呈现在读者面前的是一部读史札记,它以古人社会生活为范围,内容包括古人的婚姻,家庭生活,人口的再生产、死亡、丧葬、迁徙和社会救济,社会结构中人们的群体生活,古人衣饰的规制与风尚,古人的文化娱乐。在我的写作过程中,注意到以下几个问题。第一,弄清某些史实。笔者共写了近50个小题,立题多是具体的历史人物、事件、制度、风俗,即从具体的史实出发,叙一人,道一事,把过节儿闹清,而不在于一般的抽象概括,更不作脱离史实的空论。为澄清事实,笔者以可靠的历史文献资料为依据,间亦利用有待考证的材料,必云“据说”如何如何以区别之。要之,笔者以为先把资料搜集了,史实搞清楚了,才有进行综合分析的可靠基础,我们应当做好第一步的工作。...
When the World ShookBeing an Account of the Great Adventureof Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnotby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONDitchingham, 1918.MY DEAR CURZON,More than thirty years ago you tried to protect me, then astranger to you, from one of the falsest and most malignantaccusations ever made against a writer.So complete was your exposure of the methods of those at workto blacken a person whom they knew to be innocent, that, as you...
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamondby William Makepeace ThackerayTHE GREAT HOGGARTY DIAMONDCHAPTER IGIVES AN ACCOUNT OF OUR VILLAGE AND THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THEDIAMONDWhen I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made mea present of a diamond-pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacturein the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the...
A Little Tour In Franceby Henry JamesWe good Americans - I say it without presumption - are too apt to think that France is Paris, just as we are accused of being too apt to think that Paris is the celestial city. This is by no means the case, fortun- ately for those persons who take an interest in modern Gaul, and yet are still left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civilization which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intimated to the author
POETICSby AristotleTranslated by S. H. ButcherPOETICS|1II PROPOSE to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds,noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into the structure ofthe plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature ofthe parts of which a poem is composed; and similarly into whateverelse falls within the same inquiry. Following, then, the order of...
[正文:第一章 穿越] 最近我心情比较郁闷,原因是十几张红色炸弹毫不客气地一齐飞了过来。一大把年纪了仍是孤家寡人一个,看他们幸福美满让我脆弱的心灵受伤事小,而钞票大把大把地飞出去就事大了,一想到这就忍不住狠狠地咬了一口手中的面包,难道说我苦读了这么多年的圣贤书,到最后就是为了有面包啃?(轩:圣贤?唔,这两个字需要仔细斟酌斟酌……)再想想银行要还的贷款和唯一的亲人——奶奶病逝前欠下的一大笔债,我幽怨地看了一眼手中的面包,难不成接下去的日子都要日日与它为伍?想到这里顿时一股绝望涌上心头,怪不得李清照写出了那句词:此烦无计可消除,才下眉头又上心上……想想她当时一定也是碰到这种状况吧,唉,同病相怜ing(轩:你确定这句词是这么写的?咳……咳……吐血倒地中)。...
在人类进化的几百万年的漫长岁月中,生理和心理都发生了巨大的变化。人类性心理的进化是人类心理进化的一个方面。人类心理的发展归根结底就是对客观世界和主观世界的思考和认识,例如对一些自然现象、人和自然的相互关系、人的许多生理反应及行为等,都逐渐产生了“Why”和“How”的两个问题,即“为什么是这样”和“怎样做才能对自身的生存和发展有利”。从最基本的意义上来说,这构成了人类文化的本质方面。 这些意识在人类的童年时期是十分幼稚、十分蒙昧的,但是它却是人类文化的起步,在人类历史上亮起了文明的曙光。对原始人类来说,对客观世界和主观世界最初的认识,就是“万物有灵”观。 一、“万物有灵”观 原始初民们知道,那光芒四射的太阳把光和热施给了他们,但是黑夜却使他们寒冷;天朗气清使他们感到快乐,而风雨雷电又使他们感到害怕;植物生长了而又枯萎了;滔滔的海洋把那可怕的波浪冲向岸边;伟大...
1活着,其实是挺荒凉的事,沈点常这么想。他从五六岁开始,稍懂点事的时候就这么想。尽管那时候他还总结不出“荒凉”一词,他只是觉得他和别人不一样;他孤单,没有作为一个孩子备受呵护的权力。想来,真是一件可怕的事。究竟是谁伤了他的心,这是他在成年以后,反复思考的一个问题。也是一个思考不透的问题。就像大北方的山,大北方的水,生来就是如此,它们无时无刻不在展示着自己沧桑的经脉。还有大北方的人,那饱经风霜的表情,他没有理由不荒凉。他甚至觉得,他的出生是个错误。他一走在街上,就有好些女人指指点点,说他是私生子。他是他妈妈跟一个野男人造出来的。他妈妈是个婊子。还有人说他妈妈是条母狗,能把男人的家伙套住拔不出来。她们的眼神毫无隐瞒,他所有成长的疑惑都得到解释。最难堪的是在公共澡堂,一些成年男人也在议论这些。他们在身上打了肥皂,愉快地搓着污黑的身体。这头有人说这孩子是张三的,那头立马就...