His life
Ji Xianlin, Professor Peking University, Honorary Deputy Director of the School Affairs Committee of Peking University, Academician of China Academy of Sciences. China linguist, literary translator, historian, orientalist, thinker, Buddhist and writer. Proficient in 12 language.
19 1 1 was born in Guanzhuang, Qingping County, Shandong Province (now merged into Linqing City). At the age of six, he entered a private school. /kloc-started learning English at the age of 0/0. High school began to learn German and became interested in foreign literature.
1930 was admitted to the Department of Western Literature in Tsinghua University to study German.
65438-0934, Tsinghua went to Jinan Senior Middle School to teach Chinese after graduation.
1935, went to Germany as an exchange student.
From 65438 to 0936, he majored in Indian studies and studied Sanskrit and Pali at the Sanskrit College of G? ttingen University. English linguistics and Slavic linguistics are selected as affiliated departments, and Yugoslav language is added.
194 1 year received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of G? ttingen.
1946 to 1983, and returned to China as the director of Peking University Oriental Language and Literature Department. During the Cultural Revolution, he was brutally persecuted by the Gang of Four and its Beijing minions. After the "Cultural Revolution", he returned to China, continued to serve as the director of the Department of Oriental Languages in Peking University, and was appointed as the vice president of Peking University and the director of the South Asian Institute in Peking University. He was a member of the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Sessions of the China People's Political Consultative Conference and the Sixth the NPC Standing Committee (the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress).
From 65438 to 0988, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Institute of Culture and visited many countries as a scholar.
From the end of 1980s to the beginning of this century, many personal opinions and judgments were put forward in articles and speeches on major issues such as culture, China culture, cultural systems between the East and the West, cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and human culture in the 265,438+0th century, which aroused widespread concern at home and abroad.
In 2003, he was admitted to 30 1 hospital for physical reasons. Even in the ward, I still insist on reading and writing every day.
The best thing in the world is reading.
Ji Xianlin loved books and wrote many books in his life. There are countless celebrities and articles praising reading at all times and in all countries. Mr. Zhang Yuanji has a simple saying: "The best thing in the world is reading." "The World" and "The First" show his understanding of the importance of reading.
Why reading is a good thing?
Some people may think this question is naive and abrupt. This is equivalent to asking "why do people eat", because no one opposes eating and no one says that reading is not a good thing.
However, I think we should ask a "why" in everything. Everything happens for a reason and should not be taken for granted. Now let me talk about my personal understanding of why reading is a good thing.
Whenever things are different, we often say "since Pangu created the world". I'll talk about it now from before Pangu created the world, from the time when human beings left the animal world and entered the human world. When a person becomes a person, he begins to accumulate human wisdom, which is like snowballing, rolling bigger and bigger, that is, accumulating more and more. Animals don't seem to find this ability. A stupid pig was still so stupid 10 thousand years ago, and today it is still so stupid that it has not increased its wisdom. And man can not only grow wisdom at any time, but also grow faster and faster according to my observation, just like an object falling from the sky. Today has reached the level of knowledge explosion. Recently, cloning has surprised people all over the world. Some people are so worried that they don't know that the development of this technology depends on Woody. People who believe in Jesus worry about where their God will hide in the future once people are "cloned".
For thousands of years, wisdom has been preserved in two ways: one is in kind, such as the Great Wall, and so on; Followed by books, the latter is the main. Before the invention of writing, wisdom was preserved by memory; Books were used after the invention of writing. When you transfer what you remember from your mind to paper, you form a book, which is a treasure house for storing the wisdom handed down from generation to generation by human beings. The younger generation must learn to inherit and carry forward the wisdom of their predecessors. The reason why mankind can make progress and move forward forever depends on the ability to read and write. I often think that human development is like a relay race, and the first generation runs the first leg; The second generation takes the baton, runs the second baton, even the third baton and the fourth baton, and runs endlessly, so that the inheritance of wisdom will be endless. This inheritance mainly depends on books, which is a major event related to the inheritance of human wisdom. So, what is reading that is not "the best thing in the world"?
However, on the other hand, there is a saying in China that "reading is useless". Intellectuals who read books were generally called "scholars" in ancient times, and they often became the object of ridicule. For example, "a scholar rebelled and failed for three years" is to make fun of a scholar's incompetence. This is not unreasonable. In ancient times-please note that I said "ancient times", but today it is completely different-almost all the rebels were illiterate hooligans. There were two emperors in the history of China, the founder of the country, the British Emperor, and Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang all belonged to this category. The poet can only sigh, "It's a pity that Liu Xiang doesn't study." "Scholar" can only be a "gang" or "gang" for this group of thugs. If he can't help, he has to lament that "the Confucian crown is so wrong."
But then again, are these hooligans or "literati" the inheritors of China's long and excellent traditional culture? The answer is as bright as the sun. This group of "great-grandfathers" who talk about the futility of reading, in addition to suppressing the exploitation of the people, only left some graves for future generations to make money for today's tourists. They have made no contribution to our country.
To sum up, "the best thing in the world is reading."
Ji Xianlin worked hard when he was a child, and he was most afraid of writing.
You knew how to make a difference in primary school.
When Ji Xianlin was 6 years old, he left his hometown Qingping County (now Linqing City, Liaocheng) and went to his uncle's house in Jinan. It is recorded in the book that Ji Xianlin was stubborn when he was studying in Fan Primary School, Jinan No.1 Normal School. "The school stipulates to write calligraphy, so he and his classmates painted ink on each other's faces ... After returning home, he liked to draw on his cousin's face and asked him to draw a beard."
Ji Xianlin is clever, but he doesn't use it in his study. "He saved pocket money. When I saw a shop selling peanuts on my way to school, I bought a big bag, then put it into a small bag and sold it to my classmates at a higher price at school, making some money. "
Take the lead in organizing and planning to beat teachers.
When Ji Xianlin was in primary school, fighting was the worst. Qian Wenzhong wrote: "Mr. Ji is often bullied because of his small size and young age, but he has been trying to subdue his bullies." More seriously, Ji Xianlin also organized and planned bomb attacks on teachers. At that time, a teacher surnamed Sun was very mean to his students, so Ji Xianlin took the lead in planning, saying that Mr. Sun jumped on the desk as soon as he entered the classroom, and then threw the prepared fruit at Mr. Sun's head and beat him away. However, because most students chickened out and the "uprising" failed, Ji Xianlin was found out and beaten.
Afraid of making mistakes.
Besides fighting, Ji Xianlin also likes reading "casual books", especially martial arts novels, and learning the moves in the books to blindly practice martial arts. "He heard that as long as he often inserts his fingers into the rice jar for a long time, he will turn the rice into sand, then insert it again, and finally he can practice an iron sand palm, and a tree can poke it down ... He will work hard to practice until his five fingers bleed."
Ji Xianlin has a set of playing methods and is not very keen on learning. He is extremely afraid of writing, especially in classical Chinese. "It is hard for everyone to imagine that he is afraid of a fault. As long as the teacher writes the composition topic on the blackboard, no matter what the topic is, Teacher Ji immediately writes the word' born' in the composition book, subconsciously writes these four words, and then there are no words. "
But now, our beloved grandpa Ji has died of illness. Although he went to another world, he still lives in our hearts.