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In the blink of an eye, my son is nearly graduating from university. He faces the choice between graduate school and employment. I hoped he would work first and then decide whether graduate school was needed based on his actual situation, but he himself prefers…

These past few days I have been carrying out a technical overhaul of my website. Running for 11 years, the site has placed too heavy a load on the server, causing frequent system crashes, so I have had to take measures to improve its code.

When I woke up this morning, I rode my bicycle to the small vegetable garden at the foot of Fragrant Hills and pulled weeds by hand. On top of the pile I pulled out the day before yesterday, today I removed nearly two more baskets…

This morning I finished the last exam, biochemistry, and with that, this academic year is officially over for us. Many cars arrived at the school; they were parents coming to pick up their children. These parents are generally a bit younger than I am; mixed…

At my age, it has become the norm for the older generation to fall ill and pass away. Their sickness and departure remind me again and again that the truly valuable time belonging to me is already running short; every minute wasted is one minute…

Mr. Qian Weichang, in an interview, spoke of how, when he studied at Tsinghua University, he went to the science building every morning at five o'clock to recite texts, only to find that Hua Luogeng had already finished reciting. The son of Mr. Qian Xuesen,…

Returned to Beijing for the weekend, I finished my work, did a bit of farm work in the vegetable plot, and then my wife accompanied me deep into the mountains of Mentougou. We went to Tan'chang Village near Shenquan Gorge; we came here last summer…

I have always insisted that I am a country person, but I have overlooked the fact that I have lived in Beijing for nearly thirty years. Thirty years is long enough to change many things before one even notices. Beijing is China's capital, a city…

It is an objective fact that one person’s cognition may differ radically from another’s, and in most cases such differences cannot be changed in a few words. With someone far removed from you, the wisest course is to withhold judgment and stay silent. When two…

Today is New Year's Day, 2026. As one of the masses, I am no exception: every New Year's Day I write a special article to chat with my readers. Although, after this New Year's holiday, I will immediately enter a tense exam week with ten…