Chapter 169 The Six Dynasties are like a dream and birds are singing
"On the south bank of the river, it is drizzling, and the grass grows very high.
Six dynasties disappeared like a dream, and only the crows were still crows.
The willow tree outside the castle in the smoke is the most emotionless,
Still growing happily on the three-mile-long embankment."
"The poetry of ancient China pays attention to the eye of the poem. A poem can only have one word, which is the most important. If you master the eye of the poem, you can grasp the emotional tone of the entire poem.
Who can tell me which word is the word "eye" in this poem? Hannah, you said, very good, it is the crow. The crow represents ominousness in ancient China. As long as there is a crow, tragedy will happen.
This poem is about the original capital of the southern imperial court, which has become a colony of crows, symbolizing the destruction of the dynasty. Students can compare it with Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, both of which tell the story of a great king in his later years.
Ignorance destroyed a great dynasty.
In the second act of King Lear, Shakespeare used the image of a cuckoo bird to compare the ungrateful Goneril. The image of a crow in Eastern poetry is also the same. This kind of writer's technique must not be ignored.
Know."
The ancient Chinese poetry analysis class is nearing the end of the term. Most of the students who were arty at the beginning have left, and the rest are young literary people and writers who aspire to be writers.
The sinologist teacher analyzed the poems in Three Hundred Tang Poems in English, one after another. However, Ronald did not believe these outrageous analyses. He may have recited Three Hundred Tang Poems in his previous life, and this one was Wei Zhuang's "Taicheng"
" He still remembered that the second sentence was clearly about the six dynasties, like a dream, the crow of a bird in the sky, but the professor thought it was the crow's crow, and after analysis, it turned out to be quite logical.
When he remembered the bell, Ronald rushed forward and asked the teacher for leave to attend the Golden Globe Awards banquet at the end of next month.
"Ronald, I don't care what ceremony you attend. My grading standards are the same for all classmates. When Hannah went to Harvard-Yenching Institute to be a research assistant, she also had to write a comparison of ancient Tang Dynasty poetry and Shakespeare's sonnets.
I will give her a grade of A only if she studies. If you want to go to Los Angeles, you must submit your final essay."
Seeing the professor's unwillingness to accommodate, Ronald became angry and said, "What if I find something wrong with the content of your lecture?"
"That's good, Ronald. I welcome challenges to my academic theories. As long as you can find out where I'm wrong and make sense, I'll give you a good grade. Don't come here again.
Individual courses are also available.”
This is what you said. After class, Ronald went to the library to borrow three hundred Tang poems.
The river is raining and the grass is flowing, the six dynasties are like a dream and the black sky is crying.
The most ruthless willows in Taicheng are still smoking ten miles across the embankment.
Ronald was flipping through the traditional Chinese version of "Three Hundred Tang Poems" he found from the library, and he was so angry. Why, not only did he write the character for bird as crow, but he also wrote the poem "Taicheng" as
The map of Jinling.
"How is this possible? Pingping, 廄廄, here should obviously be the word "bird" with a oblique sound." Ronald complained in Chinese.
"Hey, do you also know Chinese Tang poetry?" The Chinese student from the master's class whom I saw last time was also in the library, holding a copy of "Dialogue between Truffaut and Hitchcock".
"Ah, it's you." Ronald recognized the boy who was not very good at English. "For the Tang poetry analysis class I took, I was looking for a good version of 300 Tang poems. The version here was so bad that all the prints were wrong.
Already."
The boy took it and took a look, "It's indeed wrong. When we were young, we memorized all the songs of birds in the sky. You can go to my place and have a look. My girlfriend Jiahui has a version from Zhonghua Book Company. It is a very authoritative version."
"Okay, thank you, my name is Ronald Lee."
"Actually, my surname is Li, my name is Li Ang, you can call me ang lee"
Li Ang's girlfriend Jiahui was cooking. Seeing Li Ang bringing his friends home, he quickly invited Ronald to have dinner with him. Ronald was also happy to have a meal of Chinese food. Jiahui's spoken English was much better than Li Ang's and he cooked two meals.
The human translator talked about movies.
"I heard that you have a club that screens movies, can you introduce me to join?" Leon asked Ronald about the small club that screens pirated movies.
"According to the rules, you have to bring your own copy to the screening. I also borrowed the Soviet Union's "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" before they allowed me to join.
"I can ask the people in the office to borrow Director Hu's 'Song of the Sky'. It was a new film last year and has just been added with English subtitles."
"You borrow the copy, and I will introduce you to Spike, who is also in the master's class. He will organize screenings. By the way, his surname is also Li."
Ronald's "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" received a mediocre response after being screened in small clubs. Everyone commented that the aesthetics of the film are very classicist, but the language in the audition was a bit old and the values are also very traditional. It is a popular drama.
Ronald said that this movie broke the number of moviegoers in Suville, but everyone didn't believe it. Maybe it was because the movie involved some single mothers and unmarried pregnancies, which was unprecedented on the screen in Suville, and the audience had never seen it before.
After seeing such a plot that reflected reality, word of mouth broke the record.
This is also due to the fact that the general secretary-general is a movie fan. It is said that he shed tears after watching it and gave personal instructions before it was allowed to be screened.
Sometimes the box office of a movie depends not only on the performance of the artists, but also on the progress of social trends.
There are many examples of movies that were not taken seriously by artists, but suddenly fit the public's perception, and the box office took off. This is also commonly known as luck.
I had a great time chatting with Li Ang. Ronald borrowed Jiahui's Zhonghua Book Company edition of Three Hundred Tang Poems, and it turned out to be "Six Dynasties Like Dreams and Birds Crying in the Sky". Ronald remembered it correctly. He went to copy the page of poetry first.
, and then I wrote a short paper all night long.
"The word "bird" and "empty" are used together to show that this is a contrasting technique. The bird's cry is a happy and beautiful image, and the "empty cry" is to contrast the bird with everything still the same and the deserted royal city in decline, highlighting the rise and fall of the dynasty.
The helplessness..."
In the office the next day, Professor Sinologist saw the small paper Ronald handed him, and then saw the copy in the appendix.
"Yes, your analysis can be justified. I can give you a high score. Although you don't have to come to class, I still hope you come more often. Ancient poetry has an imagination like the sea. In 28 words, it's like
a movie.
The editing is precise and the narrative is reasonable. I suspect that Chinese people are born to make movies.”
The sinologist professor accepted Ronald's essay with satisfaction, and unexpectedly revealed a set of theories. Poems and movies also had similar treatments.
Ronald nodded and took out another three hundred Tang poetry and flipped through it. Is it true that Tang poetry is similar to the movie? Don't you be fooling me again?
Watching Ronald leave the office, the sinologist professor also nodded, "Very good, next year's lesson plan can be revised again. I have to talk to my Chinese wife. This typo is so embarrassing."
As New Year's Day approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder. The weather forecast for New Year's Eve actually includes strong cold air and rain. It turns out that Donna, who had been pestering Ronald to attend the New Year's Eve countdown in Times Square, Manhattan, and her good friend Diane Lane
Well, they all hesitated.
Diane Lane was wearing a newly bought white fur shawl and looked at the mirror, "Hey, let's wait until the Oscars before wearing it. The temperature is too cold. I will freeze to death just wearing a fur shawl."
"I originally wanted to watch the new big ball drop, but I heard that it will be dressed up in a new style this year." Donna also muttered. There is a countdown in Times Square every year, and many people will go there to watch a ball on the Times Tower.
The big ball fell to the ground as the countdown continued.
"Okay, don't worry. I have two Macy's vouchers for you to make gifts." Ronald took out two vouchers and gave them to the two girls. They were originally Christmas gifts, but little Bud
Things were delayed.
The two girls turned on the TV and watched it. It was a black music program, it seemed to be called Soul Train. Many black stars were performing black music and dance, and the two girls chattered and commented.
Nowadays, American life is completely inseparable from television. The two people who cannot go to watch the New Year's Eve performances will definitely watch the TV broadcast and count down to the New Year's Eve with millions of viewers. In fact, when the New Year's Eve is very cold, they said
Maybe it would be more comfortable to watch the TV broadcast.
The new season of the TV series "The Family" was delayed for two months due to the strike. In the last episode of the last season, which whetted the audience's appetite for eight months, the scene where Jr. Ewing was shot was finally revealed. It was his.
His sister killed him.
This episode broke the record for American TV ratings. The peak ratings exceeded 53% and the audience share exceeded 76%. In other words, three out of four TV sets watched this episode that day. This number of viewers
, even more than the number of voters in the general election.
Even the Queen of Britain and the former Commander-in-Chief asked the crew who the murderer was, and they all got no answers. In order to prevent leaks, the producers also filmed scenes of all the characters shooting, and no one knew how the script was written.
of.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the actor who played Jr. Ewing took the opportunity to threaten to increase the price. It is said that the price has reached an unprecedented US$100,000 per episode, which is already comparable to the salary of movie actors.
With such momentum, the old rival ABC TV station has also decided to launch a TV series with a similar theme next year, telling the grievances of Texas oil tycoon families, tentatively named "Dynasty".
The next day, Ronald took the two girls to Macy's to pick out gifts. Donna didn't choose anything else, but went to the bookstore to pick out a set of "Feynman Lectures on Physics." She had already started learning calculus.
I became interested in physics again.
Ronald saw advertisements for "Fast-paced Richmond High" already appearing in bookstores, and Simon & Schuster decided to sell the novel in the New Year.
"Is this a novel you adapted? I wonder if it can be pre-ordered," Diane Lane asked.
"Yes, I have a sample sent by the publisher. I can give it to you if you want."
Looking at the differences between Donna and Diane in choosing gifts, Ronald felt that this was also a very contrasting comparison. One liked natural science, and the other liked youth novels. They had completely different hobbies, but they were good friends.
Maybe they both discovered different qualities in each other and became friends.
Ronald thought of the Hamilton siblings in the novel.
The contrast between Brad and Stacey is also a setting in Cameron Crowe's novel.
Whether you agree with Brad's values of working hard and striving hard, or Stacey's values of having boyfriends all over the world, you will not be disgusted with the other brother and sister.
Mark, a nerdy geek nicknamed "Mouse", is timid about things between men and women, and is best friends with Mike Lemmon, a smooth-talking veteran who picks up girls.
No matter which one of them you belong to, you will have a kind of identification with your own type of character, which will lead to a sense of substitution and deepen your understanding of other types of characters.
The story behind each character is completely different from what it seems on the surface.
Behind "Mouse" Mark's timidity was his respect for his own emotions and his crush, Stacey. Behind the smooth talk of Mike, a seasoned pick-up guy, was his choice to become a scalper to earn money to support himself. In the end, he scraped together as much as he could.
The money was paid to Stacey for the surgery.
Cameron Crowe has a deep affection for these characters. They are not simply divided into good guys and bad guys, but have their own thoughts and values. The novel he wrote while undercover in high school for 10 months looks like it will be a big seller.