It’s not so happy.” Thirty-three pieces
Jin Shengtan
One: In the seventh month of summer, the sun stops in the sky, there is no wind, and there are no clouds; The front and rear courtyards are as bright as a roaring furnace, and no bird dares to fly.
The whole body is covered with sweat, and there are channels running horizontally across the body. If you put rice in front of it, you can't eat it. If you want to lie down on the ground, it will be wet like paste. The flies come again
The flies are attached to the neck and nose, and they can't be driven away. Just when they can't do anything, suddenly a big black axle makes a surging sound, like millions of golden drums and eaves
Walking in the waterfall, the body is sweating, the ground is as dry as a sweep, the flies are gone, and it’s time to eat!
One: I haven’t seen you for ten years, and suddenly the door opens. As soon as he bowed to his wife, he didn't even have time to ask her about the arrival of the boat or land, or to order her to sit on the bed.
He walked in quickly and spoke humbly to his wife: "How can you fight for wine like a Dongpo woman?" "My wife gladly took out the gold hairpin and gave it to me.
It can be done in three days, which is great!
One: Sitting alone in an empty space, thinking about the bedside mouse that comes at night I don't know if the screeching sound will damage my weapon, or the scoffing sound will tear me apart
I am confused, and the reason is correct. I suddenly see a Suan cat, paying attention and wagging its tail. I have seen something. Hold your breath and wait for a while.
It is as fast as the wind. (There should be a missing text here)
One: Pull it out and hang it in front of the study. There are redbuds and other trees in Sihaitang, and there are ten or twenty bananas.
First of all, on a spring night, I had a quick drink with the wealthy people, and I was half drunk. The boy who was standing by was suddenly presented with a large piece of paper that could hold more than ten cannons. He got up and set fire to it.
One: On the street, I saw two people arguing over one thing. Their eyes were cracked and their necks were red, as if they were not wearing their clothes. They also held their hands high, bent their waists low, and their mouths were still full.
The word "Jiu" is used, and the words are stabbing, and the momentum is endless. Suddenly, a strong man comes and drinks from it.
The first one: I recite the book so well that it feels like water in a bottle.
The first one: I have nothing to do after dinner, I go to the market for a leisurely walk, I see some small things, I buy them again. It's done, the difference is very small, and the merchants are fighting hard, so they will take out the next item from their sleeves, and throw it away if its weight is similar to the previous one. /p>
Shi'er suddenly changed his smile and raised his hands, saying, "How happy!"
One: If you have nothing to do after dinner, you will see that the old and new documents are missing. There are dozens and hundreds of people, whether they live or die, in short, there is no reason to return them. Take the fire and burn them, look up at the sky, it is cloudless.
First one: Xia Yue Ke's head is full, holding a parasol to cover the sun, watching a strong man singing Wu songs, stepping on orange trees, water suddenly surges up, like tumbling silver and rolling snow. Rejoice!
One: When I first woke up, I seemed to hear my family sighing, saying that someone had died in the night, and I called out urgently. It was the first person in the city.
It's definitely a scheming thing.
The man: I got up early in the summer and watched people sawing big bamboos to make tubes.
One: Heavy. It was a cloudy moon, and I felt as if I was drunk and sick. Suddenly I heard the sound of birds doing their best to clear up the sky. I hurriedly touched the curtains and opened the window to look at it. The sunlight was shining brightly and the trees were like washing. Rejoice!
One: I heard that someone is innocent at night. I will try to see him tomorrow when I enter the door and see the so-called person. Nan was reading a book. When a customer came in, he bowed his head in silence, pulled up his sleeves and sat down, saying, "Since you are here, you can also try to read this book." They laughed happily. The shadow of the sun had faded. Now that he was hungry, Xu asked the guest, "Are you hungry too?" "How wonderful!
One: I didn't want to build a house. I occasionally got spare money and tried to build a house. From that day forward, I needed wood, stone, tiles, and bricks.
p>Needs ashes, needs nails, no morning and no evening, even birds and mice are buzzing in the ears, it is nothing more than planning for the house, but there is no room for it.
It was settled as planned. Suddenly, the house was completed, the walls were painted, the windows were hung, and all the craftsmen came out to sit on the couch.
How wonderful! p>One: After drinking on a winter night, it became very cold again. When I opened the window, I saw that the snow was as big as my hand, and it had already accumulated three to four inches.
One: It’s summer! How wonderful it is to cut a green watermelon on a scarlet plate!
One: If you want to be a monk for a long time, you must eat meat openly. It's not easy to cut your hair with hot water.
One: if there are three or four leprosy in the private parts, take a bath with hot water and close the door. What a blessing!
One: I accidentally found an old friend’s handwriting in the suitcase.
What a blessing!
One: The poor man came to borrow money and said that he couldn’t talk about it, so Wei Wei said. It's something else. I caught a glimpse of his bitterness and pulled him to where there was no one. I asked him how much he needed, and rushed in. He gave it as much as he could, but asked whether he would return to take care of it as soon as possible. It’s better to drink less wine.
One: When you are in a small boat, you can’t open your sails when the wind blows. The boat was moving as fast as the wind. I tried to stretch it out and tried to pull it back. Unexpectedly, I pulled it and it was caught. Because I took the cable, the cable was directed towards its tail. He chanted in his mouth, "The mountains of Qingxi are passing by, and the yellow pomelo is known." "Come"
The sentence brought great laughter.
What a joy!
One: I have long wanted to find a place to stay with my friends, but I have found no good place. Suddenly someone heard that there were not many houses, maybe more than ten, but the door faced the river and the trees were lush. After having dinner with this person, I tried to walk around and had a look, but I didn't know what the house was like. When you first get started, you will see a piece of open space.
It can be about six or seven acres, and there is not enough food to worry about in the future. What a joy!
One: When a long-time visitor returns home, when he sees his home, the children and women on both sides of the Taiwan Strait all call out their hometown. What a joy!
One: Once the good magnets are damaged, they will not be perfect. Watching it over and over again only confuses people. Because it is announced that the kitchen staff will be used as miscellaneous utensils, they will never be replaced.
This is eye-catching. What a joy!
One: I am not a saint, and I have no faults in my ability. I do something privately at night and wake up early in the morning with my heart pounding. I am really uneasy. Suddenly it occurred to me that the Buddha's family has the method of uposatha. If you don't hide yourself, it will be a repentance. Because it is clear to all the strangers and familiar guests, it is easy to tell the truth. What a joy!
One: How wonderful it is to see people writing big books!
One: Push the paper window to let the bees out, how wonderful it is!
One: As a county magistrate, how wonderful it is to beat the drum and retreat every day!
One: How wonderful it is to see someone’s kite break!
One: It’s wonderful to see wild burning!
First: How happy it is to finish paying off the debt!
First: What a pleasure it is to read "The Biography of the Bearded Guest"!
Lin Yutang's twenty-four poems on "It's not too fast"
Jin Shengtan's review of "The West Chamber", folded in red, contains thirty-three "It's not too fast". This was a bet between him and his friend Kaishan about the happiness of life. Twenty years later, he remembered this incident and wrote this wonderful article. I have translated these thirty-three "Unhappy Things" into English and included them in the book "The Art of Living". They have received many letters from Westerners and were especially praised. There was also an old woman who wrote down thirty-three happy things in her life and sent them to me for reading. Jin Shengtan's talented articles, in today's view, are lyrical and romantic. Everything you see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and think with your heart can be put into writing. I think his preface to "The Romance of the West Chamber", "Weeping for the Ancients" and "Leaving it as a Gift for Posterity", is both witty and sensible, but also contains the hidden pain of life, which can be compared with Zhuang Sheng's "Equality of Things". Here are one or two examples to summarize the rest.
First, when I first woke up from sleep, I seemed to hear my family members sighing, saying that someone had died in the night. The person who called out urgently was the most scheming person in the city. What a joy!
First, if you have long wanted to be Biqiu, you will not be able to eat meat openly. It's hard to be a monk, and you have to eat meat openly. In summer, you can cut off your hair with hot soup and a sharp knife. How happy it is!
First, get up early in the summer and watch people sawing large bamboos under the pine shed to make tubes. What a joy!
In this way, I will also write down 24 happy things after coming to Taiwan:
1. Ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit, shirtless and barefoot, behind closed doors, learn to see a thousand miles How wonderful it is to read the Bible naked!
2. When I first returned to my motherland and lived in the mountains, I heard the woman next door scolding the children in dirty Hokkien. People in the north didn’t understand, but I understood. What a joy!
3. Go to the cinema and sit down, and hear the girl in the next seat talking about the local accent. It feels like returning to your hometown. What a joy!
4. The nun who accidentally hurt Sifan. I saw a group of monks standing up to defend the nun, and they burst into tears. What a joy!
5. At dusk, after work and dinner, after eating watermelon, one person sits on the balcony to enjoy the coolness alone, holding a pipe in his mouth, if he smokes, if not smokes. Watching the front mountain sink slowly into the haze of night, with the Heavenly Mother's lights twinkling below, and the gentle breeze blowing, I felt thoughtful and thoughtless. What a joy!
6. At the banquet, the seats were filled with dignitaries, the air conditioner was not working, and everyone was suffering from the heat, but they were all polite and did not dare to be casual. Suddenly I heard my master calling me to take off my clothes. I asked where the tie was? The master said there was no need to be formal, as if he had received a general pardon. What a joy!
7. Watch children’s chorus on TV. I saw a child who was very excited. He opened his mouth to sing loudly, and then reached out to pick his nose. He was very carefree. What a joy!
8. Listen to a man singing. The sound comes from the peritoneum, the throat is relaxed, and the sound is natural and loud. What a joy!
9. A certain star plays martial arts. His eyebrows and mouth corners have a heroic look, which is unique. What a joy!
10. Watching a child eating watermelon or peach, the juice of the melon and peach enters the throat and makes a squeaky sound, and the saliva flows down the chest. If you want to be happy in life, there is nothing better than this, how wonderful it is!
11. Why did the staff of the Qingguo Cooperative give away golden bowls and golden cups as a commemoration of the 20th anniversary? It is lawless and full of shady things. Suddenly, a group of young people came out. They had no experience in the world, but they had studied law. They searched for evidence and filed reports according to the law. Take these urban foxes and social rats to the generals and punish them according to law. What a joy!
12. Anyone who pretends to be a monk, fails to abide by the rules, rapes or kills a woman will be punished by death. What a joy!
13. People want to attack vernacular literature, but they don’t understand vernacular literature; they want to promote classical Chinese, but they don’t understand classical Chinese. What a joy!
14. Studying is for exams, exams are for getting into higher education, and getting into higher education is for studying in the United States. Those involved in education also took the joint examination in a serious way, with a well-organized lineup, and assigned subjects based on scores, thinking that this was an education. The presidential proclamation reminded that the goal of education is not to take entrance exams, but to inspire children's minds and thinking. What a joy!
15. The newspaper reported that the Chinese baseball team won three victories in three games and won the world's children's baseball throne. It made me jump and scream, scream and jump.
What a joy!
16. Our discipline creates the world sports record of 100 meters. What a joy!
Admiral He Yingqin, an old man in his 17th or 80s, promoted the commonly used common words, which made the young relics of the Qing Dynasty who were prematurely old feel ashamed. What a joy!
18. As the times progress, we see people using gramophone records to chant sutras on behalf of monks at funerals. What a joy!
19. The older girl wears shorts and the younger girl jumps on the high hurdles. The messenger covers his face and eyes and shouts "Tsk, tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!" How wonderful!
Twenty. People who can write are rare to talk to. But the person I was talking to had a Taoist look when he started writing, speaking in a straight line. If you meet someone you can talk to, writing an article is like meeting a close friend and having a heart-to-heart talk, like walking on the clouds and flowing water, how wonderful it is!
On the 21st, while drinking coffee for breakfast, I read the square text of "Zhongfu" Wen Shou, or opened the Xinsheng Newspaper and saw the reprint of "Ai Zi's Afterwords", as if there was an extra piece of sugar in the coffee cup. What a joy!
On the 22nd, Taipei’s new expressway to Beitou is very dangerous. It takes 18 minutes to reach Beitou from the roundabout. What a joy!
Twenty-three. You can’t help but watch TV in your free time at home. When watching TV, you have to listen to advertisements. If you can watch TV without listening to advertisements. What a joy!
Twenty-four. There is a garden in the house, a house in the garden, a courtyard in the house, a tree in the courtyard, the sky can be seen on the tree, and the moon is in the sky.
What a joy!
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