Reflections 4 (Written Discourse)

There is a saying chinese grow up in a heroic world. Indeed, can you believe hundreds of books we read are about heros and all of them with a moral value behind. Well, this is the point mentioned in written discourse lesson, chinese writing are usually indrective. They do not write down the moral values directly but inspired you using examples. And in primary schools, teachers are starting to ask students to think about the moral values of the short stories and when you move up your academic level, the level of interpretation is growing higher too. For example, when we look at a poem, we no only look at the meaning literally, but also the background, the purpose of this poem.Many mates said they do not know how to interpret the meaning of chinese essay. Maybe i can share some tips.

A the front of my bed moonlight shines, (qi)

I think there is frost on the ground, (cheng)

Raising my head, I look at the moon, (zhuan)

Lowering my head, I think of home. (he)

Use the example in the lecture note, usually the last sentence or last paragraph of a simple chinese essay will indicate the true meaning of this essay. In heroic stories, usually the last paragraph will indicate something like "This story tell us xxxx". Ok, you may ask if no indication then how to know? Well, first, you need to read more, second, try to extract the relavant parts.

I am not an economic policy maker, but I have a dream of tractors singing in the fields and trucks roaring effortlessly on roads ( easy working ->trucks->technology ). I am not an agricultural technical program planner, but I have a dream of seeing farmers studying science and technology and working comfortable with machinery ( machinery, science -> technology ).

So after all, this proposal is about agricultural technology ( mostly machinery ) proposal. So next time, when you a chinese classmate write some strange sms to you, start guess :)