In 2022, "Playing with Science - Lighting up the Science Dream of Qianshan Baby" won the gold medal of the China Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition. When the news reached the depths of the mountains of Guizhou, the members of the graduate teaching team of Huazhong Agricultural University smiled with relief. This is a full affirmation of the continuous innovation and hard work of Xu Benyu, the annual figure of "Moving China", and his friends in the relay teaching in the past 20 years.
In 20 years, from Xu Benyu's initial one, to a relay teaching team of 210 people;From one primary school to four schools in Guizhou and Hubei provinces, they have crossed thousands of mountains and waded through thousands of rivers, and the torch of teaching has never been extinguished.
All this is just for the promise to the children in the mountains.
The mountains are silent, and the sunshine testifies.
I'll come back when I graduate. In the summer of 2002, the "Yandong" Primary School (the predecessor of Weimin Primary School) in Goujiaoyan Village, Maochang Town, Dafang County, Guizhou Province, looked at the reluctant eyes of the children, and Xu Benyu, who ended the summer teaching, made a commitment.
Soon, he gave up the opportunity to study at Huazhong Agricultural University and returned to the depths of the mountains alone.
In a poor environment without water, electricity and no network, Xu Benyu fulfilled his teaching mission with difficulty and perseverance. The children in the mountains can't understand Mandarin, and they talk about a question dozens of times, and it doesn't help if they are so tired that their voices are hoarse.
During the winter and summer vacations, Xu Benyu traveled around Wuhan, Guiyang and other places to raise donations and work for children to earn money.
In the most difficult time, he received strong support from his alma mater.
In 2005, Huazhong Agricultural University decided to recruit volunteers to take over the torch of Xu Benyu's teaching. Since then, more and more volunteers have participated in the relay and expanded their teaching support to four primary schools in Baili Rhododendron and Dafang County in Bijie City, Guizhou Province and Jianshi County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province. 210 young people have successively relayed, lighting the unquenchable torch with youth and life, illuminating the hope of the mountain, and the blossoms are also brilliant and fragrant because of the volunteer teaching.
In the past 20 years, Weimin Primary School has long been moved out of the cave and has a teaching building, a student canteen and a teacher's dormitory. Now, like several other elementary schools, not only are the birds singing, but the playground is also paved with a new plastic track, and when it comes to recess, children rush downstairs to play. Principal Wang Ruiju, who witnessed the changes of the primary school, had tears in his eyes.
When I grow up, I'll be you.
On March 11, 2015, deep in the mountains of Guizhou in early spring, the cold wind was still strong.
On the playground of Goujiaoyan Weimin Primary School in Maochang Town, Dafang County, more than a dozen children eating lunch laughed and made noise, gathering around the fire to keep warm.
Kang Shengmei squatted among the children, smiling.
This scene is so familiar, she seems to see herself back then.
In 2002, Kang Shengmei was 11 years old, and her family could no longer afford her three sisters and brothers to study at the same time, so she had to go to Guiyang to work and sell stinky tofu. She weighs less than 60 pounds, and walks the streets and alleys with a burden of more than 30 pounds every day. How many nights did she think about going back to class.
In 2003, Xu Benyu gave up graduate school and climbed the Dog Hanging Rock to teach in Weimin Primary School. Kang Shengmei's father was overjoyed and immediately asked his daughter to return to school.
Xu Benyu made up lessons for Kang Shengmei almost every day, and gradually, Kang Shengmei had confidence in learning. At the end of that year, she was first in her class in math. A year later, Xu Benyu went to the more difficult Dashi Primary School to teach. On the day she left, Kang Shengmei and her classmates chased and cried until the teacher disappeared around the corner of the mountain road.
This farewell is 6 years. During this period, Kang Shengmei was admitted to junior high school with the first place in the village, and was admitted to Bijie National Middle School, a key high school. Every semester, she will receive 500 yuan in tuition, study materials and clothes from Xu Benyu.
In her junior year of high school, her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and Kang Shengmei felt that the sky was falling. She ran to the roof of the hospital, knelt on her knees, and cried and dialed Teacher Xu's **. Xu Benyu asked her to be strong in tears, and then sent another 1,000 yuan. Kang Shengmei remembered the teacher's words and took her mother to seek medical treatment while preparing for the exam.
Mother is still gone. The sensible Kang Shengmei wanted to give up school to work, but Xu Benyu asked her to insist. In the summer of 2011, Kang Shengmei was admitted to Wuhan Vocational and Technical College, and Xu Benyu took out another 5,000 yuan as tuition. Kang Shengmei was grateful, and during her study in Wuhan, she took the initiative to join the "Benyu Volunteer Service Team" and went to blind schools and welfare homes to volunteer on weekends. In 2014, after graduating from Kang Shengmei University, he quietly returned to Dashan, Guizhou, and took over the teaching whip at Weimin Primary School, where Xu Benyu first taught.
Like Mr. Ben Yu, the children I teach are also college students!On July 12, 2022, Kang Shengmei returned to Weimin Primary School to reunite with the students of that year. This year, four of the 16 students she taught were admitted to college.
I will keep my covenant for you.
As long as you are admitted to university, I will definitely come back!In July 2012, Liu Xiaoqing, a volunteer of the 6th Teaching Support Group, said goodbye to students Huang Jie and Luo Yihan, and agreed to meet in 10 years. On July 11, 2022, Liu Xiaoqing kept his 10-year appointment and rushed to the Yuyu Hope Primary School in Qinshan with his daughter, where teachers and students hugged each other and cried. Huang Jie is now attending university in Guizhou, and Luo Yihan was admitted to the civil service after graduating from university. "When I was a child, I felt that parting was a lifelong thing, and I had to go to university desperately, but I really didn't expect Mr. Liu to come!Luo Yihan shed tears of excitement.
A one-year trip to Guizhou, a lifetime of teaching. In fact, in the hearts of volunteer volunteers, thoughts and worries are always there. Every year, there are volunteers from the past who quietly go back and cross the mountains just for those few hours together.
Under their continuous care and attention, in the past 20 years, they have walked out of a class of graduates from Huanong Dashi Hope Primary School, Benyu Hope Primary School, and Weimin Primary School, and entered the township junior high school and Bijie City Key High School, and walked towards the ideal university.
Come on!On December 20, 2022, during the sprint stage of the graduate examination, Ding Jie, a volunteer teaching volunteer, gave Xie Weiwei encouragement to Xie Weiwei, a student who came out of Huanong Dashi Hope Primary School.
Watching them grow and become talented people was the happiest time of my life. Ding Jie said.
There are too many college students brought out by volunteer teachers, especially in the past few years, there are more than 20 in our primary school alone. Wang Chengfan, principal of Huanong Dashi Hope Primary School, said with emotion.
Parting, let's not cry, okay.
Through the car window, take another look at the Wumeng Mountain. Behind them, the children ran after the car. The wind blew up, and those figures grew farther and farther away, smaller and smaller, turning a corner, until they disappeared.
Tears suddenly burst out of Yang Zixuan's eyes.
July 7, 2021 is an unforgettable day for Yang Zixuan, a volunteer of the graduate student teaching group of Huazhong Agricultural University. She has been teaching for a year at Goujiaoyan Weimin Primary School in Maochang Town, Dafang County, Guizhou Province, and she has long been inseparable from the children here.
Teacher, I don't even dare to look at you when you're gone. ”
Teacher, can we save points together to redeem for you to stay?”
The children's words echoed in Yang Zixuan's ears over and over again, and she seemed to see the children of Class 6 (1) smiling and rushing towards her again: "cold" but sensible Yang Xiaoyi, Yang Guanghui, who looks like a big sister and has a girl's heart, "little talker" Wu Chunting, shy "long legs" Guo Dongze, Yang Yanqin, who loves to read, and Sha Zhengyue, who is the most likely to make her angry and concerned, ......
Teacher, you have to remember me. From leaving the classroom to getting in the car and leaving, Sha Zhengyue's mobile phone kept shooting at Yang Zixuan.
How can you forget?In the tears, Yang Zixuan remembered the first time she sang the Yi song "Ajlu" with the choir, and the children were afraid to speak, remembering the various hurriedness when performing "Left Hand Right Hand". After a year, that confidence finally slowly rippled out from the children's faces and hearts, from the happiness of "You Look Good When You Laugh", to the expectation of "Tomorrow Will Be Better", and then to the sonorous sound of "Red Star Twinkle", the child's voice was loud and echoed in the valley for a long time.
Yang Zixuan's heart stayed in this small mountain village called Goujiaoyan.
Like Yang Zixuan, in the past 20 years, every volunteer has experienced parting, they come here with hope and leave with reluctance. In their hearts, from now on, it is a lifelong concern for this land.
The metamorphosis from actor to volunteer.
On May 5, 2014, a large-scale original drama "Concern" starring students from Huazhong Agricultural University appeared on the stage of the National Center for the Performing Arts. "Concern" takes the rural teaching of college students of Huazhong Agricultural University as the main line, and vividly reproduces the touching deeds of the graduate student teaching group. Sun Wei, Chen Li, and Sun Xiao were deeply moved and applied for teaching. In the autumn of 2015, they worked with their peers to complete the transformation from students, actors to volunteer teachers.
In 2013, Sun Wei was admitted to the crew of "Concern" of Huazhong Agricultural University as he wished, not only starring, but also serving as the main creator of all the lyrics and songs.
The creation is very hard, and he has no teaching experience, so he can only try to feel the feelings of teaching a little bit with a sensitive heart, "shedding his own tears in other people's stories".
But he always felt unsteady about this touch. So, through strict selection, he went to Huanong Dashi Hope Primary School in the depths of the mountains of Guizhou to teach.
On July 23, 2016, CCTV's "Avenue of Stars", Sun Wei was invited to appear on the stage with more than a dozen students in the mountains of Guizhou. For the children in the mountains, he sang emotionally, tears wetting his eyes.
Sun Wei, who is emotional, is deeply in love here.
Today is the last day of classes for the children, I don't know, they don't know. Writing this sentence, Chen Li said to herself, it's over.
In "Concern", she is "Sister Xiang", a rural girl who dreams of becoming a substitute teacher. In reality, she is a happy lark, and she has no hesitation to give up Baoyan. When she first arrived in Guizhou, Ben Yu hoped that her cheerful singing could be heard everywhere in the primary school.
This serious Shandong girl chose to be strong and persistent. She said that gathering and dispersing are all heart-wrenching performances.
At the end of July 2016, Sun Xiao, who had just finished teaching, returned to Dashan, Guizhou.
Sun Xiao is the male number one "Zhang Fuyu" in "Concern", and "Zhang Fuyu" represents Xu Benyu, the person of the year who moved China in 2004, Zhao Fubing, who dedicated himself to teaching, and Zhang Yu, who sacrificed himself to save others. He said that teaching is not about acting on the stage, but about really going into the mountains. Therefore, he chose the most difficult place among the four volunteer schools - Goujiaoyan Weimin Primary School in Maochang Town, Guizhou. Here, the road is impassable, the signal is poor, and every time you contact the outside world, you have to hold your mobile phone everywhere to find a signal.
He talks about all kinds of new things and cutting-edge technology, hoping to broaden the children's horizonsCombining agricultural support with teaching support is his constant attempt. He believes that only by changing the mountains can children have a future.
20 years of relay, not dishonoring the mission.
On the morning of July 1, 2021, in the multi** classroom of Huanong Dashi Hope Primary School, children watched the live broadcast of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. At that time, there were no mobile phones and TV signals, so the children could only sit in the tents, listen to Xu Benyu's narration, and imagine the excitement of the outside world.
In the past 20 years, the mountains and towns have changed dramatically.
In the past 20 years, the sun has warmed in a window, and the original intention is still there. The 210 volunteer teachers kept their mission in mind, bravely assumed the responsibility of teaching and educating people, cultivated the feelings of family and country among students, strengthened their ideals and beliefs, and promoted rural revitalization.
On cold nights, guests come to tea as wine, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling red. In the fall of 2017, several former volunteer teachers gathered on campus. The autumn breeze is gradually rising, the night talk around the fireplace, the down-to-earth persistence, the growth with laughter and tears, the dreams that are slowly realized, and the warmth lingers in the room.
In the memory of volunteer Cao Jianqiang, the years of teaching were the years when he ate the most potatoes, walked the most mountain roads, saw the least sun, and did not take a bath for the longest time, but it was also the year with the most smiles.
Ge Jun, who now lives in Beijing, said they too had frustrations and even thought about giving up. But the love and responsibility in their hearts, and the powerful power of their alma mater behind them, have supported them all the way.
Zhang Yongjun, who used to be the secretary of the Youth League Committee of Huazhong Agricultural University, said that teaching is a practice. Plant the seeds of love and hope to take root, sprout, blossom, and bear fruit in the hearts of children.
Since 2011, I have heard the sound of flowers blooming. Since Kang Shengmei, more and more children have walked out of the mountains, fulfilled their college dreams, and started a new life.
For the past 20 years, these volunteers have played such a role. Under the leadership of the party building, the graduate student support group has become an important force to give full play to the advantages of resources and help rural revitalization.
In August 2023, the volunteers of the 19th Graduate Education Support Group of Huazhong Agricultural University went to the mountainous areas of Guizhou and Hubei again. On the muddy and steep mountain road, groups of outstanding students spread the flame of love again, turning moving into action, and their volunteer spirit has become a banner that inspires and leads young people.
When you make a promise, it is a lifetime. I believe that the story of the graduate student support group of Huazhong Agricultural University will not end, and it will always shine, radiate heat, and dedicate love. This touching and warmth will continue.
Because, they are volunteers.
They heard the sound of flowers blooming.
Tian Yue. **China Youth Daily).