The "Huiwanjia" Female Domestic Workers Soft Power Empowerment Project Team is a student innovation team composed of ten students from the School of Political Science and Law of the University of Jinan who is committed to using professional social work methods to intervene to improve the soft power of female domestic workers.
The story series of female domestic workers is the story of female workers discovered by the "Huiwanjia" team during the visit and research, and the method of non-fiction writing is presented to you here. I hope these stories can give you some inspiration, let us respect "her", recognize "her", and satisfy "her" together!
I'm Gao**, born in 1959, in the midst of a three-year natural disaster. There are four children in the family, as the second child in the family, they are often the members of the family who are easy to be ignored, and the adults also have a patriarchal mentality, and the adults let the elder brother go to school, and let me chop wood and light a fire at home to take care of my younger siblings, they think that it is useless for girls to go to school.
When I was six or seven years old, I heard from my eldest sisters that there was a night school in the village, and at that time, those who were five or six years older than me all carried kerosene lamps, and some of them wore pockmarks in the kerosene lamps to go to night school. I remember the teacher wrote on the blackboard: Long live the People's Republic of China, walking on the road after returning from night school, there was no pen and paper, so I used a stone to write "中" on the sandy floor, first write a square and then draw a piece is Zhong, and write it over and over again. The next day the night teacher asked, "Who's going to write it?" I said, "I'll write it." "People don't believe it. I'm not as tall as a blackboard, like a slender bench. The teacher picked me up, and I took the chalk and wrote a square and then put it down. The people below gave me a round of applause. That was the first time I heard the voice of praise, I wanted to learn more, but the word "Hua" could not be written well, the left and right up and down were too far away, I practiced every day, every day on the road, I used stones to write on the ground, at that time there was only one thought that I wanted to write these words.
Around 1970, a vigorous anti-illiteracy campaign began in the countryside, and at that time illiteracy was not allowed in the family. I didn't have the opportunity to go to school until I was about 12 years old, and I went straight to elementary school without a nursery class until the third grade. Because I was already older and taller when I went to school, I was the class president, the art committee and the study committee member of the school, and I was also the big sister of my younger brothers and sisters. I went to night school in the village for a few years, and when I went to school, I knew more words than everyone else, and sometimes I took everyone to write on the blackboard, so I felt very confident. My performance at school was always watched by the teacher, who didn't want me to go to school after the first grade because there were many children in the family, but the teacher thought I was smart and kept helping me pay for my tuition.
I am a very strong person, when I have time, I will practice writing and study on the ground, and when there is TV and movies in the village, I will go to study to see how to pronounce this word pinyin and how to write the word. I never thought that girls were worse than boys, and when I was about 15 years old, I was in the third grade of elementary school, but my family still didn't approve of me going to school, so I dropped out of school again. I went to the rockfill factory, I was always the first to go, I did the most work, I wanted to be the first, and I was indeed the first, but I still didn't get as much work as gay men.
After starting a family, I used my own efforts to achieve a qualitative change from scratch. After working in the rockfill factory for five years, I started a family on a blind date. When I got married at the age of 22, my dowry was only three bowls and three pairs of chopsticks. In 81, my first child was born, which coincided with the household responsibility system, and the production was distributed to the households, and when we had land, we had food to eat, and we were able to be self-sufficient, and I was very happy. At that time, I watched the children during the day, and went to collect dung and plough the ground at night. In 84 years, I saved 1,000 yuan by selling sticks and grain, and I saved 1,000 yuan by working with my husband, and I was very happy. After the reform and opening up, we spent more than 7,000 to buy a tractor to do business, and the money was all borrowed. When I was doing business, I felt the importance of studying, and later I saved up money and spent two or three hundred yuan to buy a Taishan TV, which was very impressive. I learned from TV and learned about the outside world, and I knew that my city was Jinan by watching the weather forecast, and there were many cities in China, such as Xiamen, Chengdu, Lhasa, etc., and I gave different meanings to the signs of different cities, and I think TV is the best teacher. I learned a lot of words by watching TV and then reading the newspaper, and my childhood dream of going to school came true, and each word was like a lamp, lighting up my world. At that time, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, what others can do, I can do the same.
An era creates a group of people. In the process of learning to write and recognize, I set a small goal for myself to know two words every day. With constant perseverance, I learned a lot of words. Later, he participated in the compilation of songs and lyrics of the Seisei Society, and in the process, he communicated with everyone, shared his views and feelings, and became more and more knowledgeable and educated. My granddaughter is now four years old, and although the child's mother has no requirements for the child, I will definitely make the child more literate and educated. Because I didn't go to school much when I was a child, I thought it was too terrible to be uneducated. I downloaded a literacy app on my phone for her, including Chinese and math, as well as nursery rhymes, so that the child could read while playing games. I think boys and girls are the same, and girls can fly in the sky like eagles.
I will suffer greatly from the idea of patriarchy, and the next generation must not suffer like this again.
I think age is just a number, and when the old era passes, I have to keep up with the pace of the times, and I am in charge of my life. My childhood experience has influenced my future life, "don't sit if you can stand, don't lie down if you can sit", this kind of continuous improvement belief, but also formed my self-confidence, self-affirmation and self-excited character. After the demolition of the village, there are many elderly people who are very lonely, and I hope to do something to enrich the leisure life of these old people, so that the old people can be happy and happy. So my plan for my future is to set up a marriage agency and a recreation center for the elderly, and I hope that I can make the lonely people in the village no longer lonely and everyone can run their own lives happily.
Artist: Kiku Taaki Editor: An Xiaoyu Review: Zhao XiangyuOne point Jida political and legal housekeeping "soft power" empowerment team
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