The first volume of Chinese in the sixth grade of primary school is the text of Natural Character.

When we know the words, we can read thick books and understand things in the world. Nature also has its own words. Every star in the sky is a word, and every pebble under your feet is also a word.

In ancient times, sailors needed to find their way and time at sea, so they went to see the gobbledygook written by the stars. Even if they don't have a compass, they won't get lost. They look up at the sky. In many constellations composed of stars, they will find Ursa minor. In Ursa minor, they will find Polaris, and the north is beyond it.

Clouds are also words in the book of the sky. On a hot summer day, a white Yunshan stands in the distance, from which two sharp points protrude to the left and right, and the mountain becomes like a blacksmith's anvil. Pilots know that anvil cloud is a harbinger of thunderstorm and should stay away from it. If you fly in it, it will destroy the plane.

The land under our feet is also an interesting book for those who can read it.

A gray stone was dug up on the construction site. You only know that it is just an ordinary stone, but it is not ordinary to those who understand the nature. It's limestone. It's caused by broken shells. As we all know, shellfish are the inhabitants of the ocean. It can be seen that in ancient times, this place which is now a city was once a Wang Yang.

Walking in the forest, sometimes I suddenly see a big granite standing in the middle of the forest, covered with moss, just like fur. How did it get here? Who has the strength to move it into the forest? Besides, how did it get through the dense forest? People who know nature characters will immediately say that they are not moved by people, but by ice. Those ice cubes "crawled" from the cold north, carrying large and small stones along the road. That was a long time ago, when there were no forests at all. The surrounding forest was developed later.

To learn to understand nature's character, we should walk in the Woods or fields from childhood and pay attention to observation. If there is something you don't understand, look in the book again and see if there is an explanation. You should also ask a learned man: What kind of stone is this? what kind of tree is it? People who always sit at home will never understand the words of nature.

Author: Ilya

Ilya is a popular science writer, engineer and children's literature writer in the former Soviet Union. Born in Ukraine. He wrote many popular science works in his life, such as 100,000 Why's, When's, Black and White, The Story of Five-year Plan, Mountain and Man, Man and Nature, Transforming the Earth, etc., which contributed to the popular science literature of the Soviet Union and had a great influence on the development of modern popular science in China. Ilya loved reading, nature and scientific experiments since childhood. His careful observation of various organisms and astronomical geology as a child laid a solid foundation for him to create poetic popular science works from the perspective of literature and art in the future. A hundred thousand whys, a name full of vitality, is taken from Ilya's works. He is the most understanding popular science writer, and any complicated and difficult scientific principles become interesting in his works. "100,000 Why" Hui Ze generations, history will not forget Ilya! He also edited the text of Nature and other articles.

19 14 graduated from middle school and won the gold medal with honors. From 1924, when he was still in college, he began to write essays on science and literature. 1925 graduated from Leningrad Institute of Technology. The Sleepless Sky, written on 1927, is his first weighty work, which was loved by readers as soon as it was published. In the following 30 years, he created dozens of popular science literature works, such as When, Black and White and 100,000 Why, which played a great role in popularizing scientific knowledge, inspiring people to know and transform nature. 1953165438+1October 15, died in Moscow at the age of 58.