However, for the historical transition period of the Republic of China, it may be a universal problem that the liberal arts are good and the science is poor, because there were too many great men who were bad at mathematics at that time. For example, Qian Zhongshu, a famous writer, scored only 15 in mathematics when he applied for Tsinghua in his early years. What's even more surprising is that Ji Xianlin, a master, actually studied in the Department of Mathematics, with a score of 4!
I think this is probably related to China's traditional culture of attaching importance to macro-control during the Republic of China. Because ancient scholars were all for self-cultivation and self-cultivation, they all paid more attention to all kinds of things? Big? Data, rather than paying special attention to the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of specific data. Even if they are not Confucian scholars, they tend to care more about the impact of macro data on society than the calculation of small data. For example, Sun Tzu's Art of War wrote:
Where the method of fighting is used, thousands of chariots are galloped, and hundreds of thousands of miles are eaten, the internal and external expenses, the use of customers, the material of glue paint and the battle of chariots and armor cost thousands of dollars a day, and then hundreds of thousands of teachers lift it. ?
In this sentence, Sun Wu used a lot of data, but more qualitative data than absolute quantitative data, because he was concerned about the general nature of war, and it was impossible to model and list data with a specific war. The truth he wants to explain has nothing to do with the amount of data, as long as readers can understand that war is a costly thing.
Other Confucianists and Taoists often use this style when recording data. As a result, many masters in the Republic of China were particularly insensitive to data when they first learned mathematics, and even got a few points or more. Amazing? Scores. Is Cang Kejia one of them? Low score? Master. Cang Kejia was born in 1905. His hometown is Zangjiazhuang, Zhucheng, Weifang, Shandong. Zangjiazhuang is a small and medium-sized local landlord, so Cang Kejia has the opportunity to get close to the traditional culture of China after his birth.
Influenced by his family, Cang Kejia had a strong interest in Chinese studies since he was a child, and he was also very talented. /kloc-at the age of 0/2, even children today can only recite a few simple ancient poems and essays. However, Cang Kejia, who taught himself at home and studied in a private school, has been able to recite more than 60 ancient Chinese poems at this time, which is almost 10 times that of children of the same age!
19 19 The May 4th Movement rose. As a patriotic youth, Cang Kejia certainly won't miss it. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, I began to distribute leaflets everywhere and make friends with progressive young people, which greatly broadened my horizons. So he decided to go to college, learn skills and serve his country. 1923, Cang Kejia successfully passed the First Normal High School in Shandong Province, where he learned a lot of new knowledge and came into contact with a subject that made him great.
At that time, private schools taught four books and five classics and other Chinese contents. Even more progressive teachers generally only introduce some western contents, and rarely systematically teach mathematics knowledge. Therefore, when Cang Kejia met mathematics, it was entirely because mathematics knew Cang Kejia and Cang Kejia didn't know mathematics. Years of study in high school didn't improve his math quality. When preparing for the college entrance examination, many of his friends advised him not to do so badly in math. How did he get in?
But Cang Kejia still wanted to go to college for further study, so he took the college entrance examination carefully. But when he saw the math paper, he was still dumbfounded. No, it just doesn't. It doesn't help to use your quick wits. Math is a blank sheet of paper. In order to improve his score, he carefully wrote a 28-word poem in his Chinese composition. This poem gave Cang Kejia a high score of 98 points in Chinese!
However, there is still a big gap between this and his ideal university-National Qingdao University. After all, he took one subject less than others, even if he got full marks in other subjects, he might not be able to meet the requirements. But his poems surprised the Chinese marking teacher. He directly handed Cang Kejia's 28-word poem to the headmaster. After reading it, the headmaster excitedly struck the table and said, this child, I want it! ?
Later, Cang Kejia entered the National Qingdao University, and President Wen Yiduo became his mentor. Finally, Cang Kejia became one of the most famous writers in China and made great contributions to the country's literary and artistic work. This not only reminds me of Gong Zizhen's poem:? I hope the weather is refreshing and the talents are not limited! ? Since people have a literary talent, why should they criticize their math scores?
In fact, people who are really good at Chinese can learn science extremely well if they are forced to do so. For example, Qian Weichang, a famous physicist, was once a proper liberal arts genius. In the college entrance examination, Chinese and history scored full marks, physics scored only 5 points, and mathematics and chemistry scored only 20 points. However, after the September 18th Incident, Qian Weichang saw that the Japanese used advanced weapons to do whatever they wanted on the land of China, so he angrily abandoned literature and went to learn to build aircraft cannons, so he transferred to the Department of Physics. Also left a famous saying:
I don't have a major, and the needs of my motherland are my major. ?
But it was this genius of liberal arts who scored 5 points in physics and eventually became the three great scientists in New China? San Qian? One of them has made a superhuman contribution to high-tech in China. This is about the explosion of a real liberal arts student in a small universe inspired by patriotic feelings!