At 14:00 on May 12, 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred in Wenchuan, affecting an area of 100,000 square kilometers.
Fan Meizhong, who was a teacher at Sichuan Yaguang School at the time, was giving a lesson to the first-year students of the International Baccalaureate, and at the moment of the earthquake, he was keenly aware of the danger.
He didn't even say a word to the student, leaving the student to run away first.
After he ran, more than a dozen students in the class reacted and then ran to the playground.
As a result, Fan Meizhong became famous and fell into the reputation of a Fan run.
Now, 13 years later, what is Fan Run doing now?
Now, let's walk into Fan Meizhong's turbulent life.
Born in 1973 in a remote rural village in Sichuan Province, Fan Meizhong has always had excellent grades from elementary school to high school, often remaining in the top three of his class.
But at the same time, he has a flamboyant personality, advocates the so-called liberalism, and his ideas are more extreme.
In 1992, Fan Meizhong took the college entrance examination and became the first person in the village to be admitted to Peking University.
As a standard high-achieving student, Fan Meizhong's starting point can be said to be not low, but his subsequent behavior is surprising.
In college, Fan Meizhong majored in history, and during his studies, he was exposed to both Western and Eastern cultures.
Originally advocating liberalism, he naturally became addicted to Western culture and began to constantly attack ideas.
When he graduated, he wrote an article on his blog called "Comments on the Monarchs of the History Department of Peking University".
This article scolded the history teachers of Peking University over and over again, which caused quite a stir in the circle at that time, but for Fan Meizhong, who has always been self-reliant, this is nothing at all.
After graduating in 1997, Fan Meizhong returned to Sichuan and worked as a Chinese teacher at Shuguang Middle School in Zigong, but Fan Meizhong still did not know how to restrain himself, openly promoting his ideas in class, so he was soon forced to resign.
Similar stories continued to play out, and in 2000 he was fired after only 21 days at the Huamei Foreign Chinese School in Guangzhou.
Dissatisfied with the traditional test-taking education system, Fan Meizhong later moved to Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing and other cities to engage in counseling education and media industry.
But for Fan Meizhong, the experience was still unpleasant.
Finally, forced by the pressure of life, Fan Meizhong had to return to his old profession and entered the Guangya School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, as a teacher.
Guangya School is a private international school, which has exported many outstanding students to the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.
There are many foreign teachers and students inside, and the teaching environment is relatively relaxed.
Moreover, the school also took great care of Fan Meizhong, not only giving him a higher salary, but also giving him the right to freely dispose of the classroom. sharp
For example, if he doesn't want any student, he can get rid of the student.
It is precisely because of this that Fan Meizhong stayed here with peace of mind, although he still had a lot of sharp words, but most of the teachers and students of the school recognized him and felt that he was still respectful and dedicated.
And no one could have imagined that such a good teacher would violate the morality of the teacher before the disaster came.
On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, Fan Meizhong was in the classroom to give students.
In the first class of the afternoon, due to the hot weather, Fan Meizhong opened all the windows as soon as he entered the classroom, and then began to talk about the dream of the Red Chamber.
The students were impressed by this, because Fan Meizhong's lectures have always been out of accordance with common sense, and this time he actually pulled the Dream of the Red Chamber to the height of the universe.
Just as the class had just begun, the classroom actually shook a little, and the students were suddenly stunned and overwhelmed.
Fan Meizhong, who knew something about the earthquake, rushed to reassure the students not to panic.
Before he could finish speaking, the whole teaching building suddenly shook violently, and even made a creaking sound, Fan Meizhong instantly reacted that this was a big earthquake, he did not have time to say a word to the students to run, and suddenly rushed out of the stairs.
When he went downstairs, he was overly nervous, and even accidentally fell, and finally rushed to the playground downstairs with a rolling belt.
After arriving at the playground, Fan Meizhong found that he was actually the first person to escape here, and several students in the classroom reacted and escaped after him.
But most of them were stunned on the spot, and then went under the table and waited until the strong earthquake passed before coming to the playground.
The students were very dissatisfied with the teacher's abandonment of them and they fled, and eventually one of the students exposed the matter.
Immediately afterward, major media began to rush to report the incident of Fan Meizhong's escape, and Fan Meizhong became famous and became the leading figure in 2008.
There were initially two theories about Fan Meizhong's escape, one of which was that Fan Meizhong's abandonment of students when he was in danger was a manifestation of disregard for Shide.
Another theory is that Fan Meizhong's escape is an instinct, which is understandable.
Ten days after the earthquake, on May 22, 2008, Fan Meizhong published an article on his blog explaining the reasons for his escape.
In the article, he made it very clear that "in this moment of life and death, I can only consider sacrificing myself for the sake of my daughter, and other people, even my mother, in this case I will not care..."
Fan Meizhong defended himself that running away was his instantaneous instinctive behavior, but it also reflected his balance between himself and the lives of others, and he did not believe that as a teacher, he had the obligation to sacrifice his own life to save students.
These remarks provoked netizens to condemn his teacher's moral literacy, and in the following week, the post was viewed more than 140,000 times in the Tianya community, making Fan Meizhong even more popular and becoming a popular public figure in the country, while he also received the affectionate title of Fan Runrun by netizens.
As for Fan Meizhong's self-justification, the response from all walks of life is more consistent.
On May 26, 2008, the writer North Shore made a sharp speech on the Phoenix Blog, pointing out sharply, "Fan Meizhong's shame is not that he escaped from the battlefield during the earthquake, but that he still wanted to "publicize" his cowardly behavior after he escaped."
Subsequently, the secretary of the historical party committee of Peking University at that time also commented: "Peking University is ashamed of having such a student, and if we expel him, we are very much in favor."
Fan Meizhong did not have a good wind evaluation when he was in school, often did not go to class, and scolded the teacher over and over again after graduation, and it seemed to be expected that there was such a result.
On June 6, 2008, under pressure from public opinion, Fan Meizhong publicly apologized to the public for the first time in an interview with the media in Beijing.
But he continued to stick to his basic position, and for Fan Meizhong's escape behavior, the principal Qing Guangya also said that there was no problem, the problem was only Fan Meizhong's sentimental remarks in the 10 days after the earthquake, but the school would not expel people who were "convicted of words".
Although the school retained Fan Meizhong, in the end, Fan Meizhong left Guangya Middle School and became a freelancer in 2015.
However, according to the situation at that time, he could not find a suitable job, after resigning from the school, he was hired by the Beijing Kaihua Educational Institution as a lecturer in the lecture hall of the Talent Quality Center of the Potential Development Research Institute of the unit.
In his profile, there are the words "China's first liberal arts teacher", leaving aside the teaching strength, which is more like a mockery.
At the same time, Fan Meizhong also accepted many media interviews, has always insisted on his own behavior and ideas, and due to the pressure of public opinion, the educational institutions eventually fired him, so Fan Meizhong became a freelancer.
But what exactly does freelancing do?
According to Fan Meizhong's own words, in addition to occasionally writing articles, he is actually more like an unemployed vagabond, a full-time grandfather, who watches his children at home every day and cleans up.
He now has a son and daughter, who has always opposed exam-oriented education, so she does not receive compulsory education, but is taught by him at home.
He also said his son would not go to school in the future.
Later, his wife opened a home school, and some parents with the same ideas sent their children here, and Fan Meizhong taught with her daughter and became a full-time private school teacher.
His bookstore, now located on the outskirts of Chengdu, is called Xuan bird bookstore, which now has a full-time German teacher who teaches children handicraft skills, while Fan Meizhong teaches literature and art.
Although the dream of freedom has been fulfilled, it can be seen from the living environment that Fan Meizhong's economic situation is not so good.
And he did not completely come out of the Fan running incident, often complaining about it, and as the Fan running incident faded, his breathing space became larger and larger.
But it is undeniable that his original decisions and words and deeds affected him throughout his life, and this event will accompany him for the rest of his life.
Most people believe that since Fan Meizhong is a teacher, protecting his students in times of crisis is a manifestation of teacher morality, but it is clear that Fan Meizhong is too cold-blooded in the face of disaster.
There are also some people who believe that Fan Meizhong is an ordinary person after all, and it is an instinct to protect himself in the face of disaster.
People have argued too much about the right and wrong of this, and looking back now, they see more than just right and wrong.
Human beings have always been social animals, and because of their unity and good qualities, they have been able to survive and grow in a cruel environment.
Therefore, no one wants to see ugly human nature, and Fan Meizhong's ending confirms this truth, this society does not need people to compete to be moral models, but people will definitely work together to raise the moral bottom line.