After 13 years of running the school and 11 years of taking exams, has the fate of Zhang Guimei’s female high school students really changed now?

On June 7, 2021, Principal Zhang Guimei of Lijiang Huaping Girls’ High School personally sent 150 girls to the college entrance examination examination room.

This is the 13th year that Huaping Girls’ Happy School has been held, and it is also the 11th year that Principal Zhang Guimei has given exams to Dashan Girls.

On the day after the college entrance examination, Principal Zhang Guimei avoided the interview camera and hid in the office, unwilling to face the parting moment.

The most common thing she said was: "I wonder if I can hold on to the next year?"

Before this, as the first all-free girls' high school in the country, , Lijiang Huaping Girls' High School has allowed 1,804 Dashan girls to realize their college dreams, with a comprehensive enrollment rate of 100 and a one-book enrollment rate of 44, making it the number one school in Lijiang City.

And all these miracles start with the 96 girls admitted when the school was first established. When they faced the pressure of breaking everything, they left the mountains of poverty and walked towards the classroom of knowledge. Thirteen years later, Have their lives really changed? 96 girls fished out of the mountains

In August 2008, Lijiang Huaping Girls’ Senior High School, the country’s first all-free girls’ senior high school, was officially completed.

Unlike other schools, there is no threshold for admission here, and only poor girls from nearby Huaping County are admitted.

The first class of Huaping Girls’ High School accepted 100 students, and 96 of them persisted until graduation. Principal Zhang personally went deep into the mountains to “fish out” these children one by one.

When the girls came to the girls' high school, some were being told by their families that they were getting married: "He is a girl, and he is used in exchange for a bride price"; some were herding sheep in the mountains and had never seen anyone outside. The world; some parents have no money, so Zhang Guimei gets mad: "I must take this child away. It doesn't cost you a penny, what else do you want?"

Sisters Zhou Yuncui and Zhou Yunli are Huaping girls. Gao's first graduates.

Principal Zhang Guimei waiting for recess exercises

After graduation, sisters Zhou Yuncui and Zhou Yunli were admitted to Yunnan Normal University and the other to Dehong Normal University.

After learning that both daughters were admitted to college and walked out of the mountains, the father, who had worked hard for half his life, was very happy and went to thank Zhang Guimei carrying chickens, ducks, and vegetables on his back.

The biggest hope of the sisters, who have lived in poverty since childhood, is that one day they can "walk out of the mountains and make a lot of money." However, during the three years of struggle at Huaping Women's High School, their dreams have undergone some strange changes. change.

After graduating from university in 2015, Zhou Yunli was admitted to a middle school teaching position in Ninglang County. After hearing that the Women's High School was in short supply of mathematics teachers, she decisively gave up her county job and official establishment, and came to work as a substitute teacher at the Women's High School. It took a year before she became a regular teacher. After going round and round, she returned to the starting point of her destiny, but the life in front of her was a little different. Zhou Yunli said: "The teacher is old and we have grown up. We have to continue her unfinished work."

Zhou Yunli (third from right) teaches students in the corridor of the dormitory building

Like Zhou Yunli, Lu Chaoli, who comes from a poor family, was also the first student accepted by the women's high school. Like many graduates of Huaping Girls' High School, after graduation, she chose a job that has more social significance and is helpful to the people - the glorious people's police.

After finishing her homework, she sent her first month’s salary back to the school, and then insisted on donating 500 yuan from her monthly salary to a poor schoolgirl at school.

She said with gratitude: "It is the women's high school that taught me about contribution and gratitude. I want to pass on its energy."

There are other people with similar life situations from He Xianhui from Huaping Mountain Village was born to ordinary farmers. Since they had no scientific and cultural knowledge, they had been trapped in the mountains all their lives and could not see the outside world. Therefore, their parents had always pinned their hopes of getting out of the mountains on Xianhui alone.

Xianhui was diligent and studious, and successfully graduated with excellent results in the high school entrance examination. However, after the short-lived joy, the whole family fell into deep worries: Where did the tuition for the three years of high school come from?

Just when the whole family was about to give up their high school studies, Principal Zhang came to He Xianhui's home and saw He Xianhui's mother in thin clothes cutting leeks in the field. Principal Zhang did not hesitate at all and immediately removed all her clothes. He took off his new cotton coat and gave it to her.

The arrival of Principal Zhang Guimei rekindled He Xianhui’s desire to study. She resolutely filled out Lijiang Huaping Girls’ High School in the first column of the volunteer form.

Now, she has become a middle school teacher. Every weekend, she would go to Huaping County Children's Welfare Home to help. She said gratefully: "Without Teacher Zhang, I would not be where I am today. The Chinese version of Teresa

Zhang Guimei is 64 years old. She has become sick from overwork over many years and has suffered from many diseases, but she has not She constantly cares for these girls who study hard, and is called the "Chinese version of Teresa" by the outside world.

For more than ten years, Zhang Guimei has traveled extensively in one district and four counties of Lijiang City, spanning 110,000 kilometers of mountain roads. Family visits opened the hearts of parents and changed the fate of girls.

One winter vacation, Zhang Guimei still visited Huaping County. On the street, Zhang Guimei saw Shan Qiyan, a senior high school student. They were selling sugar cane on the side of the road. She walked up quickly and asked, "It's time to take the college entrance examination. Why are you here selling sugar cane if you can't study well at home?" ”

I learned that Shan Qiyan’s family situation is indeed difficult. Her father is ill and her family lives in an adobe house. The economy is tight, so during the holidays, her daughter has to carry sugar cane to the town to sell to supplement the family income. In order to make Shan Qiyan Qiyan could study with peace of mind, so Zhang Guimei often secretly gave her living expenses until she was successfully admitted to college.

Now, Shan Qiyan, who has graduated from college, has become a kindergarten teacher. I will remember Mr. Zhang’s lessons and go to difficult places, where the motherland needs me. ”

Having been in charge of Huaping Girls’ School for 13 years, Zhang Guimei has almost no property to her name. She has no house or car. She lives with her children for food and accommodation, and all her income is spent on the girls’ high school. Students can wear a piece of clothing for more than 10 years.

Students from Huaping Girls' High School went from the depths of the mountains to Zhejiang University, Xiamen University, Sichuan University, and Wuhan University to become doctors, police officers, and lawyers. , graduate students... and teachers like Zhang Guimei.

They donated their first month’s salary after graduation back to their alma mater, and used their own strength to help their “former selves” in the next many years. " Such "feedback" has almost become a tradition of Huaping Girls' High School.

In 2009, Chen Fayu, who failed to pass the high school entrance examination score, could not afford to attend a self-financed high school that cost several thousand yuan a year: “My sister was also in school at the time, and my family really couldn’t afford so much money. "Faced with such a dilemma, Chen Fayu was helpless and had no choice but to give up studying and go home to farm.

Later, she heard tortuously that there was a girls' high school in Huaping, which specially accepted girls from poor families without any fees. As if grasping a life-saving straw, Chen Fayu rushed to register.

On the day of the admission report, Principal Zhang was waiting at the school gate. She gave Chen Fayu a hug and told her affectionately: "We will do it in the future. The school is your home, study hard here. "

Three years later, Chen Fayu was admitted to the Yunnan Police College and now became a people's policeman in Yongsheng County, Lijiang City. After graduation, she sent all her first month's salary to the female high school.

She will never forget the years of struggling in women's high school, which gave her the courage to move forward in life: "In the early years, I was not a good student. I was naughty and rebellious in junior high school, and I would even miss the exam. Female high school was a turning point. The teachers are very hard-working, the classmates are very hard-working, and the environment around you pushes you forward, and you know that this path is the right one. "Go forward, don't look back.

This school that changed the fate of 1,804 girls has an unwritten rule: go forward, don't look back.

"Go out of this school and go Finally, stop looking back at this school and thinking about this place all the time. You need to move forward and spend more time doing what you need to do.

"This is what Zhang Guimei said to every girl who has come out of the mountains.

Because Huang Fuyan had been a housewife for a period of time after marriage, when she took her husband and children back to school to donate money, she was sternly rejected by Principal Zhang Guimei. This matter It also became a hot topic.

This great woman who has devoted her life to women’s rights has a firm pursuit of women’s independent understanding. She hopes that her students will be more independent and take control of themselves.

But what many people don’t know is that girls born in Dashan also have difficulties when facing the outside world.

In 2015, Huang Fuyan, who graduated from college, and others. When she came to Shanghai with her then-boyfriend, fierce competition arose. The teachers chosen by the surrounding primary schools were all graduates with a master's degree or a doctorate. With her second degree in primary school education, she suddenly lost her self-confidence. p>

Later she switched to sales and then to human resources in a private company. Until she became pregnant in 2017, she returned to her husband's hometown in Guizhou to take care of the family full-time.

She received her first sales salary. At that time, Huang Fuyan donated 1,500 yuan from the 3,500 yuan to the female high school, and Zhang Guimei happily accepted it. However, when she made another donation request in 2016 as an employee of a private enterprise in Shanghai, Zhang Guimei declined.

Principal Zhang's rejection made Huang Fuyan realize that her current living situation did not meet the expectations of the female high school, so she was admitted to a village primary school in Puding County, Anshun City, Guizhou, and became a special post teacher. Like Principal Zhang Guimei, she always pays special attention to the children of single parents, poor families or left-behind children in the class, and she spreads the spirit of female high school students to further places.

Zhang Guimei said: "I won't mention poverty. Poverty is also a kind of privacy for girls. Let’s call her the girl from the mountains. ”

She protects the girls here like a mother, not only to change their destiny, but also to respect their privacy and give them the confidence to move towards unlimited possibilities.

But Such protection cannot completely stop the strong sense of inferiority caused by the huge distance in the outside world.

Huang Fuyan went to college in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, but before that, she had never traveled far away by train. Huang Fuyan was too nervous to move and went to the toilet when she couldn't hold it in any longer. When she went to buy food with her friends, she would unconsciously feel inferior because it was "too expensive." After entering college, she found that compared with her classmates, what she lacked was talent, intelligence, and the ability to arrange and coordinate. As a class monitor, she had no communication skills at all. In the second year, she proposed to resign: "The class teacher also said. It can be seen that I really tried my best, but I couldn't do it well. ”

Yang Minglian was admitted to a third-tier college in Kunming. Due to the high tuition fees, there were many children from wealthy families in the school. She was sensitive and always stayed away: “You won’t get in.” That kind of circle, where you have to fit in but are blocked, would become a joke. "

There is also Ye Yun, who teaches in an urban middle school. Due to family reasons, he is afraid of marriage and childbirth, so his college life is extremely "closed".

For a full year after graduation, Ye Yun was She couldn't find a job, and thinking of her grandparents and Principal Zhang who had worked hard to support her education, she was burdened with a heavy burden. She was mentally anxious for a long time and always felt dizzy.

Until now, she has been feeling groggy. She did not dare to contact Zhang Guimei and the kind people who helped her study in the first place. She felt that she was not doing well and could not live up to them.

For these girls, the journey from Huaping Women's High School is difficult. It's just a new starting point in life, and there are more difficulties waiting for them to overcome in the distance. Only this time, they don't have Principal Zhang accompanying them all the way.

For Huaping Girls' High School, in addition to harshness. In addition to exam-oriented education, what else can it bring to the girls in Dashan? This will be an urgent question for generations of female high school students.

When the school first started, Principal Zhang felt that he was Maybe she could only persist for a year or two, but when she actually entered school and set foot in the classroom, the hopeful eyes of the girls in the mountains made her unable to bear to give up, let alone give up.

From the beginning of a dream that was almost a fantasy to the current miracle of ranking first in the city, Principal Zhang has silently shouldered the fate of more than 1,800 girls, and this has been the case for many years. .

She said: No matter how much or how little, changing the destiny of a generation is the value of my life.