Zhao Jun's passionate speech was met with silence.
Just kidding, this is Song Dynasty.
Insulting the Song Dynasty in front of its monarchs and ministers, how should they respond?
Even Zhao Zhen was stunned, his face turned red, and finally he couldn't help but said: "Teacher, this is wrong, I...just because the land area is not one-third of ours now, I Only then did I feel that the Song Dynasty was very powerful.”
He is no longer the transparent person who couldn't speak before. He already has a personality and is the only young man in Nini Village.
"Who are you?"
Zhao Jun was happy when he heard a younger voice. Could it be that there are others of the same age in the village?
Yan Shu quickly introduced: "This is Wazha Muguo, from our village."
"oh."
Zhao Jun said: "Well, we are teaching the children now. If we want to talk about history, we can talk about it later. Let's go to class first."
He doesn't want to take up class time to talk to others about weird issues.
"All right......"
Zhao Zhen had no choice but to shut his mouth.
Zhao Jun continued: "The area of our country on the earth is very large. Many small and medium-sized countries are only equivalent to our province, a city, or even a county. So compared to the earth, how big is our country? "
"The earth's area is 510 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to 53 areas of China. However, the land area is only 150 million square kilometers, which is about 15 and a half times the area of China."
"If you think about it this way, our country seems not too small compared to the rest of the world."
"Then if the earth is placed in the solar system..."
Before he finished speaking, a child asked: "Teacher, what is the solar system?"
"The solar system is the galaxy where the earth exists. Let's watch the video."
Zhao Jun fumbled and pressed the space bar.
The video soon began to demonstrate the animation, and in conjunction with the explanation, some basic knowledge of the solar system was briefly explained.
Such as the movement of celestial bodies and the entire model trajectory of the solar system.
It's just that the video is limited by its length, so it doesn't go into that much depth. It's something that everyone in the future will know, but everyone hears it in a confused way, not understanding it at all.
"The place where we live is on the earth. The specific location is on the earth. The People's Republic of China, Muli Tibetan Autonomous County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is just a small dot on the entire earth. It needs to be magnified many times to see it."
"Then all human beings, animals and plants in all countries in the world live on the earth. The earth is a planet surrounding the solar system. There are eight major planets in the solar system, and the earth is ranked third from the sun."
"The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. To the earth, human beings are very small, like countless dust. And to the sun, the earth is also small. "
"Jupiter is the largest in terms of volume and can hold 1,300 Earths. Earth ranks fifth, and the Sun is the largest in the solar system, requiring 1.3 million Earths to fill it. You can imagine how big the Sun is. .”
"Many people look at the stars in the sky at night and think that the stars are very small. In fact, any star in the sky may be larger than the earth or even the sun, but they are too small in the universe, so the solar system is just a speck of dust in the Milky Way. Milky Way In the entire universe, it is no different from dust."
"The speed of light is very fast. It can travel 300,000 kilometers in one second. It can be said that it can cross the entire earth in an instant. In one second, it circles the entire earth 7.5 times. But at such a fast speed, it takes It takes 8 minutes for the sun to rise."
"Because the sun is 150 million kilometers away from us, it will take 82 days based on the fastest rocket today. But if it wants to leave the Milky Way, even light will take 100,000 years. Compared with the entire universe, we humans really It’s so small, it’s not even a drop in the ocean, it’s just a quark in the solar system.”
"But even if we are just a group of dust in the universe, we have still established what may be the first civilization in the universe. This is inseparable from the prosperity of human civilization, hard work, and eagerness to learn knowledge."
"So knowledge is the ladder for human beings to strive upward. Only with knowledge can we see the world of the universe and understand what it is like outside the earth."
"And I tell you about the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of human beings, because I want to let everyone understand that life is very short compared with all things in the universe. But it is precisely because of its shortness that it appears great."
"The universe has been around for more than 10 billion years, and human civilization has only been around for a few thousand years. But in just a few thousand years, humans have observed everything in the universe and made their own cry to the universe."
"The development and innovation of science and technology are changing every day. In just a few decades, we humans will be able to land on the moon and begin to yearn for Mars. So who can guarantee that we will be able to explore the entire solar system in a few hundred years?"
"If we want to get out of the earth and see the outside world, we children must study hard. Only by learning scientific knowledge from generation to generation can we yearn for a broader world."
"Just like the students in the mountains, they should also be eager to see the outside world and gain insights."
"Not just look at the high-rise buildings outside, but also look outside our county, our city, our province, even our country, and the world outside our planet."
"Only when you walk out of the mountains will you have a future that belongs to you."
"So how can we go to the outside world?"
"It means studying hard, getting admitted to an ideal university, and if possible, continuing to study, taking the postgraduate entrance examination, studying for a master's degree or a doctorate, becoming a scientist, and contributing to the strong development of the country."
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to be a scientist. Getting into a good university and finding a good job is also a good way out."
"So students, what I want to tell you here is that just like scientists are working hard to get out of the earth and explore the solar system. You are also scientists in the mountain village. Study hard. Don't think about staying in the mountain village all your life and getting out of this world." Village, look at the outside world.”
“I don’t expect everyone to be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, but what I hope is that everyone will never give up any opportunity to study, leave the mountains, change their destiny of poverty and backwardness, and strive for a better life for themselves and their families. future!"
"This is my only hope. I also hope that all children can remember this and set a goal in their hearts to get out of the mountains and change their own destiny. Then no matter what the outcome is, they will live up to their own efforts!"
Zhao Jun finished this paragraph with passion and emotion.
He is not a student of astronomy, but he is still full of deep awe for the vastness and greatness of the universe.
Because only when people know how small they are can they understand how vast the world is.
In this vast world, small humans are still working hard to explore the universe unswervingly, which makes people feel that the world is huge and humans are changing the world by themselves.
This is probably the spirit of Foolish Old Man who moved mountains.
When Zhao Jun talks about the universe, he does not simply teach children about the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of the earth.
Rather, I want to use the spirit of human beings to break out of the earth and explore the vast universe as a metaphor for children in mountain villages. They should also work hard to learn knowledge and explore the world outside the mountains.
Scientists on earth are also dust in the universe, but compared with the world of children, they at least have the spirit of dreaming and exploration.
Children living in impoverished mountainous areas see barren land and a life without a future.
Such a life is inherently a road of no return.
Therefore, Zhao Jun hopes that children can have dreams and have their own cognitive goals.
Even if you only get an ordinary first or second degree, it is better to find a good job in the city than to stay in a poor mountainous area with no future.
This is what Zhao Jun wants to express.
This is also the reason why the country is working hard to vigorously develop education and actively change the current education situation in backward mountain villages.
The respected teacher Zhang Guimei is a typical representative.
Zhao Jun does not expect that an ordinary volunteer teacher who has only stayed in Nini Village for two years can be as great as Principal Zhang, but even if he only changes the students of a village primary school, he will not let them drop out of school, marry early, or go out to work. , that’s already good.
This will change many lives.
At the end of his speech, Zhao Jun thought there would be applause from the audience, but in the end it was completely silent, which made him doubt his life.
Could it be that what he said was too profound and people couldn’t understand it?
It doesn't make sense.
Isn't it just using humans to break through the solar system and explore the universe as a metaphor that children in mountainous areas should yearn for a broader world?
You should be able to understand.
For a time, Zhao Jun fell into deep self-doubt.
But what he didn't know was that what he said was basically playing the piano to a bull.
The children were confused, and the old ladies didn't know what the husband was talking about. Only Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and the others looked at each other with a somewhat astonished expression.
After all, this is not in the impoverished mountainous area more than a thousand years later, but in the Song Dynasty palace a thousand years ago.
If you are a child or parent in a mountain village, you may feel empathy after hearing these words. By imagining the vast world outside, you can encourage the children to study seriously and hope that they can go out and take a look.
But these children are all the children of high-ranking officials. According to the Song Dynasty, they will all be in a certain yamen in the future, commonly known as the second generation of officials and the third generation of officials. How can they be like Zhao Jun's words of breaking out of the impoverished mountainous area and heading towards the vast world outside? Empathy?
Only Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian, who stood at the top of the Song Empire's power hierarchy, were shocked. What shocked them was not Zhao Jun's chicken soup, but their first realization of the smallness of this world and the vastness of the universe.
It turns out that the heavenly kingdom they thought they had is only a small piece of land in the entire world.
And this world is just a speck of dust in the solar system.
The solar system is also very small within the Milky Way.
The Milky Way is still so small that it is almost invisible in the entire universe.
In comparison, time and space become unimaginable in their eyes.
No matter how vast the Song Dynasty was, it was not even a speck of dust compared to the entire universe.
Such a world and the insignificance of human beings deeply shocked people like Zhao Zhen and others who thought that the Song Dynasty was the center of the entire world.
It turns out that compared to the vast world, they are nothing.
