The teenager in the idiom "learning to walk in Handan" is a mausoleum keeper in Yan State. He is luckier than Dong Shi, and he is not ugly. I heard that people in Handan walk well and go to Handan to study. Unexpectedly, they didn't learn the essence of others, even forgot their original walking posture, and finally climbed back to Yan State. In Li Bai's poem, he said: Keeping the mausoleum out of step makes people laugh at Handan.
These two ancient idioms, both from the Warring States period, tell us three things: First, when learning what others are good, we must first understand what others are good about. The beauty of Shi is obviously not because she frowns, but because she is beautiful and beautiful, so even if she has to frown because of illness, she is lovely and more lovable. But the effect of Dong Shi is that he only knows its beauty, but he doesn't know why. Even more ugly than gourd painting gourd ladle, of course, counterproductive; It's important for the two young people in Yan State to actively learn from other people's good things, but more importantly, they must not throw away their good things eagerly. The young man in Yan made such a mistake, and the result was of course counterproductive, flustered and ridiculous. Climb home; The third truth, I think, is what westerners often say: "Be yourself".
Imagine what would happen if Dong Shi didn't work and Yan teenager didn't go to Handan to learn to walk? Dong Shi will not scare the neighbors out of the house, nor will the young people in Yan State "crawl into their ears". Now we all know that the world has leveled off, multinational companies have come in, and China enterprises have gone out. There is a problem of how to learn.
As a modern manager, I encounter such challenges every day. If you don't grasp yourself well, you will easily make the mistakes of "learning from the east" and "learning from Handan", which will make you self-defeating, lose yourself, and be neither fish nor fowl, which is counterproductive. I might as well take learning English as an example.
The internationalization of modern enterprises will inevitably lead to the internationalization of talents. For us in China, an important sign of talent internationalization is that we can negotiate, give speeches, write reports and hold lectures in English fluently, accurately and convincingly. Frankly speaking, such people are still very scarce in China.
Including many "returnees" at present, although their English is acceptable, it is actually difficult to really use English because of their lack of experience in working in western society, which is counterproductive. Therefore, I have always strongly advocated learning English well. This kind of study, including working abroad for several years, or working in the China branch of a multinational company for several years, will certainly be of great benefit.
In recent years, when I went back to China for business, I often heard some young people in China say the most common dirty words in English, just like China people's "national curse". Once, I really couldn't help interrupting the export manager of a domestic supplier and asking him, "Do you know what these four-letter words mean?" He paused and said, "I know! Isn't it the meaning of xx? " He said that he had seen many American blockbusters, and the characters in the movies often called names. He feels that he speaks the same words, which makes his English quite authentic, so he often uses them.
I told him that people in the United States, like people in China, are at different levels. Although these English swearing words are frequently used in American society, few educated people and people who work in big companies will use such swearing words at work. American movies do not represent the true epitome of American society and can never be regarded as standards.
There is an old saying in China, "You can't read it all, and you can't be confined to what others say", let alone a fictional movie. I tell you frankly that I made a similar mistake a long time ago and paid the price for it. This young man is not bad He accepted the criticism sincerely and said that he would definitely get rid of this intentional bad habit in the future.
Take learning English as an example. Over the years, I have really seen many "Handan toddlers". These people spend a lot of time memorizing words and grammar, hoping to learn English well. But the problem is that many people in China haven't even learned Chinese well, and their writing is confusing, unintelligible and verbose, even as smelly and long as an old woman's foot-binding cloth.
As soon as I learned English, the problem of Chinese became worse. My mother tongue, which has a weak foundation, is mixed with a few nondescript English words, and the far-fetched and trendy translation makes my compatriots confused and unable to understand what he is saying. If you add more ports and Taiwan Province, it's a hodgepodge.
A Chinese teacher once vividly drew a picture of a student whose mother tongue was disabled. When the student faced the beautiful rivers and mountains, he was very excited and full of pride. He shouted, "Nature! You are so beautiful! " . I dare to assert that such a person, no matter how proficient his English is, no matter what beautiful scenery he faces, I believe he will never sing Percy, a famous British romantic poet. Bishop. A poem as noble and elegant as Shelley's.
Percy. Bishop. Shelley (1792-1822) I think if a China person wants to learn English well, he should be "solid at the end, solid at the source and bright at the end". First of all, he must learn his mother tongue well, so that he can outline the outline and open his eyes, otherwise he will only end up as the young man in Yan State. Speaking of "being yourself", an entrepreneur from China once talked about the difficulty of starting a business in Britain. In order to strengthen communication with British employees, he had to give up his hobbies and learn to go to bars to talk about football like an Englishman.
Needless to say, this life must be very tiring. Of course, if you like clubbing, or you happen to be a football fan, then you are still suspected of "learning from the east" and "learning from Handan", but at least you enjoy it. Why not? But if you don't like bars and football, but you don't want to work, I beg to differ.
Take myself as an example. I have lived in America for so many years. I don't like American football, golf, bars and attending American business dinners.
Say busy.
2. "Dong Shi Mix" and "Handan Toddler" 1. Pronouns, generations.
Its, pronouns, those, or Shi.
Zhi, pronoun, and Dong Shi.
Its, pronoun, acting leader Yu Zi.
She only knows the beauty of frowning, but she doesn't know why it is beautiful.
Yu Zi, a tomb guard, studied their walking posture in Handan.
3. Shi is ill and looks at it with a frown.
Without national strength, he lost his old ways and went straight to his ears.
4. The similarity is that one person imitates others and suffers.
Difference: The first part is mainly about writing others' actions to set off Dong Shi's failure, and the second part is to prove his failure by describing his own behavior of climbing back after failure.
3. The story of Handan's toddler in life, detailed, needs to write a composition, which annoys me to death. Many big cities in China blindly pursue modernization. When developing, they made the city into a reinforced concrete forest with reference to the practices of western developed countries, which had no own characteristics at all. Even the traditional buildings left by our ancestors have been demolished, which is monotonous and forgetful!
Walking in Handan can be extended to blindly imitating others and losing the truth, but ruining things. There are many such examples in life. For example, when Khrushchev was in power, he blindly imitated the United States and planted corn on a large scale, which caused serious losses to the national economy and further aggravated the tension in the Soviet Union. During the founding of New China, guided by the Soviet Union, he also made many mistakes similar to "learning to walk in Handan".
Another example is the extensive use of online buzzwords in the Spring Festival Evening. I think this is also a kind of "Handan toddler". In fact, I can understand that the Spring Festival Evening hopes to narrow the distance with the vast number of netizens through the extensive use of online buzzwords, and even the distance of "innovation" that people have been expecting for the Spring Festival Evening. However, people can clearly see the scarcity of innovation in the Spring Festival Evening from another mirror, and the lack of new ideas will inevitably make them a new laughing stock in the eyes of netizens. CCTV Spring Festival Evening seems to keep pace with the times, but it is actually the opposite of innovation. It just borrowed the skin of the network language, far from the spiritual essence, and had to be reduced to a toddler situation in Handan.
Throughout today's high-tech field, there are many similar examples. The successful listing of iPhone4 delighted Jobs, but it brought a big challenge to his rivals. So we saw that Apple released the iPhone4 in the first week of June, and then in the second week of June, RIM announced that it would launch a mobile phone with a slide-out keyboard that works very similar to the iPhone, and also announced that it would develop a tablet computer; Almost at the same time, HTC and Samsung also announced the launch of new mobile phones with Android2. 1 operating system, while HP and Dell indicated that they would launch tablet devices with Android operating system. All these signs can not help but remind people of the "classic idioms" summed up by the ancients 2000 years ago.
4. It is a story in the fable anthology of Zhuangzi that "A trip to Handan" is urgently needed. In this story, a man from Yan came to Handan, the capital of Zhao State, to learn to walk. However, this man not only failed to learn to walk in Handan, but also forgot his original walking method, and finally had to climb back to Yan State step by step.
This kind of thing often happens at school. Once, the art teacher asked everyone to draw a picture casually. A classmate thought about it and didn't know what to draw. At this time, he looked back and saw that the representative of the art class was drawing a fighter plane of his own design. So, he also imitated according to the painting of the class representative ... painting and painting, and he didn't know how to draw. After a while, I heard him exclaim, "Oh, what? How to become four unlike! " . No way, he had to take another piece of paper and draw a fighter plane from beginning to end according to his own ideas. Finally, the teacher gave his painting an "excellent"! Obviously, getting inspiration from others is a way for us to learn, but if we copy it, the result can be imagined.
This kind of thing often happens not only in schools, but also in society.
For example, in recent years, the business philosophy and management methods of foreign enterprises have been more and more recognized by China enterprises. They are eager to learn, learn from and accept, from which we can know what is good, what is advanced and where are our shortcomings. Effective reference and learning can really bring great benefits to the operation of enterprises. However, there is an enterprise that should learn from anyone who is consciously advanced: it took the lead in setting up a local supermarket chain that consumers were not familiar with at that time, took the lead in setting up a local warehouse store, and took the lead in introducing a membership-based customer management model. . Recently, we are actively preparing to build an unprecedented hypermarket. However, the enterprise's management effect is not good and it is heavily in debt. It was dubbed as "people borrow the east wind, he eats the east wind!" . This shows that some enterprises adopt the simplest way to deal with the advanced operation mode and means-imitation, and the initial "sensation" and "success" of imitation really made imitators taste some sweetness and strengthened their confidence in "imitation". Regrettably, many enterprises have gradually exposed the defects of "learning from the East" or even "learning to walk in Handan" after the scenery. Swallow dates, the shape is similar, even the imitation is not good, and the imitation is not in place. Where can there be achievements and benefits?
For another example, there are two adjacent counties with almost the same natural conditions and resources. They are all big agricultural counties and have a tradition of growing cotton. County A shouted the slogan of "learn from Shouguang, Shandong boldly, and realize the great leap of economy", forcing farmers to grow greenhouse vegetables. Driven by * * *' s constant "increasing efforts", greenhouses were set up and vegetables were planted, but in the end they failed because of low enthusiasm of technology and the masses. County B quietly made a fuss about cotton, introduced American insect-resistant cotton, and reduced pesticide input and labor intensity; Three-dimensional planting has been popularized, and two or even three crops a year have been realized, which has increased the benefits; It also makes full use of the by-products of cotton to develop edible fungi breeding, which sings the advantages of cotton. There is nothing wrong with growing vegetables in greenhouses. Shandong Shouguang is a good example. There is nothing wrong with learning Shouguang, but it must be based on the local reality, otherwise it will be like "learning to walk in Handan". If others can't learn, they can't walk out of the original steps.
5. Feeling after reading Walking in Handan (composition). I believe that most people who have seen it will laugh because of what young people do! However, I think that the idea that young people want to learn the advantages of others is the most lacking learning attitude of modern people. But it is wrong for young people to learn from others' advantages and lose their own. There are three reasons: everyone has his own unique side. If you impose the advantages of others on yourself, it will be counterproductive and get bad consequences. Instead of forcing yourself like this, it is better to give play to your own advantages. Every time is very important to us, and time flies. We shouldn't waste such precious time in order to learn the advantages of others. We should use our limited time to do more useful things. In this way, we can add a little luster to our life history. Before you do everything, you should think about the results after you do it. You can't blindly pursue the advantages of others like the young people in the story. Whether it affects me or not, I have lost my own advantages instead of learning from others. Therefore, I should learn from young people's desire to learn, not his stupid methods. I want to learn to have a correct attitude and method of learning, combine with reality, develop my own advantages, learn from others' advantages and apply what I have learned.