The bitter life made him understand life better, and then he expressed his feelings with a pen and took responsibility. Simple and clean language is very expressive. He is the superstar of vernacular Chinese and the pioneer of China's fairy tales. He is a generation of literati Ye Shengtao, and the secret of his longevity is drinking. He also has his own views on drinking.
Ordinary birth, extraordinary achievements.
Ye Shengtao 1894 was born in Jiangsu, which coincided with the Sino-Japanese War in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. It is said that only a complex environment can make a person, and Ye Shengtao is like this. Ye Shengtao's father supported his family life by his meager income in the accounting office. Although life was hard, Ye Shengtao never gave up.
When he grew up, he entered middle school. After graduation, he began to live as a primary school teacher, but this quiet life did not last long. At the age of 20, he was ostracized and forced to leave there.
"Ideal is the mother of career". For Ye Shengtao, his ideal is literary writing and education. After leaving school, he started his own literary creation. Education and editing are also the career he has been working hard for all his life, and he is very strict and responsible for his career.
Ye Shengtao is honest and easy-going. His friend Zhu Ziqing once described him like this: "He doesn't like to argue, never gets angry, and behaves humorously. But his words are rigorous. " During his time as editor-in-chief of the magazine, he was also unfriendly to everyone. In his eyes, the article cannot be perfunctory.
Later, Feng Zikai, Ye Shengtao's partner, began to write the Enlightenment Mandarin for primary school teaching. Out of responsibility for his children, he spent a whole year at his desk and rewritten more than 400 articles. Later, he found Feng Zikai and asked him to help him write the article again and then match it with pictures.
The Enlightened Mandarin Textbook 1932 caused a sensation immediately after it was published, and then it was reprinted more than 40 times, and it was not used until the end of the Republic of China. In that war-torn era, children were comforted by this book, which injected a clean stream into China's traditional education.
Later, Ye Shengtao also edited Xinhua Dictionary, wrote many articles and became a literary master. His achievements were breakthroughs again and again, and he eventually grew into the man who looked up at the stars.
A glass of wine for life, drinking is the secret of longevity.
Like many people, Ye Shengtao likes drinking very much. His first contact with wine should be influenced by his father. In his works, he once described his experience of coming home from school and then going to the hotel to drink with his father. Ye Shengtao's habit of drinking is also slowly developed under such circumstances.
In 1930s, Ye Shengtao was responsible for editing Middle School Student Magazine in Ming Kai Bookstore. Later, he held a reception with several good friends, and he was elected as the president. In every activity, they will have a heart-to-heart talk and discuss articles.
At that time, there was a rule at this cocktail party, that is, you can only become a member if you drink 5 pounds at a time. One of Ye Shengtao's colleagues wanted to join in the fun, but the amount of alcohol could not meet the standard. Then he went to Ye Shengtao, who humorously replied that he could prepare for party member first, and then he could become party member when he reached the standard.
At the end of the day, Ye Shengtao will definitely have a glass of wine while eating with his family, and then chat with them. In this regard, he once said that he would take drinking as a day's comfort or as the fun of family gatherings.
For Ye Shengtao, his life has experienced many hardships. Since the hardships of childhood, his life has been not smooth. On his 90th birthday, someone asked him the secret of longevity. Ye Shengtao's answer is that drinking is also exquisite. He should drink less and more. His life has run through his life for more than 80 years and has become a part of his life.
According to his son's memory, Ye Shengtao was drunk twice in his life. On one occasion, at Mr. Zhu's 60th birthday party, Ye Shengtao, who was living in Shanghai at that time, was invited to attend. When I got there, I was sent home by the guards because of excitement.
Another time was during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. At that time, a professor at Wuhan University heard that Ye Shengtao liked drinking very much and wanted to compare with him. Later, he invited Ye Shengtao to go, and Ye Shengtao agreed.
Because they drank about the same amount of alcohol, the game lasted until the evening, and then Ye Shengtao fell asleep when he got home, while the professor fell asleep in his own house.
After 1949, Ye Shengtao served as the vice minister of education, and there was a begonia tree in his yard in Beijing. Whenever the begonia tree blooms, he will invite friends to a party at home to drink.
Once the poet Zheng Zhenduo went to drink with Ye Shengtao. Zheng Zhenduo is very generous. He drank one cup at a time, which was quite heroic among Liangshan heroes. Later, he invited Ye Shengtao to drink with him. Ye Shengtao replied, "Take your time. The fun of drinking is in this small mouth."
For Ye Shengtao, wine is not only an ordinary drink, but also a portrayal of life. Drink slowly and live slowly. Life is like a glass of wine, you should know your priorities clearly. His life is also such a portrayal,
The wine in the work will analyze people's hearts.
Wine can not only be tasted, but also written. Among many modern writers, Ye Shengtao is a writer who is good at writing wine.
In "Overeating Five Pigeons' Rice", he depicts farmers who drown their sorrows by drinking. In "Dinner", he satirizes the corruption on campus with the performance of everyone at the banquet.
Ye Shengtao's The Night Banquet is not only a satire on social reality, but also an analysis of his own heart. In the novel Ni Huanzhi, he described the scene of the hero drinking four times.
These four drinking scenes run through the important nodes of the hero and also reflect the inner world of the hero, which is not a reflection of Ye Shengtao's own heart.
Ye Shengtao died in Beijing on 1988 at the age of 94. In his works, we can see that life has changed from a primary school teacher to a generation of literators, and only he knows the bitterness. The process of growing up is doomed to be difficult. In this process, Ye Shengtao has been in Do not forget your initiative mind. It is his lifelong pursuit to compile Chinese textbooks with heart and let children receive a good education.
Many people call him a writer, but what is more admirable than a writer is his status as an educator. In the field of education, he was a craftsman from beginning to end and made great contributions to the cultivation of the next generation of the motherland.