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After his father completed his junior high school education in Xiushui and Wuning counties, his grandmother, who was influenced by the traditional idea of "farming and reading heirlooms", strongly supported him to continue to receive secondary vocational education, hoping that he would have a good future in the future. At this time, choosing a suitable school has become an important decision, and it needs to be carefully considered by the father of the poor family economic conditions.
Dong Quanlong. ** Period, compared with other provinces in the country, especially other provinces with strong economic strength, Jiangxi's teacher education is in the forefront.
Lushan Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, and the nine divisions are fragrant with peaches and plums". The predecessor of Jiujiang Normal School was the Lianxi Academy founded by the great Confucian Zhou Dunyi in the Song Dynasty, which is located at the northern foot of Lushan Mountain, on the shore of Gantang Lake and the Yangtze River, and is one of the earliest normal schools in Jiangxi Province. Although the living conditions of the school are very difficult, the environment is elegant and the transportation is convenient. In order to ensure the quality of normal students, the selection and delivery method of secondary normal students in the ** period was cancelled, and all students were admitted by examination. The quality requirements for candidates are very strict and high, and in addition to the general academic assessment, the conduct of students is also very important. Anyone who is found to have bad deeds will be discarded.
In 1944, the National People's Republic of China promulgated the "Implementation Measures for the Public Scholarship Treatment of Students in National Normal Schools", which stipulates that normal students are exempt from paying tuition fees and miscellaneous fees such as books, sports, medicine and health in addition to the security depositMeals (including staple food and non-staple food) are all provided by the school, but the staple food fee may be allocated according to the prescribed amountTextbooks are provided by the school;In addition, normal students can also enjoy subsidies for miscellaneous expenses such as ** fees, material fees, visit fees, and travel expenses according to different situations in different places.
Tuition fees and living costs vary from school to school, with tuition fees being a very critical issue and one of the biggest expenses for students each year. Jiujiang Normal School does not charge tuition, the room and board fees are also very low, students can become teachers after graduation, and have a stable income aroused my father's interest. In August 1949, my father chose and was admitted to this cost-effective school after hard work.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang continued to wage civil wars, which led to the continued war in the provinces and further damage to the economy. There is still a lack of financial support for higher normal schools, and the funding situation of provincial and county secondary normal schools can be imagined, and the regulations of the Ministry of Education on the treatment of secondary normal students can only be a dead letter.
According to statistics, in 1948, the staple food that normal students in various localities could receive was not enough, and the allowance for non-staple food was only about 200,000 yuan per month, and most of the meals had to be borne by themselves. As for the cost of books** and craft materials, I am afraid that there is absolutely no such thing as the cost of the school, and although the cost borne by normal students each semester has not been correctly counted, it is an ironclad fact that it is by no means affordable for poor young people. At the price standard of 1947, 300 yuan could not buy a piece of soap, and 8,000 yuan could not buy a foot of white cloth, which shows that secondary normal students still need to bear huge financial pressure when studying.
A light is like a bean, and the four walls are bright. My father had a very difficult life when he was studying at Jiujiang Normal School, so he had to use his spare time in school to help the union copy and deliver letters to subsidize some tuition and miscellaneous expenses. In 1950, due to school mobilization and difficulties in personal life, he walked out of school and joined the work. The school encourages the all-round development of students and highlights their strengths. **Art education is the best way to cultivate and develop the comprehensive artistic ability of normal students. During his father's Xi at school, his literacy in painting, calligraphy, seal carving and other aspects improved very quickly.
Dong Quanlong (first from right) and his classmates practice Xi playing the violin.
In school art teaching, sketching is a basic course to improve students' painting art level. The art major courses carried out by the school focus on cultivating students' creative ability, and in addition to painting indoors, students are often provided with opportunities for field sketching. The many beautiful scenery of Jiujiang has become an excellent place for my father to improve his artistic accomplishment and artistic aesthetic ability.
In order to broaden his artistic horizons and improve his artistic literacy, his father used his spare time to seriously learn various techniques Xi seal carving. After a period of study and Xi, my father has a certain understanding of the art of calligraphy and seal carving, focusing on Xi practicing his own eyesight and wrist strength, and strive to improve the level of engraving, often using leisure time to carve out some or round and smooth lines, or simple and dignified, mellow and beautiful seal works, and strive to reflect their own seal carving aesthetic orientation in their own works.
Dong Quanlong's seal carving works.
The only way out for normal school students is to study hard for Xi, get good grades in exams, and strive to find a job with a stable income after graduation. On campus, my father was very active in his thinking, upright, loyal, popular, self-reliant, hard-working, and self-reliant. As the hope of the country and the future of the nation, young students are the key targets of the development of the China New Democratic Youth League. In the early days of liberation, Jiujiang Normal School was a key area for the organization and development of the Jiujiang New Democratic League. After being tempered and tested by many revolutionary movements, a group of progressive young people in the school have become more and more mature. Jiujiang City appointed cadres to spread Marxism-Leninism in the school, and lost no time in selecting a number of outstanding students from among the backbone students to join the Communist Party and the New Democratic Youth League.
During his father's Xi in school, his personal life vision has been expanded, his thinking has been sublimated, his knowledge has been greatly expanded, and Xi his inner quality has been comprehensively improved. Under the banner of the first ideology, stand on the standpoint of the proletariat and strive for the realization of communism"!"The purpose of today's Youth League is to establish a revolutionary outlook on life, serve the people wholeheartedly, improve the bad work style of the past, and fight to the end for the revolutionary cause
Due to his outstanding performance in all aspects and his excellent academic Xi, his father joined the China New Democratic Youth League in June 1950. The period of studying at Jiujiang Normal School was a critical period in the history of my father's ideological development. From the pursuit of new ideas to the establishment of belief in Marxism, he later became a staunch Marxist, joined the Communist Party of China, and actively devoted himself to the cause of socialist construction in New China.
Dong Chunpu (portrait of the author).
About author】Dong Chunpu, male, from Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province. Associate Professor of Shandong Police College. He is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association and a member of the Shandong Prose Literature Association. His works include "Outline of the History of China's First Education", "History of Chinese Police", "History of Chinese Police Education", "Collected Works of Dong Chunpu", etc.
The historical evolution of Jiujiang Normal School is particularly complex, and mergers and splits are extremely frequent. It can be said that Jiujiang Normal School is not a school, but a complex, and its history is the modern history of Jiujiang secondary teacher education. For the story of this school, see "Today in the History of Jiujiang · September 13 · Jiujiang Normal and Jiujiang Middle School Teacher Education History".