Confucianism · Confucianism | "It is a joy to have friends from afar!"

Genre: Memories Essay Scene: Ancient Tainan

My father was the only son of a landowner when he was young. Because of his good family background, he went to a private school to read ancient books, and even had a child bride-in-law by his side, so he was good at ancient prose, and he was good at writing. Later, I was admitted to "Hubei Provincial No. 1 Middle School" (To be honest, due to the change of school history, and after many reorganizations and name changes, I can't find out which school this school is on Google now, maybe friends from mainland China can help I am puzzled~). Later, due to the outbreak of the civil war, he entered the Whampoa Military Academy and retreated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang.

We were forced to read ancient books when we were young because of an old father who was an old book reader and also served in the military. When I was in kindergarten, I would recite [Mulan Ci] , and I can still recite the entire text word for word until now, which shows the strength of my father's education at that time! ^_^

When my father came to Taiwan back then, he was accompanied by several best friends. Among them, Uncle Zhao was the one with the best homework. Uncle Zhao, who has a background in foreign languages, worked in foreign trade in Taipei after being discharged from the army, and later opened a company, and his family gradually became prosperous.

That year, I just finished the high school entrance examination. During the summer vacation, Uncle Zhao brought his two sons, A Ming (one year older) and Awei (two years younger) to southern Taiwan to play, and stopped by my house for a walk. Dad Naturally overjoyed, he shouted, "It's a pleasure to have a friend from afar!" He asked me to accompany them to pick them up.

When I received someone at the train station, my father congratulated Uncle Zhao's eldest son, A Ming, for being admitted to Taipei's strongest monk school ( the one next to the Botanical Garden on Nanhai Road ) the previous year. Uncle Zhao also congratulated me on being admitted to the local "second place". "Good" monk school, Amin became impatient between the visits: "It's different years and different regions, what's the comparison?" As soon as these words came out, although the embarrassment of mutual support was temporarily relieved, but In exchange, I was even more embarrassed: because at that time, the Beilian (Taipei City's separate joint entrance examination) was like going to Beijing to take the test . Except for Taipei City, only the strongest candidates would challenge; Provincial Federation (Taiwan Province outside Taipei City) JUPAS) Just like the general township exam , it's really the first punch!

Taking the bus to my house, Amin's face became darker and darker as the street scene went from high-rise buildings to country roads. When he got out of the car, he was walking on the asphalt road in the fields and smelled the smell of cow dung and dog feces mixed in the air. Amin became angry again: "Why is it so smelly?" Natural air!" Ah Wei was also very excited to see the live cow, and then A Ming said, "Are you a bumpkin?" Indirectly, he scolded us as a group of bumpkins who can't study well and live in the countryside. The second punch appears!

After I got home and sat down, I originally planned to hide and I didn’t want to continue to receive them, but our usual education is [warm, good, respectful, frugal, and let] , we must treat the distinguished guests of the elders warmly, so we have to continue to sit. . Chatting with dads, high school students quickly get bored. Dad suddenly said, "Take out the electric toy I bought for you and play with it!" I was really unhappy, because my brother and I bought the electric toy with the New Year's money, and Dad usually doesn't allow us Play, but in order to save Dad's face, I still take it out to play.

Saying I'm a douchebag, I have to admit it when I buy a game console. At that time, we didn't even recognize the Nintendo red and white machine, so we bought a SEGA SG-1000 II . There are still a lot of game pieces, but the composition and story of the game are a little worse. Sure enough, Amin quickly said that the game was boring, put his hot face against his cold ass, and the third punch appeared !

Afterwards, Amin asked me if I could play chess, and I said wisely that I was not good at the overall game, so as not to be humiliated again; he pointed to the Go board and asked me if I could play the game of Go, and I said that the big board (19x19) was not good. , you can start with 11x11 (less time-consuming and no-brainer~). He asked, "Why buy a chess board?" I replied, "You can also play Gobang!" So we started playing Gobang.

Gobang is really my forte. My chess style is more aggressive, and with the accumulated anger, after a few games, I killed him without leaving a single piece. I wanted to reply: "Isn't everything good just because I went to Taipei's strongest monk school?" But the spell of "warm, good, respectful, frugal, and rude" came into play at the right time, reminding me to pay attention "Hospitality"! This may be one of the few happy moments of the day!

After this unpleasant memory, I have a very different interpretation of Master Kong's sentence "It is a pleasure to have friends from afar!", as listed below:

• The friendship of "world friendship" is becoming more and more rare in today's society, and it does not need to be maintained deliberately!
• On the premise of our friendship with landlords, friends from far away should also know how to "serve as a guest".
• It's best to receive your own friends yourself, and don't implicate innocent and irrelevant family members.