"Happy Farm" was built on university campus, teachers and students turned the ground to grow vegetables

"I'm covered in mud, I still look forward to class again"

　　Changjiang Daily News (Reporter Chen Xiaotong, Correspondent Luo Yuchen, Chen Xiangyu) On the evening of December 2, after finishing a day of class, Chen Xuanrui, a freshman at Hubei University, went to the school’s labor practice base on the way to the cafeteria to take a look at his fertilizer last week. Let’s see if his "friends" look good.

　　In October of this year, the labor education class of Hubei University's Yangluo campus officially opened.

This course is a compulsory course for the whole school, and the course credits are divided into 2 credits.

Every student on the Yangluo campus has to work in the field and spend a year experiencing the whole process of crop growth.

　　At Hubei University, freshmen spend their first year at the General Education College in Yangluo, Wuhan, where the first class of labor at the school also starts.

　　In order to provide good labor classes, the College of General Education has built 8 acres of vacant land on the campus into a labor practice base. Nearly 4,000 freshmen in the college are "contracted to households" in units of "Xiyuan" (similar to professional division). .

The college purchased farm tools and rapeseed seedlings, and the students took turns planting and taking care of them under the guidance of the labor teacher.

　　At the end of October, Chen Xuanrui, a Chinese language and literature student, took the first lesson in labor, which was "turning the ground".

They wanted to cultivate a piece of land full of weeds and stones. The students spent nearly an hour and a half digging the land into ridges and digging ditches.

"When get out of class is over, the shoes and trouser legs of the students are all mud, and some students have mud on their faces, but everyone is very happy and looking forward to class again."

　　"The teacher not only teaches us how to cultivate, but also teaches us some agricultural knowledge in theoretical classes. For example, different vegetables have different shapes of leaves, including round leaves, flat leaves, pointed leaves, and different plant heights." A native of Wuhan, growing up in the city, she has never had the experience of working in the field.

Nowadays, when talking about crop growth, she can say a lot of "proper nouns".

"Although we have never planted land since we were young, we have a natural sense of closeness to the soil, and everyone is very enthusiastic. The labor class with mud on hands and feet is interesting."

　　At present, crops such as wheat and seasonal vegetables have been planted in this practice base the size of a football field.

May next year is the harvest season. Each student will personally pick and write a labor education summary. The harvested vegetables will also be sent to the cafeteria to make free meals for students to eat.

　　Han Kai, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of General Education of Hubei University, introduced that the first year of labor education is based on labor practice, allowing students to experience the full cycle of cultivation, sowing, seedling, maturation, and harvesting of crops, and personally experience the hardships of labor. And music.

“Many students don’t know where the food comes from, whether the vegetables and fruits are hung on the trees or growing in the ground. Only by experiencing the'sweat dripping down the soil' can you realize that'everything is hard.'" Han Kai said, hoping that the students We know through personal experience that work is not easy and work is glorious. Not only do they have a heartfelt respect for the workers, but they also gain upward power from the work.

　　It is reported that Hubei University will further expand labor courses, starting with life labor education, professional labor education, and public welfare labor practices, forming a complete labor education system.