I, "the town is the subject", took three generations out of the mountains

"Small town to be a problemmaker" has once again attracted attention.

"After reading the public opinion, I know that the people who study hard in order to get into a better school and get a better life are called 'small town problem makers.'" Some people laughed at themselves, "But I didn't do a good job with my questions, and I didn't get into 985, 211, and Qingbei, so it should be called 'small town wrong question book'." ”

On platforms such as Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu, there are also highly educated talents who have released videos with the topic of "small town as a questioner" to speak out for "small town to be a questioner".

For example, Tao Yong, chief physician of the Department of Ophthalmology of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, said in a video on Douyin, "I am also a small town problem maker, and I also had inferiority when I was studying at Peking University, and I used other people's lunch break time to catch up, and also woven a beautiful dream of 'no blindness in the world', which is still in the process of chasing dreams." "And in the video with the topic # Hanmen Takako should not be ridiculed as a small town to do the problem home #.

According to the data, the term "small town to be a subject" originally originated from the Douban group. In 2020, in the Douban "985 Waste Introduction Plan" group, this term refers to some students from 985, 211 and even famous schools in small towns who have encountered walls in the work and life of big cities, so they regard themselves as "'dead readers' who have not seen much of the world", representing a self-deprecating spirit.

The word "985 waste" in the group's name is also a kind of self-reliance when key college graduates encounter career bottlenecks or challenges after graduation. Nowadays, the word has somewhat "changed its flavor" in public opinion.

But turning around and looking back, perhaps most of the people are "small town problem makers", the college entrance examination, the examination for graduate school, the examination for the public, and all kinds of examinations, are a white-hot arms race, and the people in it have also done problems for them.

For those born in small towns or even villages, there are fewer resources available and naturally must be more desperate. Zhang Guimei, the principal mother of the "Mountain Girl", also said in an interview with the media, "People say that doing questions is not good for children, we have no way, we only have this way!" ”

For most students from counties and villages, becoming a "small town doer" is the only way for them to achieve class jump and change their destiny. And this kind of effort should not be smeared with mocking and negative colors.

In this issue of the tavern, Burning Finance talked with a number of "small town problem makers" from different generations, talking about their experience of working hard to "do problems" in order to study and work.

Among them, there are post-50s who have experienced famine, changed their fate by going to college, and led their families out of the mountains; There are post-60s who have taken the examination from the village-run primary school to Zhejiang University, and have finished their doctorates and found the job of their choice, so that their families have developed all the way from the county seat to Beijing; There are those who grew up in the ravine, in order to free tuition, took the exam 5 times and finally passed the 70s of the county normal school; There are four battles to finally come ashore, and help the whole family to improve the quality of life of the post-80s generation; And the post-90s who successfully stood out from the "hell college entrance examination" province...

Hard work and hard work should be a valuable quality, and "small town problem maker" should also be a proof that a person has worked hard, not a label that has been ridiculed.

My grandfather, took the whole family out of the mountains

Chu Fei 丨 30 years old media person

My life is relatively comfortable now. I am a native of Shenyang, A bachelor's degree in the United States, a graduate student in Hong Kong, and I am now working in Beijing. But it wasn't until I first returned to my grandfather's hometown that I didn't know that life was not easy to come by now.

That was the first time I went back to my grandfather's house to move the grave for my grandfather. Driving from Shenyang to Yixian below Jinzhou City, it took more than four hours to drive, and after arriving in Yixian County, it was necessary to enter the mountain, the mountain road was rugged and bumpy, and finally the car really couldn't drive in, we also stopped the car, walked for nearly half an hour, and then walked to Grandpa's hometown.

By the time I arrived, I was sweating profusely and seeing a barren state, which was a shock to me growing up in the city. It was at that time that my mother pointed to this barren place and said to me that if it were not for Grandpa, our family would still be living here.

Grandpa was born in a village in YiXian County, Liaoning Province, is a well-known poor village in the country, the whole village only has a well can produce water, that well is at the bottom of the mountain, probably in the place where our car can not stop. Thinking like this, my grandfather wanted to fetch water, and he had to walk back and forth for nearly an hour.

But fortunately, the children in my grandfather's family were all school materials. Grandpa and his sister were both admitted to high school, but the family was too poor to provide for their two children to go to school together. Therefore, Grandpa was "chosen" because he was a boy.

There is only one primary school in the village where my grandfather was born, and the high school he attended is in the county seat of Yixian County, and the farthest place that can be reached by bus is still half a day away from his hometown. When Grandpa was in high school, he lived on campus, took a car and then walked home for four hours every weekend, and had to leave for school on Sunday afternoons.

Mom recalled that when Grandpa returned to his hometown before he died, his mother wanted to drive home directly, but Grandpa insisted that his mother stop at the bus stop in the county town, "He told me that he wanted to walk this road again." "My grandfather, that's it, with his feet, with the spirit of hard-working, with his family, "walked" out of the mountains.

Grandpa studied with talent, but also very hard, a college entrance examination on the middle of the examination, into the then named Anshan Iron and Steel Institute, now renamed Liaoning University of Science and Technology school, became the only undergraduate student in his hometown.

However, Grandpa was weak and sick, and when he went to college, he suffered a very serious disaster in China, and he could only eat some cornmeal and sorghum rice noodles every day. Over time, the body was overwhelmed and had to drop out of school for a year. At that time, my grandfather had the idea of dropping out of school, but it was his father who insisted very seriously and completed his undergraduate studies in five years.

After graduation, grandpa found a job in a military factory in the 724 area of Shenyang. "At that time, the work in the armaments factory was even more 'fragrant' than that of the current civil servants." Mom recalled.

Unfortunately, in the first month of his grandfather's salary, his father, who had been insisting on providing him with schooling and urging him to complete his education, died. My mother also told me that until my grandfather died, he was sending money to his brother and sister in the family, thanking them for their support and feeling guilty for her unavoidable sacrifice.

With the spirit of loving learning and bearing hardships and standing hard work, Grandpa also did a very good job in the military factory. Because my grandfather's personality is very indifferent, just silently studying technology. Mom said that at that time, many machines were imported, and ordinary workers would not repair them, and my grandfather only needed to listen to the sound of the machine running, and he knew what was wrong. Grandpa became a factory "red man" with this "unique skill", and the family's life was getting better and better.

Later, my mother went to college and graduate school in Shenyang, and also had her first house in July 24 and set up a home in the city center. Later, I was born, and with the support of my family, I could see the wider world.

In the era of nothing, Grandpa used the most "clumsy" and simple methods to "kill" a way for the fate of the family. As descendants, we are like flowing water, constantly continuing the fate of the family and flowing farther away.

I firmly believe that reading is the only way to change

Dad was admitted to Zhejiang University

Lin Xi 丨 Post-90s Advertising Planning

In the 1960s, Dad was born in a village in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, and together with his grandmother and two uncles, he lived a starved life. He still vividly remembers that when he was six or seven years old, he went to a neighbor's house to steal a mouthful of porridge to drink, and when the hot porridge went down, his throat burned with fire.

However, the poor think about change. The poverty of life has cultivated his father's tenacious will, and it has also strengthened his determination to study hard and change the shackles of his own class.

Dad attended five years of primary school and two years of junior high school in the village. Attentive listening and diligent thinking, he was able to rank first in the class every year and won all the three good student awards for seven years.

At that time, the difficulty of my father's study was not mainly due to the heavy burden of schoolwork, but to the difficult teaching conditions and the pressure of farm work.

Dad told me that in the second year of junior high school, while preparing for the exam, he used all the time in school to learn the new, copied the content of the only exam preparation material in the whole grade on his notebook, and summarized the usual wrong questions; On the other hand, during the busy season of farming, he would run to his own land after school to work.

"The most touching thing is that because of my excellent grades, the Chinese and math teachers in junior high school have all worked for my family during the busy farming period." My father told me that after the farm work, because his home was two kilometers away from the school, the math teacher would pick up charcoal from the ground and teach him the content of the irrational equation on the sand. This made me feel that I must not live up to his expectations in the middle school entrance examination. ”

Later, my father really won the top spot in the middle school examination. Since local administrative units are decreasing according to the city, county, district, township and village levels, the teaching resources in areas with lower levels are relatively weak. Therefore, Dad's achievements caused a sensation in the village for a while.

After entering jinhua key middle school, dad began a boarding life, and finally no longer had to worry about the family's farm work. But hunger remained with him throughout his high school years. "At that time, the rice provided with food stamps was thirty-three pounds a month, and when I grew up, I couldn't eat enough." Dad said that in order to save money on vegetables at school, he would come home once a month and ask his grandmother to bring a large box of plum vegetables and eat them every day for four weeks after returning to school.

In order to save the 5-corner train ticket from Yiwu to Jinhua, every time he went back to school, Dad would secretly jump on the freight car from Yiwu to Jinhua. With good luck, he was just able to get to Jinhua; If he was unlucky, he would have to walk another few miles on his own.

It is precisely because of the hard-won school that Dad always picked the lamp to read at night during high school, and summed up a set of his own learning methods. He read the book from thin to thick, and then from thick to thin, and internalized it into his own knowledge. In addition, during the period of residence, he also insisted on the habit of running on the school playground every morning. This is also the secret of his ability to concentrate on learning for a long time.

Kung Fu paid off, and my dad was admitted to Zhejiang University on the college entrance examination. After graduating from undergraduate, he dreamed of becoming a senior engineer from an early age, and continued his further studies at Zhejiang University, with a master's degree and a doctorate. Dad spent his entire college years working and studying and found a dream job.

It is precisely because of his hard work along the way that our whole family was able to move from a small county in Zhejiang to Hangzhou and then to Beijing today.

He is my eternal pride.

In order to go to normal school, I took the exam five times in a row

Yuanyun 丨 Post-70s Primary School Teacher

If "small town writers" are also divided into levels, I may belong to the first group of people to fly.

At the end of the 1980s, when I was 16 years old, children my age in the ravines wanted to take the teacher training exam. Because the normal school not only free tuition, meal tickets, the most important thing is to package distribution, in the village that relies on the sky to eat, the peasants are fed up with the illiterate suffering, and they all want to let their children go out.

Everyone wants to take the teacher training exam, but the exam for teacher training is as difficult as the middle grade. Take Xing County, Lüliang City, Shanxi Province, where I am located, as an example, more than 3,000 candidates in our county want to enter the top 30 in Lishi Normal School, and the admission ratio is 100:1, not to mention that the candidates in 4 or 5 counties rush to enter, according to the average of 3,000 candidates in a county, that is, 15,000 people compete for 250 places!

At that time, the conditions were limited, and I carried a basket of fried noodles and a nest head for 20 miles to walk to the only middle school in town. A class of about ten children, both men and women sleep in bunks, pillows are three bricks erected vertically, cold enough to wear clothes to sleep in winter, and hot to lice in summer.

On the first exam, not surprisingly, I only scored 158 points. Because there was no English teacher in the town, I could only get 8 points in English. In the second and third years, in order to make up for English, I went to the town alone with a bunk on my back. After class during the day, I wrote the English words I learned on the quilt at night, until the quilt was torn up by me, and in the third year I scored 72 points in English, and the total score reached the admission score line of the teacher, but I failed to pass the math.

In the fourth year, I still failed to make the list, and in the village where early marriage was common, I became an outlier who would only be delusional, and even my father was secretly ridiculed by the people in the village. I cried and didn't want to miss it, but my father encouraged me categorically, "I will provide as long as you can, girl, don't worry about money!" ”

But in the fifth year, my mother was seriously ill, and I was anxious to go home to take care of her, but just after qingming, she cried and scolded her back to school. At this point, there are 2 months left before the July exam. Thinking of my very sick mother, my father, who could not stand up straight every day, I gritted my teeth and turned the book back and forth, and even remembered which word was on that page.

In 1989, the normal school relaxed the restrictions on applying for the examination, and I ranked 13th in the county with a score of 505, and I was admitted! My dad was so excited that he didn't eat for a day!

Now that I have walked from the mountains to the county seat and have been a teacher for 30 years, I always believe that heaven rewards hard work! Maybe I didn't fly very far, but with hard work, I lived a life of dignity and hope.

From a small town girl to a settled in Shanghai

I change my destiny with knowledge

Little Ai | Post-80s Certified Public Accountant

My hometown is in a village and town under the state-level poverty county, my father is an ordinary worker, my mother was laid off in a wave of layoffs, and I can only do some small business to subsidize the family, and it is very difficult for them to raise me and my brother. I remember that before I went to college, I couldn't see meat on the dinner table at home for many years; When I went to school, I would wear a uniform that was not mandatory at school, because it was the most "decent" dress I had at the time.

Despite the family's difficulties, our parents always insisted on sending us to school. I also knew that I was not a gifted child, and if I wanted to break free from the poor family, I had to rely on knowledge to change my fate. Although I studied very hard, due to our local education conditions and my personal intelligence, I was finally admitted to a normal undergraduate school in Beijing.

It wasn't until I graduated that I ran into a wall looking for a job, and I realized how "short-sighted" my original insight was, and it was not easy for an ordinary undergraduate graduate to survive alone in Beijing, let alone change the fate of myself and my family.

After thinking about it again, I decided to go to graduate school and use a higher education as a springboard to enter a large company in exchange for the "people on top" life I wanted.

So, in addition to the need to work during the day in exchange for living expenses, all the rest of the time I spent to learn to brush problems, every night I would learn in the small rental house cubicle until 12 o'clock, the next morning at 6 o'clock to memorize and review the knowledge points, on the way to work, I did not forget to take a second-hand MP3 to learn English.

Probably because of lack of talent, my written test results for the "World War I" did not cross the line. The next "World War II" and "World War III" were also lost, and at that time, I was almost 25 years old.

At that time, the persuasion of "it is better to find an ordinary job to marry and have children, and reduce the burden on the family" and the words of "filial piety" that I could not subsidize the family came to me. But I was even more unconvinced, and decided to use the little savings I had saved before to "fight a battle".

I first adjusted my "volunteer" and no longer forced graduate students at Peking University, as long as I could enter 985 University. Then, in order to avoid the situation where the results of the three battles were wiped off and the interview was brushed off, I had to make sure that I was at the top of the written test.

I squatted in the rental house every day, not only did I turn over the exam preparation books, but also professional books and political books made me "backwards like a stream". I also collected a large number of second-hand real question papers on the Internet and from students in major colleges and universities, enough to brush up on the real question papers that were more than one person high, "Looking back, I was really surrounded by the 'sea of questions'. ”

In the year of my "Four Wars" examination, I finally successfully entered Yunnan University and won the favor of my tutors with the first professional results. After the graduate school, I still did not slacken off, accumulated my own capital through various "certificates", and successfully obtained the CPA qualification certificate in the year I graduated.

With academic qualifications and certificate endorsements, as well as the "connections" of mentors, coupled with my strong personal work ability, after three years of formal work, I successfully entered one of the four major accounting firms in Shanghai, got a million annual salary before the age of 30, and quickly achieved a series of goals such as buying a house, getting married, and settling in Shanghai in the next two years.

Today, I have not only achieved a class "leap" myself, but also allowed my family elders to have a happy old age. In addition to providing my mother with a rich material life, I will also send my mother to play all over the country to satisfy my mother's spiritual enjoyment.

Thanks to "doing questions" for letting me take the Hebei exam from hell mode

Shiwen 丨 31 years old journalist

I was a candidate from Hebei in 2010, and the number of applicants for the College Entrance Examination in Hebei that year was 503,000, ranking seventh in the number of applicants for the national college entrance examination, and one of the seven provinces with more than 500,000 applicants for the college entrance examination.

Of these 500,000 people, only 24,637 people have been admitted to one book, and the online rate of one book is 4.4%, and I am one of them.

And there is only one way for me to become one of these "4.4%", and that is to do the problem, do the problem, and do the problem desperately. From the first year of high school to the third year of high school, I did not dare to take a nap at noon and use this time to brush up on the problem. Every day, I spent two and a half hours studying in the evening, and I did two sets of exam papers without moving. After completing their own questions, they borrowed the tutoring materials such as the "five-year college entrance examination and three-year simulation" of their classmates to brush up on the questions. The wrong books copied every semester are stacked up so high.

At that time, I was sleepy and didn't rely on drinking coffee to relieve my fatigue, that is, I beat chicken blood and told myself that I was going to go to college.

Some provinces may be a little more relaxed in the first year of high school, but the tension in Hebei continues from the first year of high school to the third year of high school. I remember at that time, from the beginning of high school, eight people in our dormitory would study in the dormitory every night after the lights went out with a flashlight or desk lamp. In the third year of high school, the study pressure is even worse, and some people even evade the teacher's inspection after class at night, and then hide in the classroom to read. Teachers would patrol back and forth, catching students and going back to their dormitories to sleep.

All this stems from the embarrassing reality faced by candidates in Hebei. Hebei's college entrance examination numbers are among the highest in the country, but educational resources are very scarce. At present, there are 61 undergraduate colleges in Hebei, ranking seventh in the country, but there are only 11 colleges and universities, ranking 18th in the country, in addition, 985 colleges and universities are only Northeastern University Qinhuangdao Branch, and the only 211 universities are Hebei University of Technology in Tianjin.

As county students, we still lack the teaching resources in the city. The development of various parts of Hebei is uneven, and the gap between urban areas and suburban counties is very large. For example, some students go to school in the city in the first year of high school, and the third year of high school transfers back to the county high school, which will naturally have more advantages. In courses such as English, mobile phones, computers and other equipment assist learning effect is better, and students from well-off families can also be good at it. But most of the "dead school" students in the county town are not very good at English.

In our class, there was a classmate who transferred from the city to the county town in the third year of high school, and as soon as he returned, he took the first exam, and he was very talented, and the class program would play the piano. Her academic performance is very good, especially in English, with a perfect score of 150, she can score more than 130 points, but I only have 110 points. There is no way but to continue to "do the problem" in order to catch up with the gap.

Fortunately, in the end, my "doing questions" results were good, and there were more than 400 people in our school, and about 20 people were admitted to one, and I was one of them. Now, I have a good job and life in Beijing, and I have seen the bigger world and have more choices.

Frankly speaking, the college entrance examination is a watershed, and no one's college entrance examination is not hard and hard. Henan's college entrance examination is actually more volumeeous than Hebei. However, because Hebei has such a famous school as Hengshui Middle School, the difficulty of the college entrance examination may be well known to passers-by.

I think that everyone who has worked hard, whether it is the college entrance examination, the examination, the examination for the public examination, or the examination, can actually be regarded as a "small town to do the problem", because the appearance of our efforts for the goal is the same. And "small town to be a subject" is our self-deprecation, but also our medal. It is the effort to "do the problem" that makes us continue to move towards a better life.

Post-00s also have to "do questions" to go to provincial key high schools

Lin An 丨 00 post-00 high school student

In recent years, the post-00s have also received more attention. But in the matter of "small town as a problem maker", we are no different from the post-80s and post-90s.

I grew up in a fourth-tier city along the coast of Guangdong, and although my family was not rich, my family never skimped on the matter of studying. Compared to my mother, who dropped out of junior high school early to work to support her family because her family had no money to go to school, I was lucky. I don't have to worry about money, I don't need to take on more housework after studying, I just need to concentrate on reading.

My mother often said that I must have inherited her ability to learn, so I never needed others to worry about reading. I didn't need to attend after-school cram school to maintain top grades in school. The biggest investment my family has in my studies is to buy exercise books, "Top Students", "One Lesson and One Practice"... All the popular teaching aids on the market can be found in my home.

After all, compared to the 200 yuan per lesson, my family's financial level can only do its best in buying exercise books. Therefore, for the exercise book I bought, I naturally did not refuse.

With the completion of the exercises, I graduated from primary school with the first grade in the school, and was successfully promoted to higher education by a local private school with the reward of "all expenses are waived for three years of junior high school". During my three years in junior high school, my grades were still in the top ten, and I was able to get good rankings in some competitions.

In the second semester of the third year of junior high school, our class teacher communicated with my family, thinking that our family could pay attention to the enrollment plan of the key middle schools in the province, thinking that I could sprint to the "innovation class" of the two provincial key high schools that were not limited to the source of students in the city. With the help of the class teacher, I submitted the required materials to both provincial key high schools.

Before the middle school entrance examination, I received an interview invitation from one of the high schools. After the interview, I naturally signed an invitation letter with the school. Now, I am a sophomore at this provincial key high school, and my studies are obviously not as easy as in junior high schools. Even if there is still a lot of brushing, the grades can only hover in the middle and lower parts of the class.

But I firmly believe that through my day-to-day efforts, I will be able to get into a key university.

It is not only college entrance examination students who "do the questions", but also the examiners

Si Si 丨 Post-80s Civil servants

Because I don't have any big ambitions myself, and I am an only child, I have always wanted to go back to my hometown to work in the future, so that my parents can take care of them when they are older. So after graduating from college, I returned to Heilongjiang.

But the only stable and well-paid jobs in our area are civil servants, teachers, and doctors. Since my profession was not the right one, namely the teacher and the doctor, I joined our local army of examiners.

The first time I tried to take the exam, when we were in our senior year, I was busy with classes, writing graduation papers, and occasionally various teachers and classmates gathering, so the efficiency of self-study at that time was not high, and when the test results were announced, my written test score was 3 points away from the pass line, and I was not qualified to enter the interview link at all.

"Raise a child for a hundred years, worry about ninety-nine." In order to give me a stable and profitable job in the future, my parents encouraged me to take the exam even though I lost the "first battle". So, I left my home in the town and went to the relatives' house in the city to borrow it, so that I could go to the city library every day to review and improve the efficiency of learning.

At that time, I got up at 6 o'clock every day, packed up breakfast and rode my bike to the library, and sat down at the library desk at 7 o'clock on time to start studying. Except for the 2-hour lunch break at noon, I stayed in the library until it closed at 5 p.m. and then went home.

In order not to disappoint my parents' wishes, I repeated the steps of brushing questions, reading newspapers, and memorizing applications every day, which was even harder than when I took the college entrance examination. After the results of the written test came out, I took the second place. Because I applied for the position at that time to recruit two people, so I think the interview is normal, the probability of admission should be larger.

But when I interviewed, when 6 interviewers sat in front of me like a wall, I had a little nervousness and panic, and the final result was predictable, I still failed. After the results were announced, we successfully counterattacked the "landing" in the 4th place of the written test.

After the defeat of World War II, I was embarrassed to stay at home and "nibble on the old", so I came out and found a job. Although the work content is relatively relaxed, the salary is very low, the basic salary is less than 2,000 yuan, and the so-called commission is both small and difficult to get.

Even if the consumption level in my hometown is low, but only on my own salary, I live a "tight" life, and my parents will help me from time to time.

After working for a while, the low salary level made me firm in the belief of the public examination. After many interviews, I learned that only by ensuring that the written test is first can the possibility of the interview being brushed off be reduced. During the "Second World War", I only took the second place with so much effort, so it can be seen that it is still difficult to take the first place on my own. Therefore, at the suggestion of the "seniors", I applied for a reliable local examination cram school.

In addition, in order to reduce the difficulty of the exam, I focused on the provincial exam. With the experience of the first two exams, coupled with the fact that there was a teacher with a special review this time, I quickly found the feeling of "getting started".

Because during the "Three Wars", I had to go to work and study, so I slept less than 5 hours a day. The effort finally paid off, and after the results were announced, I really ranked first.

Later, in order to prepare for the interview, I asked all the relatives and friends around me who had successfully landed, and I repeatedly discussed the interview techniques with the teachers of the examination institution. In addition, I practiced self-introduction and other contents for half an hour in front of the dressing mirror at home every morning, and after more than half a month, I did overcome the nervous problem in the next interview session and finally "went ashore".

This article originated from the combustion dimension