Chapter 110 Enlightenment - Even if you drop the iron, you have to go

Gu Jiegang was born in a scholarly family, and his mother was very strict with him.Once it rained heavily, Gu wanted to play truant from school and said to his mother, "It's raining too much today!" My mother said, "You don't want to go, do you? Even if the iron falls, you have to go!" Qian Mu was clever when he was young, and he had many visitors at home, and the guests asked many questions for the test, but his father Wei Wei didn't answer a single word.One night, a guest took him out to show off, and his father didn't stop him.The next day, father and son crossed a bridge, and his father asked, "Do you know the characters for bridge?" Qian nodded and said, "Yes." Asked, "Where is the word for bridge?" Do you know the wooden character Yima next to it?" The answer said: "Knowledge is the character of pride." The father asked again: "What is the meaning of the word pride, do you know it?" Qian nodded again and said, "I know." His father said so Holding Qian's arm, he asked softly, "Did you have such arrogance last night?" Qian Mu bowed his head in silence when he heard the words like thunder.

Hua Luogeng started self-study at the age of 16. Five years later, he wrote and contributed mathematics papers. When his "Reasons for the Inability to Solve Algebraic Quintic Equations by Su Jiaju" was published in Shanghai's "Science" magazine, it shocked Tsinghua University. Professor Xiong Qinglai.After reading this article, Xiong Qinglai asked colleagues around him: "Which country is this Hua Luogeng an international student?" There happened to be a teacher from Jiangsu nearby, and he suddenly remembered that his younger brother had a fellow villager named Hua Luogeng, and asked: "Where is this Hua Luogeng taught?" What kind of university did he go to? He only went to junior high school, and I heard that he worked as a clerk in Jintan Middle School." Xiong Qinglai was amazed, and immediately made a decision: "This young man should invite him to Tsinghua University!"

When Wang Jing'an's body was collected, the teachers and students of Tsinghua University went to pay respects to Wang's body and bowed three times.Chen Yinke was different. He was dressed in a robe and jacket, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times.Chen’s way of Confucianism and Mencius is not at this end. When he was in the Academy of Chinese Studies, his students went to the Chen family in Shanghai to visit his father Sanyuan old man. Sanyuan old man talked with a group of students. until the conversation is over. When Jiang Menglin was young, he asked his Japanese teacher Nakagawa to teach him an essay, which mentioned "China and Japan have the same language and the same species", but his Japanese teacher was relentless in his writing. Nakagawa wrote in his essay: "No, no, China and Japan are not of the same species. Your country will be divided among the great powers, poor, poor!" That night, little Jiang Menglin wept for the future of the country.

Although Gu Weijun is known for his diplomatic skills, he attaches great importance to Chinese.He once asked his secretary Yang Yuqing to select some material from ancient Chinese and copy it to him every day, and he would read it at night when he went home.He said to Yang Yuqing: "A Chinese, of course, should learn Chinese well. A person cannot say that he will not seek progress when he is old. I should learn Chinese. You are helping me by doing this." When Zhang Naiqi was young, he was looking for a way out of life. When he read from the introduction of a thin economics textbook that "a large commercial port is often located in the lower reaches of a big river", he immediately fell in love with it and praised it as "a book that cannot be found in all ancient books". acquired knowledge”, and has since forged an indissoluble bond with economics.

Deng Baoshan lost her father when she was young, and because of her poor family, she only studied in a private school for a few days before dropping out of school. After serving as a soldier at the age of 15 and arriving in Ili, Xinjiang, he missed his mother very much, but he was so illiterate that he couldn't even write a letter to tell him he was safe.He found out that there was an old gentleman who could read and write near the station, so he went to seek advice from a teacher.When we arrived at the old gentleman's house, Deng Baoshan respectfully explained his intentions, but the old gentleman murmured and babbled for a long time, with an ambiguous attitude, and never said a word "OK".There is no one else in the old man's house except his wife.When Deng Baoshan saw that the water tank in her husband's house was empty, without saying a word, she grabbed the pole and went to fetch water. When the water tank was full, she left quietly.From this day on, Deng Baoshan came to carry water every day, but did not mention the matter of being a teacher.After picking water for more than ten days in a row, the old man was moved, found a copy of "Qiu Shui Xuan Chido", and said: "Come on, just learn this, and know how to memorize one by one!" After more than half a month, Under the guidance of the old man, Deng Baoshan wrote the first letter to her family by herself after familiarizing with and memorizing 15 articles in the book.