我的高中语文课-讲给儿子听(图)

老农只有一亩薄田。 老农除养家糊口外,还想胡诌几句。老农的所见所闻,可能对大家有点用。。。
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儿子学校的英语课老师要我写一个我高中时的故事。我就录下这个故事。哈哈,新年快乐!



My high school time only lasted two years. It was from 1977 to 1979, right after the


Cultural Revolution ended in 1976. China had just restored the National College

Entrance Examination (NCEE), which made every high school student work

strenuously to learn and master the test subjects quickly. To pass the NCEE was

almost the sole objective for millions of young people to move on to better

lives of being educated in colleges and guaranteeing a good future after


graduation.
During this intense period, I had many unforgettable moments, but none compared to one

Chinese class with Mr. Shi.

(The above picture is from news.163.com)

Mr. Shi was in his late twenties, tall and shy. He was slightly thin and his belt seemed

not always tight enough so that he occasionally used his left forearm to nudge


up his belt while standing with an opened textbook in his right hand. When

commenting on student compositions in the class, Mr. Shi often got excited and

his shyness disappeared quickly like water seeps into dry sands. Chinese was

one of my favorite subjects, and my compositions were often chosen to be read

and commented on as good examples in front of the entire class.




It was one Chinese class on a winter day, Mr. Shi walked into the classroom with a stack

of composition notebooks. He put down all the notebooks on the table, and

announced that he would like to critique the homework from the last class. The

homework was to write about “My Days during the Spring Festival”. After making


a few general comments, he said: “I will read a few paragraphs from one of your

compositions.” He picked a composition notebook from the top of the stack. He

opened the notebook that he already marked and began to read:
“Firework smoke filled the cold air and formed silver clouds flowing above us under

bright moonlight. Stars shied away and the moon shined on buildings like

casting a thin layer of frost. It was the Chinese New Year’s Night, clear and


freezing... My friend and I ran back and forth on the crowded street, sweating

under the heavy winter coats.   After finishing our last firework,

overexcited and tired, we decided to go to a late night movie…”
Oh, My! He was reading my composition! I proudly whispered to my next seats, “Mr. Shi is

reading my work!”
After reading a few more paragraphs, Mr. Shi stopped, and he asked questions to the

class:”How was this composition, does it have a good opening?”
A few students raised hands and agreed that it was a good opening with a nice


description of the night. I smiled while listening to my fellow classmates.
“Do you notice any problem in the description?”
“Problem?” I scratched my head and could not think of any problems.
The classroom suddenly became so quiet that you could have heard a pin being

dropped.
“There was a big problem in this composition!” Mr. Shi raised his voice.
Everyone looked him with puzzled eyes.
“How many people know the lunar calendar? How is lunar calendar related to the moon?” Mr.

Shi seemed to have changed the subject.
“It takes about 28 days for the moon to circle around the earth once, which is a month.

And the lunar calendar is based on this fact.” One girl answered question.
“Excellent! When do you see the moon every day?” Mr. Shi kept asking.
“At night.” “No, I saw it during the day some days.” Mr. Shi got a few different answers. I

had no idea on the correct answer as the rest of the class.
“All right, all of your responses were partially correct. Here is the answer: In the first


day of a lunar month, the moon and the sun rise at the same time, then the moon

rises about 50 minutes later each day. On the fifteenth day of the month, the

moon rises after the sun sets.”  
Mr. Shi continued “The Chinese New Year’s Day is the first day of the first lunar

month, on that day, the moon sets before the night.” He paused, and then he

raised the composition notebook in his hands. “In this composition, the student


described ‘the bright moonlight’ in New Year’s Night in his writing, which is

incorrect and indicates this student does not have sufficient knowledge about

the nature and about the moon and lunar calendar. He made a common sense

mistake.”
I lowered my head and avoided eye contacts with Mr. Shi and those in the neighboring

seats. I felt heat on my face…
“I hope all of you to learn more, not just from the classroom but from the outside. Read


more books and learn from others, from your friends, from your parents and

grandparents. Learn from nature and observe nature and people carefully. Only

through continuous learning and careful observations, can you create ‘real’

stories.”
The last a few words struck me heavily. I did read a few more books than my classmates

did, but did I learn and observe the real world carefully? No, I did not. I


needed to work on it!
I did not remember how this class ended.
Time flies. A few years later, as a scientist working in the US, I sent Mr. Shi a Christmas

card with Santa and Rudolph under the moon. I quoted the following lyrics: “So…

to those of who do not believe in Santa, here’s the proof:  look out the

window Christmas Eve at the moonlight on your roof.
” I added “NASA

scientists say the full moon will brighten the nights around this Christmas. No


lunar calendar is used here. Thank you Mr. Shi for teaching me composition!”
Mr. Shi replied with a Chinese New Year’s card picturing children setting off fireworks

under dark sky and scintillating stars…

 ?北美老农


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