My name is Wei Shufen, female, 29 years old, still unmarried...
A string of words...
My name is Li Cuifeng, female, 25 years old, getting married soon...
Li Cuifeng is a rural girl. Several generations of her family have worked as long-term workers for landlords. Thanks to the liberation of China, her family has escaped the fate of being exploited and oppressed and has stood up since then.
As the first Capital University graduate in the village, township, and even several surrounding towns, Li Cuifeng has many people to thank. She wants to thank the party, the government, her parents and brothers, and even more, Teacher Jiang. Oh, let’s call her now
"Aunt Jiang", in three months, she will be called "Mom".
The first time I met Teacher Jiang was when the capital had just been liberated. That year, Li Cuifeng turned 6 years old...
Jiang Xiuping, a native of Daoqing, lost her parents when she was young and was adopted by the principal of a girls' middle school. After finishing middle school, she worked in the school. In early 1938, the Japanese army occupied Daoqing, and Jiang Xiuping's adoptive mother had passed away. She and
Several progressive young teachers in the school contacted each other and went to Anyan, the Holy Land of Revolution, to participate in the revolution.
Two years later, due to her outstanding performance, young age, high level of cultural and political theory, and rich revolutionary experience, she was recommended to study at the Zedong Youth Cadre School and was assigned to the advanced class (first class). During the study period
, Jiang Xiuping met Sun Cheng, who was in the same class, fell in love, got married and had children.
After the liberation of the capital in 1949, Jiang Xiuping stayed in the capital with her two sons to take care of her parents-in-law. She joined the newly established Capital Education Bureau and bravely took on heavy responsibilities, organizing work teams to go to the countryside to carry out literacy work. Jiang Xiuping was the first one selected
The location for going to the countryside is Xibeiwang Township in the northern suburbs. It is close to the city and has convenient transportation, which is suitable for the work team to carry out work. With the cooperation of the local government, members of the work team went into each village separately to carry out propaganda.
Jiang Xiuping came to Qianjiachuan Village, which was assigned to her. Under the introduction of the village chief, she came to the home of the village chief's cousin Li Wen and started working for the first time.
Li Wen has four children, the third one is a girl, Li Cuifeng, and the others are boys. From oldest to youngest, these children are all 3 years apart, so they are very neatly spaced.
One of Jiang Xiuping's jobs is to persuade Li Wen and his wife to participate in the literacy class that is about to start in the village, and the other is to persuade Li Wen and his wife to send Li Dalong, Li Erlong and the third child Li Cuifeng of appropriate age to attend the school being built in the village next year.
Li Wen is an interesting person. He has been a long-term worker since he was a child and is illiterate, but he likes to listen to storytelling the most when he is free. He admires the literati described in the storytelling who wear long robes and are full of knowledge. Therefore, he, who was not famous at first, became famous in the storytelling.
During the population and land registration after liberation, he changed his name to "Li Wen".
Jiang Xiuping successfully completed her first work goal. Li Wen not only agreed to participate in literacy classes, but also actively cooperated with Jiang Xiuping in doing work for other villagers. But the second goal encountered some trouble. Li Wen was very open-minded.
, he does not favor boys over girls, and is willing to let all children go to school. Qianjiachuan Village is not far from the countryside, with only a few miles of flat roads. But just like the problems encountered in promoting compulsory education in poor areas now
, having enough food to eat is the first problem that the villagers have to solve, and the same is true for the Li Wen family. Qianjiachuan Village is at the foot of Baiwang Mountain, half mountain and half flat land, and the real estate is not rich. The Li Wen family farm; the 12-year-old eldest son
Li Dalong helped them; the 9-year-old second child Li Erlong and the 6-year-old third child Li Cuifeng took care of their 3-year-old brother Bruce Lee (originally named Li Silong, but a few years later because the Li Wen couple no longer wanted children, they felt that Silong was not good).
, so he changed his name to Bruce Lee), while boiling water and cooking at home, he often went outside to dig wild vegetables, pick wild fruits, catch birds, fish and rabbits, and supplement the family from time to time.
If the three eldest children all go to school next year, and Li Wen and his wife take their youngest child to work in the fields, it will be difficult for the whole family to feed them, and they will definitely be too busy during busy farming periods. This problem cannot be solved by Li Wen, and it is also
It is a problem that must be faced in the entire rural work. After Jiang Xiuping thought carefully, she submitted the problem to the bureau and proposed her own solution. She suggested restoring and improving the busy farm leave; adopting a more flexible and pragmatic strategy, and reasonable
Arrange the school time and teaching methods for rural students; on the basis of literacy, use existing educational resources to actively carry out adult part-time education and other content. After several discussions, the bureau improved Jiang
The suggestions put forward by Xiuping were submitted to the Ministry of Education. The ministry quickly followed up and asked the bureau to carry out pilot work.
Jiang Xiuping participated in the pilot work without hesitation. After a few months, she returned to Qianjiachuan Village and took the lead in solving the learning problems of Li Wen's family. The eldest brother, Li Dalong, has passed the optimal learning stage and hopes to help as soon as possible.
He had to work at home, so Jiang Xiuping arranged for him to attend literacy classes (later, stimulated by his younger siblings to go to school and obtain diplomas, he also completed elementary school courses). The second oldest, Li Erlong, went to junior high school and graduated, because there were only elementary schools and junior high schools in the village.
, he didn’t want to go to the city to study in high school, so he went home to work in farming. The third child, Li Cuifeng, was the best and studied until she graduated from college. In high school, she lived in Teacher Jiang’s house (Sun’s house), and studied and grew up with Sun Weiguo, and they fell in love with each other.
Later, the two got married. The fourth child, Bruce Lee, was born a little later and went to school a year later. Just when his sister was admitted to college and started living on campus, he was admitted to a high school in the city. Bruce Lee also lived in Sun's house and finished high school.
After graduation, he joined the army with his good friend Sun Weimin, who also failed the college entrance examination.
Teacher Jiang carried out rural education pilot work with Xibeiwang Township as the center. With the continuous achievements, the bureau increased its support for her. She increased the manpower, roped in Zheng Ziyun, and gradually expanded the scope of the pilot. They forgot to eat and sleep.
, working hard day and night, even the newborn daughter could not be taken care of personally and could only be sent to a nursery.
God rewards those who work hard. With their unremitting efforts, they also gained their own honors when the pilot work achieved many results. After being affirmed and interviewed by party and state leaders many times, their enthusiasm for work became even higher.
The pilot work continued to advance until 1966, when the current situation was chaotic and the work stopped.
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After getting off work, Li Cuifeng hurriedly came home. After saying hello to Jiang Xiuping and Zheng Ziyun who were cooking at home, she squatted on the kitchen floor while choosing vegetables, and whispered: "Aunt Jiang, Aunt Zheng, I'm going to go there this morning."
When I was looking for the editor to sign, he told me that the central government may soon launch a campaign to "send educated youths to the mountains and countryside to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants." The campaign will mainly target junior high school, high school and university graduates from the 1966, 1967 and 1968 classes.
Student. The editor-in-chief said that if there is such a person among my relatives and friends, we should make preparations early. I think, Xiaohong and Xiaoyue are just right, right?"
"They should have graduated from junior high school last year, the 67th class. Because the school was closed, they didn't get their diplomas until this year. They have been reviewing their homework at home and waiting for the high school to re-open enrollment. What should we do?" Zheng Ziyun was worried.
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"Don't be impatient, let Xiaofeng speak slowly." Jiang Xiuping steadied Zheng Ziyun: "Xiaofeng, what do you think?"
"I checked the information all afternoon, and it seems that what the editor said should be true. Because classes were suspended for the first two years, the graduates of three consecutive years were not assigned jobs or continued their studies. Now they are all gathered together. There are probably several students in the country.
Millions of people. But at present, high schools and universities have not officially started recruiting students, and factories are not recruiting workers. Therefore, almost all graduates have gathered in major cities. Our newspaper receives countless letters from readers every day, reflecting such problems.
.The central government must find a way to solve it, and in the past few days, our newspaper has published several articles one after another, all of which are blowing the news and vigorously publicizing the outstanding educated youth who went to the mountains and countryside in the past few years."
At this time, Sun Weiguo and Chef Cao returned home together.
Zheng Ziyun was stunned: "Why are you two back together? Chef, why did you go home so early today?" (Chef Cao works at the Huabeilou Restaurant, so he has to wait for the guests to finish dinner every day before getting off work.)