Chapter 29 Looking back at Nankai-I love Horseshoe Lake

Shi Gang It has been nearly 7 years since I left my alma mater, but the people and scenery in Nankai Park, especially the beautiful freehand scenery by the Horseshoe Lake, haunted my dreams and imprinted them in my heart, which I will never forget.Inside the Horseshoe Lake, the water is rippling, the lotus flowers are blooming, and there are thousands of gestures; beside the Horseshoe Lake, students are holding books, and weeping willows are swaying.Su Shi said in "The Story of Transcendent Terrace": "Everything has something to be seen, and there is something to be enjoyed, and you don't have to blame the strange and beautiful." What I love is the tolerance and calm of Horseshoe Lake.

Some of the unforgettable things in my life in Nankai have an indissoluble bond with Horseshoe Lake. When I was in high school at the High School Affiliated to Nankai University, there was a Japanese NHK TV station that produced a film introducing Nankai University. I was interviewed as a student representative from the High School Affiliated to Nankai University.I remember that it was an early spring morning, the sun was shining slightly, and I was so excited that I was tossing and turning all night by the Horseshoe Lake. I was blown awake by the slightly chilly spring breeze.I can’t remember the content of the interview at that time. I only remember that when the microphone was in front of me, my legs were shaking so much that I couldn’t listen to it, but I still pretended to be calm. What he said was just mechanically repeating the lines that he had memorized by heart.Seeing the students of Nankai University cope with it calmly, I am really envious.This experience left a deep impression in my heart, and I will focus on strengthening this aspect of exercise in my future life and study-actively raise my hand to speak in class, and actively participate in the discussions of my classmates.I benefit a lot from exercising.When I was a sophomore in college, I applied to be a radio host and used my evening time to host the live broadcast of "Night of the Helios", which was widely praised, which is a good example.

After being admitted to the Chinese Department of Nankai, the first patriotic education class was held in front of the Premier Zhou Monument next to the Horseshoe Lake.Here, I know Mr. Yan Fansun, I know Mr. Zhang Boling, I know the glorious history of Southwest Associated University, and I seem to have heard Premier Zhou's rhetoric of studying for the rise of China.Whenever I see the six words "I love Nankai", my heart is always surging and my blood is surging.Here I made a vow to inherit the behest of my ancestors, strive to be a Premier Zhou type figure, and contribute my whole life to China's reform and opening up.

When I was a sophomore in college, I had a unique experience in student life—running for the chairman of the school’s student union was conducted at the school’s youth league committee next to Horseshoe Lake.At that time, the eighth and eighth grade students of Nankai University were all powerful in terms of academic performance and activity ability, so the election for the chairman of the student union of the school was also very fierce. They had to be elected through recommendation, speeches, and public voting.I was recommended to participate in the election with a normal heart, maybe it was because of unintentional, I was successfully elected as the vice chairman of the school's student union and the chairman of the association.After the election, it was already midnight, and the five elected students were very excited. They came out of the Youth League Committee and sat by the Horseshoe Lake, talking about their ambitions and expressing their feelings.The breeze is coming, you recite the poems of the bright moon, and the chapters of my songs are graceful and graceful, fluttering as if you are independent from the world, you have become an immortal, and you are really happy when you drink wine to the wind.Now that the five of us are separated from each other, what we did at that time was a bit naive, but the gathering at the "Lanting" by the Horseshoe Lake will be something we will never forget.

On the last night when the college graduates were about to break up, a few close friends sat by the Horseshoe Lake, looking at each other speechlessly. It really had the taste of "Where is the drunkenness tonight, the wind and the moon on the banks of the willows?" In the silence, I don't know who took the lead in singing Zhao Chuan's song "I am a little bird", "I am a little bird, I want to fly but I can't fly high. When I perch on a branch, I become the target of the hunter. Flying into the blue sky, I realized that I have no one to rely on." With the singing, everyone burst into tears and couldn't control themselves.Leaving Nankai is like a baby leaving its mother’s womb, feeling lonely and helpless; leaving Nankai means parting from respected teachers and classmates who live together day and night, and don’t know when they will be together again.I think every Nankai student will feel the pain of parting when they are about to say goodbye to their alma mater.I remember that everyone sat by the Horseshoe Lake for a long, long time. There were no bold words, but only silence, and only hope and hesitation for the future.

After taking up my job, because I am from Tianjin, I can live near the water. I often go back to my alma mater, visit teachers, and relive the dream of campus.Every time I go to Nankai, I always have a feeling of going home.I like to sit quietly by the Horseshoe Lake, looking at the emerald green lake water, and the students holding books and daydreaming. Sometimes I see two old men embracing each other and leaving slowly;At this time, I will feel the beauty of life and the peace of life, and then my mood will be as calm as water. Life is short, and all the secular things are just a passing cloud. As long as people have an open mind and a righteous heart, and strive to do things that are beneficial to the people and society, they will be happy and happy.

Nankai, I love you deeply, love your glorious tradition, love your school motto of "fairness, fairness and ability" and the public morality of "patriotism and harmony".Nankai not only imparted knowledge to me, but also taught me how to behave.I love the beautiful scenery along the Horseshoe Lake in Nankai, together with those beautiful memories and past.