There is one thing that has been going on for a long time, but I can't forget it. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It's been a long time, and that was when I was in the first year of junior high school. One day, the homeroom teacher and Chinese teacher taught us the ancient Chinese text "Two Children Distinguish the Sun". The gist of the article is: Confucius was on a trip and met two children arguing about whether the sun was closer to people in the morning or near people at noon. One said that when the sun first came out, it was the size of a wheel, but at noon it was the size of a plate, so the sun was close to people in the morning. The other says that when the sun first comes out, it is cool and cool, and at noon it is as hot as a soup, so the sun is close to people at noon. Confucius could not judge which of the two was right. The two children laughed at him, and who said you knew more?

After explaining the original meaning of the article to us, our Chinese teacher began to explain this question to us, which even Confucius could not answer. Why is it that the sun is big in the morning and small at noon? In the morning, the pointed head is towards the sun, close to the sun, so the sun is larger. And the earth is rotating, and at noon it turns into a flat belly towards the sun, and the distance is shortened, and it is far away from the sun, so the sun is smaller. The Chinese teacher said that she had also drawn two egg rows of globes on the blackboard. One is pointed towards the sun, and the other is flat-bellied towards the sun, to illustrate it.

But as soon as I heard it, I knew it was wrong. I have seen in extracurricular books that the so-called sun seen in the morning is big and the sun seen at noon is completely a human optical illusion. Because the sun is near the horizon in the morning, the sun we see is big when compared to the objects on the ground. And by noon, the sun rose high in the sky. There is no object to compare it to, and the sun we see feels small. In fact, the sun is the same size from morning to night.

Our Chinese teachers must not have learned physics and geography well. I must not have read the reference materials in this area before the class. But she was unwilling to admit that she didn't understand this issue, like Confucius. I had to make up an answer from my own imagination. And I don't dare to comment on the ignorance of the saint to my face, like the two children in the ancient text. Still listen to the teachings of the language teacher as if listening to the truth.

After class, I found that there were not a few classmates like me. Many students pointed out that the Chinese teacher's explanation was wrong. But no one went to the language teacher to correct this mistake. When we handed in our homework, we all wrote according to the Chinese teacher's point of view.

To be honest, I was really reluctant to do that, so after all these years, I still can't forget it. Later, as I grew older, I realized that this kind of thing happens a lot in life. We're used to it, and we're taking it for granted. It's as common as an apple falling to the ground. But the apple falling to the ground is a sign of gravity, so what does this phenomenon tell us?