Are peaches made of peach blossoms?

In this week's Biography of Mr. May 6th, it is inevitable to review Tao Yuanming's famous poem Peach Blossom Spring. Based on the peach blossom forest in a small village in Shiping County, Yunnan Province, we are attracted to break into people's homes and vegetable gardens. I am comparing the generosity of villagers in Shiping County with the caution of people in Taoyuan Village who are "not humane". I said, "Peach blossom in Taoyuan is a dream. The peach blossoms of villagers in Shiping County are the reality in the sun and are used to make peaches ... ""Teacher ""Isn't that the peach blossoms sold in the flower market! " I think I understand: the flowers sold in the flower market are ornamental, and they will wither after ten days and a half at home during the Spring Festival-this is the children's "complete" understanding of peach blossoms. They don't know that after the peach blossom falls, the small peach emerges from the flower core and absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon day by day. It takes five or six months to grow up and turn red. They may not have seen the rich sight of peach trees covered with peaches. In their cognitive world, peaches are rows of fruits sold in supermarkets, and they are far away from each other. I tried to explain that "peach is the fruit of peach blossom", but I found the word is very poor. This is common sense, and that's the way it is, just like "eat when you are hungry and wear when you are cold". "Peach blossoms will bear oranges and give birth to peaches" is an instinct given by the weather season. We just need to know and don't need to explain (except for natural science, we only need boring technical terms). The sense of powerlessness swelled violently, and I couldn't start the topic "Peaches are made of peach blossoms". I just made a joke and slipped away. But in meditation, I feel that I am not a good teacher, and I can't "solve my doubts". I feel that not only that classmate was asked, but also some students didn't associate "peach blossom" with "peach". We are assiduously teaching students the knowledge in books and how to cope with all kinds of exams. We pursue high marks, but we fail to let students understand even the most basic common sense, such as "how to make peaches from peach blossoms", and we have no chance to take students to observe and feel. I'm still saying: "Peach blossom is not the goal pursued by the villagers, but the beauty they' accidentally' harvested in the process of pursuing fruit, which is essentially different from Tao Yuanming's pursuit of peach blossom as the goal. Just as we study to improve our ability and knowledge, high marks are just' unexpected' gains in the pursuit process. If we aim for high marks, we will put the cart before the horse ... "But I really feel very pale! The whole society regards money, fame and success as the goals of life. Few people care about how to improve their lives, and no one agrees that the so-called success, fame and money are just "unexpected" gains in the process of perfecting themselves. How can we expect children to pursue ability and knowledge as the goal, instead of deliberately pursuing scores? Scores are a hard indicator for their further study and the only criterion for judging whether they are "good students", just as money is the only criterion for society to judge whether a person is "successful". It's just that we're all tired of pursuing. The student who is the first in the class and the first in the whole grade said bluntly, "Teacher, we don't want to go to school at all!" " "His face with obvious dull and tired. Honestly, why should I go to work? But I still patiently said to my children, "It's not that you don't want to go to school, but you just don't like this way of learning. "Peach blossom will bear peaches? Looking at these young and even immature faces like flowers, I feel a twinge of heartache. I suddenly remembered two famous sayings in history. One is Jin Huidi of Jin Dynasty in China. When told that the farmer had no food, he asked with a puzzled face, "Why not eat minced meat?"? "Why don't you eat meat? The other sentence is Queen Mary during the French Revolution. When she learned that the cause of the national riots was that the people had no bread to eat, she also looked puzzled: "Why not eat cake? "There must be something wrong with some links. It's not entirely their fault that Emperor Jinhui and Queen Mary ask such a question that goes against basic common sense.