This student essay went viral, but the author’s parents actually deserve more attention

In the past few days, the composition of Zhang Yongyan, a sophomore student in Beijing No. 4 Middle School, has become popular. In a composition class, the teacher asked the writing theme to focus on \”life navigation\” and write a letter to a familiar person or certain figures in history with reference to the form of \”Seeing Words Like Faces\”. Classmate Yongyan wrote a letter to his future self, titled \”Wish You\”. After finishing writing, the teacher thought it was good. After correcting it, he forwarded the screenshot to his circle of friends as usual. A few days later, this article became popular, and even the program team and alumnus Gao Xiaosong of \”Seeing Words Like Faces\” paid attention to this article. It is said that the Chinese teacher commented that this article was \”soundy, profound, sunny and warm, and said many things that middle-aged people want to say.\” First picture: The text version is as follows: Dear self: I don’t know why I am writing to you, let alone when you will receive this letter. I place some wishes on you here. First of all, I hope you can spend your youth safely, but don\’t spend your youth peacefully. You are not the good girl they say you are, I know this better than anyone else. You are sometimes decisive, excited and even a bit \”reckless\”, which really makes me jump. May the weather be good every day in your world. Even if you forget to bring an umbrella, you must tell yourself: Your baby is going to get wet today! It turns out that the sun that drives away the haze is the bright self. May your maturity not be forced, but learn to laugh without saying a word, learn to admit disbelief, and learn to accept unsatisfactory situations. I know you are impatient, but please take your time and don\’t rush. May you have good luck and be grateful for everything. I like beauty and I also like myself. It\’s nice that you have a tooth and a dimple when you smile. May you have armor and weaknesses, be kind enough to have principles, and be emotional enough to have a bottom line. Those who are hateful should be returned with interest. Don’t lose etiquette after being cruel: I’m sorry for hurting you, but I am a girl and I must protect myself. May you not spare a little bit or yourself. Everything you do is for yourself, and all results are your own responsibility. There is no reason or excuse. May you work hard all your life and be loved all your life. Bumping into the destined person on the worst possible day. You may be falling in love, but don\’t drown in it. Don\’t wait for someone you can\’t love. Don\’t cry everywhere after losing your dignity. Find someone who is willing to spend your time with you and grow old together. May you live the way you want. You don’t have to please anyone, and you don’t have to hate someone for no reason. You always secretly care about other people\’s eyes, worry about it, and worry about it! In fact, you don’t need to keep things that don’t matter in your heart. In just a few decades, no matter who will be with whom forever, let them go with the wind! May you be happy with what you give and be happy with what you receive. Some people say that you are unwilling to be mediocre. In fact, you just want to meet the better version of yourself. Just don’t forget to stop occasionally and reward yourself for your hard work. I hope you can walk a long road and have plenty of time to tell stories. If no one is with you to wander around, just use your dreams as a horse and live anywhere. I hope you will still be full of curiosity about the world on the most boring days. If you can\’t hold it any longer, go to sleep. Wait, and miracles may bloom at any time. May you have high heels, may you never have a patch on your heart for the rest of your life, may every time you shed tears be tears of joy, may you have a tree to lean on when you are exhausted, may youYou will feel lighter after you learn to let go. May you go out half your life and come back still a young man. I’ve written so much without realizing it, I hope you don’t let them all turn into empty words. Am I too focused on “later”? Let your future self answer what the future will look like. Who knows what will happen tomorrow, do you know? Wish you: a long and peaceful life, worry-free years! Your Past March 12, 2017 Opinions on the Internet vary as to the quality of this essay. Many people expressed encouragement and affirmation, but some said it was a \”collection of chicken soup articles.\” In particular, the biggest highlight of the sentence \”May you walk out of half your life and come back as a teenager\” also comes from the Internet and is not original to the author. Personally, I think these two evaluations are not contradictory. Because \”Chicken Soup Essay Collection\” can also be a good essay as long as it is done well. Borrowing or adapting other people\’s sentences into an article, as long as it can add color to the article, is also a kind of ability and level. For example, Wang Bo\’s famous \”The falling clouds and solitary owls fly together, and the autumn water shares the same color of the long sky\”, which is an adaptation of \”The falling flowers and the zhigai fly together, and the willows share the same color of the spring flag\” from Yu Xin\’s \”Ma She Fu\”, but others have changed it. It is so easy to use that it also won Wang Bo a lot of applause, and \”Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng\” has become an eternal masterpiece. Anyone’s writing starts from borrowing, imitating, and applying. It can be said that this is a basic skill of writing, and this is not wrong. As for the composition \”saying what a lot of middle-aged people want to say\”, I think it\’s more of a misspelling. As mentioned above, many sentences in the composition are not the author\’s own creation, but only use other people\’s opinions and language. Such sentences are easy to use for the author who is just twelve or thirteen years old. At most, they are just expressing sorrow for the purpose of inventing new words. When the teacher assigns homework, he is asking for new words, and using the moods and feelings that only middle-aged people have is to express sadness. After all, children are children. Even if they say \”It\’s cool and it\’s autumn\” at this time, it\’s just \”creating new words\” because children cannot have the experience of middle-aged people, and what they express may not necessarily be their own meaning. . This is quite like a little boy stealing his father\’s cigarette and holding it in his mouth to pretend to be serious, but the childish look on his face cannot be hidden at all. Of course, forcing oneself to express sorrow in order to compose new words is a stage in life that children must go through. If one understands life at a young age, it will actually make people worry. Therefore, as middle-aged people, we should not be surprised that children\’s compositions express our hearts. To blame, we can only blame ourselves for not reading enough. From this composition, what we see is the young author\’s rich reading volume and her solid basic writing skills. She is able to flexibly apply the sentences she reads into her own articles. In a word, this is an excellent composition and this is an excellent child. In this regard, I particularly agree with the views of Xiao Yongyan’s parents. They gave both positive and negative comments on their children\’s compositions: The positive side is that the writing method is novel and the way they write letters to themselves is very good. The negative comment is that most of the good words and sentences in the article are quotes and excerpts. Although it is not considered plagiarism, it is not creative enough. Just like Helen in \”If You Give Me Three Days of Light\” said, \”Although my composition reflects my Some rough and immature thoughts, but they are also mixed with the shining thoughts of others.Thoughts and more mature views\”, \”To be honest, I often can\’t tell which are my own thoughts and which are what I read from the book.\” After reading Yongyan\’s article, I also feel like I have seen it before. . She listened to our comments and accepted them, and was worried about whether she would be embarrassed if it spread. I comforted her that any of our early works were just intellectual training. Through imitation and absorption, she gradually learned to think of what she thought. She expressed it accurately in words, so she was relieved. I think she can bear this. This is a professional-level evaluation! This is a professional-level parent! It is very rare that in the face of a child\’s \”famousness\”, as a parent, you can They can be so calm and calm, and they can open up their children\’s hearts in time when facing their children\’s worries. Such parents are middle-aged people with accumulation and taste. Such parents are actually more worthy of our attention. I I believe that they will definitely have something unique in their children’s education that is worth learning from. As some netizens said: “After reading her father’s comments, I understand what excellent inheritance is.” Higher than ordinary families, no wonder they have such outstanding children! \”Sitting back and watching fishermen is nothing but envy. As parents, we don\’t just have to praise other people\’s children for being great, but we should emulate the parents of our children and be equally good parents so that our children can become the same. Better.