There is nothing special about my father's bookcase, which is simple and simple, and the dark brown paint color is slightly old.
The whole bookcase is divided into upper and lower sections by the cupboard door. The upper section is higher, with four bookshelves separated by three partitions, and the distance between layers is basically equal. The lower section is only divided into two layers, and the distance between the lower layers is higher than that of the upper layer. Each section of the bookcase has double door cabinets, and there is a pair of door handles in the middle of the lower floor. The doorknob upstairs was not installed. In order to facilitate the switch cabinet door, my father installed a handle and a locking piece. Close the cupboard door, the whole bookcase will be so tight that you can't see anything. This solid and heavy solid wood cabinet is supported by four legs of the base. Seemingly top-heavy, but in nearly forty years, silently and firmly stood by the wall. What is important is that it has stood silently and firmly in our hearts for nearly forty years, or even longer.
Both parents work in the Party School of Zhangjiakou District Committee (now the Party School of Zhangjiakou Municipal Committee). In the mid-1980s, the Party School built a family building, and their parents were assigned a two-bedroom and one-bedroom house of more than 60 square meters. We are moving to a new building. My parents are discussing buying a new piece of furniture for the new house, so they hired a carpenter to make the only piece of furniture, that is, this bookcase. Although it is not good wood, it is also solid wood. There was a new piece of furniture at that time, and everyone was very happy.
The brand-new bookcase at home also adds a lot of color to the room. For my father, his books have his place and space. Father's bookcase is full of books related to his teaching work, and of course there are some literature books. At that time, our sisters were not very interested in the professional books in my father's bookcase, and almost no one cared. They only read some books that are basically suitable for us, such as stories, novels, essays and poems. My parents are both scholars who have come out of the countryside and have been insisting? Knowledge changes fate? Our educational philosophy is to study hard when you are young. When I was a child, my father always urged our sisters to study with one sentence. The book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu? . I didn't know what it meant at first, but when I was older, I learned the whole poem, understood the meaning of the poem, understood the meaning of my father, and understood the good intentions of my parents. It can be seen that my parents paid great attention to cultivating our reading habits at that time.
In the past, there were many children at home, and life was a little hard. However, in order to enable us to read more and better books, our parents will try their best to squeeze some money out of their living expenses to subscribe to books on children's literature, juvenile literature, composition, communication and so on. Now that I think about it, I feel that reading is to receive education and enrich myself; Reading is to understand the world and broaden your horizons; Reading is the exchange of ideas and the promotion of the realm. These are the wealth left by our parents!
Year after year, day after day, my father's books increased year by year. This bookcase accompanies him, and he is constantly enriching it. In fact, he is constantly enriching himself and quietly influencing our sisters. The belief that reading can change our lives is slowly rooted in our hearts, which has brought inexhaustible motivation to our study. It is not so much my father's bookcase as our common bookcase.
My father speaks well in class, and he studies hard, and he also benefits from all the books in the cupboard. My father dabbles in extensive reading. His reading is like a sponge absorbing water. In his busy working life, he takes time to read and write, take notes, cut and paste, etc. , whether in literature or in the professional field, has improved his professional knowledge and teaching level. In those years, some units always invited him to give lectures and do training. I remember that in the mid-1990s, I was transferred to Xuanhua to teach, and my father was invited by Xuanhua Education Bureau to give lectures, where he trained and studied political theory for leading cadres and teachers in the whole education system for nearly an afternoon. To have a good class, you need to do a lot of preparation before class, and you need to read and master a lot of materials to prepare. My father's lesson preparation draft is page after page, page after page, exquisite and handsome, with a hint of Lian Bi's square characters, which makes me fresh in my memory. Teaching, preparing lessons and working hard may also be the subtle influence on me after my father finished teaching!
This bookcase has been used for almost forty years, and many books can't fit in one of my father's bookcases, so I have to find another cupboard to store them. So even though this bookcase is very old and many places have lost paint, my father never thought about replacing it. Although it looks like style, shape, color, etc. They are all out of date and belong to obsolete furniture. We feel that its vicissitudes have given everything to our father, which has affected our correct attitude towards study and life and made us feel that this old bookcase is more precious. It is the least valuable thing in the family, but it is the only most valuable and meaningful thing. It is like a thick book, which has enriched its thickness and depth in the long river of history and the accumulation of years of wind and frost, and it is also another book that accompanies us in the process of life growth? Books? It carries the aftertaste of reading, and everyone regards it as a treasure.
Recently, the two sisters cleaned up their father's house and moved his bookcase to the bungalow. The master of the moving company also said, why don't you deal with this old cabinet? We told him that although the cabinet was worthless, it followed our father for a long time, and we had feelings and were reluctant to throw it away. When I moved, I also told you not to knock against the cabinet and protect it. Maybe the master listened to our ramble and paid special attention. The heavy cabinet was carried downstairs by a man, but he didn't knock against it.
The most meticulous thing is to sort out my father's books. My sister and I dusted them one by one and put them in the cupboard like treasures. Father's books are many, and some essays and novels suitable for us to read have been scoured out and preserved by our sisters before. In recent years, my father has neglected the bookcase, and many books have disappeared. There are only a few books left now, but this bookcase still can't hold my father's books. We put the most valuable books and father's lecture manuscripts in bags, and put some articles and works published in various magazines and books in this old bookcase and find another place to go.
Looking at the sorted old bookcase, I seem to see the dedication of my parents to this family for many years; Looking at the type books with different thicknesses seems to be the golden key to open the door to knowledge for us. Both books and bookcases hide the hope instilled by our parents. Isn't this priceless? After several years, it will still be circulated and studied from generation to generation, and scholars will always get old. Only with his life, his thoughts, his words and deeds, will it be meaningful and far-reaching.
Father's bookcase is simple and simple. This simple bookcase exudes the elegant fragrance left by parents, which permeates generation after generation and becomes the deepest memory in our lives. The fragrance of this book has been carried by us in all directions.