I remember that the general meaning is that "Mao Zedong Thought is the lighthouse of our navigation", of course, I don't understand it in my heart, I don't know what "lighthouse" is, and I don't know what "sailing" is, just like the text we used in the first grade of primary school "The sea sails by the helmsman", and the recitation is very familiar, but the teacher did not explain to us what "the helmsman" means, of course, I wanted to ask but did not dare to ask......
Later, when I went to junior high school, I looked up the dictionary and knew the meaning of the lighthouse, but I had never been to the beach, so of course I didn't understand it deeply enough, and I only remembered its metaphorical meaning: "the metaphor of things that guide people in the direction of progress", so I learned to use it in my composition, but I didn't have a little impression in my mind of what the lighthouse looked like......
This time I went to Hainan, stayed for a long time, traveled by car, and often saw the lighthouse by the sea, so I took a few photos and stored them in my mobile phone as a souvenir......
This is a lighthouse in the town of Boao, located on the shore of the Wanquan River estuary, guiding the navigation of fishing boats close to Boao. Of course, the actual role of the lighthouse by the sea has been reduced a lot, and the current fishing boats and ships have advanced communication systems, as well as high-tech satellite positioning and navigation systems, but the lighthouse, as a historical relic, will still be preserved......
Think about the past, science and technology are not developed, the ship sails in the vast sea, the navigator holds the compass to locate and determine the direction, how difficult it is, especially at night, on the dark sea, the ship can see the light on a lighthouse in the distance, that is the hope of a boatman......
The world's first lighthouse was built in Alexandria, Egypt more than 2,000 years ago, because in 280 BC, an Egyptian royal steamer sailed into Alexandria and sank due to a rock, and all the Egyptian nobles and brides from Europe on board sank to the bottom of the sea. In order to avoid a repeat of such a tragedy, the king ordered a lighthouse to be built in Alexandria to guide future generations from disaster. After forty years of hard work, the Alexandria Lighthouse rose on the north coast of Africa and became the tallest building in the world at that time, and it was hailed as one of the Eight Wonders of the World......
The lighthouse is a product of the nautical world, with the human world for more than 2,000 years, with the development of high technology, the lighthouse will slowly withdraw from the historical stage, as a historical relic, will be preserved on the shore of the sea for a long time......