Early last month, the media reported Liuyang City, Hunan Province, Shashi Town, Yangtian Village, "Dr. Wall" - a village out of 21 doctors, more than 100 masters. This doctor high yield village, in fact, what is the secret?
The annual college entrance examination is coming soon. A few days ago, Slow News-Chongqing Evening News reporter went into Yangtian village, through on-site visits and detailed inspection, trying to explore the education issue more y, so as to carve out this contemporary sample of China's rural education.
Tan Sitong once said, "I Liuyang morale pure Pang, humanities rise." "The first one will be Liuyang." Tan Sitong, a native of Liuyang, Hunan Province, is a genius of wisdom and rare acumen. Two sentences from over a hundred years ago outlined a sample of today's rural education. Also prophetic.
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In the April days of Beng Xia, when the rain was as light as a crisp, the grass and trees of Yangtian Village were happy, and the landscape was y beautiful.
Outside the village, you can see the "Doctor's Wall", a wall not found in other villages.
From the head of the village to the Doctor's Wall, there is a straight road with stores on both sides. The Doctor's Wall is in the center of the village, at the intersection of several roads. It cannot be bypassed in either direction of entry. Obviously, the location had taken some thought.
The wall is small, rectangular, with a white background, like a wall where slogans were written decades ago. The three big words "Dr. Wall" are extremely bright, and there is Hanyu Pinyin underneath the words. Above the words is a doctor's hat, and on each side there is a line of popular style words - "Knowledge changes destiny, culture breeds virtue."
There are 19 doctors on the wall, including names, profiles and photos. The only one without a photo is 80-year-old Luo Xuangan, the first doctor from Yangtian village, a PhD from Harvard University.
There are also doctors from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Nankai University....... Among them, there are eight female doctors.
Aerial view of Yangtian Village and Loudao River
The year of birth of the PhDs is counted, with two in 1987, three in 1985, and four in 1984, and the profiles state the colleges and universities that each PhD attended.
The family even produced two Ph.D.s -- brothers Luo Hongtao and Luo Honglang are Ph.D.s from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Villager Luo Bibo's brother Luo Qing and daughter Luo Zhaojing are PhDs.
There is also a passage on the wall that focuses on the tradition of education in Yangtian village, which is also a short answer to the question of a doctor's village.
In front of the wall, flowers and plants are planted in the fence, and in the middle of the flowers and plants is a statue of Confucius. "The gentleman seeks the way not to seek food", Confucius emphasizes education not farming, and the wall "hard work and education, cultivation and reading heritage" eight slightly inconsistent. Rather, Tan Sitong's educational ideas and this match, after all, is Liuyang people, Liuyang "heavy farming and reading" beliefs.
Yangtian village cadres Tang Huahao single-handedly responsible for the construction of Dr. wall
Why build Dr. wall? Village cadre Tang Huahao knows best, the whole thing is her responsibility. At that time, many people said Yangtian Village has produced so many doctors, in the end, how many, in the end, which is the family out of the doctor, where the doctor, we do not know. The old secretary Luo Ze and approached her to discuss the idea that it would be a great feature to simply build a PhD wall to display all the PhDs in Yangtian Village. "I started preparing for this in March 2015, contacting one family after another and building it in October."
"There are still two doctors who are not on the wall, one has not been contacted, and the other is a doctoral student at Hangzhou University." Tang Huahao said, will be made up as soon as possible, and the doctoral wall also needs to be improved, the profile of uniform specification, complete information, but also for the new doctor to leave a position.
The Zhongling Yuxiu, not a wall can be fully expressed.
Early in the morning before 7:00 a.m., three or two children from the other end of the village, not slow, passing the Dr. wall, to go to the village primary school two hundred meters away from the morning reading. They are still young and may not know the significance of the wall, but they pass by it every day for years and years.
Pupils in Yangtian Village write calligraphy with brushes
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Yangtian Village is a medium-sized village with 1,288 households. In addition to 21 PhDs, over the past 30 years, more than 100 masters and 600 college students have been born. On average, two families produce a college student and 12 families produce a master's degree.
Yangtian Village is not much different from other villages in Liuyang City, Hunan Province. Perhaps many people think that the children here are smarter than other children; perhaps they think that schooling here is very different from other places. Chen Yongchao, the principal of Yangtian Complete Primary School, doesn't think so, and neither do the villagers.
Qu Weimian's daughter, Qu Ting, is the first female doctorate to come out of Yangtian village, and her son has a bachelor's degree.
Wei-Member Qu still has the honorary certificates her daughter received when she was in school
Qu Ting said she and her brother were not specially endowed.
Qu Weimian is an ordinary farmer in Yangtian village. Back then, in order to train their children to study, the couple had to "ruthlessly" leave their two children behind, and both went to work abroad to earn money. "We are always away from home, they became left behind children, their own laundry cooking, take care of themselves."
Not only was there no one to take care of the siblings' education, but there was also no one to take care of their lives. Growing up in such an environment, Qu Ting successfully enrolled in Nankai University and studied from undergraduate to doctoral degree, while her brother enrolled in Northeastern University.
While knowing that their children are obedient and conscious of their studies, Qu Weimian and his wife are still worried, and every time before they go out, they repeatedly urge them to study hard, saying "We will make you study more even if we have to smash the pots and pans to sell the iron". This is an incentive, but also a great determination, but also a reality. Qu Weimian said, those years the family really did not buy anything, there are more than eight years, the only electrical appliances in the house is a flashlight, everything is only for the children to study.
Now, Qu Ting is a teacher at Tianjin University. She said she was really grateful for the custom in Yangtian village of "selling the pot of iron to make the children study". If there had been a different place, or if the parents hadn't had this idea, life would have been a different story.
With his children working, Qu Weimin's life has improved. His current home is spacious, clean and bright, with a large sofa and a variety of appliances. There is a plaque on the wall with four big words "doctoral degree". This is a gift from the Yangtian village committee, which has a doctorate, the village has to beat the drum to send such a plaque, in recognition.
There are many similar stories in Yangtian village. When I walked into Wang Xiehua's house, she was cooking breakfast. She has survived the hard times. Both of her sons went to college that year, and her youngest son, Luo Weiping, then went on to get a doctorate. In order to pay for their children's education, she and her partner were busy day and night, raising more than 10 pigs every year to earn tuition and living expenses for their children.
On Feb. 13 this year, when the primary school in Yangtian village opened, the school invited Luo Zhixiang, a doctor from Yangtian village, to give the children their first lesson.
On February 13, this year, Yangtian Village Completion Elementary School opened, the school invited from Yangtian Village out of the doctor Luo Zhixiang, to give the children the first lesson.
There is a saying in Yangtian: "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how bitter you are, you can't be bitter to your children." Other places people compare wealth, and Yangtian people compare reading; which earn more money and do not let people red, whose children are good grades, willing to study hard to call people envy. Rangtian completely primary school principal Chen Yongchao said, which formed a good learning atmosphere, our teachers recommend reading what books, parents are actively buying. Our school is bigger than many elementary schools, and village cadres attach great importance to teaching.
Why does Yangtian village produce so many talented people? Shashi town town party committee member Xie detailed Hua summarized four points: First, Yangtian village resources are poor, economic conditions are not good, the formation of the "only reading to change life" beliefs; Second, Yangtian village Luo clan since ancient times, there is a "hard work and heavy reading" tradition; Third, the driving force of the role model, the first test up college students, master's degree, master's degree, master's degree, Master's degree, Master's degree. The first test up college students, masters, doctors, as well as successful entrepreneurs continue to inspire children to study hard; Fourth, the village has always attached importance to education and funding.
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In the village of Yangtian, you are bound to hear the story of Luo Hongtao, Luo Honglang two brothers.
Luo Jianshi was a local farmer in Yangtian Village who knew the gabion craft. His two sons, Luo Hongtao and Luo Honglang, both have PhDs from Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Luohongtao recalled that at that time the family was poor, no shoes to wear in the summer, bare feet, often by the sun hot slate hot jump; winter, hands and feet are frostbite, the classroom is a dirt wall, leaks around the wind, so I had to carry a fire box from home to go to school. Every day after school to come home, to first cut cattle grass, picking water, household chores are busy, before starting to do homework. "Sometimes when the power went out, even on a cold winter night, when I woke up in the middle of the night and realized the power was back on, I had to get up and finish my homework."
The brothers harvested rice, planted rice seedlings and did just about all the farm work, even hitting their father's handiwork and weaving gabions.
Those difficult years were described by Luo Hongtao as their "valuable wealth growing up" and something they often take pride in. Living in the countryside, doing chores and farm work is "an advantage, not a disadvantage, for rural children compared to urban children".
The Luo brothers' upbringing is a successful interpretation of Yangtian village's "hard work and study". The people of Yangtian will not let go of such a living textbook. On the afternoon of February 13 this year, all the children of the village primary school gathered in the old groove door on the first lesson of the new year - learning the family style, reading the family history and etiquette, learning from the forefathers of the method of reading, and especially listening to Luo Hongtao from the United States to send back a letter.
The letter is mainly a plea to the younger siblings to study hard, exercise, and strive to create a brighter future for themselves. It is as detailed as what to eat - "Don't be picky, don't eat high sugar, high fat food"; what kind of books to read - "Keep away from electronic products as much as possible and read more paperback classics. And develop the habit of writing reading notes, more thinking and summarizing."
The village committee and the village primary school have decided to gather the children in front of the old trough to be inculcated in the first lesson of the new year every year. Even if the children do not yet fully understand the meaning of this family letter or the importance of etiquette and tradition, the ceremony will gradually leave its mark on them time and again.
The urban and rural change, in the increasingly competitive now, rely solely on hard reading, plowing and reading on the line? Tang Hua Hao particularly mentioned this issue. She said, now the rural children to get into a good university is more and more difficult to rely on the children's personal efforts more and more insufficient, we have to "United Groups of people to do education".
Yangtian village completion of the campus facilities do not see very good, but the school wind is strong.
The village committee attaches great importance to participation in education. Where the test up big scholars, the village will reward 400 yuan. Last year on the 8, this year is estimated to have 10. Tang Hua Hao said, the village committee of the good results of the children are counted, which family's children can read, the village know. Since elementary school, every year, Children's Day, Old Year's Day, the village committee will also be in various forms of condolences, rewards for students who study well.
Maximizing the role of the "new village sage". Earlier this year, the village organized a doctor, entrepreneurs set up Yangtian village scholarship fund, subsidies because of poverty and difficult to study children, the money managed by a person. Luo Xuan Gan also specialized in the bank deposited an education fund, who went to the United States to study can be funded. The village sage Li Changkai set up education and teaching incentive fund for school teachers and students to pay for food; Huang Weide donated 1 million yuan to set up a respect for the elderly and love family personal incentive fund ...... money out of the money, force out of the force, a group of people to do education.
Lianqun Tongli, lush. Education is a big deal for Yangtian, a big deal for all.
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Luo Bibo is the first university student to come out of Yangtian village after the resumption of the college entrance examination. Later, Luo Bibo's six siblings all went to university, and his younger brother Luo Qing and daughter Luo Zhaojing also have PhDs.
Luobibo said it was all thanks to a good family culture. "It's all because my mother led the way."
Luo Bibo's 88-year-old mother, Zhang Qiuxiang, did not go to school, when literacy read two months of night school, and since then the love of books out of control, and now every day still insist on reading for two or three hours.
"My mother said that if she had been born now, she could have become a doctor." Luo Bibo said with a smile.
What Luo Bibo calls good family manners is a continuation of the Luo family's traditional family tradition.
Now, every household in Yangtian Village is required to hang a plaque on which the family's family motto is written. Tang Huahao said this is an important task coming up in Yangtian Village. Every family should hang it, so that the family style and family motto can be seen and touched, and continue to be passed on.
The village's ancient wall displays one by one the ancestral customs and family traditions of the 17 surnames of Yangtian Village in the past, including Luo, Zhang, Chen, Qu, Xiao, He, Zhu, Li, Fu, Wang, Deng and Liu. For example, the family motto of the Fu family is "Respect for the elderly and teach the children, build up the family business and become rich, study hard to educate people to become a talent, good neighbors and friends to deal with things, as an official to cultivate virtue and diligence, cultivate the heart and health". Luo family's ancestral customs and family motto is "serving ancestors, filial piety, parents, and couples, strict wife, pro-clan, respect for teachers and elders, faith in friends, force farming, diligent reading, loyalty and generosity, still diligent and thrifty, practicing etiquette, abstaining from wrongdoing, abstaining from gambling, abstaining from litigation, abstaining from drowning women, abstaining from foreign cigarettes".
Family traditions of various family names hang in Yangtian Village
Ancestral traditions are moral orders. The essence of Luo's ancestral motto is to "work hard at farming and study hard".
The purpose of revitalizing customs is to awaken the people. Yangtian Village is not about restoring ancient family traditions, but about transforming the old into the new and opening up a new era of family customs and traditions. It is not a simple task to combine new life, new development, new vision and new requirements with the situation of one's own family and condense one or two catchy words. It is a remarkable exploration of a new landscape of civilization.
Tong Hua Hao's family motto is "Poetry and books to enlighten the future, filial piety and friends to pass on the family", which has already been made. In order for her family to remember and follow it, she has also made the family motto the group name of her WeChat group. "We hope that every family is like this, and we can influence, standardize and shape people in spreading it." She said.
Family customs and family training, to build up and encourage behavior, is a culture rich in vitality, identified with moral constraints, but also self-requirement. Yangtian people think it is a good thing to educate children. The head of the village is building "Hunan cultivation and reading culture hall", this unique cultural hall of Yangtian spiritual temperament has three plates: the promotion of traditional good family style, loyalty and respect, respect for teachers of the family culture display area; show see the virtuous, mutual help and friendship of the townspeople's experience of culture area; knowledge of unity of action, the world as a kernel of the traditional cultural experience area. Planned to be completed in October this year.
Cultural heritage, can not be in the oral, to put something real show, let the children feel. This is the concept that Tang Hua Hao repeatedly emphasized.
In Yangtian, all culture is touchable, in front of the eyes, visible, highly perceptible. The village lane coccyx, scattered everywhere in history and culture. 600 years of the old Longjing, repair, rumor has it that before the exam, drink a mouthful of water from the well, set the gold list; 300 years of old groove door, show Yangtian various legends, stories, family customs and family training; 400 years of old Bridge Pavilion weathered the wind and frost, the vastness of the sky; a monthly lecture on morality and more than 1,000 square meters of the cultural plaza is the new cultural venues; built in the Autumn Dragon Boat Pier in the Republic of China period, the important battlefield of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, another Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, a grand dragon boat race is about to be staged.
Villager Luo Taixi took the reporter to visit the sports activity center next to the Loudao River, where villagers hold dragon boat races on the river every year.
The rice paddies give children a cultural environment, not just a survival environment.
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In the rice paddies, the wind yi yi, the air is amicable, and the warmth conceals elegance.
Leaving the doctor's wall is not far away, there are two other particularly important walls: the old blue brick wall of the Luo family compound in the Ming Dynasty, which is the oldest historical site in Yangtian, Yangtian's earliest roots; and then walk a hundred meters, is the moral wall, which is posted on the selection of filial piety star, public morality star, each time the selection of the people are hung on the wall, so that the villagers can vote, and if villagers feel that who is not good, you can just tear his name down.
Walking back and forth between these three walls and savoring them, one can find a more complete rural cultural meaning structure. The doctor wall shows children's education, pointing to the future; the old brick wall characterizes historical inheritance, pointing to the past; the moral wall highlights exemplary, exemplary, pointing to the present. Education, as the internal power, pushes this structure to absorb and purify more things, integrate good values into it, precipitate new meanings, and form a fully benign world.
Posters promoting Chinese virtues can be seen everywhere in Yangtian Village
A world of clarity. Here, everything has an origin, a meaning, or has a meaning in itself, or is given a meaning, and that which is absurd, grotesque and uncomfortable has been excluded, or corrected. This is the soulful depths of indoctrination. It is for this reason that the rice paddies are intimate. Tang Hua Hao says that the rice paddies are always intimate. She has lived here for more than 20 years and feels it y.
Tong Hua Hao's mother was a native of Yangtian and married into a neighboring village, giving birth to three daughters, two of whom married back into Yangtian. Some of the sisters married in Yangtian. "Yangtian village is not highbrow. When you walk in Yangtian, you feel proud of being a Yangtian person compared to other villages. Yangtian people have a will to move up." Tang Hua Hao has taught and can describe the feeling.
This kind of closeness brings people back. More and more people who went out are coming back, repairing beautiful houses and building cultural and sports facilities. Education connects the roots of folklore, nostalgia and spirituality.
Villagers Shen Fanfang management of "Yangtian farmers cultural and sports hall" is a few Yangtian entrepreneurs invested more than 3 million yuan to build a variety of ball fields, gymnasiums, restrooms, showers, and even a golf driving range. In the evening, villagers dance in the square, indoor ball games, a basketball game on weekends.
Yangtian Farmers' Cultural and Sports Hall built by villagers
Not far from the Dr. Wall is the famous Liao Dao River. Legend has it that Guan Yu dropped his sword here and fished it out. The river, the pier, the open-air basketball court, the leisure walkway, everything is complete. The river is full of water and clouds, bringing life and spirit to the area.
There is a slogan in Yangtian Village: Live the life of a countryman and be envied by the city. Garbage centralized collection, village alleys cleaner than the city, road white to black ...... earnestness of people's livelihood, reset life everywhere.
This is Yangtian, the purity of morale, the simplicity of the people's feelings, the blessing of the blessing of raising a happy life, the blessing of education.
At 7:30 a.m., the students in the classroom of Yangtian Village Primary School read aloud.