China News Service, Yushu, Qinghai, May 19th, title: "Ecology Lessons" at the Source of the Yangtze River: Return to Nature and Trace to the Homeland Family
Author Hu Guilong Pan Yujie
Located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Suojia Township is nearly 4,700 meters above sea level. The sky above the head is blue, and the roaring wind makes people unable to open their eyes. However, there is no scrap of confetti on the campus of the Suojia Township Boarding Elementary School.
"Students usually sort and recycle waste products such as cartons and beverage cans, and exchange the points they earn into school supplies, and gradually develop the habit of caring for the environment." Luo Song Qiuying, the school's deputy principal, told reporters.
Recently, a reporter from Chinanews.com went to the "first school at the source of the Yangtze River"-the boarding elementary school in Suojia Township, Zhiduo County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
The picture shows the students at the No. 1 Primary School in Zhiduo County listening carefully.
Photo by Pan Yujie
According to Luo Song Qiuying, the school has opened an "ecological classroom" since 2015, arranging theoretical and practical courses every week to cultivate students' awareness of green, economizing, and caring for wild animals and plants, and stimulate potential environmental protection emotions.
Zhiduo County is the birthplace of the Yangtze River and its ecological status is important.
In recent years, the local area has actively carried out ecological education, promoted the textbook "Living in Three Rivers" in primary and secondary schools, organized outdoor activities such as "I am a little environmental protection guard", and held ecological protection lectures and environmental essay competitions.
In 2018, Jiga Primary School in Zhiduo County was named the Youth Ecological and Moral Education Base in Sanjiangyuan National Park.
Ye Hong, a retired teacher from Shanghai, goes to Jiga Elementary School every year to carry out environmental protection practices. "The walls of the school classrooms are decorated with green paper-cuts. The children's hand-painted landscapes, flowers and birds, and environmental protection themed posters all reflect their love for nature and home. "she says.
"We are also opening a'plantation' on the grass behind the playground, where students observe the growth of insects, animals and plants, and organize everyone to clean up the county river garbage during the spring melt season to protect the source water." The teacher of the ecology classroom of Jiga Elementary School made a noise. Zhimei introduced.
The 10-year-old was only enrolled in the No. 1 Primary School in Zhiduo County. He who usually likes to take pictures has his own "splendid work": a photo of a swan flapping its wings and taking off.
"This was taken when my father and I were digging cordyceps in Suojia Township in June last year," Caesar recalled, "I took photos as I walked, and reminded my father to cover the raised turf, and the dug up soil should be backfilled and rubbish. Take it with you and cannot stay on the grassy hill."
Marmots, falcons, fawns, Tibetan antelopes, wild yaks... In the ecological ethics class, I was able to show off his “environmental homework” with my classmates. Teacher Mengde told reporters that the theme of today’s class is “Parents Heaven and earth, close to homeland".
The picture shows the wild animal photos shared by students of the No. 1 Primary School in Zhiduo County.
Photo by Pan Yujie
“If children’s life is a tree, the ecological classroom is the branches, and the soul’s “environmental protection” is the root, and the branches draw nourishment from the roots,” Mengde said. “Similarly, modern education is rooted in traditional culture. Taking pictures, picking up trash...These seemingly simple behaviors are behind the most simple and deepest feelings for nature. In the final analysis, it is the feelings of people for their parents, ancestors, and homeland."
When speaking freely, the students had a longing for the "future" in their hearts. Some wanted to go to Sanya to watch the "Sunrise on the Sea", and some wanted to be the host on the big stage, but it was only then that everyone's aspirations were expressed.
"I want to build a live bear fence in the village, so that the shepherds who go to milk in the morning will not be attacked by brown bears," Cai said, "My parents hope that I will go to school in big cities in the future and not be a'frog at the bottom of the well'. But after work, I still want to go back to my hometown."
"The purpose of our study and study is not to leave our hometown and stay in the city, but no matter where we are, we must not forget where we came from, and we must not forget the world, the grasslands, and the cattle and sheep that gave birth to me and raised me. "Before get out of class, Mengde said to the students.
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