A good mother is better than a good teacher

Chapter 21 Learning and Practice Reading for the Rise of China (3)
mother heart words
Blind little girls can appreciate beautiful music and feel the beauty of the world just like normal people.Perhaps she feels more deeply and truly than we do, because she is seeing with the eyes of the soul and listening with the ears of the soul.

mesmerizing sound
In ancient times, there was a musician named Shi Xiang who was good at playing the qin. It is said that when he played the qin, birds could dance to the beat and fish would jump to the rhythm.

After Zheng Guo's teacher Wen heard about this incident, he yearned for it very much, so he ran away from home and came to Lu State to worship Shi Xiang as his teacher.Shi Xiang taught him to tune the strings and tune, but his fingers were very stiff, and after three years of learning, he couldn't play a single movement.Shi Xiang couldn't think about it, so he had to say: "You are too lacking in understanding, I am afraid it will be difficult to learn to play the piano, you can go home."

After putting down the piano, Shi Wen sighed and said, "It's not that I can't tune the strings and get the pitch right, nor can I play the complete movement. However, what I pay attention to is not just tuning the strings, and what I yearn for is not only It's just the rhythm of the tone. My real pursuit is to use the sound of the piano to express the complex and difficult to express emotions in my heart. When I can't accurately grasp the emotions and echo them with the sound of the piano, I will not Dare to let go and pluck the strings. Therefore, please give me some more time to see if I can improve!"

Sure enough, after a while, Shi Wen went to visit his teacher Shi Xiang again.Shi Xiang asked: "How is your piano playing now?"

The teacher said confidently: "I have touched a little bit of the door, please let me try playing a piece."

So Shi Wen started to play with the strings.He first played the Shangxian, which belongs to the golden tone, and made it emit the Nanlu melody representing August. He only felt that the sound of the piano was blowing against the face with the cool autumn wind, as if the grass and trees were about to mature and bear fruit.

Facing the golden harvest of autumn, he plucked the horn string belonging to the wooden sound, making it emit a bell rhythm representing February, and then it seemed that there was a warm spring breeze reverberating in his ears, which immediately attracted flowers, willows and greens. A scene full of spring.

Then, Shiwen played the feather strings belonging to the sound of water, making it emit the rhythm of the yellow bell representing November. After a while, it made people feel the frost and snow, and the rivers were frozen.

Going down, he tapped the Zhengxian, which belongs to the sound of fire, so that it can emit the rhythm of Ruibin representing May, and it makes people seem to see the scorching sun like fire, and the ice melts.

At the end of the music, Shiwen played Gongxian, the first of the five tones, and made it harmonize with the Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Haneda strings. Immediately, there was a south wind blowing all around, and the auspicious clouds were lingering, just like nectar Falling from the sky, clear springs gushed out from the ground.

At this time, Shi Xiang, who had already been fascinated by listening to it, couldn't help but put his hands on his chest, and was very excited. He praised Shi Wen face to face and said, "Your piano is really beautiful! Even if it was played by Shi Kuang from the Jin Kingdom The song of Qingjiao, the sound of rhythm and pipe played by Zou Yan of Qi State, can't compare with your mesmerizing piano sound! If they can come here, I think they will definitely bring their own qin, se, pipe and flute , follow behind you as a student!"

mother heart words
To learn any skill, you should not be satisfied with simple operation and superficial proficiency, but you must spend a lot of effort, work hard, study its principles carefully, and be determined.Only in this way can it be possible to reach the realm of perfection.

Vietnamese learn to build cars
There are no cars in the country of Yue, and the people of the country of Yue have never known how to build a car.The Yue people hoped to learn the technology of building cars so that they could be used on the battlefield and strengthen their country's military strength.

Once, a Yueman went to the state of Jin to play.The air in the field is fresh and the scenery is beautiful. He walked all the way and looked all the way, and unknowingly arrived at the outskirts of the border between Jin and Chu.Suddenly, something not far away attracted his attention. "Hey, isn't this a car?" The Yue man immediately thought of the car he had seen in Jin.It was indeed a car, but it was so badly damaged that it was left here, the spokes were rotten, the wheels were ruined, the axle was broken, the shaft was ruined, and there was nothing good up and down. .But this Yueren didn't really understand the car, and he wanted to make a great contribution to his hometown without cars, so he tried to transport the broken car back.

Back in Yue State, the Yue man boasted everywhere: "Go to my house to see the car. I got a car. It's a real car. It's great. I finally got it!" There was an endless stream of people who came to his house to see the car, and everyone wanted to have a glimpse.Almost everyone listened to this Yueren's boastful words, and commented one after another: "So the car looks like this!" "It looks like it can't be used, is it damaged?" "Don't you believe Mr. That's what the car must look like."

"Yes, I think so too." In this way, the Yue man always imitated the shape of this car when he built the car.

Later, when the people of Jin and Chu saw the cars made by Yue, they laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their waists, and said sarcastically: "The people of Yue are so clumsy that they turned the cars into broken cars. How can they be used?" But the Yue people ignored the ridicule of the Jin people and the Chu people at all, and went their own way, building a bunch of broken cars.

Finally one day, the war broke out, and the enemy's soldiers were overwhelmed, and they were about to invade the territory of Yue.The Yue people didn't panic at all, they took the challenge calmly, they all felt that there was nothing to be afraid of now that they had a car. The ground rolled to pieces, and the Yue soldiers also fell from the car one after another.The enemy army came over while taking advantage of the random killing, and rushed the Yue people's formation into chaos.The Yue people couldn't resist, those who died died, those who fled, those who surrendered surrendered, and the army was defeated like a mountain.

But until the end, they didn't know that they were defeated by the car.

mother heart words
When learning from others, we should not use our brains without thinking, simply swallowing them alive, and imitating them rigidly. Instead, we must use our brains more, be good at screening and selection, discard the dross and extract the essence.

Qi people learn to play the zither
In ancient times, there was a musical instrument called the Se, which made very pleasant sounds.Many people in the State of Zhao are proficient in playing the harp, which makes people in other countries envious.

There was a man from the state of Qi who also admired the skill of playing the zither from the people of the state of Zhao very much, and hoped that he could also have such a good ability, so he decided to go to the state of Zhao to learn from a teacher.

The man from the state of Qi worshiped an expert player of the harp from the state of Zhao as his master, and began to learn from him.But this native of Qi got bored after only a few days of studying. He often deserted during class, either making excuses to be late or leave early, or secretly thinking about his own affairs, not paying attention to the lectures, and he was always unwilling to practice hard.

After studying for more than a year, this native of Qi State still couldn't play the melody in tune. The teacher scolded him, and he was a little panicked, thinking: I have been learning to play the zither in Zhao State for so long. If I don't learn anything, I will How can I face people when I go back like this?Even though he thought so, he still didn't take the time to seriously study the basic essentials and skills of playing the flute, and he just thought about opportunistic tricks all day long.

He noticed that the master had to tune the zither every time before he could play a good tune.

So, he thought about it: it seems that as long as the tune is adjusted, he can play the zither well.If I glue the small pillars on the zither strings for tuning and fix them firmly after tuning, can it be done once and for all?Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly proud of his "smartness".

So he asked the master to tune the tune for him, and then he really glued the small pillars that had been adjusted, and took Se happily home.

After returning home, he boasted to everyone, "I have returned from my studies, and now I am a master of playing the zither!" Everyone believed it and asked him to play a piece of music to listen to it. How did he know that his si could no longer be tuned, and he would not be able to play a complete piece of music-he made a fool of himself in front of the elders in his hometown.

mother heart words
If you want to master the real ability, you must be down-to-earth and step by step.You can't pursue once and for all, and you can't have the fluke mentality of opportunism.Otherwise, the victim can only be yourself.

Qian Xuesen who is dedicated to the country

Qian Xuesen went to the United States to study in 1935. After obtaining a doctorate, he was hired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a tenured professor, responsible for the development and research of new aviation technologies.His academic achievements are very brilliant, he is an expert in aeronautical engineering and aerodynamics, and he has also made great progress in rocket research. His life treatment is very generous, but he always misses his distant motherland.

In October 1949, the good news of the birth of New China reached the other side of the ocean. He couldn't hold back his excitement and decided to return to China to contribute his wisdom.Qian Xuesen approached the U.S. Navy undersecretary in charge of his work and asked to resign and return to China. He said: "I am Chinese. I can give up everything here, but I cannot give up my motherland. I should return to my motherland as soon as possible and contribute myself to the construction of a new China." power." The deputy chief was shocked, and said viciously: "Qian Xuesen has superhuman talent, and he is worth five divisions no matter where he is. I would rather shoot him than let him go back to China." Sure enough, Qian Xuesen When I quit my job and bought a plane ticket to return home, I was blocked by the US Immigration Service.All scientific books and notebooks were confiscated, and soon he was illegally arrested and detained in a detention center on an island.Although he was later rescued and released by the teachers and students of the Institute of Technology, his freedom was still restricted. The Immigration Bureau often broke into his home to make trouble, and he was almost under house arrest in disguise.

In June 1955, Qian Xuesen did everything possible to get in touch with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.After Premier Zhou Enlai read his distress letter, he immediately instructed Chinese Ambassador to Poland Wang Bingnan to try to rescue the scientist at the Sino-US ambassadorial meeting held in Warsaw, Poland.In October of that year, Qian Xuesen finally returned to the great motherland he had been away for 6 years, and since then he has devoted himself to the construction of New China.

In 1991, this pioneer of Chinese rocket technology who was known as "a star in the galaxy of scientists" in the United States was awarded the honorary title of "National Scientist with Outstanding Contribution" and the first-class Hero Model Medal.

mother heart words
Seeking new knowledge and studying abroad is the wish of many students. However, different people have different choices about what to use for learning.Some people use it to exchange for foreign nationality, some people use it to get a lot of money, people like Qian Xuesen who love the motherland and have great ambitions turn it into the wings of the motherland to take off.

Madame Curie's Childhood Story
Decades ago, in faraway Poland, there lived a little girl named Manya. She was innocent and lovely, and she was very attentive in her studies.No matter how noisy the surroundings were, they couldn't distract her.

Once, Manya was doing homework, and her sister and classmates sang, danced and played games in front of her.Manya read the book intently, as if she didn't see it.

My sister and classmates wanted to test her out.They quietly set up a few stools behind Manya, and the stools would fall down as soon as Manya moved.Time passed by, and Manya finished reading a book, and the stool was still standing there.

From then on, her sister and classmates stopped teasing her, and concentrated on studying like Manya.

When Manya grew up, she became a great scientist.She is Madame Curie.

mother heart words
All successful people start from cherishing time and working hard.

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