Thirteen years later, let's watch the BBC documentary China School.

At the southernmost tip of Anhui Province, there is a small town called Xiuning County, and the best high school in the town is called Xiuning Middle School.

This is where I spent my senior high school, which is why I watched this documentary several times.

Every face in the lens looks so familiar, every picture seems to have its own shadow, and every journey seems to have been experienced personally.

For me, this is not only a documentary, but also the past life, daily routine, getting up, reading early, doing morning exercises, attending classes, having lunch, having a rest, studying at night and taking exams. . .

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The resources of this film are hard to find now. Douban has only one introduction and more than 400 comments, but the score is surprisingly high, 8.7 points.

In 2007, the British BBC focused on the small town of Xiuning, focusing on the ordinary life of three schools, several students, families, teachers and students.

For a whole year, with a very sincere, simple and friendly attitude, I concentrated on shooting a 300-minute large-scale documentary "China School" in Xiuning.

Not surprisingly, let's witness how an Anhui science college entrance examination champion was born.

This champion, for the small town of Xiuning, has more special significance.

It's not surprising if you've never heard the name of this town. It is just one of more than 2,000 counties in China. However, when it comes to being the top scholar, you must be full of energy.

Ten years of cold window, nobody cares, famous all over the world.

According to research, there have been imperial examinations since ancient times. From the tenth year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty to the sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, there were 19 champions in Xiuning County. Take 19 as an example, but it doesn't feel anything.

There are more than 800 top students in China, with only one in every three cities and counties. This comparison is cruel. You are a well-deserved exam enthusiast.

In fact, the number of top scholars does not mean that this place is good. Xiuning is located in Huangshan City, formerly known as Huizhou, with beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery.

It is precisely because there are many mountains and few fields and the transportation is inconvenient that reading is the best way out, and the only other thing is doing business.

If this land can't support a family, it is possible to have enough food and clothing, and so is business. Huizhou merchants have been famous since ancient times, and it is possible to break out of a world when they leave their hometown.

I didn't fix it in my last life. I was thirteen or fourteen years old in Huizhou and threw it away. Such doggerel has exhausted the bitterness and tears of Huizhou people.

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Because of this, education is valued, and only the concept of reading is immersed in the bone marrow and engraved in the brain, which has continued to this day.

Perhaps it is also for this reason that the BBC will focus on this town, our school and our students.

It records the story of a small town in China entering the modern society, and how the society, schools and families in the town educated and trained a generation.

As mentioned earlier.

There is hardship, pain, joy and joy in this story. Through it, we can learn about thousands of schools like it in China, which not only have a new understanding of the impression of a group of children and a small town, but also see the little-known side of education in China.

If you are very interested in this film, you can look for it.

The film consists of five episodes. Although each episode has a title, it doesn't really matter, because everything is so ordinary, even if you want to be the top student in the college entrance examination.

The three schools correspond to our three stages of education, namely, civilian primary school, Haiyang middle school and Xiuning middle school. For some comments, I want to talk about my personal feelings as a witness.

Some netizens said that the documentary was a bit fake. It is unimaginable to be so poor in 2008, and so is the pressure of study.

Some netizens also said that no one has ever emphasized to me that you want to change your destiny with the college entrance examination.

In fact, there is no doubt that this is true, poverty is true, and the pressure of study is also true. The sentence that the college entrance examination changes fate is true, which has been emphasized from grade one to grade three.

This is especially true for most rural children.

Arrive at the classroom at 6: 00 in the morning and study at 10 in the evening, which was the schedule of most students at that time, only a little more.

It is common for some students to study late into the night.

There are also many netizens who are crying because the rubber is broken, and they are indignant and angry at the education method of this ragged child.

However, this is also true. We have lived in the eyes of others since childhood, and public punishment is a common way. At that time, no one paid attention to children's psychology and self-esteem.

This method is really a failure, a complete failure.

I still remember that in the second grade of primary school, the teacher organized us to go up the mountain to pick tea. There is a vegetable field nearby, and some naughty children go to pick peas to eat.

After being discovered, it was naturally corporal punishment. I didn't pick it, but I was framed and reported by other students, and naturally I stood in public with them.

My rebuttal teacher didn't listen, which led to a good scolding. I have no choice but to stand silently with grievances. This matter has been in my mind for too long and should not be forgotten.

Looking at the children in the documentary, they succeeded in replacing me.

Fortunately, this kind of thing happens less and less, because kindergarten children will get their certificates by the end of the semester, at least we all begin to pay attention to their self-esteem.

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Unfortunately, after ten years, our education has been repeated many times. We should be good children, which hasn't changed much.

Another netizen said something that many people care about.

"BBC with such a vision, I hope you can track it again after many years, and what the protagonists interviewed in those years are doing. What kind of life experiences did the educatees recorded on the spot have in the end? "

Yes, I also want to know what kind of life the protagonist of the documentary has experienced in the next ten years. Before the college entrance examination, we always thought that the destination was university.

Later, I gradually realized that this is an endless road.

Not everyone is a top student, and not everyone can change their destiny through the college entrance examination. All this may or may not be a scam.

Many people pass the college entrance examination, go out of town, go to college, take postgraduate entrance examinations and work and live in big cities; Some people quit halfway and went out to make a living, and gained a lot.

One thing is certain, excellent people are excellent after all, and ordinary people are still ordinary.

The only thing that remains unchanged is that Huizhou Town, the hometown of the champion, has been keen on studying and taking exams for ten years, trained a batch of talents and sent them to big cities.

In this environment where everyone is talking about involution, this method seems more difficult, but it still won't change anything.

People are not sure whether this is the success or failure of the town.

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Finally, a few screenshots of the documentary, thank you very much for this documentary, which left us precious and precious image materials, making our memories more vivid and less empty.