毕业前，导师推荐给我一本书——《生活的艺术》，林语堂先生的作品，封皮上还著名“内参”。看来，是那个时代出版的。
书中的种种议论，其实可以用林先生所推崇的《半半歌》来归纳，谓之为生活的中庸之道。
中庸之道，还真是玄妙。
一、《半半歌》（李密庵）全文：
看破浮生过半，“半”之受无用边。半中岁月尽幽闲，半里乾坤开展。半郭半乡村舍，半山半水田园。半耕半读半经廛，半士半民姻眷。半雅半粗器具，半华半实庭轩；衾裳半素半轻鲜，肴馔半丰半俭。童仆半能半拙；妻儿半朴半贤；心情半佛半神仙；姓字半藏半显。一半还之天地；让将一半人间；半思后代与沧田，半想阎罗怎见。饮酒半酣正好，花开半时偏妍；半帆张扇免翻颠，马放半缰稳便。半少却饶滋味，半多反厌纠缠；百年苦乐半相参；会占便宜只半。
[注]：看破浮生过半，一作“看破红尘过半”；半里乾坤开展，也有版本为“半里乾坤宽展”。
二、《半半歌》英译（林语堂）：
The Half-and-Half Song
By far the greater half have I seen through
This floating life——ah,there\'s a magic word——
This 'half'——so rich in implications.
It bids us taste the joy of more than we
Can ever own.Half-way in life is man\'s
Best state,when slackened pace allows him ease;
A wide world lies half-way\'twixt heaven and earth;
TO live in huts half-way between the town and country.
Have farms half-way between the streams and hills;
Be half-a-farmer,and half-a-scholar,and half
In business;half as ge
书中的种种议论，其实可以用林先生所推崇的《半半歌》来归纳，谓之为生活的中庸之道。
中庸之道，还真是玄妙。
一、《半半歌》（李密庵）全文：
看破浮生过半，“半”之受无用边。半中岁月尽幽闲，半里乾坤开展。半郭半乡村舍，半山半水田园。半耕半读半经廛，半士半民姻眷。半雅半粗器具，半华半实庭轩；衾裳半素半轻鲜，肴馔半丰半俭。童仆半能半拙；妻儿半朴半贤；心情半佛半神仙；姓字半藏半显。一半还之天地；让将一半人间；半思后代与沧田，半想阎罗怎见。饮酒半酣正好，花开半时偏妍；半帆张扇免翻颠，马放半缰稳便。半少却饶滋味，半多反厌纠缠；百年苦乐半相参；会占便宜只半。
[注]：看破浮生过半，一作“看破红尘过半”；半里乾坤开展，也有版本为“半里乾坤宽展”。
二、《半半歌》英译（林语堂）：
The Half-and-Half Song
By far the greater half have I seen through
This floating life——ah,there\'s a magic word——
This 'half'——so rich in implications.
It bids us taste the joy of more than we
Can ever own.Half-way in life is man\'s
Best state,when slackened pace allows him ease;
A wide world lies half-way\'twixt heaven and earth;
TO live in huts half-way between the town and country.
Have farms half-way between the streams and hills;
Be half-a-farmer,and half-a-scholar,and half
In business;half as ge