As tall and straight as a tree, as tenacious as grass.

 

Yu Minhong, chairman of New Oriental Group, once used the story of "trees and grass" to simile the attitude and talent standard of being a man and doing things. He believes that there are two ways of life.

 

The first way is to live like grass

You may live

Still growing every year

But you are a grass after all

You absorb rain and sunshine

But not long

People can step on you

But people don't suffer because of your pain, but because of him

People won't pity you for being trampled on

Because people don't see you

So each of us

Should grow like a tree

Even if we're nothing now

But as long as you have the seeds of the tree

Even if you are trampled in the middle of the earth

You can still absorb the nutrients of the soil

You may be two or three years old

But in ten years, eight years and twenty years, you will grow into a towering tree

When you grow into a towering tree

Far away

People can see you

Approach you

You can give people a green and a shade

You can help others

Even after people leave you

Look back

You are still a beautiful scenery on the horizon

Trees - living is a beautiful scenery

Death is still a pillar of talent

It's useful to live or die

This is the standard of life and growth advocated by Yu Minhong!
 

After listening to this evaluation, maybe many people will complain for Xiaocao and think that Lao Yu's example is a misreading of Xiaocao's spirit. In one year, withers and thrives once each year, we remember lush grass on the plains. Tagore once wrote in his poem: "the grass's steps are small, but it has the land under its feet!" Among all the plants, grass takes the least from the world and beautifies and purifies the natural environment all the time. Throughout the year, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, flowers bloom and wither, leaves wither and fall, but grass always shows the eternal green in spring, summer, autumn, frost, winter and snow. You don't see "Yao grass is as green as He Bi, entering Wuling River in spring", river rain is falling and river grass is together in summer "," the grass in the south of the Yangtze River is not withered in autumn ", and" cold smoke is fading and the grass is green in winter ". Plain Causeway, shore under eaves, land in the mountains... The lush green, then the sky, connected to the earth, brings vitality to the earth and people. "Take less, give more". Why doesn't life need such a spirit?
 

It is obvious that both trees and grass play different roles in nature and play irreplaceable roles. In this sense, our standards of life and growth cannot follow the either or single choice, blindly following a standard or a single value evaluation system.
 

The bell of the new year has sounded. I wish you a happy new year and good luck in the year of the tiger