Zhao Muhe got his master's degree four years ago. His calligraphy work "Birds and Insects", which was carefully studied the year before last, was sent to the British Library for collection. He also published an autobiography a few months ago. It's hard to imagine this old man in Taiwan Province Province. If the brown spots on the back of his hand reveal traces of time, then he is 102 years old. Nowadays, it is not difficult for Zhao Muhe to go to the vegetable market 10 minutes by bike, but he is over 100 years old. Born in 19 1 1, he came to Taiwan Province Province alone from the mainland at the age of 40 and retired from Kaohsiung Normal University at the age of 66. From the day he took off his work clothes, the wonderful life really began.
At the age of 75, I traveled in poverty and went to Europe alone.
Some young people shouted "pack your bags on your back", but it was too late to leave home. At the age of 75, Zhao Muhe went to a travel agency to get a passport and visa, and embarked on a trip to Europe alone. However, apart from knowing some letters, he can say "yes" and "no" and hardly knows English. He doesn't have much savings, only time is abundant. "If it takes a long time to prepare for a trip abroad, you need to know the language and have money, then you can't go abroad three times in your life." Zhao Muhe said.
He doesn't join the tour group because "it won't be fun". It is not difficult to travel around European countries alone. When he goes to a country, he first finds a restaurant in China and asks the waiter to help him write down the place he wants to go on a piece of paper. Then he can go to the railway station to buy a ticket.
In order to save money, he stayed up all night and lay in an empty seat all night, which was considered as a free hotel. He doesn't care about his 75-year-old body at all, and he can cope with a night curled up in a telephone booth. In Frankfurt, he huddled with a group of grandchildren in a youth hotel and woke up the boys one by one for breakfast the next morning. He never worries about getting lost. "Follow the backpacker and you can go to a good place." In this way, Zhao Muhe, who can't speak English, doesn't have much money and is very old, "single-handedly" played in Europe for five months, visited the Eiffel Tower, visited Shakespeare's former residence and sang songs on the Rhine River.
He went to college at the age of 87 and got a master's degree at the age of 98.
At the age of 87, Zhao Muhe returned to school, but he was no longer a teacher, but a college student. Zhao Muhe didn't intend to go to college at such an age. In order to encourage his grandson, he temporarily signed up to enter the examination room with his grandson. Although both grandparents and grandchildren failed in the first year, Zhao Muhe found that learning is a great secret of staying young. "Use your brain to live." . Like most young people who study hard for the college entrance examination, he often reviews until two in the morning, "all his teeth are gone."
Zhao Muhe, with white hair and dentures, was admitted to the Department of Culture and Art of Taiwan Province Open University. But a professor friend threw cold water on him: "You will never graduate. When you finish reading, I will kneel for you. " Four years later, Grandson attended the graduation ceremony of Grandpa Zhao Muhe. The friend who threw cold water on him smiled and said, "You are so energetic." Zhao Muhe also joked: "Your knees are going to bend down."
At the age of 96, he burned the midnight oil, prepared for three months, and was admitted to the Institute of Philosophy of South China University. Zhao Muhe, who is nearly a hundred years old, is sitting in the classroom with three or four generations behind him. But young people may not keep up with him. When Zhao Muhe's master's degree thesis passed smoothly, some students didn't even come up with the title of the thesis. To this end, a classmate couldn't help sighing in his blog: "It seems that I am still a young man." The 98-year-old president of South China University, with gray temples, put a black square hat on Zhao Muhe with half-white eyebrows. There is also a gap of nearly 40 years between them.
Now, someone will always ask Zhao Muhe if he wants to study for another doctor. He smiled ahaha and quickly waved his hand. "No reading, no reading."
At the age of 93, I volunteered to take care of my younger patients.
At the age of 93, Zhao Muhe went to the hospital as a volunteer. Zhao Muhe, who walks hunchback, helps patients much younger than him to urinate and change diapers. Sleep by the bed at night and stay with me day and night. However, he had an operation on his own gallbladder hydrops. Without telling any acquaintances and friends, he directly asked the family members of the patients in the adjacent bed to sign the operation form for him. Zhao Muhe went home after 20 days in hospital, and his neighbors thought he was "out on a trip again".
The nurses in the hospital watched Zhao Muhe, who was older than their great grandfather, busy in the ward and came to the hospital by bike. Everyone was shocked and advised him not to come again. Zhao Muhe discussed with the hospital with naive ideas: "Why don't I take the bus?" In the end, the hospital refused him to work in the hospital because of his age.
Although years keep getting old, Zhao Muhe seems to have reached an agreement at the same time. Age has not killed his enthusiasm for pursuing life interests. Recently, at the age of 102, he dictated his autobiography "You You 100" to share his dissatisfaction with the old times.