The first chapter of Biography of Yuan Longping.

The first chapter is a story told by my mother

1930 September 1, it was a sunny early autumn season, and a new life was born in the delivery room of Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

This newborn is the second boy born by Ms. Hua Jing and Mr. Yuan Xinglie.

In order to commemorate the birth of his second son in Peiping, Mr. Yuan Xinglie named him Long Ping according to the seniority of the word "dragon" in the Yuan family.

After Xiao ermao and his mother lived in Union Medical College Hospital for 7 days, Yuan Xinglie left the hospital with his wife and children. On the way home, Mr. Yuan specially arranged a rickshaw to cross Tiananmen Square. It can be said that when Xiao ermao came to this world and opened his eyes to see the world, the first thing he saw might be the majestic Tiananmen Gate, which was a baptism for newborns by outstanding descendants of the Chinese nation in their own unique way.

Tiananmen Square is a symbol of the Chinese nation. It is a treasure of the great motherland, a place for political activities and a gallery of ethnic customs; At the same time, it is also a concentrated expression of a national cultural connotation. It is really a wonderful book, a wonderful book that opens silently to the universe. It is full of mystery, and it also leaves a clear and infinite imagination space for human society. As a patriotic intellectual, whenever Mr. Yuan walks into the square, a sense of national pride arises spontaneously, and he is always inspired by patriotism. On this day, as a father, Mr. Yuan intends to pass on his spiritual enlightenment to his younger son and future generations.

Yuan was born in Banpo, Qingzhu, De 'an County, Jiangxi Province. Yuan Longping's grandfather, Yuan Shengjian, is the county magistrate of Wenchang County, Guangdong Province. Yuan Longping's father Yuan Xinglie graduated from the Chinese Department of Southeast University and worked in Pinghan Railway Bureau in his early days. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he joined the army and served as the head secretary of the second army of Feng Yuxiang; On the eve of the founding of New China, he served as the head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the Kuomintang government. In Yuan Longping's memory, his father was a typical China intellectual. He is honest, polite, serious and silent, and very persistent.

Yuan Longping's mother Hua Jing is a Yangzhou girl. She studied in an English missionary school since she was a child and can speak fluent English. After graduating from high school, she became a primary school teacher and fell in love with Mr. Yuan Xinglie, then the principal, and got married. When their eldest son Jinlong was born, she quit her job as a teacher and became a good wife and mother. This virtuous intellectual woman likes philosophy very much, likes reading the English version of Nietzsche's philosophical works, likes Nietzsche's words and likes Nietzsche's passion. She said that all Nietzsche's words were passionate and burning fiercely. There is absolutely no language bubble in Nietzsche's works.

After listening to his mother's words, the young two hairs seem to understand Nietzsche's meaning. It was not until he grew up that he understood his mother and Nietzsche.

The mother of five children attaches great importance to moral education and the development of children's IQ. She said that children's IQ is like a treasure house, and morality and sentiment are the keys to open this treasure house. A virtuous mother turns her profound knowledge into one beautiful story after another, and uses these stories to cultivate her children's beautiful sentiments.

In Yuan Longping's memory, every summer night, my mother would take their two brothers to enjoy the cool in the yard. He likes to catch fireflies and put them in a matchbox. The matchbox becomes sparkling, crystal clear and beautiful. The storytelling mother looked at the matchbox with fireflies in her hand and told a beautiful and moving story. Mother said:

"Young Zhao Kuangyin (the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty) rescued the young girl Jingniang from the stolen cave, married her as brother and sister, and escorted her home. Thousands of miles on the road, Zhao Kuangyin helped Jingniang to get on the horse and walked with the horse himself.

"After this farewell, Jing Niang died on the battlefield. Later, Zhao Kuangyin lost his way in a midnight battle. Suddenly, a firefly flew to guide him and lead him out of danger. Legend has it that this is a gift given to Jingniang to repay Zhao Kuangyin after her death. She became a firefly. When she was in trouble, she came to the rescue. "

Ah, it turns out that this firefly is the embodiment of beautiful and kind Jingniang. After listening to this legend, sensible Ermao couldn't bear to catch that lovely firefly any more.

Yuan Longping likes a very philosophical fairy tale told by his mother when he was a child:

There is a fat fox. One day, when he was foraging, he heard a group of chickens chirping, which was very sweet. The fox heard the sweet words of the chicken kingdom, and his mouth watered, so he looked around for imports. Finally, it found a small hole. But the hole is too small for its fat body to get in. So, the fox fasted for five days, lost his body, finally passed through the small hole and greedily ate the chicken in the yard. At this time, it found that its big belly full of food could not get out of the small hole. Helpless, it fasted for another five days and lost weight again. As a result, the fox who returned to the courtyard wall was still the original fox.

Xiao ermao will never forget the story told by his mother. When he grew up, he gradually understood his mother's good intentions: the kind mother was using this story to educate her son and let him learn to control his desires. He also gradually realized the truth that the ancients said "no desire is just".

One day, Yang Liang asked his mother curiously:

"Where did people come from?"

Mother, who was deeply influenced by church culture since childhood, replied:

"Western biblical stories say that Adam and Eve are the ancestors of human beings, and they are made of clay by God.

"In our China, there is also a legend that Nuwa uses loess to be a person. It is said that Nu Wa used her magical hands to make mud from loess, and then kneaded it into men and women. After kneading, she blew a breath at the clay figurine, and the clay figurine had a fresh life. Since then, human beings have thrived and carried on the family line ... "

Finally, my mother said to Ermao affectionately, "From the previous two stories, we can know that whether foreigners or China people, in the final analysis, we human beings are all people on the yellow land."

These two fairy tales are deeply engraved in Ermao's mind. Mother also told him that the food we eat is planted on the yellow land, the clothes we wear are made of cotton harvested from the yellow land, and the house we live in is built of bricks made of loess ... In short, our food, clothing, housing and transportation are inseparable from the land. Therefore, land is the source of life.

"Land is the source of life." At understand the mother's words, understand the truth. Therefore, Ermao has a sacred respect for the land since he was a child.

Yuan Longping's enlightenment education fully benefited from her story-telling mother. Yuan Longping as a teenager, like a clear stream, flows gently in her mother's arms. It was an era of weaving dreams and fantasies, and it was an era of passion. Teacher Hua Jingzhen hides the passion of Xiao Ermao. She believes that the passion of childhood is the source of strength, the driving force of healthy growth and the starting point of success. In order to deepen Ermao's love for the land, his mother also told Ermao the story of Yue Fei, a national hero, who fought bloody battles to defend his country. She said:

"Land is sacred. In the 5,000 years of the Chinese nation, many people with lofty ideals fought bloody battles and performed many heroic historical chapters, all of which are closely linked with the country.

"Land is the mother of all things. Our nation has a sincere belief in the land since ancient times, and our ancestors always solemnly sacrificed to the land. By the end of the year, emperors of all dynasties had to be vegetarians and sacrificed their land in the capital. Every March, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty always went to the Xiannongtan to personally cultivate the fields and demonstrate the cultivation of one acre and three points. "

These stories told by my mother are the best enlightenment education for Ermao.

"Mom, why can't a good guy like Yue Fei beat a bad guy?"

"Because the bad guys are cruel, insidious and cunning, all kinds of plots have been made, and the good guys are hard to prevent. However, what goes around comes around, and the bad guys will eventually fail. The ultimate winner is still a good person. "

This clever mother always creates opportunities to tell her children stories about "good people".

When Ermao was 6 years old, Yuan Xinglie's family moved to Hankou. This spring, my mother took the two brothers to visit Shennong Cave, not far from Hankou.

"Shennong Cave" is said to be the birthplace of Emperor Yan of Shennong, where the statue of Emperor Yan is enshrined. Mother guided their brother to bow respectfully to the glorious Shennong in Kyushu to show their family's admiration for the saint.

After the ceremony, my mother told Da Mao and Er Mao that Emperor Yan was the ancestor of the Chinese nation. This saint has been planting crops, training animals and tasting herbs for people more than 5000 years ago. The great achievements of Emperor Yan of Shennong are well-known in Kyushu and the world.

Xiao ermao asked his mother curiously:

"Where did Emperor Yan come from?"

Mother smiled and told the children a fairy tale with the twenty cents of the question.

She said: "According to folklore, the shepherdess Anden herded sheep on the mountain every day. One day, she fell asleep on the mountain. She dreamed that a handsome young man who claimed to be the Seven Dragons fell in love with her.

"After waking up, she was pregnant. A few months later, before she gave birth, she had another dream. She dreamed that Qilongzi gave her a Shennong book and told her to give it to their son. When my son grows up, he must build water conservancy, sow farmland and harvest grain for the benefit of the people. As a result, the Chinese nation has an endless history of reproduction. "

Hua Jing once wrote in his diary:

"The beast looks at its claws, but people look at its youth." In his early years, he was smart, kind and curious, and he could not estimate his future.

When Ermao was a child, he liked to look at the dense stars in the sky when he was enjoying the cool in the yard with his mother. His mother told him that every star in the sky belongs to the same constellation as a celebrity on the ground. To this end, every night he always stares at the stars and looks for his own constellation. However, there are too many stars. What's his constellation? Sometimes, when he saw the meteor fall, it just flashed by and disappeared into the night sky, which made him feel very confused. He asked his mother, who told him that every time a star fell in the sky, a famous figure died on the ground. Only the hard-working Altair and the hard-working Vega will never fall on both sides of the Milky Way. At this time, Xiao ermao said to himself: When I grow up, I must be as diligent as a cowherd and harvest a lot of food so that the poor can eat enough.

In the early autumn when Ermao was 6 years old, he and his mother went to an orchard in the suburb of Hankou. That orchard is really beautiful, with red peaches and green grapes. Tomatoes, which were rare in those days, were planted in the open space between fruit trees. The furry branches are covered with red, white, yellow and green fruits, which are really beautiful. Dense bamboo forest ... Xiao ermao fell in love with this beautiful orchard and green world, and he really didn't want to leave here. From then on, whenever the peach ripens, the beautiful orchard in his memory floats into his heart. In his mind, the orchard is an oasis that never dies, like smoke and fog, like a dream. He realized that his young life was connected with the green world and integrated with nature.

It was this outing that laid the ideal foundation for Yuan Longping and even influenced his life.

Einstein became interested in the compass when he was 5 years old and eventually became a world-class master of physics. Darwin was fascinated by the small animals around him since he was a child, and he finally entered the hall of biological science, thus establishing the "evolution theory"; As a teenager, Yuan Longping had a fantastic vision for nature and a wonderful childlike innocence for the green world. His mother Hua Jing cherishes his childlike innocence and is good at discovering and cultivating his interest. The wise and virtuous mother consciously realized that interest is often the forerunner of success. Under the right conditions, interest will set up future ideals for children, and it will often become their unshakable motivation.