On Good Manners
Have you ever seen the TV series "Shanghai Beach" and do you remember the hero Wen Ge? How handsome and resolute he was! Thousands of people admired his manners. Many young people, in particular, liked him so much that they tried to imitate his gestures and copy the style of his clothes. I don't know what you think about good manners. When some young men walk down the street, wearing fine clothes and long hair, do you think they are smart? I don't think so, and I am not alone in holding this opinion. Many people are sneering at them!
What are good manners? To put it in a nutshell, good manners refer to the speech and behavior of people who make us fell comfortable. Seeing a good-mannered man, we say, "Oh, how nice he is!" We live in a colorful world, and good manners appear in different forms. Do you like Mrs. Thatcher, the British prime Minister? The late Premier Zhou Enlai was well known for his diplomatic manners. Zheng Xiaoying, a famous conductor, has impressed so many people with her artistic style. Obviously, the manners of each are different, yet each has his own charms to win admirers. Why?
One reason, I think, is that their manners are a natural expression of their character and personality, without ant trace of affection. Good manners are a representation of the beauty in people's spirits. People with different educational backgrounds have different manners. If you make a peasant imitate an artist, the result will be ridiculous. So are the young people who imitate Wen Ge.
We all know the story "Dong Shi blindly imitated Xi Shi". Dong Shi, an ugly woman, heard that Xi Shi was as beautiful as a fairy. One day she went to see for herself. However, Xi Shi happened to be sick that day with a stomachache. She knitted her eyebrows and wore a painful expression, yet she was still surprisingly beautiful. Dong Shi mistakenly thought that her beauty derived from the painful expression on her face. So Dong Shi knitted her eyebrows in imitation of Xi Shi. Of course, she looked even uglier. The story shows us that in the pursuit of beauty we must bear in mind that truth, only truth, is beautiful. Any thing artificial of false is ugly.
Do good manners require a handsome appearance and expressive dress? Not necessarily. Of course, it's nice to have a beautiful face, but a beautiful face is not always accompanied by good manners. On the contrary, many common looking or even ugly people are known to have good manners. Sophia Loren, for instance, did not look beautiful when she began her movie career. She was nicknamed "giraffe". Nevertheless, she was confident and never imitated anyone. She became more and more beautiful as she created vivid and convincing characters one after another on the screen. She achieved success and won the audience with her special personality. Beethoven is another example. Perhaps you all think he was a handsome gentleman. In fact , he was not. He looked ugly - very short, with a large head and ugly nose. Then why do you imagine him to be a handsome gentleman? Because when we listen to his beautiful symphonies, we are overwhelmed by the strong emotion coming spontaneously from the heart of this great artist. We are fascinated by him. Since his music is so beautiful, we take it for granted that the composer must be as charming as his music. This is Beethoven's charm, and also his own manners.
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