My Mother Hu Shi After-school Lesson Notes 1

Wen crepe (zhōu) nicknamed (chuò) 庶祖母(shù) 吹笙(shēng)

摹画(mó) cataracts of the eyes(yì) licked away(tiǎn)辱(wǔ)

reprimand: to penalize.

Control: to restrain so as not to transgress.

Capacity: the degree of talent and virtue; the measure of being able to accommodate different opinions.

Desert: vast and empty.

Forgiveness: tolerance and forgiveness.

Questioning: to reprove.

Written: describing a person who talks and behaves in an elegant manner.

Red-faced: describing the reddening of one's face due to impatience, shyness, etc.

kind: benevolent and charitable.

Insult: to make the other person's personality or reputation damaged, suffer shame

〖Overall Grasp〗

Part I: Recall the author's experiences before the age of nine, to pave the way for writing about his mother.

(1) Explaining the main causes of his own character--from his own reasons and his mother's reasons (social environment)

(2) Writing about his love of learning and the most lively games in his childhood.

(3) Write about two lost opportunities for development.

(4) Natural transitions.

Part 2: Write about your mother.

(1) My mother's "strictness in teaching and kindness in loving me" (A) Kneeling as a punishment - a strict teacher (B) Curing my eye disease)

(2) My mother's tolerance and forbearance, kindness and gentleness. (A, to the elder brother B, to the sister-in-law's irrationality)

(3) Mother's very rigid and temperate side.

Part 3: Write about your mother's profound influence on yourself.

〖Seminar and Practice〗

I Read through the text and complete the following questions.

1. What things does the text write about your mother? What is the character of the mother?

In a nutshell, it writes about three aspects of my mother: first, her discipline of me; second, how she deals with the difficulties and conflicts of the family as the stepmother in charge; and third, how she deals with the insults of others to her character. Specifically, writing about my discipline, I mainly wrote about the supervision in learning and the admonition in being a human being. In terms of learning, at dawn, she put my clothes on and urged me to go to morning school; in terms of conduct, in addition to writing about my education every morning, focusing on the heavy chastisement I received for saying a light word. My mother's discipline of me shows that she is both strict and kind to me, i.e. she "is my strict teacher and my kind mother". Write mother as a stepmother in charge of the family's difficulties, mainly wrote three things: (1) how to deal with the loser brother's debtors on New Year's Eve. This incident shows my mother's tolerance and kindness; (2) how to get along with my sister-in-law and second sister-in-law and how to deal with the conflicts between their sisters-in-law. This incident shows my mother's tolerant and gentle character. (3) My mother was so angry at the insult to her character that she didn't give up until she asked the irresponsible fifth uncle to admit his fault and make amends in front of her. This incident shows the mother's "rigidity" side.

2. The author mainly writes that his mother was his mentor, why did he use more ink to write about how he got along with his family besides writing about how he was taught by his mother?

In this article, in addition to writing about how his mother taught him, he writes more about how she spent time with her family. This may seem like a departure from the main theme of "my mother is my mentor," but it is not. We often say that the mother is the first teacher of life, which is not mainly reflected in the mother how to "teach", but more reflected in the mother usually how to treat others on their own influence. Therefore, it can be said that the mother and family to write the situation, the same is also written in the "mother is my teacher", to write her example of my ears and eyes, subtle education and influence. I'm not only writing about my mother's "words", but also about my mother's "teachings".

3. Try to comment on the author's mother's way of being and teaching her children.

On the author's mother as a person, the way to teach children's views, can be different, but in general should be educational. The author's mother's way of being a human being is mainly self-restraint and humility, tolerance and good treatment, harmony and kindness; while in teaching her children, she is mainly strict and sometimes too harsh. This is due to the fact that women in the old society regarded "raising children with their husbands" as a "vocation" and a virtue. For the author's mother, the responsibility of teaching her children was even more important. Her respected husband died too early, and the responsibility of educating her children all fell on herself, while her children were the whole of her spiritual life, and also all her hopes for the future life, and how to be able to live up to her deceased husband, etc. It was for these many reasons that she could not allow her children to be raised. It is these many reasons, she can not tolerate the child a little bad, for fear that he is not good. Therefore, her child's education is extraordinarily deep and strict.

Second, combined with the context, taste the following statements in the underlined words sense of proportion.

1．In these nine years (1895-1904), I learned only two things, reading and writing. In the aspect of writing and thinking (reading articles), one cannot help but get a little grounding.

The double negation of "cannot but" expresses the author's affirmation of "having laid a little foundation", but the double negation of the verb "cannot but" expresses a kind of subjective affirmation, and therefore have the subjective view of the meaning of this not only shows the attitude, but also does not appear to be categorical and absolute.

2. I have been alone in this vast sea of people for more than twenty years, and no one has ever disciplined me.

Saying that I have been "mingling" for more than twenty years shows the author's humble attitude. Although the author was already a cultural celebrity at that time, and this "mixed" word and the next sentence "not a single person to control me" has the secret of the wonderful. "I "mix" in the sea of people, there should be someone to discipline "me", but there is not, expressing the author's nostalgia for his mother after being far away from her; there is not a single person who has disciplined "I have been able to "mingle" in the sea of people for more than twenty years, which shows how great the lessons my mother has taught me are. I am not sure how much I have learned from my mother, but I am sure that she has taught me a great deal.

3. If I have learned the slightest bit of good temper, if I have learned a little bit of kindness, if I can forgive and sympathize with people - I have to thank my loving mother.

In fact, the author's character virtues of "good temper", "kindness to others", "forgiveness" and "understanding" are the most important. The author's character of not praising or boasting is also very much in line with the characteristics of autobiography.

Three, the end of the article wrote: "I spent my boyhood under the tutelage of my mother, and was greatly and y influenced by her." In what ways was this "great and deep influence" manifested? In what ways have you been y influenced by your own mother? Recall and share with your classmates, then write a fragment.

This "great and deep influence" is, as the author says, the learning of a good temper, the learning of treating people with kindness, the ability to forgive and sympathize with others, as well as diligence in study, punctuality, and the ability to reflect on "my own body" in the conduct of human beings. The main thing is how to be a human being, the mother let the author develop the character of forgiveness, kindness and understanding.

〖Author Introduction〗

Hu Shi (1891-1962), formerly known as Hu Hong, was known as Shizhi. His pen names include Tianfeng, Zanghui, Tie'er, etc. He was born in Jixi, Anhui Province. He was a native of Jixi, Anhui Province. He studied in a private school at an early age, went to Shanghai at the age of 14, studied in the U.S. in 1910, graduated from Columbia University in 1917 with a doctorate in philosophy, and returned to China in July of the same year. He served as professor and president of Peking University and ambassador of the Kuomintang government to the United States. His representative works include Ruminations on Literary Improvement, a collection of poems called Trying Collection, and Hu Shi Wen Cun.

〖Background〗

Hu Shi's mother, Feng Shundi, was a traditional "mother figure" in the old society. She was widowed at the age of 23, and has been widowed for 23 years, suffering all the pain and torture in her life. The greatest pain was the death of many relatives. For the sake of her only son Hu Shi, she suffered and put all her hopes on him, she endured everything and struggled to survive for 23 years. She was an enlightened mother who emphasized on intellectual investment. in november 1918, she passed away after enduring the hardship of widowhood.

[Commentary]

The article has more than one emotion under the plain language. This broad and lasting love of mother and son shows such touching and deep artistic effect through the outline which is as light as white drawing. The reason why this article can have touching power, of course, not by virtue of what grand structure and magnificent words. Instead, it is based on its simplicity.

Plain language, simple and clean, the mother's character portrayed in the wood: "Every day at dawn, my mother will wake me up", "urge me to go to morning school. In old China, where Confucianism was dominant, the status of women was extremely low. What's more, Hu Shi's mother was a feudal housewife, she was a widow and stepmother, in addition to hoping that her son "step on" his "old man's" footsteps, what else do you expect? That is why "my mother disciplined me the most, she was a loving mother and a strict father". For non-self-born sons and daughters, the mother is "everything to pay attention to, everything extraordinarily tolerant", "she really can not help it, will quietly out of the door", the mother's painful image of humiliation, only through this plain narrative, will leap onto the paper, and in the reader's heart The sound of sympathy is touched in the reader's heart. There is no piling up of gorgeous words and phrases. The love for the mother is deep and simple.

In fact, the down-to-earth style comes from the author's true feelings. Therefore, any false feelings, artifice will not have shocking artistic infectivity. Reading through the whole article, we can feel Hu Shi's deep love for his mother. As a descendant of a scholarly family, Hu Shih received the traditional Confucian ethical education of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and love in his early childhood, and later on, he learned "diligence, prudence, and slowness" from Zhu Zi's "Elementary School", so he understood his mother's difficulty more y and more clearly, so he said that apart from his hometown, "the nine years of life, apart from reading and watching books, what did he give to his mother? In addition to reading books, in fact, gave me a little bit of training to be a man, in this regard. My teacher is my mother." Of course, for their own mother, and love deeper. "If I have learned one iota of good temper, if I have learned a little bit of kindness in dealing with people, if I can forgive and sympathize with people - I have my loving mother to thank for it." The feeling of loving and honoring the mother comes out strongly through the words. The truth and purity of the feelings are moving.