Recently, I read Bi Feiyu's "Virtual", a collection of short stories, which included a total of 9 short stories: "Who Is Talking in the Middle of the Night", "The Nursing Woman", "Missing My Sister Xiaoqing", "Wang Jiazhuang on the Earth", "Rainbow", "The Day of Love", "Family Affairs", "Heavy Rain Like a Note", "Virtual".
Readers may be more familiar with "Nursing Woman", focusing on the situation in the left-behind countryside, focusing mainly on left-behind children, left-behind women (nursing women) and the elderly, and won the first Lu Xun Literature Award for Short Story. It has also been made into a movie starring Yu Nan and Wu Junmei, and was released in 2015.
Today I want to write the last short story "Virtual" named mainly "Novel Collection".
It is very appropriate to name this collection of short stories after "Virtual", and I think that the most wonderful part of this collection of novels is also the last one.
"Virtual" mainly writes that the physics teacher Grandpa said his last wish (last wish) to his grandson when he was dying at the age of 90 (dying). He asked his grandson how many wreaths he would get after he died? Because when Principal Rong died, Grandpa counted three times and received 182 wreaths from all walks of life.
Grandpa seemed to have experienced a great drunkenness before his death, and he said a large number of personal names, and attached long units and positions to the back of the names.
The question stunned the eldest grandson, because he finally knew that Grandpa's wish was to get as many wreaths as the former headmaster. How is this possible?
Grandpa was dying, and Principal Rong was dead at work. Sun Tzu still has a vague impression of the funeral of "Grandpa Rong": the whole county is white flowers, full of grand and solemn atmosphere...
When Grandpa died, it was the New Year's Pass, and it was about to be the New Year, and everyone was happy to welcome the Spring Festival.
Seeing that Grandpa had only a few wreaths, the grandson began to expand his imagination, "virtually" a series of wreaths of mourning.
Luo Shaolin, deputy director of the Centre for Oriental Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, sent condolences from afar
Mao Kaimin, a researcher at stanford University's Institute of High Energy, sent condolences from afar
Professor Chu Yang of the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University sent condolences
Chief Professor of kgR Project at Tsinghua University Ishimi Feng sent condolences to Haruka
Ma Yongchang, vice dean of the School of Re-education at Peking University, sent condolences from afar
Zhu Liang, head of the Beijing North Africa Research Group, sent condolences from afar
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The novel has Mark Twain's irony.
I would like to discuss this "virtual" from the perspective of a teacher.
As a student and a person who has walked to the podium, I say, teachers, forget every student who has been taught.
Because there are many factors in the growth of students, no matter how much achievement the students who have been taught, they cannot be considered their own credit, and they must have a normal heart.
Zeng Shiqiang once said: Education is the most sacred, but also the most difficult, and there can be no concept of merit.
Because the teacher only participates in a certain short stage of the student's growth, he cannot take the student's achievement as the teacher's pride. On the other hand, whether or not a teacher is recognized by students is also evaluated by students, not by the teacher himself.