Tan Qianqiu protected several people.

Tan Qianqiu used to be the director of the Political and Educational Department of Dong Qi Middle School affiliated to Dongfang Steam Turbine Factory in Hanwang Town, Sichuan Province, and a special teacher in Sichuan Province. In May 2008, 12, he was killed in the earthquake. According to media reports, he protected four students at a critical moment, and was posthumously awarded the titles of party member, national outstanding earthquake relief worker and earthquake relief hero.

May 2008, 12, Dong Qi Middle School, Hanwang Town, Sichuan. /kloc-Liu Hongli, 0/8 years old, suddenly lost her feet. Together with the desk, it fell freely from the fourth floor to the ground and was clamped by several cement prefabricated boards. She didn't even hear her scream when the earthquake happened. When I opened my eyes again, it was already dark around. She and two other high school students encouraged each other. After 38 hours, three people were rescued. In this process, Liu Hongli is sober.

Liu Hongli was in a coma for a long time. What really brought her back into contact with the real world was a familiar and unfamiliar name-Tan Qianqiu. A week after the earthquake, when Liu Hongli was still living in the ICU ward of Chengdu West China Hospital, a Hong Kong media broke in and pointed the camera at her. "Tell the camera what you said to thank Mr. Tan Qianqiu." Tan Qianqiu? Liu Hongli only remembers that this middle-aged male teacher taught the second grade (1) in politics, and was the director of the Political and Educational Affairs Office of the school. She had no idea what her rescue had to do with Teacher Tan.

"I don't know what I said, so I made up a lot." Liu Hongli said.

14 that night, when Liu Hongli was rescued, some media published a report entitled "At that moment, he protected four students with open arms", which described Tan Qianqiu lying on the table with open arms at a critical moment, and all four students under his protection were alive, and Liu Hongli was one of them. This 938-word report touched the whole country, gained a blowout spread in a short time, and won great praise for the late teacher Tan Qianqiu.

After a lapse of more than two years, a post titled "Hero Tan Qianqiu's deeds of saving lives are suspected to be forged" was circulated on the Internet. According to the article, "Teacher Tan described by the media is calm and decisive, and the details of saving people are vivid ... But strangely, the students who survived the second year of high school (1) seem to have lost their memory afterwards and forgotten their savior."

According to the investigation of Southern Reporter, among the four students who were first reported to have been rescued by Tan Qianqiu, only Liu Hongli was real, while the other three, Fu Qiang, were dead, while Tian Gang and Yu Jian did not exist. The two students rescued with Liu Hongli, Mou Shasha and Ding Nanjie, are not as good as reported, and they are students of Grade Two (1). "Students all know that this is false. Every time the teacher tells the story of Teacher Tan at the meeting, the students laugh. " Liu Hongli said. Tang Zugui, the current vice principal of Dong Qi Bayi Middle School, said that it goes without saying that "such a heroic example was really needed at that time."

Zhang Tianming, the 70-year-old principal of Dong Qi Middle School, said that the adults lied about it. Once a lie is born, it seems to have life. The longer it grows, the bigger it gets. No one dares to be the child who points out the emperor's new clothes. "Publicity, writing books, making movies ... have all come out, and no one can control the situation. Later, he also commented on the martyrs, and then various media reported the heroic behavior of earthquake relief. This matter may be known by the counterfeiters, but no one can control this situation. "

Restore the disaster site

After the reconstruction of Dong Qi Middle School, it was located in the suburb of Deyang and renamed as Dong Qi Bayi Middle School. Next to the school canteen, there is a metal sculpture with four flame-like lines on the front, symbolizing the four students rescued by Tan Qianqiu. There is a poem written in English on the back, "Bless the children, let them be protected in the world and let them have spring". This sculpture was donated to the school by an overseas Chinese in memory of Tan Qianqiu.

This is a secret that can't be told in school. Everyone can often hear Tan Qianqiu's name at the ceremony and in the classroom. No one knows which four students can be rescued, including the current headmaster Zhou Dexiang and Tan Qianqiu's widow Zhang Guanrong. Everyone is used to this secret and no longer tries to remember it.

Liu Hongli graduated from Dongqi Bayi Middle School this year. As her left leg was injured in the earthquake, she is now studying painting design in a junior college. She paid little attention to the secret at first. "For our school, I thought at the time, just admit it." But now, she will just say it's fake.

The original reports of the media vividly restored the scene, just like experiencing the scene, all the conversations and actions. The report pointed out that Tan Qianqiu knew what had happened immediately after the earthquake. He shouted, "Students, there is an earthquake. Run downstairs with me! " "The students rushed downstairs under his command. At this time, a student shouted: "How many people are there in the classroom!" Hearing this, Tan Qianqiu quickly turned around and returned to the fourth floor from the third floor. At this moment, he saw four students, including Liu Hongli (note: actually Liu Hongli), crying in the classroom of 1 class, and he was at a loss. They quickly shouted at them, "Stop crying and come downstairs with me! "At this time, however, a long crack suddenly opened in the middle of the building, and the building split in half in an instant, and this crack happened to be on the edge of the stairs, and the way to escape was blocked! When Tan Qianqiu saw this scene, he quickly told the children to hide under the desks. At this point, the cement ceiling is about to hit the children, and Tan Qianqiu pounces on them, righting the desk and protecting the children with his body. At this time, the cement precast slab collapsed and fell on Tan Qianqiu. ...

In the report, Tan Qianqiu insisted on living for a long time and said a lot of words to encourage students, including "If there is anything wrong with the teacher, this is the last lesson for the teacher!"

Liu Hongli recalled, "What I know is totally different from what the media reported. Finally, three people came out alive, a boy and two girls. When the earthquake happened, he (Tan Qianqiu) waved me not to panic, and then I fell down. Later, it was buried for a long time. I heard his wife (Zhang Guanrong) calling him outside, and then his mobile phone didn't know if the alarm clock was set, but it was still ringing there. He is just above us, just like opening his hands on the table. "

Liu Hongli usually has the habit of observing others. At this time, her only moving left hand touched up and touched a cold hand. "I am very familiar with Teacher Tan's hand. I feel that it is him, and the result is really him. " Liu Hongli pointed out that he was sitting in the second row, nearly two meters away from the podium, and it was impossible for Mr. Tan, who was giving a lecture at that time, to have time to get there.

Mou Shasha, a senior two (5) student buried under the rubble with Liu Hongli, confirmed Liu Hongli's statement. She said that during the 38 hours under the ruins, she and Liu Hongli were separated by a prefabricated board, and she never heard Tan Qianqiu speak. She didn't fall on the stairs, but like Liu Hongli, she fell directly from the third floor to the first floor before she knew it, so she was pinned under the table.

Non-existent rescued students

Who are the four students saved by Tan Qianqiu in the report? This is the question that Zhang Tianming, the retired principal of Dong Qi Middle School, has been asking.

On May 15, after watching the news that "at that moment, he covered four students with open arms", I was greatly moved, hoping to find these four students and write a commemorative article for Teacher Tan. The old man has been teaching here since the establishment of Dong Qi Middle School 1968. After retirement, he was often invited by the school to write school history.

"I turned to several student settlements, but I couldn't find them. The last teacher advised me not to look for it. The students mentioned in the article do not exist at all. "

In 2009, Zhang Tianming was invited by the school to write a book "Commemorating the First Anniversary of" 5. 12 ",which included almost all the surviving students of Dong Qi Middle School. He found eight students who survived from Class Kloc-0, Grade Two, namely Zhuo Mingying, Peng Qian, Zhou Chao, Liu Hongli, Liu Yang, Tang Qi, Zhang Kai and Cao Linlin. In the special news "The Last Lesson: The Value of Life", which reports Tan Qianqiu's deeds, these four students are "Liu Hongli (note: sic), Tian Gang, Fu Qiang and Yu Jian", all of whom are students from the former Grade Two (1) class.

According to Liu Hongli, those rescued with her are Mou Shasha and Ding Nanjie from Class 5, Grade 2, both of whom are students from Science Class 2. However, in the article "5. 12" written by Mou Shasha and Ding Nanjie later, there is no mention of the plot saved by the teacher. Ding Nanjie's Documentary of the 5. 12 Earthquake, the only teacher mentioned is a female teacher buried directly under them, who died soon after being buried.

In addition, Mou Shasha said that Fu Qiang mentioned in the report was in Class 5, Grade 2, and was not buried with them, nor did he return to school after the earthquake.

As for "Tian Gang" and "Yu Jian", a school leader of Dong Qi Middle School admitted to Du Nan that they were not on the list of students.

A year after the earthquake, some media paid a return visit. A new name appeared on the list this time. "The name is Tang, one of the four children under the table. Her father, Tang Zugui, is an English teacher in Dong Qi Middle School and Tan Qianqiu's best friend. However, when Tang Zugui described the rescue of the dead girl to Southern Reporter, he did not think that she was rescued, and Tang was not buried with others.

Zhang Tianming never understood why the number of students was uncertain, and the students in several classes were confused. What he doesn't understand most is that two years after the earthquake, the school seems to have never verified the significance of this matter. "What was the situation? Can Mr. Tan make so many moves and talk so much in such a short time? This is unreasonable to judge by common sense. "

The truth of Tan Qianqiu's rescue has been discussed for a long time between teachers and students. Like more than 300 teachers and students who died, these nonexistent students have become the lingering shadow of Dong Qi Middle School.

Who is the source of information?

A chaotic disaster area, the news is also transmitted in chaos.

Sun Wen, the reporter of Xinhua News Agency who first reported the incident, recalled that he and his colleagues Tian Yu and Wang Jianhua arrived outside the playground of Dong Qi Primary School in Hanwang Town, Deyang City on the night of May 3 1 1: 50. "An ambulance flew past me and stopped not far away. Several rescuers carried a girl who had just been pulled out of the ruins of Dong Qi Middle School and rushed to the ambulance. " Sun Wen recalled, "My colleague Tian Yu put it in the girl's ear and asked her what her name was. The girl replied in a weak voice that her name was Liu Hongli.

"At that time, as an ordinary person, I was very happy to see that some students were rescued alive and their consciousness was better." Sun Wen said, "At that time, as a reporter, I didn't expect to dig up any news at all."

Then Liu Hongli was taken away. "We saw his uncle. It was his uncle who told us that Liu Hongli was saved by her teacher. At the same time, three children were rescued and taken to the hospital. We first got the news from Liu Hongli's uncle. I think it is very valuable. " Sun Wen said, "The next morning, the trade union staff of Dong Qi Group, who was responsible for registering the identity of the victims, pointed to the third body in the south of the playground and told us that it was the teacher Tan Qianqiu who saved four students."

Sun Wen said, "We stayed there for less than 24 hours. Later, after the rescue work in Dong Qi, we were divided into two groups, one to Yingxiu with the rescue team and the other to Beichuan. When we interviewed Dong Qi, we didn't know that they had a conversation in the ruins. I have never written it, and there is no draft issued by Xinhua News Agency, because I have never interviewed these plots at all. I can say responsibly that I didn't write the plots of these' dialogues'. "

Sun Wen recalled that when he saw Mr. Tan's body, the back of his head was sunken, but he was unlikely to live for a while. He should have been killed immediately.

"As one of the first reporters to report this matter, I am responsible for my report. My colleagues and I compared and verified the contents of the interview when writing the manuscript to ensure that what was written in the manuscript confirmed each other. It can be said that every quotation in the manuscript has a source, and every description is objective. "

The last lesson: the value of life is included in the book Love Millennium-Remembering Tan Qianqiu, the hero of Wenchuan earthquake relief, written by Tan Qianqiu's alma mater, Hunan University, which vividly describes Tan Qianqiu's dialogue and actions in saving people. According to the available information, this article was first reported by Changsha Evening News on May 2, 20081.

Zhou Dexiang, principal of Dong Qi Middle School, said that the news of the teacher's rescue was first told by Liu Hongli's uncle. He thought that Liu Hongli was not awake at that time and could not believe everything he said. On the other hand, Liu Hongli said that her uncle never said that he said this, and her father was indignant at the nonsense of the media.

In addition, Vice President Tang Zugui told Southern Reporter that he believed that Teacher Tan would make such a move, "but we really didn't see it". For the four students rescued by Tan Qianqiu, except Liu Hongli, other schools are not clear. "At that time, we were busy saving people. We have been looking for the injured students for a long time. As a school, there is no need to verify this matter. What the media said is what we think. "

Since Tan Qianqiu's deeds were reported by the media, thousands of netizens have left messages online to commemorate them. Hunan University is especially proud of this alumnus, and welcomes Tan's orphans back to school in a high-profile way. In order to organize various mourning learning activities, it sent people to the disaster area and his hometown of Qidong County, Hengyang, to collect information and compile a book "Love for the Millennium". In 2009, the film The Last Lesson starring Tan Qianqiu was released in cooperation with the film company.

After receiving the manuscript task, Peng, one of the writers of "Millennium Love" and director of the editorial department of Hunan University newspaper, rushed to the disaster area on May 27th. Due to the serious epidemic situation at the earthquake site of Dong Qi Middle School, it was blocked and controlled, so it was impossible to enter, and finally settled in Deyang Gymnasium where the victims were resettled for an interview. Most of the teachers and students who survived the earthquake in Dong Qi Middle School were placed here. Peng interviewed many colleagues, but failed to interview a student. "The surviving students all went to save people." Peng also "tried many ways" to find the four rescued students mentioned in the initial report, but they couldn't find them because of the chaos at the disaster relief site. In the end, he only "verified the names of the four rescued students" and did not further verify the process of Tan Qianqiu's rescue mentioned in the report.