Yuan Peng’s growth experience

In July 1967, Yuan Peng was born in a mountain village called Qianping in the beautiful Xiakou Scenic Area of ??Yichang City. The Yuan family is a typical scholarly family. His parents attached great importance to his enlightenment education. They taught him literacy and writing when he was just two years old, and erhu and music when he was a little older. Before graduating from elementary school, Yuan Peng read dozens of novels, including the Four Great Classics, and became a good writer. Beautiful calligraphy.

Due to the construction needs of the Gezhouba Project, Qianping Primary School where Yuan Peng studied was often relocated, and sometimes had to hold classes in farmers’ homes. Yuan Peng studied hard and his grades were always first in the class. Because of his excellent grades, he only attended primary school for four years and then skipped a grade to attend Shahe Middle School. Half a year later, he was admitted to Yichang No. 1 Middle School, which had just been upgraded to a key middle school in Hubei Province. Years later, whenever he recalled his study experience in No. 1 Middle School, Yuan Peng always lamented that quality education played a crucial role in his future growth.

Every day before dawn, Yuan Peng and the others began to run and do exercises together, and then began to read "Three Hundred Tang Poems" in the morning. After 4 pm, it is time for sports activities. Students play football, volleyball, and table tennis. The cultural and sports activities are carried out in a lively manner. There are also many specialty interest groups in the school. Yuan Peng participated in the calligraphy group and won the first prize in the city's youth calligraphy competition in junior high school. In his impression, head teachers at different stages such as Hou Rong, Sun Weizhen, and Chen Ye are all models of quality education. Every winter and summer vacation, the teacher always recommends students to read one or two good novels and then write reading notes; even in the most stressful period of the senior year, teacher Chen Ye still insisted on teaching the whole class a new song every week. Have two picnics every semester. "Compared with today's children, our academic pressure is much less." The unique educational style of No. 1 Middle School still remains fresh in Yuan Peng's memory.

In the 1984 college entrance examination, Yuan Peng passed the History Department of Wuhan Normal University (now Hubei University). One week after entering the school, the school was renamed Hubei University. At Hunan University, Yuan Peng's volleyball, calligraphy, singing and other talents were fully utilized and displayed. He became the main force of the department's volleyball team, a frequent winner of calligraphy competitions, and was honored as one of the "Top Ten Singers on Campus". He was a man of the hour in the school. In his spare time, Yuan Peng read a lot of books voraciously. He not only visited the library, but also bought a large pile of books on history, politics, literature, etc., from Freud's "The Analysis of Dreams" to Li Zehou's "The Philosophy of Beauty", etc. The beds in the dormitory were piled up into a small mountain. When he graduated from the undergraduate program in 1988, Yuan Peng was admitted to the master's degree program in American history in the History Department of East China Normal University with excellent results. At East China Normal University, Yuan Peng still maintained the habit of reading miscellaneous books and leisure books, and actively participated in various cultural and sports activities. When he graduated with a master's degree, his thesis "From Laissez-faire to State Intervention—The Transformation of American Social Thoughts in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century" received unanimous praise and became the outstanding thesis of the year.