With thousands of years' cultural heritage in China, the author thinks that "brushwork" does great harm to literati. Mr. Lin Yutang said long ago: "Eight-part essay has laws, but articles can't. If an article has laws, it becomes an eight-part essay. Writing is to literature what dogma is to the church-people's trivia. "

Some people write articles and can't write their own style, so they blindly imitate the style of their predecessors. This is actually a big mistake. Because "writing is like a person", everyone's writing style will vary from person to person. If you forcibly imitate someone's "brushwork", the result will only be "learning to walk in Handan" Yan Zhitui is a man of great foresight. He is afraid that his children and grandchildren will lose their "initial heart" because they are reluctant to write. Yan said in "Family Instructions": "But if you become a bachelor, you are a human being, and you lack genius. Don't force yourself to write. "

However, few people can see through such a simple truth.

Some time ago, Han Han wrote a book "His Motherland". There are obvious elements of "Korean humor" in the book, which makes people marvel at the uniqueness of his views. Another "writer" copied his country into mine. Although there are still funny elements in the book, it can be seen that he is trying to imitate Han Han's "humor", but after reading My Motherland, I always feel that the book lacks the profound irony of his country, just for grandstanding.

This is the failure of imitation.

The book written by Gu Long when he first debuted did not get rid of the shackles of traditional martial arts novels, so his fame was not very great. However, when he finished the Record of Huanhua Washing Sword, readers realized that Gu Long wanted to "Huanhua" and "Wash Sword". Sure enough, Gu Long's spirit of pursuing innovation and change is reflected in his later works, such as Wulin Waishi, Undoubtedly Arrogance, Chu Liuxiang Series, Passionate Swordsman's Ruthless Sword, Happy Hero, Lu Xiaofeng Series, etc. If Gu Long still follows the style of Zhu Huan landlord, Sima Ling and others, perhaps there will be no place for Gu Long in the "Three Heroes of Wulin", and it will give way to Ni Kuang.

This is an innovation based on "imitation".

Closer to home, the word "brushwork" does more harm than good to students.

Yuan Zicai has a cloud in Selected Works of Mao Ba Zi:

If Lumeng talks about ups and downs, I especially don't believe it. Six Classics and Three Biographies, the master of literature, who is the law? If you can write for the text, you can't. You can't write for Wen, you can't write for Wen. Huo Qubing does not learn from Sun Wu, but he can win. This is the way to get rid of illness. It is impossible for Fang Fang to learn from the ancient car wars and even be defeated. What's the difference between Wen and Tao?

This sidewalk illustrates the dangers of brushwork.

I often see books such as Sketch of Composition, Ways to Improve Composition and Teaching You Composition in bookstores. It feels like diet pills and liposuction machines mentioned in advertisements, but they have no effect, but many people "patronize". Now some people want to take shortcuts when writing articles.

It's like having a baby, and I want to have it soon. I didn't know that a child could only be born in October. If it's diarrhea and abdominal pain, it's time for delivery, and forced caesarean section will only give birth to a pool of thick blood and a piece of meat.

Composition is actually like a steel needle. Go your own way, and you will be sharper and sharper. However, some people insist on listening to some so-called "experts" to talk about "writing methods." In fact, it is like a steel needle, but in the end it becomes more and more "smooth" and has no "sharpness".

In fact, when a person "loves" a writer, his writing will naturally approach that writer, but this is not to imitate his style, but the language features are similar, but it still has its own flavor after all. For example, although Su Shi studied Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, he also added his own style.

However, some students insist on whose language to use when writing (perhaps some people don't even know what style some writers use when writing), or what structure, writing technique and expression must be used, which is actually inappropriate. Zhang Xuecheng has a saying in the history of literature: poetry has syllables, and literature has statutes. A gentleman thinks that he can solve it without learning. If the sadness of crying is closed, if the song cries, it will be revealed to others, but it is not allowed to cry and laugh.

It can be seen that this article is purely a "loyal ambition". Wouldn't it be too tacky to stick to the category of "brushwork"? There is a loss of "finding fish when there is a fate".

The Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao is great. Yan Yu's Cang Shi Lang Dialect even said: "The Yellow Crane Tower by Cui Hao should be the first of seven-character poems in the Tang Dynasty." Then Li Bai wrote an article in "Landing the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing", which was suspected of "competing" with Cui Hao. Who did well and who didn't? This is a controversial issue 1000 years without results, so I won't mention it here. There is no doubt that Li Bai innovated on the basis of Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower. For example, Cui Hao "a long time ago, a yellow crane carried a saint to heaven, and now there is nothing but the Yellow Crane Tower".

Every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water, and Parrot Island is a nest of herbs. And Li Bai's "The Phoenix that once played here has made this place famous and abandoned it in this barren river", "Three mountains and a half fall into the sky, and Bailuzhou is divided into water". At first glance, Li Bai seems to be imitating Cui Hao, but in fact, Li Bai has added his own style, washing away the desolation, sadness and sadness of Cui Hao, giving people a sense of broadmindedness. Can be said to be unique.

Therefore, "learning from foreigners" is not "learning from foreigners". If extended, it is "brushwork" rather than "excessive brushwork", that is, Lin Daiyu said: "If there is a strange sentence, it is not even reasonable, but make it."

Get down to business. Pursuing "brushwork" in composition, just like paying attention to "stereotyped writing" in previous exams, will eventually stifle students' imagination.

Fortunately, today's students only pay attention to the composition score and are indifferent to the composition itself.

So my speech is still like: "obscene people and gods talk nonsense."

Comments: The examples in the article are brief, quoted from the classics, and the examples are innovative. Narration and discussion. The language is sharp and accurately expresses the author's intention. The brushwork and means are summarized as brushwork, and the methods of imitating brushwork are discussed first, and then discussed from the perspective of whether and how to imitate it. The full text runs through the whole text with the method of exercises, and the "eight-part essay" echoes from beginning to end, making the article more holistic.