Fu Huizhen (front row, second from left) and Du Guolin (back row, third from left) serve as volunteer counselors in the family room, bringing care for the next generation to their doorstep, so that children can participate in meaningful activities without leaving the community.
Fu Huizhen and Du Guolin used the statues of heroes and exemplary characters to carry out immersive education for children.
Home is the smallest country, and the country is tens of millions. The city's 4.8 million families are an important force in building a beautiful, harmonious and happy Tianjin. Not long ago, women's federations at all levels in Tianjin organized a series of activities with the theme of "Building a Happy Family and Helping a Happy Tianjin".
The afterglow of the setting sun filled the sky, and the golden-red glow was like a hymn to life, illuminating a pair of silver-haired couples strolling hand in hand. Fu Huizhen's family dedicates the residual heat to the society and blooms with the warmth of the sunset. They are the witnesses of the years, and they are also the adherents who care about the work of the next generation. Reading their family stories, you can experience the deep love and strength.
Inheritor of red education
During the winter and summer vacations, the activities of the Yunliyuan community in Lushandao Street, Hedong District are always colorful. From small hands to big hands to practice green environmental protection, to family style story meetings for parents; From visiting the Red Pavilion to studying, to holding hands to help students in need...... In these activities, it is common to see two silver-haired figures, wearing bright red scarves, active in the education of children and children, and with the children they care for.
This is an ordinary family in the Yunliyuan community, where Fu Huizhen and his wife Du Guolin both work in the field of education. After retirement, the old couple is still actively engaged in caring for the next generation, and has become a silver-haired couple who are active in home-school-community collaborative education. One of them gave full play to his sculpture talents, and the other carried the banner of a preacher.
The 76-year-old worked in the Hedong District Education Bureau before retiring and served as the chief counselor of the District Young Pioneers. She is good at expression, looking up information, writing scripts, making slides, and telling heroic and exemplary stories to children. Her wife, Du Guolin, is a "five old" counselor, who is good at clay sculpture skills, making statues of Lei Feng and Yuan Longping as exemplary figures, and carrying out immersive education for children.
In 2016, Fu Huizhen was appointed by the Tianjin Youth League Municipal Committee, the Municipal Education Commission, and the Municipal Youth Work Committee as the leader of the "Tianjin Fu Huizhen Community + Extracurricular Young Pioneers Famous Teacher Characteristic Studio". In 2017, the studio was named the National Famous Teacher Studio by the National Young Workers Committee.
In addition, the studio has pioneered 8 children's activity bases in the District Customs Working Committee, established 24 community red scarf extracurricular education family activity rooms and 20 community education activity stations such as "Red Film Props Family Museum", "Painted Sculpture Art" family studio, "Micro Car Exhibition Hall", etc., which are open to community children during winter and summer vacations; 48 community Young Pioneers practice bases have been set up in the district, and 42 "five elders" off-campus volunteer counselors have been hired; More than 100 community Young Pioneers activities have been held, such as the community Spring Festival Gala, the community summer party, the red scarf market, the red scarf summer camp, the red scarf green protection team, the science and technology activity exhibition, and the love exchange space; In 2020, the Propaganda Department of the Hedong District Party Committee and the Civilization Office named "Fu Huizhen Du Guolin Studio" at the New Era Civilization Practice Station of Haolinyuan Community, Lushandao Street, and "Fu Huizhen Du Guolin Good Person Studio" at the New Era Civilization Practice Station of Yunliyuan Community in 2024.
Since the naming of the Young Pioneers Famous Teacher Studio, they have elaborately produced more than 20 slides and preached in organs, communities, schools, and kindergartens, with more than 100,000 listeners. "After more than 20 years of retirement, I have always kept in mind the honors of the National Red Scarf Class 1 'Star Torch' and the 'National Outstanding Young Pioneers Counselor', the National Advanced Worker for the Next Generation Work, and the 'Tianjin Good Man'. Looking at the smiling faces of the children, I really felt the mission of caring for the next generation. Fu Huizhen said.
Of course, this is also inseparable from the support of family members. "As for the choice of parents, I agree with both hands. As long as time permits, I will go to the site to support them, take care of the pick-up, and help them take photos and leave materials. Their son, Du Jiang, also often takes his children to actively participate in activities, not only to follow in the footsteps of his parents, but also to be a good role model for the next generation.
Caring for the next generation at the doorstep
"There are so many activities that they have started as a couple! During the winter and summer holidays, they work with the community to design activity plans and put a lot of effort into caring for the next generation. In the past two days, the community has just submitted a new batch of summer vacation activities, many of which are arranged and planned by the old couple. Zhou Lin, director of the Lushan Road Street Propaganda Office, told reporters that as off-campus counselors, the old couple gave full play to their respective strengths and constantly expanded the education carrier. The elderly couple volunteered as volunteer counselors in the family room, bringing the work of caring for the next generation to the doorstep and bringing it to the community, so that the children could participate in meaningful activities without leaving the community.
Over the years, with the support of the community neighborhood committee, the studio has designed hundreds of youth education activities, which are well received by teenagers and parents, and play an exemplary role in caring for the next generation.
In 2019, in the educational activities of continuing the red blood and inheriting the red gene, they led the children and parents of the community to go to the poor mountainous area of Laiyuan County, Hebei Province twice to carry out hand-in-hand summer camp activities with the children of Yinshankou Primary School in the poor mountainous area of Laiyuan County, Hebei Province. Led the members of the summer camp to visit the site of Bethune's surgery and the Bethune Memorial Hall, and after the event, Yinshankou Primary School also sent a pennant to the studio. Parents have expressed their willingness to participate in events like this one on a regular basis.
"In the educational activities of inheriting a good family style to students and parents, I took the colored statues of the four brothers and sisters of Du Fuguo, a model demining hero of the times, made by my wife and my wife, and the courseware of the elaborate 'learning era model Du Fuguo inherits a good family style', and went to schools and communities to preach...... "Recalling hundreds of lectures on various themes and more than 100,000 listeners in the past ten years, Fu Huizhen was full of energy, she told reporters that the famous teacher studio will carry out demonstration activities for the community Young Pioneers in the whole district every year, and the studio has created a "red scarf grandmother." The group has grown to more than 400 members, publicizing, organizing, and leading community youth, parents and school counselors to carry out community work together to contribute to the healthy growth of teenagers.
The studio held an exhibition "Passing on the Torch for a Hundred Years and Striving to Continue the New Era" exhibition on the history of changes in China's postal communications at the New Era Civilization Practice Station of Haolinyuan Community, Lushan Road Street, and held a science and technology exhibition in Yunli Garden, so that children can feel the rapid changes of the great motherland. In the activities of welcoming the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, they led the majority of young people in the community to carry out four series of thematic education activities during the summer vacation, giving full play to the advantages of the famous teacher's studio, and giving a lecture on "Welcoming the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and Learning the Knowledge of the Party's Previous Congresses", according to statistics, 19,394 Young Pioneers watched and studied. In the community, the reading activity of "making good use of red resources, inheriting red blood, telling red stories, and being a good boy in the new era" was held, and they took the children in the community to move the reading activities to the Pingjin Battle Memorial Hall and the Consciousness Society Exhibition Hall, and the children completely walked into the heroic stories and consciously accepted the red education.
Dedication to the most beautiful sunset red
This family, who loves each other and works hand in hand, is an enthusiastic person who can't stay idle in the eyes of the neighbors, a grandparent with a red scarf in the eyes of the children, a pair of red vests in the eyes of the community volunteers, and a red preacher on the podium...... They accompany each other in various scenes. Over the years, they have also made many like-minded friends along the preaching path.
"Teacher Fu and I have been old neighbors for more than 20 years. They have always done their best to work in the community, not for fame and fortune, and I admire such old party members. Fu Yongzeng, a counselor of the "Five Elders" in Hedong District, often brings his grandson to these activities. He told reporters that during this time, the old couple was planning children's activities, and he was also ready to join Fu Huizhen's team to talk about writing to the children.
Du Tielin, a member of the Tianjin Folk Artists Association, specializes in wooden handicrafts. On the occasion of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, he and the old couple formed a propaganda group, with Du Tielin making a model of the red boat in Nanhu, Du Guolin making a statue of a great man, and Fu Huizhen being responsible for preaching the story of the traditional activity of the Tianjin Young Pioneers - Little Red Flower. As a result, the three of them embarked on the road of preaching, with the theme of "Red Boat Pilots Red Scarves and Red Scarf Teenagers Follow the Party", went to dozens of schools and communities in the city to preach the history of the party, and used the party's glorious history to encourage children to strive to be good teenagers in the new era. Later, this group of sculptures was collected by the Tianjin Children's Activity Center.
They are all the dissemination and inheritors of family style, in the community organization of "Learning the Model of the Times, Inheriting Good Family Style", "Learning the Four History, Heirloom" lectures, with the theme of "Loving the Party and Patriotism, Striving to Realize Dreams", forming the "Most Beautiful Reading Voice Family Building Workshop", continue to promote good family style, so that more of the most beautiful families emerge in the community...... "We are volunteers, and doing these things is completely voluntary, without asking for anything in return, not for fame and fortune." We want to dedicate all our energy and passion to the children. Du Guolin and Fu Huizhen have taken cultivating young people's good thoughts, good conduct and good habits as the most important family business, and they have worked hand in hand and devoted themselves wholeheartedly.
The old couple was both rated as "Tianjin Advanced Individuals Caring for the Next Generation", and their families were also rated as the National Five Good Families, Tianjin Civilized Families, Tianjin Most Beautiful Families, and won the titles of the Most Beautiful Family Model Households, Tianjin Safe Family Demonstration Households, and Scientific and Civilized Families.
"Always keep in mind the original mission when joining the party, be a qualified party member, give full play to the residual heat, and silently dedicate to caring for the next generation. The community volunteers donate their surplus heat, and the harmonious society shines, which is the pursuit of our later life. The old couple said that they will not forget their original intention, go hand in hand, dedicate the most beautiful sunset red in the new era of creating a happy and beautiful life, warm every corner of the community with residual heat, and let the afterglow illuminate the hearts of the children.
Source: Jinyun Hedong
Duty Editor: Zhang Jinkai
Editor in charge: Liu Wenlong