The Rise of Small Hungary "Small Power" Hungary

When you go to a friend's house in Hungary, as long as you see a map of Hungary hanging on the wall, nine times out of ten it is an old map of Austria-Hungary before World War I. Hungary and Austria have a historical origin of "conquering the enemy without fighting". Although 1848 petofi's generation set off a vigorous and tragic revolution of independence against Austrian rule, it formed a dual empire with Austria ten years later, bringing Hungary into the most glorious era. Today, almost all the scenic spots in Budapest are left over from that period.

After the defeat of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed and the Austrian territory was safe, but Hungary became a scapegoat and was divided. The Trieste Treaty made Hungary lose two-thirds of its land and one-third of its population, and changed from a big country in Central Europe to a small country. At present, Hungary's land area and population are only 1% of that of China. It is amazing that such a small country has turned itself into a "big country" that people have to obey.

I often tell my friends: Don't underestimate Hungary, where there are 14 Nobel Prize winners! Physics, chemistry, medicine, economy, literature and equality are all involved. According to the proportion of population, Hungary is a well-deserved "Nobel Prize winner".

Vignal Yeno, a nuclear physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the theory of quantum mechanics. He made outstanding contributions to the creation of the atomic age during World War II and was the first nuclear reactor engineer in the world. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States held disarmament talks, and a new discipline, information economics, initiated by Harsany Ianos, a Hungarian-born American economist, helped President Nixon greatly, allowing Americans to analyze each other's political, economic and strategic situation with incomplete information.

At that time, Einstein, as precious as gold, said impatiently when he met a reporter who asked questions: "Ask my Hungarian!" " "This is because, in Einstein's laboratory, more than half of the scientists are from Hungary.

The inventor of the Rubik's Cube that everyone has played is Hungarian. From 65438 to 0974, Lubitz, a young man who graduated from architecture department of Budapest University of Science and Technology, wanted to study a new architectural structure. He connected 26 small squares in a special way, and each square had a certain degree of freedom. He was surprised to find that it was almost impossible to restore the original shape after rotating these small squares several times! This is the famous "Rubik's Cube Model". A year later, this young man with scientific mind and economic aura turned his invention into a toy and applied for a patent right. He became rich overnight, with both fame and fortune. Now he is the principal of his alma mater.

Hungarians invented countless things, such as ballpoint pens, matches, telephone exchanges, transformers, evaporators and TV picture tubes. The 1980s was the golden age of Hungarian inventions, with an average of more than 400 patented inventions every year. Therefore, Hungary is a veritable "great country of invention".

Hungary is also a "big book country". There are nearly 20,000 libraries in Hungary, and the number of people who study all the year round accounts for more than a quarter of the population. On average, each person buys 20 books and reads 1 1 book every year. According to statistics of UNESCO, Hungary is the third largest reading country in the world.

There are many readers and writers, let alone professional writers. Gongga Alpat, who was twice re-elected as President of People's Republic of China (PRC), not only wrote his own novels and plays, but also translated The Lord of the Rings. He and Javier, the Czech presidential writer, are known as the two generals of the system reform in Central Europe.

The cleverness of Hungarians stems from the unique identity of this nation. I often joke with local people: "You should thank Qin Shihuang, who built the Great Wall and let you Europeans." You know, Hungary is the only European country related to Asians. More than 1000 years ago, they were nomadic people galloping across the grasslands of Asia. I often sympathize with Hungarians, and even today, even historians can't tell where their roots are: who is their distant ancestor? Where on earth did it come from?

However, a sculpture exhibited in the Hungarian Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo taught me about this nation: under the hanging jungle, Hungarians showed a new invention that attracted worldwide attention-"Gong Boot" (Hungarian means "ball"). But this is not an ordinary ball, it is the first homogeneous object in the world with only one stable point and one unstable point. It looks like a tumbler, but Boots is completely homogeneous and has no built-in weight at the bottom. It symbolizes that Hungarians stand firm in the face of many disasters and express their ultimate yearning for harmony and balance. I think the roots of Hungarians are not in the geographical sense, but in the cultural sense; Not the past tense, but the continuous tense. Although rootless, they took root, and they constantly proved the value of existence through their own wisdom-rootless value, small country value.

After all, big countries are relatively small, and small countries are equally worthy of respect. There are many such "small powers" in the world.

(Excerpted from China Newsweek)