Zhang Guimei, Secretary of the Party Branch and Principal of Huaping Women’s Senior High School in Lijiang, Yunnan Province——

Illuminate the dream of a girl in Dashan (Hundred Years of Struggle and Set Sail on a New Journey · Winner of the "July 1st Medal")

　　During the college entrance examination this year, Zhang Guimei, the principal of Huaping Girls’ High School in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, posted a hot search on Weibo again. The video screen was moving: she dragged her sick body and stood in the wind and rain, enduring pain, cheering for the students; she hides Entering the office, through the window, watching the students leave school after the college entrance examination, "I am too old to say goodbye to the students face to face!"

　　Rooted in poverty-stricken areas for more than 40 years, Zhang Guimei worked silently and selflessly to establish the first all-free girls' high school in the country, helping more than 1,800 girls in impoverished mountainous areas realize their dreams, blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty with education, and illuminating thousands with love and wisdom The life dream of a country girl.

　　loyalty--

　　"I am a party member"

　　On the fifth floor of the Huaping County Archives, the staff opened the filing cabinets numbered from 231 to 238, which were filled with various honors and honors of Zhang Guimei, totaling more than 200 pieces.

　　Zhang Guimei was born in June 1957. She has been educated in revolutionary traditions since she was a child. She was the backbone of the class in literature and art. When she was in junior high school, she starred in the opera "Jiang Sister".

The spirit of the revolutionary ancestors deeply affected her.

During the reporter's interview, Zhang Guimei could sing a paragraph casually: "Watching the Yangtze River battle hymn set off a thousand waves, and the red light of Wangshan City is shining and foggy..."

　　At the age of 18, Zhang Guimei came to Yunnan to support the frontier.

She started to work as an administration in a forestry enterprise. Later, due to the lack of teachers in the forestry school for children, she transferred to teach and brought out a good graduating class.

Later, Zhang Guimei was admitted to the normal school, and after graduation, he and her husband went to Dali to teach.

After her husband died of illness, Zhang Guimei left Xizhou, Dali in 1996, and was transferred to the relatively poor Lijiang Huaping Central Middle School to teach, and then to the newly established Minority Middle School.

　　In 1997, Zhang Guimei was diagnosed with a serious illness. The hundreds of meters on the campus had to move step by step, often hurting and sweating.

Colleagues took her to the hospital in the middle of the night, cooked Chinese medicine and delivered it to her dormitory; at the county women's congress, representatives gave her donations on the spot; the county chief said, "No matter how poor we are, we must cure your disease."

Speaking of persistence for so many years, Zhang Guimei said: "My original intention was to repay this land."

　　In teaching, Zhang Guimei found that many girls from poor families dropped out of school early, which gave her the idea of ​​starting a free girls' high school and "changing the three generations in the mountains" and running for it.

With the support of Lijiang City and Huaping County, in August 2008, Huaping Girls High School was completed.

　　Since running the school for more than 10 years, Zhang Guimei has dragged the sick to work, visited more than 1,600 households, traveled more than 110,000 kilometers, and walked to many mountains "places that cannot be reached by car wheels".

She has paid out her salary countless times to help the poor, and even coordinated to divert water to the villagers to build roads.

Zhang Guimei once said: "If I have pursuit, it is education; if I have motivation, it is the party and the people! I am a party member, and party members act for the masses. There is nothing I should or shouldn't care about!"

　　When she first arrived at Huaping, Zhang Guimei encountered the lowest point in her life; she went through all kinds of difficulties to establish a girls' high school, and once wanted to give up.

After chatting with the reporter, Zhang Guimei said: “I can survive it. First, when it’s most difficult, it’s not that difficult to compare yourself with the revolutionary ancestors. Second, you can’t always have me in your heart. You forget that you have forgotten. It’s easier to get things done if you are sick; the third is to clenched your teeth and persist. After today, there may be hope tomorrow.

　　Forget-me-

　　"She gave herself away"

　　"She has so many diseases. Isn't it okay for students to lie down and rest more when they are in class?" Speaking of Zhang Guimei, Wang Xiuli, who has known each other for many years, both distressed and admired.

　　"How is that possible!" Regarding the proposal of "rest more", Zhang Guimei not only said that "it is absolutely impossible", but also asked in the opposite direction: "You have a rest. No one shouts with a loudspeaker. The principal will not accompany them to study. The female high school is a female high school. ?"

　　Wang Ping was a student of Zhang Guimei at Huaping National Middle School, and now works in the Disciplinary Committee of Panzhihua City, Sichuan.

Taking advantage of his vacation, he made a special trip to visit Teacher Zhang.

Recalling the past, Wang Ping said: "Mr. Zhang lives in school on weekdays and cares about students like a mother." Zhang Guimei not only saves money and helps students in need, but also gives the students the only fur vest left by her husband...

　　Mao Qingfa, director of the Office of the Education Party Working Committee of Huaping County, has worked with Zhang Guimei for more than 6 years.

Mao Qingfa said that Teacher Zhang's deep love for students is consistent. Some children go out of school to play games without discipline, and Teacher Zhang moved to the student dormitory and watched.

Today, Zhang Guimei is still sleeping in the first bed at the entrance of the female high school student dormitory.

　　In 2001, the Huaping County Children’s Welfare Institute (Huaping Children’s Home) was opened and the donors hoped that Zhang Guimei would also serve as the dean.

Childless Zhang Guimei became the mother of 54 children.

That year, Zhao Jianying came to work in the orphanage, and now it has been 20 years. She has witnessed that teacher Zhang took the children to the street to sell toys to supplement the funds when the funds in the hospital were the most tense, and also witnessed a group of children grow up. .

In 20 years, the orphanage has adopted 172 children.

Zhao Jianying said with emotion: "Teacher Zhang is really kind to the children." In 2008, the reporter came here to interview Zhang Guimei’s sister who happened to meet Zhang Guimei. Speaking of the younger sister who didn’t care about her work, her sister said: “She left her all alone. Up."

　　inherited--

　　Let students "there is a way under their feet, and there is light in front of them"

　　In the morning, the students of Huaping Girls’ High School got up at 5:30, washed up in 5 minutes, and ran up and down the stairs. They had exercises between classes, and they stood in line in one minute; after class, the bell rang, and they ran to the cafeteria to line up, have a meal, and finish the meal. , They have to complete it in 10 minutes... Maybe someone will ask, is the management stricter?

Since 2008, Wang Xiuli has been visiting female high school students’ homes with Zhang Guimei. She said: “When you see a mother who is a housekeeper and spread her daughter’s awards on the ground one by one, that kind of pride can light up the entire dim room. , You can understand Teacher Zhang."

　　For more than ten years, Huaping Girls' High School has explored and formed a characteristic teaching model of "party building leading teaching, revolutionary traditional school establishment, and red culture educating people", using red genes to cultivate people and create souls.

Zhang Guimei believes that as long as there are party organizations and party members, there are no difficulties that cannot be overcome.

Zhang Guimei thinks deeply about red education: in high school, students are sharp-minded and malleable, which is the key period for the establishment of beliefs; the inheritance of red genes is not just about teaching knowledge, it involves the shaping of students’ hearts, allowing students to travel far away. There are lights, there is a road under your feet, and there is light in front of your eyes...

　　Over the years, batch after batch of students have come out of Huaping Girls' High School.

"They are scattered like seeds in the mountains of northwestern Yunnan. Changes are happening bit by bit. The seeds sown in those years have begun to blossom and bear fruit." Mao Qingfa said.

　　"July 1st Medal", "National Model for Poverty Alleviation", "National Excellent Communist Party Member", "National Advanced Worker", "Model of the Times"... Regarding honor, Zhang Guimei was very indifferent. She said: "I am a female teacher in a mountain village, and an old man. Party member, I did not do this alone."

　　The light and heat on this old party member are like "lamps in the canyon."

She has turned herself into a beacon, illuminating the dream of Dashan girl, affecting more and more people.

　　Our reporter Xu Yuanfeng