【Thousands of Thousands of Miles Original - Nobel Prize】
I'll just say three things.
In the new century, China suddenly won two of the world's highest honors---- the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Literature.
This is an event of honor that can be jubilant for the whole country. Do not want to get this honor, it is certainly not right, want to win this award behind, is undoubtedly a very hard work, and is the most human creative significance of the payment, the value of winning this award, but also to the world announced a huge human contribution, so the Nobel Prize is really not an ordinary award.
But since the day the Nobel Prize was established, it seems predestined that China has nothing to do with this honor. Therefore, we can only look at one Nobel Prize after another in Europe, in the Americas, and even in our neighbor Japan, and we are a big country, actually one of the zero countries of the Nobel Prize, so China, which has made great contributions to mankind, has a complex called the Nobel Prize!
In the minds of Chinese, if they win the Nobel Prize, it is a glory that has no honor.
However, whether in science or literature, there is a certain gap between China and the world, which is also very clear to us.
Tu Youyou's Nobel Prize in Medicine can be said to be a very late award.
The research on "artemisinin" led by him, which began in the 1960s, was the result of the 1980s.
Giving him an award is already in the 21st century. It can be said that this award is unimaginable.
However, this award has returned, which is the recognition and support of the international community for China's contribution, and we should be absolutely honored.
In order to complete the tasks entrusted by the state, Tu Youyou worked hard to overcome the problems in a very poor environment and personally tested on herself. The degree of difficulty is not something that ordinary people can imagine. Her spirit of working for the cause of science, like Marie Curie, is touching and touching to the world.
We wouldn't be surprised if we say that in science our odds of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature are 0.1 percent, but literarily, we are only 0.1 percent, which we can't accept in any way.
Because China is a literary world power, has a long and great literary historical tradition, that is, the tradition of the new culture, but also very great, the Indian literary scholar Tagore can have a Nobel Prize, why can't we not have it?
Therefore, from the time of Lu Xun, we have actively hoped to be among the countries that have won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Unfortunately, however, this dream was not realized in Lu Xun's generation, but in the new century, in Mo Yan.
Mr. Mo Yan became the first writer in China to receive this world-class literary award, breaking The history of China's absence of a Nobel Prize in the field of scientific literature.
However, China's two Nobel Prizes have basically no controversy except for Tu Youyou's scientific research achievements.
Mo Yan's literary awards have attracted mixed reviews.
I think this is a twisted psychology.
For example, the question of the subject should belong to this kind of psychology. So, I would like to share a little bit of my opinion.
First of all, the scope of application of science and literature is not the same.
The great Mr. Lu Xun originally wanted to save people to study medicine, but he found that Chinese diseases are easy to treat, only the soul is not easy to treat.
For example, the various problems of the great literary image Ah Q described by Lu Xun have not yet been cured!
However, like the lung disease in "Medicine", we can already be cured.
That is to say, literature and medicine both cure diseases, but the flesh and spirit are treated separately.
Drugs cannot cure the soul, and the body needs drugs to save its life.
Therefore, we cannot have only the healing of the flesh diagram and the healing of the soul.
Some people may say that bad "literature" is still an infectious disease! More harmful than poison.
Of course, bad "literature" is bad, but most literature is harmless. The literature we need is not harmful, nor harmless, but literature that is useful for the health of the soul and the strength of the spirit.
Truly good literature is spiritual food that brings strength and hope.
So, it is not the question of what is useful in practice, but the power and confidence to create hope for humanity.
I think neither literature nor medicine can be missing.