Pan-Yu Liang
Character case
A famous female painter and sculptor in China. She was born in poverty. She lost her father at the age of one, her sister at the age of two and her mother at the age of eight. She was adopted by her uncle. /kloc-When he was 0/4 years old, he was sold into a brothel by his uncle and met his benefactor Pan Zanhua. With the full support of Pan Zanhua, a woman who is not afraid of humble origins has honed her first-class artistic talent, which is worthy of our preciousness, kindness and respect in spiritual bearing and endowment.
Pan returned to China after studying abroad for nearly nine years. Once, he was indeed a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts run by his teacher Liu Haisu and classmate Xu Beihong. He published picture books and held exhibitions. However, people will not forgive this woman who was originally sold to a brothel, even if she returns to China after her studies. Even if someone tries to use her history to damage her, someone tries to insult her by writing dirty words at her art exhibition, and someone cuts open her high-priced works with a knife. People who lack artistic vision even question whether her works were painted by her own hands. She needs to paint on the spot to prove her true skill. 1937, 42-year-old Pan returned to France again, this time for 40 years, until she died at the age of 82 and never returned to China.
After Pan Yuliang had to leave his country and return to France, he devoted the rest of his life to painting. Because she is not a French citizen-in the past, people thought that entering a foreign country was equivalent to unpatriotic, and she didn't sign a contract with a gallery to sell her works-in the past, people thought that money would defile the purity of art. Her life has been wandering in poverty, living by selling small paintings and helping friends, living simply, eating simply and dressing casually. In order to save money, she tried to buy the cheapest paints and canvases, and tried to draw thinner when painting. The conditions are very difficult.
The various artistic awards she won in France and other countries in the latter half of her life, including the French National Gold Award, the French "Free Art Association International Salon" Silver Award, the first prize of French culture and education, and the Belgian Gold Award, are all so heavy. During the Republic of China and New China, Pan was the only China artist who won so many awards internationally.
(Applicable themes: temper, tolerance, humility and greatness, persistence, letting go, etc. )
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Nick Vujicic
Character case
He was born without limbs, like a broken sculpture, but he dared to face his physical disability and often used it as the theme of his sermon. Hu Zhe began to give a speech at the age of 17, introducing his experience of not giving in to fate. With the arrival of the invitation letter, Hu Zhe began to give speeches around the world, and has been to 35 countries and regions so far.
/kloc-one day at the age of 0/0, he tried to drown himself in the bathtub, but failed. During this period, his parents always encouraged him to learn to overcome difficulties, and he gradually made friends. Until 13 years old, Hu Zhe read an article in the newspaper, which introduced a story about a disabled person who made unremitting efforts and set a series of lofty goals for himself and realized them. He was inspired and decided to help others as his life goal. The man who was predicted to "never get love" became a world-famous speaker, and now he has a bachelor's degree in "Financial Management and Real Estate".
(Applicable themes: never give up, miracle, believe in yourself, perseverance, submission, strong will, etc. )
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Lei Diansheng
Character case
Slim figure, clean face, three feet long black hair. It will take ten years to go through the distribution centers of ethnic minorities and every province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In 2008, he became the first person to walk out of Lop Nur since the Tang Dynasty. The total journey is about 85,000 kilometers. He personally collected the most comprehensive information about China's folklore, ecology and history, took more than 30,000 photos along the way, and collected nearly 2 tons of pictures and objects. He has pulled out 65,438+06 toenails and worn out 49 pairs of shoes.
The tent on Lei Diansheng's back is a mobile home. He risked his life countless times: he experienced 19 robberies and was injured many times; Encountered several storms, mudslides and avalanches, and almost died; Lu Yu python, flee; In the no-man's land of Tibet, wolves besieged at night and set off firecrackers and burned clothes before the wolves lived. The vast Gobi, thirsty for several days, can only drink their own blood and urine; In Shennongjia, there is nothing to eat, but snake meat is eaten raw to satisfy hunger ... nine years of hardships and mixed tastes. I have suffered a lot, and I have also gained countless passionate and chivalrous friends all over the world.
Subject: persistence, travelers, dreams, etc. )
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Ch 'ien Mu
Character case
Born in poverty, he was sick in his early years and drifted in life. With his personal cleverness, he taught at Peking University after graduating from middle school and finally got married. He has lived abroad for many years and spent the rest of his life alone, but he is self-motivated and self-reliant. He was blind in his later years and still wrote a lot. ) He is obsessed with meditation, resolutely gives up smoking and knows how to live. Whenever he can bear it, he can put it down. He is comfortable, not bored. He is addicted to reading and warns students to study calmly, not for utility, but for learning. Writing the Outline of National History, expounding the concept of national cultural history, is widely recommended as China's masterpiece of general history. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/950, Xinya College was established in Hong Kong, which made the exiled students sing endless songs. His wife Hu Meiqi said that he loves Go, but he never plays chess with others, preferring to play chess. Qian Mu's life is like a game of chess. He doesn't aim at this, and he doesn't fight for winning or losing.
China academic circles honored him as a "great master", and some scholars even called him the last scholar-bureaucrat and master of Chinese studies in China. He wrote more than170,000 words of historical and cultural works in his life, which had a great influence on academic circles at home and abroad.
(Applicable themes: calm, free and easy, hard work, patriotism, scholars, etc. )
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Di Xin
Character case
In the history of China, he was the first monarch elected by civilians instead of nobles, the first monarch who set out to abolish aristocratic hereditary system and succeeded, and the first monarch who completely defeated theocracy. Under his leadership, a group of talented civilians were reused and injected fresh blood into the stale regime. After Di Xin succeeded to the throne, he attached great importance to agriculture and mulberry, developed social productive forces and became strong in national strength. He unified the southeast, laid the foundation of China's main territory and multi-ethnic country, spread the advanced production technology and culture of the Central Plains to the southeast, promoted social progress and economic development, and promoted national integration. Di Xin dared to get rid of the disadvantage of being the first king. Let them take part in productive labor, replenish their troops and join the army. He despised prejudice and did not sacrifice to ghosts and gods; He selects and appoints talents, regardless of position; Choose a concubine, regardless of birth. ? But in the end, he was proud of himself, spending huge sums of money to build a deer platform, make a wine pool, hang meat as a forest and live a luxurious life. Empty the treasury. He was headstrong, refused to listen to the correct opinions, formed opposition in the upper level, killed Beagan, imprisoned Ji Zi, and lost the hearts of the people. Historically, it was called "Zhou Wang". Everyone only knew Shang Zhouwang, but they didn't know Di Xin, the Shang king who had fought in all directions.
(Applicable themes: proud, historical truth, ethnic integration, equality, etc. )
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Xinfengnian
Character case
65438-0945 began to engage in cultural work in the army, and 65438-0976 retired. Since the1980s, he has written music essays and won a reputation in the music industry of shulin. He is the author of more than ten kinds of works such as Gossip of Fans, So I Smell, Music Everywhere and so on.
Xin Fengnian is a strict and serious person. Xin Fengnian works very seriously. His article has to be revised many times, but every time he copies it, instead of correcting it by computer. He even copied some articles five times. Besides writing articles, Xin Fengnian is also quite serious about other things.
When he was a teenager, he first heard Beethoven's Moonlight, which was his first lesson in listening to music. Since then, he has been accompanied by classical music all his life. He often advises people to either not love or be prepared to pay a certain price for "listening to songs", that is, time and energy. Because music is not "background music", it must be superficial when listening in the background. He doesn't approve of doing other things while listening to music. He is used to listening only and completely, and can't do anything else. Sometimes, in order to concentrate, he will stand and listen. Many people abroad can't afford to buy tickets, and they don't feel tired when they stand and listen. Play like Wagner for three days and nights, and you won't get tired standing.
(Applicable themes: concentration, care, being old but not old, seriousness, true love, etc. )
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Li Boan
Character case
At the end of the 20th century, he was a pure child of art, seeking neither fame nor fortune nor Wen Da, working silently in the gardens of Chinese painting figures. He widely adopted Bona and integrated Chinese and Western cultures, which greatly enriched the expressive force of artistic language of Chinese painting characters. He is infatuated with the old peasants in the north and his painting style is old and vigorous. He spent ten years creating the character scroll Out of Bayan Kara, based on the Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation. Taking the paintings of Bayan Kara, the sacred mountain of the Yellow River, as a starting point, through a series of artistic images and rhythmic arrangements with lofty atmosphere, it embodies the eternal lofty sentiments flowing from the East River, and promotes the Yellow River civilization on which the Chinese nation depends for survival and development and can stand proudly among the nations of the world. This work has lofty ideas, magnificent weather, exquisite description and unique artistic language, which is well-deserved among the classic works of figure painting in China. The long scroll is 2m high and 12 1.5m long, with * * * ten segments. 1On May 2, 998, the painter fell in front of the long scroll of characters being created, and he completely melted himself into the sacred land of "Bayan Kara".
(Applicable theme: indifferent to fame and fortune, perseverance, nationality, inheritance, etc. )
08
Limbu
Character case
When I was young, I was studious and familiar with hundreds of classics and history. Self-admiring, indifferent, not seeking glory. When I grew up, I wandered between Jianghuai and later lived in seclusion in Hangzhou West Lake, and built a house in Gushan. I often travel around the temples in the West Lake by boat and return to monks and poets. Every time a guest comes, he tells the boy to fly the crane, and Lin Bu comes back by boat when he sees the crane. Poetry is discarded and never remains.
Many people advised him to be an official, but they declined politely, saying, "However, my ambition is suitable, not for my family, not for fame and fortune, but for my feelings." Lin Bu has never been an official, never been married, and has no children. He only likes to grow plums and raise cranes. Does he call himself? "Take Mei as his wife and crane as his son", and people call him "Mei's wife crane". Song Renzong presented "Mr. Jing He".
(Applicable theme: indifferent to fame and fortune, free and easy, nature, etc. )
09
Gibran
Character case
Poets, writers and painters. Known as "artistic genius" and "proud son of Lebanese literature", he is the main founder of modern Arab novels, art and prose, and one of the pioneers of Arab new literature in the 20th century.
During his short and brilliant life journey, Ji Bolun experienced displacement, bereavement, love twists and turns, debt and illness.
He opposes ignorance and triteness. He loves freedom, advocates justice, and dares to declare war on tyranny and hypocritical saints. He is not afraid of being called a "madman" and calls for the burial of all "Prometheans" who do not keep pace with the times; He opposes moaning and boasting; It advocates writing people's voices with "blood".
When he felt that death was coming, he was determined to make the fire of his life burn more vigorously, so he ignored his illness and sat at his desk all day until he died young at the age of 48.
(Applicable theme: Perseverance, giving up the ego for the big ego, etc. )
10
John Keats
Character case
He is one of the outstanding English poetry writers and a major member of the Romantic School.
I loved literature since I was a child, but because of my poor family, I dropped out of school to study medicine before 16 years old. His parents died in succession when he was a teenager, and the sadness of losing his parents prematurely has been affecting him. 18 10, Keats was sent as an apprentice to a pharmacist. Keats was admitted to a medical school in London five years later, but within a year, Keats gave up his wish to be a doctor and concentrated on writing poetry. Keats has been troubled by illness and economic problems, but he has surprisingly written a large number of excellent works, including A Night in St. agnes, Ode to Autumn, Ode to a Nightingale and Autumn, which show the poet's strong feelings and love for nature and win a great reputation.
"Among the great English poets, there is almost a novel Antimian written by him according to a beautiful myth in ancient Greece. The whole poem is rich in imagination, colorful, full of desire for freedom, and shows the progressive tendency of anti-classicism.
On February 23rd, Keats died on his way to Italy to recuperate. When he died, only his young and loyal friend, the painter Severn, accompanied him.
(Applicable theme: hard, dedicated, facing death, short and gorgeous, etc. )
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Ban Jieyu
Character case
The female writers of Ci and Fu in the Western Han Dynasty are one of the female writers who are good at Ci and Fu in the history of China literature. She is the concubine of Emperor Han Chengdi, and she is good at poetry and virtue. First a few ambassadors, but a tribute.
Ban Jieyu's literary attainments are extremely high, especially familiar with historical events. He can often quote classics, and Ban Jieyu is good at temperament, which often makes Han Chengdi forget himself in the sound of silk and bamboo.
Emperor Han invited Ban Jieyu to accompany him, but Ban Jieyu refused. She said: "Sages are all famous ministers. At the end of three generations, the Lord has a daughter." . The Queen Mother praised her for "Fan Ji in ancient times and Ban Jieyu today".
After Zhao's sisters entered the palace, they were overbearing, so as to avoid future right and wrong. Ban Jieyu thought it was better to hurry back to preserve our sanity, so he wrote a letter and invited himself to serve the Queen Mother in Changxin Palace. Emperor Cheng collapsed and Jieyu was buried in the garden. A large number of works were lost. Today, there are three works: Mourning Fu, Dao and Mourning Song (also known as Song of the Fan).
(Applicable themes: virtue, spiritual beauty, wisdom, etc. )
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Julien
Character case
Julian, a character in Stendhal's novel Red and Black, struggled alone in a hierarchical society with his intelligence and perseverance, and there were many disgraceful means in the meantime. Just when he thought he had embarked on the road to success and got love beyond class, society mercilessly sent him to the guillotine.
Julian was born into a carpenter's family in the small town of Vail. His father is a selfish timber factory owner, and his two brothers are vulgar. Julian, who was thin and handsome, worshipped Napoleon, but he saw that Napoleon's time was over. In order to get ahead as soon as possible, he had to engage in clerical work. With his extraordinary memory, he was elected as a tutor by the mayor of renard, but he developed feelings for Mrs. renard. Later, in order to avoid exposure, he had to study in Besancon Theological Seminary. Recommended by others, he came to Delamour House as a secretary, and was loved by Miss lamoure. Just when he thought he was going to succeed, Mrs renard's letter turned him in. Angry Julian madly hurt Mrs. renard in the church, and was sentenced to death and ended his life.
Extremely gentle and extremely cruel bipolar character, unity lies in even one person. According to Freud's theory, it is called "Oedipus Complex".
(Applicable themes: paranoia, extremes, love and hate, ambition, conspiracy, tragic heroes, etc. )
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Tang Xianzu
Character case
China was a playwright and writer of Ming Dynasty drama. He not only likes reading "unholy" books, but also makes friends with "honest" people. Through active social activities, he created an upright and strong character and refused to follow others' advice.
He witnessed the bureaucratic corruption at that time, impeached Shen Shixing, criticized the state affairs, angered the emperor and was demoted. He has served for five years and achieved remarkable results. However, he was criticized by his superiors and opposed by local forces because he suppressed the powerful and angered the powerful. Finally, he abandoned his official position at 1598. During my stay at home, my mood was quite contradictory. On the one hand, I hope that I can "repay my bosom friend", but on the other hand, I only hope that "there are prestigious ministers in the court, and there are no hungry tigers in counties and counties, and it is enough to add a volume of poems every year". Later, he gradually gave up the idea of being an official and devoted himself to drama and poetry creation.
In Suichang, he "cut the poker, broke the truss, cut down the rules and regulations, and saved the meeting", built a shooting gallery and built an academy. Sometimes I go to the countryside to persuade farmers, and I compare words with Qingxian Zixiu all the year round. This style of ancient officials finally greatly improved this remote and barren land in central Zhejiang, and cattle, sheep and livestock in Sang Ma also flourished. Perhaps Tang Xianzu regarded this place as his ideal kingdom. In addition to the above-mentioned good governance, he even allowed prisoners to go home for the New Year without authorization, and let them go to the streets to watch lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and pursued their political views without scruple. Tang Xianzu despised feudal dignitaries all his life and often offended celebrities. In his later years, he was indifferent to poverty and refused to deal with county officials. "History of Ming Dynasty" records his generosity and poverty, which can quite summarize the essence of his life. His dramatic works, Peony Pavilion, Purple Hairpin, Conan and Handan, are collectively called Linchuan Four Dreams.
(Applicable theme: indifferent to fame and fortune, integrity, talent, ideal kingdom, being different, etc. )
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Wang Guowei
Character case
That generation was very poor, and he studied hard as a scholar in his childhood. Wang Guowei has been engaged in literature, history and philosophy for decades. He is a famous historian, writer, aesthetician, archaeologist, lyricist, epigraph writer and translation theorist in modern China. He is known as "the end of China's academic research in the past 300 years and the pioneer of it in the past 80 years".
Wang Guowei's appearance is always serious and cold. He seldom chats with people, let alone talks with people, except for study or business. Wang Guowei is indifferent and doesn't like to make friends with people. In his view, scholarship is a public instrument in the world, and there should be no opinions of the portal. So whether he is his disciple or not, he always answers questions. When Wang Guowei encounters some problems, he often refers to "I don't understand this problem", which is precisely the performance of his rigorous scholarship.
He saw that if the body does not die, the spirit will definitely die, so only the death of the body can bring eternal life to the spirit. This is his great sobriety and wisdom.
(Applicable subject: Hao Shou's poverty, scholarship, preciseness, martyrs, spirit, etc. )
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Li Shutong
Character case
Master Hongyi is a famous artist and art educator in modern China. When he was eight or nine years old, he could understand that the end of glory meant sadness. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he repeatedly put forward the slogan of "Remembering Buddha and saving the country", showing deep patriotic feelings. As a pioneer of the New Culture Movement in China, he first introduced western oil painting, piano and drama. He entered China and is famous for his expertise in calligraphy, poetry, painting, temperament, epigraphy and performing arts. He left the world with inexhaustible spiritual wealth, and his life was full of legends. He is a typical figure of China's magnificence and simplicity. Mr. Zhao Puchu's evaluation of the master's life is "endless treasures in the eyes of the world, and a full moon shines on the heart of heaven".
(Applicable themes: feelings of home and country, simplicity, sweet life, combination of Chinese and western, pure mind, etc. )