Who's Zhong Daolong?

Self-taught English at the age of 45 and became an interpreter a year later; A computer language repeater is designed and invented.

At the age of 52, he taught himself computers and became a computer writer. For more than ten years, he has written and translated more than 30 books.

At the age of 57, he studied memory methods, and now he can recite more than 4000 pi;

Professor Zhong Daolong, Major General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, expert in communication engineering, founder of reverse English and inventor of repeater. The university is an excellent student, the work is an excellent scientific and technological worker, the teaching is a mentor and a good retired cadre after retirement; He was also selected as the son of the East because of his outstanding achievements and far-reaching influence.

193465438+February 3 1 was born in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province. After nearly 70 years of ups and downs, he has made remarkable achievements in his studies and career through unremitting efforts. Respectable titles such as general, professor, educator and scientist are closely related to his almost legendary life.

195 1 year, when the Korean War broke out, MacArthur shouted arrogantly, "The Yalu River will not be the boundary line between China and North Korea." The country is in danger, the people are in danger, and the blood of serving the motherland and defending the hometown is full of young chests. In response to the call to resist US aggression and aid Korea, Zhong Daolong joined the China People's Liberation Army. In the army as a telegraph and maintenance work.

1952, Zhong Daolong was lucky enough to study in the Cable Department of Communication Engineering College of China People's Liberation Army. During his school years, he studied hard, accumulated profound cultural and theoretical knowledge, and set up a lofty ideal of serving the country and the people. These positive preparations laid a solid foundation for his future work and study.

1958 All courses and exams were excellent within five years after graduation, and he was rated as an "excellent student". After graduation, he has been engaged in national defense communication engineering construction, scientific research management and teaching management for a long time. He has served as chief engineer (senior engineer) of General Staff Communication Design Institute, director of Science and Technology Bureau of General Staff Communication Department, vice president (professor) of China People's Liberation Army Communication Engineering College, deputy director of Communication Branch of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and deputy head of National Science and Technology Progress Award and Invention Award.

1958 to 1976, engaged in the investigation, design and construction of national defense communication engineering in northwest Gobi desert, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and inland ravines. During this period, he wrote more than 2 million words of special summaries and monographs, and carried out more than a dozen successful technological innovations, most of which were promoted nationwide after national appraisal.

1978, because of his outstanding achievements in scientific and technological work, he participated in the Communications Department of the General Staff Department and the General Staff Science and Technology Conference and was rated as an advanced scientific and technological worker.

From 65438 to 0979, Zhong Daolong visited France and Germany as a communication expert. He studied Russian in college and taught himself English at work. He can't listen and speak every day, so he must stay with the translator. Every time he goes out, he puts a note in his pocket, "I'm staying at XX Hotel, and I'm lost. Please take me back. " Zhong Daolong's inner sense of humiliation arises spontaneously: "As a senior engineer and chief engineer in China, I have only such a level of English, which is almost the same as illiteracy. What will foreigners think of us in China and China? " After returning home, Professor Zhong made up his mind to learn English well.

That year, he was 45.

Zhong Daolong will never forget this day. Because it was on this day that he finally realized the correct way to learn oral English listening, that is, the English reverse learning method he summarized and vigorously promoted now. His inspiration came from listening to Peking Opera, which Zhong Daolong liked very much since he was a child. At that time, his father, a famous professor in Tsinghua, brought him and his mother from rural Zhejiang to Beijing. He was fascinated by Beijing opera from the beginning, but he couldn't understand the lyrics. Until the 1960s, he became neighbors with a Beijing opera fan. The neighbors adopted the analytical method, that is, listening one by one, sentence by sentence, until they understood. After listening to another play, they are almost the same. The experience of learning to listen to Peking Opera once again inspired him to learn English well. On this basis, he insisted on starting from scratch and listening to the original phonetic symbols. He put the textbook aside, insisted on listening to the tape and wrote it down silently. He repeats what he doesn't understand until he understands it. Listen to sentences and articles slowly. He gets up early and goes to bed late. He studies five hours after work every day and more than ten hours on holidays. He persisted for many years, using more than a dozen tape recorders and turning over two dictionaries. God rewards diligence, and he finally summed up and created the "reverse method of English learning" with the five methods of "listening, writing, speaking, remembering and thinking", and insisted on studying hard in this way.

14 months later, he went abroad again and became the official interpreter of the China delegation.

"Is it easy to learn English?" Professor Zhong's oral record makes you realize once again what "Heaven rewards diligence" means!

How was the repeater invented? More than a dozen tape recorders that Professor Zhong has heard are the answers. However, many people don't know that the functional design of the repeater is the epitome of the reverse order method!

Zhong Daolong summed up his "reverse English learning method" and published five books about learning English, including "Learn English skillfully by reverse method". He used this method to guide people at different levels to learn English, and achieved remarkable results. People's Daily, China Education News, China Youth Daily, China News, China Old Annual, Jiefang Daily, Nanfang Daily, Beijing Education News, CCTV, Dragon TV and many other media made exclusive reports. Tell the truth and the son of the east also have special introductions. China Education Television and more than 20 provincial and municipal television stations. The story of "I started learning English at the age of forty-five and became an oral translator a year later" is widely circulated.

From 65438 to 0992, Zhong Daolong went to a university in Nanjing as a vice president, focusing on teaching. When he first took office, in the first year, the passing rate of CET-4 was only 40%-50%. When summing up experience, some people think that the quality of students is not very good and there are no foreign teachers in the school. Zhong Daolong has been studying English hard since he was 45 years old. In three years, he used 17 tape recorders to educate students and taught them the "reverse English" learning method, so that they could be strict and self-disciplined according to this method and persist in learning. In the third year, a miracle happened, and the students' passing rate of Band 4 was 100%.

Some students joked privately and kindly: "Vice President Zhong, you must be rich in learning English, because you have used up 17 tape recorders in three years." The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. When Zhong Daolong returned to the dormitory, he began to meditate. Continuous rewinding really requires a lot of machines. How can I hold down a key and repeat a sentence? After more than three months of tea and rice, he finally developed an intelligent repeater. He applied for a patent for this unexpected achievement and became the first person in China to invent the repeater. Zhong Daolong gave up the patent ownership shortly after applying for the patent. Facing everyone's puzzled eyes, he told Cui Yongyuan in CCTV's "Tell the truth" program: "If you don't give up, you can't turn it into productivity as soon as possible!" .

The heart of cultivating peaches and plums is beyond words! It's really commendable to be upright!

For Professor Zhong, listening to English is no longer the original hard work, but an indispensable pleasure! And this kind of fun is also experienced by more and more practitioners of reduction to absurdity.

Wherever Professor Zhong goes, he always becomes the "surrounded object" of English lovers. Young mind, agile thinking, simple style and plain writing style make the communication between Professor Zhong and young people very smooth!

Zhong Daolong, 52, began to study computers. He began to study without a little computer foundation. He worked hard and was not ashamed to go to school. He quickly mastered the five-stroke font, gradually learned to use a variety of computer software, and created many methods that had never been used before. According to his own practice, he summed up a lot of experience in learning and using computers skillfully, and successively wrote and translated 37 books, such as Writing and Translating with Computers, Learning and Using Wubi Font Skillfully.

At the age of 57, in order to meet the needs of teaching in Nanjing Institute of Communication, Zhong Daolong began to study ways to improve his memory. He spent two weeks rummaging through four rosters, remembering all the office phone numbers of the hospital, remembering the names of more than 700 teachers in the whole school, and thus summing up a set of fast and firm memory methods. He can recite 1800 digits of pi, and can instruct ordinary people to remember more than 1 00 digits within1hour. Combining his own practical experience, he wrote books such as The Secret of Memory. Because his works were written according to his own learning experience, they were very popular with readers after publication, and some of them were rated as the best sellers in China.

1995 officially retired. After retirement, his enthusiasm for learning has not diminished, and his retirement life has provided him with a lot of writing time. In the past three years, he has written, translated and published more than 20 books, and is called an online writer. Professor Zhong Daolong is very concerned about teenagers. Invited to hold a series of lectures on "Down-to-earth to Success" in Jiangsu and Liaoning People's Broadcasting Station, to encourage the audience to study hard to meet the needs of the new situation of reform and opening up. After the broadcast, the audience responded enthusiastically.

In recent years, Mr. Zhong Daolong has been writing books, giving lectures and touring lectures tirelessly by constantly summing up himself and combining with social needs. Pass on your precious growth and learning experience to more people with learning difficulties and confusion through vivid and simple language. Countless people who have been instructed by Mr. Zhong Daolong are impressed by his erudition, confidence and sincerity.

Mr. Zhong Daolong not only has the firm perseverance of "never too old to learn", but also has the professionalism of "doing one thing and drilling one thing". "Learning is the only way to solve our troubles" is the motto that Mr. Zhong Daolong believes in all his life, and his legendary life of persistent learning, continuous progress and continuous self-improvement is also an excellent example that constantly inspires us to learn, make continuous progress and constantly improve ourselves.