【Dianyun Theory Collection No. 71】Gui Xi Mei Xi The Fragrance of the Country - The Reportage "Zhang Gui Mei" was published

Recently, the book "Zhang Guimei", which reflects the "July 1st Medal" winner and outstanding people's teacher Zhang Guimei, was published by yunnan publishing group Yunnan People's Publishing House and Yunnan Xinhua Bookstore Group. The authors of this book are Li Yanguo, winner of the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Reportage Creation", and Wang Xiuli, a reporter at huaping County Rong Media Center. "The excitement of life is much higher than making cars behind closed doors." The two authors have repeatedly gone to the front line and conducted in-depth, extensive and meticulous interviews with Teacher Zhang Guimei and her students and colleagues. In this book, many of Zhang Guimei's childhood and youth life experiences and emotional experiences are made public for the first time. Yunnan Daily published book review articles by five experts and scholars, and strived to let readers have a clearer understanding, cognition and understanding of Zhang Guimei's ideals and beliefs, educational concepts, and values from different entry points.

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Read Zhang Guimei's "Education Code"

Author Duan Yanna Associate Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences

The new book "Zhang Guimei", co-authored by writer Li Yanguo and Huaping County Rong Media Center reporter Wang Xiuli, tells the story of Zhang Guimei's family and school path in childhood in the way of personal life history, from the black land by the Mudanjiang River to Yunnan to take root in the frontier in her youth, the beautiful love story of the Erhai Sea in her prime, and the original intention and hardship of starting a free girls' high school in Huaping County, presenting Zhang Guimei's ups and downs and magnificent life course. Why did Zhang Guimei run a female high school? Why is the high school getting better and better? What is the password that Zhang Guimei taught? Let's decipher it together.

"Without love, there is no education in the true sense of the word." Education is the collision of emotions and thoughts, which requires face-to-face and intimate communication, and needs family, school, society and other aspects to weave a network of good manners and inducements, so that children will not lose their way. Since the establishment of Huaping Girls' High School in 2008, Zhang Guimei has visited more than 1,600 households, and almost every female high school student has left her footprints in her home. Zhang Guimei braved hardships to make home visits to students' homes to understand the family situation, help children from poor families to open their hearts, and urge children and their families not to be tempted and troubled by short-term interests. Since the establishment of the girls' high school, coupled with home visits while teaching at the National Middle School, her home visits have traveled more than 100,000 kilometers. "Xunzi Self-Cultivation" has a famous saying: "The way is obstructed and long, and the line is coming; the line is not quitting, and the future can be expected." "The long home visit road is Zhang Guimei's most practical and effective lesson preparation, and it is also the secret to achieve effective education." She went into the inner world of the students, to understand them, and sincerely love them; to understand every student, because every student is different; she used all her life to teach and educate people, to share solidarity with students, and to awaken the children's upward hearts with sincerity and love.

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Realize the value of female subjects in a great cause

Author Ou Xiaoou Associate Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences

"The mountains have laurel and the fragrance of golden autumn. The cliff has plums, and Ling Xue is proud of frost. Gui Xi Mei Xi, the fragrance of the country. This is the inscription of the book "Zhang Guimei" published by the Yunnan People's Publishing House, and the opening chapter has been pointed out. The authors Li Yanguo and Wang Xiuli talk in a cordial second-person narrative, in the length of thirteen chapters, flowing and flexible, so that the silhouette of a female and rural teacher named "Guimei", a "national outstanding communist party member" and "model of the times" and the winner of the "July 1st Medal" in the centenary of the founding of the party jumped on the paper.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important speech at the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women: "Women are the pioneers of human civilization, the promoters of social progress, and write extraordinary achievements in all walks of life. General Secretary Xi Jinping also pointed out that "in the 21st century today, creating a better life is inseparable from the comprehensive progress of women's cause, and also requires the majority of women to contribute greater wisdom and strength." "In the magnificent journey of the new era, how can women's subjectivity and strong vitality be stimulated? How to transcend one's own experience and dilemma with actions, and connect the path of personal growth with the fate and development of the female group? How to realize self-worth as a fighter in a great career? The road that Zhang Guimei hiked is the answer. And the book that bears her name records such a unique path, such a deep trek.

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Candles illuminate the spotlight of the "model of the times"

Author Song Jiahong, literary and art critic of Yunnan Province, professor of Yunnan University

Zhang Guimei is a "model of the times", which is the most accurate summary of her. Her deeds are well known to everyone, and in the field of education, it can be said that everyone knows. Countless news reports on television and newspapers have pushed this rural female teacher in front of the public again and again, and Zhang Guimei has ushered in her highlight moments again and again. This is something that Zhang Guimei has never thought of before, she only wants to dedicate her life to the cause of rural education, especially those rural girls, she wants to use all her efforts to change their fate. Why does she pay special attention to the fate of the village girl? Because she is a woman, a woman who has lived in the border ethnic minority areas of Yunnan for many years, she knows best the fate of the girls in the border ethnic minority mountainous areas. In order to change their destiny, she made a great career in an ordinary post with tenacious will, and she founded a free girls' middle school in a small county town in the mountainous areas of the frontier ethnic groups! This is something that many people will not think and dare not think, and it has changed the fate of many girls. She was on the podium in a wheelchair, her fingers wrapped in plaster, her face covered with vicissitudes and haggardness, which left a deep impression on the audience and also stung the hearts of the audience.

Longing for her, admiring her, and singing her praises are the common aspirations of hundreds of millions of viewers. This common desire was expressed in media reports, and in some lyrical documentary prose, and these works were universally welcomed. Teacher Zhang Guimei's touching deeds, tenacious will, and tortuous experiences in life and running schools have touched countless readers and audiences, and also aroused the interest of readers and audiences to further understand Zhang Guimei. After the heat wave of news reporting has gradually calmed down, the launch of a deeper and thicker long-form reportage work is the need of society and adapts to the psychological needs of readers. From this point of view, the publication of the long-form reportage "Zhang Guimei" was at the right time, which was a very successful planning and publication.

This long reportage reproduces the protagonist's life experience in a fairly complete way, especially her moving deeds of founding Huaping Girls' High School. Compared with news reports, readers reading this work will have a more comprehensive and complete understanding of her life and her school-running experience, and arouse their admiration for this "model of the times". The integrity of the characters' life experiences is one of the successes of the reportage work "Zhang Guimei".

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Explore the code for the growth of noble personalities

Author Yang Rongchang, literary and art critic of Yunnan Province

Zhang Guimei is a recipient of the "July 1st Medal" and a model of the times, and is already a well-known figure in the current situation, women and children. The lofty character of the Chinese Communists she represents who bow down to their best and forget their selfishness have become a personality paradigm admired and revered by the whole society. In fact, the growth of noble personality is mostly the same as ordinary people, from those subtle and prophetic moments, step by step to the height of life. As an ordinary and great Chinese woman, a simple and noble people's teacher, what kind of personality growth code is hidden in Zhang Guimei's body? What kind of educational and enlightenment significance does it have for the Chinese people today? Li Yanguo and Wang Xiuli co-authored the long-form reportage "Zhang Guimei" in an attempt to answer these realistic questions.

The theme of this book is clear, the materials are properly selected, the structure is reasonable, and the narrative is relaxed. The writer uses emotional language to depict the most typical life fragments of Zhang Guimei's growth process, especially the stages that have an important impact on the shaping of her spiritual character. From her love of singing revolutionary songs when she was young, to the unswerving ideals and beliefs after she grew up, from the loss of youth, the widowhood of middle age, the loneliness of being alone, childless and childless, to the "Mother Zhang" who became thousands of Huaping female high school students, Zhang Guimei's body endured unimaginable sufferings of ordinary people, and also contained indescribable strength and flexibility. This book traces the logic and rational path of this spiritual growth, and writes Zhang Guimei's persistent struggle and selfless love that has been rooted in the frontier of Yunnan for more than 40 years and blocked the intergenerational transmission of poverty with the light of education. The wonderful narrative highlights the image of Zhang Guimei as a mountain and township educator who is determined to pursue ideals, and interprets the original intention and mission of communist party members.

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We met Teacher Gui mei

Author Fan Xiaofen Responsible Editor of Zhang Guimei

Zhang Guimei, who once felt more than three hundred kilometers away, was so close and so far away. When I received the work arrangement of the editor of "Zhang Guimei", I was both expectant and anxious in my heart - what I was looking forward to was that I could approach Zhang Guimei and interpret Zhang Guimei under the guidance of literary everyone; I was worried about how to edit this hard-won manuscript to make a new brilliance.

"Zhang Guimei" is the work of Mr. Li Yanguo, winner of the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Reportage Creation", and Ms. Wang Xiuli, a close confidant of Zhang Guimei. Mr. Li Yanguo, who is eighty years old, rushed to Huaping tirelessly and lingered for several months, visiting Teacher Zhang Guimei and her colleagues, friends and students, and working with Ms. Wang Xiuli to restore a flesh-and-blood Zhang Guimei to readers.

In the preliminary review process, wherever there is disagreement with the author or where we feel that there is a doubt, we will communicate with the author through WeChat and other means in a timely manner. Don't look at Mr. Li Yanguo is eighty years old, he can reply to our message every time, and he can humbly listen to our opinions and answer our questions very well. Mr. Lao's profound knowledge and keen thinking make our editing process very smooth.

After editing "Zhang Guimei", I think it is most attractive to some things that were first published according to Gui Mei's diary or oral accounts; the most touching thing is Teacher Gui Mei's ups and downs in more than 60 years; the most infectious thing is The most touching thing is the efforts made by Teacher Gui Mei to establish Huaping Girls' Senior High School and the home visits that have been paved with footprints for more than ten years. There are two words that can summarize most of Gui Mei's life, that is, "suffering" and "greatness".

The strength and intention of the author are also reflected in the literary and artistic nature of the work. The lyrical narrative subject is a second-person writing technique, which greatly closes the distance between the reader and Zhang Guimei. Because of editing this book, we were also lucky to meet Teacher Zhang Guimei.