obscured the moon. It covered Wu Gang's ax and osmanthus tree, and covered Chang'e's lipstick. The ancients waited for the moon, but today people have no choice but to wait for the train and wait for the next promotion. Listen to the rain.

Don’t even think about it. In the city, you can listen to the sound of machines, the sound of air conditioners, and the roar of people. You can listen to anything, even if you listen to rain, don't talk about listening to the rain, which is just vulgar. Let's listen to sulfuric acid rain.

There are also a series of cultural activities such as writing, copying, proofreading, translating scriptures, and reading prescriptions. As Hua Shu, a writer in the late Ming Dynasty, said: "In the long summer thatched cottage, I randomly inspected and picked up the good words and rhymes of the ancients. , I will excerpt it at will, stop as I like, and chat with me during my leisure time, which is called leisure time. "It's so beautiful." In other words, playing with it is all about fun. Let them write a contracted work of 300,000 words. Late Ming writers refused to do it even if they died. They all said that they might as well go for fun. They all want to "put down their picks".

I summarized the revised version of the "four basic standards" that the literati of the late Ming Dynasty calmly adopted:

The best quality is elegant and interesting.

The middle grade is vulgar and interesting.

The inferior quality is elegant but boring.

The next time it will be vulgar and boring.

As for the other ones that I have not commented, it is even more impossible to compare. The electronic age has long since made me lose my patience, not to mention my greater background and culture. I just have to deduce it on paper. Still obscene. I can type a hundred and fifty an hour.

All these behaviors of people in the late Ming Dynasty coincide with me. Although I call them good and yearn for them, in fact, I can't do any of them. One has no qualifications, the other has no interest, and the Ming people are just the opposite of me, occupying them all. With such a system, I can't even include the standard of "secondary". It has become a low-quality product that is "vulgar but not elegant".