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Because of a speech, Cheng Minsheng, a 65-year-old professor at Henan University, was on fire.
"When you're tired, you can lie flat for a while, but you can't lie flat all the time!" You lie flat to get the first year, but you can't lie flat for fifteen! "For a long time, I have pondered two problems at my own expense: one is the secret of longevity, and the other is the secret of getting rich..." "You follow the floating, you follow the impetuousness, and you become a bubble!" "Whether as intellectuals or bosses, I hope that everyone will not lose their innate goodness and do not lose the innocence hidden in their hearts." Because, that is the gene and reason of human beings, innocence can break through grease, and kindness can dispel what? Kindness can ward off evil! ”......
This is the Henan University Graduation Ceremony on June 7 this year, as a teacher on the stage to deliver a speech Cheng Minsheng, golden sentences frequently out, his passionate language and exaggerated body movements, so that the original a little sad graduation ceremony into a sea of laughter.
A few months later, Cheng Minsheng still felt that he had thought of this speech in advance, but he did not expect it to be so fiery. The reason for the fire is because what he says is all vernacular, coupled with his niece's "temple-level divine operation", which makes him the object of heated discussion of the whole people and wears the hat of "Treasure Professor".
More than three months later, Cheng Minsheng came from the ancient capital of Kaifeng to the Shang capital Zhengzhou to be a guest of the Tianyi Cultural Forum, bringing a lecture on "Qingming on the River map and its cultural wonders" to the audience in the provincial capital. In an interview with Mammoth News Oriental Today, Cheng Minsheng told a large number of little-known stories, reviewed his own growth process, and emphasized that people should "do something and do something", and he is willing to sit on the cold bench of academic research.
【I】
June 7th, an ordinary day. But for Cheng Minsheng and the majority of graduates of Henan University, it is destined to be a day engraved in the heart.
This afternoon, Cheng Minsheng's speech at the graduation ceremony of Henan University was all over the Internet. His speech seems ordinary but full of philosophy, his tone is high and low, and his expression gestures are changeable and surprising.
As a century-old school, Henan University is full of talents and famous teachers, why did Cheng Minsheng, who taught the history of the Song Dynasty, become the person who delivered the speech?
"Actually, I don't want to go on stage and give a speech. Every year, it is highly guarded, but sometimes the college is guarded, but the school is not protected. One year the school contacted me many times, I resigned many times, and as a result, after a few days, I was asked directly, is the speech written? At this time, it is not easy to resign. I think that looking for me to speak at the graduation ceremony should be a need for such a type! ”
For Cheng Minsheng, the days in early June were particularly busy, because it was the graduate defense season, and he had a lot of work to do. "If it's easy to cope with it on stage, but I don't want to cope with it, and I'm not the one to deal with it."
While Cheng Minsheng was busy with the graduate student defense, he was busy preparing a speech: thinking of a key word, he wrote it down. That's how my so-called golden sentence came about. If I had sat down to write a speech, I probably wouldn't have it.
"When talking to students, you always have to understand what students are paying attention to. For example, lying flat, this is a new word on the Internet, I don't know what it means. To this end, I specifically looked up online. At a dinner party a few days ago, someone asked me, Teacher Cheng, whether you invented the word lie flat, and I said no, but the word became popular again through my speech. ”
Cheng Minsheng said that he is very devoted in everything he does, even if he is allowed to do heavy physical work, he will still invest, he will not be lazy, he is not good at hiding himself, and he belongs to the "moody and angry" people.
At next year's graduation ceremony, what if the school still lets you give a speech?
"I'm really not going to give a speech, because it won't exceed this year's effect." Besides, Henan University has a lot of talents, and there is no shortage of me. Cheng Minsheng smiled.
【II】
Cheng Minsheng's speech style, kind humor and infectious, high tone of voice and full of emotions, how was the extremely distinct personal style formed?
Talking about this topic, Cheng Minsheng said, "There were signs as early as junior high school. At that time, I was engaged in great criticism every day, and after I finished speaking at a meeting, the teacher asked me for a manuscript, and the teacher looked at it and said, Your manuscript is not the same! It was only then that I understood that it was not that I had a good manuscript in an essay class, but that I said it well. ”
"At the end of the day, I'm a personality." Cheng Minsheng said that after graduating from junior high school at the age of 15, he worked as a young man in a farm on the outskirts of Kaifeng for four years, doing farm work every day, and did not change his position for four years.
After becoming a teacher, Cheng Minsheng still remembers a conversation with a new student about how a person can gain something. At that time, he told his classmates: There is only one trick, as long as you are sincerely engaged, you will gain.
Cheng Minsheng said firmly: I have always been a sincere and devoted person, a person who tells the truth. That's why the students were impressed by his speech.
In that speech, "innocence can ward off grease, and kindness can ward off evil" became the golden sentence in the golden sentence.
"Students graduate and go to society, I sincerely hope that they will remain innocent and hide innocence in their hearts, which is an oasis in their hearts." If you only talk about innocence at the graduation ceremony and let everyone remain innocent, there is no incitement, and once it is combined with kindness, there is a contrast, and the effect comes out. ”
After this sentence caught fire, Cheng Minsheng was particularly pleased to see that many people used this sentence as a signature, slogan or engraved on a fountain pen.
The reason why this sentence resonates strongly is actually chicken soup, but the taste is a little unique. Just like these years, many middle-aged and elderly people also like chicken soup, think about it, because our generation did not drink it when they were young, so they like it, which is equivalent to making up lessons. In fact, the so-called chicken soup is just common sense. ”
【III】
After this speech, Cheng Minsheng's life has also undergone some changes.
"When I opened my phone, there were greetings and congratulations from peers and friends everywhere, saying that I had become an Internet celebrity, and some people said that I had made a big advertisement for Henan University. Of course, there are many people who have not been in touch for many years, who have taken the initiative to contact me and ask for warmth. What surprised me the most was that once in a taxi, the driver recognized me and praised my speech as interesting and grounded. ”
"To be honest, I knew that this speech would be on fire and would have some repercussions, but I didn't expect it to be so hot. In those few days, I opened my mobile phone, casually pulled, received pushes, various forwards in the circle of friends, are the videos of my speeches, and various versions are available. Cheng Minsheng said humorously: Strangers walking on the street recognize me, you say, if I do something outside, how troublesome! Therefore, I joked with my wife at home that I had never done anything bad in my life, and I would not dare to do anything bad in the future.
Cheng Minsheng admitted that although he was a university professor, in the more than ten minutes of speech, he did not use the professor's classroom language, nor was it a written language, it was all vernacular. For example, at the beginning of the speech, he looked at the sky, looked at his classmates, and then said, "Today is a good day, how good the day is", and the applause came.
"I reflected, and everyone gave me applause because I said something vernacular. Everyone can speak vernacular, but in many serious situations, many people don't say it, and when I say it, the students feel that they have encountered a different kind. Cheng Minsheng said that through this speech, he went out of the circle, but everyone accepted, these truths are known to everyone, in fact, it is a matter of skill. To be honest, at the beginning of the speech, I did not think about how to make everyone accept it.
Who sent this speech of Cheng Minsheng to the Internet?
Asked about this topic, Cheng Minsheng smiled and pointed to the temporary assistant next to him- Xiao Cheng. "She was there that day, and she thought it was interesting, so she put it on the Internet, and I always felt that this was a temple-level divine operation."
Who is Xiaocheng?
Cheng Minsheng said, "My niece! ”
The reporter asked again: "Is she your student?" ”
"She's someone else's PhD student." Cheng Minsheng laughed.
【IV】
Born in 1956, Cheng Minsheng graduated from junior high school in 1971, and at the age of 15, he went to the countryside to become a zhiqing.
"It's a last resort." Cheng Minsheng said that his father was a cadre in a factory in Kaifeng, his mother could not read one in big characters, and there were six people in the family, and he was the eldest of the four brothers.
"At that time, the grain was rationed, and when it was finished, it was necessary to buy high-priced grain. We have a lot of family and life is difficult. When I graduated from junior high school, I could go to high school, but I still took the initiative to go to the countryside and become a young intellectual, so that there would be less people in the family to eat. ”
Today, fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, still in middle school, live entirely on their parents. The 15-year-old Cheng Minsheng walked into the suburbs of Kaifeng and worked on the farm for four years. Cutting wheat during the day, plowing the ground at night, releasing water and planting seedlings, eating everything that is bitter. At the age of 19, he entered the Kaifeng Spinning Factory and became a car stopper.
To this day, Cheng Minsheng still feels that the experience of six years of knowing young people and workers has tempered his will and tired his bones, although he does not regret this period of time, he is not grateful for this period of suffering. This is because, if you did not encounter the Cultural Revolution, if you could go to school normally, I believe you would be admitted to a university in Beijing and meet a better self.
"For me personally, the biggest regret in this life is that I have not received a systematic basic education." Cheng Minsheng said that he attended primary school for five years, three years during the Cultural Revolution, and only two years in junior high school. He did not study physics or chemistry, but the basics of agriculture, the basics of industry, and he did not take composition classes. So much so that I was admitted to college, and there were still many words that I didn't know, so it can be seen that the foundation is very poor.
In 1977, the first year of the resumption of the college entrance examination, Cheng Minsheng was admitted to the History Department of Henan University, thanks to years of persistent study.
"For example, when I was a car worker, I came home from work at 12 o'clock at night and wrote a 3,000-word novel. Every day at noon, when there was half an hour of dinner time, I would run to the office to read the newspaper, and I liked anything that had words. Once, I read Chairman Mao's theory of the three worlds in the newspaper and found it interesting, so I read it carefully several times and pondered it myself for a long time. Later, when I took the college entrance examination, I had this question in the political examination paper and suddenly scored 20 points. The opportunity is really reserved for those who are prepared. Cheng Minsheng sighed.
【5】
He studied in the History Department of Henan University, graduated from the History Department of Jinan University, graduated from the Song History Research Department of Hebei University with a doctorate, and then returned to the School of History and Culture of Henan University to teach Song History.
Cheng Minsheng, who has been dealing with history for decades, actually dreamed of becoming a writer.
It turned out that when he took the college entrance examination in 1977, his first choice was to be news, and he could become a journalist when he chose news, and he could become a writer when he had accumulated. The second choice is Chinese language and literature. The third choice has nothing to fill in, then fill in one at random, choose a history to get!
As a result, the history major admitted him. Before that, he hadn't taken a single history class.
Since you have recorded it, let's learn it, just like when you know the youth and block the car worker, do a line of love and love.
Undergraduate, graduate, doctoral student, Cheng Minsheng studied for ten years, and spent six years studying song history. Nowadays, there are many popular books about the Song Dynasty on the market, and the witty and humorous Cheng Minsheng has published many works, but they are all academic works, and there is no popular reading book, which surprises everyone.
Cheng Minsheng said that in the category of history, it is divided into academic schools and social schools, and he is an academic school, and every sentence he says must have a basis, which is an academic norm.
"In fact, as early as 20 years ago, a publishing house asked me about the manuscript of popular works. I have the ability to write popular works, at least not worse than others. Writing popular works, fame and fortune, but I don't need a lot of money, I don't need so much fame, fame is big, can't sit down, I can't do learning, there are not many people in this society who can sit down. Cheng Minsheng frankly said that doing academic work is his job and duty, he can withstand loneliness and is willing to sit on this cold bench.
After becoming a teacher, Cheng Minsheng also suffered.
"Now many students don't like to read, and they don't have the spirit of calming down to do learning, which makes me helpless and even desperate, but I will never give up." Cheng Minsheng said figuratively: The land is not long, is it still watered? Water, in case a seed grows!
Cheng Minsheng said that many people hope that he will say a few words to young students, but in fact, there are only eight words of "live well and study well", and it is good to be able to do this.
【VI】
Cheng Minsheng's speech was on fire, but he became more and more calm.
"I am a scholar and a teacher, and people have to keep their duties, do something, and do something not. What I am today is to teach, which is the enjoyment I pursue. ”
Nowadays, in the picturesque campus of Henan University, many administrative cadres and young teachers will always say when they see Cheng Minsheng: Teacher Cheng insists on coming to work every day, which is really hard!
"I said, this is not right, I don't want to do it, I have to do it to insist, I want to do it!" Every day I can't wait to go to the office, turn on the computer to work, wow, it's so comfortable, this is the state I enjoy. Cheng Minsheng said.
Even on weekends or holidays, Cheng Minsheng is as usual, revolving around learning every day. In order to give himself a rest, he even forced himself to find an excuse to go out, but he could not learn it in the end. "In life, many people feel how comfortable it is to go out and play, but I can't, I think it is more comfortable to study and learn, this sense of gain, this joy and wonder beyond imagination, this is a love from the bones." 」
What can be called love?
Cheng Minsheng said figuratively, just like treating lovers, thinking of her after a while of not seeing her. And he enjoys the feeling of doing learning, enjoying the feeling of the classroom, and everything else is extra.
Cheng Minsheng analyzed that this love has its own reasons and is determined by the characteristics of this generation. "I was a zhiqing, I was not afraid of suffering, and I did a good job." After two years as a worker, I was not afraid of getting tired, and I did a good job. ”
"As long as you don't pursue virtual things, you can do a good job of learning." This is the heartfelt words of 65-year-old Cheng Minsheng.
The time has come to late autumn, henan university campus is different from the spring and green summer of the revival of all things, there is no winter snow, plum fragrance, but its layers of forest, trees golden yellow is unique, intoxicating.
On the campus, as soon as Cheng Minsheng looked up, someone greeted him. Therefore, the old man always hurried with his head down, and he liked to walk on the wall.
Walking, walking, he became a unique landscape.