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  • Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~

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    Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~

    Recently the cafeteria has introduced some kind of spicy cold noodles and the like, which really do not suit my taste, so I can’t help thinking nostalgically of Shanghai cold noodles eaten with peanut butter. I also don’t know where in Beijing one can eat Shanghai-style cold noodles…… Just as I was thinking about it, I happened upon a kind of instant noodles—the mixed noodles in the Nanjiecun wet-noodle series. They are said to be non-fried and to use lactic-acid preservation technology, so the noodles come out wet right away and can be eaten mixed together without hot water. What a marvelous world! Even more marvelous is that I actually…

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  • How to Fall in Love with Mathematics

    How to Fall in Love with Mathematics
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    How to Fall in Love with Mathematics

    I have never lost interest in anything I once fell in love with. Even when it was not yet love, but merely a passing fondness or interest, the same was true: my hobbies always multiplied. For example, in my freshman year I was drawn to philosophy, psychology, and wandering over to Weiming Lake; in my sophomore year, to religion, philosophy of science, and memorizing Tibetan mantras by rote; in high school, to popular science books, wuxia novels, and philosophy in the first year, to history and turn-based strategy computer games in the second year, to economics, Japanese animation, and buying books in the third year; in middle school, to physics;…

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  • I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!

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    I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!

    My writing has become far too much! With the accumulation I have at present, I really ought not to be writing so much. I need to rein myself in a bit. No need for my teachers to remind me; I’ve begun to wake up to it myself.   The clamor of this age is also reflected in writing—I quite agree. The things I am writing now, apart from assignments and internal exchanges, are mainly written for myself to read. I feel that writing down certain thoughts is very different from merely imagining them in my head; in the process of writing, I can see my own ideas more clearly. Sometimes…

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  • Preface to the Fortieth Issue of “Gongqingyuan”

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    Preface to the Fortieth Issue of “Gongqingyuan”

    Preface After nearly a year of preparation, this issue of Gongqingyuan has finally arrived on schedule! …Though I very much want to say that, the fact is that the publication of this issue of Gongqingyuan was delayed by several months beyond the original plan! As editor-in-chief, I am deeply ashamed. I won’t go into the reasons at length; the main problem was that the layout work had been put off for far too long! By the way, the layout editor for this issue is also me… Let us hope this belated collection will not disappoint everyone too much. I also hope that everyone will, as always, continue to support Gongqingyuan…

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  • Ode to Wind and Sand

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    Ode to Wind and Sand

    Recently Beijing has been howling with wind, with yellow sand filling the sky; it really is not good weather. When I was little, I liked rainy days and sunny days, and did not like wind. I always felt that fierce winds made people irritable, while a light breeze made them feel airy and insubstantial. Wind seemed to be associated either with violence or with frivolity. But that is just like not liking to eat green vegetables and fish when one is a child: it is merely a matter of childhood. That day, when I got up early and saw dust and sand all over the ground, the words that surged…

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  • Plato’s Café

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    Plato’s Café

    Lately I’ve been haunting Plato Cafe quite often.   It’s a newly opened cafe, next to Wan Sheng Bookstore, on the same floor as Bifengtang.   This is a rather unusual coffee shop. To be honest, I’m really worried it won’t be able to stay open. I come here often precisely because of how empty it is—such a sharp contrast to the Bifengtang next door!   What does it feel like to walk into Plato Cafe? Hmm… strange… really… it’s almost like a study room in a library! Besides the arrangement of the tables and chairs and the bright lighting, there’s even a whole wall of books here! There’s also…

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  • In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather

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    In Memory of My Maternal Grandfather

    My maternal grandfather passed away on the evening of the Qingming Festival. Today is his funeral service. My father only told me about it yesterday and asked me to go, which was only natural; my mother, worried it would affect my studies, had not wanted to let me come back, but that was clearly unreasonable. Though I was not especially close to my grandfather, how many grandfathers can I have? My mother and her sisters were not especially unable to accept his passing, because my grandfather had had uremia for eight years, and for more than the past half year his condition had been extremely dangerous; everyone had long since…

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  • A Disappointing Marxist Philosophy Forum

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    A Disappointing Marxist Philosophy Forum

    Today I attended the philosophy-forum event. I was deeply disappointed. The topic was “Transcending and Reflecting on ‘Modernity,’” with Nie Jinfang, Zhang Libo, Yang Xuegong, and Yang Haifeng. Originally they had said Feng Zhiyi would chair it, but Teacher Feng didn’t come. Teacher Nie seemed to say that his absence would not have much effect on the level of the forum, but I think the level was truly terrible. I do not doubt the academic standing of the teachers involved, but as a forum open to all teachers and students across the university, this event was a failure—one might even say a shameful forum! At the very least, the image…

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  • Xu Jinhua’s Lecture

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    Xu Jinhua’s Lecture

    Pretty interesting. Mr. Xu was very witty. But he does indeed seem to have a bit of a folk-science air about him. His “integrated waterway” sounds far too mystical; to fantasize about solving “all environmental problems” through such a technology, even if Mr. Xu insists that this is not technology but science, is still a bit too naive. As for the “fundamental error of Einstein,” that was the weak point of Mr. Xu’s lecture this time. Of course, science must oppose blind faith in authority, but scientific masters are after all masters—how could they be so easily refuted? Wave-particle duality is after all persuasive; not to mention photons and light…

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  • Colors of the Wind

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    Colors of the Wind

    Disney animated film 《Pocahontas》 theme song “Colors of the Wind,” a song of awe before nature~               Colors of the Wind You think I'm an ignorant savage and you've been so many places.                I guess it must be so but still I cannot see.  If the savage one is me, how can there be so much that you don't know, you don't know, you don't know.  You think you own whatever land you land on.  The earth is just a dead thing you can claim.  But I know every rock and tree and creature.  Has a life…

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