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Lin Yutang (1895.10.3-1976.3.26) was born in Longxi, Fujian. Formerly known as Lehe, later changed to Yutang, later changed to Yutang. 19 12 He entered Shanghai St. John's University and taught in Tsinghua University after graduation. 1965438+went to the literature department of Harvard University in the autumn of 2009. 1922 received a master of arts degree. In the same year, he transferred to Leipzig University in Germany to study linguistics. From 65438 to 0923, he returned to China as Professor Peking University, Dean of Beijing Women's Normal University and Head of the English Department. 1924, he is one of the main authors of Yu Si. From 65438 to 0926, he served as the head of the literature department of Xiamen University. 1927 secretary of the Ministry of foreign affairs. 1932 edited by the Analects of Confucius. 1934 founded "Human World", 1935 founded "Cosmic Wind", advocating "self-centered, leisure-oriented" prose. After 1935, he wrote cultural works and novels in English in the United States, such as My Country and My People, Clouds in Beijing and Trembling Wind.

1944 once returned to China to give lectures in Chongqing. 1945 went to Singapore to set up Nanyang University as the president. 1952 co-founded tianfeng magazine in the United States. 1966 settled in Taiwan Province province. 1967 was employed as a research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1975 was elected as the vice president of International PEN. 1976 died in Hong Kong.

Bibliography of works:

Fu Jian's Works (Essay) 1928, Beixin

New Literature Review (Collection of Comments) 1930, Beixin

On Linguistics Series 1932, Enlightenment.

European and American English (Essays) 1933, World.

Wild Collection (Essay) 1934, Life

"My Words" (volume 1, essay, also known as "Su Wen Ji"), 1934, time.

My words (Volume II, essays, also known as My Humble Jing Collection), 1936, time.

Selected humorous works of Lin Yutang 1936. every phenomenon on earth

Discovery of Life 1938, Tokyo Chuangyuan Society.

Freshman China 1939, Lin Publishing House.

Slang Collection (Essay) 1940, Shanghai Shuofeng Bookstore.

First class 194 1, Shanghai Earth Publishing House.

Yucun 194 1, Lin Publishing House.

China Shengren 194 1, Shanghai Shuofeng Bookstore.

China Cultural Spirit 194 1, Shanghai Guofeng Bookstore.

Satire anthology, translated by Jiang Qi, 194 1, Guohua Compilation Society.

Love and sting 194 1, Tomorrow Press.

Jinxiu Collection 194 1, Shanghai Shuofeng Bookstore.

The Art of Life 194 1, Shanghai West Wind Society.

You Buzhai's Works (Essays) 194 1, Humanities Bookstore.

Elegant people and elegant things (essay) 194 1, a first-class bookstore in Shanghai.

Collected Papers of Yutang 194 1, Shanghai Human Publishing House.

Collected Works of Bojing (Collected Works) 194 1, Hong Kong Guanghua Publishing House.

Instantaneous Beijing (novel, also known as Clouds in Beijing) translated by Zhang Zhenyu, 1940, several Shanghai publishing houses.

Portrait of Literati 1947, Shanghai Jinwu Bookstore.

Shout 1947 (5th edition), Business.

Lin Yutang's Prose Collection 1954, Hong Kong World Digest Publishing House.

Talk about everything (1-2 episodes, essays) 1969, Satellite Press; 1-3 collection, 1974, Wu

To be fair, Gao E (Prose Collection) 1966, Satellite Press.

Yutang 1978 portfolio, Wu.

Lin Yutang's Classic Works (Volume 1-35) 1986, Taiwan Province Jin Lan Culture Publishing House.

Literati Sketch (Prose Collection) and Characters Collection, 1986, Chongqing People's Publishing House.

China people (essay) 1988, Zhejiang people.

Lai (novel) 1988, Hunan literature and art

The Feast of Life (Prose Collection) 1988, Hunan Literature and Art.

Quotations from Lin Yutang

Two-legged eastern and western cultures

Two-legged eastern and western cultures

Comment on the universe with one heart

-"My Words"

Understanding and pain

The degree of a person's understanding is just equal to the depth of his suffering.

-"My Country and My People"

Rare things

People who are proud of their feet are always extremely rare. What can this world give people?

Few people are naturally satisfied.

-"My Country and My People"

No humor.

Without humor, people's culture will become more and more hypocritical and their lives will become more and more fraudulent.

Thoughts will become pedantic, literature will become shriveled, and people's thoughts will become stubborn.

-"One Night Talk"

If there were no women

Without women, there must be no manners, customs, religions, traditions and social classes. produce

There are no naturally polite men and no naturally rude women in the world. Assuming there are no women,

We won't live in the same alley, but in a room with triangular doors and windows and an octagonal bathtub.

House, but I don't know the difference between dining room and bedroom, what's the point. Men like to eat in the bedroom.

Dinner, sleeping in the restaurant.

-Jin Shengtan's physiology

Man's insignificance

The insignificance of life in the universe is like China's landscape painting. In landscape painting,

The nuances of the landscape are not easy to see, because they have disappeared into the blank of water and sky, and then two tiny.

Little people, sitting in a boat on the sparkling river in the moonlight. From that moment on, read

The dreamer is lost in that atmosphere.

-biography of Su Dongpo

A leisurely mood

Of course, it is much cheaper to enjoy a leisurely life than a luxurious one. Enjoy a leisurely life

Live like an artist and entertain a person with a completely carefree mood.

An idle afternoon.

-"The Art of Living"

Happy philosophy

Only happy philosophy is truly profound philosophy; Those serious western philosophies

Theory, I don't think I have begun to understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion, the only thing about philosophy

The utility is to make us have a more relaxed and happy attitude towards life than ordinary businessmen.

-"The Art of Living"

Pens and cones

A writer's pen is like a shoemaker's cone. The more you use it, the sharper it will be, and it will be as sharp as sewing clothes later.

Needle. But his concept will be wider and wider, just like a person's mountaineering and sightseeing.

The higher you climb, the farther you can see.

-"The Art of Living"

Interview with the ancients

An ancient book makes readers face the ancients who have been sleeping for a long time in their minds. When he read it,

When he goes down, he will imagine what kind of form and person this ancient writer is.

Mencius and the great historian Sima Qian both expressed this view.

-"The Art of Living"

Stay alert and take your time.

Art should be a kind of satirical literature, insensitive to our emotions and lifeless.

Thought, and an unnatural life as a warning. It teaches us to protect ourselves in a pretentious world.

Simple and sincere.

-"The Art of Living"

Poor world

..... If we have knowledge in the world but can't understand it, we can't criticize it.

Appreciate, there is no beauty of love, no passionate truth, no kind justice.

Sad, with a polite and warm heart, what a miserable world this world will become.

Bound!

-"The Art of Living"

The most beautiful time

The most beautiful time for a woman is when she is standing in front of the cradle; Most sincere

The most solemn time is when she is holding a baby or walking with a four-or five-year-old child; The fastest

When I am happy, I will hold a baby as I see in western portraits.

When sleeping on a pillow and teasing.

-"The Art of Living"

Passengers by boat

Life is really a dream. Man is like a passenger, riding in a boat and moving along eternity.

The river of time is sailing. Get on the boat at one place and land at another so that other rivers can

Waiting for passengers to board the ship.

-"The Art of Living"

Enthusiasm plus wisdom and courage

Life is cruel, a warm, generous and affectionate person, too.

Xu is easily fooled by his smarter companions. People who are generous by nature are often generous.

When you make mistakes, you are often too tolerant of your enemies or too trusting of your friends.

Walked away, lost. ……

Life is harsh, a warm heart is not enough to cope with the environment, and enthusiasm must be wise and brave.

Only by uniting can we avoid environmental damage.

-"The Art of Living"

Died three times.

Whoever tells the truth will hurt it; Anyone who wants to prove it,

On the contrary, it is disability and distortion; Anyone who adds a sign to it defines an ideological faction.

All people killed it instead, and all those who claimed to believe in it buried it.

So a truth, when it was established as a system, has died three times.

Buried three times.

-"The Art of Living"

An open-minded humorist

Those who are capable, intelligent, ambitious and arrogant, at the same time,

That is, the most cowardly and confused people lack the courage, profundity and intelligence of humorists. they

Always dealing with trivial things. They don't know that people who are more thoughtful than broad-minded humorists can

Deal with big things.

-"The Art of Living"

Inflexible

Ordinary people can't appreciate the happiness of this earthly life because they don't love people deeply.

Life makes life ordinary, rigid and boring.

-"The Art of Living"

Want to be someone else

A professor at China Modern University once said a quip: "A wife is kind to others and gentle to herself."

Take care of yourself. "In this sense, no one in the world will have an absolute feeling.

Satisfied. Everyone wants to be someone else, as long as this other person is not who he is now.

-"The Art of Living"

Beauty of old age

Old churches, old furniture, old dictionaries and old books, we are.

Yes, but most people forget the beauty of the elderly. This kind of beauty deserves our appreciation,

This is very necessary in life. I thought that ancient things, perfect things, have changed a lot.

Things are the most beautiful things.

-"The Art of Living"

Lack of human touch

I am against dictators because they have no humanity. Because unfriendly people always

Not good. Religion without humanity is not religion; Indifferent politics is stupid.

Politics, art without humanity is bad art; An inhuman life

Live like an animal.

-"The Art of Living"

tourist

A true traveler must be a wanderer, experiencing the joy and temptation of a wanderer.

Confused and adventurous thoughts. Travel must be vagrancy, otherwise it is not travel. travel

Mainly no responsibility, no opportunity, no communication, no curious neighbors, no arrival.

Guest, no destination. A good traveler never knows where he is going, or even better.

I don't know where it came from He even forgot his own name.

-"The Art of Living"

silkworm

Scholars, like eagles, spit out the food they eat and feed it to birds; An idea

Home is like a silkworm. He vomited silk instead of mulberry leaves.

-"The Art of Living"

Dating soil

Let me be friends with vegetation and blind date with soil, and I will be satisfied. My spirit

The soul writhed comfortably in the soil and felt very happy. When a person enjoys leisure and revels in this land.

When he went to bed, his mind seemed relaxed, just like in heaven. In fact, his place

How does a six-foot body leave the soil one inch at a time?

-"The Art of Living"

Food and clothing are black and sweet.

I once said that China people's view of happiness is "warm, full, dark and sweet".

Honey "-refers to the scene of going to bed after eating a big meal. A poem by China.

People have also said: "The heart is full of beautiful things; The rest are extravagant. "

-"The Art of Living"

Passing guests

We can adopt a relaxed and casual attitude towards life: we are not dust.

The permanent tenant of the world is just a passer-by.

-"The Art of Living"

mermaid

If I can choose to be one of the writers in the world, I'd rather be an apprentice.

Healthy. Can write the story of mermaid, think about her thoughts,

When I grow up, I am eager to come to the surface of the water, which is really the deepest thing that human beings feel.

Beautiful happiness.

-"The Art of Living"