12 years ago, a laid-off worker named Cai Wei was admitted to Fudan University as a doctorate under the famous chinese master Qiu Xigui. With only a high school education, he broke through many dangers and obstacles, ascended to the sky, and stepped into the highest university in China.
What a legendary encounter this is? How did Cai Wei create such a miracle?
As the saying goes, knowledge changes destiny, but in this era, it seems that everyone is eager for success and impetuousness, and only Cai Wei is an "outlier". Now he seems to be effortless, but behind him is actually hidden unknown efforts.
Cai Wei urinated interested in ancient Chinese, when he was in elementary school, Cai Wei practiced brush writing for several years, and every time he wrote, he walked the dragon snake, dragon flying phoenix dance, and there were many difficult traditional characters on the post, and he held the dictionary and turned it back and forth. Between the two, Cai Wei not only knew a lot of words, but also had the initial enlightenment about Chinese characters, and he also became a teacher's little teacher, and when the teacher encountered something strange that he didn't know, he directly ran to him for answers.
In high school, Cai Wei plunged into the Jinjiang Library as soon as he had time, reading all kinds of "unpopular" books, and in just one year, he read two or three hundred ancient books.
Jinjiang Library to handle the certificate to qualify, he will be in charge of his father, ask his father's unit to stamp, with the certificate, he will soak in the library every day, the library as a classroom, every day punch card.
Because of his obsession with ancient Literature, Cai Wei's partiality is very serious, and he can only get a few dozen points when he has the worst results in science, and he is undoubtedly classified into the ranks of "poor students". Although the Chinese language scores are outstanding, the college entrance examination is a comprehensive test after all, and Cai Wei, who is seriously biased, naturally fell off the list.
No family lineage, no diploma, no technology, the crossroads of life, Cai Wei did not have any better choice, he entered the rubber factory and joined the tide of part-time work.
Although the night is long, but you can always see a little starlight, the glue factory implements three shifts, after the shift, he will go to the library, almost all the books he can see. Reading books is the only comfort in his monotonous life, he does not have any lofty ideals, but likes to read books, especially ancient texts.
Although this does not bring anything to oneself, the economic benefits that can be seen and felt.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, 3 years later, the rubber factory closed down due to poor management, Cai Wei also became a laid-off worker, no economic resources, Cai Wei's life was suddenly insecure, he worked as a temporary worker in the kitchen behind the canteen for a year, 100 yuan per month.
Under the mediation of his parents, Cai Wei got married, and this salary is really not enough to see. He bought a tricycle, tied a one-meter-long wooden box to the back, stuffed a few thermos bottles, put on a warm quilt, and began to set up stalls in the streets and alleys.
The life of the stall is not more than usual, in the past in the rubber factory, although the salary is meager, but life is always regular, set up the stall, you have to go out early and return late every day, the time to study naturally can not be squeezed out.
At that time, Cai Wei's family lived on the 7th floor, there was no elevator, every morning he had to carry the incubators downstairs one by one, and then moved back in turn at night, these incubators added up to thirty or forty pounds.
Although life is hard, Cai Wei is very content, and he puts several ancient books in his incubator. The tricycle was bundled with folding chairs and sun umbrellas, selling cold drinks in the summer and fried goods in the winter, and when he was idle, he hid under the umbrella and nibbled on his books with relish.
Cai Wei knows that he is not the material for doing business, he is born wooden, and he is not good at communication, and the money he earns from more than ten years of stalls is only enough to make ends meet, and the family's income has been hovering on the edge of the poverty line.
He couldn't afford to open a store, his family couldn't come up with the money to open a store; he couldn't afford to buy books, and new books in bookstores were sky-high. As a result, Cai Wei was fascinated by the second-hand book market to find treasures and go to the library to borrow, in the second-hand bookstore, Cai Wei shot is very "generous", the two-bedroom cottage is densely packed with his "booty".
In the winter of Jinzhou, the minimum temperature can reach more than minus 10 degrees, Cai Wei's family has not paid the heating bill for more than 10 consecutive years, when sleeping, cover three or four beds can still feel the cold, the most "luxurious" expense at home, is a computer that Cai Wei bought in order to facilitate the investigation of information.
The days are very hard, but the wife does not abandon Cai Wei, "He is honest and has the perseverance to study what he likes." ”
There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and the family members do not understand the things in Cai Wei's hands, but they are very tolerant and do not interfere with Cai Wei's preferences. It is gold that will always shine, and it is talent that is destined not to be buried.
There is an idiom in China called building a car behind closed doors, going out in a rut, Cai Wei also met his own nobles in the dark, and over the years of accumulation, Cai Wei has a very deep foundation in ancient literature. At that time in China, the Internet was far less developed than it is today, but Cai Wei was a complete surfer, he loved Sinology, and often exchanged ideas with his peers on the Sinology Network.
He registered an account for himself, named "Bao Xiao", which means "Bao Ding Primary School", everyone may not understand, primary school is china's ancient philology, phonology, exegesis of the general name, Cai Wei to take this Mingzhi, with the name to express their ambitions.
On the Internet, Cai Wei quickly accumulated a certain fame by virtue of his insights. In the process of communicating with his "peers", his mind was further opened and his knowledge system was further improved.
In 1995, Cai Wei, who was good at making claims, took the initiative to write a letter to Mr. Qiu Xigui, a professor at the Research Center for Excavated Documents and Ancient Texts of Fudan University, in which he asked the other party for advice and also gave advice to the other party.
Who is Qiu Xigui?
He is the authority on the study of ancient chinese literature in china, which can be said to be unparalleled in this field, and when he was in high school, Cai Wei had read the works of this predecessor.
Receiving Cai Wei's letter, Qiu Xigui was very shocked, both of them were very pure "literary idiots", with the same love for ancient Chinese literature, he replied to Cai Wei very sincerely. In the letter, Qiu Xigui praised Cai Wei unceasingly, saying that he did not care about utilitarianism and practiced hard, and he was very admired.
The idol's approachable letter to himself was a very ecstatic thing for Cai Wei, who held Qiu Xigui's handwriting and read it again and again, and every word could be memorized backwards in the end.
In March of the following year, Cai Wei rushed to Beijing, met with Mr. Qiu Xigui for the first time, and successfully chased the stars.
Cai Wei has poetry books in his belly, and he talks about things extraordinary, and Qiu Xigui also does not live up to the shelf of the Guoxue Taidou, and the two talk very happily, and they have become forgetful. Qiu Xigui is the driving force for Cai Wei to abandon glitz and persevere.
In January 1997, Mr. Qiu Xigui published an article entitled "Shen Wufu Preliminary Investigation" in Cultural Relics. After reading the article, Cai Wei quickly wrote to Qiu Lao to put forward his own point of view, he believes that the "Zuozi" here should be understood as "嗟子", and "嗟" is a sigh here.
When Qiu Xigui saw the letter, Mao Sai suddenly opened it, nodded his head, and called Cai Wei's statement "very reasonable", and Cai Wei also became Qiu Lao's "one-word teacher". The next year, Qiu Xigui publicly published Cai Wei's views in a follow-up article, and he also became a loyal fan of Cai Wei's Guoxue Network, and as soon as Cai Wei updated the article, he would go to read it, and he would not let go of each one.
In addition to posting on the Sinology network and writing letters to several ancient literature scholars, Cai Wei has also published his academic views on the websites jointly sponsored by several well-known universities. Dong Shan, who is the same age as Cai Wei and is now a professor at the School of Archaeology and Literature of Peking University, is very familiar with Cai Wei, a red person, he said: "Cai Wei is the kind of person who is neat and crisp, one or two sentences to solve a problem, needless to say, a look is right, this kind of skill is almost an old gentleman who knows ancient books well. ”
Mr. Qiu Xigui cherished his talents, and he encouraged Cai Wei to go to graduate school more than once, enter the university, and accept formal study of ancient Chinese. But Cai Wei knew in his heart that he was just a high school student, and it was a fool's dream to cross the unfamiliar subject of English.
Despite the dream of entering a higher institution of higher learning, the academic gap in front of him is insurmountable, and he can only sigh and give up.
What Cai Wei is best at is to combine the excavated documents with the documents handed down from generation to generation, his online views are directly related to the pros and cons, all kinds of rhetoric are at hand, in that era when knowledge acquisition was very inconvenient, Cai Wei used his "stupid method" to frantically absorb everything he could touch.
In order to find more ancient Chinese materials, Cai Wei's footprints have spread throughout The province of Liaoning. Wanting to see Wang Niansun's "Reading Magazine" written by Wang Niansun, two of the four kinds of Gaoyou Wang's family, the Jinzhou Municipal Library could not find it, so he ran to the library of foreign universities to try his luck.
His memory is poor, and when he encounters any ancient books that he likes and cannot afford, he will take them to the copy shop to copy them, or simply copy them down. Cai Wei used the form paper saved from his work in the rubber factory to make several simple notebooks, which were densely filled with his reading notes.
There are more and more books, "notebooks" are getting thicker and thicker, and Cai Wei has also gained fame on the Internet. But just when everything was on the right track, Cai Wei suddenly disappeared, and even Qiu Xigui broke off contact with him.
It turned out that Cai Wei's wife had fallen ill, and the family, which was not rich in the past, was even worse. In order to treat his wife's illness, Cai Wei borrowed 50,000 yuan from his relatives, pedaled three rounds of money day and night, and did not have time to sleep.
After knowing the situation, Qiu Xigui took the initiative to find Cai Wei.
At that time, the Research Center for Ancient Chinese Literature of Fudan University happened to cooperate with the Zhonghua Bookstore and the Hunan Museum, and the three units worked together to compile the "Mawangdui Han Tomb Jian Shu Integration".
Qiu Xigui wanted to invite Cai Wei to join his team, contribute to the translation of ancient Chinese, and earn some wages to subsidize the family.
During the year he worked there, Cai Wei's ability experts were obvious to all, the ancient script was difficult to recognize, most of them were still vague, Cai Wei was painstakingly drained, everything was in detail, and every word of these bamboo janes handed down by his predecessors was properly translated.
Cai Wei's profession impressed several professors, who wanted Cai Wei to study for a doctorate.
Since 2000, Fudan University has implemented a new system: the school allows academicians of the two academies, outstanding professors and national 100 outstanding doctoral dissertation instructors to independently recruit doctoral students, and the examination questions are determined by the experts themselves, and Qiu Xigui is of course an expert among them.
But Cai Wei only had a high school education, so Qiu Xigui, together with two professors, Li Jiahao and Wu Zhenwu, wrote a letter of recommendation to the Ministry of Education. Of course, special talents should be treated specially, english is not good enough to change to Japanese, the foundation is not enough to make up for it later, Cai Wei just stumbled into the school and became a doctoral student in ancient Literature in Fudan.
As the oldest student in the class, Cai Wei struggled to learn some basic courses, and it took him six years to graduate after his doctorate, and he also ran into walls everywhere after graduation.
Age, first education, number of papers, these are all shortcomings that Cai Wei cannot erase.
Finally, Anshun College took the initiative to throw an olive branch to Cai Wei, and he decided to work.
From Fudan to Anshun, Cai Wei walked for two days and two nights, bringing several boxes of ancient Chinese "treasures".
After being admitted to Fudan graduate school, Cai Wei became famous, but he was unmoved and did not care.
What he needs is a paradise for deep research and a holy place that is not disturbed by people, no paper without true insight, and a change of id when the praise on the Internet is full.
In this way, in this noisy world, he held the incense branches, fluttered and guarded himself, and also guarded the ancient text that he loved for half a lifetime.