Caterpillar turned out to be a caterpillar

When I got up on Saturday, I wanted to take my son to see the outside world, but was blocked by continuous rain, after finishing the homework of the three-year-old child, Zizi shouted for his father to tell stories, "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Daughter of the Sea", and "The Little Girl Who Sold Matches" were told twice in a row, and Zizi was still unfinished. What else is there to talk about? The "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" posted by Mr. Chen in the WeChat group two weeks ago was downloaded at that time, and I have not watched it, and I should gain something by enjoying it with Zizi today.

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" tells the story of a tiny egg that hatches a skinny and hungry caterpillar on a Sunday morning, under the warm sun, he nibbles an apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, five oranges on Friday, a piece of chocolate on Saturday, an ice cream cone, a sour cucumber, a slice of Swiss cheese... At night, his stomach hurts. The next day, Sunday again, he gnawed a lovely leaf, this time he felt much better, not hungry at all, he was no longer a small caterpillar, he became a big fat caterpillar, it went around his body and built a small house called "Cocoon", and stayed in it for more than two weeks, and then he gnawed a hole in the cocoon shell and drilled out, he was already a beautiful butterfly. This anime Zizi watched five or six times in a row, and I liked it every time, especially when I saw "That night, he had a stomachache", and Zizi always learned to make expressions like caterpillars while saying "uncomfortable". And I listened to the story repeating "Caterpillar" over and over again, and I felt that this was an unusually familiar name, how could it be so familiar? Could there be some connection between them? So after listening to this story over and over again, he picked up his mobile phone to check Baidu, and sure enough, this Caterpillar is the world's largest construction machinery, mining equipment manufacturer, famous gas and diesel engine manufacturer - Caterpillar.

Engaged in power engineering for more than 20 years, he also has a little understanding of construction machinery. When Caterpillar was first known to have closed the Three Gorges Dam in 1997, the majestic engineering television video featured the CAT (short for Caterpillar) 777C construction site giant. During the investigation of Dongguan Spring Rain in 2013, I saw that in addition to the famous domestic construction machinery Sany Heavy Industry in the list of its main suppliers, the internationally renowned Caterpillar was placed in the most prominent position in the list, and I felt great respect, and deeply checked, the management was indeed in place, far from being comparable to other domestic manufacturers.

As for why Caterpillar chose Caterpillar as the company name, it is not entirely clear, just as it is not entirely clear why Apple chose a rotten Apple (Apple (the apple that took a bite), and it is not entirely clear why Microsoft chose Microsoft (micro minimal) instead of the so-called universe, universal and other words that sound or seem extraordinary.

Chinese people like names, no matter what happens, the first thing to consider, to have a very nice name, and then in a few years if you feel that the original name is not too enjoyable, you will toss, rename the name, re-brand, so many of the original colleges, have changed their names to universities; Many companies can be listed once by backdoor by changing their names, as for the level of science and technology and how to improve technical capabilities, won't you get a glimpse of the name?

In the nineties, there was no shortage of companies with names such as Universal and Universal in many parts of China. One of the most famous is the business cards distributed or pasted everywhere on sidewalks, telephone poles, and even in the back corner of toilets, called "Universal Document Company", which specializes in making all kinds of fake documents; Another thing I remember most clearly is a shop next to Shenzhen Futian District People's Hospital called "Huanyu Fruit Store". In the twenty-first century, the same behavior has not been reversed, no, the two companies exposed in 2017 that provided cottage certificates to confinement sisters-in-law are not small, namely "National Science and Technology Talent Training Project Management Center" and "International Maternal and Child Health Care Association", each of which sounds scary.

No matter how great a noun sounds, if behind it is an act that has nothing to do with greatness, it will only cause the great noun to change its taste, or smell bad, or backfire; No matter how small the noun, if it is down-to-earth and serious, this originally small noun will slowly become greater and greater

"Miss" after the Song and Yuan Dynasties generally refers to the honorific title for unmarried women, but in modern times, especially after the eighties of the last century, due to the behavior of some people, the name of the miss has changed, and today you call which beautiful girl "Miss", you have to be scolded one by one, so when you see a young lady again, you can only be called "little sister" or "big sister", anyway, that young lady is no longer a beautiful title.

"Special agent" is a neutral professional term, especially referring to those special groups that serve political and economic groups, have undergone special training and perform special tasks, and there are also some grassroots organizations called special agent companies in the establishment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. But in the minds of people born in the fifties and sixties, secret services have become a real derogatory term, so that children are happy to be heroes when they perform shows, and no one wants to be a special agent. When they see unfamiliar outsiders, whether they are begging, goods or acrobatics, the child's first judgment is to position them as spies. In the early seventies, a young woman came to the village with a child begging for food, and whenever she entered the house, the children would find a high place and watch from afar outside the house, and some people said that she was a female spy, and she was once seen taking a dagger out of her pocket and putting it back in. However, when children talk to adults about this, adults are not impressed, "In these years, which woman is alone outside, you can't bring something to defend yourself", but adults will not tell children, children can't turn this tendon in their heads, movies and propaganda are so about female spies. Young children cannot be blamed, only the positioning of children in that era, and as they talk, a neutral profession becomes the worst bad person in the minds of children.

Similarly, "expert" originally refers to a person who has specialized skills or comprehensive professional knowledge in academics, skills, etc., but because for a period of time, many people or behaviors that do not match the name of the expert have come forward, and as a result, the name of the expert has been miserable, and once I met with a few friends, and they asked me, "What position?" I answered "experts", and everyone quickly said "stop saying that you are an expert, now saying that a person is an expert is equivalent to cursing".

No matter what others think, concentrate on one thing, start from me, start from little by little, steadily enrich your insignificant self, and ordinary will become great.

Written on March 20, 2017