演讲者介绍：

肖仪，杭外国学社现任社长，初三（7）班团支部书记。曾获杭州高级中学第七届樱花文会初中组一等奖，第二届“睿达杯”浙江省初中科学邀请赛一等奖，“希望杯”全国数学邀请赛一等奖。她成绩优秀，工作负责，曾数次获优秀学生干部、优秀团干部等荣誉。

有我华夏

如果你曾经咀嚼过《诗经》《离骚》的满口留香，如果你曾经聆听过《广陵》《阳关》的余音绕梁；如果你曾经感叹过宽袍广袖的襟带飘飘，如果你曾经好奇过中医中药的精奇玄妙；除了我们传承千年的传统文化，又能有什么，像一杯清茗一样，其味清浅而又回味悠长？

在上周，我们举行了“吾土吾民”的文化节活动，之后又有清明节的三天假期。吾土吾民，更有吾之文化。而清明节，也是中国传统节日之一。不知大家是如何看待它们的呢？还有多少人记得，我们的习俗，我们的传统？作为神州大地的儿女，我们是否应该拾起我们的文化，传承我们的文化？

数千年前，在神州大地上，我们的先民点燃了文明的火种。自此以后，华夏古国便有了一种难以描述的东西，它叫做传统，叫做文化。它经过了时间的洗濯磨练，它是留在历史长河中闪耀的颗颗明珠。

“中华文化博大精深”这句话，相信很多人已经听过无数遍。传统文化中，又到底有什么？艺术如琴棋书画，哲学如诸子百家，文学如诗词歌赋，民俗如节日礼仪……也许，没有一个人能在一生中把中国传统文化全部了解得通达透彻。然而，这也正是传统文化的魅力所在。

我一直认为，传统文化可以使人平心静气。古琴拨出的宫商角徵羽，瓷杯中清茶的香气，诗词中难以言说的情意……这些东西，都可以让我们在因快节奏而浮躁的心得到安宁和平静。

传统文化在很多人的印象当中是板起脸的老夫子，是艰深晦涩的文言文，是难懂的哲学思想。因此，有人对“传统文化”这个词敬而远之，甚至有人认为传统文化是封建的象征而要把它摒弃。

然而，真的是这样吗？

当你推开一扇沉重的大门，也许你会看到巍巍屹立高不可攀的山峰，也许你会看到可爱的亭台楼阁。探索传统文化的过程，并不是每时每刻都如攀爬高峰一样艰难，并不是每时每刻都要把头深埋入故纸堆中摸索。我们可以嬉游于文化的天地间，去寻找无穷的趣味。

我曾经看到过一份台湾的国学试题，其中的题目非常富有趣味。有一道题留给我的印象非常深刻，题目的要求是请名人“代言”广告词。我看到这道题时，不禁惊叹：传统文化竟然可以用这样的方式在现代生活中焕发光彩！

不可否认，传统文化中确实含有那个年代的不平等、不自由。然而，这些并不能成为我们远离传统文化的理由。我们需要去了解它，才能知道什么可以为我们所用，而什么不能。

在中国近现代史上，有很多学者大师都身体力行，传承传统文化。鲁迅先生被称为新文化的斗士，然而他也有诸如“我以我血荐轩辕”的旧体诗佳作；闻一多先生在晚年时潜心研究古典文学，著有《古典新义》等书。前不久刚刚获得被称为“建筑学中的诺贝尔奖”的普里兹克奖的王澍先生，也是把中国的古典建筑的精华融入了现代风格的建筑；德国的汉学家顾彬先生曾动情地说，“我在中国的先秦贤人中找到了我自己，而德国是没有这样的哲人的”。

在杭外的校园中，也处处可见传统文化的影子。语文课中，初一的《千家诗》，初二的宋词，初三的《红楼梦》；历史课上，传统文化的出镜率也相当高。我们有国学社团，我们有以“经典中国”、“吾土吾民”为主题的文化节。这一点一滴，皆是在我们的灵魂中，注入了中国传统文化的甘泉。

文化的存在是一个民族存在的标志，是一个民族的脊梁。一个失去了文化的民族，又何以称之为民族？我们既然生在了这块土地上，我们就有责任把这块土地上所承载的文化继承下去，发扬下去，至少，在千万代以后，生长在这片土地上的人们依然会记得，有一个名字是炎黄子孙，有一种文化像河流一般深邃。至少，生活在五光十色的环境中的我们依然会记得，依旧有我华夏。

● 剑桥高中

As if I was abducted by an extraterrestrial before I have the worst memory about my past. But one of my earliest memories has to do with time. I was about five or six years old, the age at which children learn to read clocks. I do not remember mastering the skill itself-making the leap from observing that “the big hand is on the six and the little hand is half-way in between four and five”, to seeing, instantaneously, the hands showing half past four. No. What sticks in my mind was a revelation: time passes. A second has duration. This is what an hour feels like. 

This diachronic wonder came with both a sense of challenge and panic, for if time passes, “spiteful minutes steal away”, as Horace puts it in his ode. This is why the wheels of a clock rotate with unremitting resolution; their brass teeth never falter as they count the seconds. They mirror the infinite force with which the time itself proceeds. And it cannot be stopped. I still remember trying to hold onto time. I envisaged it as a long, taut piece of fabric that I if I could grip I could stretch, lengthening it seconds. The problem is that I could glimpse the fabric only in my peripheral vision and when I turned to look at it head on, it had vanished. The instant I needed time to dwell on was gone before I could appreciate its passing.

The elusive quality of time and the sovereignty in conscious life is implicit in the phrase” telling the time”. it sounds like” reading the runes”, as if time has to be told like a story or interpreted like a text. Perhaps this nod to the mysteriousness of time is not surprising, given the variety of experiences of it one can have even in the course of one single day.

Someone will awake from sleep with no sense of the hours that have passed. They will rush to work, conscious of every minute. At work, time comes in two large chunks: before lunch and after lunch. The former may feel shorter than the latter, though they are both about four hours long. In the evening, in front of the television, they are anesthetized to time. Or if the evening is spent with friends, conversation and wine, it may approach something close to bliss, though that too will disappear, so that the next day they cannot remember quite what was said or happened.

Time’s resistance to being pinned down escapes even the world’s most accurate chronometers. They can measure it to within 10 to the power of -8 seconds per day but are inaccurate because an identical clock orbiting the earth, would show a different time upon returning to terra firma. Which clock is right? Einstein argued that the answer is both and neither.

For ancient philosophers, time was a crucial concern. They too have grappled with its chicanery.  Take a period of time, said Zeno. It can be divided into two periods of equal duration. These two can be halved again. And again. And again, until one has an infinity of periods of time emerging out of the original single whole. The paradox is how an infinite amount of time can fit into a period of specific duration. Mathematically speaking, what Zeno had identified was a conundrum of infinity. Existentially speaking, his thought experiment beautifully dissects time, showing how it can be fleeting in one instance and full in another.

This leads to another aspect of ancient philosopher’s concern with time. It had to do with nothing less than how to live a good life. The nub of the problem is how to live in the present- how to seize the day, in Horace’s expression. They realized that the challenge is to dwell neither on the past, something that comes very easily because it is known and so tangible in memories; nor on the future, that also comes easily, because it can be filled with hopes or anxieties. The challenge is to dwell in the present, which is hard to do, because it is neither the past nor the future.

The ancient philosophers had another insight to help people: it is a mistake to think of the present as the point at which the past and the future meet. This is a natural thing to do; the arrow of times feels like the movement from yesterday into tomorrow. However, this sensibility denies the present autonomy. It is, in effect, forced to be either the end of the past or the beginning of the future, with the result that it is not now.

How else might time and the present in particular be experienced? As attention. We are living now and not in the past or in the future. The present therefore enjoys a thickness that the past has lost and the future is yet to realize. The thickness can be attended to: the way to live is not diachronically but synchronically, within contemporary thoughts and actions. To use the metaphor of my childhood, the trick is to release the fabric of the present from the grip of the two opposing forces.

The stoics and the epicureans, who disagreed on much, agreed on this matter. The exercises they recommended to cultivate the present discouraged the tendency to limit it by forcing it in between the past and the future. The stoic Marcus Aurelius counseled himself mentally to discard anything that disturbed him from his past and to refuse to contemplate anything that worried him about the future: “ if you can separate from yourself the future and the past and apply yourself exclusively to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present- you can live the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence and serenity.

The Epicureans strove to inculcate the same synchronousness, by drawing attention to a truth about pleasure: that the intensity of pleasure( or for that matter pain) is time independent. “finite time and infinite time brings us the same pleasure, if we measure its limit by reason” Epicurus wrote-arguing that a pleasure promised even indefinitely into the future does not increase our appreciation, since our capacity to enjoy it is limited to our capacity to enjoy it now.

It is hard to fault their logic but in reality the present moment is not grasped so straightforwardly. Many might “prefer to take no thought for the morrow” as the Gospel of Matthew puts it yet cannot help but worry nonetheless. It might seem right that the pleasure is time-independent but then is not the promise of the indefinite pleasure an added pleasure in itself?

Worse, much of modern life discourages us from living in the here and now. In the same way that shares on a stock market are priced according to their future returns, not current values, so life tends to be thought of according to its potential. Preoccupations from credit-ratings and health insurance to pensions and house prices work to drive our attention forward. Richard Sennett has argued that an individual’s worth is oriented towards the future too, because companies no longer hire someone for what they can do now but for the extent to which they can be trained to face, as yet unknown, challenges of tomorrow. People even consume prospectively, buying a high-powered computer just in case the extra processor speed is needed; buying a high-powered car just in case the opportunity arise to push the accelerator to the floor. And who cannot but help feel that the person who does not want the fast car, is missing something from life? It is impossible to believe that someone who did separate themselves from the past and the future would have everything, as Seneca put it.

It seems that the promise of the future and nostalgia for the past are written into the stressed fabric of modern life. Carpe Diem? Hardly. Even if someone wanted to, it is far from clear that they could.

If radical expunging is not a practical option, then perhaps attending to the present can be practiced by a radical examination of what comes more easily: petty thoughts. They fill the present. Except perhaps when we are asleep or on holiday or making love, they are the present. Marcus aurelieus recognized this and turned his trivial thoughts into his meditations. His aims was first to recognize them, and then, to transcend them, in universal maxims that put them into perspective. “withdraw into yourself“ and “ do away all fantasies.”

The advantage of attending to petty thoughts is twofold. First, they exist in the present and so exercise the practice of the present. And second, as they are discarded, they are objectified, which again reinforces the sense of the present.

It requires effort for at first and for some time, the practice of the present must be consciously sustained second by second by second. “How easy it is to find yourself, right away, in a state of perfect peace of mind”, the philosopher-emperor also wrote. He could be intimidating that practice makes perfect.

（AS-C Larry 洪程亮）

● 英特校区

在运动中释放，在舞蹈中倾听

也许我们当中很多人并没有意识到我们现在正值人生最美妙的阶段——青春。这是个尽情释放自己的宝贵时机：我们尽可以在阳光下大声歌唱，课堂上大胆质疑真理，不受束缚地追逐自己的梦，尝试自己从未尝试过的新鲜事物。

而在我，最近就感受了一样不曾接触的事物。我能理解大家对健美操奇特的看法。我当然也知道，如果我说我是健美操队的，大部分人会觉得不可思议。我觉得这很正常，因为我也曾经是你们中的一员。当鲁老师在这个学期初，问我有没有兴趣加入健美操队的时候，我也曾是这个反应：啊，健美操？我读了这么多年书身体都已经僵掉了，怎么可能跳出青春的美感呢？什么一蹦三尺高、劈叉之类的都是只有在物理考满分的时候才可以完成的，我回去考虑了很久，看了健美操的表演视频，发现不再是单调的动作与力量的结合，而是融入了街舞、拉丁、牛仔等元素，像是一股久违的凉风把我刮醒了。这种活力似乎已经离开我很久了，我也可以肯定的说这种青春的活力也许正在被你们渐渐遗忘。于是我就：好啊，为什么不呢？我现在十六岁，青春年少，就应该尝试一些不同的东西。

在刚加入健美操队的时候，印象最深的就是看到队员们做跳跃运动，他们非常有力度地不停重复地跳跃以至于我只看清几条辫子在空中不停的甩动，也许这个细节就最可以体现出青春的气息和我们的朝气。下面介绍一下队员们：

大家应该记得今年艺术节上，初二（1）班的傣族舞表演，领舞的就是老队员金慧，她是我们当中最擅长跳舞、柔韧性最好的一个，将舞蹈的柔美一点点化为运动的力量对她来说并不容易，但用她的话来说，她对健美操的热情可以融化一切。平时的训练的确会耽误学习，但在舞台上闪耀的瞬间会忘记一切汗水。

李紫沁是初三（5）班的，她说：“从初一到初三，我不知道流了多少汗水，尤其是在比赛和表演之前，老师严格的训练让我们觉得甚是疲惫。而在这种情况下我们必须全力以赴，虽然仅仅几个动作，我们就会气喘吁吁。健美操讲究的是力度，只要我们稍微偷一会儿懒，整体看上去就会很不协调。在这种疲惫之下，我们也感受到了不少快乐。”

徐晟彦是我们的队长，负责最艰辛的任务——教新学员。我和一些刚加入的成员，总是学了忘，她却一直不厌其烦地示范。

郑钰莹是队员当中最积极的一个，我们从她的言谈中就可以看出她是非常热爱这项运动的，她认为再大的付出也是值得的。她能很好地做到学习和训练的平衡，在训练休息时也不忘做两道数学题。

吕沅津来自初一（5）班，是新成员之一，也是唯一的初一队员，每次训练都是最早到的，对健美操的热爱填补了她没有的身高优势，让她在场地上活力四射。

比赛前两个星期，一周训练三到四次。我们抽出班会课、拓展课、晚自习的时间在体育馆黄色的地板上不停地重复同一套动作，而每一遍都要拿出自己最好的状态。回到寝室后，也会三两结对在寝室吹头发的那块空地上，对着三面小镜子训练，每次都会出一身汗。

比赛分为预赛和决赛，前8名的队伍才有资格进入第二天的决赛，而台下的一切我们都要自己完成，包括化妆、热身、互相鼓励。

颁奖仪式上我们领略了来自宁波大学、浙江大学等高专业队员的风采，每个动作都达到超高难度，杭14中的2位健美操优秀队员提前被浙江大学录取。健美操已经被列为杭州市前8所重高提前招生的项目之一，也就是说我们只要在竞技项目比赛中拿前3名，就有机会被杭高、学军、杭二中等前8所高中录取，我们在比赛中也领略了去年保送同学的风采。

去年参加比赛的6位初三成员中，黄楚梵和戴文潇2位同学考上了杭外高中，李紫沁、郑钰莹、江李含之3位同学考上了英特高中，王涵于备考剑桥，而现在初二的徐晟彦和金慧成为我们队的主力，连续2年获得杭州市中学生健美操初中规定轻器械操一等奖。在原初三2班的陈雨薇成为绿城育华的一员，而沈上则代表杭外高中参加比赛，想不到再次见面竟是在健美操的舞台上。

这次经验让我认识到了，原来在每天封闭的校园学习生活之外，有这样一个世界——也许可以称之为“外面的世界”。我们现在的重点在学习，每天完成课堂任务，课后作业，埋头做题，准备考试，这是一种青春的热情，但并不是青春的全部。当我们只局限在一个点的时候，真的会忽略了一个更大的世界。

我曾对“健美操”的理解局限于运动和舞蹈的结合，锻炼身体、保持身材的方式。忽略了它事实上是一种运动与舞蹈的结合，既然是运动，每种运动都有它的精神，它超越表面的实质，我们在运动中感受一个动感的世界。既然是舞蹈，则是一种艺术的美感，女性的柔美以及细腻的内心，当我们随韵律舞动的时候，会发现在镜子面前的自己是多么美丽和自信。

因此当我们换个角度看事物的时候，往往能感受到不一样的东西，触摸到更大的世界。

青春是一种热情，也是一种态度，当我们找到合适的方式去释放自己的时候，不要错过，更不要掩藏真正的自己。

最后我们要特别感谢支持我们比赛的每一个位老师、每一位同学，谢谢你们！

（初三5班 健美操队员 沈祎敏）