After reading Zhang Guimei s current situation, I wanted to cry

Recently, Zhang Guimei's movie "I Am a Mountain" adapted from real life has sparked controversy. The controversy is mainly focused on two points:One is about the women around Zhang Guimei in the movieIn order to set off Zhang Guimei's image, the film shaped:

A mother is an alcoholic, domestic violence child;A group of schoolgirls skip class to go to the town to go to the market and play games......;

Zhang Guimei misses her late husband's role, and often flashes back to her husband's picture when she encounters difficulties in running a school......;

This can't help but arouse my curiosity: what is Zhang Guimei like herself?What about the women around her?And, why did she start Huaping Women's High School?With this confusion in mind, I opened a series of documentaries and news reports about Zhang Guimei's past. As a result, while watching it, I couldn't help but cry, which was a heartfelt touch and shock. After reading it, I have a deep feeling:

Zhang Guimei isA great womanHer persistence in education has changed the fate of countless girls in the mountains;

At the same time, it is alsoAn imperfect woman, she is a little naïve, a little harsh, and even a little paranoid.

Winner of the "July 1st Medal", the person of the year who moved China in 2020, and the national moral model ......The most widely known of these are:Principal of Lijiang Huaping Girls' High School. It is the country's first free public high school for girls, and most of the students come from the impoverished mountainous areas of Yunnan Province. In the 15 years since the establishment of the school, Zhang Guimei has personally sent more than 2,000 girls from the mountains to the university campus. These figures, if placed in an ordinary high school, may not be a lot;But in Huaping Girls' High School, on these more than 2,000 female students, it carries a heavy mission. In an interview with Face to Face, Zhang Guimei shared a story: during a home visit, she saw a family leaving their daughter in the third year of high school to work at home, and sending their second year of junior high school son to the county to make up for Xi. She couldn't help but ask the child's mother: "Are you sick in the brain?"Your girl is going to take the college entrance examination in the third year of high school, and you don't send her (to study), but to send him (Xi). As a result, the mother replied to Zhang Guimei:"He's a son. ”

Boys have books to read, girls don't, and this is common in the mountainsPatriarchalPhenomenon. In other words, if there is no Huaping Girls' High School, this group of girls is very likely to leave school early. They may marry abusive husbandsA mother in the mountains, because she couldn't bear her husband's abuse, asked her brother to beat her husband to death, and she also went to prison to serve her sentence. may be reduced to a fertility tool-Another mother in the mountains suffered from postpartum hemorrhage when she gave birth to her daughter, and she wanted to see her husband and mother-in-law but refused to let her, and finally regretted her death. It may also repeat the fate of the mother-Zhang Guimei once saw a girl who had dropped out of school to herd cattle on the road, holding a black baba as food in her hand. Zhang Guimei said to her, "Go, follow me to study." The girl just looked at her, and then shouted at the old cow and left. The scary thing is that this is not an isolated case of the fate of women in the mountains, but the norm. In the patriarchal atmosphere, women are not only lacking in material economy, but also lacking in ideology, love and being loved. As a resultLack of self-identity

They are unaware of the equal rights of men and women;

I don't know how to properly defend my rights and interests

I don't know how to educate and love my next generation ......

And the existence of Zhang Guimei and Huaping Women's High School has made their fate turn around. In the 15 years since its establishment, the school has graduated 13 classes of students, with a comprehensive online rate of 100% in the college entrance examination, and has won the first place in the college entrance examination rate in Lijiang for many times. After graduating from college, some students return to the women's high school to become teachers, leading more sisters in the mountains to go outSome students stay in the city to work, and use their salary income to support their families, leading the whole family out of poverty ......It can be said thatZhang Guimei has not only changed the fate of more than 2,000 mountain girls, but also the fate of more than 2,000 poor families, and perhaps more than that. A girl who was abandoned by her parents at birth was sent to Zhang Guimei's children's welfare home, where she was educated and admitted to Zhejiang University. Later, she went to work in the city, and after marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, and she tried her best to raise her daughter as best she could. Someone asked her, "Why don't you have a son?"She replied, "I can't forget my background, I can't live up to my education." "Because I have enjoyed the equal rights of men and women, soShe broke free from the shackles of the previous generation of "patriarchy" and learned how to love herself and how to love her daughter. In fact, many of the girls who graduated from Huaping Girls' High School have started families. From time to time, they will show their children in the circle of friends, have dinners, and take pictures of the scenery in the mountains when they return to their hometown. But the landscape has taken on a different meaning to them, no longer poverty, but memories of the past. Because they've already gone out. This is a realistic case of changing the fate of girls in Dashan through education, and it is also the real meaning of Zhang Guimei's founding of Huaping Girls' High School.

However, behind this great feat, returning to Zhang Guimei herself, it is not difficult for us to find that there are actually a lot of imperfections in her. First of all, she is naïve. Many years ago, Zhang Guimei had a husband who loved her and had a warm home in Dali. Who knew that a stomach cancer took her husband's life and Zhang Guimei's happy time. In order to escape the pain of losing her husband, she left Dali and came to work as a teacher in a middle school in Huaping. There, she re-experiencedThe support of love- She suffered from uterine fibroids, and in order to save her life, several teachers were by her side day and night to take care of her;A woman in the mountains donated five yuan to her for the passage and walked six hours home by herself. In order to repay the land, Zhang Guimei decided to establish a free girls' high school, so that girls who were forced to drop out of school in the mountains could have books. From 2002 to 2007, she would go to the city at her own expense during the winter and summer vacations, looking for people all over the street to ask for money. At that time, she only had one naïve thought: "There are so many people in our province, if you give me 5 or 10 yuan for one person, I will have several millions, which is enough to run a school......."”As a result, for a whole 5 years, she "".Lose face".- was scolded by people on the street**, spitting, and letting dogs bite, barely getting 10,000 yuan. Even, her friends did not support her, saying that she was too naïve and idealistic. An ordinary junior high school teacher, with no background, no experience, and a sick body, but she insisted on running a high school, and it was a free high school for girls in the mountains. This is Zhang Guimei's naivety.

Secondly, she is very demanding. It wasn't until later that a reporter reported Zhang Guimei's deeds and gained national attention. Lijiang City and Huaping County each donated 1 million yuan to help her run the school, and her dream finally became a reality. Subsequently, Zhang Guimei also became the "devil" and "Zhou Papi" ...... in the eyes of a group of female studentsOn the one hand, she is very strict with her studentsIn order to save water and time in washing their hair, girls must cut their hair short to the earsEvery day before dawn, students will be urged to get up by Zhang Guimei with a loudspeaker;Meal times are compressed to 10 minutes, and there are only 3 hours off ...... weekOn the other hand, she is also very herselfDue to her hard work all year round, Zhang Guimei suffered from more than 20 diseases such as emphysema and cerebellar atrophyBut she has been living in the student dormitory on the third floor of the school, sticking to her post and never abandoning. A reporter once asked her: "What have you paid for Huaping Women's High School's achievements today." Zhang Guimei replied: "I paid with my life. ”This is Zhang Guimei's strictness.

Finally, she will also be vulnerable. When her husband died, she was walking down the street, and she crashed into a moving car. The driver stepped on the brakes and scolded her: "Don't bother others when you seek death." She then went to the morgue and asked the staff to remove her husband's body from the refrigerator. Immediately afterwards, she hugged her husband's cold body and cried bitterly......Later, she was diagnosed with uterine fibroids, and she walked for 40 minutes on the 10-minute walk from the hospital to the school, and stayed awake all night. Over the years, she founded Huaping Women's High School with her sick body, and 23 diseases were found in her body, but she still stuck to her post. Sometimes the pain was unbearable, so she complained to one of her female friends: "I'm dead, I'll open the window and jump from here .......""She is a wife who lost her husband at an early age, and a woman who has suffered from illness for many years, and she will hide in a corner alone and cry bitterly, and she will also complain to her friends in private. This is Zhang Guimei's fragility.

So, when we went to see Zhang Guimei,On the one hand, we have to see her greatnessUse knowledge to change the fate of a girl, the fate of a family, and the fate of generations of women. This is Zhang Guimei's contribution to the mountain girls as the principal of Huaping Girls' High School, and it is also her greatness. Before establishing Huaping Girls' High School, Zhang Guimei also served as the director of Huaping County Children's Home, and she was the mother of orphans.

Guangming**: She has changed the fate of thousands of poor girls") And if we want to praise this greatness, we need to truly understand the situation of the women around Zhang Guimei and truly present their experience stories. In news reports and documentaries, Zhang Guimei often mentions the true stories of these mountain girls and tells the story of how she got along with them. This is the reality she really sees in her eyes, and it is also the real appearance of the women who live around her.

On the other hand, we also need to see her vulnerabilityShe lives alone, without family and children, and can only endure her illness in silence and without any company. Such a situation will inevitably make people feel sad and distressed when placed on any real woman. Zhang Guimei is no exception. According to a friend of hers, Zhang Guimei has had several opportunities to start a family over the years. There was once a writer from Beijing who came to pursue Zhang Guimei. When they met, Zhang Guimei also wore lipstick and high heels. But the children in the children's home were somewhat resistant to the arrival of the writer, fearing that they would lose Zhang Guimei: "Are you busy getting married?"Are you afraid that we won't be able to support you in the future?Later, Zhang Guimei rejected the writer, and no other suitors came since. In fact, it was not that she didn't want to find a partner to live with, but between the children in the orphanage and her partner, she chose the former. And if we want to see this vulnerability, we can listen to the stories of the people around Zhang Guimei and see the little-known side of Zhang Guimei. This is the real Zhang Guimei behind the camera.

The reason why Zhang Guimei founded Huaping Girls' High School is because she sees that girls in Dashan repeatedly drop out of school, and the poorer the family, the more they exploit their daughters;She wants to use the power of knowledge to lead this group of girls out of the mountains and into a broad life. In this process, she certainly has her own limitations, naïve, stubborn, strict and fragile on the other side, but it is this naivety that has enabled her to persist in her dream of running a school for up to 5 years, regardless of the misunderstanding and ridicule of othersIt is also this rigor that allows her to lead a group of mountain girls with a weak cultural foundation to the college entrance examination and into the university campus;At the same time, it is precisely because of her fragility that we can see a more real and three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood and complete Zhang Guimei. She has seen the poverty of the mountains and experienced the tribulations of life, but she has always been true to her heart and sticks to her original intention. This series of stories of her experience does not need to be deliberately processed, but only needs to be truly listened to and seen, which is the best explanation for her.