Photography Zhang Yuming

Ma Jishi, chairman of Dujiangyan Writers Association, has been busy with his mobile phone since the beginning of school this autumn. "treat, your work is in the Chinese textbook!" "Brother Ma, my grandson will bring you a book to sign later!" Every day, countless people call him to inform him of the good news, ask him for treatment, and make an appointment to take a photo with the children. This also makes Ma Jishi, who is used to low-key, sigh: "The influence of textbooks is too great!"

At the beginning of autumn this year, nine texts have been changed in the first volume of the seventh grade Chinese textbook published by People's Education Press, and the newly added text "Wang Geometry" is the work of Ma Jishi.

Who is Wang Zhou?

Decades of rumors, written in two hours.

Wang Geometry, whose real name is Mao Gener's friend, is the father of the author Ma Jishi. His class is lively and humorous. Although I didn't attend the class of "Wang Geometry" for a day, too many people around Ma Jishi told the legendary story of "Wang Geometry". In 2005, Ma Jishi spent two hours writing this article, but what he didn't expect was that it was actually in a Chinese textbook.

Ma Jishi was born in a teacher's family. "Wang Geometry" is a colleague and good friend of his parents. He is familiar with this elder. In Dujiangyan at that time, "Wang Geometry" was a famous local teacher, and everyone who had attended his class said that "Wang Geometry brought the boring geometry class to life." Many people don't even know Mr. Wang's real name, but only know that his name is Wang Geometry.

Ma Jishi recalled that when he was young, he had been to the classroom where Wang Geometry was taught and heard bursts of laughter. "Geometry class, can you be so happy?" It was the first time that Ma Jishi felt the difference of this elder.

When Ma Jishi was growing up, the name Wang Geometry was always unavoidable. "Parents' teacher party will talk about him, and Wang Geometry's student party will also talk about him." Ma Ji said that although he had never heard the lecture of "Wang Jihe", the legend about Wang Geometry drawing a circle on the blackboard backhand and letting students draw a circle on the stage has been branded in his mind. A few years ago, Sichuan Children's Publishing House asked him to write a book about childhood accidents, and he chose Wang Geometry as the prototype of the story. It only took Ma Ji two hours to write this article, because he knew it very well.

Geometry of people around Wang

Very vivid, can make children "happy"

After school started this autumn, a Chinese teacher in Dujiangyan got the textbook and saw that Wang Geometry written by Ma Jishi was selected as the seventh grade Chinese textbook. The news spread all over Dujiangyan like wings, and Ma Jishi's mobile phone was bombarded with congratulations and appointment signatures.

He Min is Wang Geometry's nephew, Ma Jishi's friend and the first reader of this article. "Very vivid!" This is He Min's evaluation of this article. He Min said that Ma Jishi chose the most vivid scene of his uncle's class.

He Min also analyzed the reason why the publishing house chose this article: nowadays, children go to school too hard, and other famous articles are considered ideological, and this article can bring joy to children and make them laugh after intense study. As for the description of uncle's pudgy, smiling Buddha, backhand circle drawing and other details in the article, He Min thinks that it is "somewhat exaggerated, but acceptable." It is said that every reader who just started reading this article will burst into laughter.

Gou Huaxi Bao reporter Qinling photography Lu Jia

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The teacher who got the seventh grade Chinese textbook published by People's Education Press found that 9 of the 30 texts in the textbook were replaced. In the eyes of front-line teachers, the new textbooks are more grounded. Among the deleted words, Lu Xun's Kite is eye-catching. "If there were no kites, it would be much easier to learn. This is the most difficult one in the seventh grade Chinese textbook. " An eighth-grade student said after reading the new textbook.

"This article needs to be understood in a specific historical environment. For seventh-grade students, it is really not easy to master. " Zhang Yuming, head of the language group of Zhengzhou No.7 Middle School, believes that the new textbook is "arranged more closely and the theme is more concentrated." Zhao Yu, a young writer, also pointed out that most junior high school children still stay in basic language training and rhetoric training, and the content of contact should not be too profound, so they should pay attention to interest. According to China Broadcasting.

Dialogue with Ma Jishi

I will write more stories about people around me.

"I am a grassroots writer, and I am the least famous among the newly selected authors." Ma Ji said that he wrote many articles and published several books in his life. Prior to this, the essay "Lin Zhongyu" has been used as a teaching material for kindergarten teachers, and several articles have been used as teaching AIDS, but its influence is limited. He never dreamed that his article could enter the textbooks distributed nationwide. In his opinion, The Geometry of the King is not the best article he has ever written. "But I wrote that he must have been careful and moved his feelings." Ma Ji said that he would feel sorry for his elders if he couldn't write well. "After all, he has lived in my mind for decades."

Being selected as a teaching material, Ma Jishi felt that it was an honor and a kind of pressure. "I am worried that the articles written in the future are not good and will make people chew their tongues." Ma Ji said that the success of Geometry of Kings also made him realize that art comes from life and needs grounding gas. Next, he will continue to write about his relatives, friends and teachers.

interconnection

Nine new articles in the textbook

Ma Jishi, a famous children's literature writer and poet, is a member of Chinese Writers Association, president of Sichuan Young Writers Association and president of Dujiangyan Writers Association. In addition to the Geometry of the King by Ma Jishi, nine texts in the first volume of the seventh grade Chinese textbook published by People's Education Press have been revised, including My Teacher by Wei Wei, Missing in Autumn by Shi Tiesheng, The Storm by Jia Pingwa, My Early Years by Churchill, The Man Who Remodeled Life by Helen Keller, The Little Sage Surrender to the Great Sage by Wu Cheng'en and Ji Yun.

Read the original text

King geometry

Text/Ma Jishi

From primary school to junior high school campus, everything is new, especially the new course of geometry. So when we were in the first class of geometry in senior one, everyone opened their eyes and sat quietly in the classroom, full of curiosity and desire.

What kind of person will the geometry teacher be?

When the bell rang, 42 pairs of black eyes in the class looked at the classroom door together. In a short time, a stout middle-aged man with big head and thick ears squeezed into the door with a thick book, a big compass and a big triangle, and stood on the platform in the blink of an eye. Can a fat man walk so fast? The whole class was surprised, and the classroom became quieter, so quiet that only the deep breathing around was heard.

However, a minute passed, and the stout teacher didn't say a word. Like a smiling Buddha, just standing on the podium and giggling. Eyebrows, eyes, nostrils, mouth and ears, it can be said that every organ, every wrinkle and even every hair on his face is smiling!

The fat teacher smiled silently for another two minutes.

It's amazing. He is not a teacher in a school for the deaf, is he? The whole class couldn't help it any longer. Everyone bent down, shook their heads, winked and burst into laughter!

The stout teacher still didn't say a word, gradually put away his smile and tapped the desk on the podium with a blackboard brush. When the class was quiet, he suddenly faced the class, drew a basketball circle on the blackboard behind him with his backhand, and then drew an equilateral triangle with his backhand.

The lifelike circles and equilateral triangles standing on the blackboard are standard and beautiful. The whole class just thinks that I'm afraid that's all for drawing with compasses and triangles.

The stout teacher stood on the platform, his eyes smiling, his right mouth slightly tilted, and his chubby face was full of pride. After 42 pairs of black eyes in the class were surprised, each pair of eyes was enlarged by half a centimeter. He suddenly turned around, faced the blackboard, waved his hand and wrote three words as big as volleyball: Wang Yulin.

"This is my name!" He said that his voice was surprisingly loud.

The boys and girls in the class were stunned by his metallic voice, and the atmosphere was afraid to come out. They opened their eyes wide and listened with bated breath.

"Former classmates. Thanks to their special care, I gave my teacher a nickname in private. " The stout teacher slowly turned around, waved, and gracefully wrote three more big characters on the blackboard: Wang Geometry.

It was so humorous that all the boys and girls in the class burst into laughter.

Teacher Wang ignored the laughter in the classroom and continued to say in his metallic voice, "Those old classmates gave it to me."

Nickname. God, I love this wonderful nickname! Unfortunately, no one has ever called me Wang Geometry to my face ... "

The teacher announced his nickname on the blackboard. I hope everyone will match his nickname. In that era when everything was serious and rigid, isn't such a strange thing too outrageous? But childhood is always full of rebellion. The more outrageous things people like, the higher the interest of the whole class.

One by one, I am all ears to hear what the short and humorous teacher nicknamed "Wang Geometry" has to say.

The stout teacher continued to tap the table with the blackboard brush to suppress the noise in the classroom. "In previous sessions, some students said: Teacher Wang, what's so great about the circle you drew? We can also draw pictures! "

Mr. Wang, who is as fat as Maitreya, stood on the podium and beamed: "Now, I invite the students to come to the stage one by one, without backhand, just draw circles and triangles on the front with their hands ..."

It's hilarious, geometry class has become a drawing class!

Will everyone let go of such a comedy? In a blink of an eye, I saw male and female students take turns walking onto the platform.

But where are the circles and triangles drawn on the blackboard with chalk? The students who were shaking with laughter became clumsy one by one, drawing eggs, duck eggs, apples, pears and ugly tripods!

Everyone laughed with tears all over their faces and their throats were swollen. Decades later. I can swear to God that this is the most proud, comfortable and powerful smile I have ever had in my life.

The geometry teacher ended the first class in the laughter of the students who cried with joy.

Teacher Wang's concluding remarks before class are: "Please note that I am not asking everyone to learn how to draw circles and triangles rigidly. I have taught geometry in middle schools for more than 20 years, and I am a teacher who loves geometry teaching all my life. I circle backhand just to show you a simple truth-as long as you work hard, the iron pestle can be ground into a needle! I want you to remember is a love of knowledge and persistent learning spirit ... "

Strangely, when Mr. Wang said this, he was so serious that he didn't laugh for the first time. At that time, the classroom was silent.

The students' evaluation of Mr. Wang's first class is only two words: happy!

The comic effect of this class will always be remembered by 42 middle school students and 42 teenagers: there is a humorous and professional teacher who is expected to come to class. His name is Wang Geometry.

Wang Yulin is a hairy friend of her father Ma Renhai.