Chapter 91 Preface to "Selected Excellent Compositions of Chinese High School Students"

The editor of "Fiction" of China Youth Publishing House sent dozens of copies of "Selected Excellent Compositions of Chinese High School Students" for my reference, and also attached a copy of "Selected Excellent Compositions of American High School Students" with Comrade Xiao Qian's preface . These dozens of excellent essays by Chinese students are all followed by comments from famous writers, and they are all thorough and incisive, so I don’t need to repeat them.First, I read the compositions of American middle school students. I felt that because of cultural traditions, customs, education, politics, etc. differences between middle school students in China and the United States, their views on things, human relationships, etc. are also different. varies.My energy and time seem to be getting less and less recently. I wanted to pick out the more prominent ones and mention them after hastily reading dozens of compositions.

For example, writing travel notes, this is a topic often asked by teachers, and it is also a literature that students love to write."Nanshan Temple Sanji" by Chi Aijun It can be regarded as a masterpiece.And Chen Libi's "Journey to the Netherlands" has a different style. Her appreciation of Dutch flowers and trees is in my mind, but looking down, she noticed the "hippies" in the bustling market. Among them, she also saw that "there is no deep relationship between parents and children" but "the dog is kept as a 'privileged class'". I have experienced this and I feel the same.Of course, she did not forget to mention the friendship between the two peoples at the end of the article, which is the people-to-people diplomacy we should strive for.

When it comes to interpersonal relationships, both Zhao Huimin and Wang Xiaoling wrote about their affection for their sick and disabled friends under the title "I Want to Keep the Spring".Huang Chaohui's "The Man Devoured by Ghosts" describes her classmate Xiao Meizi because her family listened to a fortune teller, saying that her mother's illness was hers, so she had to marry a disabled person so that her mother's illness could be cured.In the end, she and her mother died one after another. It was feudal superstition that "swallowed" her.At the end of the article, the author yelled "Save the children" for thousands of little plums!

Yin Ming's "He Gone Like This" is a "change in human relations"! "He" is a strong college student with "unlimited endurance". Under the discrimination of his stepmother, he was beaten and scolded by his father. Zhong also saved money to support his family, while he himself fell ill and died! "The classmates cried, the teacher cried, everyone in the building cried", but "his" parents donated "his" body, "so his parents' names took up a corner in the "People's Daily" The location has been commended."The ending is very spicy!

Sun Mei's Mother's Love, Should You Lose It? " tells the story of a "family separation". "I, an ordinary middle school student, would like to say to the parents in the world: 'May you be in harmony, may every family be happy, and may the eternal mother's love warm the hearts of children!'" How well these words at the end For the sake of many unfortunate children, I would also like to say "May you be in peace" to some parents today! Zhang Tong's "When Jin Lingzi Turned Yellow" is also a novel about the divorce of parents.Jin Lingzi is a sweet fruit that symbolizes parent-child love. Shanshan has seen "Dad hugging Mom's shoulder and laughing", and then Dad actually left, "The truck took half of the furniture in the house"!Later, my mother died, and my father actually came, "There were still a few tears, and he brought a few Jin Lingzi, but they were all plastic and fake"!Shanshan plucked a "real" Jin Lingzi, "it's sweet to put a fiery red fruit in it.

After that, it faded, faded, gradually became bitter, and then the astringency climbed to the tip of the tongue." The author wrote in a dark and miserable way, and I feel sad for this girl who lost her mother! Xie Lingyun's "By the Book Pavilion" describes a girl who failed an exam and was in despair and distress. She got help from a female college student Xiao Mei who was sick at home. , like a small key, slowly opened the door to my kingdom of thinking."But Xiaomei was "absent" before she "got a perfect score on the math test paper".This is also "human relationship"

Very typical.Xiaomei knew that she had leukemia, but she still said to her mother: "Mom, I must hurry up now, try my best to make up lessons for Xiaoyun, and help her build up the sails of life." Chinese youth in the 1980s. I want to rise up, I want to..." She no longer felt "exhausted", what a strong stimulant it was! Xu Furong's "If I Be a Mother" made me smile.I have experience as a mom and I know the ups and downs.Putting the child to sleep in a dark room, ignoring her when she cries, not carrying her on her back and hugging her when she walks a long way... etc., all in order to "make her a strong and brave person." When the child grows up, For their moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education, it is even more necessary to "lead by example", and we must also achieve "we are mother and child, but we are also friends".When you can make your children talk about everything to you, you, as a mother, have fulfilled your responsibility!I hope that people who have not yet become mothers will read this "If I Become a Mother"!

Yang Wenbing's "The First Rain in Summer" is about the teacher-student relationship.Students with poor grades are often very sensitive, and feel that teachers take special care and care for students with good grades.This makes them have a kind of inferiority complex and "the loneliness of being neglected by others", and "she" in the rain saw the teacher give the umbrella to the classmate and only "covered a piece of plastic film on her head, with a bright red print on the middle finger of her right hand". Ink print", but she felt hot and handed the umbrella in her hand to the teacher.This child is consciously overcoming his "small eyes".I think teachers should also consciously pay special attention to and induce students with poor grades.

Chu Wenying's "Mr. Private School" is about his grandfather, who is considered "no real knowledge" and "deceitful" by his descendants, but he himself is very stubborn and refuses to accept new things, such as refusing to let his children go to school and wear Hua Jing read books and so on, but in the end he was convinced by the facts.At the end of the article, "This is bound to be a lot of pain, but isn't this the necessity that the times have bestowed on everyone?" is the finishing touch. Xi Zao's "The Hunchbacked Father" made my eyes moist!Such an old man with a high elementary school level, but has been a teacher for 26 years and a principal for 18 years, loves children so much, and makes the firewood that his son has worked so hard to make spinning tops for the neighbors.This made his son of a "slightly educated middle school student" hate him and look down on him, although he has attended county and local advanced representative meetings many times.He was a private teacher and wanted to become a full-time teacher, but on the day when the notice of becoming a full-time teacher came, he fell down and died because he was repairing the roof of the school.When his elder brother and second brother put him in the coffin, they pressed him to the bottom of the coffin with force, breaking his spine and body, and finally straightened him, who had been hunchbacked all his life.I couldn’t get along with him all the time, and looked down on his son, and only then “wept loudly” and what was left to my son was “deep repentance and pain that can never be healed.”I feel with joy that this son deserves his pain!

Li Jing's "Hunting" and Li Di's "A Huang" are both about dogs, which is very different from "My Dog" written by American middle school student Terry Clark.Terry pays attention to describing his dog's coat color, figure, movement, habits, healing when it is injured, and sympathy for it when it is lost, while our Chinese students write more about the relationship between the dog and the owner. Emotion and what it does for masters.For example, Lie Lie used his head to push his younger brother who couldn't stand up because he wanted to hug him; he gave cigarette pouches and matches to grandpa's guests; he sent his mother to class every night; A sick woman lying down; unfortunately, it was spotted by a bald old man selling dog meat, and finally disappeared.Ah Huang can only protect the hen, so that the weasels dare not come to steal the chicken, so that the mother can sell some eggs to the family "in exchange for small things like oil and salt" "every three or five days", or give them to the mother. The author "buy some pencils or some notebooks".Ah Huang's death was because a cadre from the county went to stay in their village and sent food to the author's house. His mother "borrowed a spoonful of noodles from the east, asked for a spoonful of oil from the west, and slaughtered a big rooster." Unexpectedly, the plucked chicken was snatched away by a dog, but his mother mistakenly believed that it was stolen by Ah Huang, and beat it to the brink of death.But "Ah Huang didn't bark or run, and just lay on the ground obediently." That night, "there was a scream of chickens in the chicken coop", and "fifteen big hens were bitten to death by weasels."On the fourth day, Ah Huang squatted at the door, wagging his tail and sticking out his tongue. His mother brought out a cooked chicken with tears in his eyes, and gave it to Huang to eat. Weeping uncontrollably", "Ah Huang finally took a bite, just one bite" "That night, Ah Huang died".I have shed tears after copying here, I have always loved faithful and friendly animals!I don't understand why it is necessary for a cadre who has come down to stay in the county: borrow noodles, ask for oil, and kill chickens to prepare rice?Why can't the cadres on a permanent basis have a simple meal with the people?Ah Huang died too unjustly!

Fang Jie's "The Book and Me" is a very good work. At the end, she concluded that "my knowledge is still very poor...so I have to study hard, read, and read again"!But what I noticed was not these, but shortly after she was born, her parents asked her to "catch the week". Instead of grabbing snacks or toys, she grabbed "a set of exquisite "Learning with Pictures"", this "catch the week" It is a unique custom in China. When a child is one year old, put a set of knives, rulers, pens, books, etc. in front of him to "predict" the child's future.Although this is a superstition, it is also a joke.There are often such records in ancient biographies and novels. Didn't Jia Baoyu in the novel just grab some makeup fans to play with? Huo Dexin's "The Reeds in Autumn" and Fu Hui's "This Alley in the City" are works that recall childhood and hometown. The author of the reeds thinks of the countryside, the river outside the village, the water birds in the river, and the catch The whole uncle of birds, and how to eat waterfowl eggs.Fu Hui is talking about memories of Zhao's grandma, Grandpa Huang, Uncle Wang, sister Li, brother Song, aunt Zhang, and little friend Xiaoxiang in an alley where he lived in his childhood.There are more characters than scenery in this narrative.When he came back more than ten years later, everything changed, the old died, some young people got jobs, some became famous, some got married, and some had changed tempers and hobbies. "Alleys" and now there are TV sets, electric fans, washing machines, and refrigerators. "The road has been widened", "the building is like a forest", "the city has changed its brick-red coat..." But the author did not sigh, he followed the times. "Xiaoxiang, I love you, but I hope that you will become history, and I hope that a skyscraper will be erected on your spot."I think this is the common wish of young people in the 1980s. Yang Bo's "That Year I Was Nine Years Old" probably has a social and political background that American middle school students cannot understand!A nine-year-old boy who is strong and eager to learn deserves a certificate of honor for the three good students. Although he was "selected as the three good students by unanimous votes" at the end of the term, he finally got a different certificate because of his grandfather's political problems. The certificate written in ink instead of printed is specially created by the teachers for this strong child!He said: "If I hadn't smashed the 'Gang of Four' and got rid of the view of componentism, I would not have been able to enter a key middle school, and I would not have had the opportunity to sit here and participate in the composition competition?" People, the author of this article is definitely not the only one who said "I will never forget what happened when I was nine years old"! East China will also be incomprehensible to American middle school students.A female student received a letter from a male classmate asking for a teacher's name, but she dared not open it first, then thought it should be handed over to the head teacher, and then returned it to the male classmate.What caused her to be so frightened?Didn't old China talk about "men and women defend themselves"? "Do men and women give or receive kisses"?Didn't the head teacher say "Both boys and girls should respect themselves after high school"?After handing the letter to the class teacher, isn't she a "news figure"? She "was lost in thought", stopped writing a reply, and "gently put down the pen in her hand".This article is written very expressively, but I feel that in the 1980s, when male and female students communicated, do they still have these scruples? The author of Gao Ling's "Thinking of Hanging Curtains and Installing Window Screens" associates the current opening-up policy from hanging curtains and installing window screens.Think of the big truth from small things, a policy must have two aspects of "advantages" and "disadvantages", the executors must grasp it well, "to make the two civilizations of our country develop rapidly and healthily."The author is an editor to write a review of the material, I think! Chen Zhigang's article "Small talk about "diploma craze"" can be used as a reference for the leaders of some units in selecting talents. "For diplomas, some are so hot that they are crazy...and even lose their minds." "I would rather not work for three years (suspended without pay) but also have a talisman-a university diploma."A student who has reached the point of "eating a diploma" is indeed "ridiculous" as the author said!The author "has no intention to completely negate the craze for diplomas", but I think it makes sense to use "capacity craze" instead. Xiao Dong's "I Am Youth" is worth reading carefully by the young people today! There are indeed two types of young people today. One is to be honest and well-behaved. They must work hard to pass through elementary school, junior high school, high school, university... a few difficult exams, and then hold an iron rice bowl and become an ordinary person. civil servants.One is to go to the other extreme. It is said that there are many so-called "yamen" who eat, drink, listen to songs and dance in their compound all day long. Anyway, they don't worry about having a place to eat in the future.What is rare is to create and develop as Lu Xun and Zhou Enlai sought the 'way of saving the country' as the author said, "Even if the ideal we pursue cannot be realized in our generation, we are willing to be paving stones for future generations. , our lives are forever young, and I am forever young." This is a good article of positive reasoning. Huang Sumei's "A World of Love" talks about the love between family members and quotes "depending on parents at home and friends when going out" The colloquialism seems to be a kind of timid expression of being "in the huge and complicated" Taiwan "society". "Give others love, and others will have love for you", this is very naive and reasonable. I didn't expect that I would write this preface so long.Because when I was reading these articles, my mood suddenly returned to the era when I was teaching freshman Chinese in college more than half a century ago.I have a deep affection for every "student". I unknowingly read very carefully and criticized a lot.I picked up a pen to write this preface and kept writing it. I didn’t start a draft. I hope to get the understanding of the editor! May 25, 1987