Speaking of Ma Chao, I have to mention a place that has faded out of people's ears and has been nearly a decade old - Tanaka. Only in the context of Tanaka, Ma Chao's stories of being blown down by the wind will glow more charming, because his original dream of life, the most exciting youth of life, even the most abundant sweat, the most beautiful Fanghua... They have all grown there quietly, grown recklessly, and even flowed violently and bloomed brilliantly...
Tanaka - Tianshi Junior High School in Lintong District, Xi'an City, in September 2011 in the tide of "withdrawal and merger of schools" fell on the curtain of its glorious history, no one cares about what important mission it once undertaken, and no one cares whether it still has the dream of chasing distant places. Only those who have fought here are still looking back at the branches that once stood like drifting leaves, countless times, full of affection. And every time they look back, tanaka people will flood with a kind of nostalgia and nostalgia for those who have passed, maybe joy or pain, but in the end it is still a beautiful life in The city, so that in their minds unconsciously, the images of the flowers and grasses, the people and things, the longer the clearer. Because those years are the most youthful, the most innocent, the most energetic, the most frivolous, the most romantic and nostalgic time in their lives, the life journey that they will never have again after they have passed, and they will never be able to get it again no matter how hard they try. How many people's truest friends met there, how many people's purest love met there, how many people's most successful and glorious moments stayed there, how many people's loveliest next generation was born and raised there, and how many people's last afterglow stopped there... It is precisely because of this that Tanaka has been flooded with nostalgia by the People of Tanaka, and may even be called the second hometown.
However, Tanaka went, just like an old man who walked calmly through the last moments of his life, there was no sigh, no nostalgia, or even no expression that could make people find joy or sorrow and pain, leaving only those wanderers who had to re-pack their bags as if they had left their homeland to bid farewell to the end of the world, silently waving their hands and tears, refusing to turn around and look up at the confused future for a long time. However, you must go, the sunset will never become the sunset because of your stopping, and when the dawn returns, the hometown is no longer in Tanaka.
When Tanaka people calm down and plan to forget those years that cannot be repeated, and are ready to seriously manage the life in front of them to make it more exciting than before, they find that the brilliance of life will never be repeated, no matter how hard they try, they cannot replace or cover up the past time with the beauty in front of them, and memory does not allow us to forget.
More than ten years ago, when I first saw Ma Timeout in Tanaka, I felt very kind. He has a clear eyebrow, handsome and cheerful, a large figure, straight and straight, and a trace of the grandeur of an ancient martial artist in his aura. Coupled with his name and surname, it is easy to remind me of my favorite famous general of the Three Kingdoms, the Shu Han Hun general "Ma Chao". Later, I heard that he had studied at a university in Yangling (the hometown of Ma Chao in the Three Kingdoms - Yangling Wuquan Town), so he felt more and more liked it.
For the Three Kingdoms "Ma Chao", I not only like his handsome appearance of "face like crown jade, eyes like shooting stars", "lion helmet and beast belt, white robe and silver armor" extraordinary attire, but also like his transcendent talent of "Lü Bu's courage, Zhuge Zhi's strategy". Mao Zedong also once commented: "Ma Chao is not a simple person, an all-rounder in literature and martial arts." And Ma Chao in Tanaka, as an ordinary middle school class teacher in rural China in the new era, although his reputation is far less than that of the "Ma Chao" of the Three Kingdoms, his talent can also be called "not simple, full of literature and martial arts", and his spiritual attainment and personality charm are also among his students and friends.
Tanaka is a not-so-standard rural boarding school, and the night care of student dormitories is entirely done by part-time political and educational officers, in groups of two, for a week. When I first arrived in Tanaka, I had the privilege of being in the same group as Ma Chao, and I was on duty every night, so I had more conversations and increased my acquaintance.
At that time, the class teacher's schedule was almost six to ten, the weekly class hours were about 30, and it was a large class size of 70 people. Ma Chao not only serves as the class teacher of one graduating class, but also has two classes of math classes, and he has to watch the student dormitory all night at night, but he has never complained about tiredness, nor has he slackened off at night. Rather, it is full of enthusiasm, as always, diligent and diligent. When we were on duty at night, he would always get up every hour to go to the student dormitory, afraid that the students would not sleep soundly enough, or that there would be some emergency. Not only did it spare me from replacing, but it often told me to rest more, which was really touching to think.
One Christmas Eve, he and I went to the dormitory after the lights went out, and in the distance we heard a boys' dormitory full of noise and noise. I was ready to stop it at once, but he did not hesitate and motioned for me to quietly approach. After waiting in front of the dormitory for about two or three minutes, he saw that the noise had not subsided, so he suddenly pushed the door in. Under the illumination of the flashlight, they are having fun, some are spraying ribbons on their classmates, some are eating, and some are chatting vigorously... Not a single one lay in the bed. Only to hear Ma Chao yell out, "Let's all go out!" They obediently followed one by one with a bowed fish and stood straight up in front of the door of the duty room. 30 minutes of quiet standing, 100 squats, a dormitory discipline code, a review and commitment... By this time, it was already past 11 o'clock. I quietly said to Ma Chao, "Christmas, understand and understand, besides, the law does not control the public, just talk about it, you don't have to be so harsh." Ma Chao pulled me to the duty room, "Brother, you can't do this, this will hurt them, 'no rules and no squares', criticism is too light to attract their attention, maybe it will become more intense, second, other students may also follow suit, how to say that sentence - 'Mercy does not control the soldiers', when it is time to be strict, you will know it when you are the class teacher next year." Looking at his cold face, and then looking at those students who had already been "docile", I suddenly felt that perhaps, being a class teacher really should have some martial arts killing style. In the days that followed, the wind and waves were calm.
Not long after, another night patrol, an eighth-grader was helped to us by a classmate, saying that he had a fever. Ma Chao touched the student's forehead, touched his own forehead again, and then quickly draped his coat on the student. After that, I simply whispered a few questions about the situation, how many shifts, where is home, and so on. After the students answered one by one, I asked Ma Chao if he wanted to notify the class teacher or contact the parents. He looked at the time, hesitated for a while, then helped the sick student, let another student go back to the dormitory to rest, and then turned around to tell me to work harder, turn around, there was something to call him, and after saying that, he helped the student to go to the health center. I looked at the time, and it was 1:00 a.m. After about an hour, he took the students back to the dormitory, first came to the duty room, poured hot water for the students, watched the students drink the medicine, and gave a few words of comfort before taking the students to rest. Watching him help the students turn out of the duty room, I suddenly understood that it was no wonder that the students did not say anything about his harshness, but on the contrary, they loved him, and it turned out that they were warmed by his delicate tenderness.
Later, I became a class teacher and also served as the leader of the eighth grade group. One early morning in the winter, at about 5:40, I was getting up and getting dressed when I suddenly received a call from the principal, asking me to organize all the class teachers of the eighth grade to assemble in front of the teaching building within ten minutes. I did not dare to slacken off, and hurriedly did it, but I did not know what the intention was. When the principal took us to the ninth grade teaching building, I understood that it was for us to learn the "excellent style" of the graduating class teacher: at six o'clock, the graduating class we visited, the teachers and students had already arrived, the class teacher inspected, the students read hard, and we were quite ashamed. However, when I passed in front of Ma Chao's class, I found that although Ma Chao had arrived at the class, there were still very few students, no different from the situation in the eighth grade. So I had time to ask Ma Chao, the principal took us to study, but you did not hurry or slow, what is the situation? Ma Chao smiled: "The principal is a hard-working person who follows the motto of 'birds eat insects in the morning'. But education must keep pace with the times, pay attention to the combination of work and leisure, 'getting up early may not be able to pick up the dung', to talk about science, rest time to let students rest well, learning time can better require students to study well. I don't resent the principal's criticism, but I stick to my principles. Listening to his witty and wise speech, I thought about it, there was no resistance, but there was action, perhaps, this is the strategy of education. That year, his subject grades and class grades were ranked first in the school and among the best in the district.
However, excellence does not mean that he will get the merit he deserves, Ma Chao has not been able to get the promotion of the title for various reasons, and friends feel sorry for him. However, he always smiled lightly: "Giving up is the best promotion." Yes, Li Guang is difficult to seal, Zhao Yun does not take, not everyone is drawn to the rich. At this point, he was completely different from the melancholy and ended life of the "Ma Chao" of the Three Kingdoms, if the "Ma Chao" of the Three Kingdoms could treat things as well as he did, restrain his sharp edges, be willing to be lonely, not bitterly seek war, and not seek fame, perhaps he would not have died young.
Nowadays, the Tanaka people are scattered in the historical wave of "withdrawing points and merging schools", and when I arrived at the middle of the line, Ma Chao went to Xiangzhong, although they were hundreds of miles away, they were unforgettable. In the message of the WeChat circle, when I saw him stepping on the morning glow with the students every morning and running on the quiet playground; I saw him standing in front of the classroom door with a slanted light after every lunch, quietly gazing at the moment of students' self-study; I saw him walk into the student dormitory every night with starlight, and the figure of the cold and warm; watched him persevere in 150 push-ups every day; watched him follow the old Fan Linyi every day; watched him soar and run on the basketball court Watching his carefully stir-fried plates of delicious dishes; watching him carefully cultivate the verdant green plants... I deeply admire that not everyone can arrange their lives in such a meticulous and regular way, and not everyone can have such a lonely persistence.
I was relieved to hear that he had been the head teacher of the graduating class, because that was the role he was most suitable for. I always think that it is a blessing to be friends with the wise and humorous Ma Chao, a student who can be a meticulous and tender Ma Chao, and an excellent school that can be a conscientious Ma Chao as a class teacher. I think that Tanaka, Xiangzhong, or Xingzhong, as long as there is a hard-working, down-to-earth, wise and open-minded Ma Chao-like class teacher, it will definitely become a blessed place for education.
salute! Ma Chao! salute! Every homeroom teacher who fights in a rural boarding school!