Reading Yu Qiuyu's "Cultural Journey", I especially liked the article "Believer" for two reasons: First, the protagonist Song Da later became a teacher, and in him I found a sense of identity (please forgive my shallowness!). ）。 Second, in order to serve the villagers well, the new and old believers have experienced so much suffering, but they have suffered so many foul language, doubts and slanders, etc. What is valuable is that they still retain the original intention of the believers. What a heart, what a grace! How can it not make me feel reverence and even tears in my eyes?!
In fact, the old believers before were very respected by the townspeople. Teacher Yu Qiuyu gave the believers a very high evaluation in the article: Without the believers, there would be no rapidly expanding Shanghai. In fact, more importantly, in the old society without postmen, the believer was the "life bond" connecting the husband who made a living in the city and the parents and wives and children who stayed in the countryside! The messenger serves every family, and to every family or a wanderer who is out of the house, he sends not only letters and objects, but also a heavy hope! Believers are in a hurry, wading through mountains and waters, and must always face the robbery of strongmen and the stalking of pickpockets, and wrestle with them. The believer went through hardships and appeared to be "extremely tired" and "particularly nesty". Believers who work tirelessly deserve to be respected and treated by the villagers!
However, reality is often harsher than ideals! The old believer's encounter is proof: the good brother Ye Du was afraid of the old believer's "manipulation, especially on the head of the red satin (Ye Du bought the letter to bring to Ye Du's sister-in-law) to draw a small circle" as a mark, and entrusted people to tell Ye Du sister-in-law. And the old believer, because he felt that Ye Du was a good brother, "his daughter wanted to get married, and in a hurry he bought some gifts temporarily, and looking at Taisu, he cut a red ribbon and tied it down, trying to be happy", "Ready to go back to Shanghai and then explain it to him." "I didn't expect to cut a small circle," which made the messenger suddenly fall into a credibility crisis. "The most disgusting thing is that the patriarch and Ye Du's sister-in-law said that they had an affair with so many women." "A few untenable rumors have left themselves with nowhere to stand", the old believer seemed to have been beaten into eighteen layers of hell! At this time, the old believer could not find a person to help him speak, how aggrieved, how helpless, how pitiful! The old believer devoted half his life to serving his fathers and fellow countrymen, and actually ended up with such a desolate end, reading this, my tears fell without controversy.
I can't help but think of an experience I had 20 years ago. At that time, I was teaching the graduating class at Xinchun Central Elementary School. One student in the class was particularly lazy and often didn't do his homework. One afternoon, the squad cadre came to complain, saying that he had not done his homework. I called him in to ask why he hadn't done his homework, and he said he had a stomachache at noon. Other classmates have revealed that he has been running around the school at noon. I was angry and called him to the classroom door to criticize. Maybe my criticism was too heavy, and I didn't think that the classmate would take advantage of my lack of attention and run home crying. After a while, the parents rushed to the school in anger to complain to the principal, saying that I had scolded his son and would not let his son study. Thanks to the testimony of the whole class and the teacher on duty, I was indeed wronged. I heard the students say that this classmate deliberately gave me a "dismount". Later, my parents also asked someone to apologize to me, but this matter left a shadow in my heart and could not be erased for a long time. As I grew older and more experienced, I slowly became relieved. Yes, compared with the old believers, what is this grievance I have suffered!!
What is touching is that the old believer encountered the betrayal of the "brother", faced with the foul language of the townspeople, did not choose to explain and defend himself, but took up the scissors and "gritted his teeth and cut off the left hand"... So tragic! So determined! ...... However, the old believer still did not forget his original intention, still remembered that "these villages cannot be without believers", and tried to persuade Song Da to take over this "baton". After some careful instructions and repeated instructions to Song Da, the old believer resolutely went to Shang'ao in the deep mountains to the south to guard the cemetery. I think he used this fierce and tragic act to defend his innocence and dignity and protest against the townspeople!
"The road knows the horsepower, and the people's hearts are seen for a long time", most of the villagers' eyes are snow bright. Every New Year's Festival, those "familiar villagers will come to deliver a little food, vegetables and fruits"; "those most beautiful village women are not afraid to cross the mountains and mountains, accompanied by children to visit again and again"; Sister-in-law Yueqiao, Yusu sister-in-law, and Sister-in-law Mancheng have come many times, and the old believers are overjoyed. On the contrary, In the past, Yu Yedu and Yu Mudian, who were "brothers and sisters", wrote letters many times and asked for forgiveness, but the old believer did not "answer"; even if they "returned to their hometown together and came to the cemetery to ask for guilt", the old believer still avoided seeing him, in fact, he was "not still remembering hatred, but afraid of embarrassment". From the old believers, I clearly felt the traditional virtues nurtured by the Chinese nation for five thousand years: hard work, bravery, honesty, faithfulness, open-mindedness, generosity, forbearance, tenacity, heavy fame, and light self-interest... The old believer is a model for my generation!!
After more than 40 years of reform and opening up, Today's China has made achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, and the whole society has undergone earth-shaking changes. However, while the Chinese people are running wildly all the way forward, they often discard the traditional virtues of the motherland for thousands of years, and in more serious cases, it is "the people's hearts are not ancient, and the world is getting worse"! Then, as the people's teachers, we are engaged in the most glorious cause under the sun, when we do not forget the original intention of teaching and educating people, pass on the excellent traditional virtues represented by the old believers' high wind and bright festival, educate our next generation, and let the excellent traditional culture of the motherland for five thousand years continue to carry forward and shine the most dazzling light around the world!
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2020.07.25The night
