网上订票让我改变了博物馆老气横秋的印象。网上订票是免费的，每天限5000人次，到地方后直接刷身份证，二代身份证的功力初显。建议按照网上预订的时段到达，以免等候。其实不用预订应该也可以直接参观，因为有个未网上预订的服务窗口。馆内设施也是相当先进，服务不错。刚进门就四个身穿黑色大衣的服务员迎接你–身上的金属器件。虽说态度不错但是让人免不了人浮于事的遐想，真的需要这么多人吗？

到湖南博物馆参观的重点自然是轪（dai）侯家族和千年女尸，看了看，感触颇深。现在的人类与2000年前的祖先在某些方面几乎没有变化。袜子、手套、凉席、乐器、餐具、赌具等等。我们真进化了吗？现在的科技让人类可以战胜很多促使我们进化的因素。大脑的发达让其他部位停滞不前甚至退化。

此行的另外一个发现是长沙北站的铁路。如果你喜欢浏览地图，你可能会发现很多断头铁路。这次就现场看到了。现在仍然不明白的是为何在河西夜里能听到火车行进的声音。

手套

袜子，如图所示，当时的袜子是后开口的，需用绳子系住。

东汉时期的猪圈。

东汉时期的陶俑，颇有卡通特色。

长沙北站

由于之前使用的Dreamhost空间卖家不准备继续做主机生意了，经niechen推荐，购买了一年的Hawkhost主机的basic type。年付每月3.25美元，现在购买更有45%的优惠，也就是150RMB。3G空间，30G的月流量，无限域名绑定（这点最吸引人）。速度方面据说很快，但是ping值无论是在网通还是教育网（主要是电信出口）都比Dreamhost高出30到40ms左右。当然了，这种区别是可以忽略的。

搬家的过程中体验到了SSH下Wget命令的强大，简单说来就是此命令能让两个主机对拷，不需经过自己的电脑。速度当然是飞快，每秒4M以上。也可以在SSH下进行数据库的备份，转移和导入，不但速度快，并且不会遇到数据库兼容性的问题。我开始尝试用phpmyadmin和wordpress自带的数据库备份程序都不成功，总是出现导入错误。结果用SSH居然成功了。

SSH翻墙也不错，速度几乎和不挂代理一样，可以访问任何网站。30G的流量应该是够用了，只要不挂代理下BT，呵呵。需要注意的是，Hawkhost的SSH功能需要联系客服开通，客服会询问开通的目的是什么，我当时回答I just need it to transfer files from Dreamhost to Hawkhost. 一两分钟后就开通了，效率很高。 面对一个从别处转来的新客户，效率能不高吗？呵呵。

现在的一个问题是wordpress首页侧边栏和后台变成了英文界面，不知何故。 

下载地址：http://www.rayfile.com/files/e8761161-7f7d-11de-af10-0014221b798a/

1.饱食

旷日持久的腹泻源头就在于吃的太多。不少人大醉清醒之后向人（多是其妻子）带有哭诉性质地解释：我有什么办法，领导在座，能不喝吗？或曰，求人办事还不得让人家喝得痛快？诸如此类。 先不讲是否存在拿领导搪塞自己爱一醉方休的事实或者自己喝醉了别人就快乐这种一厢情愿的臆断，有一点大概是肯定的：有些时候你丧失了对自己的消化系统负责的能力。你说我能不吃女朋友她姥姥亲自端上来锅盖大小一碗（！）大多是由瘦肉构成的饺子和额外赠送的N块来自体重超标母鸡身上肉最肥厚区域的鸡块吗？

2.排山倒海

是的，我想你们都能理解此语境中本四字成语的含义。故且不表。

3.中药

Grace（也就是那位姥姥的外孙女啦）见我腹泻旷日持久，不见好转，特地送来了一瓶类似小号大力丸的中药，很符合她家经常用一些让我出乎意料的配方解决头疼发烧之类小毛病的风格。按我的理解，这瓶内含大量均一黑色球状颗粒的中药其作用与常见的健胃消食片相同，虽然Grace相争二者数十种的原料中有一两样不同。让我不可接受的是此药的用量是一次80粒，注意没有注明80粒左右，尽显制药业的严谨作风。不过我感觉这家药厂缺乏同情心：在腹部隐隐作痛的情况下集中注意力数完80个数是一种更糟糕的体验。显然我没有这个耐心，再加上我试吃的时候发现同时咽下多粒药丸对我这种每次只吃一粒pill，不管多小，的吃药菜鸟来说不啻是不可能完成的任务。你可别给我出让我一粒一粒慢慢来的馊主意！中药药效本来就慢，又在服药过程中设立层层障碍，和西药相比竞争力何在？难道把颗粒做小比做大简单或者成本更低？就我所知，在纳米材料合成领域答案大多是相反的。

当然以上绝大部分是调侃。个人认为中医是力图从根本上、总体上解决问题，而西医则是实用地、局部地治疗病患。或许可以从批判“头疼医头，脚疼医脚”窥见一斑。我一直认为这是具体问题具体分析的典范，现在才了解这可能和中医注重分析病因，找准病根而不盲目下结论有关。有人说中医理论不完备，不能解释很多生理现象。我只承认后者。不能解释很多现象不等于理论不完备，因为中医和事无巨细的西医相比本来就把注意力放在总体上。拿长处和短处相比是不公平也是不科学的。此外，不能解释不应该成为否认中医的原因，因为更重要的是疗效如何。人类总在追求解释一切的境界，但永远是在路上。我们不能解释某些化学反应机理，但是我们却能够运用这种反应得到我们想要的产物。我们得理解科学和迷信共同构成了人类对世界的解释，是此消彼长的关系。并不是不能解释的就不是科学，它们是当今科学发展的养料，等待着未来科学来破译。我认为理解中医是人类文明高度发达的标志，只有参透了中医才是真正理解了人体与自然的联系，也才有可能理解易经，一本以极精炼的语言囊括人类全部智慧的圣经。

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Imagine the following scene: you are perspiring profusely after a game of baseball and pick up a bottle of iced cola as usually facing various kinds of food and beverage. You make a choice; you probably chose the juiciest apple when there are only several sacks of nuts and a couple of apples, though what you actually desire is cola. You make a choice, too. The former could be called an active choice, which means you can choose freely what you want, and the latter refers to a passive one, which you have to make, similar to a forced work.

In the real world, most choices are passive ones while active choices are rare. It is well know that peasant workers, migratory laborers from countryside during slack seasons engaging in simple physical work with low payment, constitute a large portion of China’s work force. Among them, you can easily find some young people who should be at school as their peers. After graduating from high school and even primary school, some youngsters have to choose one between continuing their study in college and going to find a job to afford the tuition fee for their brothers or /and sisters due to the low income of their family. Unfortunately, most of them choose the latter one driven by their responsibility as the elder. While in relatively rich families in cities, many children are asked to learn to play piano and dance or something else which, their parents insisted stubbornly and expect confidently, will make them better than others and finally become the elite of society. In this case, children tend to choose the subject that they do not hate most.

There exists even worse situation: only nuts are in front of you and no apples at all. You certainly chose to continue thirst. Do not think this is merely an extreme assumption. Just think about refugees in Africa. They have no chance to make a choice between two pieces of evening dresses as nearly attracting as each other to attend a party, which may be annoying you; they can not choose whether to enter university or to find a decent job; they have no chance to choose between watching a Hollywood blockbuster in a modern cinema and enjoying a splendid game of super bowl in a magnificent stadium in Saturday night since all of such facilities have been ruined by lasting war. The only choice for them is to wait for limited relief; to wish the civil war come to end forever as soon as possible; to expect plague which took their families and friends away to be constrained earlier.

As a matter of fact, the active choice is rare in modern society. Most of better choices have been taken up by winners of ubiquitous competitions and people who came earlier and thus few cola and apples are left to you. Before two kinds of choices are differentiated clearly, to assert that the absence of choice is a circumstance that is very, very rare is arbitrary and superficial.

The term socialization, as defined by psychologists and sociologists, refers to and how to live within it. Since it is well acknowledged that children are the future and hope of mankind, how tomorrow’s masters are socialized today plays a decisive role in the destiny of society. It can not be denied that general education conditions have been improved profoundly as rapid development of society and some optimist assert that a better society will be undoubtedly constructed by our children. However, we will not be so confident of a brighter future when flaws are found, with a rational and careful observation, regarding socialization agents such as family, education and mass media.

In first place, parents have not done well enough to raise their children. In the modern society full of fierce competitions, parents devote much time and energy to their work than ever before. Thus little time has been shared with their children, exerting a negative impact on children’s mental health, which contributes profoundly to autism, a common problems of children today. It is beyond imagination that children without open heart and mind as well as lacking the ability to communicate with others will make our society better in the future. Moreover, the values of parents towards the society influence prominently on those of their children, but some parents fail to set a good model for children in terms of various values. This case is prominent in China. Some children of peasant workers, migratory laborers from countryside during slack seasons, give up the chance on their own initiative to continue study after graduating from senior and even junior middle school after finding their parents with knowledge of lower level can make money, though usually through simple physical work. The fallacy “studying is useless” is formed correspondingly, which is fatal to a better future of our society. On contrary, some children craving knowledge have no chance to receive formal education because of their poor family and insufficient help from government, especially in underdeveloped countries.

Furthermore, education has also bogged down in vital problems. On one hand, overemphasis has been put on students' intellectual development. Take myself as a typical example. Time for courses of music, arts and physical education were often taken up by main subjects such as math, Chinese, English, chemistry and so on at primary school. What’s more, things became even worse—those so called subsidiary subjects were thorough cancelled by high school because none of them is listed in college admission examinations. Students under high pressure probably will suffer from psychological problems, but they have no one to resort to. On the other hand, the sense of competition has been much emphasized while the importance of cooperation has been ignored. Only through cooperation among different countries, enterprises and individuals can many tough problems worldwide be effectively solved, such as greenhouse effects, depletion of ozone layer and species extinction.

In addition, mass media produces bad effects on growth of children. As to adults, mass media were regarded merely as sources of information and forms of entertainment. While when it comes to children, mass media serves more likely as moulders of personality, further affecting the values of Children directly or unconsciously because children tend to believe what mass media convey due to immature judging ability, and children are characterized by strong imitative powers.   Unfortunately, mass media, both of traditional readings and television programs and newly-emerged Internet are rife with violent and porn contents. There even exist the horrible websites teaching the young tricks for suicide. Online games are another poison. Many children are addicted to various games, which inevitably distracts them from study and normal life, and even result in mental problems. To extreme extent, sudden death of some children after playing games for several days and nights has been reported.

In summary, we have not fully prepared to teach our children how to build a better society as analyzed above. As children can be influenced by every aspect of a society, the whole society should pay more attention to the healthy growth and appropriate cultivation of our masters of tomorrow.

Generally speaking, there are two methods of education, students-centered and comprehensive. Which education method is effective has been a controversial issue for a long time. While the speaker asserts that only by the student-centered method designed to meet the needs and interests of each student will education be truly effective, I hold the opinion that it is not unfair and reasonable to underestimate or even ignore effects of the comprehensive method, and only two methods are combined coordinately can education achieve its genuine goals.

Admittedly, students will be more active in pursuit of knowledge in their interested fields. Edison is a typical example demonstrating that the failure to discovery of his gift regarding invention by his teachers and interest is the best teacher. His teachers not only failed to discover his gift regarding invention but also as deride him as an imbecile because Edison often ask strange questions such as “why is one added by one equal to two since there is still one cup when one cup of water is poured into another cup full of water?” and finally threw him out of school. Nonetheless, it is his strong interest in invention and guidance of his great mother rather than conventional education that make him one of noblest inventors in history.

However, thorough students-centered education strategies will exert prominent negative impacts on the effectiveness of education. First of all, it is quite and even impossible for school to meet EVERY student’s needs and interests. More teachers with specific knowledge and teaching equipments are indispensable for various needs and interests, which certainly demands huge investment in education by government and society. Additionally, some students’ interests do not last long—they may show interests in physics inspired by Einstein at beginning and turn to other subjects after finding physics is too abstract to understand. Frequent changes of their interests will merely lead to a scratchy of knowledge instead of mastery. Furthermore, to study what they are interested in may be used as a powerful excuse of evading difficulties. Few students will choose math, chemistry, physics and those needing long term devotion. By contrast, most students prefer the choice of arts, such as singing, drawing and dancing which are common forms of entertainment. The whole society will suffer from the unbalanced supply of graduates finally—scientific research will be bogged down due to the shortage of talents majoring in science and engineering. Moreover, overemphasizing interests of students will make them lack basic skills to work in modern complex society. Aside from knowledge, other abilities are require for one to do work well, such as clear expression of one’s ideas and cooperation with colleagues.

The destination which education should reach should include two parts. On one hand, to find out one’s unique talents and further to maximize them, which requires students-centered education. On the other hand, students should be granted with a full understanding of knowledge and necessary skills to make a living when stepping into society, involving comprehensive education. So truly effective education depends on a balance between individual needs and interest of students and compulsory curriculum provision by school.

Artists provide a vivacious and somewhat enchanting element to the seemingly monotonous and immutable life experiences and therefore guarantee a relatively intriguing life journey. To be more specific and concrete, it is no exaggeration to proclaim artists the booster and purifier of our society due to their very functions. On one hand, artists can help boost our taste in life. Let us take literary as an example. Literary, which includes novels, poems, essays, dramas, etc, may be the most effective approach to enhance and deepen our understanding of society because of theirs panoramic and meticulous portrayal along with incisive analysis, just as A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway do. The list goes on. On the other hand, art like paintings, drawings and music can embellish and decorate our life. We think of Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, Mazurkas by Chopin. By absorbing the essences of art, we unconsciously abandon the devil and undoubtedly artists play the role of purifier of our hearts and our society.

But meanwhile it is inappropriate for us to completely ignore the influences that critics can bring about. Firstly, the primary goal of critics is to discover excellent artists or those with great potential and to introduce them and their work to the public. In addition, arts, as a form to express passions, desires and emotions of artists, sometimes can not be exactly understood by average people, because others do not share what the artists feel during the creation process. While the comments on specific artworks from critics help people understand, appreciate and enjoy them. Although some may argue that everyone has his own understanding and attitude towards a masterpiece just as a maxim goes: there are a thousand of Hamlet in a thousand of people’s eyes, there is no denying that people will benefit when they are closer to authentic intention of the artists led by critics’comments.

Moreover, we should note that some outstanding talents possess more than one title such as Thomas Steams Eliot, a winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, was famous poet, dramatist and was also considered to be a great literacy critic of 20th century. People like this contribute to both arts and criticisms at same time.

In summary, for a complete and objective view, not only the artist but also the critic contribute to lasting values of a society.