Chapter 17 New Semester, New Thoughts, New Actions
During the beginning of the school year, my son's academic performance was okay, and his ability to complete his homework in an hour and a half was significantly enhanced, so I think it was time to lead him to a bigger world. Because neurologically speaking, the human brain has about 14 billion nerve cells. The early childhood period of human brain development is the most rapid period of human brain development, the brain weight at the age of 3 has reached two-thirds of the adult brain weight, and the adult brain weight has basically reached the adult brain weight at the age of 12. The connection between brain cells is 80% complete by the age of 3. The development of brain intelligence can reach 50% of adult potential by 6 months and 80% by 3 years of age. If the age of 17 is used as the criterion for intelligence, about 50% is completed at the age of 4, 30% at the age of 4-8, and the remaining 20% at the age of 8-17. Each period is a critical period for the development of many aspects, and only by making good use of this period can we develop, otherwise, development will be difficult or even impossible to develop. Importantly, the development of many functions of cranial nerves directly determines the function of the pituitary gland. The function of the cerebellum in turn determines the quality of the basic body fluids of the person, that is, the proportion of blood, mucus, black bile, and yellow bile in the human body. This ratio directly determines a person's physical condition and personality characteristics, and whether the development of cerebellar function depends entirely on outdoor physical activity.
In body fluids, it is manifested as active temperament and flexible movements in people with blood predominance, calm temperament and sluggishness in people with mucus predominance, weak temperament and sluggishness in people with black bile, and impatience and rapid movement in people with yellow bile predominance. People with different temperaments will form their own unique neurotypes and lifestyles, which determine the type of human physique. According to the German psychiatrist E. Krechmer, those who are fragile, with a narrow body, shoulders and hips, and slender arms, are prone to introverted, shy, lonely and sensitive personalities. Those who have a fat physique, a broad body, relatively short limbs, a broad face, a thick neck and a fat belly, are prone to emotional ups and downs, uncertain, sometimes excited, active and cheerful, sometimes extremely melancholy and dull. Those who are physically fit, show that they are energetic, optimistic, confident, and presumptuous. Kretschmer's theory of personality, which is based on the morphology of modern biology, has had a wide and lasting impact on the world.
Later, in the 50s of the 20th century, the American psychologist W. H. Sheldon further refined the relationship between human behavioral characteristics and body types from the aspects of the internal, middle and outer three embryonic layers of the human embryonic stage in more detailed anthropometry, and summarized three temperament characteristics: 1. Visceral dominance. This type of person is lazy, hardworking, good food, social, hobby, and obese. The correlation coefficient between temperament and body shape was 0.79. 2. Somatic dominance type. This type of person has a lot of energy, predominantly muscular activity, and a strong physique. The correlation coefficient between temperament and body size was 0.82. 3. Brain dominance. This type of person is cautious, restrained, inclined to live inwardly, and has a lanky build. The correlation coefficient between temperament and body shape was 0.83.
Although these scientific theories of human beings cannot explain the causal relationship between physique and temperament in detail, the following consensus has been reached in terms of personality characteristics: depressed people are nervous, and their personality is introverted, melancholy, anxious, rigid, serious, pessimistic, silent, unsociable, and quiet. People with a choleric temperament are nervous, and their personality is outgoing, sensitive, restless, aggressive, excited, changeable, impulsive, optimistic, and active. Mucous people are emotionally stable, and their personality is introverted, passive, cautious, contemplative, calm, controlled, trustworthy, calm and peaceful. Plethoralistic people are emotionally stable, and their personalities are outgoing, sociable, cheerful, talkative, relatable, easy-going, lively, carefree, and leadership.
Since people in all developed countries follow these rules to cultivate their own offspring, countries like ours, which have very weak ability to popularize science, should learn from others honestly and humbly. Since there is such a positive correlation between physique and personality, it is necessary to take action. Besides, when the per capita GDP exceeds 3,000 US dollars on average, the society will enter the stage of aesthetic development, and people's pursuit of beauty in body, appearance, and clothing will become an important part of life, which is also the development trend of things that are not transferred by human will. Thinking of this, I quickly took out a pen and calculated Wang Xile's future height from a genetic point of view, and the best result was 1.77 meters. I thought to myself if it could grow evenly to 1.82 to 1.83 meters. At the moment, the information in my brain is constantly adding strength to my heart.
It was a Sunday, and the sun was shining and the spring breeze was warm. After eating at noon, I said, "Joy, how about we dig up Suoyang." ”
"I'm not going. ”
"Why?"
"The first time, it took so much effort to dig up six small seedlings, and it was still bitter. Later, I didn't even look at the shadow a few times, and it was in vain to go, so it was better to watch cartoons at home. The son said.
"I remembered a place far away where I could dig up the lock. We insist on it. This time, let's buy a large bottle of drink and a large box of lamb skewers to roast in the wild and eat it. I said.
"I still don't want to go, the key is that I can't dig up Suoyang at all. ”
"No," I said, "since no one can decide, let's play poker." ”
"Fight and fight, who is afraid of whom. ”
"Let's decide the winner in one set. ”
"A plate is a plate. ”
We were dealt ten cards each and started fighting. As a result, I won.
"No, no, dad will have another plate. The son shouted.
"Wang Xile, are you a man or a woman?"
"Male. ”
"Men have to talk. Hurry up. ”
"Running away for nothing again!" the son was extremely reluctant.
Passing by the supermarket, I took out 30 yuan for my son to buy something. After a while, he came out with a plastic bag of things and said, "Dad, do you think what I bought is good?"
"It's not Dad who has the final say, it's the camping that has the final say. With that, the two of us got on the bike, and soon got out of Gillantay.
Although it was spring, there was nothing but gray around the road. There was no sign of the trees in the wide, flat field, and nothing else. Still, I looked ahead, pointed with my hand, and said, "Behind the sand beam of the shadow is the target we are going to." ”
"So far!"
"As long as you persevere, it will be there in a while. I said.
At the three-kilometer mark, I said, "Joy, it's your spring, is it the same as the spring you learned from books?"
"It's not the same. ”
"Yes. I said, "The spring in the book is mostly bright spring and a hundred flowers are blooming." And it is rare to see a hundred flowers blooming in summer in my hometown. There is a gap of at least 108,000 miles between our living environment and what is written in the book. I remember an ancient poem with the word 'March' in it, and that poem was particularly famous. ”
The son thought for a moment and said: "The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March." The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is endless, and only the Yangtze River skyline can be seen. ”
"Whose poem is it?"
"Tang Dynasty Li Bai's. ”
"What's the name of this poem?"
"'Yellow Crane Tower sends Meng Haoran's Guangling'. Dad, don't ask this, it's boring, tell me about Sui and Tang. The son said.
"Okay. ”
Ride while talking. It took us more than an hour to get to the 10 kilometers. There is a row of houses and vegetable patches in the road maintenance area, compared with the memory, the houses have become very simple, the white ash surface on the four earthen walls has fallen off, and the roof tiles are still neat, but more than 40 years of wind and rain have made it look old. The dilapidated doors and windows are reminiscent of "three years of new, three years of old, and another three years of patching." This sentence. This row of houses was built in the sixties during the war of the country's salt industry, and the materials used were transported by car from 100 kilometers away, and at that time, it was definitely a first-class house. Of the four gates, the two on the west side were now too broken to be used, and an old cloth hung from them, the middle one was locked and the windows were tightly blocked, and the east door was the best, and it was mended and mended. It seems that there are still people living in it. Pushing open the door, the furnishings in the room were very simple, except for a smoked black stove, an old bowl kitchen, an old table, and three oranges, the rest was an earthen kang. I felt a little sad in my heart, "It used to be quite lively here," I couldn't help but say.
We went deep into the field to the west of the house to find Suoyang, and it didn't take much time, except for loneliness and boredom, there was only disappointment, and it was impossible to have any other feelings.
"Dad, didn't you say that there are a lot of Suoyang here?"
"It used to be a lot. But now the soil here has been dug up. ”
"I can't dig it up today. ”
"Possibly. Let's go to the kebab at the dam south of the house. ”
"Kebabs, kebabs!" cried the son,
We turned left and jumped right on the rutted road, approaching the vegetable patch in the road maintenance area. I looked in, and there were two old men at work not far away. The man cleaned up the greenhouse, and the woman leveled the canal, "Don't be slow, you have to pour water on everything you say today", the man shouted to the woman, and knew that they were husband and wife.
Come to the dam. "What are you doing here, young man?" I looked up and saw that the old man had come by at some point. He was probably in his sixties, and his swarthy face, though not too intimidating, had a watery pattern on his forehead, telling me how difficult it was to make a living on the land every year.
"Oh, let's dig Suoyang here, Suoyang didn't dig, I want to bake something for the child to eat. Excuse me, uncle, where is there a lock sun here?" I asked.
"The earth has been dug up, where is there still a lock sun! Be careful when you light the fire, don't lead the thorn wall. After saying that, the old man went back to work with his legs.
The son was busy collecting firewood. I stood there, looking at the dam. When I say dams, it's for the sake of sounding better. In fact, it was a puddle about 50 meters long and 20 meters wide that was pushed open by a bulldozer, and there was a spring in it. Most of the acres of cultivated land opposite the dam have been abandoned, and there are felled tree stumps everywhere, except for a few sand date trees that are not formed horizontally and vertically, standing there alone.
Yes, the scene here seems to give me a hint of the country's destiny. A hundred years of dedication should be the most basic starting point for the country's development, but now everything has changed, school education always pays attention to teaching but neglects the foundation of educating people, and economic development always wants to satisfy the desire to get rich at any cost. For the sake of money, people in all walks of life will try their best to change themselves, as long as they can enjoy the happiness in front of them, they are happy to destroy them. And this kind of happiness for material purposes is low-level and temporary, and in the end it will bring people frustration, not happiness. In the early years, Western countries had this experience. There is no doubt that this is a long-term problem, and time will tell, and when the time comes, the power of nature's revenge will not be able to be calculated by human beings by science.
It is said that spring life is infinite, but in the face of such a ruined spring scene, where is the symbol of life? If you can find the power of life in the remnant scene, it will permeate the belief of never giving up in the child's subconscious.
It's quiet around the dam. Since it was living water, I saw the spring spirits running on the water, and a water circle appeared on the calm water from time to time. "Listen to the sound of the water in March", a voice came from nowhere.
I calmed down, looked at the water, listened and listened, and sure enough, under the sun's rays, under the wetlands at the water's edge, there was a "sizzling" sound, "moisturizing things silently." "Naturally in my brain.
"Dad, what are you doing standing there, why don't you come and help me. The son said, "Is there enough firewood?"
It makes me laugh when I look at the little firewood that my son picked up. "If it's enough, you'll know as soon as you use it," I said, "come on, light the kebab." ”
The fire is lit, and the tiny branches show a dazzling beauty. They burn like kids who just start school, and they're doing their best to prove that they're the best.
The son hurriedly took out the lamb skewers, and the firewood was burned before the wood was cooked. "Firewood, is it enough?" I asked.
"That's a lot. ”
We got back to prepping.
"Dad, kebabs need so much wood and it's so thick!" said my son in surprise as he looked at the chai I had brought over.
"The fine wood will soon burn off, and its task is to draw the coarse wood. If the coarse wood is not lit, the fire of fine wood is useless. ”
I lit a fire. The beautiful fire that went up and down, big and small, aroused the interest of his son. He kept asking me why some flames were yellow, why some were red, why some were so violent, and some were not. His questions gave me a revelation: children's education should also have its own characteristics like this pile of burning wood. Because each child is different in hobbies, interests, desires, interests, and emotions, an education that does not conform to the child's natural temperament will definitely not have good results. Where is the character of the son?"
The coarse wood was burned, and the lamb skewers were constantly grilled, "It's delicious, it's delicious." The son was amazed as he ate. But in my mind, I was thinking about what my son's temperament was.
"Dad, give it," the son said, handing the lamb skewers, "I've eaten several skewers, and I'm embarrassed that you haven't eaten a bunch yet." ”
The son has the idea of "filial piety", which was not done before, but no one has taught him. His actions reminded me of my meditation on the I Ching last night, when I looked at the firewood in the fire, and it was clear that the word "virtue" was identified.
"Dad, the color of the oil in the mutton changes when it drips on the firewood, it's so beautiful. The son narrowed his eyes and said with both expression and gesture. After a while, he said. "Dad, what I bought today is unreasonable. ”
"Why?"
"There must be water in the wild. I patronized and bought good food, but I didn't buy water, and I was thirsty. ”
"Drink a drink. ”
"The more you drink, the thirstier you get. ”
"Why did you forget to buy water?"
"I don't know. ”
"Because you had just finished eating, water was the last thing you needed. Rejoice, in the future, we should think about the problems according to the needs of things, and prepare for them, not according to our own needs. I said, "Joy, there is a voice by the dam, stand by the water and listen." ”
The son stood by the water and listened for a while, saying, "I can't hear anything." ”
"Joy, a poem you have memorized, one of which is 'Moisten things silently.' ’”
"Oh, 'Good rain knows the season, when spring happens. Dive into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently. It is a poem by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty. When it comes to poetry, the son exudes confidence.
"You listen to the water in the dam with the feeling of 'moisturizing things silently'. ”
"I hear you. After a while, Zi shouted excitedly.
"What did you hear?"
"I heard 'magnetomagnetic' water seeping into the ground. ”
"Well listened. The magnetic voice was the sound of the water of many small grass roots that had not yet sprouted," I said, "Joy, do you see the beauty of this place?"
"It's not beautiful at all. ”
"Why?"
"Bare. ”
"It's not beautiful at all, but the stumps prove that this place used to be a nice place for greenery. It's like people's lives, and it is not always possible to flow along a stream in a rhythm and calm like the water in a dam. There will always be excitement and shocks in life, highs and lows. It's the same with your studies, it's normal to have ups and downs, it's the law of life, but it doesn't determine people's fate. Man is the Lord of all spirits and has the power to change everything. You're learning the same way you are now. It's not good, but it doesn't matter, Dad hopes that no matter how difficult and unfair the treatment is, you will never give up the belief in learning. I hope you can be like those small grass roots under the dam, no matter what the environment is, you must strive to make a 'magnetic, magnetic, magnetic' water absorption sound, and accumulate energy for your own growth. My son didn't understand what I was saying, but nodded as if he felt something.
After eating, we went up the sand slope to the east of the dam, and I saw a sign that seemed to be a little long locked, and subconsciously shoveled a spade, and then gently lifted it forward. "Lock the sun," the son exclaimed, and quickly ran forward two steps to pick up a lock head from the ground. When I looked at it, it was a huge lock male head, which was clearly just shoveled. My heart was overjoyed, and I put my arms around my son and said excitedly, "Joy, your eyes are so sharp, we have dug up the lock sun." ”
"Where's Suoyang?" asked the son eagerly.
"Right where I just shoveled. I turned and pointed at me.
The son hurried over and shaved out the sand with his hands. "Suoyang. Dad, I found it. He shouted.
It's hard to put into words how we felt. The stout lock yang head was cut out one after another, a total of twenty-five seedlings, and after a process and the situation made me feel a sense of success all around me, I think my son is the same. When I finished digging Suoyang and backfilled the pit, my son asked puzzledly: "Dad, do you still have to work so hard when Suoyang has dug out?"
"It's called sustainable development. I took special care to protect the roots when digging in Suoyang, and it will grow next year if I fill in the soil now, and if I don't fill in the soil, or if the roots are destroyed when digging, it will never grow again. "Listen to me. The son kept pushing sand into the pit with his little hands.
After digging Suoyang, the problem of thirst immediately came to the fore. The son suggested asking the old man for some water, but I disagreed, and he asked why.
"If a male doll does something unreasonable, he must have the courage to take responsibility for the result. "I made it clear.
"I can only ride back thirsty. The son grinned.
"Yes. Ride back with willpower. Daddy believes in you. "My son was impressed by my optimism. He said, "Isn't it just ten kilometers, ride back." ”
After riding a few hundred meters, Wang Xile smiled and said, "Dad, talk about Sui and Tang." At this point I said, "Oh no, we forgot something." ”
"Take it all! lock the sun, shovels, and eat the leftovers. ”
"We forgot about the food bags. ”
"That's Fei Pin, and I don't want it when I pack my things. ”
"That's garbage, you can't throw things around. ”
"What's that, there are more people throwing it, and a lot of adults are throwing it. The son said reasonably,
"Rejoice, there is only one earth for mankind. Didn't your teachers always teach you to take care of the environment?"
"It was at school. The son said, "If we are caught throwing garbage at school, we will have to deduct class points, and the teacher will punish us, who will care if we leave the school." ”
I was shocked for a moment, and felt that there was a serious logic problem here, but I couldn't think of a reason for it at once. said: "We can't take care of others, but we have to take care of ourselves, do you say that today's plastic bags can be picked up?"
"There are only five or six grocery bags in total, and they can go so far. The son said with his mouth pouted.
Instead of saying a thousand times, it is better to act once. "Joy, it's Dad's fault to pollute the environment today, I accept the punishment, you wait, I'll pick it up. "I'll be back in a moment. Along the way, the son never mentioned the story of the Sui and Tang dynasties again.
Finally home. "Hee, are you thirsty? Mom cooled the water. The wife's words were still in the air, and the son had rushed to the teapot and drank it. "You see what kind of thirst the doll is, eat less, or wear less, and suffer from this sin regardless of the child's learning in one day. Why?" said the wife.
"Mom, don't talk about my dad, we've dug up the lock yang, it's a lot, it's still sweet. I'll go next time. The son said excitedly.
My son's words made my heart warm. The failure of the first few digging Suoyang will make the child temper in terms of physical strength, will, and emotion every time. It's just that the first few times the adults forced the children to go, and through this success, at least emotionally, the children have a sense of initiative. The feeling of success, the sense of purpose, and the feeling of action may be the whole of education.
Normal people cry when they are sad and laugh when they are happy. What about those who don't feel it? Looking at the joy that my son felt in this camping trip to Suoyang, I felt worried. If the son's academic ranking is not high, he will definitely not become the object of the teacher's attention, and he will definitely be excluded from the exam-oriented school study life as a person outside this world, and he will become a person who has no feelings at all. Once a person has reached a point where he has no sense of self, depravity will inevitably become the only choice in life, because the vast majority of depraved students in secondary schools today have basically the same number of paths.
The success of today's camping made the thirsty two of us feel inexplicably cold when we rushed back, but the original ten-kilometer road scenery was chic, refreshing, it seems that nature can really bring people a kind of detachment, so that people can measure the energy of life with new eyes. At this time, I firmly believe that as long as a person has natural beauty and can taste the power from nature, no matter how difficult he encounters, he will never fall, and his heart will always be alive.