Shen Fu s short story 80

<> Shen Kuo. 1031-1095), the character is in the middle of the book, the name Mengxi Zhangren, Han nationality, a native of Qiantang County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and the Northern Song Dynasty.

Politician, scientist.

Shen Kuo was born in the family of eunuchs, and traveled with his father when he was a child. In the eighth year of Jiayou (1063), he was awarded the manager of Yangzhou to join the army. Song Shenzong.

Participated in the Xining Reform.

Subject to Wang Anshi. He has served as the prince Zhongyun, the inspection of the Zhongshu Torture Room, the promotion of the Heavenly Prison, the review of the History Museum, and the three envoys.

In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he went out of Yanzhou and concurrently served as the pacification envoy of the Yanyan Road, stationed at the border to resist the Western Xia.

Later, he was demoted because of the battle of Yongle City. In his later years, he moved to Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) and lived in seclusion in Mengxi Garden.

Shen Kuo has devoted his life to scientific research, and has deep attainments and outstanding achievements in many disciplines, and is known as "the most outstanding figure in the entire history of Chinese science".

His masterpiece is "Dream Creek Writings".

It is rich in content, the culmination of the scientific achievements of the previous generation, and has an important position in the history of world culture, and is known as "a milestone in the history of Chinese science".

In the second year of Shaosheng (1095), he died of illness at the age of sixty-five.

Shen Kuo, the author of "Mengxi Writings", was an outstanding scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty of China, who could repair water conservancy, manage finances, fight wars, write poems, and also know archaeology and scientific research. In short, he is proficient in everything, and he cannot be difficult in his hands, and he does it very well. Shen Kuo's intelligence is outstanding, is he a prodigy and genius?

No, he's just like a normal person. But Shen Kuo's intellect is related to the circumstances in which he lived in his childhood. Shen Kuo's father was a magistrate.

The little magistrate often had to be dispatched, so Shen Kuo followed his father to the north and south, although he could not live and work in peace and contentment, but he also enjoyed the scenery of various places and was familiar with the customs and customs of various places. Besides, Shen Kuo's personality is active, he doesn't like to be locked in the study all day long reading, writing, and doing articles, he likes to go out of the study to play. He loves to see this and that, he loves to listen to this and that, he loves to ask this and ask that, and sometimes he touches this and that, everything is so curious in Shen Kuo's eyes:

He watched the fishermen drive their boats and cormorants down the river to fish; He also listened to the fishermen talk about how to catch a crocodile bigger than a boat from the sea; He asked the peasants why the peach blossoms in the mountains bloomed later than the peach blossoms in the foothills; In northern Shaanxi, he saw local residents using canisters to collect oil from the ground and use it to light lamps. Shen Kuo also participated in the collection and personally burned oil to collect soot to make ink. Shen Kuo was such a person who loved extracurricular life when he was a teenager.

He wants to see everything, he wants to hear everything, he wants to ask everything, he wants to participate in everything, he wants to move everything. These seeming, hearing, asking, and doing things were all written down one by one and became a piece of material, which was later verified and sorted out in the book "Dream Creek Writings". So it's so informative.

The book Mengxi Written Talks on Nature alone involves astronomy, geography, geology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, meteorology, biology and medicine, and many of them are Shen Kuo's original ideas in practice. If Shen Kuo was locked up in his study all day long, would he be able to accumulate such profound knowledge? Can you be creative?

Of course, if Shen Kuo did not attach importance to reading and did not have a cultural foundation, he would not have been able to record such a wealth of practical knowledge from practice and pass it on to future generations; On the other hand, if Shen Kuo does not pay attention to and love many aspects of extracurricular activities, he will not get valuable practical knowledge. No matter how much you read a book, no matter how good it is, you still go around in circles on the experience and theories of your predecessors, and it is difficult to have new ideas. Therefore, "Dream Creek Writings" is the crystallization of Shen Kuo's extracurricular activities and career attempts during his adolescence.