Chapter 418 Two Swords Combining
At least 700 local Americans came to listen to the class today, and the people at the embassy are not stupid either. The poster hanging is ["I want to be me", explaining who I am] [Quickly Come and be me].
With the development of the Internet, young people surfing the Internet have long known that laotze means father. Therefore, there are thousands of people who walked in to take a look just out of curiosity.
Luo Yujia, Glasses and other embassy staff were eager to learn Zhang Daoling's clone method.
The main reason is that there are not enough manpower. Even though there are already many international students serving as volunteers, the carrying capacity of the event still seems a bit large in the face of the skyrocketing number of people.
It is not a "load" in terms of order, but a scarcity of explanation talents.
“There are not enough commentators, and many spectators in Baijia District need them.”
As soon as the counselor hung up the phone, he started making arrangements.
“Lower the level of difficulty in the Q&A area, and try to ensure that everyone in the audience answers one question correctly. You have to go there and make adjustments personally. Who has time?”
“Who will go to the conference room to receive you later? ”
The on-site staff have their hands full!
"The gallery of Li Er's life has been sorted out, I'll go." Luo Yujia handed over the third safety inspection to the volunteers, and then accepted one of them.
The glasses also quickly finished what they were doing, "Except for the last Chinese Food Festival, this is the largest one, oh my Pangu."
Everyone who comes is a crooked person. Ren, therefore, communication among employees is also in English.
The language cannot be switched for a while, just like when Gu Lu answered the phone, he automatically changed from Sichuan and Chongqing dialect to Mandarin, and then returned to chat and continued to speak Mandarin. Glasses’ soliloquy is also in English.
Back to the event, the venue is the Western Banquet Area of the Embassy, where Luo Yujiakou mentioned the New Year Party, [Corridor of Li Er’s Life] [Tao Te Ching Lecture Area] [Question and Answer Game Area] [Basic Knowledge Area of the Contention of One Hundred Schools of Thought], etc. Luo and Jia hurriedly walked through the six areas.
With some skill, the lower body is obviously three steps to two steps, but the upper body is still in good shape. He walked to the "Basic Knowledge Area of a Hundred Schools of Thought". The embassy had issued a manual. He was familiar with it yesterday and the day before yesterday, so most of his questions could be answered.
Sincerely, the problem of crooked nuts is something Luo Yujia has never imagined.
“There are one hundred philosophical schools, so are there any philosophers whose name means mother?”
Luo Yujia: There really is no such thing.
"Is this philosopher very strong? Otherwise, it is difficult for me to believe that I will not be attacked if I bear the name of my father."
Luo Yujia: I heard that Confucius was very good at speaking.
"With only one work of 5,000 words, he became one of the most famous philosophers in Chinese history, or even one? What exactly did these 5,000 words write?"< br>
Luo Yujia: That is the language with the highest degree of information compression in the world, classical Chinese!
During working hours, Luo Yujia still didn’t say what he wanted to say, but used the words in the manual to popularize science.
"In the history of Western philosophy, Laozi is very well-known. Nietzsche once said that the Tao Te Ching is like a well that never dries up, full of treasures. You can get it at your fingertips when you put down the bucket." Luo Yujia said. Using well-known European philosophers to give the audience an inner understanding of Lao Tzu.
Western philosophers and scholars who have read the Tao Te Ching basically give it very high evaluations, including Nietzsche, Kant, and Hegel. Even fan leader Duran said, "We want to burn all books except the Tao Te Ching." Schroeder, the leader of the group, said that every German family needs a Tao Te Ching.
Even though he couldn't answer the tourists' doubts very well, he conveyed very well that the philosopher whose name means "Dad" has made a considerable contribution to the modern philosophical system!
There are also normal viewers, like Jerry from Columbia University, who can get to the point with his questions.
“Laotze is really amazing. He was actually from the sixth century BC, the same era as Sakyamuni and Socrates. It’s just that the Tao Te Ching is too difficult. I listened to the professor today After explaining it all afternoon, I feel like I don’t even understand the basics. ”
The lecturer here today is the famous Chinese scholar Xiao. There are many people who have studied the Tao Te Ching more deeply and better than him, and there are countless translators from Chinese to English. It is possible to tell the Tao Te Ching so that foreigners (a small number of people) can listen to it. Understand, Scholar Xiao deserves to be at the top of the pyramid.
"It's so normal. The Tao Te Ching is very profound, and very few of our own people can understand it all." Luo Yujia said, at least he didn't dare to say that he understood it.
"What? Mr. Luo is not comforting me?" Jerry said.
Luo Yujia continued, "Lao Tzu is a very legendary figure in the history of Chinese philosophy. He didn't intend to write a book, but he had already understood the principles of the world, and when he saw the decline of a dynasty, he was ready to find a book. He lived in seclusion in this place. It happened that the governor Yin Xi (Yi Xi) asked me to leave a book. Therefore, I only left five thousand words in it. The speech is written quite casually. Just one word [Tao] has multiple meanings in five thousand words. It is also divided into Doctrine, Way, and Highway, so it was directly translated as Tao in China. Scholars who have studied in depth can hardly say that they understand everything.”
“It’s so cool.” Jerry couldn’t help but marveled after hearing this.
cool? Luo Yujia didn't understand.
“I feel that Mr. Laozi’s thoughts have surpassed many philosophers who want to keep their own academic themes. When he wrote this "Tao Te Ching", did anyone understand that he didn’t care, sir, what you said A lot of Tao (Tao) didn't separate, I think he just didn't care," Jerry said, "I said it was too cool, even if it was casual. The works written by his own hand actually contain so much rich philosophy. It is a pity that Mr. Laozi did not leave any other works."
Luo Yujia had not thought about this aspect. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed like it. Maybe I really don’t care if anyone can read the Tao Te Ching...
The five thousand messages are to thank Yin Xi for his hospitality.
"Yin Xi also left his name in Chinese history forever!" Jerry said, "Even if he made no other contributions, he still made a contribution to mankind by persuading Laozi to leave the Tao Te Ching."< br>
It seems that Yin Xi has a high status in Taoism and seems to have made other contributions. However, Luo and Jia are not clear about the details, so they will not go into details.
“Thank you very much Mr. Luo. Compared with Iwanttobelaotze’s words, I gained more from learning about Mr. Laozi, a philosopher.” Jerry expressed his true gratitude and said, “Mr. Luo, Would it be an honor for me to add your contact information? ”
Add contact information too? Luo and Jia were startled, only to hear the other person say.
Jerry picked up the English version of the Tao Te Ching in his hand, "I still have some questions about laotze that I would like to consult Mr. Luo."
That's it for now. , okay, this job is really troublesome! Luo Yujia was thinking about it, but he didn't realize it himself. There was no impatient expression on his face, even though he was very busy. There is a smile that is not easy to detect at the corner of his mouth.
The event lasted all afternoon, and in the evening, the colors of dusk were splashed on Van Nuys Street, and the number of tourists gradually decreased.
The tense nerves of the embassy staff were also much relieved.
Luo Yujia returned to the dormitory after a tired day. It must be a single dormitory. The embassy in the United States has a construction area of nearly 40,000 square meters, which is quite large.
After Luo Yujia took a shower, he went to the canteen to get food. He was hungry after a long day of work.
Sit next to a colleague. The glasses may not have been bathed, so it’s a step faster. When Luo sat down, the former came over with a letter.
"What is this?" Luo and Jia hadn't picked up their chopsticks yet, so they wanted to read the letter first. When I opened it, I saw it was a letter of thanks, signed by both the ambassador and the minister.
The content is to thank the staff for their efforts today and hope to continue to work hard tomorrow.
Because tomorrow, we will cooperate with a local university to carry out related activities.
"What we did today was really good. It is said that more than 200 people took the initiative to receive the Tao Te Ching. The satisfaction level in the feedback form at the end of the activity was also good. Look, the ambassador is praising us." Glasses was very proud. .
"It's more practical to get a salary increase!" Luo Yujia glanced at it three times in just a hundred words before pretending not to care and replied. "Really, don't talk about this anymore. I'm mainly in the game question and answer area today. There are really many Americans who are willing to listen to some of my information. In the past, except for food, tea and martial arts, other content was obviously ignored." Glasses are tired today. And I am happy because I feel a sense of accomplishment.
Especially when foreigners say it in English: With such an arrogant name, your talent is really exaggerated!
“The event just started this afternoon. Didn’t you say that we feel that the work we are doing is inefficient?” Glasses said, “Actually, I feel it is quite useful. Expert Gu Lu’s article is difficult to understand in depth about Chinese culture. Spreading it too deeply will affect the content of the novel. Expert Gu Lu tricked people in - and then we closed the door and killed him."
It is indeed Gu who can interest so many foreigners today. Lu’s contribution. But going further, it is entirely a joint effort of the embassy in the United States and the embassy staff.
"If the counselor hears what you said, you will be punished to clean again." Luo Yujia said that his colleague and friend had no good words at all. During the critical period of working in the embassy, his words and deeds Represent the face of the country! No carelessness is allowed.
"Ahem..." Glasses coughed twice, "What, do you think what I said makes sense?"
"What sense does it make? By the way, is there any work by Mr. Gu Lu in the Los Angeles Times? Luo Yujia asked, the conversation suddenly changed.
Why did the topic change so suddenly?
My colleague shook his head with glasses, "There are no new works at the moment, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper these days does not have a fiction section."
She didn't want to admit it, but today's hard work also made Luo and Jia Realizing that with Gu Lu taking the lead to create buzz first, and then publicity, it was a perfect combination!
"Even if you only write two thousand words an hour, leaving aside the time for eating and sleeping, you should still have fourteen hours of writing every day, right? Logically speaking, I still have seventy or eighty thousand words in four days, and it would be reasonable to have about three or four short stories. ." Luo Yujia didn't understand.
“...I heard that Expert Gu is still a college student and wants to study at Peking University.” Glasses said, “Although I don’t think studying is what Expert Gu should do.”
“ Even if you have to study, it’s easy to write more than 10,000 words every day, right?” Luo Yujia said.
"Indeed," Glasses said, "writers who cannot write ten thousand words need to be pushed."
The two chatted and even suggested that the leaders of the embassy should go Urgent...
After a while, Glasses finished eating first and asked if he wanted to go back to the room together. Glasses lives next door to Luo, and the two of them have a good relationship, so when the counselor sends letters to each staff member, he will pass Luo's share to Glasses.
Gu Lu, who also received a letter of thanks from the think tank, was also very happy. Little did he know that he was about to get another car.
[Thanks to Expert Gu Lu for promoting the country’s cultural export...]
We ordinary people are so happy today. The happy Gu Lu decided to forgive this community for a day.
Why should we forgive the community? Remember the property management of the community and organize some celebration activities with all the owners.
As an audience member, King Gulu was present. He went to see what happened last night after calling Guo Dafa.
At that time, the small garden in the atrium and the open space in front of the first and second unit buildings were all decorated in a festive manner.
As for the show - it is definitely better than the Spring Festival Gala, but during the elderly ballroom dance performance, a certain aunt accused her uncle of having an unclear relationship with his dance partner.
Immediately after that, they began to exchange explosive information about the aunt’s past romantic history. For the first time, Gu Lu had a new understanding of the "conservatism" of the elderly.
When things have developed to this point, it is actually not a big problem. It is like eating a melon, but soon, the trouble spread to Gu Lu.
Gu Lu stepped back and fell down without looking at the road. The problem was not serious, it was just painful.
The next day, Gu Lu was carrying a small schoolbag. Going out so early on a weekend morning, you can actually predict what he is going to do.
“This time I want four pounds of apples, bananas and a whole watermelon.”
Gu Lu said to the owner of Lele Fruit Shop.
The store owner responded immediately, "Okay, then do you want to divide it into two portions?"
"Well - this is best, that would be troublesome." Gu Lu said.
"It doesn't matter. I remember that I always buy two kilograms of apples, bananas and half a watermelon as gifts. Are you going to take them to two people's houses today?" The shop owner was busy with his hands and didn't stop talking.
Actually not, but Gu Lu didn’t want to explain too much, so he nodded perfunctorily.
"Young men are very sensible now. I still remember when I was young, I went to my father-in-law and mother-in-law's house for the first time. I was so nervous that I didn't buy anything. My wedding almost failed," the store owner said.
“That’s right, that’s quite serious.” Gu Lu’s answer was quite human-machine.
Finally, when the fruits were distributed, Gu Lu left with two pink bags.
The destination is President Jian’s house. We should go there at least twice a month to eat something good.
Eating is more cozy, at least for Uncle Jian and Aunt Fang, because the former tries to avoid talking about the publishing house at the dinner table.
Aunt Fang and Gu Lu shared about their two children.
Gu Lu noticed that the two elders were very proud when talking about their children when they were young.
"Looking at them when they were young, they must have felt that their future was sparkling. It was shining brightly, but looking at us, nothing we did seemed to satisfy their wishes." Aunt Fang said with a tearful tone.
It seems that something happened today. Gu Lu looked at Uncle Jian, should he continue this topic?
“Yesterday we called and asked us to move abroad.” President Jian said, “It’s hard to leave our homeland. Besides, it’s difficult to change the living habits of decades.”
Jian Uncle gave a rough explanation, and Gu Lu understood the source of Aunt Fang's emotions.
Words of comfort, knowing that it is useless comfort, but still saying it, are depressing for the comforter, and almost the same for the person being comforted.
Ding - a familiar feeling flashed through my mind, triggering the synthesis list.
[Classic of Mourning Literature] [A work that is difficult to read a second time] [A masterpiece of EMO that does not induce tears]
"?" But Gu Lu didn't have time to think about this for the time being.
......
On the day when Gu Lu went to President Jian's house, new news also appeared on the domestic Internet.
[Will "From the New World" be a sequel? As we all know, any literary and artistic work that involves a sequel is GG. So in this new world, do you think it will be the beginning of the end of Gu Lujiang’s talents? ]
This type of voting and discussions on related topics on the Internet are questions that suddenly pop up. It was obviously arranged by the publisher.
Anyone who has studied media knows that the classic routine is to throw out a "question" for the audience to discuss pros and cons. No matter what the outcome is, it can open up popularity.
There is nothing wrong with the publishing house’s method, but it just underestimates Gu Lu’s popularity and reputation on the Internet...
(End of this chapter)