In "Hu Shi's Family Letter", there is a letter to Hu Zuwang, which is the first letter Hu Shi gave him when he was 10 years old to go to Suzhou to study, and at the age of 10 he taught him these simple but every life principle that is close to the truth.
Zu Wang
Your mother and I are very sad to leave your family at such a young age. But for you, leaving the family is the best way to go. First, it enables you to practice an independent life; second, to train you to live a gregarious life; Third, make yourself feel the need to work hard. Being able to take care of yourself and serve yourself is an independent life. You should take care of your own food and drink, and you should know the warmth and coldness by yourself. The most important thing is to be responsible for doing things. It is your own glory to do your homework well; If you do something wrong, the school will remember your mistakes and punish you, which is your own shame. You are responsible for doing well. If you don't do well, you are also responsible. This is your first day as an independent person, and you have to be careful in everything.
Now that you are going to be classmates with hundreds of people, you can't help but think about how you can get along with others, and people get along with others, which is the life of a gregarious. Do your own thing, but don't get in the way of others. You should love yourself, but don't hurt others. To be able to help others, you must do your best to help others, but you must not help others do bad things. If you help others cheat and break rules, you are helping others do bad things, and you must not do them.
One of the basic rules of gregariousness is to always think for others, always think, "If I had been him, what would I have done?" "I can't stand it, can he stand it? I don't want to, does he want to? "If you think like that, you're a good boy.
You're not stupid, you should do your homework well. But you have to know that there are many smarter people in the world than you. If you don't work hard, your grades will fall behind. Passing your homework, what is that? In a class to catch in the highest row of a class. In the first school, you have to catch up in the highest row of the first school. Homework should be the best, conduct should be the best, and life should be the best, this is the ambitious child. But ambition must be kept in the heart, in the effort, and not in the mouth. Don't put it on your face. No matter how ambitious you are, don't be proud of others. No matter how good your grades are, always be humble and kind to others. The more humble and amiable you are, the more people respect you and love you. The more proud you are, the more people hate you and look down on you.
Son, you are not at home, we miss you all the time, you have to take care of yourself. You are from Huizhou, you must remember that "Huizhou court, take care of yourself".
Here are a few things to keep in mind:
- Don't buy food from the stalls, microbes are terrible!
- Don't drink raw or cold water, microbes are terrible!
- Don't be greedy. The body is cold, like water that does not flow, like gasoline on a car that freezes and the car cannot drive. This is how many diseases come about.
- If you are sick, seek a doctor as soon as possible. Headache is an indication of fever, so test the thermometer (cold and heat gauge) quickly to see if there is any heat.
- If you feel strained to walk on two feet, you should quickly ask a doctor for a check-up, for fear that it is beriberi. Beriberi is the most frightening and dangerous thing that is common in the school.
- There are not enough nourishing ingredients in the school diet, so you need to eat a spoonful of malt essence every morning. You can try malt extract instead of syrup and spread it on bread to eat.
- These are all important, but don't forget them.
- When you send a letter to us, it must also be numbered and written down in a book, as follows:
- Home letter Suzhou No. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Try to be a good boy. Daddy August 26, 18 (1929)"
Father
August 26, 1929