On December 21st, the charity donation action "Read for You" brought Zhang Mingyang, the writer of the "Voice Creators Project" into the No. 2 Middle School of Jianhe County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, and donated 6,000 extracurricular reading materials and auxiliary books. Brought a reading sharing lesson on "Why Reading" for senior high school students.
This is the second time "Reading for You" came to Guizhou after entering Gaozhai Township, Kaiyang County in May.
"It's a very fulfilling thing to look down on books from the top to the bottom."
As a student representative, Yang Ni (pseudonym) from the third grade (7) class talked about reading-related matters in the process of growing up.
She grew up living in Guangdong with her parents who worked abroad. There are many libraries and bookstores. She has the conditions to read all kinds of books, so she is fascinated by the words. , The meticulous and meticulous words.
"It's a very fulfilling thing to look down on books from the thick of the book." The mountains are green, and you can feel "green all over the mountains and white rivers, and the sound of rain is like smoke"; the summer is sultry, you can look for "lazy white lupins, naked The cosiness in "in the green forest"; the loneliness of "the sun is dark and the mountains are far away, the sky is cold and the white house is poor" is also imaged in the wet and cold winter.
Through reading, Yang Ni constantly tried various ways to enhance her "ability to express ideas in words freely".
While being touched by the fullness that reading brings to children, all sectors of society have also seen the lack of satisfaction of reading needs for students in mountainous areas.
Not everyone in the mountains has the growth environment like Yang Ni.
According to Hu Xinglin, the vice principal of Jianhe No. 2 Middle School, although the children have been able to enjoy a better life and fairer educational opportunities, it is undeniable that the gap with Shanwai still exists.
Liu Lili (pseudonym) from Class 11 of Senior Middle School (11) remembers that a fairy tale book without a cover, she has read countless times in 6 years of elementary school.
Those words about the mermaid, the ugly duckling, the little match girl, and Thumbelina have created a dreamlike fairy tale world for her, and they have influenced her to this day.
When asked why she didn't read other books, "there is no book in the book corner", it is not just Liu Lili's regret during her growth.
More reasons are still family circumstances.
Long Can (a pseudonym) in the third year of high school (1), when he was a child, mostly went to a friend's house to "scroll" books.
In order to have a copy of "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" of his own, he had to save 3 yuan a day from the food expenses, and it would take more than ten days to get what he wanted.
For this reason, when it was observed that reading resources in some areas were stretched, Pinduoduo set out from Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province in April 2021 to launch a charity donation of "Reading for You" to primary and middle school students, with a total of more than 120,000 books donated.
"Learned from the book, there is the strength and recognition to continue to move forward"
"The library of a university is the essence of a prestigious school. You will be able to truly discover the heritage and charm of the prestigious school in the library. This is like in a martial arts novel. The essence of Shaolin Temple is not the magnificent Great Hall of the Great Heroes, but the collection. The Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Shaolin's thousand-year martial arts profound sense."
The interesting words of the author Zhang Mingyang of the "Voice Creators Project" attracted the attention of the students.
Every time I come to a primary and secondary school in a remote mountainous area, the "Read for You" project will prepare such a "compulsory course" for the children together with the accompanying writers.
In this special reading sharing class, Zhang Mingyang revolved around "Why I study", and talked about his reading experience in the process of personal study and work. In particular, he talked about the change of reading to life, not only the sharing of knowledge, but also the experience and spirit. Level sharing.
"Teacher Zhang, how should we tell whether the opinions stated in the book are correct or not?" The question was Zhang Xin (pseudonym), a student in Class 1 of Senior Three.
Born in the countryside and growing up in the mountains, his parents had to travel far away for the family's food rations.
"Reading is my only friend." Zhang Xin looked for her own world in the books.
She originally liked to read celebrity legends who defeated suffering, such as Einstein and Hawking. "These ordinary people like me can wear armor and pierce through thorns and thorns, and finally reach the top of the mountain."
She kept in mind the phrase "Don't blame your life, that is your cowardice" that she saw in the book. Every time she thinks of this sentence, she vents her thoughts of her parents, growing loneliness, and suppressed and restrained emotions. The exit.
It has never been the hardship itself that inspires and inspires Zhang Xin, but the kind of tenacity extracted from the hardship, "allowing me to accept it peacefully and move forward firmly."
When the interest in reading gradually shifted to the fields of logic, technology, medicine, etc., a girl who had never thought about the future before, planned her life for the first time-going to college, becoming a doctor, and giving back to people who helped her.
Reading this "good friend", although the power it brings is not surging, but it can grind the sharp corners of the rock and grow into her own power.
"It's a long way out of the mountains, but everyone who walks is easy to follow"
"Broaden your horizons in reading and find your dreams." At the event, Zhang Yonghao, deputy secretary of the Southeastern Guizhou Committee of the Communist Youth League, sent a message to the students to read more and read good books in their daily lives.
At the donation ceremony, Vice President Hu Xinglin hoped that the students could make good use of the books and school supplies donated by social welfare forces, study hard, grow up healthy, and find the value and meaning of life.
More than 90% of the students in Jianhe No. 2 Middle School are from Shenshan Miao Township.
Miao compatriots have migrated several times in history, and the mountain was once a safety barrier for their homeland, and once a barrier to the outside world.
"Get out of the mountains" is the dream of generations.
"It's a long way out of the mountains, but everyone who walks is easy to follow." Hu Xinglin said that to allow more children to have dreams and opportunities to realize their dreams, more strength is needed.
The seeding of strength and confidence is continuing.
The relevant person in charge of the “Reading for You” charity donation project of Pinduoduo said that it is the original intention of Pinduoduo to help the development of social welfare undertakings. Promote the revitalization of rural culture, realize knowledge inclusiveness and contribute a corporate responsibility.