Wuhan "Papa Hou" has only done one thing for 26 years -
Supporting a blue sky for Tibetan children studying abroad
Although it has been 12 years since she graduated from Wuhan Tibet High School, Bian Zhen still misses the days of Chinese New Year at school.
When the Tibetan New Year arrives, the students will wear Tibetan clothes, put fried wheat grains and ghee tsampa in colorful patterned wooden boxes, and then insert colorful flowers made of highland barley ears and ghee to make Chema, which will be presented to the teacher. Hada.
Hou Boyun, who is called "Hou Dad" by the students, is very busy every Tibetan New Year.
Preparing for activities, talking to students... For 26 years, Hou Boyun has been with the students in the school every year on the 30th and the first day of the new year.
Having worked in ethnic education for most of his life, from the head teacher to the vice-principal of Wuhan Tibet Middle School, Hou Boyun explored a set of management methods for Tibetan classes, allowing Tibetan children who are far away from their hometowns and their parents and relatives to gradually adapt to the teaching model in Wuhan; he also He took the lead in organizing the loving party members of the Peasants and Workers Party, and promoted Wuhan CPPCC members and members of the Hubei Provincial Association for Tibet Construction and Aid to pair up with Tibetan students, and found "Wuhan mothers" and "Wuhan fathers" for thousands of Tibetan children.
Hou Boyun felt that he had done one thing in the past 26 years: to prop up a blue sky for a group of Tibetan children studying in Wuhan.
"He knew almost all the kids in the school"
Hou Boyun always remembers the first time he went to pick up the children of the Tibetan class.
Pubu Qujie, who was in his 10s at the time, was carrying a snakeskin bag. Hou Boyun reached out to help, but the child shook his head and dragged the snakeskin bag for 4 kilometers. Later, Hou Boyun learned that the snakeskin bag contained Pubu Qujie's pocket money for 4 years of junior high school.
Before leaving, his mother sewed 440 yuan from 10 yuan and 20 yuan into Li.
In 1995, Hou Boyun was transferred from Yichang Vocational Education Center in Hubei Province to the Tibet Class of Shashi No. 6 Middle School (later moved to Wuhan to establish Wuhan Tibet Middle School), and became the "King of Children" for Tibetan students.
Wuhan Tibet Middle School is the only one in Hubei Province and the first batch of inland Tibetan schools in China, and it is also the largest local aided Tibetan school in the country.
Starting from Tibet, these 10-year-old children used to take several days and nights by car and train to Wuhan, and then faced a three-year or even longer life in a foreign country.
Some students live in pastoral areas or rural areas in Tibet, and their family members have never read a book.
Before coming to Hubei, the children were not fluent in Mandarin and did not like to communicate with others.
At first, Hou Boyun contacted Tibetan students, but could not find a way.
He began to learn Tibetan by himself, and when he saw students, he greeted them in Tibetan, "Have you eaten?" and "Hello."
In Bian Zhen's impression, Hou Boyun often appeared on the avenues of the school. He always held a Tibetan textbook, and when he met a student, he would come over to be his "Tibetan teacher".
By the time Bian Zhen rose from junior high school to high school, Hou Boyun could already sing Tibetan songs.
Once, a child approached him and said, "Teacher, you respect us so much, I am willing to come and tell you what's in your heart."
At that time, Hou Boyun was still the school's physical education teacher.
One class, just after the warm-up activities, Pubu Qujie turned his head and ran back to the dormitory, found needles and threads, and sat alone on the bedside to sew pants.
Hou Boyun found out when he asked, that the child only had two pairs of pants, one was too torn to wear, and the other had a hole in the gym class.
Hou Boyun found trousers and shoes from home, and then gave Pubu Qujie a 4-year subsidy.
The school teacher Xu Yuping once had a Tibetan girl Tenzin Bai Jinaqu in her class. She had eight brothers and sisters, and she ranked sixth.
When I first came to school, I could not understand Mandarin. The little girl hid in the classroom and cried, clamoring to go back to Tibet.
Hou Boyun came to see her and chat with her whenever he had time.
Xu Yuping found that this introverted child smiled happily when he saw Hou Boyun, and also took the initiative to say hello.
When the final exam came, Dan Zengbai Jinaqu ranked in the top few from the bottom of the class.
Xu Yuping felt, "Hou Boyun is a person full of sunshine in his heart. He will think about students, and many things are more detailed than female teachers."
Hou Boyun asked the children to be clean and hygienic.
When the national flag is raised on Monday, students in each class should show their fingers. If the nails are too long, they should cut them on the spot. In the dormitory, the sheets should be neatly laid out and the quilts should be folded into squares. When a student goes over the wall and goes out to surf the Internet, he brings Go to the school's teachers and find them in Internet cafes.
After studying in Tibet Middle School for 7 years, the closest person to Bian Zhen is Hou Boyun, besides the teacher. "He knows almost all the students in the school." "He has assumed almost all roles, teacher, father, psychological counselor, friend...
"I have a home in Jiangcheng"
In August 2007, when I got on the train from Lhasa to Wuhan for the first time, Dejiram got off the train wearing thick Tibetan clothes, only to find that the climate here is much hotter than Tibet.
The Tibetan middle school teachers who were waiting at the station helped with the luggage, brought the students' clothes, and drove them to the school by bus.
For Dejiram, a girl who lives in a farming and pastoral area in Tibet, everything here seems unfamiliar.
In March 2012, during a holiday, Hou Boyun organized students to go out for a picnic. Dejiram met He Danxin, a member of the Peasant Workers' Party, and he became a "Jiangcheng mother".
Hou Boyun instructed Dejiram to talk more with "mother" if he has something in his heart.
"Mom" would pick her up to go shopping and watch movies every holiday.
After graduating from Tibet High School, Dejiram was admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University.
A year ago, she rushed from school to Wuhan to visit "Mother Jiangcheng".
Walking into the house, she saw pajamas and slippers were placed in the room, and the cooked pork ribs and lotus root soup and her favorite meatballs were placed on the table.
Three years after graduation, Dejiram has also kept in touch with "Papa Hou". "If there was no him, there would be no 'Mama Jiangcheng', and I might not have met so many kind people."
At the beginning of 2020, when the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out in Wuhan, Deguiram, who had just joined the job, bought a mask for a month's salary and donated it to his alma mater.
For more than 10 years, in order to help poor Tibetan students find a sense of belonging in Wuhan, Hou Boyun contacted the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Peasants and Workers Party and the Hongshan District Working Committee to carry out 10 large-scale matchmaking activities in Wuhan Tibet Middle School. More than 100 party members participated in the pairing. Donated nearly 2 million yuan in materials and materials, giving more than 200 Tibetan children a "new home" in Wuhan, Jiangcheng.
"For Tibetan children, what they need to study in Wuhan is national family affection, and what they need is the care of big hands and small hands." Hou Boyun said.
"I came out to go back and build Tibet"
When she was a student, Bian Zhen felt that everything Hou Boyun did was "as it should be", but when she became a doctor of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, she realized that "the older you get, the more you respect him".
Unlike ordinary middle schools, teachers in Tibet middle schools are required to stay on campus 24 hours a day and live downstairs in the student dormitory.
During Chinese New Year and festivals, because Tibetan children cannot go home, the teacher accompanies them to dinner, Guozhuang dance and Tibetan songs.
At that time, as soon as the Spring Festival came, Hou Boyun's mother took the special products and rushed from Jingzhou to Wuhan by train to celebrate the New Year with her son.
His dormitory is often filled with beef jerky and fruit, beckoning students to come and visit.
During the summer vacation, these teachers will follow the students to take the green train back to Tibet for two days and two nights.
When they arrived in Lhasa, teachers endured altitude sickness to hold parent-teacher conferences and visit every family.
At this time, Hou Boyun was the busiest, and the students rushed to invite him to be a guest at home.
At the party, there were students who graduated in 1995 and students who graduated in 2010. Everyone prepared highland barley wine and sang "Mother's Sheepskin Jacket", which the children in the class knew, and recalled the days of growing up in Tibet Middle School.
The national affection is passed on little by little.
Tenzin, who graduated from Zhejiang Police Officers College in 2019, returned to his alma mater during the holidays to thank "Papa Hou" for his 11-year funding from junior high school to university; one year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there was no signal in the ravine where Pubu Qujie worked, so he rode two rides. After more than an hour of motorcycles, I drove to a place with a signal to call Hou Boyun to bless...
"Tibet Middle School is not only a school, but also a home, a place to support our growth, life, study and knowledge." Bian Zhen felt that the farther away, the deeper the feelings for the teachers of Tibet Middle School.
Coming from a poor pastoral area in Tibet, Bian Zhen was the first college student in her family and the first doctoral student.
"Our students from Wuhan Tibet Middle School came out to better go back and build Tibet." Bian Zhen said, this is the seed they planted when they set out from their hometown when they were young.
Now that she has learned the knowledge and skills, she wants to return to Tibet in the future and use her own strength to change the backward educational concept, so that more Tibetan children can go out of the pastoral areas and out of the village.
In Bian Zhen's heart, the real idol is "Papa Hou". "He has been engaged in ethnic education for 26 years, and he has been unknown and his original intention has remained unchanged." She hopes that one day, she can also be a silent and dedicated educator in the front line of education.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily Trainee Reporter Yang Jie Reporter Lei Yu Source: China Youth Daily
February 24, 2022 Version 06