"Everyone" is not only Mr. Big, but also everyone in their hearts - remembering Grandpa Mr. Zhang Guangdou | Zhang Tong
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Zhang Tong
Yan Xuejie of Wudaokou
2022-04-29 22:41
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Commemorating Grandpa's 110th birthday
May 1 is the 110th anniversary of grandpa's birth, and I remember a sentence you often said before you died: "Two generations of grandchildren depend on each other for their lives." "Looking back now, those days of interdependence are the most precious memories of my life, and the times I miss the most." What I would most like to say on this special day is gratitude and gratitude. I am grateful for your 40 years of companionship and for raising me from an ignorant child to an independent person who can take care of not only myself but also others; thank you for giving me a mountain of fatherly love and teaching me all kinds of principles of being a human being during this period.
As an ordinary person, today I am a person who is satisfied with myself, although I have not been able to make a great contribution to society like you, but I can be down-to-earth, become a part of the society, do not produce negative energy, be grateful to ordinary workers, have compassion for people in need, and have more empathy and tolerance for people in different situations, all thanks to your teachings.
On this special day, I would also like to express my deep gratitude for the first thing I have taught me to understand that the height of a person's standing determines the breadth of his life, and also to see the scenery of heights that I cannot reach.
Throughout your life, people must have lofty beliefs to reach the heights of life. What are your beliefs? The answer to this question has become clearer in my mind as I have grown older: that is, the people, the interests of the people.
I remember when I was a child, every time you mentioned your childhood at dinner, you repeatedly emphasized that the brothers in your family and your childhood playmates were not as smart as you, but they could not read for various reasons, nor could they change their destiny, since then, you have determined that if you have the opportunity to study, you will do more things for these ordinary people after graduation, it is their hard work that has made you. You also fulfilled your promise for life, and I think this is also the most simple idea you had when you gave up your doctorate from Harvard University and boarded the ship back to China in the gunfire of the War of Resistance; This is also the basis for your decision to give up the job opportunity that your friends found for you in the United States in 1949, to leave the real Three Gorges hydrological materials in New China at that time, and to send them to Taiwan in a fake way; it is also the point that I did not understand you when I was a child and fully understood today, when I was a child, the family conditions were not rich and expensive, but I had no worries about food and clothing, but whenever I had some superfluous ideas about pleasure beyond food and clothing, I would be reprimanded and told to think about the common people, think of the peasants, They don't live as well as you because they are stupid, life is enough, don't waste, every time I am reprimanded, I complain that you "cut the door".
Until 1998, when I accompanied you to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, when asked in my speech about my views on the decision-making of the Three Gorges Project, I remember that you replied: "The launch of a major national project requires many considerations and decisions, not an engineer can say the final decision." From the aspect of engineering and technology, before liberation, I was opposed to the construction of the Three Gorges Project, because the hydrological data and engineering and technical capabilities at that time were not available, and the national strength was also weak, today, repairing or not building does not require collective multi-party argumentation, as engineers, I think technically we have the ability to build, if we want to repair it, we will start construction as soon as possible, otherwise we will give up. The reason is that due to the possible project plan of the Three Gorges Project, the local economy has not been vigorously developed in the 50 years since the founding of the country, and the people in the reservoir area are living in misery. "Having said that, when I saw the tears in the corners of your eyes that never easily shed tears, I fully understood your feelings for the people, and also understood why when the students came to report to you on the construction, you patted the table on their rash signing practice and said: "You must know that these are not data, it is the lives of the downstream people, and remember that signing is responsible for the lives of the people." Although the expression on his face was fierce, he was a great love for the people.
As for yourself, wear cloth shoes for 6 yuan all your life and live a simple life. I remember once When Wang Bobert asked me to buy some new underwear for my grandfather, his underwear was yellow. I thought to myself how many sets of new underwear were in the drawer, and the old man himself insisted on not wearing them and not throwing them away. This is the simple life of your life.
For a while, because one project after another was launched, all kinds of reporters flocked to you, calling you the contemporary Dayu, Taishan Beidou, you smiled lightly and said, please call me an engineer or a teacher. These are identities that you acknowledge before you die. You always say that a lifetime of fame and profit is too much to see, remember that you are not important, the important thing is that one project after another does not fall, benefiting the people. It doesn't matter what a person says, the key is to see how he does it.
Thank you for telling me what is fame and fortune and telling me what everyone is from your life experience. "Everyone" is not only an academic mr. big, but also has everyone in their hearts and a higher belief.
The second thing I want to thank you for is that you have taught me by example that self-discipline, persistence and accumulation are the only viable paths to success.
It is true that there are opportunities for human success and personal efforts, but consistent effort and accumulation are prerequisites. I remember when I was young, I was greedy and willful, and I got by with everything and didn't seek much understanding. You talked to me many times, and you told me that even if you are as smart as you are and want to get things done, when you are young, you need at least 10 years of hard work and 18 hours a day to achieve small achievements. I have only heard about these, but after nearly thirty years of ancient rarity, you insist on walking and exercising in 10,000 steps a day, and the work and rest time is not more than 15 minutes before and after, which I have witnessed with my own eyes, and the accumulation of regular life and good habits can make you appear at the first site of the project in your old age, and you can have physical reserves to climb scaffolding and check the bottom hole of the diversion. Many things are easy to stick to one day, and after many years of doing it, there will be extraordinary achievements.
Usually in your leisure time, you like to chat, often talk about the construction experience you learned in each construction process, of course, there is also the experience of construction laziness and being caught, which is also the reason why you insist that engineers must go to the scene and learn more in the front line. This little thing tells me an important life experience: there is no shortcut in life, there is no pie in the sky, if you really drop something, it is more likely to drop a knife, today's results are yesterday's efforts, and the future is good or bad depending on the degree of effort today. This understanding is an important lesson in my life, with this knowledge, I know that there is no reason to be impetuous and will not be confused about why I can't get the results I want, for this I want to thank you well, this is the background of my life is also the basis of a peaceful mentality, want to think about what the sky is not, first work hard and then say, success or failure must have results to tell you, at least not because of panic and empty consumption.
The third thing I want to thank you for is that you have taught me that learning is lifelong, that it is important to always be curious about external affairs and to update your cognition and learning ability in a timely manner. Remember to the old age, due to eye diseases, your handwriting recognition is getting lower and lower, in order to maintain the ability to work, you decided to start using the computer to complete a variety of major suggestions and engineering opinion reports of the draft work, because the pinyin input at that time is a post-birth, is the need to learn to learn to learn the skill, because you are a southerner, the accent affects the accuracy of the input, but these can not prevent you from learning and mastering the determination of computer pinyin input, spelling words you ask me over and over again, Then memorizing English words is unimaginable for an 82-year-old, but you finally mastered pinyin input and used this writing ability to write millions of words using a computer. Now whenever I see the transcripts you left behind on my computer, I get an indescribable motivation.
I'm now a few dozen years younger than the age you left the text at the time, and I have no reason to give up trying, to give up learning, and at the same time to regret the impatience that came with repeatedly answering your questions due to greed, and if you could have been more patient, you might have been able to master new skills faster and less effortlessly. Time flies, when you listened carefully to the students to tell you about the new things and new winds as if in front of you, now recall that the age gap between you and the last student has been nearly 80 years old, but you still maintain a high level of interest and interaction ability, do not understand to ask. The difficulty of learning and accepting unfamiliar areas increases exponentially with age, but only by maintaining this ability can the length of life be meaningful. With these realizations, I don't panic about the days ahead, just work in the right direction!
The last thing I want to thank you for is that the last dignity of life is to face it calmly and embrace it. After the year of the year, your body is getting weaker and weaker, relying on others to take care of more and more things, you have said many times that you are old and do not die as a thief, you have dragged me down, and I also coaxed you to say that there is an old treasure in the family. But we all know that the day of separation is approaching day by day, and the law of life is irreversible. In your final days, you still joke with the doctor and me, and every day you maintain your strength to play some wits and tricks with me or the doctor. I know we're all telling each other in our own way that we're all going to be okay when that day that we have to face is coming. You once said that you have no regrets in your life, and you have no regrets in this life. I will also spend the rest of my life practicing everything you have taught me, and waiting for the reunion in the future!
Happy 110th Birthday!
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