24 years ago, 15 young people
Say goodbye to teachers and parents
Got on a train to the west of the motherland
They crossed the Taklamakan Desert
Carrying a bag and a household registration
Rooted deep in the desert
In Xinjiang and Mo County
The three-foot podium has been standing on the stage for more than 20 years
It is affectionately called by the local people
"The teacher who can't be blown away by the wind"
Today, we want to put their stories
I'll tell you about it
Because of a word
Fifteen college students went deep into the desert
Spring 2000
Xinjiang Jimo County No. 2 Middle School
Recruit at Baoding College (formerly Baoding Normal College).
Hou Chaoru, Li Guizhi, Jing Huifang
Wang Jianchao, Wang Weijiang, Pang Shengli
Xin Zhongqi, Zhu Yinghao, Zhou Zhengguo
Ding Jianxin and 15 other outstanding fresh graduates
After layers of selection, the contract was finally signed
In 2000, 15 graduates who were about to teach in Xinjiang took a group photo in front of their alma mater (formerly Baoding Normal College).
Among them are party members
There are provincial outstanding university graduates
Some of them passed the special exam
Some have already been contacted
Stable and well-paying job
Because of the sentence of Principal Duan Jun who came to recruit
"We are very short of teachers there"
Let them give up a better opportunity
Say goodbye to your hometown
I chose the end of the desert, far away in the desert
In August 2000, Ding Jianxin held the banner of "Teaching in the West", and a group of 15 graduates arrived at the end of the year
This time the contract was signed
It's not a short period of months or two or three years
Rather, it means to be
Take your household registration book and go there to put down roots
Many people make decisions without the help of their parents
Li Guizhi was an outstanding graduate of the provincial level that year
Many key middle schools in Hebei Province want to sign contracts with her
But she chose to be the end
This was previously connected to Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province
I have never been to Baoding Dingzhou girl
I want to see the outside world
The mother did not want her daughter to go that far
I spent the whole summer in a cold war with her
On the day of departure
Li Guizhi walked out of the house with his luggage
Mother said something later:
"Arrived, write a letter"
Li Guizhi's tears burst out of his eyes in an instant
She didn't dare look back
With an "um" sound, he set off
Li Guizhi
"Don't mention the word 'unfilial piety' in the future
You're in a place where the motherland needs you."
Transfer by train to car
All the way to the west
After 5 days and 4 nights of tossing and turning
They finally came to Xinjiang and the end
Because it is located in the heart of the Taklamakan Desert
Drought and wind-blown sand
It tests all life here from time to time
Along the way, the students became more and more silent
Although I was mentally prepared for a long time
But the hardships in Xinjiang are beyond their imagination
See the humble school with the walls peeling off
Take a bite of the noodles with the "condiment" of the sand
They really know where they are
This was what the classroom used to look like
Didn't wait for them to adjust their mood
God gave them a dismount
The sandstorm is coming!
Without warning, the sky darkened
The yellow sand in the sky is like a wall
The black pressed the ground and surrounded him
Visibility is less than a few meters
There is a choking earthy smell everywhere
Experienced this thrilling first
They just understood
Why is there a wind here
can "scrape" a few teachers
At the end of that year, the climate was dry and the wind and sand were raging
And the end of that time
There are about 16 days of extremely strong sandstorms every year
The weather in Yangsha was as high as more than 60 days
There are one-third of the days in the year
are all shrouded in floating dust
Xin Zhongqi said
Once it was windy and forgot to close the window
The house was all buried in the earth
Clear out half a bucket of soil
The dry climate makes them
Burst hands and nosebleeds
The most testing of them is
It's remote and isolated
On the platform of parting that year
They all said they wanted to go home often
But in reality most people
The number of times I have been home is only a handful
Go and end
Pang Shengli made an agreement with his father
Write a letter every month
Report on his life and work in Xinjiang
And this letter to the family
There was a long wait
Pang Shengli's letter written on March 9
It was March 26 when my father received it
Although he went and the end of his father was very reluctant
But still in the letter he said:
"Don't mention the word 'unfilial piety' in the future
You've arrived where the motherland needs you
Now we call on the people of the whole country to go there and develop it
You are the vanguard of the Motherland
It's good."
A letter from his father to Pang Shengli
It's too far from home
Unable to fulfill filial piety in front of parents
become their common regret
24 years have passed
Some have parents who have left
Just during the interview
Ding Jianxin received the sad news of his father's death
Hurried back to his hometown
There are only desolate deserts
There is no such thing as a desolate life
"There are only desolate deserts
There is no such thing as a desolate life."
This is the time when they are gone and at the end of the year
Halfway through the tower
Seen on a large iron shelf on the side of the road
This sentence shook 15 young people that year
It became their life motto
Li Guizhi took a photo in the tower
After so many years, they have not had the opportunity to return to their hometown
Relatives and classmates often tell them
Where is the hometown recruiting teachers?
Come back when you are not used to it
Maybe everyone has thought about leaving
But no one really left
"The first few years
Everyone is single
put your whole heart and soul into it
Almost all of them are devoted to teaching
Eat and live in school every day
Together with the students who live and work"
Reminiscing about those days
Pang Shengli said
The teacher is fully engaged in teaching
Everybody wants to do a better job
Get your grades up
The 15 people who went with him were also secretly competing
Xin Zhongqi said
"The first class of students
The school made an exception and brought us to the third year of junior high school
Among the students of that class
Fifty-seven students were admitted to prestigious high schools in Bavaria
The results of the high school entrance examination are among the best in Bazhou
And the hat of the 'old end' of education has been taken off"
The teacher is fully engaged in teaching
Select Stay
It's easy to say
Implement it into concrete daily life
It's a myriad of cumbersome details
The test is the patience and dedication of the long stream
Seven years later
Zhou Zhengguo met Liu Qingxia, a girl from Baoding
Talked about "mobile phone love" for half a year
Two simple, honest, like-minded young people
Choose to get married
After marriage
Liu Qingxia resigned from her job in her hometown
came to Xinjiang with Zhou Zhengguo
to Xinjiang
The two were not together
One is at the end
One is far from the end of the test
More than 1,700 kilometers away from Tacheng to teach
In today's convenient transportation
From the end to Tacheng
It also takes seventeen or eighteen hours to drive
Back then, it took two days for the two to meet each other each way
The child wants Zhou Zhengguo
On the road, I saw my uncle wearing glasses
Just chased and shouted Dad
When the child was three years old
The family is finally reunited
Zhou Zhengguo's family of three
"The teachers are all here
We were very relieved to be here."
back then
They came to Xinjiang with a longing for a distant place
For more than 20 years
They are also in the hearts of groups of students
Plant the small seeds of "going out".
Students taught by Xin Zhongqi
Ilia Usman once posted on WeChat
It was the teachers who made him proudly walk out of that desert
This made Xin Zhongqi very moved
"I'm also from Taihang Mountain
When I was a child, my teacher also said
We're going to get out of that mountain
Now, I'm taking the baton
Get my kids out of this desert."
Iliya sent a circle of friends to thank these teachers from Hebei
There are also a lot of children who go out
I chose to go back to the end
2016
Yang Fang, a student of Pang Shengli
Graduated from Xinjiang Normal University
He returned to teach at the second middle school
I also became an ideological and political teacher
Yang Fang said
"Teachers came so far away
can all put down roots here
My own home is here
I'm going to put down roots here, too."
Yang Fang
Wei Xiaoya graduated from Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics
also returned to the end of the second middle school
"They were also surprised
Say it as soon as you see me
How did you get back
Why didn't you stay where you went to school? ”
Wei Xiaoya told reporters
The teachers are all here
It's very safe to be here
Wei Xiaoya
For 24 years
Batches of students they have taught
Admitted to national key universities
Many people voluntarily return to their hometowns after graduation
Become a teacher, doctor, police officer, etc
That's how they traveled
The search for meaning and value
Hou Chaoru said
"I've taught thousands of students
Their growth reflects my youth
This is the value and happiness that I have pursued all my life
It's worth it! ”
Batches of outstanding students who have come out of the end
Because the choice is needed
Youth becomes more meaningful
Nowadays, more and more students from Baoding College
Follow their example
The west was chosen
Frontier was chosen
Since 2000
More than 300 graduates of Hebei Baoding University
Go to the grassroots in the west
They are rooted in Tibet and Guangxi
Yunnan, Gansu, Sichuan and other places
Let youth bloom where the motherland needs it most
this year
Baoding College has another 15 graduates
A contract was signed with Xinjiang
It continues the western teaching road of Baoding College
Fifteen graduates of Baoding College are about to go to Xinjiang
now
The reason why these 15 young people chose to go to Xinjiang
More diverse, more certain
After more than 20 years of development
The environmental conditions in the frontier have changed dramatically
They are determined to be where their predecessors have struggled
Pick up the next baton
Li Guizhi said emotionally
"We are ordinary
It's as ordinary as a grain of sand in the Taklamakan anymore
Because I chose a distant place
I selected the need
Our youth becomes more meaningful."
Today's Jimo County No. 1 Middle School campus
Youth is not far from mountains and seas
15 young people with their youth
Watering the flowers of the Motherland in the desert
The seeds of hope were planted
The teacher who can't be blown away by the wind
Hats off to you
Source: People's Daily WeChat, Acknowledgement: Hebei Youth Daily, Baoding University, Bayingolengrong Media Center