What are the "secrets" for 21 doctors and more than 100 masters from a small village?

At the beginning of last month, the media reported on the "PhD Wall" in Yangtian Village, Shashi Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province - one village produced 21 PhDs and more than 100 masters. What secrets does this PhD-producing village have?

The annual college entrance examination is coming soon. A few days ago, Slow News-Chongqing Evening News reporters visited Yangtian Village. Through on-site visits and careful inspections, they tried to explore educational issues more deeply, thereby portraying this contemporary sample of rural education in China.

Tan Sitong once said: "We in Liuyang have great morale and great humanities." "If we work together to strengthen ourselves, we must start in Liuyang." Tan Sitong, a native of Liuyang, Hunan, was a man of genius, wisdom, and rare sharpness. Two sentences from more than a hundred years ago summarize the sample of rural education today. It is also a prophecy.

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On an April day in Mengxia, the drizzle is like crisp, the vegetation in Yangtian Village is blooming, and the mountains and rivers are deep and beautiful.

The "Doctor's Wall" can be seen far outside the village, a wall that does not exist in other villages.

From the end of the village to the doctor's wall, there is a straight road with some shops on both sides of the road. Doctor's Wall is in the center of the village, at the intersection of several roads. No matter which direction you enter from, you cannot bypass it. Clearly, a lot of thought went into the location.

The wall is small, rectangular, with a white background, just like a wall where slogans were written decades ago. The three big characters "Doctor's Wall" are extremely dazzling, with Chinese Pinyin below them. Above the words is a doctor's hat, with a line of popular style words on both sides - "Knowledge changes destiny, culture breeds virtue."

There are 19 doctors on the wall, including names, introductions, and photos. Only Luo Xuangan, who is in his 80s, has no photo. He is the first doctor to come out of Yangtian Village, a doctor from Harvard University.

There are also PhDs from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Nankai University... Among them, 8 are female PhDs.

Aerial view of Yangtian Village and Laodao River

The year of birth of statistics doctors: 2 in 1987, 3 in 1985, and 4 in 1984. The introduction also states the birth years of each doctor. The university where a Ph.D.

The family even has two Ph.D.s - brothers Luo Hongtao and Luo Honglang are Ph.D.s from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Villager Luo Bibo's younger brother Luo Qing and daughter Luo Zhaojing are doctors. The law of "virtue never comes out" is broken.

There is also a text on the wall, which mainly talks about the tradition of attaching importance to education in Yangtian Village, which is also a short answer to Doctor Village.

Some flowers and plants are planted in the fence in front of the wall, and there is a statue of Confucius among the flowers and plants. "A gentleman seeks the way but not food", Confucius emphasizes teaching but not farming, which is slightly inconsistent with the characters on the wall "diligence in cultivation, emphasis on teaching, farming, reading and inheritance". On the contrary, Tan Sitong's educational thoughts are consistent with this. After all, he is from Liuyang and has Liuyang's belief in "focusing on farming and reading".

Yangtian Village cadre Tang Huahao is responsible for building the doctoral wall

Why build the doctoral wall? Village cadre Tang Huahao knows best, and she is responsible for the whole thing. At that time, many people said that Yangtian Village had produced so many Ph.D.s, but no one knew exactly how many, which family produced the Ph.D., or where they studied. Old secretary Luo Zeji consulted with her and decided to build a doctor's wall to display all the doctors in Yangtian Village, which was also a major feature. "I started preparing for this in March 2015, contacting each family one by one, and it was completed in October."

"There are still two doctors who have not been on the wall, one has not been contacted, and the other He is a PhD student at Hangzhou University. "Tang Huahao said that he would fill it up as soon as possible, and the PhD wall also needs to be improved. The introduction should be unified and standardized, and the information should be complete. There should also be space for new PhDs.

Zhong Lingyu’s beauty cannot be fully expressed by a wall.

Before 7 o'clock in the morning, children in twos and threes walked from the other side of the village, walking leisurely past the doctor's wall and going to the village primary school 200 meters away for early reading. They are still young and may not know the significance of the doctor's wall, but they pass by here every day and have been nurtured and nurtured over the years.

Primary school students 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 doctorates, more than 100 masters and more than 600 college students have been awarded in the past 30 years. On average, two families have one college student, and 12 families have one master's degree student.

Yangtian Village is not much different from other villages in Liuyang City, Hunan. Perhaps many people think that children here are smarter than other children; perhaps they think that school education here is very different from other places.

Chen Yongchao, principal of Yangtian Complete Primary School, doesn’t think so, and neither do the villagers.

Qu Ting, the daughter of Qu Weiyuan, is the first female doctorate in Yangtian Village, and his son has a bachelor's degree.

Qu Weiyuan still retains the certificate of honor his daughter received when she was in school

Qu Ting said that she and her brother have no special talents.

Qu Weiyuan is an ordinary farmer in Yangtian Village. At that time, in order to train their children to study, the couple had to "cruelly" abandon their two children and both went to work elsewhere to earn money. "We are away from home all year round, and they become left-behind children. They wash, cook and take care of themselves."

Not only is there no one to care about the siblings' studies, but there is also no one to care about their lives. Growing up in such an environment, Qu Ting was successfully admitted to Nankai University, where she graduated from bachelor's degree to doctoral degree. Her younger brother was admitted to Northeastern University.

Although they know that their children are obedient and conscientious in reading, Qu Weiyuan and his wife are still worried. Every time before going out, they repeatedly tell them to study hard, saying, "We want you to study more even though we are trying to sell everything." This is an inspiration, a huge determination, and a reality. Qu Weiyuan said that his family really didn’t buy anything in those years. For more than eight years, the only electrical appliance at home was a flashlight, all for the purpose of studying for his children.

Now, Qu Ting is a teacher at Tianjin University. She said that she was really grateful for Yangtian Village’s custom of “making children study even though everything is at stake.” If we change places, or if our parents don't have this concept, maybe life will be different.

Since his children are working, Qu Wei’s life has improved. His current home is spacious, clean and bright, with a big sofa and all kinds of appliances. There is a plaque hanging high on the wall with the four characters "Doctorate" written on it. This is a gift from the Yangtian Village Committee. To any family that has a doctor, the village will beat gongs and drums to send such a plaque to show their recognition.

There are many stories similar to Qu Weiyuan in Yangtian Village. Walking into Wang Jiehua's home, she was cooking breakfast. She has been through hard times. Both sons were admitted to college that year, and the younger son, Luo Weiping, later got a doctorate. In order to provide for their children to study, she and her husband worked outside day and night, raising more than 10 pigs every year to earn tuition and living expenses for their children.

On February 13 this year, the primary school in Yangtian Village started school. The school invited Luo Zhixiang, a doctor from Yangtian Village, to give the children the first class.

On February 13 this year, the primary school in Yangtian Village started school. The school invited Luo Zhixiang, a doctor from Yangtian Village, to give the children the first class.

There is a saying in Yangtian: "No matter how poor you are, you can't afford education, and no matter how miserable you are, you can't suffer for your children." People in other places compare wealth, but people in Yangtian compare with education; which family makes more money does not make people jealous. , whose children have good grades and are willing to study hard will be envied. Chen Yongchao, principal of Yangtian Complete Primary School, said that this has created a good learning atmosphere. Parents actively buy whatever books our teachers recommend. Our school is larger than many primary schools, and village leaders attach great importance to teaching.

Why does Yangtian Village produce so many talents? Xie Xianghua, a member of the Shashi Town Party Committee, summarized four points: First, Yangtian Village has poor resources and poor economic conditions, which has formed the belief that "only reading can change life." ; The second is that the Luo family in Yangtian Village has a tradition of "working hard and studying hard" since ancient times; the third is driven by role models, college students, masters, doctors, and successful entrepreneurs who have taken the exams first continue to encourage children to study hard; fourth, Murakami has always attached great importance to education attention and funding.

Three

In Yangtian Village, you will inevitably hear the story of the two brothers Luo Hongtao and Luo Honglang.

Luo Jianzhi is an out-and-out farmer from Yangtian Village, and is a skilled bamboo craftsman. His two sons, Luo Hongtao and Luo Honglang, are both Ph.D.s from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Luo Hongtao recalled that his family was poor at that time. In the summer, he had no shoes to wear and his feet were bare. They were often burned by the hot stone slabs. In the winter, his hands and feet were covered with frostbite. The classrooms were made of earthen walls and air leaked everywhere. , I had to carry a fire box from home to school. When I come home from school every day, I have to cut grass and carry water. After finishing my housework, I start to do my homework. "Sometimes there is a power outage. Even on a cold winter night, when I wake up in the middle of the night and find that the power is on again, I have to get up and finish my homework."

The brothers have harvested rice and planted seedlings, and their farm work is almost the same. I have done it before, and even beat my father's hand in weaving bamboo strips.

Those difficult years were called by Luo Hongtao their "precious asset for growth" and something they were often proud of. Rural life, housework, and farm work are "the advantages, not disadvantages, of rural children over urban children."

The growth experience of the Luo brothers is a successful interpretation of Yangtian Village’s “hard work and emphasis on reading”. Yangtian people will not let go of such a living teaching material. On the afternoon of February 13 this year, all the children in the village primary school gathered at Laocaomen for the first lesson of the New Year - reading the etiquette of family history and family history in a scholarly style, learning the reading methods of their ancestors, and especially listening to a letter sent by Luo Hongtao from the United States. Letters from home.

The letter home mainly urges young students to study hard, exercise, and strive to create a brighter future for themselves. Be as detailed as what to eat - "Don't be picky, don't eat high-sugar, high-fat foods"; what kind of books to read - "Stay away from electronic products as much as possible, read more classic paper books. And develop the habit of writing reading notes The habit of thinking more and summarizing more.”

The village committee and the village primary school decided that the first lesson of the New Year should be for the children to gather in front of the old trough gate to receive edification. Even if the children do not fully understand the meaning of this letter from home, nor the importance of etiquette and tradition, each ceremony will gradually leave an imprint on them.

With the changes in urban and rural areas and the increasingly fierce competition, is it enough to just study hard and farm? Tang Huahao specifically mentioned this issue. She said that it is becoming more and more difficult for rural children to get into a good university, and it is increasingly insufficient to rely solely on the children's individual efforts. We must "join forces to provide education."

Yangtian Village is a small school, and the campus facilities may not be very good, but the school spirit is strong.

The village committee attaches great importance to and participates in education. Murakami will award 400 yuan to all those who pass the university entrance examination. Last year there were 8, and this year there are estimated to be 10. Tang Huahao said that the village committee knows all the children with good grades, and everyone in the village knows which family's children are good at reading. Starting from elementary school, every year on Children's Day and Senior Citizens' Day, the village committee will express condolences and reward good students in various forms.

Maximize the role of "Xinxiang Xian". At the beginning of this year, Murakami organized doctors and entrepreneurs to establish the Yangtian Village Student Aid Fund to support children who have difficulty studying due to poverty. The money is managed by dedicated personnel. Luo Xuanqian also specially deposited an education fund in the bank, so that anyone who goes to study in the United States can receive funding. Rural sage Li Changkai established an education and teaching award fund to pay for the food expenses of teachers and students at the school; Huang Weide donated 1 million yuan to establish a personal award fund for respecting the elderly and loving relatives... If you have money, you can contribute, and you can work together to develop education.

Lianqun works together and is vigorous. Education is a major event for Yangtian and everyone.

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Luo Bibo is the first college student to graduate from Yangtian Village after the college entrance examination was resumed. Later, Luo Bibo's six siblings were all admitted to university, and his younger brother Luo Qing and daughter Luo Zhaojing were also Ph.D.s.

Luo Bibo said that all this is due to a good family tradition. "It's all thanks to my mother's good start."

Luo Bibo's 88-year-old mother, Zhang Qiuxiang, never went to school. She attended night school for two months when she was illiterate, and she fell in love with books ever since. After cleaning up, I still keep reading for two or three hours every day.

"My mother said that if she were born now, she would definitely become a doctor." Luo Bibo said with a smile.

The good family tradition mentioned by Luo Bibo is the continuation of the Luo family’s traditional family tradition and family motto.

Now, every household in Yangtian Village must hang a plaque with their family tradition and family motto written on it. Tang Huahao said that this is an important task that Yangtian Village will soon carry out. Every family should hang it so that the family tradition and family motto can be seen and touched, and continue to be passed down.

The ancient walls in the village display one by one the ancestral families with 17 surnames in Yangtian Village in the past, including Luo, Zhang, Chen, Qu, Xiao, He, Zhu, Li, Fu, Wang, Deng and Liu. training. For example, the ancestral motto of the family surnamed Fu is "respect the elderly, educate children, build a family and make a fortune, study diligently and educate people to become talents, be friendly to neighbors and respond to affairs, practice morality and diligence in government as an official, cultivate the mind and maintain sexual health." The family motto of the family surnamed Luo is "Honor your ancestors, be filial to your parents, be harmonious to your husband and wife, be strict with your wife, be close to the clan, respect your teachers, trust your friends, farm hard, read diligently, be loyal, be thrifty, practice etiquette, and refrain from doing wrong." , quit gambling, quit lawsuits, quit spoiling girls, quit foreign cigarettes."

The family traditions and family mottos of various surnames are hung in Yangtian Village

The ancestral family traditions and family mottos are moral laws. "Plow hard and recite diligently" is the essence of Luo's ancestral motto.

Pottery stirs up customs and aims to enlighten the people. Yangtian Village does not restore the ancient family motto, but changes the old and makes a new one, creating a new era of family tradition and family motto. This is not a simple job. You have to combine new life, new development, new vision, and new requirements with your own situation, and condense it into one or two catchy sentences. It was an amazing exploration, civilizing new landscapes.

Tang Hua’s family tradition and motto is “Poems and books start the family, filial piety is passed on to friends and family”, which has been produced. In order to make her family remember and follow it, she also used the family tradition and family motto as the group name of the WeChat group. "We hope that every company can be like this, so that it can influence, regulate and shape people in communication," she said.

Family tradition, family motto, and integrity are a vital culture, a moral constraint of recognition, and a self-requirement. Yangtian people think it is a good thing to educate their children. The "Huxiang Farming and Reading Cultural Center" is being built at the head of the village. This unique cultural center with Yangtian's spiritual temperament has three sections: a family style cultural exhibition area that promotes traditional fine family traditions, loyalty and respect, and respects teachers and education; A cultural experience area for rural virtuous people who support each other and love each other; a traditional cultural experience area with the core of integrating knowledge and action and practical application of the world. It is planned to be completed in October this year.

Cultural inheritance cannot be carried out verbally, but must be shown in real terms so that children can feel it. This is a concept that Tang Huahao has repeatedly emphasized.

In Yangtian, all culture is touchable, visible, and highly perceptible. History and culture are scattered everywhere in the villages and lanes. The 600-year-old Longjing Well has been renovated. It is said that drinking a sip of water from the well before the exam is famous. The 300-year-old trough door displays various legends, stories, and family traditions and mottos in the rice fields; the 400-year-old Old Dragon Well The bridge pavilion has withstood the wind and frost and is majestic; the monthly moral lecture hall and the cultural square of more than 1,000 square meters are new cultural places; the autumn dragon boat pier built during the Republic of China is an important battlefield for the annual Dragon Boat Festival, and another Dragon Boat Festival is approaching. A grand dragon boat race is about to take place.

Villager Luo Taixi took reporters to visit the sports activity center next to Laodao River. Villagers hold dragon boat races on the river every year.

Yangtian provides children with a cultural environment, not just a living environment.

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In the rice field, the wind is gentle, the air is kind, gentle and elegant.

Not far from the Doctor’s Wall, there are two particularly important walls: the old green brick wall of the Luo Family Courtyard in the Ming Dynasty. This is the oldest historical site in Yangtian and the earliest root of Yangtian; walk another hundred meters. , is a moral wall, where the selection of stars of filial piety and public morality is posted. Each selection is hung on the wall for villagers to vote. If the villagers think someone is bad, they can just tear his name off.

Walking back and forth between these three walls, you can discover a relatively complete structure of rural cultural significance. The doctoral wall represents children's education and points to the future; the old green brick wall represents historical inheritance and points to the past; the moral wall shows examples and models and points to the present. As an internal driving force, education drives this structure to continuously absorb and purify more things, integrate good values ??into it, precipitate new meanings, and form a fully benign world.

Propaganda posters promoting Chinese virtues can be seen everywhere in Yangtian Village

A clear world. Here, everything has its origin and has meaning, or has meaning itself, or is given meaning, and those absurd, weird and uncomfortable things have been eliminated or corrected. This is the soul of education. It is for this reason that Yangtian is so kind to people. Tang Hua is easy to talk about, and Yangtian always makes people friendly. She has lived here for more than 20 years and has deep feelings about it.

Tang Huahao's mother was from Yangtian. She married into a neighboring village and gave birth to three daughters. Two of them married back to Yangtian. Some sisters are married into Yangtian. "Yangtian Village is not lofty. Walking in Yangtian, you feel that as a Yangtian person, you feel proud compared to other villages. Yangtian people have an upward will." Tang Huahao has taught and can describe this feeling. .

This kind of kindness makes people come back. More and more people who went out are coming back, building beautiful houses and building cultural and sports facilities. Education connects folk customs, nostalgia and spiritual roots.

The "Yangtian Farmers Cultural and Sports Center" managed by villager Shen Fenfang was built by several Yangtian entrepreneurs with an investment of more than 3 million yuan. It has various golf courses, gyms, toilets, shower rooms, and even a golf driving range. In the evening, villagers dance in the square, play indoor games, and have a basketball game on the weekend.

The Yangtian Farmers Cultural and Sports Center was built with funds raised by the villagers

Not far from the Doctor's Wall is the famous Laodao River. Legend has it that Guan Yu dropped his sword here and fished it out. Riverside, pier, open-air basketball court, leisure trails, everything is available. The flowing water and the dense clouds bring endless life and aura.

Yangtian Village has a slogan: Live the life of a country person and be the envy of city people. Garbage is collected centrally, village lanes are cleaner than cities, and roads turn from white to black... I always think about people's livelihood and reset my life everywhere.

This is the rice field, the pure morale, the simplicity of the people, the source of nourishment, and the blessing of education.

At 7:30 in the morning, the sound of students reading aloud could be heard in the classroom of Yangtian Village Primary School.