Qifanqi Microclass (VI): The Relentless Scholar--Dai Zhongyu

One summer a year ago, I met a grandfather in front of the library on the Yanta campus of Shaanxi Normal University. He invited me to take a picture of him, and out of politeness, I readily agreed. A mouthful of country accent drew us closer, and we gradually got acquainted.

The grandfather is very knowledgeable, his temperament is superior, and his speech is extraordinary. I'm not sure if you're a big fan of the idea, but I'm a big fan of the idea that you're a big fan of the idea.

When I was leaving, I realized his true identity. He gave me a copy of his May 24, 2019 edition of the Huashang Daily newspaper with a report in it as a meet-and-greet gift. At that time, I was surprised and pleasantly surprised. I had actually met a rather distinguished person who was so down to earth. I was honored!

At that time, I was amazed that my 67-year-old grandfather was so knowledgeable.

He was a late bloomer, studying Chinese language and literature on his own, and working at the Xi'an College of Arts and Sciences at the age of 50. After retirement, he worked as a security guard. In his spare time, he writes for pleasure. He always carries a laptop and dresses plainly, either in the library of the university or in the provincial library. Anyway, he insists on reading and writing, and has published several books, including "Selected Works of Dai Zhongyu" (340,000 words).

He writes novels about the study, work and life of the post-80s and post-90s, through which he embodies the spiritual and material worlds of contemporary young people, and cautions that young people should study, work and live seriously and take the first step in life.

According to him, the first short story "Heavenly Road" in "Dai Zhongyu's Selected Works" was inspired by the University of Teacher Education.

It was still in the 1980s at the beginning of the reform and opening up, he worked in a company in Xi'an, and occasionally heard a man tell him about the Normal University, a chemistry graduate, there was a good job in the state establishment, I heard that the reform and opening up of Shenzhen, breaking the Chinese people's long-standing concept of "Iron Rice Bowl", personal income, and the treatment is very good. Treatment is not expensive, this graduate resigned "to sea" to Shenzhen, which know the boss of the concept of employing people in Shenzhen is to look at the individual's ability to work first, in the absence of confirmation of the individual's ability, treatment is not very high.

In this difficult to adapt to the transformation period, the graduates of the money spent, became a bum, had no choice but to put down the frame of willing to be a blue-collar layer, under the hard work, there is an employer's mischievous, "tube food and housing every day to give him eighty cents," so that he is also aggrieved by the commitment. After his own hard work, he eventually achieved brilliant results.

The Road to Heaven is a philosophical and realistic work for college students. Grandpa Dai's concern for the growth of young people this is very touching, once a Northwest University, a student called He Yahong let Mr. Dai look at his thesis, in addition to a very small change in the text, he put forward four comments, he was worried about misleading the students, and they know Professor Liu Wenrui of the University of the West to communicate with the QQ, and then sent the electronic version to the students.

Grandpa Dai worked in Xi'an College of Arts and Sciences for nearly a decade, because it is the instructor of the student organization and run the internal communication newspaper "Campus Life" and students have a wide range of exchanges, so he was on the 80, 90 after the college students, he was happy for the young people's vigorous and positive, but also for the lack of correct and healthy thinking of the individual students heartbreaking. Contemporary college students life of love, study and employment has become the subject of his research.

In order to complete this subject, into his creation of the text, from Peking University students down to the private university in Xi'an, he had to come and go. Students from the Li Zhaoji School of Humanities at Peking University talked about the synopsis of his novel The Celibate, and some of them even exchanged ideas with Grandpa Dai at twelve o'clock at night.

He conveyed the aspirations of young people in his works. Even though he is past his prime, he is concerned about the development of young people and contributes to the healthy development of young people in the form of literary creation.

There is a lot to learn from him. Learning from old age and living to a ripe old age. He did not yield to fate and was not willing to be ordinary. Even as an old man who has no opportunity to go to university to receive higher education, he is also positive and hard-working, and surprisingly published four papers of nearly 40,000 words in the Research on Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture and Contemporary New Issues and Research on the Origins and Inheritance and Development of Chinese Civilization published by the Central Party School Publishing House. With writing to express the young people, the future of the motherland's great expectations.

He learned to use computer and pinyin in order to write more conveniently, and tried to conform to the trend of the times. He used his life experience to tell me that as long as you want to learn, it's never too late, and what's scary is that you don't have the heart and perseverance to learn. Nowadays, there are always people who say that they have not studied properly before, but is it still too late? I can responsibly say, of course it's too late. Grandpa Dai, Mr. Dai is an example.

He wrote novels, essays, poems, research papers, and even screenplays. Truly excellent people do not know only one discipline, but will integrate all kinds of knowledge. I am now also on the path of writing, the road is still shallow, will follow his example, and strive to move forward.

He writes about young people in warm words, cares about young people, and cares about me, a young person, in the smoldering world.

We kept in touch privately, he would share with me his articles, or experiences, from which I learned a lot. He would come to me in the rain to talk to me and in the hot sun to give me books.

I knew that what I got was not only a book, but also a great deal of care and expectation.

In this world, it is so lucky to meet such a knowledgeable, inspiring and sincere person. I can't repay him for his concern, I can only study hard and live up to his expectations.