Zhan Tianyou s stories of self improvement when he was a teenager

In the history of China's railway development, Zhan Tianyou was the first Chinese railway engineer. Under his leadership, self-reliance, hard work, overcoming thousands of difficulties and dangers, successfully built the first railway built by our country - the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which is the greatest milestone in China's railway construction.

Zhan Tianyou hated imperialism since he was a child and was determined to dedicate himself to the rejuvenation of China. In 1872, 12-year-old Zhan Tianyou went to the United States to study, studied hard, returned to China in 1881, and dedicated his life's energy to China's railway industry. He traveled in the wilderness and mountains all year round, eating and living with the workers, and sleeping in the open air; He never bowed his head in front of foreign engineers, and created great achievements that made imperialism sigh.

Nowadays, China's railways extend in all directions, develop rapidly, speed up and speed up, and are accelerating towards modernization, and the pioneer of China's railway industry is Zhan Tianyou. His patriotism, hard work and dedication will forever inspire future generations. We must follow this great patriotic engineer and strive for the realization of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and the construction of a modern and prosperous motherland.

Zhan Tianyou.

When he was seven or eight years old, he was sent to a private school to study, but he was not interested in the "Four Books" and "Five Classics", but liked to fiddle with some machinery. He often used some small screws, pinions, and old clockwork to make toys, and also used mud to pinch ships and cranes, and many friends chased him all day long.

On the way to school, he often stood outside the factory, ** the machines inside, the trucks, pondering and pondering, often forgetting to go to school.

One day, he looked at the wall clock on the wall of his home. So why does the wall clock tick and tick non-stop? Why do you have a dot?

Thinking about it, he set his hands to disassemble the wall clock and wanted to see what was going on. However, when he tried to pretend it as it was, he couldn't pretend it no matter how much he fiddled with it, and he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. When his father saw this, although he was a little angry, he still led him to the county clock shop and asked him to carefully see how the craftsmen disassembled and assembled the clocks.

At the end of 1871, Zhan Tianyou was 11 years old and had been studying in a private school for more than four years. His father was thinking about letting him go to work and earn money after he finished private school. At this time, fellow villager Tan Bocun hurriedly came to Nanhai from Hong Kong, saying that young children were being selected to study abroad.

Tan Bocun is also a businessman, and since he was a child, he saw that Zhan Tianyou was smart and studious, and he liked him very much, and often used money to help their family.

Tan Bocun strongly persuaded Zhan Xinghong and his wife to send their children to take the exam for studying in the United States, believing that it was related to the child's future. Zhan Xinghong was worried that his son was young and he was very uneasy to go out of such a long house, and the family's economic situation was not very good. Tan Bocun said that he was financially willing to support and promised his fourth daughter to Tianyou.

That's why it was decided to send Zhan Tianyou to Hong Kong to take the study abroad exam.

Zhan Tianxi went to the United States to study at the age of 10.

Once, Zhan Tianyou was playing baseball with several middle school students in a corner of the square, only to see Klaes, the bead mover, moved hard, and the ball flew into the distance. As a spectator, Zhan Tianxi hurriedly ran to pick up the ball. But Claes was a man of great vanity.

He snatched the ball and said defiantly: "Zhan, you come!" ”

Zhan Tianyou said politely: "I'm sorry, I can't play well, let's play with you!" ”

When Klein heard this, he said contemptuously: "Chinese, small species!" With that, he walked away.

How could Zhan Tianyou endure such an insult? He stepped over a few steps and shouted, "Stop!

What did you just say? Say it again, please! Klein was stunned by Zhan Tianyou's angry momentum, and quickly changed his words

I said that the Chinese will not play a ball! Zhan Tianyou glanced at Klein and took the wooden stick from Jack's hand. Shout to Klein:

Come on, let you see how powerful we Chinese are! ”

Whether it was volleyball or catching, Zhan Tianwei played very excitingly, attracting bursts of applause from the audience. In the end, Zhan Tianying won the victory, and he felt extremely proud. Because he fought the proud Klein and fought for the Chinese.

Zhan Tianyou's story:

In May 1905, the General Administration and Engineering Bureau of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway were established, with Chen Zhaochang as the general office, Zhan Tianyou as the general office and chief engineer, and in 1906, Zhan Tianyou was promoted to the general office and chief engineer. Zhan Tianyou was well aware of the enormity of this task, and he first had to resist cynicism from all sides: some people said that he was "beyond his means", "just spent a few dollars", and even said that he was "daring".

In a letter to his American teacher, Mrs. Nosopu, he said: "If the Beijing-Zhangjiakou project fails, it will not only be a misfortune for me, but also a misfortune for the Chinese engineers, and at the same time a great loss for China. Before and after I accepted this assignment, many foreigners openly claimed that Chinese engineers could not undertake the arduous work of the stone and cave of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line, but I insisted that I would do it."

It fully embodies the patriotism and national responsibility of Chinese intellectuals.

As soon as the project began, the Japanese Amamiya Keijiro wrote to Yuan Shikai that the Chinese could not afford to build this road, so it was safer to hire Japanese technicians. The Englishman Jinda also came to speak for Japan.

Zhan Tianyou categorically refused on the grounds that he would never appoint any foreigners. After the construction of the Juyong Pass Road began, groups of foreigners, in the name of hunting, often came to snoop, hoping that the project would fail in order to take advantage of the danger. Zhan Tianyou gave this breath to the Chinese with excellent results.

In 1905, the Qing Dynasty appointed Zhan Tianyou as the chief engineer to build a railway from Beijing to Zhangjiakou. As soon as the news came out, the whole country was in a sensation, and everyone said that this time we could fight for a breath. The imperialists thought it was a joke.

A foreign newspaper contemptuously said, "The Chinese engineer who could build the railroad north of Nankou has not yet been born." "Originally, from the south entrance to the north through Juyongguan to Badaling, all the way is high mountains and deep streams, cliffs. They believe that such a difficult project, famous engineers in various countries do not dare to try it easily, and as for the Chinese, it will not be able to complete it in any way.

But in the end, the entire line was completed in less than four years, two years ahead of schedule. This incident gave a powerful response to the imperialists who despised China. Today, we take the train to Badaling, cross the Qinglongqiao station, and can see a bronze statue, which is Zhan Tianyou.

Many foreign guests who came to China for sightseeing were amazed when they saw the great project left by Zhan Tianyou.