Prodigy, as the name suggests, is a unique name for gifted and talented children, and has always been praised, concerned and sought after by the world.
In 2005, 10-year-old Liaoning boy Zhang Jujiong was admitted to Tianjin Engineer Fan College with an excellent score of 505 points, becoming the smallest college student in the country, sensationalizing the media for a time and becoming a focus figure.
In the following six years, Zhang Zhongjiong lived up to expectations and became the smallest master's student and doctoral student in the country, sitting firmly in the position of prodigy with strength, and perfectly became the main representative of "other people's children".
However, 11 years ago, just when everyone praised Zhang Zhongjiao, Zhang Zhongjiao, who was facing a master's degree, made a surprising decision: to force his parents to buy a house in Beijing, otherwise they would refuse to participate in the defense of their master's thesis.
After this decision was reported by the media, it quickly caused an uproar in the country.
The original overwhelming admiration and praise were instantly replaced by different views from all walks of life.
For a time, the success or failure of "prodigy" education became a new direction of concern for the people of the whole country after tea and dinner.
So, was the 16-year-old Zhang Jujiong's decision that year wayward rebellion or his vision unique?
Wise teenagers are full of self-confidence and forced to buy a house to cause public opinion
On October 16, 2011, the CCTV "See" program team interviewed 16-year-old doctor Zhang Jujiao.
That year, Zhang Zhongjiong had just renewed the myth he created when he was 10 and 13 years old- he was admitted to Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and became the smallest doctoral student in China.
Facing the camera, Zhang Zhongjiong is as calm and self-assured as 6 years ago, showing great confidence in his ability and expectations for the future.
Six years ago, zhang was 10 years old and was admitted to Tianjin Engineer Fan College, becoming the youngest college student in the country.
In the face of the reporter's interview, the childish Zhang Juju said: "The person I admire the most is Zhang Jujiao, because I think Zhang Juju is better than everyone else, and he is the best in the world. ”
Six years later, 16-year-old Zhang Zhongjiao once again told reporters with the same confidence as he did then: "I just want to be the king, otherwise, you will have no status to talk about."
This is a child who is almost undisguised between words, and what he does, says, and speaks is in accordance with his own heart and cognition, and this is not the first time he has expressed himself at will.
At the age of 13, Zhang became the youngest graduate student in the country, and in the first class of mathematical analysis, Zhang Shown his amazing mathematical talent.
On that day, the lecturer was leading the students to experience the beauty of mathematics together.
When talking about the famous Euler formula, Zhang Zhongjiao suddenly found that from childhood to adulthood, all the unrelated formulas he had learned before could all be linked by Euler's formula.
The new discovery amazed Zhang Zhongjiao, just like Sun Wukong was overjoyed to listen to the bodhi old ancestor's lecture to the wonderful place, Zhang Zhongjiao forgot that he was in the classroom, and he stood up in a daze to applaud the teacher and celebrate his amazing discovery.
Zhang Zhongjiong's seemingly out-of-the-ordinary approach caused an uproar among the brothers and sisters in the classroom, who did not understand what was wrong with this 9-year-old "prodigy" brother who was 9 years younger.
Zhang Said: "My classmates all looked at me with a contemptuous look."
Talking about mathematics, Zhang Zhongjiao's eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth unconsciously cocked upwards, and when asked why he showed it in the form of applause, Zhang Zhongjiao looked calm: "At least it is true temperament." ”
In the interview, in the face of reporters' questions, Zhang Zhongjiong said more than once that he wanted to live the top life and must live the top life, do the best job, and live the best house.
And the reason behind this attachment is that if he can't do it, his father will be disappointed.
In the shot, the expression on Zhang's face is elusive, the light in his eyes is gone, and the curvature of the smile at the corner of his mouth is reduced, replaced by a flash of confusion in his wisdom.
The confusion gives the impression that I should do it, I have to do it, but I don't actually know why I'm doing it, just because I'm expected to do it, so I do it.
The seemingly indifferent tone was filled with a sense of anticipation, helplessness, and an imposed sense of mission.
This tone of acknowledgment is like saying something that "needs me to do it, but it has nothing to do with me."
The host, under his influence, asked, "Why do I feel that your smile is showing a feeling of 'Okay, that's his business'?" ”
Zhang Zhongjiao lowered his head, and then raised his head again, still with a smile on his face.
When he looked up, Zhang Qiangjiong replied with wisdom beyond the age of 16: "There is a certain truth in what you said, my father first created a dream that I don't know if it was unrealistic, and then imposed on me..."
Perhaps it is this kind of pressure, or maybe it is this kind of expectation that Zhang Zhongjiong has believed since he was a child that only in Beijing, becoming a Beijinger, and buying a house in Beijing is the success of life.
Therefore, in this interview, Zhang Zhongjiong broke out that when preparing for the defense of his master's thesis, he threatened his parents that "you must buy a house in Beijing, otherwise you will not participate in the master's defense".
As soon as this remark came out, the whole country was in an uproar, some people thought that Zhang Zhongjiao did not understand things, and some people thought that Zhang Zhongjiao was worthy of being a prodigy and had a forward-looking vision.
So, is Zhang Chiong really talented and has a forward-looking vision as some people say?
This question is placed today, I believe that many people will give a thumbs up and praise: "A child prodigy is a prodigy, far-sighted."
But is this really the case? This is to peel back the cocoon from Zhang Zhongjiao's growth experience and his father Zhang Huixiang's education from childhood to adulthood.
Memories amazing continuous jumps become prodigies to create miracles
On July 8, 1995, Zhang was born into an intellectual family in Panshan County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province.
His father, Zhang Huixiang, was a street cadre, and his mother, Wu Huijuan, was a middle school teacher.
Zhang Huixiang was 36 years old that year, and as a new father, he attached great importance to this hard-won son.
Therefore, he named his son "Fire" with the word "fire", which means that he hopes that his son will not be like himself in the future, and his life will be plain.
Of course, Zhang Huixiang did not want to force his son to do anything, on the contrary, he paid great attention to giving his son a happy childhood.
At first, Zhang's father and mother did not feel that Zhang Zhongjiao was any different from other children, so they did not make too many demands on him.
Until one day, Zhang Huixiang suddenly found that the little Zhang Zhongjiao would often climb to the desk without paying attention and read his books intently.
This move attracted the attention of Zhang Huixiang, who hurriedly bought back two children's picture books with pictures and texts to read to Xiao Jujiao word by word.
When he read it a second time, Zhang Huixiang mistakenly read the bear in the album as "dog".
At this time, Xiao Qijiao was not happy, he snatched the album from Zhang Huixiang's hand, pointed to the bear to correct Zhang Huixiang: "This is not a dog, it is a bear", and made a dog bear crawling action to show Zhang Huixiang.
Zhang Huixiang and Wu Huijuan were shocked, and they finally realized that their son Zhang Zhongjiao might be different from ordinary children.
Since then, Zhang Huixiang and his wife have often consciously taken turns reading books for Zhang Zhongjiao, and strive to be colorful when reading.
Under the deliberate early education of Zhang's father and mother, in less than half a year, Xiao Qijiao was able to recite more than a hundred Tang poems, and each Tang poem was memorized after listening to it once.
Zhang Huixiang's super memory shocked and happy, and he decided to start formally teaching his son to read.
As a result, in just three months, Xiao Qijiao learned a thousand Chinese characters, and Xiao Qiang, who was less than two and a half years old, could already read general literary works.
In terms of memory, 16-year-old Zhang Zhongjiong is also very proud of it.
In the interview, the host asked Zhang: "Then why don't you take notes like others?" ”
Zhang Zhongjiao pointed to his head and replied proudly: "It is better to take notes than to use your brain."
Host: "Many people think that there are many and complex formulas and theorems, can you remember them all by your brain?" ”
Zhang Zhongjiao smiled confidently and was very sure: "Of course I can remember it."
The host was slightly surprised: "Then why are everyone still taking notes?" ”
Zhang Zhongjiao smiled: "Maybe they like to practice words, maybe they don't like to use their brains." ”
In this way, with a strong memory, at the age of 5, Zhang Jujiong has fully equipped the ability to enter primary school.
After entering the school, Zhang Zhongjiao completed the first jump in his life in only one month with his strength - successfully jumping to the second grade.
Subsequently, Zhang Zhongjiao opened the open and hanging mode: the second grade read for one month, the third grade for four months, directly jumped to the fifth grade, read the fifth grade for two months, and directly promoted to the first grade.
Maybe it's because he is too young, or maybe Zhang Father feels that jumping too quickly is not good for the growth and development of Xiao Jiong, so in the first two years of junior high school, Xiao Jiong finally studied like an ordinary child.
However, not long after the steady precipitation, in the third year of junior high school, Xiao Jiong's patience was exhausted and he began to be naughty in class.
The teacher was very angry and deliberately asked Xiao Jiong, who did not listen carefully, to answer the question, and as a result, Xiao Jiong would all be...
The teacher was helpless and reflected the situation to Zhang Huixiang.
Zhang Huixiang knew that he could no longer suppress the child, so he took Zhang Zhongjiao back home, guided himself at home for half a year, and when he returned to school, he directly sent Zhang Zhongjiao to the classroom of the first year of high school, and then jumped directly to the third year of high school.
Father Zhang shares his parenting experience and hears about his dedication to excellence
That year, Xiao Zhongjiao was not yet 10 years old, and although his grades were not the first in the class, he also ranked among the best.
The life of the third year of high school is tense, and Xiao Qiang, who takes learning as entertainment, is even more diligent with his classmates.
After several mock examinations, Xiao Qiujiao's score was more than 500, looking at his son's score, Zhang Huixiang decided to let Xiao Zhongjiao participate in the college entrance examination that year.
The local police station issued a certificate according to the special situation of Xiao Qiu, so that Xiao Qiu was eligible to apply.
On June 8, 2005, Xiao Zhongjiao, who had only turned 10 a month old, sat in the college entrance examination classroom and struggled to write a book, and walked out of the examination room 20 minutes ahead of schedule.
After the results, Zhang Zhongjiao's Chinese language score was 74 points, mathematics 81 points, English 109 points, and comprehensive liberal arts and sciences 241 points, a total of 505 points, and the admission line of Liaoning Province was 458 points.
In this way, Xiao Zhongjiao was admitted to the "Tianjin Engineer Fan College" with an excellent score of 505 points, becoming "the smallest college student in China".
In the next 6 years, Zhang Zhongjiong lived up to expectations and became "China's smallest master's student" and "China's smallest doctoral student", a record that has not been broken so far.
Zhang Zhongjiong became a veritable prodigy in everyone's heart.
However, during the interview, Zhang Huixiang strenuously denied that his son was a prodigy.
In the parenting education books he wrote, Zhang Huixiang said: His own children, he knows best, Zhang Zhongjiong is not a prodigy.
Zhang Huixiang himself never thought of letting Zhang Jujiao go to college at the age of 10 at the beginning, which was completely based on the process of Zhang Jujiao's growth, according to Zhang Jujiao's changes, and in the year of Zhang Juju's first year of high school.
At first, Zhang Huixiang just wanted Zhang Jujiao to try it, after all, Zhang Jujiao's results were good, and it was okay if he couldn't pass the exam, after all, Zhang Jujiao was still so small, and some of them were retreats.
Unexpectedly, the child was really admitted.
In order to meet the needs of the majority of parents, Zhang Huixiang summed up his parenting experience and called his parenting experience the "earth folk remedies" of the Zhang family.
In Zhang Huixiang's "earthworks", it is not difficult for us to feel the pressure that Zhang Zhongjiao has to face since he was a child.
Of course, Zhang Huixiang said that he had never given Zhang Juju pressure, never forced his children to apply for any interest classes, and never required children to read at night with candles.
Every day from one to 9 o'clock, Zhang Zhongjiao will go to bed on time, discipline is not a constraint, he never restricts the child,
After Zhang Zhongjiao completed the prescribed coursework, he could do whatever he wanted, and choose whatever he liked.
It is not difficult to infer that under the education of his father Zhang Huixiang and the blessing of his own talent, Zhang Zhongjiong is getting better and better, and the continuous jumping makes his ears full of praise, everyone praises him, and everyone says that he is the best.
Under the influence of the ear, "the best", "the best", and "the best" have become the default concepts in Zhang Jujiao's subconscious.
Therefore, whether it is 10-year-old Zhang Jujiao or 16-year-old Zhang Jujiao, all he wants to do is to be the top, the top of his studies, and the top of his life, either the top or not doing well.
In the interview, Zhang Zhongjiao's friend made an evaluation of Zhang Zhongjiao: "Ordinary people will not have the so-called belief in kings like him, like we usually think, we should live a better life, and Zhang Zhongjiao wants to live the best." ”
From the words of Zhang Zhongjiao's friends, it is not difficult for us to capture that "the best" and "the ultimate pursuit of perfection" have become Zhang Zhongjiao's obsession, and in China, where is the best?
Of course, it is the capital Beijing, then becoming a Beijinger and buying a house in Beijing has become the interpretation of the concept and needs of "the best" in Zhang Jujiong's brain.
Therefore, the 16-year-old Zhang Jujiong forced his parents to buy a house in Beijing eleven years ago with his academic qualifications, which was a completely willful rebellion, in order to meet his own "best" needs, not because of his unique vision.
In order to let his son concentrate on studying, Zhang's father and mother also rented a suite in Beijing, coaxing their son to buy it, and Zhang Zhongjiao was willing to participate in the master's thesis defense and take a good ph.D.
Now, eleven years later, Zhang Zhongjiao, who once loved the Internet and often visited Tieba and Weibo, has long disappeared and is replaced by a 27-year-old adult.
In 2019, Dr. Zhang Zhongjiao graduated, and he gradually faded out of people's sight after fading the aura of "prodigy".
His Weibo "Kanto Pure Masters" can no longer be searched, and many sources claim that Zhang Hashi kyung fulfilled his wish to become a college teacher.
If this is the case, academic research is undoubtedly the best destination for Zhang, after all, Zhang's mathematical talent is recognized by authorities.
Only in the field of academic research, his talent will not be buried and wasted, and he can let his gold continue to shine.
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