Prose is the most free style of writing, without any constraints and limitations, and prose is also the most people quiet. In their own restlessness, confused when reading prose, will let their hearts calm down, and then produce "life", "ideal" thinking. What should we do when we are restless? I organized the following four books can make you calm down, take a look.
01 There's a Tree in Brooklyn
By Betty Smith
There's a Tree in Brooklyn is a book about survival, but also a book that gives insights into how an individual can become stronger, more determined, and wiser. Above all, it is about how reading can make a humble life noble, how knowledge can change one's cultivation and destiny, and how the strength of a family can support a child in realizing his or her dreams. Brooklyn, New York, at the beginning of the twentieth century, is a peaceful and happy land, but here, a young heart should be carefree, but is forced to face the hardships of life, the taste of growing up in the process of helplessness: her mother prefers her brother, her father loves her but died young, the family is poor, in the school was despised ...... face such a In the face of such a rough life, she has also been bitter, sad, but always maintain the dignity and knowledge to change their destiny. The other door of life finally opened for her.
02 "The Grass on Earth"
Author: Wang Zengqi
It is said that pear blossoms are like snow, but in fact apple blossoms are like snow. Snow is thick, not transparent. What do pear blossoms look like? --- The 'petals of pear blossoms are made of the moon.
The so-called "one flower, one world, one leaf, one bodhi" is reflected in this book. When I write, I always don't know what to write, which is called "no inspiration", but I don't know that all things in the world can be written, so how can I say "no inspiration"? This book is written about all things in the world.
Wang Zengqi uses his simple and natural style to write about flowers, grass, fish, and insects in an elegant way. Whether it is the autumn flowers of Beijing, summer insects or winter trees, whether it is a piece of rock in Taishan or the rain in Kunming, he has written about the summer, spring, winter and autumn. It is really written all over the summer, spring, winter and autumn, written all over the flowers, trees, insects, fish, birds and animals.
The feeling of reading this book is like walking in the park, the park air is still permeated with the fragrance of the most primitive trees, and occasionally hear the brief hissing of the birds, see the shuttle in the shrubs of the cats and dogs now and then, naughty when you can climb the tree to pick one or two fruits to relieve the craving, and the pure and natural, no additives. Of course, there will be no big mom here to dance.
In reading this book, I was sighing: I don't see flowers, trees, insects, fish, birds and animals, only to see the high-rise buildings and traffic. With the expansion of the city area, I can only see trees on both sides of the road and specific parks; air is also worse every day, in January when I came out of the library because of a mouthful of "pure Northeast flavor" of the potent haze led to a week of throat; in the travel of common means of transport is also the "subway", the "subway", "subway", "subway", "subway", "subway", "subway", "subway", "subway", "subway" and so on. The "subway", only to see the dense flow of people, do not see the vast sky.
When did our living space become so cramped, when did our lives become so boring and lifeless?
03 Talking about Eating in the House of Grace
By Liang Shiqiu
No bamboo makes people vulgar, no meat makes people thin, if you want to be neither vulgar nor thin, you should have bamboo shoots and boiled meat in your meals.
If you are a foodie, it is highly recommended not to read this book in the evening, because you will find it more desperate than watching some people sunbathing on food in the circle of friends late at night.
After reading this book, I more or less understand the charm of prose, that is, to tell a small thing, describing a small tithe also have a taste of their own, seemingly interesting.
This book is about food and food culture. I thought I was flipping through the table of contents - and believe me, it's more of a menu than that.
Not only are there famous dishes like "roast lamb," "roast duck," and "crystal shrimp cake," but also "walnut cheese" and "sour cream. ", "sour plum soup", "sugar gourd" such as our familiar snacks snacks, and even "McDonald's"! You should know that although McDonald's is now a popular fast food, but in Liang Shiqiu's time is still rare. It was really "eat all over the world". When I wrote this, I realized that Liang was also a "foodie" ah!
04 "The most beautiful thing in life is happiness"
By Lin Qingxuan
To see the world with a pure heart, to live life with a joyful heart, to have a taste for the ordinary heart, and to get rid of obstacles with a soft heart.
I really love the word "Qinghuan", which Lin Ching-hsuen explains in "Qinghuan" as meaning "light happiness". This is a kind of pure happiness, without any mixed lust and materialism, just like a dragonfly touching the water. Just waiting for us to look at each other and smile.
The book includes six themes, including "the flavor of the world, living in the moment, taking things as they come, the cold and dewy days, not forgetting the beginning of the heart, and the ease of life".
In fact, the other way around, these six themes correspond to the "six ills" of modern people, namely "tastelessness, drunkenness, over-ambitiousness, coldness, forgetfulness, and anxiety".
Now we are talking about "hard work" and "perseverance", slogan shouting, writing in the book, saying what "twenty-something years old do not panic when panic", but in fact, "panic". "The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on a new product or service.
It is because we have to "work hard" and "insist" to be more calm and relaxed. Efforts can not be achieved overnight, adhere to the practice of ten years as one day, there is no calm attitude and strong heart how to resist this period of various temptations and hardships? This is why more and more people now forget the original intention and turn into a slave of money.
The dream is valuable because it carries the heart of the best.
These four books may make you feel "boring" when you first read them, and feel that you are not doing the "right thing" to read these slightly obscure words, but this is the key to calming the hostility of the heart, and only when you calm down, you can read into it.
A couple of digressions, I was just flipping forward when I realized that these collections of essays are all green and white. My favorite color is the free and melancholy blue, but I don't hate the green. Prose has always given people a sense of light and natural, which is related to its "loose", and the content of the prose is mostly trivial life, close to nature, close to life, so there is such a rich flavor of life of the green.
People are happy.