Everyone's life for decades looks very long, in fact, it is composed of key steps, people stand at a fork in the road, once they go wrong, others persuade them to ignore it, it can only be more wrong step by step.
Until now, for the vast majority of families in China, learning is still the most effective way to change the fate of individuals and families, and whether they can be admitted to universities, especially 211 and 985 universities, is the goal of all students. In today's society, you have to admit that the overall average and probability of college graduates today is indeed higher than that of young people who are not highly educated.
Liu Hanqing in this article, he was admitted to a key university at the age of sixteen, but because of his long-term indulgence in the unrealistic ideal of conquering the Goldbach conjecture, he has been living alone in the countryside, unmarried and single for many years, and finally became a low-income household at the age of fifty.
He just took the wrong key steps in life, resulting in the whole life being changed, and his real experience tells us: a person's personality is too paranoid is not a good thing, genius is only a very small number, and ordinary excellent people still have to follow the normal trajectory to learn, live and work.
1) Juvenile Achievement
Liu Hanqing was born in the early 1960s, he is a rural native of a county in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, and his ancestors have been ordinary farmers for generations, without any family background. Liu Hanqing is a natural reading material, with excellent grades from an early age, ranking among the best in the whole school. He has loved mathematics since he was a child, and it is said that he taught himself advanced mathematics at the age of twelve, knowing that at that time, twelve-year-old children were generally still in elementary school, learning to solve unary quadratic equations and four operations.
Although his parents are farmers, there are many children in the family, and the burden is large, Liu Hanqing is the most able to read among these children, so his parents do their best to provide him with junior high school and high school.
At the age of sixteen, Liu Hanqing participated in the college entrance examination, with the first place in the town, the top few in the county, was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology, you know, in the early eighties can be admitted to the university is no less difficult than today's C9, not to mention this is Harbin Institute of Technology!
The author's father and Liu Hanqing are people of the same era, but also have no family background, the ancestors are farmers, and they also took the college entrance examination through their own efforts from a peasant child (the college entrance examination and the pre-selection examination of that year, but also brush off some people in advance!). ), became a college student, although it was an ordinary university at that time (now 211), but also the first person in the town to be admitted to the university after the resumption of the college entrance examination, the whole town was a sensation that year, and the family directly did the seat for several days. And Liu Hanqing was directly admitted to the nationally renowned Harbin Institute of Technology, what kind of outstanding level!
The sixteen-year-old rural teenager was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology, and his body seemed to be immediately blessed with a dazzling aura, and the women and children of the whole village came to congratulate Liu Hanqing and his parents.
Most of the villagers really have no culture, nor have they been far away, but everyone knows what it means to be admitted to university, especially to the key university Harbin Institute of Technology, which means that the carp jumping the dragon gate is successful, which means that the brilliant money and career path mean that the whole life will be changed!
But everyone never expected that in the summer of 1985, Liu Hanqing alone with a college diploma, very lost and discouraged, returned to his rural home, he was not assigned a job to work at all, what happened to him?
2) University graduation
When choosing a major, Liu Hanqing originally wanted to choose his favorite mathematics major, but at that time, a neighbor who worked in the Education Bureau advised him not to choose mathematics, this employment is too difficult, he must go to graduate school or even doctorate, undergraduate students can not engage in mathematical research at all. Liu Hanqing wanted to join the work early to reduce the burden on the family, so he chose the more popular architecture major at that time, if Liu Hanqing had to study steadily, in the era when college students were extremely rare, maybe he would grow into the leader of the central construction enterprise in the future.
After Liu Hanqing entered the university, he cherished the opportunity to study, studied very seriously and diligently, the first and second year examinations were the top few in the whole department, and even the dean and party secretary of the college at that time knew that there was such an outstanding young man in the countryside.
But everything changed in his junior year, and Liu Hanqing inadvertently saw Chen Jingrun's latest research results on the Goldbach conjecture in the library.
When he learned that Chen Jingrun was only one step away from proving the Goldbach conjecture, Chen Hanqing decided to dedicate his life to mathematical research and must surpass Chen Jingrun!
Since this day, Liu Hanqing is like a demon, every day in a frenzied mathematical research, not neatly dressed, do not eat on time, day and night, he no longer attaches importance to his professional classes, do not go to class, classmates and teachers see chen Hanqing who was diligent and studious at the beginning into a person who does not love to learn and skip class, everyone can't believe their eyes, so they ask him what happened.
When Chen Hanqing said that he surpassed Chen Jingrun's "1+ 2" proof and wanted to completely overcome the Goldbach conjecture, everyone was stunned, and some teachers specifically asked the professor of the school's mathematics department to persuade him to dispel this idea, Chen Hanqing ignored it, or a mind wandering in his own mathematical ocean, gradually he missed more and more courses, the courses could not keep up, and he hung more and more subjects!
The dean couldn't look at it anymore, specifically found Chen Hanqing, and advised him bitterly: "If you really like the Goldbach conjecture, you at least get the undergraduate diploma first, you are now hanging too many subjects, so continue, you can't get the diploma, you can only get the certificate, you can't be assigned a job by the state, our college decided to give you the opportunity, you quickly pass the supplementary examination of the subject!" ”
Chen Hanqing did not listen to advice, he was completely addicted to the Goldbach conjecture, and he seemed to decide that he could immediately overcome this problem.
Helplessly, the college gave his research results to the school's mathematics department to observe, the professor of the mathematics department has not looked carefully, he immediately pointed out the obvious error, but Chen Hanqing did not listen, felt that his research was not in-depth enough, so he did not go to class in the library all day, and continued to study.
Chen Hanqing did not go to class for a long time, resulting in most subjects directly hanging on to the subjects during the examination. At that time, university study was still relatively loose, but if you hung too much, it was not OK.
Although the leaders and teachers of the college wanted to save Chen Hanqing, they even agreed to delay his graduation by one year to pass all the classes he hung up, and said that they would do their best not to affect his normal assignment of work. But people can only decide their own destiny, parents can't do it, teachers and classmates can't do it, four years of college passed in a flash, Chen Hanqing finally could only get a certificate and have a heart of love for mathematics, he was not assigned a job, at that time, most people did not go to private enterprises or foreign companies and the idea of self-employment, he could only return to the countryside alone.
3) Harsh reality
Someone asked why Chen Hanqing liked mathematics so much, why didn't he transfer to the mathematics department to study? At that time, the college leaders really thought about this method, the first semester of the third year Chen Hanqing hung up the subject is still very small, the college leaders took the initiative to help him contact the mathematics department of the same school, the math department teacher felt that since he likes mathematics, he will transfer the department, come here to read the sophomore directly, this is actually a road, but Chen Hanqing is unwilling! Asked why, he said that he only liked to study the Goldbach conjecture, and that he was not interested in other mathematical problems and did not want to learn other mathematics, and the college leaders felt very speechless when they heard it, so they had to stop caring about him.
Chen Hanqing returned to the countryside, and the villagers were puzzled, didn't they have to assign jobs after graduating from college? Could it be that he went home to farm? What the hell is wrong with him?
Someone couldn't help but ask Chen Hanqing what was going on? Chen Hanqing smiled and didn't say much, every day he was alone in the room writing and painting, his parents asked him what was wrong, he said I want to study the Goldbach conjecture, his parents certainly don't know what is called goldbach conjecture, but saw his son take a certificate (later explained by people to know the difference between graduation and graduation) back, and there was no job, and he stayed in the house all day to take a pen and kept counting ghostly looks, and his parents were anxious and angry! People around him gradually knew that Chen Hanqing seemed to be obsessed with studying some mathematical things.
At first, the villagers felt that Chen Hanqing had gone to college after all (few people knew what to do and graduated), maybe he could research something and become famous in one fell swoop, so the villagers were looking forward to his research results, and then there was no follow-up.
A few months later, seeing That Chen Hanqing had been withering all day, his clothes were not neat, and he did not communicate with people, he was familiar with his hair and others ridiculed: Old Chen, have you studied it? When is the time to win glory for the country?
Chen Hanqing is at home alone all day, does not farm, does not go out to work, indulges in the mathematical world, and ignores the real world.
People in the village rarely see him going out, occasionally see him, he is also a scruffy "digital idiot" appearance, And Chen Hanqing, who is a big worker in Harbin, is no longer the hope of the whole village, but the joke of the whole village.
There are children in the village who do not study seriously, their parents teach him to study well to go to college, and the children immediately say that they will read college in case they become the neuropathy of the neighbor Uncle Chen, and the parents can't laugh when they hear it.
Liu Hanqing's parents are particularly depressed, it is not easy for the ancestral grave to smoke, cultivate a famous college student, the result is that he is bored at home all day, and he does not know what he is drumming and playing, even three meals a day to be taken care of, what farm work in the family can not help, people in their twenties, good youth is spent in the countryside, do not earn money only to spend money, it is not as good as those who do not study and go out to work.
In addition, the strange gaze of the villagers also made the good-looking Chen family unbearable, and everyone thought that Chen Hanqing had a neuropathy and was stupid to read and read.
People always have to eat, a young man is not doing his job at home all day, what is the use of reading more books, Chen Hanqing's mother asked his son if he would like to work, Chen Hanqing was furious that his parents did not understand the value of his own research on mathematics, he felt that going out to work was a waste of his time, unable to concentrate on studying mathematics. His parents didn't know exactly what he was doing, except that he wrote and calculated every day.
The town leaders feel that Liu Hanqing's family is more difficult, after all, he is a rare college student at present, since he likes mathematics, simply let him go to teach as a private teacher, although the income of private teachers is not high, but after all, they can earn money to subsidize the family. But Chen Hanqing refused, his reason is: disdain to teach mathematics, and is teaching primary or junior high school mathematics, he should focus on the Study of goldbach conjecture!
Liu Hanqing's rural family has not been rich, and his parents still have to raise this "mathematical giant baby", resulting in poor family conditions, others have built new buildings, and their families have no money and can only continue to live in old houses. Liu Hanqing reached the age of marriage, the people around him knew his glorious deeds, no one dared to marry his daughter to him, of course, he did not want to fall in love and get married.
Liu Hanqing does not care how others look at him, he only focuses on his own mathematical research, but his research is basically behind closed doors, no communication with the outside world, every day a person in the room to calculate and calculate, he fantasizes that he can surpass Chen Jingrun, completely prove the Goldbach conjecture.
Some people say that geniuses are not in line with the convention, Chen Jingrun is indeed the same as Chen Hanqing, in addition to mathematics can not do anything, there is no ability to take care of themselves, he stutters, can not teach, can only engage in research, but Chen Jingrun's family is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics and has received professional training in mathematics.
In 1990, one of Liu Hanqing's college classmates knew that Chen Hanqing had been studying the Goldbach conjecture for so many years, and he helped to hand over Liu Hanqing's calculation process and papers to Professor Pan Chengbiao, a famous mathematician at Peking University.
But Liu Hanqing himself insisted that he was right, and did not go to Professor Pan for advice, and one person continued to study.
Later, Liu Hanqing's parents grew older, and the town government took into account that Liu Hanqing had been unmarried, childless, and childless, according to the policy, when Liu Hanqing was fifty years old, he applied for a minimum guarantee, which was only a few hundred yuan a month.
Liu Hanqing has not been in contact with society for a long time, but only studied mathematics, resulting in him not even using smart phones until now.
The sixteen-year-old teenager who was once full of vigor and was admitted to harbin institute of technology turned into an uncle who lived on low security, Liu Hanqing did not know whether he regretted it, and his over-paranoia really ruined his life.