修炼一颗中国心

我是在湖北荆州长江大学学习生活的小巴，也是全网拥有100多万粉丝的小巴（小小地骄傲一下）。虽然我拍了好些汉语视频，浏览量也不少，可是没想到2023年6月，因为一次演讲，一下子实力出圈，火爆当地。

毫不夸张地说，社交媒体好多人关注我，给我评论点赞，还有不断来采访我的主流媒体。走在校园，走在荆州的大街小巷，远远就有人跟我打招呼“小巴小巴”，好多人来和我挑战方言、普通话，这可难不倒我，我说得溜溜的；甚至远在巴基斯坦的妈妈都惊叹，我们的小巴成了真正的网络红人。

这还要从长江大学2023年毕业典礼暨学位授予仪式说起。那天我穿着硕士服，作为国际教育学院研究生代表发言。台下坐着我亲爱的领导、老师和同学们，他们微笑地看着我，我一时间热泪盈眶。想起第一次来到学校，第一次用“你好”打招呼，第一次尝试奇妙的中国菜，第一次在中国医院实习为我竖起大拇指的患者，第一次发布视频为我点赞的友善的陌生人……想说的太多，要感谢的太多，可话到嘴边变成“我此时此刻怀念刚来中国时，学校食堂阿姨热情地问我想吃么子”。这句话太欢乐了，当时台下一片会心的大笑，因为食堂阿姨说的是本地方言“想吃么子”（想吃什么），我现在那么自如流利地道地表达出来，足以见得我不仅是吃遍中国美食的爱好者，更是了不起的方言十级选手。

我接着饱含深情地大声说：“中国是一个团结伟大的国家，中华民族是一个令人尊敬的民族。中国的‘一带一路’倡议为巴基斯坦、为全世界发展贡献了智慧与力量。这让我无比钦佩，也促使我为讲好中国故事做更大的努力。大学这几年我也拍了很多的短视频，向很多人讲述中巴友谊的故事，也获得了更多人的认可。《论语》中有一句话‘近者悦，远者来’。我不仅来中国，还练出一颗中国心。中国是我的第二个家，可亲、可敬、可爱的第二个故乡。未来，我将继续在中国学习和发展，继续以一名外国人的见解与表达，为中华文化交流、为中国文化国际传播作出自己的贡献。我要让更多的人了解伟大的中国。”说完，台下掌声雷动，这掌声为我，更为中巴友谊而响起。

在巴基斯坦，我们常言，中巴友谊高过喜马拉雅山，甜过蜂蜜，中巴“铁杆”友谊早已融入两国人民的基因当中。现在中巴友好的接力棒已经传到我们年轻一代手里，我想用更有意义更时尚的话语来向全世界真诚传递。

我在中国的每一天都是充实有意义的，将来我会成为一名救死扶伤的医生，你想知道我是如何修炼出一颗中国心、一颗“医者仁心”，就请关注我的社交媒体吧，账号名就叫“小巴铁兄弟”！

（本文选自人民日报出版社《我与中国的美丽邂逅：2023年来华留学生征文大赛优秀作品集》）

I am Little Ba who studies and lives at Yangtze University in Jingzhou， Hubei Province. I am an internet celebrity with more than 1 million followers online （a little proud of myself）. Although I have made many Chinese language videos and received a lot of views， I did not expect that I suddenly broke out of the industry and became very popular locally because of a speech in June of this year （2023）.

It is no exaggeration to say that many people follow me on social media， comment and like me， and the mainstream media continue to interview me. When I walk on campus or in the streets of Jingzhou， people say hello to me “Little Ba， Little Ba” from afar. Many people come to challenge me with dialects and Mandarin. This is not a problem for me. I can speak them fluently; even my mother in Pakistan felt amazed that her Little Ba has become a real internet celebrity.

This starts with the 2023 graduation ceremony and degree awarding ceremony of Yangtze University. On that day， I wore a master’s uniform and spoke as a graduate student representative of the School of International Education. My dear leaders， teachers and classmates were sitting under the stage. They looked at me with smiles， and I burst into tears for a while. I remember the first time I came to school， the first time I said Nihao or hello， the first time I tried to taste the amazing Chinese food， the first time a patient gave me a thumbs-up during my internship in a Chinese hospital， and the first time I was Liked by a friendly stranger when posting a video in China... There are so many things I want to say thank you for， but the words turn into “I miss the time when I first came to China and the auntie in the school canteen enthusiastically asked me what I wanted to eat”. This sentence was so joyful， and there was a knowing laugh in the audience， because the canteen aunt said “Want to eat something” in the local dialect， and I can express it so freely and fluently now， which is enough to show that I am not only a lover of Chinese food， but also an amazing level 10 dialect speaker.

I then said loudly and affectionately， “China is a great and united country， and the Chinese nation is a respectable. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has contributed wisdom and strength to Pakistan and the development of the world， which makes me extremely moved. The admiration also prompts me to make greater efforts to tell Chinese stories well. In the past few years in college， I have also made a lot of short videos， telling many people the story of China-Pakistan friendship， and it has also been recognized by more and more people. There is a saying in The Analects of Confucius， ‘Those who are near are happy and those who are far away come’. Not only did I come to China， I also developed a Chinese heart. China is my second hometown which is amiable， respectable and lovely. In the future， I will continue to study and develop my career in China， and continue to use the opinions and expressions of a foreigner to make my own contributions to Chinese cultural exchanges and the international spread of Chinese culture. I want more people to understand the great China.” At the end， the audience burst into applause. This applause was for me and for the friendship between China and Pakistan.

In Pakistan， we often say that China-Pakistan friendship is higher than the Himalayas and sweeter than honey. The “as strong as iron” friendship between China and Pakistan has long been integrated into the genes of the two peoples. Now that the baton of China-Pakistan friendship has been passed on to the hands of our younger generations， I want to use more meaningful and fashionable words to sincerely convey it to the world.

Every day I spend in China is fruitful and meaningful. In the future， I will become a doctor who can save lives and heal the wounded. If you want to know how I cultivated a Chinese heart and a “benevolent heart of a doctor”， please follow my social media with the account name of “小巴铁兄弟”！