Overview of Tan Zhiping

The 24-year-old has a completely different life experience from girls of the same age -

The crazy mother’s instructions before committing suicide allowed her, who had never walked out of the mountains, to realize her dream of college. Buried in the bottom of my heart;

From a junior high school student to a farmer, a "housewife" in a farmhouse, a working girl, and then to a store in a provincial capital, I worked as a supermarket owner, a technical secondary school student, and a restaurant owner, until I took on a life with severe rheumatism. Her father and her seriously ill stepmother went to Hubei Vocational School...

In the past eight years, she has trudged on eight different rugged mountain roads in her life, never getting discouraged.

She is Tan Zhiping, a female college student from Hubei Vocational College who was just elected as one of Xiaogan's "Top Ten Filial Sons" this month.

16 years old——

Her mother was seriously ill, so she dropped out of school to work in farming to support her poor family

In September 1999, just as the autumn school started, Changyang Tan Zhiping, a 16-year-old Tujia girl from Xiakou Village, Ziqiu Town, secretly hid her high school admission notice. Tan Zhiping decided to drop out of school and work in farming because she had to face the helpless reality at home: her mother suffered from intermittent mental illness, which broke out in spring and autumn. When she was ill, she often smashed things in the house and hurt people everywhere. To treat her mother, the family was already in trouble, and her father went to the coal mine all year round. Pulling coal, he contracted severe rheumatism; his 11-year-old sister was still in elementary school; before the high school entrance examination, the house at home collapsed and needed to be rebuilt...

My father refused to let Tan Zhiping drop out of school no matter what. , but the stubborn Tan Zhiping has made up his mind to stay at home and farm. As autumn harvests and spring sows, winter turns to spring, and the family works together. With the help of relatives and friends, the Tan family's simple new house is finally built.

In August of the following year, my mother relapsed and ran out of the house barefoot. The condition was in remission, and the mother, who had regained consciousness, looked at the family's situation and felt guilty.

September 9, 2000, is a day that Tan Zhiping will never forget. That night, the mother pulled her daughter to her side and said: "My mother's illness has harmed the whole family and made it impossible for you to study. You have to strive for success in the future and find a way to go back to school. It would be best if you can study medicine..."

The next day, my mother disappeared from home. Two days later, villagers found her body by a deep pool more than 30 kilometers away from her home.

The pain of losing her mother almost destroyed Tan Zhiping, but she knew that she could not collapse and her family must survive. In order to change the family situation, she planted vegetables and other cash crops in the fields, fed four pigs at once, cut more than 50 kilograms of pigweed from the mountains a day, washed, cooked, and sent her sister to school. Busy over there.

In order to earn money to support her family, she was introduced to work in a private department store on the edge of National Highway 318 in Changyang County. Every month, she would write a long letter to her father and sister.

Before the Spring Festival in 2002, Tan Zhiping, who had been working away from home for more than eight months, returned home. She stood in front of her mother’s grave and asked the vast distant mountains: Where is my university?

19 years old——

Working hard to run a small supermarket and getting rid of poverty in one fell swoop

On the eighth day of the first lunar month in 2002, there was heavy snow outside and a roaring fire in the woodshed. Tan Zhiping and his father sat opposite each other. "Dad, don't you have friends in the provincial capital? I want to be my own boss and try to open a small supermarket in Wuhan..." The father thought over and over again. His daughter has learned a lot after working for nearly a year. He should support hard-working and courageous people. The daughter who wants to dare to have a try.

In early spring and February, the father and daughter came to Wuhan with more than two years of family savings and a loan amounting to 25,000 yuan per month. Ten days later, with the help of my father's friends, an unnamed small department store opened near Hankou Railway Station.

Comparing purchases with three others, handling the goods himself, opening the door early and finishing work late...

Tan Zhiping devoted himself wholeheartedly to the operation of the store. One month later, the father and daughter took stock of their accounts, and a figure that made them extremely excited appeared on the account—a profit of 2,086 yuan.

Since the family still has fields to cultivate and his sister is still studying, his father Tan Dezhu decided to return to Changyang, leaving Tan Zhiping to manage it alone. In this way, 19-year-old Tan Zhiping began her career as a female boss in this unfamiliar metropolis.

Talking about those years, Tan Zhiping did not feel that it was very painful, but a small animal impressed her deeply.

Not long after her father left, Tan Zhiping saw a stray Pekingese squatting in front of her door after finishing work late one night. As soon as she opened the door, the little guy ran under her bed and refused to come out. .

Tan Zhiping, who was feeling lonely, decided to keep the puppy as a companion.

From then on, the neighbors near the shop would see a girl in simple clothes, accompanied by a Pekingese dog, leaving early in the alley and returning late every day.

Careful, sweet-mouthed, small profits but quick turnover, more and more customers come back to visit this girl's small supermarket. Tan Zhiping makes a living from his shop and doesn't keep much cash on hand. All the money he earns is invested in rolling operations. In early 2003, the store expanded to two floors. At the end of 2004, the house rented by the supermarket was demolished. When the inventory was taken, the store's assets had reached more than 100,000 yuan.

Previously, the principal that her father funded when the store was founded has been returned in full. With her funding, the family has built a two-story building, and her sister completed middle school with her funding. In school, I also learned a craft.

In early 2005, Tan Zhiping was looking for a new store to run a supermarket in the Yangcha Lake area of ??Hankou. However, she found that after leaving the old store location that she had worked so hard to operate, her business plummeted. In addition, the competition from her peers in the surrounding area was fierce. No matter how hard she tried, it was difficult to turn a loss into a profit. Four months later, she had no choice but to close the business.

22 years old——

Returning to school and pursuing the university dream

In May 2005, Tan Zhiping, who was already 22 years old, once again stood at the forefront of his life. crossroads.

Should I return to my hometown with a lot of savings and start a family like many of my peers, or should I find another career in the business world, or...

Have been busy for 3 years For the first time, Tan Zhiping gave himself a two-month vacation.

At this time, she found that she was still unfamiliar with this strange city just like when she first came to Wuhan 3 years ago. Every day, she would walk around different streets, and the rising tall buildings, numerous billboards, and job advertisements in newspapers repeatedly impacted her eyes and heart.

I haven’t dreamed of my mother for a long time. One day, she woke up from her dream: her mother was lying on the edge of the deep pool looking at her... When she woke up, she saw in front of her the scene of what her mother had told her before leaving home: "Ping'er, you must study, you must study medicine..."

In fact, during the days when Tan Zhiping was guarding the small supermarket, she had been insisting on learning English by herself.

She finally understood that the college dream she had been hiding in her heart was the other side that she did not dare to face after wandering for many days.

After being introduced by a friend, Tan Zhiping walked into Hubei Vocational and Technical College with his luggage on September 1, 2005, and became a technical secondary school student in the second midwifery class of the Medical Branch.

In the first year of returning to school, as the oldest student among the 64 classmates in the class, Tan Zhiping was always the first to arrive in the classroom every day, never took a lunch break, and was the last to leave the study room at night. In the final exams for two consecutive semesters, her scores in each subject ranked among the top 5 in the class.

Shortly after she entered school, her father deep in the mountains called. It turned out that the father had found a suitable partner and wanted to start a family again, so he asked his daughter for her opinion.

Tan Zhiping learned that her stepmother was only 14 years older than her. She was happy from the bottom of her heart that her father could find another companion. She took a few days off from school and went back to her hometown to meet her stepmother.

After returning to school, whenever she had time, she mailed medicines and nutritional supplements to her stepmother who suffered from breast hyperplasia and her father who had rheumatism. From time to time, she called her stepmother to chat and communicate, shouting " Mom..."

24 years old——

My college dream came true, I took my seriously ill stepmother and father to school

During the summer vacation of 2006, for the convenience of my stepmother While treating his father, Tan Zhiping took them near the school to take care of them together, and sought medical advice everywhere. In order to reduce the financial pressure on her family, she opened a student restaurant near the school with the help of her teachers and classmates.

Tan Zhiping gets up at around 3 a.m. every day, rides a bicycle from his rental place, and goes to the vegetable wholesale market on the outskirts of Xiaogan to buy vegetables. After arranging everything in the restaurant, he rushes back to school to continue his classes.

At this time, Tan Zhiping is also very busy with her studies. She is intensively preparing for the "3 2" exam in two months. If she passes, she will realize her dream of going to college.

However, misfortune struck again. Her stepmother's condition suddenly worsened and lymph node metastasis occurred. She took her stepmother to various major hospitals in Xiaogan for treatment. She was completely unable to take care of the restaurant business. Three months later, the restaurant had to be closed. The transfer resulted in a loss of more than 10,000 yuan.

Through Tan Zhiping’s efforts, the stepmother’s condition was finally effectively controlled and improved.

At the end of that year, Tan Zhiping successfully passed the exam and became a full-time college student majoring in clinical medicine at the Medical College of Hubei Vocational College.

In order to give her stepmother a good recuperation environment, she made a special trip to escort her parents back to Changyang. After settling everything at home, she returned to school to continue her studies.

Teachers and classmates said -

She strives for self-improvement and gives people strength

After dropping out of school to work in farming, her family suffered drastic changes, and she went through the difficult years of working and starting a business. to return to school and realize the college dream. In 8 years, Tan Zhiping drew a shining life curve with extraordinary perseverance.

Tan Zhiping cherishes her hard-won college life very much. She served as the Youth League branch secretary in her class and was rated as one of the "Three Good Students" and Outstanding Student Cadres for consecutive years. On the 19th of this month, she was awarded the honorary title of "The Fourth Top Ten Filial Sons and Models of Filial Piety and Love for Relatives in Xiaogan City".

In the eyes of teachers at Hubei Vocational and Technical College, Tan Zhiping’s life experience is a huge shock to the students around him. One teacher said that for many "post-80s" students from well-off families, she is an intriguing and living teaching material. Her spirit of continuous improvement gives people strength.

After learning about Tan Zhiping’s story, a classmate wrote this: “Although she had such a difficult life situation, there was no sadness on her face, a strong, sunny look. His smile shines brightly into everyone's heart...