Half a Hundred Schools: A Collection of Books from the North 29
After a day of class, I returned to the dormitory, heard a male voice outside the door, and thought that my roommate's boyfriend had come, and knocked on the door. Sure enough, her boyfriend came back from a business trip and rushed to Peking University to pick up his girlfriend to share a rare weekend vacation.
This jun is engaged in business work, and has been in the industry for many years, and his communication skills should not be bad. Another point, the daughter's daily telephone communication with his roommate, or from the roommate alone, this gentleman has a delicacy rarely seen in men, and is called "hermaphrodite" by the mainland. As soon as he saw his daughter enter the door, he greeted him with a smile and soon mentioned that his roommate often praised his daughter's perseverance.
perseverance? What is perseverance? It is to face a chore, forced by responsibility, interests or other practical factors, and have to bury their heads in hard work. But the reading that others regard as torture happens to be my entertainment, and my daughter enjoys it, where does it need any perseverance?
Did Dad know Kant? In the early days of Taiwan, there was a kind of cold medicine, which was called Kant Six Hundred. I don't know why I pulled a great philosopher to cure a cold? In the history of Western civilization, Kant is a well-known philosopher, a superstar that no work on the history of philosophy can skip. He was also a super astronomer, and the hypothesis that the earliest prototype of the universe came from nebulae was proposed by him. But, Dad, what kind of person was Kant? You'll be amazed.
Kant was born in Königsberg, where he finished primary, secondary, and university, and taught at the University of Königsberg, except that he went to nearby Danzig (the birthplace of another great philosopher, Schopenhauer), but Kant's whereabouts had nothing to do with Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer was not yet born) once, and did not leave the small place of Königsberg until his death. More interestingly, how boring was Kant's life? Rain or shine, he leaves his study at 3:30 p.m. every day and goes for a walk on the nearby Bodhi Trail. Because the rhythm is so accurate, his neighbors will also use the time he appears to correct the clock!
If it is a smooth rhythm, it will only be out of tune once in his life. Kant read the French philosopher Rousseau's magnum opus Emile, and because he loved it so much that he completely forgot time. In addition, Kant's daily life can be summed up in just two words. The German romantic poet Heine once lamented that writing kant's biography was a super difficult challenge, and that his life had neither life nor events—only the ordinary laws of mechanics.
Life is as simple as it is, but Kant's ideas are extraordinary. Each of his "Three Critiques" is a dizzying tome, but it is all a must-read classic in the philosophy department! In terms of personal qualifications and future achievements, the daughter can never look back, but hiding in the study and burying her head in the book, she always feels that this small academic giant is a confidant of God.
Does the father think his daughter is a bookworm? Not to mention the distant Kant, compared with chen Rongjie, a scholar of Chinese descent who enjoys a high reputation in Western academic circles, his daughter is also far behind. Mr. Chen once had a poem about himself: "Writing and singing Ning Ning sleep less, dreams also zhou cheng Zhu Lu Wang". Zhou Cheng Zhu Lu Wang refers to the Song Ming theorists Zhou Dunyi, Ercheng (Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi brothers), Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming. He could sacrifice his sleep for reading and writing, and even his dreams were in contact with these great thinkers. My daughter couldn't help but be sleep-deprived, and once she fell asleep, she never dreamed of the ancients.
Young people read, although there is also fun, after all, there is the pressure of the exam in the back, more or less forced meaning, the joy of reading is therefore less but a few points. My roommate regarded my studiousness as a sign of perseverance because she had to constantly face the torture of exams all the way from undergraduate to doctoral program, and in addition, there were realistic considerations for exchanging degrees for positions. What about daughters? Returning to school after leaving the workplace for many years has no employment pressure and naturally has a different feeling. In any case, reading books, especially reading the books of the sages, the depth of experience must be related to experience. Zhang Chao has a well-known description in "Shadow of Dreams": "Teenagers read, such as peeking at the moon in the gap; middle-aged reading, such as looking at the moon in the court; old people reading, such as playing the moon on the stage." "The daughter is now between middle age and old age, and her vision is naturally very different from that of her youth. But then again, age is not necessarily a guarantee of thorough understanding. A famous professor talked about Zhu Xi in a masterpiece, and actually judged Zhu Xi's qualifications to be mediocre with his self-effacing statement, and his daughter who saw the rolls of the book cried and laughed -- indeed, he was a great professor who did not eat fireworks in the world! How do you read a book like this? Doesn't he understand human nature, and doesn't know that some talented showmen always feel that they are not as good as ideals because of the high standards they set?
Although reading is so wonderful, my daughter does not dare to hide her words, hiding in the old paper pile, sometimes to escape from reality. My daughter once saw a wonderful passage in an Italian movie "Splendid Time", and the extremely corrupt girl said to her boyfriend who was always stacked with a large number of books: "The reason why you love books is because you can throw books away at any time!" "Haha! Part of the reason why my daughter loves books is also to avoid people. People are really like hedgehogs, and once they get close, they inevitably stab each other. But people are not hedgehogs, and they can't kick the other party away because of the sting. But what about books? Whether it makes me happy and makes me sad, whether it is swept away, it will not hurt the book at all. What's more, relationships are sometimes impossible to choose from, but books can pick and choose, and then find deep interest in them, which is much more fun than the dialogue that does not make sense in reality.
Mentioning the unequal relationship between age and experience, my daughter recently found an old gentleman in the classroom she was attending, watching him faltering, and wanted to copy the notes to him. I didn't want to think about Fang Fang, so I actually heard this old gentleman say to the assistant teacher with a big wave: "If there is a problem, I will find you responsible!" "Oh my Goodness! The teaching assistant didn't owe him anything. He found a teaching assistant without my understanding, but the daughter hated this arrogant personality and immediately made a judgment: the notes were not given.
Seriously think about it, the daughter still has a kind of arrogance in her bones, and it is difficult not to feel bad about the domineering. But if the attitude is not too bad, the daughter has always respected the elderly. A retired professor who met him from time to time on campus and in the cafeteria may find his daughter's attitude gratifying, and actually said that he would give his life's thoughts to his daughter and write a paper in the name of her daughter and publish it. The daughter smiled and thanked him very much for his kindness. Plagiarizing other people's works, even if the other party voluntarily authorized it, is not the daughter's wish. But the kindness of the other party, the daughter received. Even if the daughter has a cute association, is it difficult for him to repeat the story of Huangshi Gongdu Zhang Liang?
Zhang Liang was a nobleman of Korea (Korea in the Warring States period, a vassal state of China, not the one that now trumpets the Korean Wave), and after the qin kingdom destroyed Korea, he once hired Hercules to assassinate Qin Shi Huang with a heavy gold gift. The assassination failed, Hercules was killed on the spot, and Zhang Liang was lucky to escape. When he was in exile, he met an old man on the bridge, who not only threw his shoes under the bridge in front of him, but also ordered Zhang Liang to pick them up as soon as he opened his mouth. Zhang Liang was originally on fire in his stomach, so angry that he wanted to beat people. Thinking about it, the other party is an old man after all, forget it. Picking up the shoes, the old man actually said loudly, "Put them on for me!" Zhang Liang was even more angry, but the anger finally fell because of the reason of respect for the elderly, and he knelt down in front of the old man's knee to put on his shoes for him. The old man watched Zhang Liang put on his shoes for him, did not say a thank you, just laughed, and went away, seeing Zhang Liang stunned. After a while, the old man stomped back and instructed Zhang Liang to meet him on the bridge early in the morning after five days.
Although Zhang Liang was surprised, he still went according to the agreement. I don't want the genius to just dawn, the old man has been standing there for a long time. As a result, he was scolded and asked to come back in five days. Five days later, I went again, obviously a lot earlier, and the old man still arrived. As usual, it was another stinky insult. Five days later, Zhang Liang arrived at the scene before midnight. Soon the old man appeared, very happy: "The widow can be taught!" "On the spot, he took out a soldier's book and gave it to him." Zhang Liang relied on this book of martial arts to assist Liu Bang in unifying the world. Twelve years later, Zhang Liang saw a large yellow stone on the way home, and knew that it was the incarnation of the old man on the circle ("圯" pronounced "Yi", meaning "bridge"),so he "please" went back to offer.
Peking University's version of "Huangshi Gong" is not so magical, and the daughter is not Zhang Liang's kind of unworldly material, but when he meets a warm old gentleman, he has high expectations for his daughter, which is barely a cute episode in a boring life. What's more, it is also interesting to take this opportunity to tell the story of Huang Shigong.
In fact, do you really want to return to the original to talk about love books, which is caused by genetic genes, right? Isn't Dad a book lover? The books you read are sometimes much harder than your daughter's!