Hello, I'm Lao Wang, a professional reader who likes iron.
If there is a book that can accompany us for most of our lives, it is not only the luck of the book, but also our luck, and the fate of the book and people.
There is such a book, which has accompanied the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki for 60 years, and he also recorded in his autobiography the feeling of opening the book for the first time, which he still remembers to this day.
Now, Hayao Miyazaki has adapted it to produce the fantasy and adventure animated film of the same name - "What kind of life do you want to live", and the soundtrack is scored by the master Hisaishi.
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What kind of life do you want to live" was created by Japanese writer Genzaburo Yoshino in 1937, with a Douban score of 87. Won Douban's 2019 Foreign Literature (** category) No2。
Just by looking at the title of the book, you would classify it as chicken soup for the soul, but in fact, it is not, this is a coming-of-age story.
When he was 13 years old, his father died of illness, and he lived with his mother, and his uncle, who had just graduated from university, was very concerned about his nephew's education and growth.
After a heart-to-heart conversation in the rain, his uncle also gave Honda the nickname "Little Copernicus".
On a rainy day when he was 14 years old, Junichi Honda, a first-year junior high school student, stood on the roof of a busy street in Tokyo with his uncle, watching the people come and go, and felt that countless people were coming and going like a tidal wave with their own thoughts, living separately.
My uncle keenly captured the troubles and thoughts that his nephew faced during his formative years, and prepared a magical notebook for him, recording his nephew's education and insights into the world in the notebook.
With the blessing of the notebook, little Copernicus underwent wonderful changes.
I think the most important thing for my uncle to educate and guide his nephew is to teach the little Copernicus that people are connected and understand each other.
The younger Copernicus realized that "man is like a molecule of water", and his uncle agreed with him, praising him for improving his thinking skills.
When people are young, they think about the world in a self-centered way. For example, the school is across the street from my house, and the ice cream shop is downstairs from my house. When we grow up, we think and judge things from the perspective of the universe.
Only by having a view of the universe and associating the whole picture of all things can we stand tall and look far away, so that we can understand the truth of the world, instead of limiting our eyes to the surroundings of ourselves.
Human beings are water molecules in the vast world, and they seem to live separately, but in fact there is a network that connects us, which is the productive forces and production relations in economic activities.
The milk we drink originally came from cows on a farm in Australia. Cows in Australia eat and produce milk under the care of farms, and finally come to the hands of people all over the world, which requires the division of labor and cooperation of countless people.
Personal experience and time are limited, so we need to share and integrate with each other in order to gain more knowledge and create a better and more diverse world. In cooperation, people learn to understand, care, and respect.
If they just do their own thing, then human civilization will always stay in the age of apes.
His uncle also told Copernicus that if he wanted to make great discoveries, the first task was to study hard, to reach the pinnacle of learning of his time, and then to work at the pinnacle.
Of course, just like Lao Wang shared in the circle of friends a few days ago, people must take the initiative to regard themselves as the main body of life experience and devote themselves to life wholeheartedly, in order to have a real and profound understanding of the world.
If you want to understand what it means for people to live in the world, you need to live like a real person and experience it in life, otherwise no matter how powerful people are, they will not be able to teach you. ”
Poster of the movie of the same name (** from the Internet).II
Regarding the connection between people, my uncle struck me the most in the section on "Gandhara Buddha Statue".
Gandhara is in Peshawar, in present-day Pakistan, where British scholars smuggled a large number of excavated artifacts back to England in 1870. The Buddha statue of its ** soil was called the Gandhara Buddha statue in later generations.
The face and body of the Gandhara Buddha are similar to those of Westerners, and the carving technique has a Greek style, but the expression and charm of the Buddha are oriental.
Later research showed that "the people who made the Gandhara Buddha statues were Greeks who breathed the oriental air for a long time and were immersed in a Buddhist atmosphere." ”
Oriental Buddha statues were carved by the Greeks, why is that?
It turned out that it was the result of Alexander the Great's crusade.
In 334 BC, Alexander the Great led an expedition of the Greek allies as far as the east bank of the Indus River.
The Great's empire spanned Asia, Africa and Europe, and he wanted to build a great empire that blended Eastern and Western civilizations.
Thus, the Great introduced the Greeks and Greek civilization to the East. Many Greeks came to Afghanistan and India, and while spreading their own civilization, they were also deeply influenced by Indian civilization.
The Greeks were proficient in carving techniques, and the carved Buddha statues naturally had both Eastern and Western styles.
In the same way, although the Buddha statues in Nara, Japan were made by the Japanese, the technology came from China, which studied in India and the source was in Greece.
Even thousands of years ago, when transportation was difficult and technology was backward, technology and civilization were able to cross the Eurasian continent and form the connection between people and civilization. Learn, understand, progress, and integrate through connection.
Like water molecules, you have me, I have you. Like human networks, they share a common point of connection and resonance.
After experiencing incidents such as the bullying of Puchuan, a poor classmate, and the beating of his friend Kitami and his failure to promise protection, he realized from painful personal experience that people can become good friends with each other, at least they can understand each other.
Human beings have the power to determine what they say and do, so they make mistakes, but they also get back from them. ”
He finally understood why his father had told him on his deathbed to be a noble man.
Copernicus the Younger said that I "had to be a really good person" so that I could create more for the world. "Since mankind has been able to develop so far, it will certainly be able to reach such a world in the future. ”
In the book, my uncle also made a deep analysis of Napoleon's "heroic spirit", which is also a particularly wonderful paragraph, so I won't spoil too much here.
Poster of the movie of the same name (** from the Internet).Three
After reading it, I was deeply moved, and it is really a blessing in life for people to be guided by their elders at an early age, and it is also unavoidable.
He taught you to be kind, to learn to think, to have a deep understanding of the world, to have the courage to face your own cowardice and mistakes, to protect the dignity and reputation of others, what is your true heroic spirit, and how to grow into a noble person.
For me, this is not only a classic juvenile book, but also a classic ** read. Reading this book from an adult's perspective is more emotional.
Miyazaki read from the age of 10 to the age of 70, presumably constantly switching the perspective of childhood and adulthood, nourishing his life.
In addition, I suggest, especially for parents, that you can combine another classic growth book "To Kill a Mockingbird" to do parent-child reading.
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