In the Footsteps of My Father (4)

Tianjin Zhining intellectuals in Ningxia (1986)

Serial Number Four ——

There are middle-aged talents

Bao Xia

In 1973, his father was transferred to Mingsha Middle School. A few years before Mingzhong, his father taught art and geography. In the art class, my father taught the students to learn to write art characters, practice sketching, and run a wall newspaper and hand-copy newspaper. Father taught students the principle of being human, not to be proud, but to have a grateful heart. Under his meticulous education, some students became the director of the cultural station with the skill of painting. Some students returned to their hometowns and made their fortune as oilers. My father often wrote slogans saying that "unity and tension, seriousness and liveliness, heighten vigilance, and defense of the motherland" at the gate of the army; "Serve the people" in front of the gate of the commune; "Rather flow a thousand drops of sweat, not a drop of grain" on the wall of the Mingsha grain depot, "Dig deep holes, accumulate grain in a wide range," and so on, all of which are from my father's hand and are still faintly visible today. My father has won many awards at the prefectural painting exhibition.

In addition to teaching, his father volunteered to undertake the task of printing various materials at Mingsha Middle School. In the 1970s, rural teaching conditions were backward, and there were no copiers and printers at that time. Wax paper, steel plates and iron pens, plus a pair of hands from his father, are the "photocopiers" of Mingsha Middle School, which can ensure that the entire school students review the examination papers and materials. When we were still studying at Mingsha Elementary School, we lived in my father's dormitory at Mingsha Middle School. Every day at three or four o'clock in the morning, my father had to rush from the home of the Mingsha Second Team to the dormitory, boiling porridge for us while wrapping a bulky cotton coat, meticulously, holding an iron pen in his hand, and using it freely. At that time, I often fell asleep in the rustling of letters, my father's warm back was tall and warm, and the memory of night and night had become a fixed way of life, until later I understood that the wax version was my father's normal work outside of class and class, and could only be completed by staying up late. When I woke up from my dream with a faint smell of porridge, I saw the wax paper neatly carved on the ground, like a line of soldiers waiting to be read. At a party, Wu Shaodong, a graduate of Beijing University, also said that he and his brother Wu Shaoxian, who also graduated from Mingsha Middle School, still treasure the review materials inscribed by his father, which are simply handicrafts.

My father, who is just like a talent, is also a physical education teacher and a national second-level basketball referee. At the end of the 1970s, Wu Zhong, Zhongwei and Qingtongxia basketball masters gathered in Mingsha Street to watch the mingsha middle school and the pipe bureau basketball team match. The members of the pipeline bureau team are large and comprehensive in technology, and the situation has caused some pressure on the players of Mingsha Middle School, everyone whispers, cheers each other up, and lets the referee's father eat some partial food, not too strict. My father said that law enforcement should be fair, and it should be done whatever it wants. The father had a whistle around his neck, his steps were strong, the referee's movements were standard and graceful, the hair on his forehead was fluttering with the agile turning of his head, and his large, handsome eyes scanned the whole field, focused and majestic. In the first half, 20 minutes later, Naruto lost nine points. The two sides were tied for 20 minutes in the second half, and the extra minutes were played for three minutes, and in the end, Mingzhong won 69:57. The Mingzhong ball game was loudly spread to the county, the commune, the public security, and the bus department invited the basketball team of Mingsha Middle School to play a friendly match, and the father appeared on the court as a referee.

In the 1980s, Mingsha Middle School ushered in a glorious period. Father and Wan Changnian teachers take students to morning exercises every morning, and the loud flute and slogans vibrate over the campus, stimulating the students' spirit, enhancing the students' physique, and driving the school's style and discipline, providing a guarantee for improving the quality of teaching and improving the promotion rate. Father and the sports group of Wan Chang, Zhang Jianqiang trained a basketball team composed of high school sophomores and senior high school sports seedlings, and also organized special training for students with special skills to participate in the examinations of sports colleges, so many students were admitted to the college of education and had an iron rice bowl. The Mingzhong basketball team is very strong, often stationed in the Mingsha Wudaoqu 62nd Division artillery regiment to play, when the school food is poor, after the game, the rich unit invited the school team to dinner, for this, so that the students envious. Whenever the competition achieved good results, my father also paid for the team members to go to the restaurant. Mingsha Middle School and his father together with Zhu Wancang, Zhang Sipu, Wan Changnian teacher often came to the home as a guest, was a good friend, at that time the conditions were poor, although it was a cucumber stir-fried chicken, but everyone talked about the world, played the game, but also seemed to be happy and harmonious.

The most memorable was the autumn of 1982, a friendly basketball match between Mingsha Middle School and Zhongning Middle School in Ming. At that time, Zhang Liguo was the principal transferred from Zhongning Middle School, and Yang Zongren was the director of teaching, and contacted the team of Zhongning Middle School to play in Mingzhong. In the afternoon, the school organized students to sit in line around the court, the front row sat on the ground, the middle row sat on the stool, the third row stood, and the fourth row stood on the stool. The Mingsha Middle School team has Zhang Jianqiang and Shao Dong'an as the main force, the Zhongning Middle School team Ren Tianci and Huang Xuejun as the main force, and the father's obligation is the referee. That game, for the students, is simply the NBA, Zhang Jianqiang's breakthrough with the ball, Ren Tianci's organizational attack, wonderful, every time a goal is scored, the students are bursts of applause, the teacher of Zhongning Middle School sighed and said, this student is really like a student. At that time, my father's legs and feet had begun to ache, and in the middle of the game, at the unanimous invitation of everyone, my father played for a few minutes and showed a three-pointer, that is, the three-point shot, which is still engraved in the memory of the students.

In 1986, the county held a volleyball competition for middle school students, led by Wan Changnian teachers, his father was the referee, and Mingsha won the first place. With the joint efforts of everyone, Mingsha Middle School won the advanced unit of sports in the autonomous region, and the principal attached great importance to it, and withdrew funds to add sportswear to each athlete, and the sports team trained every day, which became a beautiful landscape of the school.

In the 1980s, Zhu Wancang's son was admitted to the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and in order to encourage young people to work hard, his father did not know where to find a bunch of small wood to order a 1 to 2 meter frame to make a plaque, which was painted on the Beijing Summer Palace and sent to him as a souvenir.