In 2008, Wenchuan had a magnitude 8 earthquake, mentioned today, I believe that everyone is still fresh in the memory, the number of deaths caused by this huge disaster is tens of thousands, shocking figures, so that the people of the whole country were once immersed in grief.
However, the strong earthquake disaster did not crush the Chinese people, on the contrary, the Chinese launched a mighty earthquake relief struggle with an indomitable spirit of resistance, strength and unity.
After the disaster, too many people lost their lives, and too many families faced life and death, but the stories of heroic deeds that shone like stars were also countless and touched countless people, including the great mother who opened her arms to block the falling stones to protect her young children, the great kindergarten teachers who escaped with their children, and the officers and soldiers of the armed police who carried out rescue day and night.
However, while singing the praises of these great compatriots, there was an incident in which the name of a man appeared in the newspaper and came into our field of vision, and that was Fan Run, the teacher who left the student to run first.
When a disaster occurs, the time of more than ten seconds, although it is very short, but seize the time, you can still run out of the room, or even run from upstairs to downstairs, and race against time to save precious lives. A noble heart should not avoid disasters when disasters come, because avoiding disasters shows the cowardice of the heart, and bearing disasters shows the nobility of will.
When the earthquake first struck, it was two o'clock in the afternoon, it was class time, Fan Meizhong was giving a Language class to the first year of the International Baccalaureate students, and had just instructed the students to get ready for class, but the earthquake suddenly occurred.
He comforted the students, just a slight earthquake to sit in the seat and do not move, but then he realized that this was a big earthquake, very dangerous, so he pulled his leg and ran, but did not evacuate the students at the first time, guided the students to evacuate, but withdrew to the school playground himself, leaving the students in the classroom. The dozen or so high school students in the class reacted later, it was an earthquake, and it was not a slight earthquake as the teacher said, their teacher had already run first, and then they came to the playground one after another.
The first teacher to escape, formerly known as Fan Meizhong, is a Language teacher at Guangya School in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province, who graduated from the History Department of Peking University, is an elite intellectual with higher education, is a rare talent, Fan Meizhong works hard, has a good relationship with students, students have a high evaluation of his unique teaching methods and educational philosophy, originally a teacher with high academic qualifications and very good teaching, but who could have imagined that when the disaster came, he ran away first and abandoned his students.
Although the disaster passed, the people's prime minister hoarsely shouted in the ruins; the soldiers marched forward courageously, risking their lives to advance to the epicenter; the pilots threw batches of supplies into the disaster area despite the harsh weather. The love donations of the people of the whole country have reached tens of billions in just a few days, and hundreds of thousands of young people and students have formed volunteers.
Thousands of large-scale disaster relief donations, love fundraising, volunteer service activities, traffic jams due to the scramble to donate blood and voluntarily rescue the injured... These are still vivid in the purpose of the scene, and every mention is even more tearful.
However, on May 22, 2008, Fan Meizhong published an article entitled "The Moment the Mountains Shook - The Personal Experience of the 512 Wenchuan Earthquake" on the Tianya Community Forum, which has a huge social forum, describing in detail his personal feelings at the epicenter and after the earthquake.
In this life-threatening moment, Fan Meizhong said that he could only consider sacrificing his own life for the sake of his own daughter, and that other people, even his biological mother, would not care if it was his life.
He also told his students that it was one to escape from the moment of inadmissibility, and that there was no point in him choosing to die with his students at the first moment; if there was no danger, he would not be in danger of them, let alone seventeen or eighteen years old.
Fan Meizhong said that running away is his instantaneous instinctive self-help behavior, but it also reflects that under his trade-off, his own life seems to be more important, and he does not believe that he has the obligation to sacrifice his life to save students or others. From his article, it can be seen that he thinks he has made the right choice, and there is no remorse or shame, but the words are full of justification for his behavior of leaving the students to run away alone.
For those who are afraid of danger, this world is always dangerous.
Soon this incident was exposed on the news network, especially so many heroic rescue incidents at that time, his approach caused an uproar on the Internet, and the exposure rate increased greatly for a time, and Fan Meizhong was topped by the public opinion and became a Chinese news figure in 2008. At that time, someone on the Internet gave him a sarcastic nickname called "Fan Run".
In this incident, some people think that his actions are based on the instinct of self-help at the moment of life and death, which is understandable and understandable, after all, in the face of disaster, he chose to escape alone, which is not necessarily wrong.
Some people believe that "Fan Running" is not worthy of being a teacher, abandoning students to run away when danger occurs, this kind of selfish behavior is really against the morality of the teacher, he is not worthy of the word "teacher", and he criticizes his remarks after the fact, not only does not show a hint of apology, but is justified.
In June 2008, the Code of Ethics for Primary and Secondary School Teachers was published to add "Protecting the Safety of Students" to the third "Love Students" column. Some believe that this revision was made in response to the Fan Meizhong incident.
5 years ago, under the influence of public opinion, Fan Meizhong did not continue to work at Guangya School, nor did he go to other schools. After that, guarding the two rooms and one hall of the family, he began to concentrate on becoming a "full-time dad" at home. Fast forward more than ten years, and today, the nickname "Fan Run" has rarely been mentioned again, and Fan Meizhong's life has gradually become flat.
Today, he works for an education and training institution, often taking some online courses and running some small study classes, and he is glad that his family has not given up on him more than once, and he is reluctant to talk about the events of that year.
In this game of human nature and reason, there does not seem to be a correct outcome of the debate. But we hope that in the face of difficulties, we can work together and face them together. Disasters don't happen often, but love is always there. Compassion helps the soul, and goodness and virtue exist in great love.
Text/Yu Xin