This spring, the epidemic has returned, many people are trapped in their homes, and they have not yet seen the "peach dying, burning its glory", it is already "lonely and empty in the spring", "blooming to the flowers".
The capricious virus puts time to a standstill, so some complain, some get frustrated, some lie flat.
After a long dormant period, everyone seems to be waiting for an opportunity to "wake up".
On the eve of May Fourth, the writer Mo Yan's video letter to young friends on the B station - "Not Blown Down by the Wind" - turned out to be out of the blue and quickly detonated the Internet.
Say yes to a letter to a young friend, but everyone should look at it.
Some netizens sighed:
"After reading it, I am very touched, and I believe that if we cannot defeat our young people, it will eventually make us stronger!"
Looking at the whole text, there is only one sigh: words are like their people, and people are like their words. The text is like its person, and the text carries the tao. ”
Some people also excitedly said: "Thank you Mo Yan, it's time to burn!" ”
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In the video, Mo Yan tells two stories of his youth.
One is the story of a book.
Readers who know Mo Yan know that Mo Yan dropped out of school in childhood, and when children of the same age studied in the classroom, he could only herd cattle and mow grass in the field.
● Childhood Mo Yan (left)
In the 1960s, hunger left an indelible impression on Mo Yan's childhood.
One day, the village pulled a cart of coal, shiny, no one in the village had ever seen it, but they looked very fragrant. One of the children ran up and picked up a piece and ate it with relish, so the big guys pounced on it and grabbed it.
How hungry do you feel that the coal nuggets are delicious? Years later, Mo Yan recalled the taste, "It is indeed good, and it can still be recalled."
At that time, I couldn't even fill my stomach, let alone read.
Fortunately, Mo Yan got a copy of the Xinhua Dictionary, although it was not a classic masterpiece, but for Mo Yan at that time, it was like a treasure.
He began to follow the Xinhua Dictionary to teach himself, reading word by word, word by word, entry by entry.
In the more than ten years in the countryside, Mo Yan has turned it into a tattered mess, and he knows every page and which word has an error.
The Xinhua Dictionary accompanied Mo Yan through countless lonely nights, giving him a gushing fountain of knowledge.
Later, Mo Yan said that most of the Chinese characters he knew in his life were not learned in school, but with the Xinhua Dictionary.
The Xinhua Dictionary laid a solid foundation for him to write in the future.
In a sense, without the Xinhua Dictionary, there would be no later "Mo Yan", let alone "Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan".
● In 2012, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Another story that Mo Yan tells is about Grandpa.
Once, Mo Yan followed his grandfather to mow the grass, and when he returned home, suddenly the sky was strange, the wind was fierce, and the thunder roared.
The grass on the car was blown away, and the young Mo Yan was blown to the ground by the wind. He looked up at grandpa in the wind, whose clothes were torn and his legs were trembling, but always stood as a sculpture, stubbornly confronting the wind until the wind receded.
That scene touched Mo Yan greatly, and it was still treasured in his mind decades later.
Even if there is a strong wind, life does not give up, even if you are in the wind, you still stand tall and do not retreat, which is what grandpa taught Mo Yan.
Mo Yan's two short stories are simple and simple, but they are touching. The most touching story is the first story to be learned with the Xinhua Dictionary.
Who would have thought that in such a difficult little village, there would be a great writer with a good reputation in the future?
● Mo Yan and books
Mo Yan's persistence in the spirit of reading in the midst of difficulties not only inspires us who are tired during the epidemic, but also points out the direction for the development of China's science and technology in the midst of adversity.
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In recent years, in addition to fighting the epidemic, the Western camp led by the United States has never given up its suppression of China.
And are the forces that hinder China's progress like the "gale" in Mo Yan's story? These external forces frantically stuck China in the neck and wouldn't let us move forward.
Over the years, the United States has first fought a trade war, then turned to a science and technology war, blockaded China with science and technology, encircled and suppressed Chinese companies such as ZTE and Huawei, repeatedly broke through the bottom line of human morality, and stopped at nothing to curb China's development.
At the beginning of 2020, when the new crown epidemic first broke out in China, the United States not only did not help, but also poured dirty water on China and slandered the new crown virus as a "Chinese virus".
The reason why the United States can be so unscrupulous is precisely because the United States is the most powerful country in the world in terms of science and technology, they have mastered high technology and have the opportunity to get stuck in China's neck.
Today's U.S. crackdown on China is like the encirclement and suppression of the Soviet Union in those years.
Obviously, natural resources and military strength are comparable, so why did the Soviet Union lose in the process of confrontation with the United States?
Historical experience tells us that because the Soviet Union's scientific and technological competitiveness is not as good as that of the United States, and the soviet situation has sounded a wake-up call for us, because China's scientific and technological creativity, like the Soviet Union at that time, is far behind the United States and other Western countries.
"Chip Wars" is one of the most intuitive examples. Chips are used in all aspects of our lives, but also the core cornerstone of high-end manufacturing, from microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, mobile phones, computers, to the military, aerospace, energy, are inseparable from chips.
Although the mainland's development in the field of science and technology has made rapid progress, there is still a big gap with Western countries in terms of independent research and development of chips, and we rely too much on Western chips to import chips worth 300 billion US dollars per year.
But the United States clearly does not want us to do so, and over the years, the United States has joined forces with its allies to carry out a comprehensive siege against China and refuse to sell chips to China.
After being sanctioned, Huawei has been relying on chip inventory to survive, and the domestic electric vehicle Weilai has also been forced to drastically cut production and even stop production due to the shortage of automotive chips.
The "chip war" launched by the United States has made Chinese companies suffer a lot, forcing us to catch up and accelerate independent research and development.
In 2020, the United States issued a "entity list" suppression policy against Chinese high-tech enterprises, using a variety of legal means to crack down on Chinese high-tech enterprises. Once included in the Entity List, it means that the company will not have legal access to U.S. controlled items and will most likely not be able to continue to operate.
Earlier this year, Chinese researchers made a list of 35 areas that had been necked by the West.
In the future, with the increasingly fierce international competition, the arrogance of the United States will only become more and more arrogant. Therefore, the road of China's scientific and technological innovation has a long way to go.
In the face of the encirclement and blockade of the United States and other Western countries, we can only advance, there is no way to retreat.
Because you are backward, you will be beaten.
Although we have been lifted out of poverty, today's China is no longer the China it was before, but in the face of the turbulent international situation, the road ahead is still full of thorns and vicissitudes.
How can we be like a boulder and not be blown down by the wind?
You must cultivate yourself well, you must be strong enough.
With the determination to learn the Xinhua Dictionary in the face of Mo Yan's adversity, we should not give up any opportunity to improve ourselves.
● Mo Yan
The future of China's science and technology is determined by each of our Chinese.
Only when we have abundant knowledge can we improve our ability to innovate independently and develop the motherland's science and technology.
The wisdom of the youth is the wisdom of the country, the wealth of the youth is the wealth of the country, the strength of the youth is the strength of the country, and the future of China needs the rise of the young generation too much!
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A hundred years ago, in the old China, which was in turmoil and poverty, the 12-year-old Zhou Enlai heard and witnessed Chinese being bullied by foreigners in foreign concessions, but had nowhere to reason, and shouted out the grand ambition of "reading for the rise of China", which is still deafening to this day.
● Young Zhou Enlai
Lu Xun, who returned from studying in Japan, shouted on "New Youth":
"May the young people of China get rid of the cold air, just go upwards, and do not have to listen to the words of the self-destructive and self-abandoning people." Do things that can be done, make a sound that can be heard.
"There is a point of heat, a point of light, like a firework, and you can also emit a little light in the dark, without waiting for the torch. After that, if there is no torch: I am the only light. ”
● Young Lu Xun
When Qian Xuesen was in the United States, he wrote a letter back to his motherland:
"There is not a single day, a moment, a moment without thinking of returning to China to participate in the great climax of construction... In the past few years, Xuesen has only tried to think hard to learn within the scope of his ability, in preparation for his return to China one day. ”
Later, he resolutely returned to China, preferring to be tortured and imprisoned by the Americans, and also to return to his poor and white motherland.
General Chen Geng asked him, is it okay to Chinese engage in missiles?
He replied in a loud voice, "Why can't Chinese?" What foreigners can do, can't China do? ”
● In 1955, Qian Xuesen's family of four was on a ferry back to China
Throughout the ages, countless ancestors have armed themselves with knowledge, and they have stood up the backbone of China's rise with wind bones, pure hearts, responsibilities and responsibilities.
Whenever I think of their stories, I am always moved and urged to move people up.
At the moment of the epidemic, you may temporarily feel lost, but Mo Yan's video is like a timely rain, a shot in the arm, and a torch in the dark.
He was in the valley of life, and with a rotten copy of the Xinhua Dictionary, he counterattacked as a Nobel Prize winner.
And this generation of young people, with superior living conditions and rich learning resources, what reason is there not to study hard and not to be uplifting?
● Young people are speechless
In the life of a person, there will always be thorns, swamps and valleys, and the road is long and obstructed, but the road is coming.
Finally, I would like to quote Mo Yan: "When encountering difficult times, don't be discouraged, as long as you work hard, you will always gain." Because hope always arises in times of disappointment and even despair, and beckons us to regroup and forge ahead. One can be defeated by life, but one cannot be defeated by it. ”
● Image source: The Age of Awakening
Don't say discouraging words, "lying flat", is never suitable for a young person who should be full of vitality.
On the occasion of May Fourth Youth Day, I wish all chinese youth a happy holiday!
Young friends, read for the rise of China!
Even if the wind blows, it will stand tall.
Because the future belongs to you! Text/Yu Ting