After retiring, he has taught English for 26 years. The 77-year-old teacher was praised by the villagers as a "Xiangyi"

　After retiring, he volunteered to teach English for 26 years. The 77-year-old teacher was praised by the villagers as a "Xianxian"

　　77-year-old Kong Hui is well-known in Nandi Village, Panggezhuang Town, Daxing District. When she talks about her, the villagers will blurt out, "Oh, you are talking about the'Xian Xian'."

　　Kong Hui's home looks ordinary, but there is a classroom converted from a bedroom. Blackboards of different sizes are hung on the wall, and about 10 sets of tables and chairs are placed inside.

　　September is the beginning of the school season, and English tutoring delayed this year due to the epidemic will soon be on track.

She plans to teach English knowledge of epidemic prevention and control as the first knowledge point of the first class.

She stood on a stool, removed a blackboard from a high place, laid it flat on the desk, and stooped down to write: "the new coronovirus."

　　Kong Hui has been teaching voluntarily in the village for 26 years.

At first there were only 3 children in the yard to listen to the class. After word of mouth, children from surrounding villages were also sent, from the first grade of primary school to the third grade, spanning 12 grades, and there can be more than 30 children at most.

　　A world map is hung at the back of the classroom. It is made by hand, and each section is divided by different colored pieces of paper, and each place name is marked in English.

That map represented Kong Hui's wish, "Open a window for the children to see the world."

　　Prepare for the first lesson after the epidemic

　　"Teacher Kong, why haven't you started class yet? I came here all dressed up." On September 5, another weekend, two children from the village appeared in Kong Hui's courtyard.

　　Kong Hui has volunteered to teach English at home for 26 years.

This year because of the epidemic, the courses have been stagnant. The children who could not wait for the start of the course finally couldn't help but came to her home to ask questions with their schoolbags.

　　"Don't worry, classes will start next weekend, and the teacher is preparing." Hearing Kong Hui's answer, the children still refused to leave, and wanted to stay in her small classroom for self-study.

Kong Hui had no choice but to leave the children alone and told him to separate a seat in the classroom and wear a mask.

　　Parents in the village have been asking about the start time.

Kong Hui made a phone call to the village committee to discuss whether the class can be started under the premise that epidemic prevention and control are in place.

The village committee expressed support. On September 7, the village delivered disinfectant water, alcohol, thermometers and masks to Kong Hui's home.

　　Seeing these prevention and control materials, Kong Hui suddenly thought that this is a point of knowledge worthy of students to learn.

After looking up the dictionary, she took down a small blackboard of about 3 square meters in the classroom and wrote "new coronavirus" and "new coronavirus epidemic prevention and control normalization" in Chinese and English.

Kong Hui decided that this will be the first knowledge point to be taught in the first lesson of this year.

　　In her opinion, the purpose of compulsory classes is not only to teach English, but also to let the children in the village understand the world they live in.

To this end, she went online to look at recent current political hotspots and found that Beijing was opening a "Service Trade Fair", so she also wrote this short English sentence on another blackboard.

　　"I can't ask three questions at once", this is compulsory content in Kong Hui's class.

She hopes to use this kind of teaching method to help children accumulate more vocabulary while keeping up with the trend of the times.

　　Support Xinjiang for 27 years

　　Before compulsory teaching, Kong Hui was an aid teacher in Xinjiang.

　　In 1966, Kong Hui graduated from University. As the secretary of the class league branch, he has the power to decide the work distribution of the whole class.

After allocating the students, there are still two places left, one is to go to Dalian and the other is to the Xinjiang branch.

　　"Everyone thought I would assign myself to Dalian, which is my hometown." But thinking that another classmate's family would be more difficult, Kong Hui gave him this place.

　　Because he was willing to help his classmates during the school, he was serious and responsible when he was the party secretary, Kong Hui was once named as the "representative of Lei Feng."

In his sophomore year, Kong Hui and some students met Premier Zhou Enlai in the Auditorium of the Northeast Bureau of Shenyang.

The premier's speech inspired Kong Hui. For a long time, she remembered that "as a citizen must be dedicated."

　　In 1968, Kong Hui went to Xinjiang on a green train.

In the car, she thought of the "Border Race Jiangnan" that she had seen in school before, and looked forward to the singing and dancing in Xinjiang.

When she got out of the car, she was dumbfounded. This was the "ice and snow" she had never felt before, and the snow was too thick to open the door.

　　Although the living environment is very different from before, Kong Hui decided to stick to it and "do everything to the end".

　　In the school where he teaches in Xinjiang, Kong Hui has a high level of English, and everyone loves her classes. At most, there are 24 classes a week. There are fresh graduates and current employees.

Some students do not have a good foundation, so she should start with teaching pronunciation.

　　In addition to attending classes, the school often asks Kong Hui to do some translation work to bring foreign knowledge to students.

For a period of time, she stayed up until 5 o'clock every night, and went to work after an hour of sleep. Sometimes when there was no time on the road, she would risk taking a shortcut from the ice.

　　"Talents and culture are the foundation of poverty alleviation"

　　After retirement, Kong Hui followed her husband back to Nandi Village in Beijing.

　　On New Year's Eve in 1994, Kong Hui rode a bicycle around the village.

When she walked to the front of a house, she was a little surprised, "There is no wall."

I walked in and saw a man sitting on a small stool, facing the stove.

　　"It's holiday, why doesn't your family cook?" Kong Hui asked him.

While the other party mastered the fire near the stove, he replied: "No money, my wife went outside to get rice." This made Kong Hui feel very sad. The wind and sand in Nandi Village was too big, and there was no wall. In winter, the cold wind can flow directly from the door to the home.

　　Later, Kong Hui withdrew 1,500 yuan from the 1,700 yuan salary he received that month to support the villager.

She told the other party to build a wall first, and then find some work to find a way to make money by herself.

For the next six months, Kong Hui has been funding the villager until he started to build sheep pens and rely on sheep raising for a living.

　　The poverty in the village reminded Kong Hui of his childhood.

　　Kong Hui said that he often had no clothes to wear at that time, and the long sleeves were worn out, so he cut them into short sleeves and continued wearing them.

Several children in the family have to help make handicrafts and subsidize the family.

She is the eldest of the family, and there are 7 younger siblings underneath. Her mother hopes that she will take on the responsibility of the eldest sister and help take care of the children and do housework at home.

　　Mother once hoped that Kong Hui would work after graduating from high school and earn money to help his family.

The Chinese teacher approached her, offered to subsidize part of the cost of the university, and told her, "You must take the college entrance examination, you must continue to go to school, and you must go out." The teacher's encouragement made Kong Hui firm up the belief in going to university, and finally she was admitted. Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and English of Shenyang Normal University.

　　The impoverished life of childhood made Kong Hui understand that talent and culture are the foundation of poverty alleviation. The next generation cannot continue this plight, and children should go out.

　　Around 1995, people in the village found Kong Hui one after another, asking her to help her children's English.

By applying to the village committee, the plan to run tutoring classes for free began.

　　"Open a window for the children"

　　In the beginning, only three children gathered around the yard to listen to her lectures.

After word of mouth, there are more and more children, from first grade to third grade, spanning 12 grades, at most there can be more than 30 children, and the small courtyard can't sit down.

　　In 2012, after obtaining the consent of her husband and sister, Kong Hui packed her 20-square-meter bedroom into a classroom, and lost all the furniture, leaving only the wardrobe, and sent it to her sister's house in the city.

　　Over the years, there have been more and more small blackboards hanging on the wall.

In order for children of all grades to understand, Kong Hui's writing is square and square, and the blackboards are filled with grammar, current affairs hotspots, geographical knowledge, patriotism education knowledge, English songs and other content.

Every time in class, Kong Hui would hold a long stick about 2 meters long, and the children would learn wherever the stick pointed to the blackboard.

　　"Only by writing in block letters, children can understand. Unlike teaching college students in the past, writing can be difficult." Kong Hui said.

　　She also figured out the teaching method of the remedial class. Grammar is a must-learn content for every grade. Sometimes it can be compiled into ballads, "Singing is better than hard recitation."

Students in the lower grades generally do handicrafts, perform dialogues, and sing English songs in class, while students in the upper grades must learn grammar and current affairs.

　　Outside of winter and summer vacations, every Saturday morning, the children will come to Kong Hui's family classroom on time.

Sometimes, the parents feel embarrassed and insist on giving her money.

But Kong Hui never accepts, "They said to give less, and I don't want as much."

　　This year, the first class of students that Kong Hui brought in the village was admitted to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. They specially invited Teacher Kong to eat at home to show their gratitude.

Before that, they had consulted Kong Hui about the repetition. In their eyes, Teacher Kong had gone to university, was a university professor, and was still teaching in the village on a voluntary basis. “What you say must be good for the students”.

　　A world map is hung at the back of the classroom. It is made by hand, and each section is divided by different colored pieces of paper, and each place name is marked in English.

That map represented Kong Hui’s wish, "Open a window and let the children see the world."

　　New Beijing News trainee reporter Wang Chang