Recently, 73-year-old retired teacher Yang Weiyun opened a live broadcast of a story about teaching literacy, which aroused social attention.

　　According to the Beijing Youth Daily, Yang Weiyun has been a teacher for 50 years.

Since last year, she has started a "Xiyangyang Pinyin Class" on the short video platform.

Her original target audience was pre-school-aged children, but as time passed, she found that adults were the main body of students, mostly middle-aged, mostly women.

Because they cannot pinyin, they have been living in frustration and low self-esteem.

She does not bring goods in the live broadcast room, does not charge registration fees, and does not charge tuition fees, which truly realizes free teaching.

　　When I saw this news, my first feeling was that Yang Weiyun was helping a group of people realize their dreams with the power of one person, filling some kind of blank.

These students with special status bear the "secret" that they are illiterate or unable to pinyin, and have encountered various embarrassments in the world.

In Yang Weiyun's words, "many illiterate adults live in inferiority complex".

For example, because they don't know how to read, some people don't even know how to ride a car. They don't dare to go to unfamiliar places. They worry that they won't be able to teach their children well, and they can't understand the boss's written instructions when they work part-time.

And the distress of these people is often invisible and goes unnoticed.

　　In the past, my grandmother once told me about the trouble of being illiterate. At that time, she would show me the letters or old things my grandfather gave her to "read", but I didn't take it to heart at that time.

Years after her death, I realized that I could have taught her some words.

　　Many times, people are keen to exaggerate the high-pitched experience brought by "knowledge explosion", and they will subconsciously ignore and avoid the phenomenon of illiteracy.

In this case, the pain of illiterate and ignorant pinyin accumulates in unknown places, and few people care about it.

And Yang Weiyun's initiative, "inadvertently" started a deep change, bringing empathy inside and outside the classroom.

　　The data tells us that the pain of illiteracy is not just an individual regret.

According to reports, the seventh national census showed that there are 38 million illiterate adults in the country, and women account for 75% of this group.

One of Yang Weiyun's live broadcast rooms has attracted tens of thousands of students. Such demand for knowledge vaguely represents a broad "market".

This "market" needs to be further explored by people of insight.

　　Compared with the "literacy" of the past, the "pinyin supplementary course" in the new media era has a double meaning: helping people to learn characters and pinyin. Wider, friendlier living space.

Learning to read can also make "chemical reactions" between "cultural lessons" and life encounters, making individuals less frustrated and less inconvenient, and even opening a story of rewriting their destiny.

For example, Yang Weiyun's student Zhang Mei (pseudonym) learned to write her own name and found a job.

　　The existence of 38 million "illiterate" groups invisibly "submits" a desire for knowledge and a need for common sense education.

After all, a person's live broadcast room has limited resources and strength. To alleviate the embarrassment of many illiterate people and help them remove the "illiterate" label on their bodies, more "Yang Weiyun" is needed.

The good news is that Yang Weiyun is not alone.

There are reports that many similar anchors are bringing the hope of literacy to more people.

　　It should be seen that the initiative of "Yang Weiyun" is a useful supplement to the knowledge popularization project.

In recent years, various literacy classes set up by many grass-roots government agencies have played a central role in reducing the illiterate population.

On this basis, we are happy to see the resonance and cooperation between the folk literacy class and the government literacy program.

　　Wu Lichuan Source: China Youth Daily