Chapter 35 Section 11 University Entrance Examination

When I was in the third year of high school, I decided to fill in only three choices for the university entrance examination: the first choice was the Department of Philosophy of Southwest Associated University, the second was the Department of Philosophy of Wuhan University, and the third was the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of Southwest Associated University.Because Central University is in front of my house in Shapingba, I don’t fill it in. I hope that I can travel far and independently when I go to university.It is said that some people in the men's middle school only filled in one volunteer. The Nankai spirit was quite overconfident, but it seemed that they rarely failed.The reason why I chose the Department of Philosophy was that I naively wanted to challenge my father: If you go to Germany to study philosophy, I can at least go to Kunming, Yunnan to study philosophy and explore the profound meaning of life.After I made up my mind, I prepared to study in the Department of Philosophy with all my heart. Even my most admired teacher, Meng Zhisun, advised me to study in the Department of Chinese, but I refused to listen and tried to express my opinions.

I remember that we were preparing for the entrance exam, and it was as hard as the current candidates.Many students in Nankai Middle School worked harder because their homes were not in Sichuan or Chongqing during the war, so they could only take school as their home. Therefore, the school’s self-study room is open until nine o’clock in the evening every day. Students who are willing can stay in school to study until the entrance exam Finish.But no lighting is allowed.Because of the fear of fire, everyone still likes to go to school to study.My home is in Shapingba, but I also go to school to study.The college entrance examination was also held in July, and Chongqing was one of the three "stoves". The summer was extremely hot. I remember that the backs of the iron chairs were scalding, but we still sat on the chairs and read desperately. Sometimes we wanted to type while sitting. drowsy.Relying on English and Chinese to make up for the miserable mathematics score (only 48 points), I was admitted to the philosophy department of the second choice National Wuhan University.However, shortly after the announcement of the list, the foreign language department of Southwest Associated University, the third choice, sent a letter to inform Nankai that my English score was high and I was welcome to study there.

I was determined to study in the Department of Philosophy. Unexpectedly, a year later, I was advised by Teacher Zhu Guangqian at Wuhan University, and I still transferred to the Department of Foreign Languages. My destiny seemed to be determined. Throughout my life, life and truth seemed beyond my ability to think. Regarding Nankai, it is the alumni who made her famous in the world.Famous alumni of Nankai, from Mei Yiqi (1908) and Yu Chuanjian (responsible for school affairs for decades) in the first batch, and Zhou Enlai, Wu Dayou, Cao Yu (Wanjiabao), Wu Nasun (Luqiao) in the later period... ...and so on, the list can be "a mile long".When the government moved to Taiwan in 1949, there were more than ten ambassadors and four or five ministers from Nankai.Zhang Zhongmou and Mainland Premier Wen Jiabao have described the influence of Nankai Middle School in their autobiography in recent years.Nankai University and Southwest Associated University have more alumni, but this is beyond the "emotional scope" of my growing up education memories.

In my opinion, in the century-old history of Nankai Middle School, the list of parents seems to be more exciting, and it can almost form a modern history by itself.The earliest Liang Qichao, Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong, Duan Qirui, Hu Shi, Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Zizhong, Weng Wenche, Wang Jingwei, etc., during the Anti-Japanese War, I was in the same class as Ma Yinchu’s youngest daughter Ma Yang in Nankai, Chongqing for three years. Forty or fifty years old) Most of the children have sent them, because they live in school, so they don't have to worry about the future.Among the classmates, no one seems to notice other people's family background, because everyone is similar.I still remember talking about literature and art in the dormitory with Fu Juju (a class above me) who was the daughter of the famous North China general Fu Zuoyi.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the turning point of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was that Fu Zuoyi, who originally fought against the Communist Party in Beiping, responded to the Communist Party’s cry of "Stop the Civil War and Peaceful Reunification" in January 1949. Later, I was shocked to read that his daughter was a persuader one.In those years when I was obsessed with poetry, fascinated by literature, and almost "ignorant" of politics except for anti-Japanese patriotism, it turned out that another storm was already brewing.