国外网友向我的youtube信箱发的一条信息“我的通讯：中国在崛起：我们错过的杰作！”

国外网友向我发的一条信息“我的通讯：中国在崛起：我们错过的杰作！”

英文原版；
My Newsletter: China in Rise: The masterpieces we missed!

" was discussing "余秋雨的山居筆記" in my last Ocean Tower in a major chapter of which book the author was deliberately denouncing the five different kinds of the so-called "little people". The point is we are all little people striving to act better and that no matter who we are we share the same humanity. Unfortunately again, Confucius taught us to make friends only with those who "are better than ourselves". In Chinese literature, we have pretty much eliminated ha;f of the immense humanity of which we are all essential parts. For this reasn again, I was pointing out we have had books published in the long history of empire after empire but we hardly can find a masterpiece of landmark significance. I have stopped to ponder here, musing if I can find a few of the world's greatest books ever known to mankind, whch, coincidentally, also deal with "little people".

English literature has a relative short history. Before Jeofferey Chaucer (1343-1400), the major work, if any, had to be Beowulf, a long poem on warriors, adventures and the slaying of monsters. Then the greatest book ever written was born when Chaucer started his "The Canterbury Tales" in the late fourteenth century. The book was about a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. The book was not fnished but with what Chaucer left we can read and have the most vivid view of the medieval age with landscapes varying from the social, religious, economic, military aspects to psychological and sexual abuses, greeds and corruptions all told candidly by the "little people". The group consist of merchant, reeve, miller, doctor, lawyer, monk, friar, pardoner, summoner, priest, plowman, military man, knight, squire, clergy, prioress, nun, and the wife of Bath and they all wanted toworship at the shrine of marytr Thomas Becket in Canterbury. These were real people and spoke honestly about their opinions, feelings and daily lives. The doctor confessed that he did not really know much about his profession and was interested more in making money than curing his patients; the miller was a grain trader and told how he cheated customes on the scale; the lawyer was a boring braggard (are they not all this way?); the reeve had embezzled to become rich; the pardoner took bribes to pardon; the summoner was greedy and unscrupulous; the monk was lusty and worldly but none surpassed the wife of Bath who had had five husbands whom she had enjoyed all. She was robust, fiercely honest, rawdy and full of healthy desire! Chaucer has presented us, unpretentiously, the medieval society, the men and women who lived and told their lives honestly. Theywere not little people; they were all of us and thus the "Canterbury Tales" deal with lives as they were rather than they should be.

From such a sense of realism came Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones" published in 1749. Tom was an abandoned child placed at the doorway of the rich squire Allworthy at Somoerset, England, who adopted him and took good care of him. Nonetheless, under the influence from his bastard background which was not hidden from him when he grew up and perhaps also his natural DNA, Tom grew us to be "vigorous and lusty." Actually, Tom was the most famous and infamous playboy in the history of England and he ruined virgin after virgin with no apparent sense of regret. But at the same time Fielding let the other side of his character gradally reveal. Tom was also brave, faithful to his friend and showed great compassion for his fellow men. When squire Allworthy wrongfully punshed black George for the bird hunting wth Tom on other's land without permission, Tom sold his beloved horse and helped George and his family to get along. In afair after afair, which guided the books, eighteen in total and close to 15,000 pages in the complicated labyrinth of debaucheries, Tom finally reunited with Sophia, the girl he really loved and found himself the abandoned son of a rich nobleman who left him a large fortune. Could a "little man" like Tom with some courage and compassion really deserve such change of fortune. Fielding informed us that Tom

"hath the noblest generosity of heart, the most perfect capacity of friendship, the highest integrity, and indeed every virture that ennobles a man." Wow! In the strict hypocritical moral standard handed to us by Confucius, he would have fallen into a deep river and drowned!

Nataniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote the famous "SCARLET LETTER" and published it in 1850, a book relatively close to our age. The letter "A" did not stand for 100 points on the math examination. Rather, it stood for "adultery. Hester Prynne was sent to New England ahead of her husband who chose to take care of some of his busness in Europe and join her later. She was seduced by the holy church minister, Arthur Dimmersdale, a highly spiritual man adored by every man, and woman in a large congregation close to Boston. They had a child by the name of Pearl. When the community found out, they punished her by forcing her to wear the red letter "A" in her front and humiliated her in public. Dimmersdale, in spite of his high moral and spiritual life, lacked the courage to admitted his fault. Hester suffered silently and endured all mocks and hardship by herself while her real husband, a
Mr Chillingworth worked in disguise to ruin the church minister psychologically as his revenge. Through persevernce, the little woman, Hester Prynne, finally won and the letter "A" by God's mercy, vanished. Hawthorne was saying that human flaw and weakness can be overcome with human endurance and suffering. Little men and little women could rise to triumph!

D.H. Lawerence, a famous writer of our time, said the following about the book and the courage.
"There could be not a more perfect work of American imagination than the Scarlet Letter."

And Henry James added
"an indefinable purity and lightness of conception."

Beside dogmas, prejudices, shallow interpretation of human nature, and callous degradation of qualities we all possess what have Confucius and Mr. Yu said to us that is worthwhile? Is it not time that we embrace a larger and total humanity? I believe that Chaucer sowed the seed for modern English realism and the famous work of Newman, Carlye and Dickens and even America's Mark Twain. From such presentations of lives and people it became possble that a Darwinian intellectual revolution and the industrial revolution found their doors open in England, without which, alas, the old compass and the new compass would look strikingly similar as in China.

中文译文；
我的通讯：中国在崛起：我们错过的杰作！

“在讨论”“我在这本书的作者是故意谴责五个所谓的不同主要章节的最后海洋大厦”，“小人物余秋雨的山居笔记，问题是我们都是小人物奋斗行动更好，无论我们是谁我们有着共同的人类不幸再次，孔子教导我们，使只有那些谁“是比自己更好”的朋友在中国的文献中，我们几乎淘汰公顷;。的F人类巨大的，我们都是必不可少的部分对于这个reasn。再次，我指出，我们曾在历史悠久的帝国帝国的书籍出版后，但我们几乎可以找到一个具有标志性意义的杰作，我在这里停下来思考，沉思，如果我能找到一个世界上最伟大的书籍很少有人知道的人类，whch，巧合的是，还应对“小人物”。

英国文学有一个相对短的历史。在Jeofferey乔叟（1343至1400年），主要工作，如果有的话，必须武夫，一个战士，冒险和怪物杀害长诗。然后，最大的书写过出生时乔叟开始他的“坎特伯雷故事集”，在十四世纪末期。该书是关于从伦敦到坎特伯雷朝圣。书中没有什么乔叟但我们可以读取和左边的有来自社会，宗教，经济，军事方面的不同心理和性虐待的风景中世纪时代最生动的看法fnished，greeds和损坏的一切告诉坦率的“小人物”。该集团由商人，里夫，米勒，医生，律师，和尚，修道士，pardoner，召唤师，牧师，农夫，军人，骑士，乡绅，神职人员，prioress，尼姑和巴斯的妻子，他们都希望在toworship在坎特伯雷神社的marytr托马斯贝克特。这些都是实实在在的人，谈到了他们的意见，情感和生活诚实。医生交代说，他并不真正了解他的职业非常感兴趣，并在赚钱多固化他的病人，米勒是一个粮商，并告诉他如何骗上规模customes;律师是一个无聊的braggard（他们并不是所有的这种方式）;？的里夫私自挪用致富;的pardoner受贿赦免;的召唤是贪婪和不择手段;和尚是妖媚和世俗的，但没有谁超过了巴斯有过五个丈夫，她的妻子谁享有所有。她是强大的，激烈诚实，rawdy和健康充满渴望！乔叟已提出我们unpretentiously，中世纪社会中，男性和女性谁告诉他们的居住和生活的诚实。 Theywere不小的人，他们都是我们从而与生活的“坎特伯雷故事集”的交易，因为他们，而不是它们应该的。

从这样一个现实感来亨利菲尔丁的“汤姆琼斯的历史”于1749年出版。汤姆是一个被遗弃的孩子在丰富的乡绅Allworthy在Somoerset，英国，谁收养了他并把他照顾好放在门口。然而，在他的私生子的背景而不是隐藏的他，当他长大后，或许也是他的天然DNA的影响，汤姆成长我们是“充满活力和妖媚。”其实，汤姆是最有名的和臭名昭著的花花公子，在英国历史上，他毁了处女后，没有明显的遗憾感处女。但在同一时间让菲尔丁对他的性格对方gradally透露。汤姆也很勇敢，忠实于他的朋友和他的同胞表现出极大的同情。当乡绅Allworthy不正当punshed的鸟类狩猎其他的土地擅自WTH汤姆黑乔治，汤姆卖掉了他心爱的马，帮助乔治和他的家人相处。在afair后afair，其中总指导和接近15,000的debaucheries复杂的迷宫页的书，十八，汤姆与索菲亚终于团聚了，他真的爱那个女孩，发现自己是一个富有贵族遗弃的儿子谁给他留下了家大业大。难道一个“小个子”像汤姆与一些勇气和同情心的运气实在值得这样的变化。菲尔丁告诉我们，汤姆

“祂所最崇高的慷慨之心，友谊的最完美的能力，最正直的，而事实上每virture的ennobles一个人。”哇！在严格的虚伪的道​​德标准交给我们的孔子，他就会陷入了深深河里淹死！

Nataniel霍桑（1804至64年）写了著名的“红字”和它在1850年出版的一书中比较贴近我们的时代。字母“A”不主张在数学考试100分。相反，它主张“通奸。海丝特白兰被送到新英格兰领先于她的丈夫选择了谁照顾他的部分业务在欧洲和参加关心她后来，她被圣教部长阿瑟Dimmersdale，高度诱惑属灵的人崇拜的每个人，并在大众接近波士顿的女人，他们已经由珠江名孩子，当社会发现，他们的惩罚，迫使她穿在她面前的红色字母“A”她在公众和羞辱她。Dimmersdale，在他高尚的道德和精神生活尽管如此，缺乏勇于承认自己的过错。海丝特遭受默默忍受了自己所有的嘲笑和困难，而她真正的丈夫，
齐灵渥斯先生曾在变相的破坏作为他的复仇心理的教会牧师。通过persevernce，小女子，海丝特白兰，终于赢得了和字母“A”上帝的怜悯，消失得无影无踪。霍桑是说，人类的缺陷和弱点，可与人类的耐力和克服痛苦。小男人和妇女可引起小的胜利！

卫生署Lawerence，我们时代的一个著名作家，说有关书和勇气以下。
“有可能不是美国想象的更完美比红字的工作。”

和亨利詹姆斯说
“一种说不清的纯度和明度的概念。”

除了教条，偏见，人性的浅薄的解释，而无情的品质退化，我们都拥有什么有孔子和于先生对我们说，是值得的？这不是时候，我们拥抱较大，总人性？我认为，乔叟播下了现代英语现实主义和纽曼，芬龄和狄更斯的名著，甚至美国的马克吐温的种子。从人的生命和演讲等成为possble一个达尔文思想革命和工业革命发现自己的门开在英国，没有它，唉，老罗和新的指南针看起来惊人地相似，如中国。



*注意；这是用google翻译过来的，有可能不准确！