I remember a plaque hanging above the old street door of my house, which read the words "plow and read for the world". Imitation of Song Dynasty, vigorous and powerful pen. How many days, I went in and out under the door plaque every day, and I didn't pay much attention. However, in the last year of the 20th century, my father died suddenly, and I carried my father's coffin and walked under the plaque at the street corner. Suddenly, these four Chinese characters on my head suddenly turned into hallucinations and swelled up in front of me, and came to my heart with my father's kind figure.

My father is a high school dropout. At that time, he was also an "intellectual". After liberation, he took part in education and became an out-and-out "teacher".

When I was a child, my father taught me arithmetic. I often talked about "chickens and rabbits in the same cage", "harmony without differences" and "engineering problems". Father's mathematical logic is very strong, and there is no gap between them. Father often borrows mathematical metaphors when he talks about those mathematical theories. It is said that learning mathematics and physics should be "chiseled" and being a man should be "chiseled". "Reason" means to clearly understand the accepted truth. When the "reason" is chiseled through, all the problems will be suddenly enlightened. .

After forty years of teaching, my father naturally belongs to the ranks of poor "teachers". At ordinary times, my father always abides by the principles of "public is public" and "private is private". Obeying the rules is regarded as the standard. 1968, the public primary school was decentralized to the brigade, and my father went back to his hometown to teach. When I went home to wash clothes that day and reached for my pocket, I found that I accidentally put back a manuscript paper from school. Just when my mother was going to write to my uncle, she said that I used the manuscript paper! Father repeatedly waved his hand and said no, it was public property. How can we take advantage of the public? Mother had no choice but to take out a piece of white powder and paper and write to his uncle. Little things like this abound in my father. Father's "chisel" has reached the point where it is pedantic, ridiculous, harsh and even unreasonable.

Father's "reason" is naturally learned from the sage books he read. What is the motto he often regards as a classic and practices? "Read with your heart, in a word" and "Money is like dirt, benevolence is precious".

Although my father has been a teacher all his life, he has nothing to do with farming or doing rough work. Hoe, plane, pick, plow, plow, anything is possible. Out of the classroom, put down the books and suddenly become a farmer; After returning to the classroom, I immediately became a teacher. In that year, the land was decentralized to households, and my family also divided four acres of three-point grain ration fields. Corn is planted in that field, millet is planted in that field, beans are planted every three rows in Hosta, and mung beans are planted every five rows in Gu Zidi. The edge of the ground cannot be empty. Where there are hoes, you can hang some pumpkins. Where there is no topping, you can grow some vegetables such as radishes. Dad plans to save some water. Shaking cymbals is a good style among cultivators. The rice seedlings shaken by a good style are thin, thick and uniform, with good density, so there is no need to bother and lack seedlings when thinning. Our family's grain fields are planted by my father himself every year. Sometimes no one in the neighborhood shakes, so they buy off the "teacher" to shake.

Things are different, and the grain is abundant; Knowing poetry and etiquette may be a pursuit of intellectuals in that era. They appreciate life from this kind of semi-farming and semi-reading, and regard the combination of farming and reading as a value orientation, thus forming a farming and reading culture. And "farming and reading to protect the world" is an interpretation of this farming and reading culture. In today's words, it may be understood that "study" and "work" cooperate, "brain" and "physical strength" cooperate, and "intellectuals" and "workers and peasants" are in harmony.

Traditional things don't necessarily have no essence.

1968, my father was sent back to teach in our village. It has been more than ten years. Until the age of 64, he worked as a class teacher in Hedong junior high school. Although my family is the youngest in the family tree of the village, it is either uncle or grandfather, but everyone in Hedong is called Bufu. In those years, the villagers asked him to write regardless of weddings, funerals, moving to a new house and writing deeds. At the wedding, my father sat in the ceremony room. During the Chinese New Year, my father basically pasted all the couplets in the village. I remember one year, my father didn't finish his homework in the afternoon of New Year's Eve, and he had to take it home to continue his homework in the evening of New Year's Eve. After writing, send it door to door. Anyone in the neighborhood who has a conflict over a trivial matter is willing to talk to his father. In this way, the "teacher" became a "peacemaker".

Interestingly, when my father comes back from other places on Sunday, he often practices calligraphy on an old newspaper as long as he has a little leisure. Pen and ink, brush, block letters and cursive script have been written on that newspaper without trace.

Habit is second nature.

Learning to be a man and make a living from farming and reading culture has helped my father develop a frugal style since childhood. His underwear was always mended and mended, and his mother asked him to buy one. He always smiled and said, "The new three years, the old three years, and then three years of sewing and mending, and no one laughed at the broken points inside." As the saying goes: less than the upper level, greater than the lower level.

My father has been practicing the traditional culture of "farming, reading and guarding the world" all his life. From those traditional upbringing, a "teacher" born in the old society was subtly influenced by ethics and enlightened by sages. China's farming and reading culture was originally a part of China's traditional culture. "Farming" and "reading" can be organically combined to achieve harmony and unity. It is of great benefit to cultivate self-cultivation, realize moral cultivation and cultivate value orientation.

With the arrival of reinforced concrete buildings, the plaque written on the old street door is naturally gone. When I lived in the new building, I deliberately wrapped the plaque on the old street door with cloth and hid it in a corner of the basement of the new building. Sitting down in my spare time, thinking of old words and thinking of my father is extremely sad.

Full text of Mr. Chen's will:

"Qingming is not only a festival to search for distant places and pay homage to ancestors, but also a national festival to find fragrance and relax. But this year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, I think more about death, death, death. ...

Last September, I found myself in the advanced stage of malignant lung cancer because of external hemorrhoid surgery. The first time I received the notice of death, "at most half a year", death was so severe and realistic. In the past, when many people talked about health preservation, longevity and treatment, I seldom talked about it and I didn't have time to talk about it. I am very busy and live a happy and fulfilling life. This sudden blow made me think more? The death of candidates is a major event in life. During the Spring Festival, I also discussed my views on life, especially death, with Hui Juandos, and my mind became more open and cheerful.

Life is a major event for people, and death is also a major event for people. Sometimes, death is even more important than life. When I was born, I experienced all kinds of life, tasted ups and downs, worked hard, struggled, succeeded and failed, and was wonderful and full. It can be said that this life is enough, no regrets. As for who talked more than who for a few years and lived less for a few years, you don't have to worry about it. They are all passers-by in life. No matter how far they go, they will only leave a lifelong regret of "this trip".

If we can't choose life satisfactorily under the influence of various factors, then we can respect our inner wishes and choose to die, arrange the funeral, and strive to do the Qingming thing for the last time and be a Qingming person!

One is not to accept overtreatment, let alone any rescue treatment. Follow God's will, do your best, die naturally, die naturally!

Second, after death, all arrangements are simple, try not to disturb others, really come to this world crying, leave this world quietly, bid farewell to the west, and don't take away a cloud. ...

Simply saying goodbye to the body is limited to family and relatives. No monuments, no graves, no urns. After cremation, the ashes are wrapped in big red cloth, and the petals are wrapped in big red cloth. The car drove from the county intersection next to Ouyang Xiu Park to the river, honked the horn three times in the ancestral home of Zhongshu Street, drove directly to the Zhongshuimen River, walked to the water's edge, and scattered ashes and petals wrapped in two pieces of red cloth into the Yangtze River.

After the ceremony, eat in the restaurant. Never bring ashes and petals into the restaurant. In addition, don't consider renting a boat to scatter ashes and petals in the river. It's not safe, and the Sanjiangkou waterway will not be allowed to sail here. )

The dead don't compete with the living for territory. Once and for all, they must be clean, environmentally friendly and refreshing. As for the memory of ancestors by future generations, there are various forms, 10 million kinds and one heart! The four seas are connected, the five continents are connected, the water is connected, the heart is connected, and the spirit is eternal! 』