When I was young, one day my mum brought several apples of different colors and sizes. Both my two younger brothers and I wanted the biggest one. My mum picked up the biggest apple and said to us, “It is good to get the biggest apple. Now let’s start a competition. I will divide the lawn in front of our house into three parts, each of you responsible for one respectively. Who could prune his own share of lawn the best and the quickest will be rewarded with the biggest apple.” I won the apple finally.
小时候，有一天妈妈拿来几个苹果，红红绿绿，大小各不同。我和两个弟弟争着要大的， 妈妈把那个最大最红的苹果举在手中对我们说：“谁都想得到这个苹果，很好。现在，让我们来比赛，我把门前的草坪分成三块，你们一人一块负责修剪好，谁干得最快最好，谁就有权得到它。”我赢得了那个最大的苹果。

I feel very grateful to my mum because she taught me a very basic but significant wisdom: If you want to get the best, you must compete to be the No.1. She has been teaching us in this way and we followed her advice all the time. At my home, I needed to compete for what I wanted. It is quite fair because what and how much you want should be acquired with equivalent effort and cost.
我非常感谢母亲，她让我明白了一个最简单也最重要的道理：要想得到最好的，就必须努力争第一。她一直都是这样教育我们，也是这样做的。在我们家里，你想要什么好东西都要通过比赛来赢得。这很公平，你想要什么，想要多少，就必须为此付出多少努力和代价。

The hand rocking the cradle is the one promoting the world. Mother is the first teacher of children, who can teach them to tell the first lie or teach them to be an honest and No.1-pursuing person.
推动摇篮的手，就是推动世界的手。母亲是孩子的第一任教师，你可以教他说第一句谎言，也可以教他做一个诚实的、永远努力争第一的人。