I have had two mothers in my life, one is the mother who gave birth to me, and the other is the mother of my motherland. I have the same high esteem and the same sincere admiration for these two mothers.
This is a passage from Mr. Ji Xianlin's "Missing His Mother", he was selected into the primary school textbook, this article was written when Mr. Ji Xianlin was in Germany, he missed his mother, and because he was stranded in Germany in World War II, he could not return to the embrace of his mother in the motherland, he missed the mother of the motherland.
In another essay by Mr. Ji, "Looking for Dreams", he wrote:
"Dreaming of my mother at night, I woke up crying, and when I woke up and tried to catch this dream, the dream did not know where it had flown. I widened my eyes to look into the darkness, all the while seeing only myself "while my eyes were shining." There were fragments of dreams flying in front of my eyes, but when I thought of catching the fragments of these dreams and putting them together into a whole, even the fragments did not know where they flew, and all that was left in front of me was the faint face of my mother..."
Reading this, I was deeply touched by Mr. Ji's motherly feelings, and in the dream, Mr. Ji's mother seemed to have gone to Göttingen to meet him.
Mother's love is great, and mother's love is unforgettable. Maternal love is selfless, the young Mr. Ji left home early, always thinking of waiting until college graduation, earning money, taking the mother to enjoy the blessings, the mother did not wait for which day, as the saying goes: "the son wants to raise and the relatives are not there", this is probably the scene that all children who miss their families do not want to see, right?
Ji Xianlin is a famous Chinese linguist, educator, social activist, translator and essayist, he has mastered the twelve Chinese in his lifetime, "Loneliness Is Like a Big Poisonous Snake" is a collection of essays by Mr. Ji Xianlin, divided into three parts: the moon is the hometown of Ming, the master is gone, the teacher is unforgettable, a total of 36 essays.
There are memories of childhood memories in these essays, such as: the moon is the hometown of Ming; there are good memories of youth, such as remembering Sister He, Little Sister, remembering Uncle Ning Chaoxiu, etc.; there is the nostalgia for the teacher, and you can feel Mr. Ji's respect and love for the teacher between the lines, here are mr. Zhu Guangqian, Mr. Feng Youlan, who we know well, and everyone we are not familiar with and have not heard of, but we can understand these masters from Mr. Ji's pen, approach these masters, even if they are famous, but they are approachable There are also nostalgia for some old friends, Mr. Hu Shizhi, Mr. Shen Congwen, Mr. Chen Yinke, Mr. Lao She...
At first, I didn't understand why the book was named "Loneliness Like a Big Poisonous Snake", until I saw the essay "Mr. Lao She in My Memory", "There is something in his heart, like a big poisonous snake that haunts him, and he can only jump and plunge into the heart, so that the diffuse lake water can bring relief to himself." "I seem to understand a little bit.
The words in the book are clearly visible, Mr. Ji's gratitude map is one of his personal principles, he never forgets the people who have helped him, the gratitude picture of the promotion and recommendation of the past, and the excitement of Mr. Ji's appreciation of his composition during school is still fresh... All of these are precious memories of Mr. Ji's later years, admiring his good memory and being able to write about the events of decades ago so deeply and gratitude.
In this book, Mr. Ji is not afraid to expose his mistakes, prejudice against Mr. Wu Mi, through the report of the epiphany "it was his own mistake"; hearing that Mr. Shen Congwen was critically ill, he wrote a memorial article with a pen, who knew that Mr. Shen turned the crisis into safety, and Mr. Ji said that "snickering at himself is too anxious", so everyone, but not afraid of losing face, will make their mistakes public, what a boldness!
Marvel at Mr. Ji's linguistic genius, twelve Chinese, some even unheard of, Tocharian, Pali, Buddhist mixed Sanskrit... It is not surprising that he is regarded as a "master of traditional Chinese studies", "a master of academic circles" and a "national treasure" who is regarded as a Chinese mainland.
Reading Mr. Ji's article, it was very warm.