week 13, Mr. Zhou Youguang is 111 years old ( A year of age). Yesterday, Mr. Zhou's birthday symposium was held in Beijing. The old man has lived the quality of other people's lives all his life: before he was 50 years old, he taught the economy with one hand. After 50 years old, Zhou Enlai was selected to participate in the reform of written language and transformed into a philologist. At the age of 85, he left his office and lived in a small book room. He became a "enlightening thinker" who cherished the world. More than 90 years old, he said he "live one more day". After hundreds of years, he often mocked himself, "God is too busy to forget me in this world."
despite this, he did not idle away his time. His "100 year old new draft", "Chao Wen Dao Ji" and "Bei Bei Ji" came out at the age of 100, 104 and 105. "These books show that Zhou is always an inseparable figure in the history of Chinese contemporary thought and culture, an important enlightenment thinker." Ma Guochuan, the master of Finance and economics, said. That is why, at the beginning of the age of 108, scholars began to organize a symposium celebrations for the old man spontaneously, hoping to "gather consensus in the cultural and ideological circles and promote the progress of Chinese society". Ma Guochuan introduced that this year's theme is "walking towards the world and going to civilization." Because, one of the important ideas of the old Zhou is that "China must go to modern civilization - all countries compete on the same road, even on a curve of the moment, and finally on the common road of civilization."
"I think the storm has passed and I've got up." at the
symposium, Mao Xiaoyuan and Dr. Chiang, the old niece of Zhou, introduced his health. Mao Xiaoyuan remembers that in January 10th of last year, after he had finished his 110 year old symposium, he sent Zhou Xiaoping, the son of Zhou Lao, to the old man's home. Xiao Ping has just had a major stomach operation ten days ago. The father and son are very happy to meet. The two people sang the song after dinner that day. The uncle sang the school song of Saint John University in English first, and sang French "Marseille" in French, singing and singing, 'I don't sing, I can't remember it, I can't remember it. Xiao Ping went on singing for so many years that it was the first time that father and son sang together. Later, Xiao Ping sent the chorus video to WeChat, and his relatives and friends were moved. Everyone was melted by the deep feeling between his 110 year old father and his 80 year old son. The two sons lived together for five or six days. Xiao Ping went back to his home, but who could have thought that this became a permanent recipe. Zhou Xiaoping died in the early hours of
2015 January 22nd. The news came so suddenly that no one knew how to tell the old man. Mao Xiaoyuan's great cousin lived together with Zhou Jia and his son from the childhood, and fled together in the war of resistance against Japan. After Zhou Xiaoping's memorial service in January 26, 2015, the family sent the elder cousin to Chou Lao and let her accompany the old man. "The uncle seemed to feel something. On the night of January 27th or 28, he asked the nanny to push herself in a wheelchair to the bed of the big cousin and wake her up. 'I want to ask you, what's the purpose of your arrival in Beijing, we come to the cards...' ' Mao Xiaoyuan recalled, "that evening, my uncle talked a lot, talked about the life of Xiao Ping, and talked about the laws of nature. These words gave us strength."
2015 is an unusual year for Chou Lao. In February, Mr. Zhou was hospitalized because of lung infection. In 3 months, he sent out a few critical notices. "The uncle was suffering a lot of mental and physical suffering. Finally, he survived, and the doctors found a miracle." In September, Mao Xiaoyuan saw Chou Lao, and Zhou Lao said, "I think the storm is over, and I am better now." Mao Xiaoyuan said that Zhou is still very concerned about the national and world events, and he often reads news. In November, a terrorist attack occurred in Paris. Zhou called Zhang Sengen (a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Chao Wen Dao, etc.) to talk to him at home. "Sometimes he goes to the two floor to talk with his old colleagues. This year, he was relatively weak, ate little, only ate some nutritious liquid, and sometimes he could eat an egg soup. When the family goes to see him, he will be glad to eat some radish and tofu in the chicken soup. A year down, a lot of thin.
the old friend of the week, Dr. Chiang Kai Shek, showed the video of two people when they met three times: the first was taken in April 2015, and the old Zhou was in hospital. Zhou Lao said to the screen, "I am old, but I am not old." Dr. Jiang asked the old man to hold his hand. When chatting, Dr. Chiang mentioned that Mr. Li Rui can swim 300 meters now. Chou Lao said, "I can't match him, but I'm still very healthy. My head is not changing." After
Zhou Lao was discharged from hospital, in June 23, 2015, Dr. Jiang visited Chou Lao at home and took the 95th anniversary commemorative handbag of Yanjing University. Zhou Lao introduced his own situation: "I feel good health, that is, a little older." He also read the motto of the University of Yanjing in English, "Freedom Through Truth For Service" (because of the freedom to serve the truth), Dr. Chiang sent him a folding fan, Zhou Lao Shun opened it, and the side fan said "there is a little cool breeze".
"his world outlook and history rocked us."
a number of representatives from the conference expressed that insisting on the birthday of Zhou, "not only out of respect for the oldest intellectual, but also because of his world outlook and historical view. Mr. Zhou has always been pursuing brightness and bringing light to China and making Chinese society clear and clear. However, international politics and American research expert Mr. Zhong Yun also suggested that we should not be too obsessed with the state of the older generation of scholars. "Compared with Mr. Zhou, I am still very young, but in the dimension of society, I am already an old man. The friends around me have started to leave one after another. Life, illness and death are objective laws and can not be changed. I do not want the society to pay more and more attention to the words and deeds of the older generation. The world will ultimately depend on the young people.
Finance and tax expert Li Weiguang pointed out that Mr. Zhou's views have a wide and far-reaching impact. "He advocated that in the era of globalization, we should look at the world from the world and not the world from the state. He believes that culture does not exist in the "thirty years of Hedong, thirty years Hexi" type of sitting in turn, but high to the low, behind catch up with the advanced. Now every country is living in the "double culture" era of traditional culture and international modern culture, which is the mainstream of today's culture. He does not advocate "Sinology" because there is no "Sinology" in the world, knowledge is universal, and it is independent of the state. I hope such a wise old man can create the Guinness world record of life.