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Mr. Yang asked, "Which unit are you from?" Pan Jianwei replied that it was the University of Science and Technology of China. Mr. Yang said that HKUST has a good job named Pan Jianwei, and this time he won the award. Pan Jianwei had to say"I am Pan Jianwei."
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On October 1, 2021, Mr. Yang Zhenning will usher in the 100th birthday of the lunar calendar, and the academic community has launched activities or collections of essays to congratulate him. Academician Pan Jianwei wrote an article entitled "Some Past Events of My Interaction with Mr. Yang Zhenning| Pan Jianwei), as well as a short video of a birthday wish. The most interesting thing about it is this one.
In 2004, Pan Jianwei's team realized five-photon entanglement for the first time, and the mainland's experimental research on quantum information finally walked in the forefront of the world. Mr. Yang was very interested in this and asked him to introduce quantum information technology. The two talked in Mr. Yang's office for a whole morning, and then Mr. Yang invited him to dinner at home.
However, the latter thing surprised people. The first time they talked, Mr. Yang told Pan jianwei that he had won the Qiushi "Outstanding Scientist Award" that year. Later, Pan Jianwei went to Xinjiang to receive the award. I happened to meet Mr. Yang in the elevator, so I was very excited to say hello to him. As a result, Mr. Yang asked, "Which unit are you from?" Pan Jianwei replied that it was the University of Science and Technology of China. Mr. Yang said that HKUST has a good job named Pan Jianwei, and this time he won the award. Pan Jianwei had to say"I am Pan Jianwei." Mr. Yang smiled and said, "Sorry, I can't remember what you looked like." ”
And that's not the only time. Later, Pan Jianwei met with Mr. Yang several times, but he still did not remember. It wasn't until the number of times they met that I finally remembered.
I can't help but laugh when I see this, because I am also often blind, and even when I see friends a few times, I may not recognize it when I say goodbye, and I have to ask "what do you call it?" So much so that some of my senior friends said that the next time they see me, they must greet me first and introduce themselves.
Pan Jianwei's explanation for this is: In fact, this is not due to Mr. Yang's age, many young professors in our team, including myself, remember a person's work very well, but often can't remember his appearance, which should be because we all focus on learning itself.
This reminds me of the story of "Jiufanggao Soma" in "Liezi". Qin Mugong asked Jiufanggao to look for a good horse, and Jiufanggao searched for three months, saying that he had found a good horse in the sand dunes. Qin Mugong asked what kind of horse it was, and Jiufanggao said it was a yellow mare. Qin Mugong sent someone to fetch it, but found that it was a black stallion.
Why do you say that? Is it because Jiufanggao is a stupid worm? On the contrary, it is because he "gets his essence and forgets his coarseness, and insides him forgets his outside." See what he sees, not see what he does not see; see what he sees, and leave what he does not see. "After retrieving the horse from the dunes, I found that it was indeed a rare thousand-mile horse in the world.