近读一则古代轶事,似乎对我们的编辑工作颇有启示。唐朝著名的画家王维,曾经画过一幅“雪里芭蕉”的名画,那翠绿的芭蕉鄙视冰雪,傲然挺立,俨然君子。然而有人说:“寒冬大雪,怎么可能有翠绿的芭蕉?”于是抹去芭蕉,换上梅花。这个砍杀芭蕉的老兄,比起时下的一些编辑来,温柔多了。他没有因为雪里芭蕉的荒唐而枪毙它,还承认那是一幅名画,可见眼力不俗,没有砍去芭蕉只留下白茫茫一片雪景,还换上有君子之称的梅花,可 Reading an ancient anecdote, it seems, is an inspiration to our editorial work. Wang Wei, a famous painter of the Tang Dynasty, once painted a famous painting of “Snowy Banana”. The green banana despises ice and snow, standing proudly like a gentleman. However, some people say: “Winter snow, how could there be green banana?” So obliterate banana, put plum. The man who slaughtered banana is much softer than some of the editors at the moment. He did not shoot it because of the absurd snow banana it also admitted that it is a famous painting, we can see good eyesight, did not cut off banana leaves only a vast white snow, but also replaced with a gentleman called plum,