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Thoughts on Reading Teahouse

After reading a famous book, I believe that everyone's vision must be broadened a lot. It is necessary to go back and write about the feelings after reading it. Want to know how to write your thoughts after reading? The following are my thoughts on reading Teahouse. Welcome to reading. I hope you will like it.

Looking at the teahouse, I feel that 1 students are the main body of the classroom, but in reality teachers often have more say than students. There is a passage in the book that impressed me deeply: "We should fully realize that the teacher's explanation is not the only way to learn and acquire. Not only that, the teacher's explanation can't make students really master this knowledge. The mastery of knowledge requires dialogue and students' own construction, otherwise the teacher's explanation will be in vain. "

It is pointed out that one of the key intervention factors in classroom teaching is to expose students' subconscious as much as possible, especially to pay attention to the discovery and solution of "whimsy". What is "different ideas"?

Constructivism holds that before learning a certain knowledge, students' minds are not blank, and children form various views on things and develop unique ways of thinking through various experiences in daily life. Their views and ways of thinking can sometimes help to master the correct concepts, and even surpass the original works and become "bright spots"; However, if it is contrary to the knowledge and concepts to be mastered, or even quite different, this primitive way of thinking is called "different ideas"

The book holds that mastering knowledge is not the focus of teachers' oral expression of knowledge, but the way is "indoctrination". If students' original "different ideas" can be revealed, "collided" with correct understanding, and then put into students' minds, such teaching is enlightenment. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that students expose problems or mistakes, understand the causes of mistakes, correct and reorganize them, and form a correct way that conforms to the characteristics of students' individual thinking. Face-to-face criticism in daily work is a good way of dialogue. In correcting homework, some students' wrong answers may be careless or unclear, and some mistakes are what we call "misunderstanding mistakes", but in fact they are children's "different ideas". The mistakes of the whole class may be similar, but the reasons for the mistakes may be quite different. At this time, "face-to-face criticism" is aimed at the originality of children.

This kind of "dialogue" can happen between teachers and students, and it can also happen between students. This is the form of group cooperative learning that we have been advocating. Students may "think differently" and be more similar, and it is easier to understand the reasons for mistakes. The process of explanation is also a process of review. Once students' original "different ideas" are broken, similar repeated mistakes can be avoided.

It's true to think about it. Usually, you pay too much attention to the preset teaching process and ignore what students really need for the sake of Excellence, which is also contrary to the student-oriented theory. Including our pre-designed "preview list", "guide list" and "homework list", the purpose is also to test what students have mastered in advance and avoid repetition of knowledge points in class.

As mentioned in Zhu Yongxin's On Education, it is always the people on the podium who really decide the quality of a school. The influence of teachers on students is self-evident, and reading often makes people think and precipitate. I hope I can think more about teaching design from the perspective of students in the future.

Thoughts on reading Teahouse II. Like to go to the teahouse originated from the teahouse.

Now, under our eyes, the words about youth have flooded. Youth is a luxury, so it is too flashy. Our hearts grow old in this noise, in a way that deviates from our ideals.

In the past, I always felt that great writers such as Lu Xun, Zhu Ziqing and Lao She, whose works were full of an old-fashioned atmosphere, just like the humidity in rainy days, easily made people feel a touch of melancholy. So all along, I have been reading those flashy youth words.

This should be a mistake. Because Mr. Lao She's teahouse is like a mottled wall, which is old and warm in desolation. It makes people happy or sad, and it makes people fully realize it.

Teahouse tells a clear process of death. Wang Lifa, the shopkeeper, was miserable because he was a victim of that tragic era. He is like a doll. He lives under the sky and compliments others, but he doesn't live in his own world for a moment. In the end, he died well, which I think is true. A poet said that death is the only shadow in the world. Wang Lifa's death ended his fate as a doll and the endless darkness more terrible than death.

Of course, I like Teahouse not only because of its great artistic achievements, but also because of the original street flavor of old Beijing created by Mr. Lao She.

Generally speaking, the existence of teahouse virtually provides people with a profound cultural background. It makes people return to the most primitive state of life. After morning exercises, old people, long-lost friends, merchants from afar, people of all colors in society, etc., when they step into the quaint and chic teahouse, their leisurely, quiet, safe or calm life will sprout on the noise. At this time, fame and fortune are just flashy embellishments, insipid and tasteless. Isn't it a kind of free and easy and ideal that Master Chang and Master Song in the society are looking for in the teahouse? The fragrance of tea purifies people's hearts.

In my dream, I can choose a clean and bleak autumn day, go to a quaint and elegant teahouse, hold a favorite book, order a cup of even and plain tea, sit on a wooden chair and watch my last youth fade away. I think, at this time, the interference in life will be like spring breeze and rain.

The tranquility of the teahouse is like the warm wind in spring.

What happened to Teahouse was a very difficult robbery.

Reading Teahouse 3 Teahouse is Mr. Lao She's masterpiece, and it is also a script of a three-act drama. Teahouse tells the story of the ups and downs of Yutai Teahouse in old Beijing for decades, including the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the period of Kuomintang rule after the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Teahouses are very realistic. Good people don't necessarily get what they deserve, and bad people don't necessarily get what they deserve, which fully reflects the darkness of society and the corruption of officials before liberation.

The characters portrayed by Lao She in Teahouse are very distinctive, which is also a major feature of this play. , Chang, Song, Liu Mazi, Tang Tiezui, Song Enzi, Wu Xiangzi and other characters' personality characteristics are vividly on the paper.

You only need to look at it once, and you can understand the personality characteristics of various characters without looking at it as carefully as you do in a Chinese class. For example, Wang Zhanggui of Yutai Teahouse is honest and does not do bad things, but he is weak. He gives money and puts in a good word for something. Gu Chang, the owner of the teahouse, is a noble person from Rainbow, honest and honest. Unlike Wang Zhanggui, he is tougher than Wang Zhanggui, and he has a sense of pride in his bones. He refuses to bow or give in.

Only after reading Teahouse did we know how happy we are now. At that time, many children couldn't even eat a bowl of hot soup noodles. Now we can eat hamburgers and steaks at will. People at that time were really unlucky and lived in such a dark age.

In the teahouse, the person I admire most is Grandpa Chang, especially his spirit of not giving in to difficulties. Grandpa Chang is a flag bearer. In the Qing dynasty, he had "hard-core crops" and he got money without working. Later, when the Qing Dynasty perished, Master Chang didn't starve like his good friend Master Song, but went to grow vegetables and sell them by himself, earning his own living and not bowing to difficulties. This spirit is exactly what we lack now. Because of the superior living conditions, I flinch when I encounter difficulties. If we lived in that era, it would be difficult to survive in society without the spirit of Grandpa Chang.

Some dialogues in Teahouse can make people laugh, but this kind of smile is more of a wry smile and a helpless self-mockery. These hilarious conversations are either the helpless words of those who are cornered by life or the flattering words of those disgusting people. After laughing, I can't help but feel a little sad-"there must be a way to go when people are alive, but there is no way to go!" People who are willing to solve problems for the country wander around, and the old shopkeeper who just wants a flat-headed wife is forced to hang himself for life. Have it both ways's heartless sycophant is rich and powerful, and is willing to let others use their lives to satisfy their desires. Beat the student's teacher to love the student's teacher, and you can avoid being killed by giving your official two foreign currencies. Kill whoever your official refers to-"What kind of world is this?"

In the last part of Teahouse, three unlucky old people meet and look back on their lives, which is sad: Master Chang, who is full of integrity, has done nothing all his life; Master Qin, full of the ideal of saving the country by industry, spent 40 years trying to build a factory; Wang Zhanggui, who was content with the status quo, did as he was told all his life, until people kicked him out of the teahouse he had opened for 50 years. This is the "fate" of patriotism and obedience. ...

"I love our country, but who loves me?" It's really embarrassing that Grandpa Four often says this in the same place 50 years later. ...

Reading Teahouse has a feeling that teahouse is a very common term, but it is of great significance. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, "teahouse" became "teahouse". It has become a kind of enjoyment and a kind of culture. With the continuous development of China, tea culture has gradually expanded into a symbol and brand product of China, which also reflects the continuous progress and innovation of modern society. Mr. Lao She's Teahouse is a script, which was later made into a film, TV series and musical drama by later generations, fully reflecting the importance attached by later generations to this work. It depicts half a century of history and old times, and shows us one scene after another.

This work is set in a small teahouse, with Wang Lifa, Qin and Chang as the main characters, and reflects the life of ordinary people in a social era in lowercase. Mr. Lao She's artistic form expresses the script with very strong characters and simple language, reflecting a social outlook, reflecting the social changes at that time through characters, and reflecting the three historical stages of the first act, the second act, the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the third act after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War with the rise and fall of a teahouse. I have to praise Mr. Lao She for his unique vision and considerable cultural background, because I don't understand it very well.

A big society was written into a small teahouse by Mr. Lao She. The people set an example, and Wang Lifa Wang Zhanggui managed it carefully. Finally occupied by the government, unable to resist. Only grandpa four was dragged into prison because of the phrase "the Qing dynasty is coming to an end", and there was no good life after he was released from prison ... all these fully demonstrated the helplessness of people in that era.

In addition, the article also has many good places, such as the personalization of the characters' language. Every sentence in the work is the character's language, which expresses the character's thoughts and embodies the character's personality. Lao She wrote a language that is very suitable for each character according to their personality characteristics. No matter who has only one chance to play, he has a good grasp and the charm of his lines impressed him deeply. At the same time, the language uses authentic Beijing dialect.

What's more, the most important time in the article shows that the people are poor, and the society at that time was feudal, imperialist and lawless. It also shows that China is in an era of deep water and disaster.

In short, the teahouse reflects a social era, and such an expression can't be written by you casually. It is not easy to finish such a play, so I admire Mr. Lao She. I am really a master! Now is the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China. At such an important moment, we should not forget our roots, but remember how New China was born. That old era has passed, and a new era has arrived. People don't have to live in that miserable society. Now I am proud of the people of China! Happy birthday to the motherland.

Reading Teahouse Feeling 6 Whenever I pick up the teacup, smell the fragrance of tea and taste the taste of tea, I feel the taste of tea lingering in my mouth, which is a bit bitter. I can always think of Lao She's Teahouse and the tea people who come and go in Yutai Teahouse and live in troubled times.

"It is only the old and new citizens in the traditional civil society who fully enter Lao She's painful narrative and world situation, and the image of the old citizen is the most successful." Looking back on Teahouse, every role in Yutai Teahouse is different, but the stubbornness in the bones is the same. At first, all kinds of tea drinkers gathered in Yutai Teahouse to have a rest, including Grandpa Four and Grandpa Two who walked the birds, Pockmarked Liu who bought and sold girls, and Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi who were in charge of yamen affairs. Flatter Qin, see dignitaries as their agents, seize the opportunity to approach, and try to please with good words; Wang Lifa, who was afraid of weakness, saw the poor women and children in rural areas asking for help, only obeyed the orders of the upper authorities and drove them out. Pang, a feudal conservative eunuch, said that "whoever dares to change the constitution of his ancestors will lose his head"; Grandpa Chang, who is proud of his life or death, must bring his own tea when drinking tea, but he wants to save money and show it off in the teahouse every day. In my eyes, Lao She sympathized with these characters. Some of them will succeed, but more often they are dragged down by troubled times, and they can only succumb to reality and fight for survival, so they will have such a temper.

The time dimension of Teahouse is from the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 to the warlord regime after Yuan Shikai's death, and then to the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. This is a chaotic era, an era of regime change, and Yutai Teahouse has gradually declined in the chaos. The note "Don't talk about state affairs" has become more and more prominent, and "pay for tea in advance" has followed, gradually pointing out that the teahouse is in a bad situation. With the change of Yutai Teahouse, Wang Lifa, the boss, became the epitome of the hard life of the lower class at that time. In order to inherit his father's business, Wang Lifa ingratiated himself with rich Qin and powerful eunuch Pang, and managed the teahouse better. In order to adapt to the development of the times and avoid being eliminated, Wang Lifa opened another apartment and decorated the teahouse with fashionable beauty, which became the only remaining big teahouse, but all this eventually disappeared with Wang Lifa's "hanging around". I love Wang Lifa's "people have to live. I have tried my best, just to live. " Wang Lifa did change in order to survive, but he also knew that the power of troubled times was too weak and failure was inevitable.

If you think about it carefully, the end of the teahouse is inevitable, and the foreshadowing is laid at the end of the first act. A word from the tea drinker: Yes! You're done! On the surface, it refers to the winning or losing of chess, and in the deep, it refers to the failure of the reform movement, which runs through the whole text. This implies that no matter how advanced the teahouse is, it can't escape the final outcome of reform and deformation, because the invasion of imperialist capitalism has changed the social atmosphere and impacted the tradition, making people in feudal times adapt to capitalism like driving ducks to the shelves, making it impossible for teahouses that are not in line with the development of capitalism to survive.

I thought of a sentence: life is just a compromise, perfunctory, and completely opposite to the ideal fooling around. From middle school to university, some teaching methods and learning contents have changed. I thought it would be different. I don't have to be urged to do my homework every day, but I find that it's actually the same as before, except that there are lectures besides my homework, and we are still urged to do it. It is a little different from my ideal independent and self-reliant university. When I think of Wang Lifa, I feel that I have become him in a second. In order to finish the task, I began to get busy, but I don't know why. I simply gave in and suddenly wanted to know how he ideally took over his father's teahouse.

Yes, things have been changing. The hardest thing for people is to learn to catch up with the times and choose to change and learn actively, instead of being forced to change by life, so that they will not lose themselves in today's fast-paced society. We are not Wang Lifa described by Lao She. While we are still in peacetime, we should try our best to grasp our own destiny, get rid of the present predicament and enjoy poetry and distance.

Thoughts on Reading Teahouse 7 Almost everyone says that Teahouse is the successful work of a mature playwright.

The story of the teahouse takes place in a teahouse. A teahouse spans half a century, and many people are highly concentrated in the teahouse, respectively showing the life in old China in the last three years: the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and the Kuomintang regime before the mainland perished.

Mr. Cao Yu once said that Teahouse is "an unprecedented model in the history of China drama". Because of its broad conception, this play is not only bold and bold, but also rich in details, which is the original creation of Mr. Lao She. Three acts of Teahouse have occupied 50 years, and many great changes have taken place in these 50 years, but the play is only a reflection of a small person in the teahouse, and there is no positive narrative of those major events. That is to say, the life and death of these little people are used to illustrate all kinds of satire in those years.

The success of Teahouse lies in the success of language and the ingenious and rigorous structure of his drama. Language: Drama creates characters entirely by lines. When the lines are fulfilled, the characters live. When the characters live, the whole play is a success. Lao She, known as the "master of language", really developed his language skills. The lines of each character in Teahouse are designed vividly, endowed with personality, concise and meaningful. Drama structure: There are many characters in the whole drama, and there is no central story. Lao She used four techniques to construct the drama: First, the main characters, from strong to old, run through the whole drama. In this way, the main characters have coherence, and with the explanation, the story is loose, but it is too far from the point and unintelligible. The second is that the minor characters are descendants of their father and son; The third is that each character plays his own story and is closely related to his own times. The fourth is that there are always irrelevant characters, lingering and not redundant.

From the perspective of investigating Lao She's individual life history, Teahouse is a writer who looks back on the past in a new historical scene and has rich life experience and individual experience. A meditative work written in old China for more than half a century, which precipitated historical lessons and revealed the historical trend.

Teahouse adopts a typical theater structure of portrait exhibition. He exposed a corner of society and showed the character life of all kinds of people. Teahouse returns to Lao She's well-learned old Beijing story in terms of theme and cultural connotation. It is a social drama that Mr. Lao She is best at, which combines the pictures of past years and street life. The drama Teahouse has a strong spirit of social criticism. Thunderstorm by Cao Yu, a famous playwright in China, is a typical work that follows the "three unifications", while Teahouse by Lao She breaks this norm. But these two plays are equally successful. Some people have commented that Teahouse is an ancient ballad and an elegy, but now I don't know its origin, so I will read it carefully.

Reading teahouse is a paradise for tea lovers and a place for people to rest, entertain and communicate. But under Lao She's pen, Teahouse has become a classic in China's drama history. After watching this drama, I saw China's humiliation history and China's struggle history. -

The story of the teahouse takes place in a teahouse. The story tells that Wang Lifa, the owner of the teahouse, entertained his father everywhere in order to make his teahouse business prosperous, but the harsh reality made him often ridiculed. Finally, it was swallowed up by a ruthless society. Qin, a national capitalist who frequented teahouses, went from ambitious industrial salvation to bankruptcy; Chang Yesi, the son of the generous Eight Banners, embarked on the road of self-reliance after the demise of the Qing Dynasty. The story also reveals the living conditions of some small people, such as pockmarked Liu. Based on the rise and fall of a big teahouse in old Beijing, the whole play shows people the social features of Beijing and the different fates of people from all walks of life during the 50 years from the late Qing Dynasty to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

In the era when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, Yutai Teahouse in Beijing was still a scene of "prosperity": caged birds, fortune-telling, selling antiques and jade articles, and playing cricket. -

Wang Lifa, a smart young shopkeeper, is taken care of by all parties. However, behind this "prosperity" lies the suffocating decline of the whole society: foreign goods flooded the market, the countryside went bankrupt, eunuchs married, and patriots were arrested.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the people suffered from years of civil war. All the big teahouses in Beijing are closed. Only Wang Zhanggui has improved its management, turned the backyard of the teahouse into an apartment rented to college students, and put a phonograph in the main hall. Nevertheless, social unrest spread to the teahouse: refugees blocked the door, soldiers took the shopkeeper's money, and detectives came to extort money from time to time. -

Thirty years later, Wang Zhanggui is still desperately supporting the teahouse. Japan surrendered, but the Kuomintang and American imperialism plunged the people into the disaster of civil war. Jeeps went on the rampage, patriots were suppressed, and rogue agents wanted to occupy the teahouse that Wang Zhanggui had painstakingly managed all his life. Wang Lifa is desperate. At this time, it happened that two friends who made friends 50 years ago came, one was Mr. arrested by the Qing court, and the other was Mr. Qin, who had been in business for half his life and completely collapsed. The three old people scattered the paper money they found all over the floor, crying and laughing sadly. In the end, Wang Lifa was left alone. He picked up his belt, went into the inner room, looked up at the roof, and looked for a place where he could safely end his life.

Look, what a history that makes us think and remember! More than a hundred years ago, China was ruled by the corrupt and ignorant Qing government. Fierce and overbearing foreigners invaded backward China, and closed-door, complacent and frivolous, timid rulers oppressed the people. Under this kind of oppression, the people of China have shown a different side.

Wang Lifa is the shopkeeper of the teahouse. He is not bad-hearted, just because his position is higher than that of the poorest class, so he has long turned a blind eye to human suffering. He is a businessman, hoping for social stability and better business, but society is always struggling with him. He didn't dare to compete with the society, so he had to bow to the people. However, the claws of society tightened around his neck, and finally he was helpless to hang himself. His image is very representative. He doesn't lie, he doesn't harm people, he resigned himself to fate, and he didn't ask too much. This is the most common mentality of ordinary citizens at that time, and it also shows the anger of the bottom people.

Qin is a national capitalist. With a heart of serving the country, he sold his ancestral business to set up a factory and wanted to save the country through industry. It took him 40 years to start a big enterprise, and he felt that this was enough to "enrich the country and enrich the people". He was wrong. No sooner had War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression finished than his property was confiscated by the government. Master Qin was heartbroken and resentful: "All, can the world find such a government?" The semi-feudal and semi-colonial system and the national economic situation controlled by imperialism, feudal oligarchy and bureaucratic comprador did not make Mr. Qin, who wanted to save the country by industry, get what he wanted. This once again criticized the ruler of darkness.

There are many figures, including Mr. Song, Mr. Chang, Mr. Dezi and Mr. Liu Mazi ... They represent different figures, but they all reflect the pain, anger and struggle of the people. ...

Lao She's Teahouse showed me the history of China's humiliating struggle. Remember this history, remember the teahouse, so that the humiliating history will not repeat itself.

Thoughts on reading Teahouse 9 During the summer vacation, I dug out my father's book Teahouse.

Teahouse is Lao She's work, which tells the story of a shopkeeper and his teahouse.

Once upon a time, there was a man named Wang Lifa who became the shopkeeper of Yutai Teahouse at the age of twenty because he lost his father. In this teahouse, you can stay for a long time and do nothing.

However, the good times did not last long. Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi, policemen of the Qing Dynasty, made trouble every day and made a mess of business. Finally, in the Republic of China, the sons of Song Enzi and Wu Xiangzi actually became policemen. ...

Yutai Teahouse is getting worse every day, and tragedies happen every day: first, my wife was hit by a car and nobody took care of it, and the wounded soldier came every day to stir up business, and finally she was spared by Asako Liu.

On the last night, the old shopkeeper called his friends Mr. Qin and Mr. Chang to talk about their experiences. After the friends left, the old shopkeeper lit the paper money that Mr. Chang picked up. After a while, the flames were blazing and the old shopkeeper was still sitting there. He remembers when he was young. ...

Reading the novel Teahouse always makes people feel sad and angry. Why can Tang Xiao Tie Zui, Xiao Liu Ma Zi, Xiao Song Enzi, and Xiao Wu Xiangzi live well every day? And you can't let great people like Master Chang, Master Qin and Master Song have a good life? The world is so unfair, but what can people say at that time?

Reading Teahouse: 10 Teahouse is a huge painting by Lao She. Only 30,000 words have created more than 70 flesh-and-blood characters. This is an elegy of old China and cool thin, and an inner monologue of a different life! It seems like yesterday, and it seems like a patriotic classic that everyone in China should keep reading.

Among more than 70 figures, Wang Lifa and Wang Zhanggui are always one of the most important figures. When the old shopkeeper was young, he took charge of Yutai Teahouse for his father and performed life on the silent stage of the teahouse! Still true colors. The old shopkeeper's wish is just like what he and his friends Chang Shifu and Qin Shifu said: "As for me, I have been obedient all my life and bowed to everyone. I only hope that the children can do something: they can't be frozen, they can't be hungry, and they can't have disasters and diseases! " Yes, the common aspiration of ordinary people breathing in the melting pot of this old age! Maybe some people will hate his appearance as "Mr. Nice guy". But think about it from another angle and standpoint: Wang Lifa, as a powerless businessman, just wants to live a quiet and peaceful life in this troubled times. Never having the heart to hurt others is also a precious patriotism of China people. When helping Kang Shunzi and Kang Dali, two poor people, he resolutely sent away his daughter-in-law and granddaughter and faced it frankly ... He was not afraid of power and wealth when he died. Desperately chose to hang himself. Wang Lifa was just one of the victims of the corrupt government in the late Qing Dynasty.

Grandpa Chang is fearless and dares to do whatever he wants. Although he lived a self-reliant and clean life, he was able to give up material things for spiritual nobility, which is a typical portrayal of an iron man in the old society. But this will inevitably lead to some ignorance and loyalty. How can a passionate patriotic heart defeat foreigners, traitors and bullies on its own? The consequences are self-evident ...

If grandpa four often needs the strategy and mind of saving the country through industry, then Qin came into being. A bourgeois reformist advocated saving the country by industry all his life, sold his official position and opened a bank, but he was penniless and penniless in his sixties. On my deathbed, I came to the fallacy that "if you have money, you should eat, drink, gamble and run amok, but don't do good deeds"! () is both ironic and sad! What kind of social environment makes a kind and upright person twist his soul and shed tears? It can be seen that the people who suffered from it mercilessly whipped the inhumanity of the old society.

Through the teahouse, we saw a microcosm of the society at that time. Through the reality in the mirror, a wicked person who oppresses and exploits the working people and has evil intentions can get a flashy "happiness" from it. People who care about the country and the people and the safety of the motherland are oppressed, starved to death and killed. When the country was invaded by foreign powers, a large number of slaves surrendered to imperialism for their own interests and betrayed the country! The "sick man of East Asia" and "conquered" in the eyes of foreign invaders are a humiliating history!

"If you fall behind, you will be beaten". In the new era, while enjoying a happy life, please don't forget the proverbs expounded to us by our ancestors with blood! Let the history of teahouse never repeat itself!

Read Teahouse, weep for the people, grieve for fate, hate it, hope to forge ahead, and forge ahead again!