get out of class has ended.
The little girl hesitated to stay until the end, walked towards Wang Gang, her voice was low and seemed to be choked up, "Teacher, if your dream can't come true, why do you have to work hard?"
Wang Gang replied, "It is true that hard work may not make dreams come true. Only a few people can change the world, but at least we can work hard and choose not to follow the crowd. There is a saying at the end of "The Count of Monte Cristo" that all human wisdom is contained in two In one word - wait and hope".
At this time, the little girl's eyes were filled with tears, she bowed deeply, and ran out.
This is the scene that took place in the lecture hall of Central Primary School in Yaoshan Town, Zhaotong, Yunnan Province on the afternoon of March 2.
Reading expert Wang Gang, well-known science fiction writer Jiang Bo, well-known non-fiction writer Yuan Ling, reporter Sun Lingyu of Southern People Weekly, reporter Zhu Yuan of Southern Weekend Cultural Edition, etc., followed Pinduoduo and Southern Weekend's "Reading for You" public welfare activity to come here. It has brought many wonderful "reading classes" to the children, and donated two reading rooms and more than 5,000 books to the school at the same time.
Body and soul, there is always one on the way.
If reality is limited, children's spirits can also be found and placed in books.
It is reported that since the launch of Pinduoduo's "Reading for You" public welfare activity in April 2021, it has entered Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places, and has donated nearly 300,000 books.
▲Students of Yaoshan Town Central Primary School read new books in the new reading room.
Primary school library ushered in more than 5,000 new books
Yaoshan, located in Qiaojia County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, is surrounded by the Jinsha River and Niulan River. The main peak is more than 4,000 meters above sea level and stands above the peaks. It is named for its rich wild medicinal materials.
At the southern foot of the mountain, people live together in a town called Yaoshan Town.
The town is surrounded by mountains, and the winding mountain road is full of dragons and snakes. It is also three or four hours' drive to the city and county.
There is a central primary school in the town, with grades 1-6, where nearly 900 children study.
According to Wang Lin, the principal of the school, this area is a high-altitude mountain area with no favorable climate, relatively backward economy and transportation, and insufficient educational resources. It has been ranked last in the county for many years before.
Improvements have been made in recent years, and the school also has a library to guide students to read more after school.
Wang Lin said that a person's spiritual development history is a person's reading history, "Reading is very helpful to a person's spirit and can provide us with spiritual food."
However, in this small town without a bookstore, the facilities and book renewal of the school library are relatively big problems, which also affects the development of local students' horizons to a certain extent.
Jiang Bo, a well-known science fiction writer, was surprised to find that none of the children here could understand the word "Galaxy" after communicating with the children.
"I haven't seen the real thing in the sky, and I haven't gotten impressions from books. Their cognition seems to be somewhat limited."
After learning about the relevant situation, Pinduoduo's "Reading for You" public welfare donation action took the initiative to get in touch with Yaoshan Town Central Primary School, donated two brand-new reading rooms to the school, and brought more than 5,000 brand-new books.
From cleaning books, painting walls, building cabinets to setting desks, the school’s reading room has undergone a huge change from empty to complete in just one week. Students even took advantage of the weekend to actively join teachers and projects The team of the group participated in the arrangement of the new reading room.
More than 5,000 new books are listed by age in two new reading rooms, one for younger students and one for older students and teachers.
▲Students from Central Primary School of Yaoshan Town helped organize the new reading room on weekends.
The book list includes sci-fi stories such as "The Wandering Earth" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", as well as poetry classics such as "Revisiting the Most Beautiful Poems" and "Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty", as well as "Rural Teacher Development" and "County Rural Development" specially prepared for school teachers. Teacher Effective Training Research" and other guiding monographs.
The person in charge of Pinduoduo said, "These book lists are carefully selected and customized by the school and the project team, hoping to meet the diverse reading needs of teachers and students of different grades."
Fifth grade student He Jinfang said that her favorite books are comics.
Lu Xingmei, a sixth-grade student, chose to read the four classics and Greek mythology. She can find strength in classic stories.
Principal Wang Lin said that the refurbished reading room and these brand-new books have increased the students' sense of happiness and gain. "We will definitely make good use of these resources and plan the opening hours of the reading room reasonably so that more children can broaden their horizons through reading. broaden knowledge".
Famous writers inspire reading life
On March 2, together with the reading room and new books, many well-known writers and cultural reporters brought a special "reading class" to the children of Yaoshan Town Central Primary School.
Jiang Bo, a well-known science fiction novelist, graduated from the Institute of Microelectronics of Tsinghua University as a graduate student. He has won the "Galaxy Award", the highest science fiction award in China, seven times, and the Global Chinese Nebula Gold Award four times.
What he brings to children is "How to Greet Aliens Correctly", hoping to inspire children to have more imagination with stories and logic in the science fiction world.
Not only the imagination of the world, but also the imagination of life.
Yuan Ling, a well-known non-fiction writer, and Zhu Yuan, a cultural reporter, both chose poetry.
Through the "circle of friends" of poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Cen Shen, and Gao Shi, Yuan Ling inspired children to perceive the joys and sorrows in ancient poems and see the life stories behind the poems.
Zhu Yuan tried to let the children in mountainous areas find another key to understand poetry by telling about the mediocrity of poetry.
Zhu Yuan said that the first impression of the children here is that their skin is dark, but their eyes are bright and they can see a kind of light.
"No matter what kind of life they will experience in the future, if there are books, at least there will be more possibilities, because in books, they can meet many great souls."
▲The students of Yaoshan Town Central Primary School actively interacted with the teacher in the reading class.
Sun Lingyu shared picture books, hoping that these picture book stories can inspire children to understand themselves, understand others, and also understand the plants, animals and even the earth and universe other than humans in this world. Those reading experiences will be a warm companion for a lifetime. "Children's wonder I was amazed by their wonderful ideas, and even they were able to discover many details from the picture books that I had never noticed before, and the communication about reading opened up their new world, and also opened up my own new vision.”
Reading expert Wang Gang also shared picture books, telling the first grade about "Cowardly Willie", telling children "You can become stronger, but please remember, always keep your kindness".
The story told to the sixth grade is "The Promise of the Happy Bird", which tells the children "even if they grow up in a barren mountain village, we must believe that we have the power to change the world".
The promotion of reading in rural areas is a long-term topic that requires the unremitting efforts of many parties.
The teaching objects of this project are not limited to children. On the day of the event, reading expert Wang Gang also offered professional reading promotion training for local teachers, so that the wind of reading is not limited to the walls of the campus, but can penetrate into more corners of the countryside and establish a A perfect reading ecology.
The sharing of writers and writers was well received by the teachers and students of the school. There were laughter and tears in the reading class.
Wang Gang said with emotion: "I chose the right story this time. The most important point is that every child's life has infinite possibilities. I hope these stories can ignite them. Knowledge can change destiny, and reading can brighten the soul. The key is our Whether you believe it, whether you persist."
According to the person in charge of Pinduoduo, while donating books, the "Reading for You" public welfare activity also invites writers to share reading in a scene, read a book, take a class, inspire the spirit of learning, and cultivate the enthusiasm for reading. This unique model Has persisted for nearly two years.
"Our public welfare donations will continue, and we hope that dreams will sink and spread in the interaction, so that knowledge can benefit the countryside."
▲Reading helps students move towards a bigger world.
Meager kindness will roll and become bigger in the cycle of reincarnation.
On the day the project team left, Wang Dewei, a young man who grew up in Yaoshan, drove a motorcycle at dawn and brought his own special products to send off to the teachers.
Eight years ago, a member of the project team went to Yaoshan to teach, and Wang Dewei was one of her students.
He said that he studied hard because he was infected and inspired by the teacher. He walked out of the mountains and came back this time to actively help organize the new reading room. "This is what I should do. I especially hope that these children can be like me. Get more resources and gain more insights from the book."