Touched by the Heart
@Wen Xu Benyu
"With the purity of the first ray of light, paint a pair of eyes for the world. With the sound of the first blossom, sing a song for the world. With all the news of spring, write a legend for you ...... moving you and me, moving China, this world is eternal with love." Whenever the footsteps of time into the new year, there is always a kind of expectation within oneself, looking forward to the "heart of the appointment" with the "moving China".
"No feet out of the road to prosperity, no hands embroidered happy flowers," Zhang Shundong, Li Guoxiu couple, "did not succumb to the ice and snow of Changjin Lake, did not bow to the hardship," Zhu Yanfu, "from the silent breakout, you! The heart has a loud and clear horn" Jiang Mengnan ...... into their world, I have several times tears in my eyes.
On the evening of March 3, "Moving China 2021 Annual Awards Ceremony" (hereinafter referred to as "Moving China") broadcast to "ordinary casting great, heroes from the people" as the core theme, a comprehensive display of the magnificent 2021, like a ray of water, once again cleansing my soul. The first time I saw this, I was able to see it on the screen. ......
I couldn't see it when the awards ceremony was broadcast
It was in 2004 that I became involved in the "Moving China" campaign. That year, I was honored to be elected as the 2004 person of the year moving China. The time has passed. From the stage of the awards ceremony to now, the pointer of time has gone through 17 years, the time of the "craftsman" also put a scene touched engraved in the depths of their hearts. The scene touched, as if it happened yesterday, everything is so clear, so warm.
Before being selected as a candidate for Moving China 2004, "Moving China" was unfamiliar to me.
In the winter of 2004, I was still teaching at Dashi Primary School in Dashui Township, Dafang County, Guizhou Province, and I received a text message from my alma mater, Huazhong Agricultural University, Mr. Peng, saying, "Ben Yu, you have been shortlisted as a candidate for the Moving China annual figure! " I was surprised and thought, "What kind of selection is this?" Later, I came to the Dashui Township government, and only through the Internet did I gradually learn about Moving China. At that time, I did not think I could be elected to the Moving China Person of the Year, not to mention that "Moving China" will always be accompanied by their own to the present.
When I walked on the stage of the award ceremony, the moment I raised the trophy, I don't know why the tears will not stop flowing down, how can not control. These tears contain the hardships along the way, including students and parents to bring their own touches, including social goodwill to their own care and help, including their family's silent support of their own ...... Now look back, these tears are tears of happiness, because to be touched and cared for itself is a kind of happiness.
Moving China 2004 annual award ceremony broadcast the day, I regret to miss. 2005 Spring Festival vacation, in order to visit the poor students, I did not go home for the New Year, but stayed in the village of Dashi. When the awards ceremony was about to be broadcast, CCTV host Ms. Jing Yidan sent me a text message, telling me when the program would be broadcast and hoping that I would be able to watch it then. I told Ms. Jing Yidan that the TV in my dormitory could only receive one TV signal, China Education TV, so I could not watch the award ceremony. On the night of the awards ceremony, I was in my dormitory helping my students with their homework. That night, I received many text messages from my family, teachers, students, friends and well-wishers. That night, although it was cold, I was heavily surrounded by emotion and felt warm, as if a stream of warmth in my heart.
"Help those children who were once like me"
In March 2005, I brought three children from the mountains to Beijing to participate in the "same song" two sessions of the special program "meet in the spring ". On that day, Ms. Jing Yidan also came to the program and told the audience that I didn't get to see the award ceremony on the day it was broadcast, and that I didn't get to see it later. At that time, the program group of "The Same Song" specially played the part about me in the award ceremony from beginning to end. Standing on the stage of Same Song, looking at myself in the screen, I was in tears.
At the awards ceremony, I tearfully expressed my heart's desire. Yang Yong, a fifth-grade student I taught when I was a missionary, wrote a composition titled "Beijing in 2008," in which he wrote: "If it comes to 2008, I will go to Beijing, to see the bungalows of Beijing, if I can let me live in a bungalow in Beijing, how good it would be!" I hope to have the opportunity to take the children in the mountains to Beijing to see, let the children know that Beijing not only has bungalows, but also tall buildings and mansions.
After the award ceremony was aired, with the help of kind-hearted people, the mountain children's dream of Beijing came true. in May 2005, with the loving help of 12 retired soldiers in Beijing, I brought 32 mountain children to Beijing. It was the first time for all the children to come to Beijing, where their hearts yearn for, and the first time for them to take an airplane. At the exit of the airport, Yang Song, a fifth-grade student, specially took out his musical instrument, the sheng, and played an impromptu song called "Song of Selling Newspapers". Yang Song said aloud that he will learn to play "I love Beijing Tiananmen" when he goes back.
During their stay in Beijing, the children visited Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall, Tiananmen Square, the National Flag Guard, the Military Museum, and the Great Wall of China. Everywhere, the children were given "special" treatment. This "special" courtesy contains the love of the people on the children's selfless love and good expectations.
Every day in Beijing, I was surrounded by emotion. One of the most memorable moments was a chance encounter on the Great Wall. When I was visiting the Great Wall with my children, I met a tour group of senior citizens who were teachers who had spent their entire lives teaching in mountain villages. After recognizing me, they made donations of 10 yuan and 20 yuan, and raised 450 yuan. A few old ladies cried, and so did I. They said they saw in me the same thing. They said they could see their past in me, and they could see the future of teaching in the mountain villages.
Although the trip to Beijing was only five days long, it was the most memorable five days of the children's lives, and it sowed seeds of gratitude and hope in their hearts. Now, the children have grown up and gone to work. In the student Nana Wang's cyberspace, she still keeps the photos of that Beijing trip, with the note: "The best memory." Wang Min, a college graduate, now works for an insurance company in Xi'an. She says, "I will pass on this love and do my best to help those in need. If I have the chance, I will do my best to help those children who were once like me." Chen Yu, who graduated from university, wrote: "Now I am still a very ordinary person in the multitude of people, countless times when I want to give up efforts, I will be grateful to think of those who took me out of the mountains for the first time. Those imprinted in my mind every frame of the wonderful, always in front of me, like a guiding light!"
People who burn the lamp
At the beginning of every year, I look forward to "Moving China" to imprint every frame of splendor in my mind due to great love and dedication. Even if you miss the TV broadcast time, you will definitely watch the replay of "Moving China" through the Internet. Every time you watch, you are y moved, tears can not help but come out of their eyes.
"In the rotten mountain flowers, we find you. Nature strikes you with wind and snow, you repay with singing. Fate put you on the cliff, you feed the earth with fragrance. Do not be afraid to grind into dust, have no intention to struggle for spring, with the angry life, to the world to express stubbornness. You are the laurel by the cliff, the plum in the snow." When I saw the moving China 2020 Person of the Year Zhang Guimei's moving story, the image in my brain switched between the school where Ms. Zhang Guimei taught and the elementary school where I was teaching.
It is because I have the experience of teaching in the mountains of Guizhou that I feel more y the selfless love of Ms. Zhang Guimei, and I have more empathy.
Ms. Zhang Guimei has spent 12 years walking 110,000 kilometers of home visits, and she has broken ribs and suffered serious injuries on the mountain roads. Every time I see Ms. Zhang Guimei's touching deeds, I always have the scene of Ms. Zhang Guimei riding a horse or being helped by students to go to the home visit. During the teaching period in Guizhou, I often visited students' homes after school. After class in the afternoon, I walked with the students on the mountain paths, the farther to walk nearly two hours. At night, I stayed at the students' homes, and the next morning, I walked back to school with them. Through the home visits, I have enhanced the relationship with students and parents, and also added fuel and encouragement for students to study well. I y appreciate that Ms. Zhang Guimei dragged a sick body, enduring pain, "desperately" home visits, in order to let the students, parents know: only knowledge can change the fate of children in mountainous areas.
Last year, during the National Day, I revisited Mr. Zhang Guimei teacher's deeds, and wrote a poem in tribute to Mr. Zhang Guimei teacher: "The person who burns the lamp".
"...... The students are still in dreamland, the trumpet in their hands has blown. Evoking, striving for the ambition to fight for time. Urged, reminded, busy back, has been beside the students. Quietly, quietly, towards the window that lets in the light. Quietly, quietly, a thin body on watch. Slowly, slowly, dragging a tired body back to the bedroom. In order to let the students into the school, carefully, walking on the rugged road of home visits. With sincerity, with expectations, open the skylight of the family's heart. There are difficulties to carry together, can not let the setbacks block the dream of sailing ......"
Successive moving China's annual figures, the most moved me is the moving China's 2005 annual figures, "Maban postal road" postal worker I've seen Wang Shunyou's picture in "Moving China" many times, and I've been moved to tears every time I've seen it. For Wang Shunyou, loneliness is his norm. During the 14 days he traveled to and from the "Maban Post Road", he spent at least six nights in the mountains. One of the nights he spent on the mountain, Wang Shunyou said, "This postal route is all about loneliness and isolation, and it's just too much to bear. I'm not afraid of walking, but I'm afraid of loneliness ...... When I'm lonely, I think of my hometown, my parents, my wife and children, but the only thing that accompanies me is the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, and the sound of the bell of my horse, and my horse accompanies me." When Wang Shunyou stroked the horse's head with his hand and said to the horse, "Only you accompany me ......", Wang Shunyou cried, crying like a helpless child. Whenever I see this scene, I always tear up myself. Seeing Wang Shunyou's loneliness and isolation reminded me of the loneliness and isolation I experienced when I was teaching in Guizhou. I have also woken up in my sleep with tears wetting my pillowcase because of loneliness and isolation.
What I never expected was that in May 2021, Wang Shunyou, who brought me the most emotion, left us forever. Wang Shunyou ah! You are only 56 years old ah, why so suddenly left us ah! Wang Shunyou! We want to hear you sing the song "Why" again! Today, I'm going to sing the song "Why" to you: "Why, why, why not say a clear you go, why not say clear you break up ......" Wang Shunyou gone, but he brought me touched will always be in the heart.
17 years of companionship, there are too many touches stirred in the depths of the heart, which is the most valuable spiritual wealth in my life. I will always treasure these touches, turn them into action, and be a person who can touch myself and others.