The heart of a nerd, there are waves of history surging
Mingyue's resume was written like this: My real name is Shi Yue, from Hubei, 1.78 meters tall, graduated from a law major in a university in Wuhan.
I believe that if it weren’t for the history of writing, Shi Yue would still be just an ordinary member of the vast crowd on the streets.
Shi Yue is introverted and has little hobbies, reading, writing, and playing Go. In his ordinary life, he probably never found that he still had such special potential, which could make himself famous all day long, and from now on, the world was vast.
Shi Yue has been an obedient and sensible child since childhood. When my father is fine, he often likes to take him out to play on his bicycle. Once, the father and son visited Xinhua Bookstore. After entering, Xiao Shiyue ran away. He jumped up and down in front of each bookshelves, and suddenly became interested in a set of history books. He slowly took them down and handed them to his father. There were 3 books in total. Seeing that he was interested, my father bought it without saying a word. From then on, these three books became the earliest enlightenment textbooks for my son to study history and then love history.
明月从5岁就开始看历史，“当时我爸给我买了《上下五千年》，开始我不看，我爸说买了就要看，5块钱当时挺贵的，还揍了我。然后我就开始看，从7岁到11岁，读了7遍。读这个书不是因为我对历史有兴趣，实在因为我爸管我很严，不许我出去玩，所以只能在家看书。他比较喜欢唐诗宋词，书架上全是这些。其实我不算一个正常孩子，从小基本上就没什么娱乐，小时候我只喜欢玩跳房子，这游戏两个人就能玩，不需要太多人，我很怕吵。”
自此一发不可收拾，石悦爱上了历史。 After 11 years old, Xiao Shiyue began to read "Twenty-Four Histories" , "Zizhi Tongjian", and then "Ming Shilu", "Qing Shilu", "Ming Shilu", "Ming Shilu", "Ming Tongjian", "Ming Huidian" and "The Three Collections of Outlines". "Sometimes I also feel that I am quite strange. If someone reads classical Chinese from the age of 11, it is incredible." From elementary school to college, he would try his best to find history books to read as much as possible.
When I first started reading history books, Shi Yue didn't understand most of the words in the book, so his father bought him a dictionary and taught him how to search. Over time, he gradually became a master. He was familiar with "Gu Wen Guanzhi", and his current superb classical Chinese skills also came from this.
From the beginning of falling in love with history, my parents discovered that Shi Yue gradually became less talkative. He was not very interested in studying other subjects, and his favorite was to read various historical books and then think quietly. When the people around him were busy applying for various cram schools and fatiguedly dealing with various competitions and exams, Shi Yue was quietly observing people's every move and pondering people's psychology in a corner of his own.
According to parents’ ideas, going to a good university, and then entering a stable unit, getting married and having children is the life trajectory that a filial son should have. One day more than two months before the college entrance examination, in class, when Shi Yue was still immersed in a book called "History of Ancient Chinese Thoughts", the teacher confiscated the book on the spot and scolded him loudly: "The college entrance examination is coming soon. I didn't expect you still have time to read such idle books!" Shi Yue felt the huge pressure brought by the college entrance examination. But at this time, he actually wanted to give up the college entrance examination completely, so he skipped classes for two months before the college entrance examination and watched TV at home. But Shi Yue is the only child, and his parents all expressed their hopes for him. Every day, they tried their best to persuade him to take the college entrance examination, and even locked up his history books. Looking at his parents' expectant eyes, Shi Yue walked into the college entrance examination room and was admitted to a university that was not very ideal.
I want to prove it to myself, I can stick to it
In the eyes of ordinary people, college years should be a shining age. There is wind, snow and moon and flying youth, but for Shi Yue, it is unspeakable depression and monotony.
The law is naturally not within his interests, so he began to read history books more obsessed with it. From this time on, he had a wider range of historical talks, notes and records. For this reason, he often brought a piece of dry bread and a bottle of water, and went to the library or bookstore, and sat for the whole day. The classmates in the class all thought this 1.78-meter-old boy was a little strange, why he was able to enjoy himself in the ancient world, and why he could do nothing to read history books. Yes, it is hard for others to imagine that this boy who should have shot passionately on the basketball court would dig into studying history! Therefore, he was often left alone in the classroom reading alone, and he was often lonely on the way to study for self-study classes, but Shi Yue felt very fulfilled at that time, and he could clearly feel that he was becoming stronger day by day.
Most traditional historical books are vertical typesetting, traditional Chinese characters, without punctuation marks, and no sentences. They basically only record time, place, and events, which seems particularly empty and boring, just like a specimen of flesh-free animal. As Shi Yue reads too many history books, he will inevitably feel depressed. Not only the classmates around me say that history books are difficult to read, but even those friends who like literature think history books are too boring. Shi Yue is also increasingly discovering that many historical books are not easy to read. He said on his blog: "Some historical books are too difficult to read. There is no fun when reading them. I just want to scold people!"
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After graduating from college, Shi Yue worked as a civil servant in Guangzhou as his parents wished and had a Guangzhou household registration. He wore a uniform and tie at work, and the environment in the agency did not make him feel uncomfortable at all. A customs clerk said: "I really didn't expect that he was Mingyue back then! In 2000, everyone went to the customs together, and he was absolutely unknown for several years. He is used to being alone, never leaving books, unique thinking, and always speaking inexplicably. I didn't expect that he had such ability! Experts, it was indeed unfathomable! Awesome! The leader was really misleading!" Mingyue said that his life was very boring, he did not smoke, drink, or fall in love. "History has taken away my interest in many things. If you want to take me to play, I will go, but I don't invest. I go to work during the day and read books and search for information when I go back at night. My only interest is listening to music and watching CDs."
March 10, 2006, for 27-year-old Shi Yue, it should be a milestone day. On this day, on the way home from get off work, he was flipping through a copy of "Ming Shilu" in his hand. As he watched, he suddenly became extremely irritable. After reading decades of history, why is it still so boring? ! So, a series of rhetorical questions popped up in his mind: Do I want to always read these boring words until I die? Can't I do something truly meaningful in my life? The depressed Shi Yue returned home and turned on the computer. A thought flashed in his mind: rewrite Mingshi!
People who look cold on the outside do not mean that they are never in a state of turmoil. This time, he made up his mind to do something to show himself, prove that he is excellent and can persevere to the end!
When you say it, that night, Shi Yue used the "Bright Moon of the Year" on Tianya to start writing the beginning of the first long story in his life in the section "Booking Wine on History" that he often visits: "I have a habit of writing articles. Because I read too many cadet books in my early years, I hate those articles that pretend to be profound. In fact, history itself is very wonderful. All history can be written well. I hope I can do it too."
