Master, literally translated as captain or master. So, for him, behan Ting, how to translate it more accurately?

I stood on the deck of the Hanchuan, looking at the railing, lost in thought. The sea breeze came head-on, fresh and humid, and in the distance, it was a mysterious sea; Nearby, seagulls are flying under my feet ...

Just now, in the conversation with the sailors, something stirred my heart. I left the cabin and hid my tears. But now, between the blue sky and the sea, I still can't calm down The waves of my thoughts chase the sea and run away. ...

Somehow, I suddenly digress, and suddenly remembered a poem I wrote to young readers more than 20 years ago, telling them what a sailor is.

I couldn't help laughing into tears. At that time, I was still very young, and I had hardly experienced ups and downs in the ocean of life. What do I know about seafarers? Young readers at that time should be in their thirties today, and they are afraid of having children of their own. After more than ten years of stormy waves, are they still as naive as when they were children? Naive, perhaps disappeared; But eager, eager. Then, let me tell them another story about sailors.

Tell the true story of a sailor, sailor, captain and captain? Right ...? Changes in Hamburg Port

Hamburg harbor is beautiful. On the shore, red and yellow buildings; In the harbor, the blue sea is rolling with silvery waves. ...

Hamburg port is very busy. Ships come and go every day, shuttling around the world, and the boom on the dock rises and falls from time to time ... but the pace of the workers is steady, and the Germans are famous for keeping order. /kloc-For more than 0/00 years, Hamburg Port has formed its own rhythm-orderly, step by step, simple, changeable and accurate ... just like a mature band playing familiar music.

On one occasion, however, Hamburg Port actually changed its normal rhythm: ports, docks, loading and unloading companies and service companies frequently came and went, and telephone calls continued; Shippers, agents, foremen, tallymen and workers are all very excited. Even a dozen dignified and confident old captains who happened to be moored in the harbor broke the routine and set out to sea in small boats.

What caused the commotion? Typhoon? A rough sea? Neither. It has been a port for more than 100 years, and no wind and waves can change its rhythm.

Strange to say, a ship changed the port of Hamburg. It is the ocean freighter "Hanchuan" of China Ocean Shipping Company Shanghai Branch.

The pier is crowded and pointed; The voices of "Hanchuan" and "Hanchuan" are endless. Some people also specially brought their wives and children to visit, saying that they wanted to see the world. Bright sunshine, colorful skirts, childlike laughter, all of a sudden, this ancient song of Hamburg Port 100 years glowed with youthful brilliance and played a strange and moving melody.

It was a Sunday in April of 1978.

The story begins in March. ...

On March 2 1, the "Hanchuan" received a telegram from the company on its way to Europe, and when it returned, it loaded the complete equipment of Tianjin Chemical Fiber Factory in Hamburg Port, which was badly needed in China!

But after arriving in Hong Kong, the port arranged some groceries. It turned out that the agent thought that China could not transport the equipment at all, because the equipment was extremely irregular and expensive, and many of them were super-long, super-high and overweight. Damage or missing of any component will lead to serious losses. Besides, by convention, ports always hand over expensive complete sets of equipment to Germany, which they think is the most efficient. Of course, these words are not straightforward. They said, "This equipment can't be installed on any ship. Hanchuan can carry other goods. "

However, the "Hanchuan" headed by behan Ting also decided to load! Reasons: First, there is an urgent need at home; Second, the transportation cost of complete sets of equipment is high; Third, what you foreigners can do, we China people can do, so why look down on people! Of course, this statement does not say directly, but says: "thank you for your kindness, yours, but we can take it away." We can do it. "

Come on, it's not as simple as criticizing China's "capitalist roader". Just put on the armband, grab the microphone and shout, whoever has the biggest hat and the highest rank will win. This is an international port, and you are facing experts. Open your mouth to know how much weight you have, and empty talk will only lead to laughter. Besides, this is navigation and science. The sea is not a "capitalist roader" deprived of all power. The sea wants to talk. If it is a bit unrealistic and unscientific, you will be punished! It will sink your boat and bury you in the belly of the fish. Therefore, the word "line" is a thousand pounds, and you can't make any jokes!

Behan Ting is a famous old captain. He insists on "OK", and foreigners should also weigh it. So he reached out and said, "Bring it!" "What?" "stowage map." Behan ting smiled and spread out the drawings. The expert was stunned at first sight and couldn't help but blurt out "Good!"

What a detailed stowage map it is! The picture is full of dense figures and numbers, and there are thousands of parts, not only with their own loading parts, but also with their sizes, weights, volumes and labels.

But how many pieces of deck cargo are above the cabin and off the ship's rail? Isn't that safe? ……

Who knows, behan Ting smiled and told the best and worst calculation figures of the stability in entering the port, leaving the port and sailing, and also analyzed the climate along the way in April: how about the English Channel and the Gibraltar Strait; Winter storms in the Bay of Biscay and the North Atlantic have passed, and so has the Mediterranean. Although there is an average of six or seven winds in the Indian Ocean for a long time, the season of southwest monsoon has not yet begun ... There is no storm gap along the way, which is the golden season for sailing in a year. Of course, the worst may happen, that is, south of the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean and east of 60 degrees east longitude, the southwest monsoon will start ahead of schedule, and there may be a strong wind of 89, which does not matter. A series of technical measures can be taken, such as changing the course, changing the speed, reducing the frontal windward and driving slowly.

What a good behavior! This is not a stowage plan and its notes, this is just a scientific report! The German couldn't help but put out his hand and patted behan Ting on the shoulder and said, "Congratulations on having a good first mate." Behan bowed politely: "Thank you."

What the Germans didn't expect was that this stowage map had already exceeded the business scope of the first mate. It was the result of twenty-seven sleepless nights of the captain, political commissar, chief mate and all technical forces. It is they who run to the dock with a ruler every day during unloading, measure the goods one by one, and work out the most reasonable stowage plan after repeated accounting and sorting according to the different shapes, structures and loads of various parts of the cabin deck.

In that year, the whole ship pasted the layout of cargo hold and deck (1: 100) on the wooden board, scaled down the goods into cardboard models and assembled them repeatedly. This special "chess" has been played hundreds of times. ...

The agent didn't know, but he was persuaded by science and began to pretend.

Giatt, the first foreman, is an expert with decades of service experience. He has a moustache and is short and smart. He is very capable and looks down on China people. The first mate of Hanchuan can't command him at all.

When loading the third cabin, Giatt took out two large pieces from the stowage plan without authorization. When Behantin rushed to the scene to argue with him after receiving the report, the foreman casually patted his chest and said, "I'm sure!" "

Behan Pavilion repeatedly discouraged: "You will be passive."

"I've never been passive," Giatt said, putting up a moustache.

"If you can't install it in the end, you will reinstall it, and you will be responsible for all the losses caused by the delay."

"That's natural." Giat said.

One day passed, two days passed, and on the third day, Giart came to behan Pavilion sweating profusely: Sure enough, a large piece of 16 meter could not be put down, the hatch cover could not be closed, and it was impossible to sail without closing the hatch cover, not to mention that the hatch cover had already planned to load other goods. Behan Ting has made a promise, so the proud foreman is stuck! The branch mobilized the technical force of the whole ship, modified some stowage, and finally sawed off a corner of a large packing wooden box with the cooperation of Qi Xin, a Chinese and German worker, and used four forklifts to obliquely shovel it in to cover the hatch cover tightly. All the workers present clapped their hands. Giatt, with a moustache, spread out his hands and shrugged and said, "It's amazing, these goods are simply customized according to the size of your cabin!" Since then, he has been extremely polite to him, and the loading capacity of the workers is slightly different. He immediately corrected and said, "No, no, please follow the stowage plan!" "

The goods have been shipped. The agent and others went aboard to congratulate each other and said with one voice, "We experienced old German sailors can't even tie this kind of goods well, not to mention that most your sailors are novices. It's terrible to break such a delicate commodity. Your company made a lot of money from this shipment, and the freight alone has more than two million yuan in foreign exchange. It is worthwhile to spend a few bundle fees. "

However, thanks to the concern of friends, Hanchuan decided to tie it himself: First, it is convenient for inspection on the way; Second, China's ocean-going industry has developed rapidly, which is just to temper seafarers; Third, the cost of bundling is tens of thousands of marks, which the crew can't afford. So a binding battle began.

Some comrades climbed into a six-meter-high circular boiler with more than 50 meters of wire rope on their backs: some climbed under the goods, bent over to install Clem, and some transported bundled materials back and forth between the goods that were full and difficult to walk sideways; Some use ink lines to write down the location of the goods one by one, so as to check whether there is any displacement at any time during the storm ... Don't hum if your hands are swollen; People are tired and thin and refuse to rest; Little Pam knocked out his front teeth. All this is to put foreign exchange into the "four modernizations" piggy bank!

Before binding, the inspector repeatedly threatened not to issue a certificate if the binding was unqualified. On the first day, captain Bei accompanied him to check, and * * * found out several problems. He shook his head and ignored it. However, from the next day, he couldn't find anything wrong. On the third day, he opened the inspection certificate before finishing the binding, claiming that he didn't have to come to the ship again, because Captain Bei's requirements were stricter than his. He said: "This method will not cause problems when the ship rocks at sea for 30 to 40 degrees. I believe my eyes. "

In this way, "Hanchuan" caused the variation of Hamburg Port and won honor for our sailors and our motherland.

So it was the brightest Sunday in April. Amid the cheers of women and children, the boats were full and circled around the Hanchuan, in order to let the experts record the various angles of the deck stowage of the Hanchuan. They kept sending out admiring voices, as if fascinated audiences were cheering for their beloved artists on the stage.

Behan Ting, the captain of Hanchuan, which caused such a sensation, not only did not make frequent curtain calls, but even did not show his face. He hid in the engine room sweating like a pig, and discussed with the political commissar and the first mate how to refuse newspaper and TV reporters who had to take pictures on board.

"When I think about it today, it's silly to refuse people to give us free publicity." Behan smiled and said to me, "But at that time, my mind was not liberated! Of course, when we left Hong Kong, they still took photos from the radar station. They said in the newspaper,' This is the first time in Hamburg 100 years ...' "

He waved and refused to say those compliments, not at all. Children from heather

People say that people engaged in ocean voyage should be as knowledgeable as the sea, and they should be both navigators, scientists and artists. ...

When I didn't see behan Ting, I had guessed his style. After the meeting, I think he-like, also don't like. For example, he really smells like a scientist. He speaks according to the facts, as accurate as a computer and as sensitive as mercury. I don't like it. Such a small person, wearing a torn shirt and a pair of shorts (it is said that he will wear them until it snows), treats people politely and doesn't look like a dignified captain!

I know that he has a good education, is a student of the navigation department of the old Jiaotong University, and is one of the captains of our earliest ocean-going ships. He has rich navigation knowledge and can speak fluent English, but how and why did he go to sea?

"I was born in Shanghai and grew up in heather. Heather, do you know? "

Heather? I know. Before liberation, it was a relatively poor business district in Shanghai. There are many vendors and the culture is relatively backward ... With his narrative, I remembered the muddy streets there; Narrow shops; Dirty white looks and ragged rickshaws and bitterness? Force ...

"I am the youngest, and my brothers and sisters have only been in primary school for one or two years. Later, my brother worked, and he desperately wanted me to go to school. My mother is very reluctant to do this. After primary school, heather will be terrible, and I have to go to middle school! Relatives and friends have never heard of it. But my brother insisted that he later worked in a research institute and met scientists. He believes that science and culture will bring people light. He must let me go to middle school. He must go to the famous Shanghai Middle School. "

In this way, this thin and clever child from heather stepped into the gate of middle school. Shanghai middle school was a famous school at that time, and most of the students who came to school were scholars and celebrities' children. These children have a good learning foundation and high cultural literacy. Beckham Hanting was surprised to see some students write such beautiful compositions with a stroke of a pen, and the teacher was still reading aloud in class. He envies those students who always score 120 in math and get the first place in the exam every year. But he, behan Ting, was surprised and not discouraged; Envy without jealousy. Because my brother told him: there are always people around who need to catch up, just like there are always distant road signs on the road. It will always call you to remind you that people have potential and the potential to surprise themselves! So, Beckham chased after him step by step, and then he simply ran away.

In high school, the school is divided into science and engineering and business. Mother wants her youngest son to study business! The business departments of Shanghai middle schools are in great demand in major writing rooms. A child from heather can sit in any office, which is unimaginable happiness! Because that means food and clothes.

However, Beckham Hanting once again went against his mother's wishes and resolutely chose science. Because the faster you run, the broader your vision, and knowledge gives people confidence and strength. Why do planes fly and trains run? Why did Watt pursue the steam engine and Columbus seek the new continent? Why is Liszt's revolutionary elegy so sad? Chekhov's Seagull is suffocating; But Gorky's mother is so powerful ... It turns out that in addition to bosses and apprentices, predators and minions, there is another kind of people in the world: such people constantly pursue light, get rid of ignorance, put colorful wings on life and create miracles for history. ...

The world is getting better and better because of such people, and human beings have opened the distance with lower animals because of such creative workers. How little Beckham Hanting hopes to be such a person! Since there is another realm in life, he will stubbornly step on it and put all his eggs in one basket there. ...

Yes, life and feelings have different realms, and every step of climbing requires sweat, effort and strength. How much David Beckham hated his English teacher at that time. He recites a lesson every week (not reading, but reciting). Then one year, you have to recite fifty-two lessons. I am really dizzy. But a year, two years and three years later, when he can read Shakespeare and Whitman directly, what a magnificent world life is presented to him. ...

Now, when he can express the affection of China people to foreign friends in various ports in fluent English and French, he talks with Germans about Goethe, Beethoven and Schumann. Talking with Russians about Chekhov, Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky; Talk to the English about Byron and Shakespeare; Talking with Italians about Bagnini ... How happy and satisfied this child from Heather was when he saw the foreigner's face change from indifference to dignity and from dignity to admiration. At this time, how grateful he is to his teacher, and how much he misses the hard years of tenacious climbing! A sailor who vomited blood

Suvorov, a famous Russian soldier, famously said, "A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier." Our captain, behan Ting, has a great principle of both internal and external cultivation: "A captain without sailors is not a captain."

Behan respects and understands sailors. He also started his life at sea as a sailor. During his internship on a small pump boat in the northeast, he not only experienced the cold of MINUS 40 degrees in the northeast; He also deeply felt the bitterness and poverty of the great motherland ...

Shanghai is approaching liberation, and more than 0/00 students in the Department of Navigation/KLOC are rapidly divided: the rich and powerful have all gone to the United States, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province. One thing that most poor students are most concerned about in the rumble of guns is to run to the Bund to see if there is a boat. What would they do without a boat!

And the familiar Bund with many masts is really silent. The turbulent water reflected the empty blue sky, and the Kuomintang forced all ships to sail to transport "evacuated" personnel and materials, sinking all the ships that could not run.

There is nothing left, only a devastating disaster. ...