Heidi
Born in Jinan in the autumn of 1955. He suffered from myelopathy at the age of 5 and was paralyzed from the chest down. From then on, Zhang Haidi began her unique life. Unable to attend school, she completed her high school education at home. At the age of 15, Heidi followed her parents and was sent to the countryside of Liaocheng (Shandong) to teach their children. She also taught herself acupuncture and treated villagers free of charge. Later, Zhang Haidi taught himself many foreign languages ??and worked as a radio repairman.
1. When Qu Yuan was a child, he ignored the objections of his elders and hid in a cave to secretly read the Book of Songs no matter it was windy, rainy or freezing. After three full years, he read 305 chapters of the Book of Songs, absorbed rich nutrition from these folk songs, and finally became a great poet.
2 Wang Shipeng has been very smart since he was a child, and his writing skills are quick, but his calligraphy is not satisfactory. So, he made up his mind to practice calligraphy well. Finally, under the guidance of Uncle Baoyin, he finally realized the true meaning of calligraphy and became a great calligrapher and writer.
3 Chen Sheng: When he was young, he was not satisfied with being a servant cultivator. He had lofty ambitions, "How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan?", and later led the first peasant uprising in history.
4 Bruno: A great scientist during the Italian Renaissance. He bravely defended and developed Copernicus' heliocentric theory, never flinched in the face of being burned at the stake, and sacrificed his precious life for the truth. He is a martyr who defends the truth
5 Dai Zhen: He is good at asking questions. When he was a child, he read Zhu Xi's "The Great Learning" and asked when "The Great Learning" was written and when Zhu Zi was born. The tutor told him that "The Great Learning" was written in the Zhou Dynasty and that Zhu Xi was a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty. He then asked how people in the Song Dynasty could know the meaning of the author more than a thousand years ago. He eventually became a great scholar in the Qing Dynasty.
6 Sima Qian: After enduring the torture of castration and prison, he did not give up on himself and wrote the historical masterpiece "Historical Records" that will be famous throughout the ages.
7 Wen Tianxiang: Organized forces to resist the Yuan Dynasty, but failed and was captured. Faced with the coercion and inducement of the Yuan Dynasty, he refused to surrender and finally died heroically.
3. Visit to Mozart
Around this time, he visited Vienna for the first time in his life to play for his most admired idol, Mozart. Mozart thought that the boy was just playing a virtuosic showpiece that he had long practiced for such occasions, and out of politeness he had to praise him politely but coldly. Young Beethoven got angry and asked Mozart to give him a theme, which he then improvised on with so much emotion and genius. Mozart was so surprised that he immediately ran to the door of the next room. "Pay attention to this young man," he shouted to a group of friends who were partying inside. "One day the whole world will hear his voice!"
4. Beethoven and Haydn
Beethoven finally understood that he could not make greater progress in his hometown, so he decided to go to Vienna to seek his luck. Mozart was dead by this time, but Haydn had just won his first London victory and was at the height of his fame. When passing through Bonn, Haydn had heard and praised one of Beethoven's cantatas, so Beethoven decided to turn to Haydn to learn first. Haydn was by this time long past his youth and working more diligently than ever in composing and conducting his greatest works. No wonder he didn't have much time and energy to correct papers. Moreover, he requires students to pay only 20 cents for each class. He probably feels that there is no need to spend too much time on practice papers. So Beethoven often found some uncorrected mistakes in his practice, and he was very angry. When the old teacher set off for a second visit to London, Beethoven turned to a less gifted but strict teacher. Later he often loudly declared that he had learned nothing from Haydn. Before long, however, he must have come to feel that, if he had gained nothing from corrective exercises, he had derived inspiration from Haydn, to whom he had dedicated his first piano sonatas. And when Haydn appeared on stage for the last time for his performance of Genesis and was helped out by several of his servants, Beethoven bent down and kissed the frail old man affectionately.
5. Go his own way
Beethoven did not want to be a favorite in the living room. He would rather be in his own residence, able to come in and out, get up, dress and eat as he pleased. . He likes to mess around with trivial matters in the room according to his own interests.
Once, in order to allow air circulation and see the scenery outside the window clearly, he deliberately cut off a piece of the window. He was always having troubles with his landlords and was constantly moving. Whenever he was at the height of his creativity, he would pour basin after basin of water over his head to cool it down, until the water soaked into the rooms downstairs - one can only imagine the mood of the landlord and other tenants. ! Sometimes he moved so frequently that he wouldn't even bother putting the legs up on the piano and would just sit on the floor and play it. Since he had to sign a lease specifying the lease term every time he rented a new house, he often paid rent for four apartments at the same time. This is probably the reason why although he earns a lot of money, he never has much savings!
6. Deafness
When he really felt that his ears were getting deafer, he almost despaired. Life seemed not worth living: what could be more unfortunate for a musician than not being able to hear the sweet sound he loved to hear and by which he lived! At first, only a few old friends such as Dr. Wigler and Stephan von Breuning knew about his misfortune. He gave up going to the palaces to hear the cheerful concerts which he loved so much. He was afraid that people would notice his deafness, thinking that a musician who could not hear the sound could not write good works. No! He thought of all the music he wanted to write, "I want to grab fate by the throat!" Maybe for him, composing music when he was deaf was not as difficult as other musicians. In his view, music is not only the use of charming sounds to arrange various themes or sound patterns, it is also a language that expresses the most profound thoughts.
7. Beethoven and his friends
No musician has so much success and so few happy days in his life as he did. His friends were kind and loyal, but his cursed deafness separated him from them. Even his hearing aids tended to fail him, so his only way to stay in touch with them was the "conversation pad" and pencil he always carried with him. He saw them talking to each other and thought they were always talking about him, speaking ill of him, and plotting against him. One day he wrote: "Never show your face to me again! You are a mean dog, a dishonest fellow!" The next day, when he found that his suspicions were wrong and his friends were sincere At that time, he wrote another note: "Dear friend, you are an honest man, and you are right. I understand now. So come to me this afternoon and receive your Beethoven love." And. His friends--and what good people they were--always forgave his rough quarrels and stayed with him to the end. His family life was miserable from beginning to end: he never married. When he first arrived in Vienna, he proposed to Magdalene Willman, a singer from his own hometown, but she refused because Beethoven was "too ugly." Since then, he has fallen in love with several aristocratic women - lovely women with lovely names - and he confided in them with music, but they accepted his music and rejected his love!