白发青丝一瞬间,年华老去向谁言。春风若有怜香意,可否许我再少年?满堂明灯照我衰,残酒倚楼咏苍髯。空馀物是谁住,更添怨色寄寒潭。
元.李之仪《咏苍髯》
上星期老师说:农历新年快到了,就写个应节的,好吗?
当然好啊!
写 "福" 字。老师的说法是 "口" 象征有吃,"田"代表家里有property。"礻"代表衣服。所以 "福" 字有丰衣足食的意思。
但我觉得代表 "衣" 的其实是 "衤"(yī)。网上说 "礻" 部 是汉字的部首之一,由 "示" (shi) 字变形而来,表示与祭祀、神灵、祥瑞等相关的字。
No matter. 我今天学的是书法,不是上历史课。
刚开始写"福" 字时我总吧 "口" 写得不成比例的大。我告诉老师:没办法 我就是个吃货! 昨天在家慢慢地练,终于把 "口" 练小了。
其实都是我自己瞎写的。字帖上的写法是:
In the process of re-learning how to write properly.
I feel as if I've gone back in time to when I was three years old and learning to write from my grandmother!
The only way to improve is to keep practising. No shortcuts.
Just an awesome day in the life of a crab!
This morning, I attended my first Chinese Calligraphy lesson with Singapore Century Calligraphy. I suck at writing with a brush but at my age I have no wish to be competitive.
You know what the best part is? It was FREE because I used my $100 SG Culture Credits.
The class was supposed to last only 1.5 hours but it was already 12:30 by the time it ended. I was SO hungry. I ate pork basil rice at a little Thai kitchen in Sunshine Plaza. I rate it "meh".
It rained very hard this evening - - for about 30 minutes.
To re-train myself to write better Chinese characters, I've been copying poetry and verses written by poets of the Tang and Song dynasty. Some traditional Chinese characters, I find, are tough to write.
Can someone please create simplified characters for these?
攥 (zuan), 虞 (yu), 檀 (tan), 鬓 (bin), 孽 (nie), 袅 (niao), 簟 (dian), 颦 (pin)
I can promise you that should I ever write Chinese poetry, I will not include such perplexing characters.
今天总觉得笔画是很不顺 还是勉强抄了几个字。
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当一碗水端不平的时候 只有牺牲那个最善良的人才能风平浪静。一旦那个善良的不愿意再牺牲了 就会被扣上一个破坏和谐的帽子。 人性的丑陋之处就在于明明自己揣着私心 却苛求别人大度。
这一辈子就是一个过程 没有永恒的生命 也没有不老的青春
时间一到 该老的老 该走的走
我们终究是时间的过客
既然是过客 何必执着?
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其实困住我们的 从来不是失去 而是紧攥回忆不肯松手的执念。
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你放不下的往往不是那个人 而是那个曾经全心付出的自己。别再盯着那扇已经合上的门了 只要你转身就会看见一整片天空在等你。
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对于固执的人,不要想改变他,反而要鼓励他,赞扬他,让他在错误的道路上越走越远。
世上有大多人宁愿喝着迷魂汤上路也不愿喝了良药而回头。少给固执的人建议,你的金玉良言不会换来一丝改变。坚持改变对方可能会遭人嫉恨和报复。你不如说两句漂亮的话,结个善缘。
成年人最顶级的自律是克制纠正他人的欲望。一个人成熟的标志,就是不再急着与人争辩自己的看法。