Son-in-law of our school

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced, and American scientist Eric Betzig won the award. The celebration slogan displayed by Bengbu No. 1 Middle School in Anhui Province is: "Warm congratulations to our school's son-in-law Eric..."

Our school's son-in-law?

A joke told by Lu Xun: A poor man was showing off everywhere. The master talked to me. People asked, what did the master say to you? I stood at the door of my master’s house, and my master told me: Get out! Ah Q heard that the scholar had won the prize, and proudly boasted, "This is also very glorious for me."

Qian Zhongshu read Aesop's fables and satirized ants for living by weaving, just like "a great writer who could not support himself during his lifetime, but after his death, a large number of people relied on him to make a living, for example, writing memories and commemorative texts Relatives and friends, critics and scholars who write research papers.” You only need to look at the biographies that are full of books in bookstores, all with titles such as "My Father So-and-so", "Being So-and-so's Wife", "Being So-and-so's Wife in the Next Life", etc., and you will know that this is really common. human nature. Qian scolded him vigorously, and also made fun of himself. "Critics and scholars who write research papers" may have a sense of self-deprecation, but also a sense of helplessness towards human nature.

When I was writing articles, I would pretend to casually say "There is a fellow countryman named Wang", but my attentive friends would find out and question me. In a small place like Liuzhou, Mr. Wang is a big entrepreneur, but his father worked here, so he may not consider himself a Liuzhou native.

The lotus planted was in full bloom and placed on the stone railing of the aisle for everyone to admire. It happened that the new champion was writing something aside, so I begged him: Young man, can I lend you this face? Your face is worth a lot of money now! The young man was humble and readily agreed. So I took a bunch of photos and proudly announced that this lotus is now called "Zhuangyuanhong". We are just ordinary people, so we are bound to be vulgar.

The proprietress of the rice noodle shop at the door will also eagerly ask about the college entrance examination and the number one scholar. She will also proudly say: Did he win the number one scholar? It turns out to be him! He always comes to my place to eat pork trotter noodles! Everyone booed: Yes, yes, let’s change the name of your noodle shop from now on, just call it “Zhuangyuan Pig’s Knuckle Noodles”! The landlady smiled and nodded in agreement, and suddenly asked me seriously: "No. 1 pig's feet" seems too unpleasant, right? Or is it better to call him "No. 1 Scholar"? As a Chinese teacher, do you have any suggestions? I answered seriously: It's called "Zhuangyuan Pig's Feet Noodles", which is vivid, direct and powerful. I wish you a prosperous business and abundant financial resources.

I have imagined what the celebratory slogans would look like at the university or some research institute where "my son-in-law" Mr. Eric works - if they also like to do this? Of course there is no "son-in-law", not even "our school" - "Congratulations to Professor Eric" - that's called magnanimity. It seems that those who think that adding "our school", "my hometown", "my friends" and the like can benefit from the glory and be considered their own pride are actually showing their weakness.

Unfortunately, there are few Mr. Eric and many friends from the same hometown. This is a world of mediocre and humble people.

Local proverb: If you don’t meet your in-laws when you are riding a horse, you will meet your in-laws when you are picking up cow dung. It means that when a person is in a good mood, he wants to be seen by others (Today's Cloud Exposure), but no one will see him; when he is down and out, he is afraid of being seen, but he is always seen by others.

In fact, this sentence is completely wrong. Based on the above observations, everyone knows that it should be said: when picking up cow dung, you did not meet your in-laws, but when you were riding a horse, you met your in-laws.

Moreover, times have changed, and the connotation of "horseback riding" is no longer riding a horse. Modern people have given it a richer and more complex meaning. It can be winning a Nobel Prize, winning a medal, becoming the top scholar, or even making a fool of yourself and being embarrassed - in the information society, as long as you become famous, your relatives will run into you.

Even if you put the shit basin on your head, it will attract a swarm of buzzing flies!