Life is like an all-encompassing encyclopedia, some people are willing to go with the flow, and some people choose to swim against the current.
There is only one way to succeed in life, and that is to try to live as you like.
All the opportunities that seem to be destined are meant to help us grow faster.
Are you willing to sink into the darkness of reality, or do you choose to step through the thorns and look up to the light of the future?
Zhang Juncheng undoubtedly chose the latter.
He was born in the cold gate, escaped from the mountains when he was young, went all the way north, and finally passed the adult college entrance examination and was admitted to the law department of Peking University.
Zhang Juncheng, the first person to sensationalize the Peking University security college entrance examination, what happened 26 years later?
Zhang Juncheng
"Knowledge changes destiny."
If you want to use a sentence to describe Zhang Juncheng's life resume, this sentence is the truest portrayal of his counterattack fate.
His whole teenage years were too hard.
He said, "It was Peking University that planted a seed of hope on my life, and I hope that I can bring this seed to more people." ”
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Zhang Juncheng was born in a small village in Xiangyuan County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province.
More than a dozen families in the village are gathered together, most of them are made of earthen kilns built up by the mountains, the cultivated land is poor and sparse, and the annual harvest is very small.
The mountain roads are undulating, the traffic is inconvenient, the geographical location is very remote and backward, and everywhere you look, there is naked poverty.
Poor mountains and bad waters, probably so.
Compared with the bustling big cities outside, it is a world of two worlds that are very different.
It wasn't until he was seventeen years old that Zhang Juncheng really fled here.
Recalling his childhood in the mountains, his feelings were only two words: heartache.
"Growing up, I never had a new dress, but the oldest brothers and sisters bought one and then kept it out for the little ones. I was the youngest of my siblings, so every time it was my turn, the clothes were patched up to the point where they couldn't be mended. ”v
Zhang Juncheng's family plus him has a total of seven children.
Due to financial constraints, so many brothers and sisters were either passed on to other relatives, or had never read a book, and all of them were working in the mountains as farmers.
Zhang Juncheng is the youngest child in the family, but he is also the one who works hard at reading, so his parents can't bear to let him drop out of school at a young age and go home.
Unlike other children, others are laughing and playing, and Zhang Juncheng can quietly hold a storybook and read it for an afternoon.
The various and strange observations in the book have satisfied his spiritual world as never before.
What the teacher said in class was a new and unfamiliar country for him, and for him, it was a strange other world.
He really wanted to go out, he wanted to go to the place where the teacher said was full of traffic and high-rise buildings.
The teacher also said: "Books are the ladder of human progress, and only reading books can change the way out." ”
This sentence is probably the cultural enlightenment that he has been thirsting for all his life.
Every semester, his tuition was bought by his family smashing pots and selling iron.
"I'm probably the only student in the school who owes tuition to study." Each semester is a part of the first time at the beginning of the semester, and then a little more every month. At the end of a semester, my tuition was just enough to pay off in full. ”
"In the morning, I went to school with a few small wild fruits picked from the mountains, cornmeal at noon, and when I came back from school in the afternoon, I had to go to the mountains to cut grass and feed them, and I had to help my parents do farm work." Until I grew up and walked out of the mountains, when I thought about doing farm work, I still felt that this was the most bitter. ”
Zhang Juncheng is still lucky, because he is the only one among so many sisters to finish junior high school.
"I remember the most difficult time in the family, my mother had to cheekily go from house to house to ask for some rice to come back, and then return it when the rice was cut next year. I have never eaten snacks, nor have I eaten a full meal of white rice, and the family has eaten the last meal to find the next meal, and they are all poor and can't open the pot. ”
Every time he saw his mother so sleepy, Zhang Juncheng thought that he could grow up quickly.
"When you make money, you can help your parents share a little, and I really don't want them to work so hard anymore."
At that time, Zhang Juncheng's greatest wish was to leave this mountain and leave this place that had been poor for several generations.
"I wanted to go outside and have a look, but my mother didn't agree, she said that our family had come this way for several lifetimes. But at that time, I was really poor and afraid, and I was also afraid, and I only wanted to leave this ghost place. I felt that I was still young, that my life was still so long, that I couldn't be confined here and couldn't do anything. ”
Zhang Juncheng's idea of going out to work grew like a vine, and after several soft and hard bubbles, he finally persuaded his mother.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > dropped out of school to work and first entered Peking University</h1>
A relative of Zhang Juncheng helped him find a job in an auto repair factory in the downtown area of Changzhi City.
Even if it was a trivial temporary job, this hard-won opportunity made him cherish it very much.
In addition to the responsibilities within the scope of his work, there are others who do not want to do dirty work, Zhang Juncheng is all single-handed.
"The more you do, the more you learn."
This is the phrase he hangs on his lips the most.
The old man in the factory saw Zhang Juncheng's incredible momentum and was willing to teach him some more skills.
People's evaluation of him said that he was "honest, steady, and able to endure hardships." ”
It is precisely because of his rare quality that he has the opportunity to re-grasp and rewrite his grassroots destiny.
At that time, the Labor Bureau in Changzhi City was preparing to send a group of labor talents to Beijing, and with the support and encouragement of the leaders of the unit, Zhang Juncheng ran to register without saying a word.
Employees before joining the company will go through a unified training and teaching, and finally assign the work direction according to each person's training performance.
It is also this decision to change jobs that almost changed the direction of Zhang Juncheng's next life.
During the one-month training period, although Zhang Juncheng is not the most outstanding one, when it comes to the degree of hard work and desperation, he is definitely the only one among these people.
The instructor prescribes an hour of training, and he can practice alone for two or three hours.
The rules and regulations that others read once, he can read them four or five times.
After the training, whether it is professional skills or professional normative knowledge, Zhang Juncheng has all obtained excellent results in the first place.
Based on Zhang Juncheng's outstanding performance, the Beijing Labor Bureau finally assigned him to Peking University as a security guard.
He had finally stepped into the land of his dreams.
Even at this moment, for Zhang Juncheng, who came out of a poor ravine, he did not know what "Peking University" meant.
Once the main gate of Peking University, the West Campus Gate is now a major landmark in the area.
Whether it is a school student or a tourist from outside, the crowd of people who come and go every day is endless, and it is a lively scene of crowds.
Zhang Juncheng's job here is to put on a security uniform and perform duty at the West Gate.
A few days later, he finally realized what kind of world he had gone to.
"This is where China's top universities and the best talented children gather."
He cherished this precious and hard-won opportunity.
When standing guard, Zhang Juncheng stood straight like a pine cypress.
He said that even if you are a security guard, you should have the spirit of Peking University.
Even if it is a security profession, as long as he stands at the gate of Peking University, it is his supreme glory.
He felt more contented and joyful in this moment than ever before.
However, not long after this confidence, it was interrupted by several foreigners.
"One morning on duty, I happened to meet seven foreigners, who had no documents and spoke foreign languages that I could not understand, and who were clamoring to break in. It was my time on duty, and I certainly couldn't just let them in. After pestering with them for a long time, they finally left. When I walked across the road, the group lined up and gave me a thumbs up, then pointed their thumbs up to the ground. ”
Needless to say, everyone knows that this group of foreigners is insulting Zhang Juncheng.
"At that moment, I suddenly felt very sad. I knew they were insulting me, either by my profession as a little security guard, or by the fact that I couldn't understand their foreign language. It was from that moment on that I decided that I wanted to study well and learn English well. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="73" > tiandao rewards diligence, sensational Peking University security college entrance examination first person</h1>
Early the next morning, Zhang Juncheng returned from outside with two English books.
For a child like Zhang Juncheng who came out of such a big mountain, he dropped out of junior high school, and his English foundation was not only extremely poor, but also had been abandoned for many years, and now everything can only start from scratch.
Many of the knowledge points of English tense and grammar are extremely obscure, and Zhang Juncheng's English pronunciation is still learned by relying on the faint memory of childhood.
"I can read every letter, but I can't read them when they're grouped together." At that time, I had to work during the day, and I was busy standing guard to work, so I could only study by myself in the free time at night, first reading from the most basic short sentences little by little, reading to the places I didn't understand, and then looking up the dictionary. During the hardest time, I could only sleep four or five hours a day. ”
Fortunately, Zhang Juncheng still maintains the optimistic and curious mentality of going to school, and when he encounters problems that he does not understand, he will go to the library or the Internet to check the materials, and sometimes even pull the college students of Peking University to ask questions.
Surprisingly, all of Zhang Juncheng's efforts were seen by a professor named Cao Yan in the English Department of Peking University.
Cao Yan said: "I met him one night by chance and asked him what he was doing, and he said he was learning English. At that time, I thought this security guard was quite positive. Later, after a whole month of observation, I found that he was really diligent and self-conscious, and even when he went to work, he still held an English book in his hand. At that time, I felt that such a good talent could not be wasted, so I gave him two free English lecture certificates. ”
Cao Yan can be said to be Zhang Juncheng's nobleman, and she can even be said to be the guiding light of Zhang Juncheng's road to success.
In the time since, Zhang Juncheng studied under the guidance of Cao Yan.
She not only helped Zhang Juncheng correct his wrong pronunciation, but also encouraged him to take the adult college entrance examination and come to Peking University to study.
Hearing this news, Zheng Juncheng was very surprised.
His biggest dream is to return to campus and continue his studies.
The adult college entrance examination is undoubtedly a new door to the world for him.
His cultural foundation is weak, how can it be easy to enter an adult university?
For his campus dream, Zhang Juncheng began his life of studying hard day and night.
Zhang Juncheng tried his best to fight for his reading time, and for this reason, he also took the initiative to ask the leader to adjust his working hours to night shifts.
In this way, during the day, Zhang Juncheng either listened to the professor's lectures in the classroom or read books and brushed up on the problems in the dormitory.
In addition to standing guard, Zhang Juncheng almost single-mindedly pounced on learning, and when the books never left his hand, it was almost to the point of sleeping and forgetting to eat.
During that time, Zhang Juncheng's life almost became a three-point line: classroom, dormitory, and West Gate.
Over time, everyone knew that there was a security guard named Zhang Juncheng at Peking University, who was a fanatic who loved to learn.
Knowing that Zhang Juncheng was studying law, many professors also prepared learning materials for him, and even personally contacted professional lecturers for him to let him observe.
Heaven rewards diligence, hard work is not deceived.
Zhang Juncheng's hard work all night finally reaped the fruits of surprise.
Zhang Juncheng participated in the adult college entrance examination, and finally successfully admitted to the law department of Peking University with a total score of 413, becoming the "first person in the country's Peking University security college entrance examination".
This score even exceeded the admission score line by two points at that time.
From preparation for the exam to the exam, Zhang Juncheng only spent half a year.
But in the past six months, Zhang Juncheng's efforts and sweat are obvious to everyone.
He finally sat down in the classroom.
In the following three years, Zhang Juncheng conquered one obscure legal professional knowledge after another, passed all thirteen homework with high scores, and successfully obtained the self-examination qualification certificate of Peking University's law department.
Zhang Juncheng's story became famous overnight, and he even became a living signboard of Peking University, which caused a sensation across the country.
Many universities and organizations have invited him to give a speech, and he has become a hot red man at Peking University for a while.
Many domestic media have also made a lot of reports on Zhang Juncheng's deeds, and many people have come to Peking University to find him to sign a photo.
Just when Zhang Juncheng was very popular, everyone thought that he would definitely show his career at Peking University in the future, but he suddenly proposed to Peking University to leave at this moment.
Despite Peking University's efforts to retain him, he had already made up his mind.
"I learned the most precious thing at Peking University, and I want to go back to the land where I came and teach it to more people."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="109" > the first person in the Peking University Security College Entrance Examination that has caused a sensation in the country, how is it 26 years later? </h1>
Zhang Juncheng took the hard-won Beijing University graduation certificate, dragged several bags of heavy books and notes, and resolutely embarked on the road home.
At this time, he had only one thought in his mind: to return to his hometown to teach.
After returning from school, the first thing that came to Zhang Juncheng's mind was the school at home.
He returned to his hometown of Changzhi and became a teacher at a local middle school.
"I was born here, grew up here, and I know better than anyone what it's like to be ignorant and backward. The knowledge I learned at Peking University, I want to give back without reservation to the land that gave birth to me and raised me. ”
It was this simplest and simplest desire that drove him to willingly give up the attractive interests and conditions of the big city of Beijing.
On the three-foot podium, Zhang Juncheng excitedly explained interesting knowledge of law and philosophy to the students, and he liked to give lectures, but he never hid the fact that he was a security guard.
He said, "People live in this society, and every stage will have a different life and growth experience. Each age group is different, and the dreams and desires in the heart are also different. When I was young, my desire was to eat a full meal and wear a new dress. When I was at Peking University, I wanted to be a student in the classroom, and I wanted to have a diploma of my own. But now I feel that teaching and educating people will be a profession that I have struggled for all my life. ”
A long time ago, when he was a security guard at Peking University, it was his honor.
Twenty-six years later, every minute and every second of his standing on the podium is the highlight of his life.
Our position and class in society are chosen and created by ourselves.
Whenever Zhang Juncheng spoke endlessly on the podium, the classroom was full of applause.
Falling red is not a merciless thing, and it is more protective of flowers when turned into spring mud.
Through his own efforts, Zhang Juncheng went from a front-line teacher to the director of the Political and Educational Affairs Office, and finally became the vice principal of the school.
But his ambitions go far beyond that.
He said, "Most of my students are cold children, and I hope to start a private school so that these people who like to read but have no financial conditions can realize their wishes." ”
With the strong support of the local government, Zhang Juncheng and four small partners invested in the establishment of Changzhi Science and Technology Secondary Vocational School, and he personally served as the principal.
Some say it's a vocational school that pays for a diploma.
In Zhang Juncheng's view, even those students with poor academic performance do not necessarily lack more possibilities in the future than others.
There are no students in the world who can't learn, only teachers who can't teach.
His future wish is to plan a private university in Changzhi.
Everything is easy to satisfy, but reading is endless.
The story of Zhang Juncheng's growth perfectly explains to us what is called "knowledge is power." ”
Relying on his own strength, he walked out of the mountains and walked towards Peking University.
Now he also relies on his own strength to teach and educate people, and to solve problems.
"We can not go to a good university, but we can't stop learning. Live to be old, learn to be old. ”
"Peking University Security College Entrance Examination First Man" is the aura of his glory, but it is also his indomitable motivation.