Liu Xia’s personal experience

The towering mountains bear witness to her hardships; the three-foot podium bears in mind her teacher’s love. At the end of February, the reporter went to Huating County to follow her footsteps.

She is just like her own mother

These days, the news that "Teacher Liu Xia went to Beijing to receive the award" spread like wildfire in Yaoya Primary School, Majia Town, Huating County. Wang Yulong, a first-grade student under 7 years old, held his chin with his hands and muttered: "I miss Teacher Liu very much and hope she will come back soon." His deskmate Wang Xue said: "Teacher Liu used red pandas, birds, and puppies to Pictures teach us addition and subtraction, and math class is fun.”

The fifth-grade students at Yaoya Primary School changed their timidity from the children in the mountains and spoke to reporters in Mandarin! .

Zhu Miaojuan, who is thin and thin, lives in Guanzi Mountain and has to walk two hours back and forth on the mountain road. Due to time constraints, she does not go home for lunch. "Every time I was eating cold steamed buns in the classroom, Teacher Liu would ask me to go to her room and bring me a bowl of steaming boiling water. I felt like she was like my own mother."

Tianxia. It rained, and the road from Li Hongxing's home to school turned into mud. Once, he slipped and the dry food he was carrying fell into the mud ditch at the foot of the mountain. During lunch, his stomach growled with hunger. "Unexpectedly, the attentive Teacher Liu found out and made a bowl of noodles for me to eat. I think Teacher Liu is so kind!

Classmate Hu Rui said: "One day, I caught a cold and was lying at home to rest. , Teacher Liu came to my door after school in the afternoon to give me extra lessons. "

Yang Yanan opened her weekly diary and showed the reporter "Our Class Teacher" she wrote: "The class teacher, Teacher Liu, is tall and tall, with a pair of bright eyes under her curved eyebrows, shining with wisdom. Sometimes, Exuding dignity and sometimes affability. We feel so happy bathing in her gaze! There is a clever mouth under her high nose, and she happens to be able to speak fluent Mandarin, sometimes high-pitched, sometimes sonorous, and sometimes tactful. Under her guidance, we understand the charm of the Chinese language more and more deeply..."

No wonder these children, although they are in mountainous areas, are working very hard to speak Mandarin. Before 5 p.m. , Yaoya Primary School in the deep ditch has no shadow of the sun, the mountain wind is blowing, and the melted mud in the yard is covered with hard ice crust. Teacher Cheng Fengying said: "The weather in the mountains was cold. Last year. The winter was so cold that Teacher Liu caught a cold and developed chickenpox. Her hands and arms were covered with chickenpox. The pain was so severe that she could not hold pens, chalk, or cook. "But she paid close attention to her students' studies. She neither asked for leave nor was hospitalized. She made instant noodles every day and insisted on teaching students.

Teacher Cheng sighed: "Liu Xia is a substitute teacher. The salary is only 220 yuan. ”

She pondered, explored and innovated a set of duplex education experience

At the end of February, the land in Sichuan District of Huating County had thawed, and Canggou, located deep in Guanshan Mountain in Majia Town, The village is still covered with ice and snow. Liu Xia has stayed in this desolate and remote Canggou Primary School for 21 years.

On the morning of February 29, we came to this lonely Canggou Junior Primary School. The school has two brick-and-wood structure bungalows, which are considered the most "luxurious" buildings in the mountains.

"This is a new school building invested and built by the county government in 1998. The old school building leaked rain in summer and was flooded with wind in winter. , the windows don’t even have glass. " said Lan Yukun, director of the Education Committee of Maxia School District.

There is a rusty iron lock hanging on the classroom door. Xu Junmin, a cadre of Bao Village in Maxia Town, explained that due to the remoteness and closure of Canggou Village, in 2006 In the autumn of that year, the county and town implemented immigration relocation, and Canggou Primary School was also moved to Liudian Primary School. Teacher Liu Xia was transferred to Liudian Primary School and Yaoya Primary School successively.

Canggou Primary School still has teachers Liu Xia and The traces left by the children. In a corner of the campus, the larch she planted has grown to three or four meters high, and the fence wall made of the acid thorns she cut separated the school from the cottage through the glass windows and classroom walls. There are colorful stickers. What's strange is that there are blackboards in the front and back of the classroom. Two ancient poems by Li Bai, "Gift to Wang Lun" and "Sitting Alone on Jingting Mountain" are posted on cards on one side, and mathematical calculations are written in chalk on the other side. p>

Lan Yukun said: “This is a typical duplex education. "It turns out that when Teacher Liu was in class, he first taught ancient poems in the Chinese language class to the third and fourth grade students, and asked the students to memorize them and use flash cards to paste the ancient poems on the blackboard. Then he taught math class to the second grade students and also used 4 lines of ancient poems. She taught the second grade students 4×7 multiplication and 7+7 addition in 7 words; while letting the second grade students practice calculations, she also taught the first grade students the alphabet; and then went back to check the ancient poems learned by the third and fourth grade students. She was busy. This kind of multi-level education is very difficult. She has to spend a lot of time carefully preparing lessons and making teaching aids. Lan Yukun once listened to one of her classes and used it. With more than 70 teaching aids, I was worried that she would get confused at first, but she used them in different grades in an orderly manner.

Liu Xia not only attended the Chinese correspondence class at Longdong College at her own expense, but also spent many years pondering, exploring, and innovating. The Hong Kong Save the Children Foundation cooperated with Lanzhou University to implement the "Rural Education Research Project" and set up a test site in Canggou Primary School. Professors Sun Dongmei and Zeng Tao of Lanzhou University spoke highly of Teacher Liu Xia's duplex education.

In August 2002, Liu Xia was rated as an outstanding duplex education teacher by the Duplex Teaching Professional Committee of the China Education Society. In May 2003, her paper "Turning into Spring Mud to Protect Flowers" won the first prize at the International Symposium on Duplex Teaching of the China Education Society. award.

Next door to the classroom was the room where Liu Xia lived on campus. According to Zhang Jianguo, the village secretary, the winter in the mountains is very cold. Teacher Liu Xia uses the stove to keep warm and does not have much coal, so she has to burn some firewood. However, the firewood is wet in the snow and the smoke is very strong when it is lit. It makes Teacher Liu shed tears and the students constantly choke. cough. Liu Xia heated up the earthen kang in the dormitory and asked the students to sit in a circle on the kang and attend class. When it rains or snows heavily, Teacher Liu will let the students from far away live on the big kang in the school, and then make a big pot of hot potato noodle slices for the students.

Under the eaves of Canggou Primary School, there is a gray bell hanging with a tongue made of half an iron bar. It directs the school to start, end and end classes. The mountain breeze blows, and the bells ring faintly, as if they are recalling the teacher who beat the bells, and the children who were studying...

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Canggou Primary School is located in the center of the village halfway up the mountain. Farmers live scattered in Xiazhuang at the foot of the mountain, Zhongzhuang nearby, and Damatan, Xiaomatan, and Yanwan at the top of the mountain.

Village secretary Zhang Jianguo pointed to the top of the mountain and said: "Liu Xia's home is on Xiaomatan at the top of the mountain, seven or eight miles away from the school."

It is said to be seven or eight miles away. But the slope is steep and the road is dangerous, with dense trees and overgrown weeds. It took us more than two hours to walk. Zhang Jianguo told us along the way that there were wild beasts deep in the mountains and forests. One year, leopards ate all the villagers’ calves, and wild boars also appeared in groups. Liu Xia was afraid that her children would have accidents on the road, so she always sent them to a safe place after school every day. The weather in the mountains can change at any time, with strong winds, heavy rain, and heavy snow often blowing. Some sections of the road are very dangerous. Liu Xia escorts the children after school. For those who are timid and weak, it is not possible to lead them, but must be carried on their backs. .

At the mountain intersection called Damatan, Lan Yukun said that this is the gathering point for Liu Xia and the children on the top of the mountain. When she goes to school early in the morning, if Liu Xia comes down early, she will put a stone at the intersection to mark the intersection, and the children will not wait for her; if there is no stone, the children will wait for a while, and Liu Xia will come from Xiaomatan and go to school with the children. .

It is too difficult for children in the mountains to go to school. There is no village primary school, so they have to go to Liudian and Majia at the foot of the mountain. Parents have to rent a house to accompany their children to study. Not only is the cost high, but it also delays planting crops. There are no cars, electricity, or telephones in the mountains. Substitute teachers have to buy rice, oil and other daily necessities from the back of the mountain. When the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, they can't get in or out. Substitute teachers from outside can't stand the hardship here, so they are frequently replaced. I stayed for one semester and then left. In 1985, Liu Xia failed to graduate from high school by a few points. She was still preparing to retake the college entrance examination. At that time, she was the only high school student in Murakami. After the mobilization of the old party secretary Liu Beiping and her family, Liu Xia stayed in the village primary school and became a substitute teacher. .

The people in Canggou Village remember Liu Xia’s true love for her children. For sisters Chen Maomao and Chen Doudou, their mother ran away when they were 5 years old, and their father had to work in the fields. Liu Xia said to their father: "Let Maomao and Doudou come to school. I will take care of them. You don't have to worry about it." Liu Xia took them to school, cooked food, combed their hair, and told them stories. He is very affectionate towards Liu Xia and often sits on Liu Xia's lap and talks about this and that.

After her mother died in childbirth, 8-year-old Li Xiaojuan took care of her sister at home. After Liu Xia found out, she visited many times to mobilize Li Xiaojuan to go to school and exempted her tuition with the support of the school district. However, her father refused because Li Xiaojuan had no one to take care of her sister. Liu Xia had no choice but to bring Li Xiaojuan's 4-year-old sister to school and let her sit and play next to her while Li Xiaojuan attended class. Later, Li Xiaojuan's father went out to work and took Li Xiaojuan away. Liu Xia asked around and spent 100 yuan to rent a car and go to Ankou Town, 50 kilometers away, to look for her.

Students from Canggou Village who have been transferred to Liudian Primary School often ask where Teacher Liu Xia has been transferred. They can never forget that when it rained, Teacher Liu gave them umbrellas, but they themselves got wet. I couldn’t forget that every time Teacher Liu came back from the mountain, he would always buy them pencils, books, notebooks and candies...

The people in Canggou Village respected Liu Xia very much. Murakami pulls a cart of coal to the school every year; when he meets Liu Xia on the road, he helps her carry her things; some invite Teacher Liu to their home for a meal of potato dumplings, some bring a bunch of vegetables and a few eggs; Picking up some firewood from the mountains and delivering it to school... the people in the mountains used this simplest way to express their respect and gratitude to Liu Xia.

At noon, the warm sun melted the ice and snow, and the clay road was soaked in snow and turned into mud. Some sections of the road became "mud rivers." And on this mountain road, Liu Xia has been running for 21 years.

Gao Xiaoqiang, the principal of Liudian Primary School, told reporters: "One spring semester, our school bought textbooks for Canggou Primary School. When Liu Xia came to pick up the textbooks, she felt like she had rolled in mud. Not only did her pants and clothes There was mud all over her face, even her hair. I joked that she looked embarrassed, but she didn’t care. She was just anxious to get her textbooks back because she was the only one in the school and no one would look after her when she left.

Liu Xia's monthly salary has increased from 27.5 yuan, 42.5 yuan, 77.5 yuan, and 170 yuan to the current 220 yuan. In addition to pocket money and buying some medicine for her children, she has to rely on her family for food and drink. The 72-year-old father said: “My family often gives her some potatoes, noodles, oil and vegetables.

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Liu Xia wears shabby and outdated clothes and uses one or two yuan of stick oil, but every time she goes to the county town, she never forgets to buy some candies, snacks and study materials for the students, and also I specifically asked my sister Liu Fei for some old clothes to give to students from poorer families. My sister Liu Fei said: "My sister cares too much about her students. Her son Haohao sometimes comes to complain to me, saying that my mother doesn't care. I only gave him one bubble gum because I loved him, but I gave two bubble gum to other students. "

On March 1, Liu Xia returned from Beijing to receive the award, and the Gansu Provincial Women's Federation held a welcome party to greet her. The slim Liu Xia was wearing a brand new red woolen top and brown trousers. Zhou Ailian, chairman of the Huating County Women's Federation She said that Liu Xia didn’t have any decent clothes, so this set of clothes was bought for her by the County Women’s Federation.

Liu Xia has been to Pingliang as far away as possible. This is her first time in Beijing, facing flowers and applause. Faced with so many eager greetings, she felt like a dream. She was arranged to stay in a Beijing hotel, and she felt embarrassed and uneasy in the face of sumptuous banquets and luxurious hotels. She told reporters: "I am used to the simple life of a mountain school. , I really don’t know how to eat or live in this big city. ”

Reporters from the provincial capital media asked her: “The salary of substitute teachers is so low and the conditions of schools in mountainous areas are so poor. Why are you still willing to stay there for 23 years?” ”

Liu Xia replied calmly: “I can give up anything, but I can never give up the children in the mountains. I can’t let them suffer from the illiterateness of their parents anymore. I stick to the schools in the mountains. I have no regrets.” . "

Liu Xia's marriage is an unspeakable issue, but the reporter still touched on this "minefield." Liu Xia said: "I have been divorced for many years and I have been raising my son alone. My son has finally grown up and is sensible. . "

The past is hard to recall. The mountains are often shrouded in clouds and mist. When Liu Xia was alone, looking at the mist that could not be dispelled, she felt unspeakable loneliness and isolation in her heart. Her marriage was broken, It brought a heavy blow to Liu Xia's spirit. How many times did she wake up crying in her dreams; how many times did she cry silently while looking at her sleeping child in the middle of the night; her memory was once blurred and her hair grew in fistfuls. Dropped.

Liu Xia said: “After my son’s father left, I almost cried all my tears, but what’s the use of crying? Do you want my son and students to imitate me and cry when they encounter any problems? "The tempering of life has made her become enlightened and perseverant. What the students see every day is Teacher Liu who is devoted to her work and standing on the podium in high spirits.

"In life, everyone Everyone has their own shining points. I teach the children in the mountains the most basic knowledge and the basic common sense to get out of the mountains, so that they will not repeat the fate of their parents. I feel satisfied. ”

It is because of Liu Xia that the lonely mountains have the sound of children reading; because of her, the children in the mountains who could not even write their own names in the past can not only write letters, but also Paste the Spring Festival couplets she wrote on the door of her house; it is because of her that people in the mountains have hope for a better life.