Wang Jingdong, 1933, a native of Panshidian Village, Haiyang County. When he was a child, he liked to go to the mountains with his children to catch butterflies and see exotic flowers and plants. The beauty of nature attracted him deeply. ...
From 65438 to 0952, Wang Jingdong graduated from Jiaodong Normal University and went to the podium of middle school with great enthusiasm to give biology lessons to children. He loves his major and is good at being unconventional. The students like to listen to his lively and interesting lectures. Due to outstanding teaching achievements, 65438-0956 was named the first outstanding teacher in Shandong Province. Through hard work, I got my bachelor's degree in the same year. The teaching level has been continuously improved. From 65438 to 0982, he served as the principal of Rushan Normal School, and made outstanding contributions to the training of teachers in Rushan, and was awarded by the State Education Commission.
Many interesting things in biology prompted him to study biology. He believes that there are many channels to develop students' intelligence. Can you use your own pen to reveal the mystery of biology and let more children be educated? So he began to create popular science. First, he became interested in bees and wanted to write a story about bees. In this regard, he read a lot of information about bees at home and abroad and accumulated rich materials.
In order to verify this knowledge, he saved money, pawned his wife's bracelet, spent 160 yuan to buy two nests of Italian bees, and conducted in-depth and detailed observation and research with students. After more than eight years of in-depth observation, not only the knowledge in books has been confirmed, but also some secrets of bees that have never been revealed have been discovered. For example, he found that the sentry posts of bees were mostly held by old bees, and the sentry posts were loose and tight. When the nectar is rich, the sentry post is loose, in order to let the bees collect more honey; On the contrary, it is tighter, which is to defend the fruits of labor. At the same time, he also found that the sentinel's identification of this group of bees depends entirely on tentacles. When bees come back from collecting honey, they need to be checked by the doorman before they can be released. If they are uninvited guests, they will attack them until the enemy is destroyed.
He is a man who is very serious about knowledge. At that time, he was teaching in a mountain middle school and going to the county library to look up information. Once, he heard a colleague say that there was a material about bees in a certain publication, and this material was just what he needed. He ran for more than 30 kilometers by bike and finally found this material and extracted it all. When he came back, it was already dark, and it was dark on the way, and he fell headlong in the deep ditch by the side of the road, covered in blood. The car broke down and the person was injured, so he had to push the car home slowly. It's already midnight. His wife and children were worried about him, but he smiled and said, "Nothing, just a little skin, which is nothing compared with the materials in my bag."
In order to make his writing detailed and well-founded, he interviewed more than a dozen old beekeepers in Jiaodong and absorbed nutrition extensively.
Writing can't affect teaching, so he can only finish his homework at night. In the dog days, it's so hot that people can't breathe and sweat. He only wears shorts and endures mosquito bites. After three or nine days, the cold froze through the hut, and sometimes the pen tip froze, so I made a haha with my mouth before writing. He felt abdominal pain before the first draft was finished. He put his hand against it as he wrote. Later, I found out that I had hepatitis and was floating, so I had to be hospitalized. In order to finish the manuscript as planned, he managed to finish it in the hospital bed. Then, he worked hard on his knowledge and interest, and the three drafts were published by Shanghai Children's Publishing House. And wrote a paper "Popular Science Creation Should Go Deep into Life", which caused a strong curse in the popular science community.
Plum blossoms come from bitter cold, and hard work pays off. 1963 The Story of Bees was published, which was welcomed by children and attracted the attention of popular science circles. Later, he was invited to participate in the compilation of the series of "100,000 Why", and finally realized his dream of educating children all over the world with popular science works.
Self-motivation in adversity
The publication of The Tale of Bees has brought impetus and hope to his popular science creation. Just when he wanted to contribute more and better works to the children, the Cultural Revolution began and he was labeled as a "gangster". Luo Zhi was accused of his "The Tale of Bees", saying that this chapter of "Seven Kings in One Nest" alluded to the CPC Central Committee, which was really worse. Why not stick to it? He was sent back to the countryside for reeducation through labor, and was later placed in a remote middle school to raise pigs.
During the Cultural Revolution, many writers put pen to paper and suffered. What Wang Jingdong thinks is that life time is limited and time cannot be wasted. So, while raising pigs, he set up a small pharmaceutical factory to treat pigs of nearby farmers, while picking up a pen and continuing to engage in popular science.
"You still have to write a book. Don't you know that you were reformed because of that book? " His wife asked puzzled.
"It should be believed that any country needs scientific knowledge, and the current situation is only a distorted special case."
The wife had no choice but to stick the newspaper on the windowsill as a table and let him write it.
In order to obtain written materials, he often observed the habits of different creatures, dissected some animals and made many specimens when working in the field. Frog has become the focus of his observation. He often goes hungry at noon and observes by the water under the scorching sun. The topic of "field guards" is brewing in his mind.
At this time, he is the father of four children, and there are three old people in the world. He only gives him a living allowance of more than ten yuan a month, and the whole family depends on him for food. He can only eat dried sweet potatoes and pickles every day. Soon, the man who was over five feet tall lost to 100 pounds.
In this case, he completed the first drafts of Pastoral Guardian, Fluorescent Sparkle, Mystery of Green Leaves and After the Mystery was Revealed. 1976 on new year's eve, he closed the manuscript of pastoral guardian and wanted to go to the yard to cool off. He didn't want to plunge into the yard. The whole family was worried about him, but he smiled and said, "Nothing, I just want to sleep."
A philosopher said that a person who really works for the interests of others will not consider personal gains and losses. Wang Jingdong is such a person, with constant adversity and no shock of humiliation.
Dress up the scientific spring with colored pens
When Wang Jingdong returned to the podium, it had already ushered in the spring of science. 1980 March 15, Wang Jingdong, as a contemporary popular science writer, attended the second congress of China Association for Science and Technology, was cordially received by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and was elected as the second member of China Association for Science and Technology. The speech of the central leading comrades is warm and lingering, and he is determined to dress up the scientific spring with his crayons.
1980 was appointed vice principal of Rushan No.1 Middle School, 1982 was appointed principal of Rushan Normal School. In addition to management and teaching, he began to create popular science. Experience and knowledge make him more mature. He believes that popular science works should not only popularize scientific knowledge to children, but more importantly, cultivate young people's scientific thoughts and spirit and let them master scientific thinking methods.
Scientific spirit is the basis of seeking truth from facts and doing all the work well. With the scientific spirit, we can realize that science and technology are the primary productive forces and rejuvenating the country through science and technology is the only way for the motherland to develop into a well-off society, and we can respect science, learn science and make contributions to the scientific cause.
Scientific thinking method is a scientific method to understand things. Children's thoughts are relatively simple. Without scientific thinking methods, it is easy to act blindly, take detours and go back.
To this end, he compiled The Story of Famous Scientists, Introduction to Primary School Science, Help You Learn Botany and Help You Learn Zoology, and incorporated his works into Wang Jingdong's Popular Science Works (three volumes) to cultivate children's scientific thoughts, scientific spirit and scientific thinking methods.
In 1980s, Dendrolimus punctatus in Shandong Peninsula was very harmful. In order to kill these pests, the relevant units sprayed pesticides by plane. In this way, Dendrolimus punctatus was killed, but at the same time, it also killed other creatures, the natural enemies of pine borers, which made pine borers multiply and suck pine juice, and pine trees quickly died in a large area. This incident illustrates a universal scientific truth: the biological chain of nature cannot be destroyed. Once a link is missing, it will lead to the destruction of the whole biological chain and cause huge losses. In response to this matter, Wang Jingdong wrote a scientific essay "The Consequences of Eliminating Dendrolimus punctatus" and a paper "Popularizing Science and Paying Attention to the Popularization of Scientific Thoughts", and cultivated children's scientific thoughts and scientific thinking methods with living examples.
Flies are disgusting animals to everyone because they spread diseases. But why are flies in such a dirty environment, covered with bacteria, but safe and sound? Therefore, scientists "invited" flies into the laboratory for research. It turns out that flies have the trick of vomiting and defecating quickly, so that germs can be excreted from the body before they can reproduce. In addition, flies can secrete bactericidal substances-"antibacterial active protein" and "cell agglutination protein". Scientists will separate and extract these two substances from flies to treat human diseases.
Wang Jingdong wrote this function of flies as a scientific sketch "Inviting flies into the laboratory". After reading it, children will look at things around them scientifically and dialectically and consciously join the ranks of scientific research.
Because of his strong attraction, his works are very popular with children. 198 1 "The Guardian of the Village" won the second prize of outstanding popular science works in the New Long March, and Wang Jingdong's collection of popular science works won the national outstanding popular science reading prize. His works, such as The Guardian of the Country, After Solving the Mystery, Fluorescent Sparkling, The Mystery of Green Leaves, etc., participated in art exhibitions in Moscow and Hong Kong.
Wang Jingdong's success made him famous all over the country, and many universities and academic institutions invited him to give speeches. Elected as Chairman of Shandong Popular Science Writers Association, Director of China Popular Science Writers Association, Director of botanical society of china, Vice Chairman of Shandong Normal University and Vice Chairman of Shandong Science and Technology Association.
I don't know the sunset at night.
1992, Wang Jingdong retired to the second line. It stands to reason that it is time for him to spend his old age comfortably and enjoy his old age. However, he believes that this is another peak that reflects the value of life.
The ancients sighed: "to see the sun, for all his glory was buried in the coming night", but Wang Jingdong was "ambitious in his old age". With years of cultural accumulation, he started his second milestone-picking up a pen and writing better things for his children without any worries.
In order to improve children's scientific quality and explore the world with scientific thinking methods, he collected the information at hand and compiled six volumes of Young Wisdom Picture Library in the form of stories, which introduced scientific stories at home and abroad from the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geography and military detective, and played a role in developing children's intelligence. At the same time, he began to uncover the mysteries of the plant world and the animal world. In order to get first-hand information, he bought a three-wheeled motorcycle and often went to the mountains with his wife to observe animals and plants.
Once, he accidentally slipped on a stone on the hillside and almost fell into a dangerous valley. Fortunately, his soul mate pulled him out of danger, but his leg was skinned and bleeding. He lay on the hillside, and his wife bandaged his wound with tears in her eyes.
At this time, the sun has set in the west, and the peaks are covered with a faint orange. He looked at the beautiful scenery and said with a smile, "It's sad that the ancients used the sunset to compare people's old age. Don't you know that people should cherish time in their twilight years? Life is like a song, the sunrise is the prelude and the sunset is the end. If the ending is not good, how can it last three days in the house? How can I draw a full stop for myself? "
When he got home, it was already the lantern's turn. His children and grandchildren were looking up and were moved by his professionalism.
He must know the international cutting-edge science himself before he can introduce it to children in a simple way. He often gets up at three o'clock in the evening to read, study, take notes and conceive the context of his works.
After the publication of Unveiling the Mystery of the Plant World and Unveiling the Mystery of the Animal World, Green Revolution and Modern Meteorological Exploration were listed as national key books and published in Taiwan Province Province.
Then I started a series of "green fast food". He thinks that children have tight study tasks and have no more time to read extracurricular books. If we introduce them with tens of thousands of words about interesting things in life, it will be very beneficial to increase their scientific knowledge and improve their comprehensive quality. So 12 The Story of Ants, Inspiration from Insects, Worship Plants as Teachers, Stories of Turning Harm into Benefit, Funny Stories of Cats, Charm of Flowers, Clever Use of Biology to Solve Crimes, Troubles and Happiness of Nature, Meteorology and Life were published by Jinan Publishing House, which were very popular among children.
In order to let children know about the current international frontier science and encourage them to devote themselves to scientific career, he has written a series of high-tech books in simple terms, such as illustration biotechnology, illustration information technology, illustration automation technology, illustration energy technology, illustration laser technology, illustration new material technology and so on.
Then he published a series of scientific and technological prospects for primary and secondary schools, including Understanding Robots, Roaming in the Computer World, A Thousand Words in Space, Nuclear Dialysis, Exploring the Mystery of the Moon, Ocean Engineering Outlook, Walking on the Information Superhighway, The Magician of Life, The Secret of the Brain and Cherishing Home. At the same time, he undertook the task of compiling five volumes of "High-tech Outlook Series" published by Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House.
In order to let science occupy the ideological position, resist the erosion of pseudoscience, get rid of superstition and let children grow up healthily. So he wrote a series of books, such as Perspective Pseudoscience, Man's Misunderstanding of Heaven, Man's Misunderstanding of Earth, Man's Misunderstanding of Biology, Man's Misunderstanding of Life and Man's Misunderstanding of Nature, which were published by Shandong Science Publishing House.
Patriotism is the eternal theme of primary and secondary school education. Wang Jingdong believes that popular science writers must also educate them in patriotism through popular science works. In view of the fact that some people in the world have slandered China people's ignorance, he wrote an eight-volume series of China People's Wisdom: exploring the mystery of numbers, gaining insight into material movement, revealing material changes, hitting the door of life, spreading green hope, seeking a healthy way, exploring the mystery of heaven and earth, and building a tangible world. The book adopts criss-crossing methods, that is, vertically according to historical years and horizontally from something, using the method of comparison between China and foreign countries, so that children can realize that the descendants of the Chinese nation are one of the smartest nations in the world, thus strengthening their love for the great motherland. At the same time, the first and second volumes of Wisdom China were published.
As the saying goes, a flower can't be dressed in spring. In order to let children have more popular science works to read, he used his successful experience and methods of popular science creation for many years, and used popular science creation forums and counseling sessions to train a group of popular science creators in Yantai and Weihai. Yu Qizhai, Yu Shoufu, Wang Jushi, Li Deren and Song Wenren all published their own works, among which Yu Qizhai has become an influential popular science writer in China.
Old trees bloom more easily in spring.
2 1 century, Comrade Wang Jingdong was seriously ill, but his spirit was still not old. In recent years, new works have been published continuously. In order to improve children's ability to use their hands and brains and be brave in innovation, at the invitation of Shandong University Press, he compiled ten series of middle school students' scientific and technological innovation series, namely, scientific and technological small production, scientific and technological small magic, scientific and technological small experiment, scientific and technological small paper, scientific and technological small experiment, scientific and technological small paradise and scientific and technological small self-help. In order to improve the humanities and natural science quality of primary and middle school students and become a compound talent needed by society, he endured great pain and compiled ten series of "Smart-Fixed Method" for Shandong Friendship Publishing House: emerging stories, humorous stories, riddles, scientific exploration stories, eloquent stories and clever stories.
In order to improve children's scientific quality, in 2004, at the invitation of Shandong Education Publishing House, he participated in the compilation of "Young Scientists Series" and compiled two books, Green Paradise and Symphony of Life, and won the Shandong Excellent Book Award in 2005.
Comrade Wang Jingdong won the first National Science Popularization Award from June 5438 to February 2003 because of his outstanding contribution to the creation of science popularization.
In his spare time, Wang Jingdong struggled for the cause of popular science creation all his life, leaving a rare rich spiritual food for children. He is a bright star in the field of popular science in China.