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本帖最后由 coolboy 于 2012-9-26 12:39 PM 编辑
curiosity2009 发表于 2012-9-25 07:23 PM 
我们是三年级开始学习写作文，可是大家都不知如何下笔。老师就举了一个例子，大意是说想去做一件好事，但思想斗争很激烈，突然耳边响起了毛主席的教导，就。。。。
后来老师发现全班同学作文里都写了在毛主席的教导下，做了好人好事。
看来coolboy跟curiosity2009版主还是同代人啊！
几年前曾写过一篇回忆文章，中间就专门说了当年“突然耳边响起了毛主席的教导”的事情：
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关于颜色的唯物主义和唯心主义观 （coolboy)
http://blog.hjenglish.com/coolboy/archive/2005/09/05/125980.html
In the special period of the so-called Great Culture Revolution, many things were politicized. For example, at the beginning of every our English lesson, pupils had to say: “Never forget class struggle. Study well and make progress everyday” after the class monitor said “Stand up” and the teacher said: “Chairman Mao taught us:”
Lesson one of English was “Long live Chairman Mao!” I got a perfect score of 100 in the following quiz for lesson one. Several classmates only got 80 when they wrote “Long live Chairman Mao.”
“Though spelled correctly,” the teacher said in class, “you used period rather than an exclamation mark, which indicated that you were not devoting your feeling to our great leader while writing it.”
Now, let me get to the part of the “color” story of this writing. When the art/drawing teacher started teaching us about color and how to make new colors by mixing three basic colors, he first spent about 10 minutes to describe to us the difference between materialism (唯物论) and idealism (唯心论). Then, he described to us what were the different views on color by materialists (唯物主义者) and idealists (唯心主义者), respectively. “Materialists think that”, he said, “color is an objective property of matter. Whether one can see it or not, whether something is in darkness or in brightness, the color of matter is always there! On the other hand, idealists think that color is a subjective property of matter. Color exists only when you see it. If there is no light and you cannot see the matter, then, there is no color either. For example,” he continued, “this blackboard is black. The chalk in my hand is white. Coolboy wears blue pants whereas Rose sitting next to Coolboy wears a red skirt. Materialists think that if we let this blackboard, the chalk, Coolboy and Rose all stay in a dark room, then, nothing will be changed and all the colors remain the same. On the other hand, idealists would think that their colors would have lost once they were put into a darkroom because you cannot see them anymore. ......”
Not long after I learnt this lesson on color, one day, I heard an interesting conversation among my mother and her friends about how to shop for beautiful cloths. “Color changes,” my mother said, “cloths will show different colors in daylight than in nightlight produced by lamps. Therefore, it is always better to go shopping at daytime and never buy cloths in evening time.” “Yes, I found the same phenomenon,” several friends of my mother agreed, “the difference is especially significant when you compare the colors of your cloths under the fluorescent light and the natural daylight. ......”
“Color changes under different light?” I thought, “This is idealism!” At that time, it was a truth universally acknowledged, that materialists were good guys whereas idealists were bad guys. I really cannot believe that my mother and her friends might be bad guys. The first thing I did was trying to prove that they were wrong. I carefully examined and compared the colors of my blue pants under the daylight and the evening fluorescent light. To my great surprise, they ARE different! My blue pants under the evening fluorescent light showed very slight but noticeable purplish color.
“What is going on? Is the color really different under different lights? Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?” I thought. Suddenly, great leader Chairman Mao’s instructions echoed around my ears. Chairman Mao taught us: “......”.
This sentence of “Suddenly, great leader Chairman Mao’s instructions echoed around my ears” was one of the most frequently used sentences in that period. In certain extent, it reflected the reality that ordinary people would ask for helps from Chairman Mao’s thoughts for any problem or anything they encountered in their daily lives, which, of course, should also include my puzzle on color. The solution to the problem, whether it was useful or not, was almost always guaranteed. At the time, the most frequently used Chairman Mao’s thoughts would be coming from a well-known red book: “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”. This situation is similar to the one that if you encounter new words in reading, you mostly likely will go looking up a dictionary for the help. The only difference is that the dictionary will not echo or echo around your ears.
The reason that Chairman Mao’s instructions will echo in people’s ears was: they had recited the whole or the major part of the book so well that the instructions would pop up from mind right away when one needs it. I mentioned above that pupils had to say “Never forget class struggle. Study well and make progress everyday” before every English lesson. That was only before every English lesson. In fact, every morning in the first half hour, we had to study “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung” and other books by Chairman Mao. The class monitor would say: “Please turn the red book to page xxx and on the first/second paragraph, Chairman Mao taught us:...” Now, this last sentence was also the most frequently used pattern at the time. After a few weeks, we not only recited the whole book but also knew exactly the locations of those paragraphs. So, after the class monitor said “Please turn the red book to page xxx and on the first/second paragraph, Chairman Mao taught us:” there will not be any time delay (to actually turn the pages) and we immediately recited the paragraph.
I usually spent my summer vacations in my aunt’s home in countryside. I found/experienced two interesting things there that were also related to this. (i) Every morning before peasants going to the field to work, they stood in rows and the team leader would say “Please turn ...... taught us”, which was the exactly the same pattern in wording we used at our school. I noted that they all carried different farm tools but nobody had the red book and they all located the right paragraphs. Therefore, they were as good as us in reciting. (ii) I had to pass a small village to get to my aunt’s home. I once was stopped by a few kids about same age as mine. I was requested to recite a paragraph from “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung” in order to pass. “What if I cannot do it?” I asked. “We will teach you.” They answered and showed me the red book. “Let me try.” I said. Then, I picked a long paragraph and started with “Please turn ...... taught us”. So I passed. After I walked about 20 meters, I then thought that I should show them that I was actually very good at reciting the red book. [I was the class monitor!] I went back, walked back and forth about three times on that check point and recited six paragraphs with each one of those starting with “Please turn ...... taught us”.
In conclusion, unlike looking up a dictionary for a new word that one needs an actual dictionary, one could look for help from Chairman Mao’s thoughts by echoing. What I am trying to say here is that, at that time, the red book had been engraved in many people’s brains and the word “echo” appeared in many writings and speeches could be a realistic description of what had happened. The instructions echoed around my ears at the time, which immediately solved my puzzle on the color, were the following ones:
“The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.”
It was then very clear that the theory of “color changes under different light” given by my mother and her friends resulted from their practical activities. I also practiced the experiment to arrive at the same conclusion. On the other hand, my teacher only described his theory in a hypothetical manner. For example, the teacher only said hypothetically or in theory that the colors would remain the same but he did not actually let Rose and I stay in a darkroom to conduct an experiment. In this sense, my mother’s method was dialectical materialism whereas teacher’s method was only empirical idealism.
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Later, and much later, I learnt the physics and understood how light and matter were interacted in various ways that could lead to all kinds of different phenomena on color seen by human eyes or detected by various instruments. I recalled that lesson and the follow-up event. I realized that neither view described by the art/drawing teacher was completed. However, the lesson or the vivid descriptions by the teacher did give me some inspirations on the long way of my science explorations.
(2005.09.05)
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