<b>Editor's Note:</b>
<b>One side of the podium, three feet of the podium. Today, China ushered in the 37th Teachers' Day, and the Ministry of Education elected</b> <b>the first batch of</b> <b>100 educational families. From now on, Qilu Evening News • Qilu OnePoint launched a series of reports on "The World's Peach and Plum, All in the Family", walking into the education family in Shandong and digging deep into the story of the education family's inheritance from generation to generation, in order to pay tribute to the education family and the majority of teachers. </b>
On September 3, under the nearly hundred-year-old soap horn tree of Zibo No. 1 Middle School, Niu Chao and several of his students sat under the tree and chatted, and for a while, laughter and laughter rang out. Fast forward to more than forty years ago, when the student's fatherly teacher brought out nearly 10,000 students since he taught middle school in 1973.
"Preaching, teaching, and solving puzzles", from the beginning of Niu Chao's great-grandfather teaching and educating people, to his holding of the whip, and then to his daughter as a teacher, the three-foot pulpit has accompanied their family for more than 150 years.
(Niu Chao and several of his students sat chatting under a soap horn tree in Zibo No.1 Middle School)
<b>The family style of teaching by example</b>
The windows are clear, the sun shines into the room, and on the table in the living room of Niu Chao's home, there is a single photo of his father Niu Qiangtai when he was young and a family portrait. "This is a family portrait taken by my father in Nanjing when he was sixteen years old, and the other is a family portrait taken with my grandfather when I was a child." Niu Chao wipes the photos clean every day, which in his opinion is an indispensable sense of ceremony. These two photos symbolize a family inheritance, they inherit not only a career, but also a family style of teaching by example.
(Niu Chao and his niece Zhang Tianyi)
Niu Chao is 66 years old this year, has the majesty of a teacher, laughs and is kind and amiable. Talking about his family, Niu Chao always had a happy smile on his face, and he talked about it in the face of reporters.
"Five generations of our family's ancestors taught and educated people, starting with my great-grandfather as a private school master." Niu Chao's great-grandfather Niu Xingyi, a late Qing dynasty man from a well-to-do family, saw poor villagers working with their loess and back to the sky in order to fill their stomachs, and decided to open an academy to teach children to read and study. Therefore, Niu Xingyi's hometown Longquan Town Datuwu Village vacated a house, made a few small tables and set up a private school. "This is the beginning of five generations of teaching in my family, and it is also the cornerstone of our family's good education work that has been passed down to this day." Niu Chao said that his great-grandfather attached great importance to education and teaching, selfless dedication, and paid more attention to teaching by example.
Niu Chao's grandfather Niu Shanqing worked in Nanjing, and after liberation, Niu Shanqing resolutely returned to his hometown and began to abandon business to teach and participate in the teaching team. At that time, the families of the children who were studying were very poor, and Niu Shanqing took money to buy pencil books for the children, worked for the children who could not afford to pay the tuition and book fees, and advanced the tuition or book fees. Niu Chao said that his grandfather's story did not stop at black and white photos, but lived in the touching story told by his father, who was also a teacher, and his grandfather's kindness left a deep mark on his childhood.
When Niu Chao's father, Niu Qiangtai, was seventeen years old, he was sent to the Provincial Normal School by the unit for further study, and after graduation, he was assigned to teach at zibo Jinling Iron Mining Yu Middle School. "My father had a lot of prestige when he was teaching at the Jinling Iron Mine." Niu Chao said very proudly that the workers in the mine said that they could not get off the bicycle when they saw the mine director, and they had to get off the car to say hello no matter how fast and far away they were. It is enough to see everyone's desire and respect for knowledge.
Group photo of Niu Chao's family (fourth from the left is Niu Chao, and the first from the right is Niu Mingzhe)
"Don't ask for anything in return, just for teaching and educating people." Niu Chao said this sentence with great emotion, he believes that this is the most precious quality brought to the family by his ancestors, he has been subtly influenced by the family since he was a child, and he also has the ideal of being a people's teacher when he grows up. In the year he graduated from high school, he worked as a private teacher in the village junior high school, and from then on he began his educational career, from the village junior high school to the Zibo First Middle School, which was forty-two years.
<b>The youngest senior teacher in the city</b>
The son inherits his father's aspirations and stands on a three-foot podium. Niu Chao self-evaluation: ordinary and ordinary, no big deeds, but worthy of the profession of teachers.
In the eyes of colleagues, Niu Chao is a "generalist": he writes a good board book, draws a map on the blackboard with his bare hands, and the class geography college entrance examination results he brings have ranked among the best in the city's college entrance examination for many years, and the students have their own set of methods... But only Niu Chao himself knows that the results he has achieved are all stupid methods, and behind them are all blood and sweat.
When teaching in a rural junior high school, the uncles and uncles in the village called Niu Chao a "night owl", and he was the first of the teachers to sleep at the latest. Niu Chao studied and taught at the same time, preparing classes in the office until late at night, until tomorrow's class remembered to be ripe, and he was willing to leave the office. After the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, Niu Chao was admitted to Zibo Normal School, and after graduation, he was assigned to Zibo No. 1 Middle School in Shandong Province to engage in geography teaching.
In the face of the requirements of high schools and students, Niu Chao is well aware of his own lack of level, take time to listen to the lectures of old teachers, constantly learn to enrich himself, and practice a "housekeeping skill", as a geography teacher, Niu Chao can draw circles on the blackboard with his bare hands, and can also draw maps of Shandong and China. "Teacher Niu is very good, he can draw a map of China on the blackboard with his bare hands, even the corners and corners are exactly the same." This is the evaluation of Niu Chao by many students, listening to the teacher's lectures is a kind of enjoyment, in-depth and simple, follow the good temptation.
At that time, Niu Chao's wife Zhai Aili gave up his job at the Zichuan Maternal and Child Health Hospital for him and followed him to become a school doctor in Zibo No. 1 Middle School. "Regrets? It seems that I complained a few times when I was young, but now it seems that it is very worthwhile. Zhai Aili smiled and told reporters that she knew that Niu Chao's hard work and hard work would be rewarded.
The results of the class geography college entrance examination taught by Niu Chao have ranked among the top in the city's college entrance examination for seven consecutive years, and the number of undergraduate students in the class has also won the first place in the city for many times, and he has been rated as "teaching expert" and "excellent class teacher" and "excellent communist party member" and "teacher moral pacesetter" by the city for many times. In 1993, Niu Chao was named a senior teacher, and this year he was 38 years old, the youngest senior teacher in Zibo.
Following the footsteps of his grandparents and fathers, Niu Chao's every step is solid and powerful, ordinary but persistent and tenacious. For Niu Chao, from teaching for 42 years, he has brought nearly 10,000 students and sent away one class after another of graduates, and peach and plum are all over the world, which is his glory and pride. Many of the students Niu Chao has brought have applied for the college entrance examination and applied for the normal college, and after graduation, they returned to Zibo No. 1 Middle School to become teachers.
On September 3, when Niu Chao returned to the campus of Zibo No. 1 Middle School, on the campus and on the playground, teachers met him from time to time to greet him and shake hands, while several of his students Zhao Zenggang, Sun Xiaohong, and Zhang Ning accompanied him.
(After retirement, Niu Chao returned to the campus of Zibo No.1 Middle School)
"Teacher Niu is our life mentor, he is more like a father." Zhao Zenggang said that he was a student of the class of 1983, and when he was studying in high school for three years, he often went to Teacher Niu's house to "rub rice", which was the "privilege" of these students who were far away from home. Most of Mr. Niu's students were helped by Niu Chao and his wife when they were studying, and they were subsidized with tuition, food, and travel expenses home... At that time, some students with poor families only bought steamed steamed pickles in the canteen, and every weekend, Niu Chao and his wife fried a few dishes and meat and asked the students to eat together. "My wife and I were eating at that time, and there was a circle of students at the table, and it was a big family eating a reunion dinner." Niu Chao recalled with a smile that such a "teacher-student meal" lasted for more than twenty years.
"Teachers are conscientious jobs and will never be rich." Niu Chao said seriously, seeing these students, it was as if he saw himself again. "They are very good, they have become vice principals, the director of the teaching and research department, and the class results they have brought are good, and the only thing that can be a teacher is to be pleased."
<b>The daughter became a university professor</b>
In 1981, Niu Chao had a daughter, and he specially named her Mingzhe. "Mingzhe" means to be sensible and understand philosophy, Niu Chao explained, he does not pay attention to how much his daughter can achieve, but hopes that she can understand the general understanding, "So many years, the child has indeed not let us down." Niu Chao said with satisfaction.
Niu Mingzhe grew up on campus since she was a child, and it seems that since birth, she has formed an indissoluble relationship with the school. When she was young, she took a stone to write and draw on the cement floor in front of her home, and used a branch as a teaching pole, "At that time, she imitated the teacher's lecture and told herself to listen, but in fact, she didn't understand anything." Niu Mingzhe laughed and said that this was the simplest understanding of his teacher when he was a child, although he did not understand it, but it was like a seed that took root.
(Niu Mingzhe and international students are communicating Chinese)
(Niu Mingzhe is giving a lesson in Chinese as a foreign language to international students)
In Niu Mingzhe's childhood memories, her father seemed to have been circling the school and students, and there was little companionship for her. In the morning, before she woke up, her father went to take the morning exercise and study early, and after falling asleep at night, his father checked the dormitory and went home. "What impressed me the most was that when I was a child, my dad was in the classroom watching self-study, and I watched my dad change the exam paper on the lectern desk through the glass outside the window." Across the window, Niu Mingzhe could not call out "Daddy", but she knew that Daddy's work was very sacred.
In Niu Mingzhe's view, holding the teaching whip is a fine tradition of their family. "My grandfather and father were both teachers, and my grandfather's desk was full of pens, ink, paper, and manuscripts." Niu Mingzhe has known since he was a child that his grandfather is different from other people's grandfathers, he will not only care about his own food and drink, but will always be accompanied by books, the home place is not big but full of books, and even the bedside is placed with books, the influence of the family atmosphere, so that Niu Mingzhe's choice of this profession is more determined.
In 1999, Niu Mingzhe scored 663 points in the college entrance examination, and under the condition that she could apply for other popular majors, she still applied for Liaocheng Normal College (now Liaocheng University) and volunteered to become a glorious people's teacher after graduation. Niu Chao has been a high school teacher all his life, filling in the college entrance examination volunteer is his best hand, most of the students he has taught have asked him to fill in the volunteer, and they have been admitted to the school of their choice. Some people did not understand him, thinking that Mingzhe's score could have gone to a better school and a more popular major, "Some people joked with me, you are so good at volunteering, why didn't you even choose your daughter's school." Niu Chao understood in his heart that his daughter was a teacher in the eyes of his heart, and what he could do was to give his daughter enough support and encouragement.
After graduating in 2003, Niu Mingzhe came to Zibo Vocational College to teach. After work, under the influence of her family, her heart of continuous learning and growth has never been put down. Since 2006, Niu Mingzhe has successively obtained a master's degree in Chinese international education from Qufu Normal University and Shandong University, undertaken the Chinese language teaching work of international students in the school, and has been evaluated for many years, and has been rated as an excellent educator and an excellent communist party member for many times, in 2018, Niu Mingzhe was rated as an associate professor, Niu Chao was sincerely happy for his daughter: "Our ancestors have taught in primary and secondary schools, and our daughter has become a university teacher, which is the continuation of our family tradition." ”
<b>Let teaching go global</b>
In Niu Mingzhe's classroom, students of different ages, different skin colors, and different nationalities can be seen. Here, Chinese is the language they learn together and the bridge between them and each other. "Telling Chinese stories well and spreading Chinese culture is what I've been doing." Niu Mingzhe said.
On the afternoon of September 4, the first dialogue Chinese class of Zibo Vocational College was held, and Niu Mingzhe was exchanging holiday life with the students, "Where did you go to play?" "BoShan" "What did you eat?" ""Noodles and chicken"... This seemingly simple Chinese dialogue was taught by Niu Mingzhe word by word and stroke by stroke.
Lidder, from Bangladesh, is a sophomore. In two years in China, he has been able to cope with daily communication and exchanges, "In Mr. Niu's class, I suddenly fell in love with Chinese, my Chinese level improved rapidly, learning Chinese, I am more interested in Chinese culture." Since 2012, Niu Mingzhe has taught nearly 1,000 international students from more than 20 countries.
Today, Niu Mingzhe is a mother of two children. The eldest daughter, Zhang Tianyi, is a freshman in high school this year, and under the influence of Zhu Mingzhe, she is very interested in traditional Chinese culture, and in her spare time she learns calligraphy, martial arts, and paper cutting. On weekends and holidays, she communicates with her mother and foreign students, and although she is young, Tianyi still shares the stories she knows with them. "Although children are small, they will also have a sense of accomplishment in communicating with international students, and children can also be regarded as part of the spread of Chinese culture." Niu Mingzhe appreciates Tianyi's expression and communication skills, and often encourages her to communicate with international students, and over time, Tianyi also has the idea of being a teacher.
"I thought well, when I grow up, I want to be an international Chinese teacher like my mother, teach Chinese, and spread traditional Chinese culture."
This idea was supported by Niu Chao, "Our family's tradition of being a teacher has been innovated, and we can cross the ocean in the future." ”
During the New Year's Festival, when Niu Chao's family gets together, "teacher" is a fixed and eternal topic. Although everyone's teaching age is different, and the teaching equipment in the classroom has changed from a chalk and a blackboard to an electronic whiteboard and visual video teaching, in everyone's memory, the teacher's feelings are unchanged. Over the past hundred years, the five generations of Niu Chao's family have tirelessly inherited the family style of teaching by word and deed, and the glorious teaching whip has been passed on from generation to generation in their hands, writing the professional spirit of being a teacher.
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