be sure of oneself
Li Siguang doesn't believe that foreigners believe in themselves.
Li Siguang, Zhong You, Huanggang, Hubei. Zhuo is a scientist and the founder of geomechanics.
Before the 1920s, there was a long-standing popular view in international geological geography that there were no Quaternary glaciers in China. Li Siguang believes that foreign geologists have not made a serious investigation. Why is there no Quaternary glacier in China? He doesn't trust foreigners. 192 1 year, Li Siguang personally went to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain in Hebei Province for geological survey. From 1933 to 1934, he visited Lushan, Jiuhua, Tianmu and Huangshan in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then wrote a paper to prove that Quaternary glaciers existed widely in North China and the Yangtze River basin. 1939, he published "Sinian Glacier in China" in the World Geological Society, and confirmed the existence of glacier relics in China with a large number of empirical evidence, which is a great contribution to geology, geography and anthropology.
At the beginning of the 20th century, American Mobil Oil Company drilled wells in western China to find oil, but found nothing. So a group of western scholars, led by Professor Blackwell in the United States, asserted that China has no oil underground and China is a "poor oil country".
Li Siguang, a young geologist, does not believe this evil: Mobil's failure cannot lead to the conclusion that there is no oil underground in China. He said: I don't believe this. Is oil only born underground in the west? Dominated by this strong self-confidence, he began his oil-seeking career for 30 years. He discovered Daqing Oilfield, Dagang Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield, Huabei Oilfield and Jianghan Oilfield with the theory of geological subsidence. He also foresaw oil in the northwest. The large oil field in Xinjiang being developed today also fully confirmed his prediction.
Li Siguang completely shattered "China's theory of being poor in oil" with self-confidence and self-improvement.
A confident person in trouble.
There are a group of people in the world who are full of self-confidence, self-improvement, and strive for progress. Despite adversity, they have finally achieved brilliant achievements. Demosthenes, a famous orator in ancient Greece, suffered from stuttering, stuttering and weak voice when he was young. His speeches are often booed. He always has confidence in himself. In order to overcome the disease, he has pebbles in his mouth and shouts for practice every morning. Finally, he became an eloquent speaker.
Helen Clara, a famous American woman writer, was deaf and blind due to illness in her childhood. She is confident and self-reliant. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, she is proficient in many foreign languages and is familiar with German, French, ancient Rome and Greek literature. At the age of 20, he was admitted to the famous Harvard University. Later he became a famous writer.
The famous German astronomer Kepler. When I was 4 years old, I had smallpox, which left me with dangerous sequelae. Later, I got scarlet fever, my eyes were damaged by high fever, and I was highly nearsighted. He suffered from illness all his life. But he never lost confidence, and he was fearless and high-spirited in the poverty and illness of more than 0 years. Three laws of planetary motion were established, which laid the foundation for Newton to discover universal gravitation. His important works include Mystery of the Universe, Summary of Copernican Astronomy, Harmony of the Universe, etc.
Taha husayn, an Egyptian writer and literary critic, was blind at the age of three. Tough and confident, he studied in France and became the first doctor in Egyptian history. His works include The Call of the Partridge, The Unfortunate Tree, Lovelorn and Autobiographical Days. He also wrote a large number of works such as literary criticism "Literature in the Pre-Islamic Era" and "History of Arabic Literature", which is known as "the pillar of Arabic literature".
It is not uncommon to lose confidence in adversity: Zhang Haidi was paraplegic due to illness in her childhood, and she worked hard to become a writer and translator with confidence; Gao Shiqi, known as the "Iron Man" in science and technology, has created more than 600,000 words of scientific essays and popular science papers, more than 2,000 lines of poems and more than a dozen new books under the condition that his illness has been deteriorating, from paraplegia to complete paralysis and loss of speech ability. Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote Li Sao. Sun Tzu wrote Sun Bin's Art of War after receiving the model; Sima Qian wrote historical records in a palace; Beethoven wrote this heroic symphony after he was deaf. When ostrovsky was writing How Steel was Tempered, he was blind and paralyzed.
independent
The phenomenon of "tiger father and tiger son"
During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei was a generation of heroes. From selling shoes and weaving mats to becoming the Emperor of Shu Han, he traveled all his life. But his son Liu Chan is an incompetent person. Even a man of great wisdom and courage like Zhuge Liang can't help him, commonly known as "A Dou who can't help". The world once lamented: why did the tiger father have this son!
Zhou Yu, another wizard in the Three Kingdoms period, was a famous Dongwu star and resourceful. In the Battle of Red Cliffs, he defeated Cao Jun with fire and became famous all over the world. His son Zhou Yin was sealed for nothing, but he relied on his father's merits. He was dissolute and indulgent, abolished politics, raped his wife and daughter, and was exiled to Luling County. Sun Quan once pointed out the reason for losing power and influence: "In the past, Yin was young and had no achievements at the beginning. He is a good soldier. He is waiting for the generals. He thought of Gong Jin and Ziyin and relied on it. He was addicted to prostitution. "
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, was brilliant. Outstanding among the emperors of this country. But none of his 14 sons was a loser, three were killed, three committed suicide, three died young, one was confined, two were exiled, and the other two were mediocre, incompetent and confused.
Kou Zhun, a famous star in the Northern Song Dynasty, could not stand on his own feet, relying on the merits of his ancestors. However, 30 years later, his family declined and became a common people.
The phenomenon of "like mother, like son" illustrates a truth: you will accomplish nothing without the protection of your ancestors.
Shakespeare left home and came into this world.
Shakespeare was born in a wealthy family in England. /kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, he dropped out of school to help his father manage his business. /kloc-left home at the age of 0/6 and went out to make a living alone. In front of a theater in London, I look after horses for gentlemen attending the theater, do odd jobs in the theater, and sometimes take messages to the actors or run away. In addition, I worked as an apprentice in a slaughterhouse, helped others to work as a buddhist nun, worked as a rural teacher, worked as a soldier, worked as a lawyer, and worked as a small official. In order to make a living, he swam across the English Channel and went to Holland and Italy.
Li has enriched his life experience and increased his talent in the struggle to make a living independently. It laid the foundation for his later creation of a large number of famous tragicomedy such as Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet.
Concentrate
Liu Shu is a bookworm.
Liu Shu, a historian of the Northern Song Dynasty. He is the author of Records of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Notes on the Mirror, Chronology of Doubts, Chronology and so on. Assist Sima Guang in compiling Zi Tong Zhi Jian. Liu Shu has been studying hard since he was a child. At the age of eight, several scholars came to his house. During the chat, one said, "Confucius is an only child." He couldn't help interrupting: "Didn't Confucius say in The Analects that he married his brother's daughter to Nan Rong?" Those scholars are surprised and ashamed, and they have studied so deeply at an early age, which shows that he is not only clever but also careful and serious, and deeply feels that he is too old.
Song Cidao, who was an official in Bozhou at that time, was a scholar with a lot of books at home. Liu Shu went straight to borrow books. Song Ci Road treats people with delicious food and wine. Insist that Song quit drinking and food and said, "I came to your home to study. If I enjoy wine and food, I will miss my business! " So he plunged into the stacks and was fascinated by the dazzling array of books. Day and night, crazy reading. This persisted for more than ten days, and he didn't walk out of the stacks until he had read all the urgently needed books. His eyes were red when he left.
Archimedes was absorbed in his research.
Archimedes, a famous ancient Greek scholar, was obsessed with the study of physics and mathematics. One day, he went to the public bathroom to take a bath. When he was sitting in the bathtub, he found that the water was overflowing. He suddenly rushed out of the bathroom naked, running and shouting: "found it!" Found it! " Inspired by the bathtub, he discovered the basic principle of fluid mechanics, and thus found the secret of the silversmith mixing silver in the golden crown, so he was very excited.
When Rome invaded the ancient city of Shanghai, Archimedes attacked the Romanian fleet with levers and pulleys, which delayed the fall of the ancient city of Shanghai for two years. Later, the Roman army finally took advantage of the negligence of the defenders and crossed the city into Syracuse. When Roman soldiers appeared in front of Archimedes, he was absorbed in sitting on the sand, drawing circles and studying geometric problems. He saw Roman soldiers with swords and said to them, "Please start slowly and let me finish this problem."
Balzac and Flaubert's hallucinations
Balconk and Flaubert are both famous French writers in the19th century. When they start writing, they seem to be possessed. They often have hallucinations about the people depicted in their books.
Once, a friend visited Balzac. When the friend knocked at the door, he heard Balzac arguing fiercely with others: "You villain, this must give you some strength!" " "His friend anxiously pushed the door and went in. It turns out that Balzac is quarrelling with the characters in his works. On another occasion, Balzac suddenly walked up to a friend who was visiting his house and said excitedly, "It was you, it was you who made this unfortunate girl commit suicide!" " "The friend panicked and looked at him with an open mouth for no reason. It turns out that Balzac's girl is the character Eugénie in his novel Eugenie Grandet.
Flaubert has the same situation. Flaubert's friends visited him once. I saw Flaubert sitting on the floor crying, tears streaming down her face. It's heartbreaking. The friend shook his shoulder with his hand and asked him why he was so sad.
Flaubert replied sadly, "Madame Bovary is dead!" " ""Which Madame Bovary? " The friend asked incredulously. Flaubert painfully pointed to a large roll of manuscript paper on the table and said, "That's my Madame Bovary!" " "His friend realized that it was the hero in the novel who died. He said to him, "Why are you sad? If you don't want her to die, just write that she is alive! " Flaubert said sadly: "Write here, she must die, she can't live any longer!" " "
Balzac and Flaubert's works are famous all over the world for their persistent pursuit of perfection and obsession with deliberately shaping characters.
Elegant taste
Bing Xin loves roses.
Xie Bingxin, a famous modern female writer in China, loves roses. In the 1920s, she planted many German white roses in front of her earth-shattering home. These flowers are very big and last for a long time. From March to September, fresh roses are usually put in vases at home as gifts for relatives and friends.
After liberation, she came back from abroad. Because she lives upstairs, she has no land to grow roses. It happened that two young people downstairs, both rose lovers, planted all kinds of roses in the garden. They know that Bing Xin loves roses and sends a handful of fresh roses with dewdrops every morning. The two companies take turns delivering goods, from the first one in spring to the last one in autumn, even when she is in hospital. This is Bing Xin's first pleasure every day. She once described her mood like this: "When I get up early every morning, when I am still washing and dressing up, as long as I hear a gentle knock on the door, my joy will overflow like spring ..."
Bing Xin's love for roses was planted when she read A Dream of Red Mansions in her childhood. In this book, Xiaoxing describes a vivid sentence describing Tan Chun: "The mixed name of three girls is' Rose', which is red and fragrant, and everyone loves it, but it is stabbed by thorns ..." From then on, she fell in love with this gorgeous and powerful flower.
Zheng Zhenduo loves books.
Juan Zhenduo, pen name Xidi, is a famous writer, scholar and literary historian. I love books, and my family is rich in books. 1937, when the Japanese attacked Shanghai, Juan Zhenduo stored more than 100 boxes of ancient books in the Ming Kai Bookstore in Hongkou, which was burned by the war. He deeply regrets this. When Shanghai became an island, he still bought many books. Seeing that China Bookstore wanted to sell a large number of ancient books to paper mills, he took out 6,000 yuan from a family of ten to buy rations and bought more than 700 kinds of ancient books. 1958 On the way to visit abroad, Juan Zhenduo donated100000 copies of Zheng's books to the country at one time after being killed in a plane crash.
Love books more than money.
Qian Zhongshu, a famous contemporary writer and scholar in China, and his wife, Jiang Yang, are fond of books and indifferent to fame and fortune. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to work in the May 7th Cadre School and lived in a small room. They don't care. What upset him most was that he didn't go to school. Jiang Yang wrote with emotion in Six Chapters of Cadre School: "I am willing to give up all material comforts, but I can't live without books." Foreign publishers give them remuneration, and the old couple don't accept cash, but write a book list and ask the other party to pay in kind.
They are extremely indifferent to one thing outside, and the American authorities encouraged them to give lectures on the condition of granting them an honorary doctorate in literature and generous remuneration, but they were rejected. The French government wanted to award Qian Zhongshu a medal in recognition of his "contribution to Sino-French cultural exchanges", and he also insisted. After Fortress Besieged was made into a TV series, the TV station paid him the remuneration, but Qian Zhongshu insisted on not accepting it. 18 domestic TV stations jointly filmed Who's Who in Contemporary China Culture, and Qian Zhongshu was included in the first batch of 36 people, but he declined politely. When someone told him that photographers would be paid, Qian Zhongshu smiled: "My family name is Qian all my life. Do I still believe in money? "
choose
Lu Xun abandoned medicine and joined literature.
Lu Xun originally went to Japan to study medicine with the original intention of saving the country with medicine. When he saw from Japanese movies that China people were beheaded by the Japanese army, he was surrounded by compatriots who were numb and watching, and his heart was greatly shocked. He felt: "All stupid and weak citizens, even if they are strong, can only be meaningless propaganda materials or spectators, and there is no need to be unfortunate when they die." He believes that only literature and art can change people's mental state. Li abandoned medicine and went into literature.
Lu Xun eventually became a great modern writer, thinker and revolutionary.
Our cause is in the motherland.
1997,247 people studying in France returned to China. Many of them have stable jobs and rich incomes in France, but they still choose to return to their motherland to participate in construction. They are all people with expertise in learning. Some of them are experts at the forefront of some sciences, such as Han, a former researcher at the French Institute of Vascular and Hematology, who won the French National Award. Yu Dehui, as the first inventor in France, applied for three environmental protection patents; Zhongrong Zhou, who made an important contribution to the formation of French friction school; Lin Ruichao, who has made outstanding achievements in the study of chemical composition and principle of medicinal plant dark green roll; There is also Mohong who has made new discoveries in condensed matter physics.
They decided to give up their high salary and excellent living conditions and resolutely chose to return to the motherland, mainly because they deeply felt that their roots were in China and their career was in China.
Darwin's choice
Darwin's father is a famous doctor, and he hopes his son will follow in his footsteps and become a doctor. But Darwin didn't want to study medicine and collected dynamic specimens all day. His father was very helpless and sent him to a seminary, hoping that he would become a priest in the future. However, he is not interested in priests. After graduating from Christian College in Cambridge, he boarded the naval adventure ship "Berg" and traveled around the world for five years, making a lot of observations and collections in animals, plants and geology. After comprehensive discussion, the concept of biological evolution was formed. In 1859, the representative work of biological evolution, Origin of Species, was published, which shocked the academic circles at that time. The theory of biological evolution is one of the three major discoveries of natural science in the19th century.
happy
The wind burns in the fire.
Young women workers in the 1950s saw that burning alcohol was about to flow to sodium metal. If sodium metal catches fire and explodes, not only will the whole factory be lost, but also the lives of nearby residents and workers' brothers and sisters will be seriously threatened, which will bring great disasters to countless happy families. For the sake of his own happiness, Xiang threw himself into the fire, blocked the burning alcohol with his own body, won precious time for fire fighting, prevented a huge disaster and saved many happy families. But she died of serious injuries, and Xiang lived in the fire forever. People praised her as "the wind burning in the fire".
The happiness of the people is above everything else.
Lei Feng wrote in his diary: "It is the luckiest thing to put revolutionary interests first and dedicate everything to the cause of the party." He thinks of the interests of people everywhere. On holidays, he automatically goes to the station to serve passengers; He saved money for the people in the disaster area and his comrades-in-arms who were in trouble by saving money. When he passed by the construction site to see a doctor, he took the initiative to participate in the construction site labor; Wherever he goes, he does good deeds. He believes that life is meaningful and true happiness.