These two years refer to the two years I studied and lived in Huangmei First Middle School.
Those two years, the school door is also facing south, facing Huangmei Town's old East Street. The school door to the street about thirty to forty meters, on both sides of the door there are two rows of tall and leafy sycamore trees. In September of autumn, the luxuriant branches and leaves of the ancient school gate reflect the more quiet.
In the small house on the left hand side of the entrance, there is a thin and small old man. Next to the pavilion, hanging an ancient bronze bell. In addition to being responsible for opening and closing the school gate, the old man is also responsible for ringing the bell for class and the bell for dismissal. In those two years, there was no security personnel at the school gate.
Standing in front of the school, looking north, is the wide center square. The office building stands in the northernmost part of the center square. There are two rows of newspaper reading boards opposite each other in front of the building. Both sides of the square are also tall and leafy sycamore trees, branches and leaves sheltered on both sides of the symmetrical arrangement of several rows of cottages. Near the school gate, there are three basketball courts on the right. The first and second rows of bungalows to the east of the basketball court are the middle school classrooms.
The classrooms of the senior middle school are on the left hand side of the school gate, two rows of bungalows in front and two rows of bungalows in back. The first row of bungalows, from west to east, are the classrooms of the first year (1) to first year (4) classes; the second row, from east to west, are the classrooms of the second year (1) to second year (4) classes. Our freshman classroom is closest to the school gate. Between the school gate and the mountain wall to the east of our classroom there was an open space, on which stood a swing set, which was our favorite place for activities during class. Many boys, as soon as the class ran to the swing, climbed up and slipped down, climbed up and slipped down.
In those two years, the school leaders and teachers, all live in the school; the vast majority of students are also resident students. The whole school seems to be a natural village.
In those two years, a class of thirty to forty boys lived in a large dormitory of about seventy to eighty square meters. The beds are bunk beds, a bunk *** two beds sleep four students. Each student brought from home a wooden box, a bucket and a washbasin, the better-off students have a water bottle. The wooden box is placed at the head of the bed where they sleep or in front of the bed, and most of the other items are tucked under the bed.
In those two years, we got up early in the morning when the wake-up bell rang. After washing up, those who wanted to run consciously went for a run. The assembly bell rang, we converge to the center square, facing the office building line, do radio gymnastics. After the morning exercises, we go to the classroom to read. There is only one morning reading, and there are no small or large morning readings. There were four classes in the morning and three classes in the afternoon. The last class of the day is an unchanging extracurricular free activity class.
In those two years, there was basically no homework outside the classroom. Because in addition to the textbook does not have any information; in addition to the textbook exercises, there is no practice. In those two years, there were no classes every week on Saturday afternoons, evenings, and Sundays during the day.
In those two years, the main leaders of the school were two respected old gentlemen. Chen, the secretary of the school party branch, is Mr. Marine, a small man, legs and feet are not convenient. But whenever heavy rain comes before, Mr. Chen hobbled in the campus drainage ditch side, from time to time bend down, remove the ditch debris or sludge. The principal, Mr. Wu Zhenzhong, has a thin face and white hair. Whenever the school is not in class on Saturdays and Sundays, Mr. Wu, the principal of the school, volunteered to teach students in the third floor of the office building in the lecture hall, "three hundred paragraphs of ancient literature," listening to the students are the whole school class voluntarily go. The book "Three Hundred Paragraphs of Ancient Writings for Self-learning", with a white cover, was self-edited and self-printed by the school. Principal Wu told us "Irene Sayings", "The Inscription of the Ugly Room", and Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong - Write Huai" ...... Principal Wu said, "Thirty years of fame and dust and earth, 8,000 miles of clouds and the moon. The voice of "do not wait for leisure, white youth head, empty sadness" is still echoing in the ears.
In those two years, we lined up in front of the library to buy Chinese food and dinner. The school library is located on the east side of the two rows of classrooms in the middle school, the door is facing west, very close to the cafeteria. It was a building with a great sense of history and culture, simple and elegant. Although it is also a bungalow, it looks solemn and majestic. The ground in front of the library was open, with a forest, an ancient well, and some stone benches. We bought a meal, most people sit on the stone benches or squatting on the ground, on the curd edamame brought from home to eat, by the way, from the well to fetch water to wash the dishes. After dinner, we had to carry buckets of water to the pool next to the cafeteria to get hot water.
In those two years, the school did not require classroom teachers to be on duty six times a day. Classroom teachers were not required to nail themselves to the podium like nails or squat on the podium like a toilet. Classroom teachers were never charged, but they were required to lead students to work on the school farm.
Those two years, the school had labor classes. In the senior year, labor classes were held every Thursday afternoon. The present Experimental High School was built on the fields of the first school farm. The labor class I remember most was picking manure. There were three public **** toilets on the campus, and we scooped the dung from these toilets into buckets with dung scoops, with the smaller students carrying a bucket and the larger students carrying a load. Led by Mr. Zhou Shengxian, the class teacher and language teacher, we marched along the field path to the school farm. Mr. Zhou sowed seeds with us, weeded, fertilized and harvested.
In those two years, Mr. Zhou loved to stand outside the classroom window and look at us. One day, it was another teacher's class, my deskmate Chen and I were making small movements under the desk, which was discovered by Mr. Zhou. Mr. Zhou then asked a girl, Lu, to share my desk. As soon as Lu sat down, she drew a line of 38 defenses. Our classroom was like a side of Mr. wheat field, we were the wheat in the wheat field, and Mr. was the laborer and watchman in the wheat field.
In those two years, Mr. Zhou's method of speaking the vernacular language is basically a decades later, has been fashionable to the present day, the study guide method. Mr. first on the blackboard, strong floor book some questions, and then let us read the text on the basis of their own exchanges, and then randomly point us to answer the questions on the blackboard. After we answer the questions, Mr. will make a short comment.
In those two years, Mr. Zhou lectured on literary texts, sometimes word by word and sentence by sentence. That slow and methodical words, organized and meticulous; sometimes from the other, cited, that natural association, the sky is the limit, volatile.
I still remember the situation when Mr. Wolf talked about the "Wolf in the mountains". Especially when it comes to "beasts negative grace as such, but still can not bear to kill, Zi solid benevolent, but also very foolish! To save a man from a well, to unclothe a friend to survive, in his plan, you can get it, but it's like being in a dead place!" When, in addition to explaining the basic meaning of the statement, but also said "from the well to save people" from the "Analects of Confucius - Yongya", the text said: "Zai I asked: 'benevolent, although told that the well there is benevolence (people), from which it also?' Zi said: 'Why is it so? A gentleman may pass away, but not be trapped.'" After explaining the meaning of these lines, Mr. Zi then mentioned other lines similar in meaning to "Save a man from a well, unclothe his clothes and live with his friends", such as the last two lines of the aria "The Bee" by Luo Yin, a poet of the Late Tang Dynasty, which reads, "After picking a hundred flowers and making them into honey, whoever works hard works hard and whoever works sweet", and extended them to the following words: "The bee has become honey. "and to derive and play.
Mr. said: "Students, think about and savor these words. Luo Yin's "Bee" full text is: 'Regardless of the flat land and the tip of the mountain, infinite scenery is occupied. After picking a hundred flowers to make honey, for whom does it toil and for whom is it sweet?' This poem praises the noble character of bees for their hard work, and also alludes to the author's hatred and dissatisfaction with those who get something for nothing. The words 'to save a man from a well, to unclothe a friend to live, to gain from his scheme, what is it like to die for' and 'after picking a hundred flowers to make honey, for whom toil and for whom to sweeten' are all extremely selfish. If a man does not act for himself, heaven and earth will destroy him. This saying has been misunderstood to mean that if a person does not seek private gain for himself, he will incur the execution of heaven and earth. In fact, the word 'for' here, pronounced in the second tone, means 'to cultivate, to cultivate'. Its original meaning is that if a person does not pay attention to cultivation, it will be very difficult to get a foothold between heaven and earth......." Mr. spoke calmly, we were nervous to memorize, filling up the blanks between the upper and lower lines of text in the textbook. Mr. so intentionally or unintentionally improve our language level, thought level and moral level. Mr. students, there are deans, there are directors, more from teaching and medicine. I think this is not accidental, but inevitable.
In those two years, there were three teachers who taught us mathematics: Mr. Chen Xianhua, Mr. Xu Liangguo, and Mr. Mei Jiajun. In the first semester of the first year of high school, Mr. Chen taught us the basics of functions. Mr. Chen lectured with a clear and pleasant voice, always with a smile on his face, and his fingers were also very nice when he crossed his fingers on the board. After we were divided into arts and science classes, Mr. Xu Liangguo taught us three-dimensional geometry. Mr. Xu had a big body and a strong sense of three-dimensionality. Mr. Xu always brought a compass and a triangle board to class, and he drew diagrams in an orderly manner. If a problem requires an auxiliary line, Mr. Xu will stop for a while, tilting his head and looking up, as if he is thinking, but in fact he intends to let us think.
In the second year of high school, Mr. Mei Jiajun made his debut. Mr. Mei is from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. Mr. taught us Trigonometry, Complex Numbers, Vectors, Analytic Geometry, Determinants and Matrices, Series and Limits, Preliminary Calculus, Derivatives, and so on, many of which we can no longer remember. Although Mr. is a math teacher, but the literary grace is extremely good, talking math class idioms. There is a sample problem, Mr. a **** talk about four solutions. Then commented: "This solution step by step, this solution is simple and concise, this solution is ingenious, this solution is a winding road, and the third solution is the same, four solutions are the same way. We can solve math problems by any means necessary, and those who are bold enough to try the side ways are perfectly capable of doing so. After you study the fine Bi Zhi, you will find that sometimes there is no way out of the mountain, the dark flowers and a village. But sometimes the deliberate pursuit of work, but instead of making a mistake." The two sentences of "sometimes deliberately seek to work, but instead of making a mistake" appeared in the language paper of our college entrance examination!
In those two years, there were three teachers who taught us English, or only two. The English teacher in the first semester of the first year of high school was Mr. Liu Yankun, a tall and big female teacher, a native of Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Mr. Liu's major was Russian, and English was her second foreign language. Ms. Liu was the teacher I feared the most in those two years. I had never studied English before I entered the First Middle School, and I had only been exposed to the 26 letters of the alphabet when I was learning plane geometry, and I didn't even know how to pronounce many of the letters. Even though Mr. I knew that my English foundation was zero, he had no mercy and would definitely screw me up and speak whenever he was in English. How many times before English class, I lingered by the swing set and looked toward the way the teacher was coming to class, terrified, fearful, and trembling with trepidation. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this," he said!
The first English class after the division of arts and sciences, came a male teacher. The first English class after the division of arts and sciences, there was a male teacher. In those two years, the morning and afternoon before the first class to sing. The second English class, literature and art members looked to see the teacher came, they sent a song "sea sailing rely on the helmsman", we sang loudly "sea sailing rely on the helmsman". When the teacher arrived at the door of the classroom, the literature and art committee member followed with a song called "The East is Red", and we sang "The East is Red" again. The teacher understood what we meant and left unhappy. Now that I think about it, this thing we did at that time was very unethical. In the first song, the teacher's name was embedded in the title of the song; in the second song, the title of the song was able to derive a highly targeted and insulting meaning. Later, it was Mr. Zhang Rongli who taught us English.
In those two years, two of the teachers who taught us loved to give us nicknames. All of our students in the eyes of Mr. Zhang Jiangwen, the political teacher, were x x x! Mr. All students should remember the three words × × × ×. Matter determines consciousness, right? Your mom sees how much rice flour there is and thinks of how much poo she can make, that's matter determining consciousness. You can study, your family card eat card drink for you to save money, able to help you squeeze a little money out of your teeth, your father decided to send you to school, this is also matter determines consciousness. Understand? ×××x x x! What are commodities? Your old hen laid a few eggs, in order to pay for your schooling, your mom took them to the street and sold them secretly, or exchanged those eggs for a pen for you, those eggs are commodities. But if your mom cooks the eggs and gives them to you to eat, those eggs are not a commodity. Get it? ×××xxxxx, get the hell out of it! You xxxxx, have you noticed? Those few eggs, they must be privately owned by your family, not stolen from a chicken or a dog, stolen is called stolen goods. Private products become commodities when they are produced not for one's own consumption but for the consumption of others, i.e., for the consumption of society, and when they are exchanged into the consumption of society. Get it? ...... At this point, a student raised his hand. The gentleman looked at him and said, x x x, you say. The student who raised his hand stood up and said, the eggs are privately owned by the hen, the fucking eggs are stolen. The classroom burst into laughter, and the teacher laughed along with him. We laughed enough, Mr. said, ××××, if a ××× goes to your house to steal the hen's private eggs ...... we laughed again. Mr. Zhang is not tall but very robust, lecturing with a very strong bottom and a loud voice. Usually half of the class time to talk about the textbook, half of the class longitudinal review of current events at home and abroad. The two years of the college entrance examination, politics to test current affairs politics.
Those two years, love to give us a nickname for another gentleman is our physics teacher Mr. Hu National, a Taishan Beidou level characters. Mr. Wuhan City, after graduating from college, went to the countryside to Huangmei to receive re-education of poor peasants. Mr. Hu was very tall, tall enough for people to look up to. In those two years, under Mr. Hu's teaching, we did not feel at all that physics was the most difficult subject in high school. Mr. Hu's class, very characteristic is the board book. Every word was neatly written, with a half-word-sized space evenly distributed between two adjacent words; every word seemed to be carved, and the blackboard seemed to be the steel plate used to carve test papers; the entire surface of the blackboard was neatly written, like a piece of waxed paper that had been carved and written. Mr. sketch is also very good, simple image realistic.
As for what exactly is good about Mr. Lecture, it is difficult for me to say a reason. Imitating the expression of the composition material of the national language paper Ⅰ of the new college entrance examination in 2022, "The original hand, the wonderful hand, and the common hand are the three terms of Go. The original move refers to a regular move that is in accordance with the principles of the game; the brilliant move refers to an unexpected and subtle move; and the common move refers to a move that seems to be reasonable but is usually detrimental from a global point of view", and Mr. Li's lectures are mostly about the original move. For example, Mr. this talk "the analysis of the object force": Zhang Sanfeng stood in our classroom east of the swing, how many forces he was subjected to the role of? Li Si Mao came over to pull Zhang Sanfeng but did not pull, Zhang Sanfeng at this time by the role of several forces? Li Si Mao put down Zhang San Feng and climbed up the straight swing set at a constant speed, how many forces were acting on Li Si Mao? Two Newton felt that the swing frame is going to fall down, and hurriedly found a long wooden board diagonally supporting the swing frame. Little Xiu Cai feels still unreliable and lies down on the long plank himself. How many forces are acting on the little showman? How many forces are acting on the long board? Please Zhang Sanfeng Li Si Mao on the podium to draw a schematic diagram of the forces on himself, two Newton to draw a schematic diagram of the forces on the little Xiu Cai. Little Xiu Cai! You lie on the long wooden board, you should know the force of the long wooden board, yo - Mr. with a full of encouragement, expectant eyes looking at the little showman.
Those two years, on the first high school all rely on their own ability to test. Parents have a lot of money and officials, their own score is not enough, no. In the end, the school will decide which class to be assigned to, and the parents have a lot of money and want to choose their own class, no.
This is the first time I've been to a school in the United States.
The year we went to the first high school, the midterm scores a little higher students, divided in the first year (1) class to the first year (4) class, similar to the current focus of the class. The first (1) class is more scientific, the first (4) class is more literary. Mr. Hu teaches physics to the three classes of Senior 1 (1), Senior 1 (4) and Senior 1 (7) ****. Mr. wonderful hand, arts and sciences class division, our freshman (4) class almost collective shift to science.
Mr. Hu, not only a good class, and basketball is also playing very well. Mr. Hu, a gentle and elegant man on the podium, became a fierce warrior on the basketball court. During the last extracurricular activity class in the afternoon, many students in our class gathered around the basketball court to watch Mr. Hu play. The tallest man on the court, with his glasses tied to the back of his head with an elastic band, and the most dashing of the three-step hurdles was our Mr. Hu.
In those two years, no matter what the subject, only when a chapter was all finished, the teacher carved a test paper with an iron pen, wax paper and steel plate for a quiz. The test, surely, was not the teacher's magic weapon; the score, the students did not realize that it was their lifeblood.
Those two years, the teachers neither want to change the students' fate of the kind of sacred sense of mission, nor I can change the students' fate of the kind of solemn sense of pride, teaching and educating people as wiping the table and sweeping the floor, just a kind of work. Sophomore year, the classroom has been moved to the opposite row of bungalows in the west, we are still as usual, just feel far away from the swing set. The content of the teacher is closer and closer to the end page of the textbook, we still eat and sleep sparingly, read and listen to the lecture in a step-by-step manner, and do the exercises in the textbook in an organized manner or even slowly and leisurely.
In those two years, there was no teacher deliberately preaching the importance of the college entrance examination, not to mention the countdown and shouting slogans, making the college entrance examination look like a war of defense. We have to take the pre-test before the college entrance examination, and only after passing the pre-test are we eligible to take the college entrance examination. It was only before the pre-test that Mr MUI Ka-chun, the mathematics teacher, mentioned the Advanced Level Examination. Mr. Mei said, "Now, it's already a mountain rain. Back then, the ****production party used millet and rifles to defeat the Kuomintang's airplanes and artillery; now, you have to use curd and edamame to deal with the city children's big fish and meat. What makes you even more terrified is that you are using two years to deal with their three years. It is really an injustice, but there are still people who are wasting their time and do not want to make progress. Black clouds are pressing down on the city and the city wants to be destroyed!" The pre-test was at the end of May, and the college entrance exam was on July 7, 8, and 9*** for three days. After the pre-test, I returned to the classroom, found that there are a number of students' seats empty, only to feel that the atmosphere seems a little tense.
In those two years, almost no homeroom teachers talked to students, and if they did, it must have been a student who made a not-so-small mistake. After the pre-test, our teacher Zhou only one after another to find a few students, to the front door of the classroom to talk, three words, very concise. Zhou teacher first asked me two years of high school four composition book is still not, in the case of him to leave him as a souvenir, and then reminded me that there is still more than a month from the college entrance examination, do not be impatient, as long as you can test out of the pre-test this score, you can enter the physics department of so-and-so university.
In those two years, before the college entrance examination, the school did not have a study session on examination style and discipline, no pre-test mobilization pledge meeting, and no teacher for pre-test counseling. The first three days of the college entrance examination after breakfast, Mr. Zhou called all the students in our class to come to the front of the classroom, lined up into two rows of horizontal line. Teacher Zhou stood in front of the line and said, "Students! Three days from now, you will enter the college entrance examination center. I hope you with full enthusiasm, high morale, bravely accept the motherland and the people's selection. The motherland needs talents in all walks of life, industry, agriculture, business, academia and the military, all walks of life. Chairman Mao taught us: 'The world is yours and ours, but in the final analysis it is yours. You young people are vigorous and in your prime, like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. Hope rests on you.' From now on, no matter what position you are in, it is the need to build socialism. I hope that students will study harder, work conscientiously, and contribute their youth and strength to the early realization of the four modernizations!"
In those two years, because there were not so big textbooks, not so thick review materials, not so many test papers, students put a few textbooks into the arms of a hold can leave, so the evacuation of the classroom civilized orderly and fast. In front of the examination room, there is not even a wall clock, the classroom floor was not much waste paper, so the floor is slightly cleaned, move the desks a little bit, the college entrance examination room is set up. Since then, we can never walk into this classroom.
Two searchlights were installed on the sycamore trees on each side of the east and west sides of the school's central square. That night, four searchlights illuminated the central square. The large dormitory, high hanging four incandescent lamps. Said incandescent lamps, but they glowed dimly. Our resident students were in the center square, huddled in groups of three and four, reviewing for exams. The ground was hot and the air was full of bugs. The next day, our students stayed in the dormitory without a ceiling, either sitting on the edge of the bed, or half lying on the bed, or sitting on the bed against the wall, reviewing and preparing for the exam. Sweat dripped from their foreheads and water dripped from their backs. Hot sunlight through the tile cracks, dust in the column of light fluttering, annoyed sparrows from time to time jumped in from the window, chirping a few times.
In those two years, the university did not have 985 and 211, there is no one book, two said, and there is no three, the division of specialties, the admission line is only secondary school, junior college two lines. Hubei only Wuhan University called university; Huazhong University of Science and Technology, then called Huazhong College of Technology; Wuhan Electronics Industry School, is a very good provincial department of secondary school; secondary teacher training school graduates of the "three words and one painting" (brush, pen, chalk, sketch) are bar, assigned to the elementary school or junior high school, what subjects can be taught.
The first two years of this year's program are the first time that the government has taken a step backward.
In those two years, there were only two grades in Huangmei First High School, and one grade had only eight classes, each with about fifty people. The year of the college entrance examination, our class's college entrance examination results second grade, there are 11 students were admitted to universities and junior colleges and universities. The top of the list was the sophomore class (1), and the number of people who were admitted to universities and junior colleges was 17.
In those two years, the college entrance examination was also examined, the school did not have the "college entrance examination newspaper", and did not firecrackers, the day as usual, the ordinary. The previous data are not from the teacher's mouth, but between the students to inquire about each other.
That summer, I wanted to say goodbye to the gentlemen. But I came to the school and did not dare to see the gentlemen, but only stood alone in front of the office building by the newspaper reading column, have a glance at the newspaper.
"××××, come over here," was Mr. Zhang calling me. "The acceptance letter has arrived, right?" I said it arrived. Mr. asked, "Which university?" I didn't make a sound. Mr. seemed to understand and asked a bit eagerly, "Did you fill out the application yourself?" I said I didn't even know that school existed. Mr. then said in a serious manner, "You go and take a look at it first, and if you are not satisfied, you will come back in a single-minded manner for your senior year and senior year."
Material determines consciousness, a rural child, do not care what college, junior college, as long as you do not move bricks on the good, this is our parents' unwavering consciousness. Seeing that I still do not make a sound, Mr. Zhang again bright voice said: "You next school year, the matter of reading, life on the matter, all is my business!"
I'm afraid I'll never be able to return to ...... my state of mind at that time is estimated to be "the boat has passed away, the river and the sea to send the rest of my life". I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new one. After those two years, Mr. Zhang swims in the river and the sea, as the vice governor of Huangmei County, Huanggang City, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Mr. Zhang retired to live in a teacher's apartment across the street from the First High School - Pearl Garden District. Now, Mr. Zhang has eighty years old, still glowing. Every morning, Mr. Zhang and his partner Mr. Jiang together, majestically to the school cafeteria to eat. After breakfast one day not long ago, I accompanied Mr. Zhang on a walk and brought up old memories. Mr. paused, looked at me, waved his hand, and said, "Forget it!"
Those two years, those fragments, very memorable. Although no longer see that school door, that office building, that classroom, that library, and that swing set, although that piece of land has been completely commercialized, above the construction of shopping malls, things are not people are not, but that ancient bronze bell, still stands in the new first middle school office building east of the roof of the third floor, the crisp and loud, quite shocking bell, as in that year, but also from time to time in the campus echoes, as if the teachers of the wise teachings still In the ears echoed ......