Tielong Township Middle School

Preface: It is said that the amount of space a person occupies is proportional to his experience, especially his childhood and adolescence, which often determines the greatest possibility of his life. Tielong Township Middle School has long since disappeared in the long river of history due to the country's rural evacuation and town expansion policy, but it is still the alma mater that many people dream about, and it lives in the softest corner of many people's hearts.

The days of studying in the rural middle school were an important node for Nahua to step from the ignorance of childhood to the awakening of teenagers.

Nahua spent her childhood in the countryside. When she was young, her father told others that if she got lost, she would tell others that our family lived in Zhushan Village, Tielong Township, Yishan District, Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province. Like most "country" children, my childhood life was carefree and carefree, but I occasionally felt bored.

There is only a small bridge between Nahua's primary school and her home. Her home is on one end of the bridge and the school is on the other end of the bridge. They are only twenty meters apart. She once tried touching the railings of a small bridge with her eyes closed and was able to shuttle between these two points. What Abba said about getting lost was just a joke to her.

When she was about to graduate from fifth grade, her class teacher took her classmates to the township middle school to take ID photos. This was Nahua’s first time entering a township middle school. She vaguely remembered the imposing three-story building of the rural middle school, with a big red slogan written on the floor: Education must be oriented to the world, the future, and modernization. "I thought this sentence was really touching. After taking the single-inch photo, the teacher took a group photo of several girls. This was the only time Nahua took a group photo with her classmates in elementary school. Later she found out about the rural middle school that took the photo for them. The teacher's surname is Jiang, and he is the biological brother of her third aunt. The head teacher is also an elder of the same clan in the village. When she was a child, Zhushan Village was Nahua's whole world, which was not big at all.

My second visit to my hometown. In the early 1990s, Cangnan had not yet implemented the nine-year compulsory education system. After graduating from primary school, one had to pass the primary to junior high school exam to be eligible for junior high school. The exam was very serious, with one person per table and two invigilators. Hua had never seen such a scene, and she still felt a little nervous and excited.

The teacher came to notify her of the test results in person. The teacher came that night and left quickly. I didn’t even have time to come downstairs. That night, my parents were very happy because Nahua was admitted to the rural middle school. The national junior high school enrollment rate that year was 66.4, while the enrollment rate in rural primary schools was less than 50. Only 3 of the 12 girls were admitted.

On the day of registration at the rural middle school, it had just rained heavily and the ground was very slippery. Nahua made an appointment with the female classmates in the class to go to school by boat. The classmate's name is Meiqun. When the flower jumped onto the stern of the boat, the long umbrella handle hooked Meiqun's crossbody bag. Before the girl in Meiqun had time to jump on the boat, the ship was already moving forward slowly, and the two of them fell into the boat together. They fell into the river. Fortunately, they fell into the water in front of their house. Not long after, my mother bought a house in the town and rented a boat to go to the town. Nahua no longer had to take a boat to go to school.

The full name of the township middle school was Tielong Township Central School. At that time, Tielong Township governed Badai, Xieyangdi, Dongtiao, Zhangbei and Zhangnan. , Shangshuimen, Chenjiasi, Qianhejiang, Paizhongbao, Zhuhou, Zhuxi, Zhudong and other more than a dozen natural villages. The students in the class came from various villages. Their new home was in the center of Yishan Town, which was under the jurisdiction of Yishan District at that time. With the five townships of Tielong, Yunyan, Fengjiang, Jiangshan and Pingping, Nahua suddenly realized that the world was a bit big.

After only one year in the township middle school, the teacher said that the school was divided. The township middle school was originally a complete middle school, including a primary school and a junior high school. After the division, the original location of the school became Tielong Township Central Primary School, and the relocated junior high school was renamed Tielong Middle School.

The new school buildings were two more imposing four-story buildings, standing in the fields. The school had no walls, a yellow sand playground in front of the building, and a river behind the building. At that time, the school seemed to have a shortage of teachers. A retired geography teacher attended. The Chinese teacher also taught history and music. The plant teacher in the first grade became the animal teacher in the second grade, and the physical hygiene teacher in the third grade. He also opened a canteen in the school, part-time. Working as a school janitor.

In the second year of junior high school, a female teacher came to the school to teach civics. She was a college student. She was very gentle and beautiful, but she was often made angry by naughty boys until she cried. In the third year of junior high school, another male teacher came to the school to teach politics. I heard that he was also a college student. He wore a pair of metal-framed glasses. His Mandarin was very standard, and he could even criticize the students and spoke very beautifully. His surname is Xie, and even his surname seems polite. At that time, Nahua decided to go to university in the future.

In 1994, after graduating from the rural middle school, Nahua was admitted to high school. This year, under the guidance of the central government's policy of "seizing opportunities, deepening reform, expanding opening up, promoting development, and maintaining stability", the national education front fully implemented the spirit of the National Education Work Conference. The national high school gross enrollment rate rose to 30.8, including General high schools, vocational high schools, secondary vocational schools, technical schools, adult technical secondary schools and adult high schools. Among them, the enrollment rate of General High School reached 18. That flower can be regarded as catching up with the country's good policies.

Later, the township middle school was merged into Yishan Town No. 2 Middle School. It is said that it is also related to national policy. In the spring of 1992, after Deng Xiaoping's speech during his southern tour, a second wave of reform was launched in China. On May 8, 1992, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Dismantling Districts, Expanding Towns and Merging Townships." The "Notice" pointed out: The administrative division management system of districts and towns is no longer adapted to the new situation. Subsequently, Pingyang and Cangnan began to evacuate districts, expand towns and merge villages, and Tielong Township was evacuated.

In 2012, the No. 2 Middle School was merged into the No. 1 Middle School of Yishan Town. The school site at that time was acquired by a textile factory and became increasingly abandoned.

The history of the rural middle school is not long, but the growth of Yu Nahua is of profound significance. From here she saw the wonderful outside world, and from here she moved towards the wonderful outside world.

Nowadays, every time when she returns to her hometown and the car passes by the old site of the township middle school, Nahua will try hard to identify the road leading to the township middle school. This road records the trajectory of her pursuit of dreams when she was a teenager.

Time will pass and memories will never fade.