Although the roses that once bloomed experienced wind and rain, there was still a dark fragrance wafting through the breeze.
In the ancient and quiet courtyard, there is a circle of rose-like blooming memories. This is a teacher's home, from the fifties of the last century to the beginning of this century, three generations of people living here, from parents, to three brothers and sisters, to daughters and sons-in-law, a total of seven teachers, they are ordinary little people, but not afraid of hardships, wholeheartedly devoted to the cause of rural education in New China, the road is blue, passing on the torch, for the education cause of rural areas in New China to pay a lifetime of effort.
"A Courtyard of Fragrant Roses" is a documentary novel that reflects the development of rural grassroots education in the first half century of the founding of New China by telling the story of the home of three generations of teachers. The novel takes Liu Liyun and Liu Wei's mother and daughter as the main line, describes the backwardness and hardship of rural education in the early liberation period, and reflects the spirit of ordinary teachers who persevere and pass on the torch, and it is precisely because of this spirit that they can lay a solid foundation for the future development of education.
Liu Wei, a native of Tongling, Anhui. Born in November 1947, he is a member of the Communist Party of China and has been a teacher for a lifetime. He retired from Tongling Vocational College in Anhui Province in 2003. Since the 1980s, essays and novels have been published in Tongling Daily, Anhui Education Daily, China Education Daily, Selected Essays, Anhui Literature, Novellas, Overseas Digests and other publications.
Liu Wei's writing style is leisurely and relaxed but very powerful, sometimes do not have to see the ups and downs of the plot, those who face the hardships of the years without fear and perseverance, while still maintaining the love of career and life, enough to give people courage and strength. Just like the small rose flowers, no matter what the environment, they always bloom towards the most beautiful sky, towards the warm sun, although not expensive, but also inexhaustible, fragrant.
Through ten chapters, the novel "A Courtyard of Roses" shows readers the whole picture of rural grassroots education and campus life in the early liberation period, so that readers can deeply feel the hardships of teachers and the difficulties of the development of education. This story gives us a very deep thinking, compared with the educational environment and conditions at that time, we should cherish everything in the present, and at the same time pay tribute to the ordinary heroes of "Liu Liyun and Liu Wei".