self-confidence
Li Siguang doesn't believe foreigners believe in himself
Li Siguang, a native of Huanggang, Hubei. Zhuo Yueyue is a scientist and the founder of geomechanics.
Before the 192s, there was a long-standing popular view in the international geological and geographical circles that there were no Quaternary glaciers in China. Li Siguang thought: Foreign geologists have not made a serious investigation. Why do you say that there are no Quaternary glaciers in China? He didn't believe in foreigners. In 1921, Li Siguang personally went to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain in Hebei Province for geological investigation. From 1933 to 1934, he went to Lushan Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain, Tianmu Mountain and Huangshan Mountain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for investigation, and then wrote a paper to demonstrate that Quaternary glaciers were widespread in North China and the Yangtze River Basin. In 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 positive examples, which was a great contribution to geology, geography and anthropology.
At the beginning of the 2th century, American Mobil Oil Company tried to drill wells in the west of China to find oil, but found nothing. So a group of western scholars, led by Professor Blackwell in the United States, asserted that there is no oil underground in China and China is a "oil-poor country".
Li Siguang, a young geologist, just doesn't believe this evil: Mobil's failure can't conclude that there is no oil underground in China. He said: I don't believe this. Is oil only born underground in the west? Under the control of this strong self-confidence, he began his oil-seeking career for 3 years. He used the theory of geological subsidence to discover Daqing Oilfield, Dagang Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield, Huabei Oilfield and Jianghan Oilfield. He also foresaw that there was 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" by self-confidence and self-improvement.
People who are full of self-confidence in adversity
There are a group of people in the world who are full of self-confidence, self-improvement, striving for progress and finally achieving brilliant achievements. Demosthenes, a famous orator in ancient Greece, was originally suffering from stuttering, stuttering when he was young, and his voice was weak. His speeches were often booed. He always had confidence in himself. In order to overcome his illness, he used pebbles in his mouth every morning and shouted for practice. Finally, he became an eloquent and 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. At the age of 14, she has mastered many foreign languages and is familiar with German, French, ancient Rome and Greek literature. At the age of 2, 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 came out with smallpox, which left me with a dangerous hangover. Later, I suffered from scarlet fever, and my eyes were damaged by high fever, which made me highly nearsighted. He suffered from illness all his life. But he never lost confidence, and he was fearless and high-spirited in poverty and illness for more than years. Three laws of planetary motion were established, which laid the foundation for Newton's discovery of gravity. Important works include Mystery of the Universe, Summary of Copernican Astronomy, Cosmic Harmony and so on.
Taha Hussein, an Egyptian writer and literary critic, was blind when he was three years old. He was tenacious and confident, studied in France and became the first doctor in Egyptian history. His works include the novel The Call of the Partridge, The Unfortunate Tree, Lost Love and autobiographical Days. He has also written 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 Arab literature".
It is not uncommon to lose confidence in adversity: Zhang Haidi was paraplegic due to illness in her childhood, and she worked hard with confidence to become a writer and translator; Gao Shiqi, known as the "Iron Man" in science and technology, has created more than 6, words of scientific essays and popular science papers, more than 2, lines of poems and more than a dozen new books when his condition has been deteriorating, from paraplegia to total paralysis and loss of speech ability. Qu Yuan was exiled and written as Li Sao; Sun Tzu wrote "Sun Bin's Art of War" after receiving the model; Sima Qian was palace-shaped to write Historical Records; Beethoven composed the Heroic Symphony after he was deaf. Ostrovsky was blind and paralyzed when he wrote How Steel was Tempered.
Self-reliance
The phenomenon of "tiger father and dog son"
Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period was a generation of heroes, who traveled all his life from selling shoes and weaving mats to becoming the Emperor of Shu Han. But his son, Liu Chan, is an incompetent man. 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 sighed: why does the tiger father have such a son!
Zhou Yu, another wizard in the Three Kingdoms period, was a famous and resourceful Dongwu. He defeated Cao Jun with fire in Battle of Red Cliffs and became famous all over the world. His son, Zhou Yin, was sealed in vain, but he relied on his father's merits. He was dissolute and self-indulgent, wasted in politics, raped his wife and daughter, and was exiled to Luling County. Sun Quan once pointed out the reason for Zhou Yin's fall: "In the past, Yin was young and didn't make any contribution at the beginning. He was a good soldier, and he was waiting for the generals. He remembered Gong Jin and Zi Yin and relied on this, and he was addicted to prostitution."
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, was brilliant. Outstanding among the emperors of the country. But none of his 14 sons were successful, three were killed, three committed suicide, three died young, one was confined, two were exiled, and the other two were mediocre and incompetent.
Kou Zhun, a famous figure in the Northern Song Dynasty, relied on the merits of his ancestors and could not stand on his own feet. However, in 3 years, his family fortune declined and he became a common people.
The phenomenon of "like a tiger father and like a son" illustrates the truth that you will never achieve anything without relying on the shade of your ancestors.
Shakespeare left home for the world
Shakespeare was born in a wealthy family in England. At the age of 13, he left school to help his father take care of his business. He left home at the age of 16 and went out to make a living alone. In front of a theatre in London, I look after horses for gentlemen attending the theatre, do odd jobs in the theatre, and sometimes give words to actors or run away. In addition, I worked as an apprentice in a slaughterhouse, helped others do Nunnery, worked as a rural teacher, served as a soldier, worked as a lawyer, and served 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.
dedicated
bookish Liu Shu
Liu Shu, a historian of the Northern Song Dynasty. He is the author of Chronicles of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Notes on a Mirror, Chronology of Doubts and Chronology of Years. Assist Sima Guang in compiling Zi Zhi Tong Jian. Liu Shu has been studying hard since he was a child. At the age of eight, several scholars came to his home. During the chat, one said, "Confucius is an only child." He couldn't help but interject: "Didn't Confucius say in The Analects that he married his brother's daughter to Nan Rong?" Those scholars were surprised and ashamed, and they studied so deeply at an early age, which shows that he is not only clever but also attentive and serious, and deeply feels that his age is too long.
Song Cidao, an official in Bozhou at that time, was a scholar with a large collection of books at home. Liu Shu went all the way to borrow books. Song Cidao entertained with delicious food and wine. Liu Shu insisted on Song's withdrawal of wine and food, saying, "I came to your house for studying. If I enjoy wine and food, I will miss my business!" So he plunged into the stacks, and he was fascinated by the dazzling array of books. Day and night, reading like crazy. After insisting on this for more than ten days, he didn't walk out of the stacks until he had read all the books he needed urgently. When he left, his eyes were red.
Archimedes concentrated on his studies
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 sat in the bathtub, he found that the pool water was overflowing. He suddenly rushed out of the bathroom naked and shouted as he ran: "Found it! Found it! " He was inspired by the bathtub and discovered the basic principle of fluid mechanics, thus finding the secret of the silversmith mixing silver in the golden crown, so he was very excited.
when Rome invaded the ancient city of shanglaila, Archimedes used levers and pulleys to attack the Romanian fleet, which delayed the fall of the ancient city of shanglaila 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 in front of 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."
the illusion of Balzac and Flaubert
Balconk and Flaubert are both famous French writers in the 19th century. As soon as they started writing, they seemed to be possessed. Often to the point of hallucinating the people they portray in their books.
once, a friend visited Balzac. When this friend knocked at the door, he heard Balzac having a fierce argument with others: "You villain, this must give you some power!" " His friend anxiously pushed the door and went in. It turned out that Balzac was 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, "You, you, made this unfortunate girl commit suicide!" " The friend panicked and looked at him with his mouth wide open for no reason. It turns out that Balzac's girl is the character Eugénie in his novel Eugénie Grandet.
Flaubert has the same situation. Flaubert's friends visited him once. I saw Flaubert sitting on the floor crying, tears pouring down his face. It was really heartbreaking. The friend shook his shoulder hard 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 be sad? You don't want her to die, write her live! " Flaubert said sadly, "Write here, she must die, she can't live any more!" "
Balzac and Flaubert's works are famous all over the world because of their persistent pursuit of perfection and their obsession with deliberately shaping characters.
Elegant taste
Bing Xin loves roses
Xie Bingxin, a famous modern female writer in China, loves roses. In the 192s, she planted many German white roses in front of her earth-shattering home. The flowers were very big and lasted for a long time. From March to September, fresh roses were often kept in vases at home and used as gifts for relatives and friends.
After liberation, she came back from abroad. Because she lived upstairs, she had no land to grow roses. As it happens, two young people downstairs, both lovers of roses, planted all kinds of roses in the garden. They know that Bing Xin loves roses and sends a handful of fresh roses with dew every morning. The two took turns delivering them, from the first one that opened in spring to the last one in autumn, even when she was in hospital. This is Bing Xin's first big pleasure every day. She once described her mood at that time as follows: "When I get up early every morning, when I am still washing and grooming, as long as I hear a gentle knock on the door, my joy will overflow like a spring ..."
Bing Xin loves roses or the seeds she planted when she read A Dream of Red Mansions in her childhood. In this book, the vivid sentence describing Tan Chun by Xiao Xing-er is described: "The mixed name of the three girls is' Rose', which is red and fragrant, and everyone loves it, but it is pricked by thorns ..." From then on, she fell in love with this gorgeous and powerful flower.
Zheng Zhenduo loves books
Juan Zhenduo, whose pen name is Sidi, is a famous writer, scholar and literary historian. I love books, and I have a rich collection of books at home. In 1937, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai, and Juan Zhenduo stored more than 1 boxes of ancient books in Hongkou Kaiming Bookstore, which was burned down by the war. He deplored it. When Shanghai became an island, he still bought a lot of books. When he saw that China Bookstore was going to sell a large number of ancient books to the paper mill, he took out 6, yuan from the family of ten to buy rations and bought more than 7 kinds of ancient books. On the way to visit abroad in 1958, Juan Zhenduo was killed in a plane crash, and his lost people donated more than 1, copies of Zheng's books to the country at one time.
Love books rather than money
Qian Zhongshu, a famous contemporary writer and scholar in China, and his wife Yang Jiang love books like life and are indifferent to fame and fortune. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the "May 7th Cadre School" to work and lived in a hut. They didn't care. What made him feel most uncomfortable was that he didn't enroll. Yang Jiang 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 take cash, but write a list of books and ask the other party to pay in kind.
They are extremely indifferent to one thing outside their body. The relevant authorities in the United States urged them to give lectures on the condition that they were awarded the honorary doctorate in literature and generous remuneration, but they were rejected. The French government wants 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. Eighteen domestic TV stations jointly filmed Who's Who of Contemporary Chinese Culture, and Qian Zhongshu was included in the first batch of 36 people, but he declined politely. When someone told him that the photographer would get a reward, Qian Zhongshu smiled: "I have been surnamed money all my life. Do I still believe in money?"
choose
Lu Xun gave up medicine and went to literature
Lu Xun originally went to Japan to study medicine with the original intention of saving the country with medicine. When he saw from the Japanese movies that China people were beheaded by the Japanese army for public display, he was surrounded by compatriots who were numb and watched the excitement, and his heart was greatly shaken. He felt: "All stupid and weak nationals, even if they are physically strong, can only do meaningless publicity materials or spectators, and it is not necessary to be unfortunate to die." He believes that only literature and art can change people's mental state. Li gave up medicine and turned to literary creation.
Lu Xun finally became a great modern writer, thinker and revolutionary.
Our cause is in the motherland
In 1997, 247 people studying in France returned to China. Many of them had stable jobs and rich income in France, but they still chose to return to the 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 Zhongchao, a former researcher at the French Institute of Vascular and Hematology, who won the national prize in France; Yu Dehui, who applied for three environmental protection patents as the first inventor in France; Zhongrong Zhou, who made important contributions to the formation of the Frenching Friction School in France; Lin Ruichao, who has made outstanding achievements in the study of the chemical composition and principle of dark green rolls of medicinal plants; and Mo Hong, who has made new discoveries in the study of condensed physics.
The main reason why they decided to give up their high salary and excellent living conditions and resolutely choose to return to the motherland is that they deeply feel that their roots are in China and their career is in China.
Darwin's choice
Darwin's father is a famous doctor, and he hopes his son will follow his own career and become a doctor. But Darwin didn't want to study medicine, and he collected dynamic specimens all day. His father was helpless and sent him to a seminary, hoping that he would become a priest in the future. However, his interest was not in priests. After graduating from Christian College in Cambridge, he boarded the naval exploration ship "Berg" for a five-year round-the-world trip, and made a lot of observations and collections in animals, plants and geology. After comprehensive discussion, the concept of biological evolution was formed. In 1859, he published a masterpiece of biological evolution, The Origin of Species, which shocked the academic circles at that time. The theory of biological evolution is one of the three great discoveries of natural science in the 19th century.
Happiness
Wind Burning in the Fire
xiang xiuli, a young female worker in the 195s, saw that the burning alcohol was about to flow to sodium metal. If sodium metal caught fire and exploded, not only the whole factory building would be lost, but also the nearby residents and workers' brothers and sisters.