Rural Teacher Career

In the midsummer of 996, wheat waves turned golden in the Liuhe Plain in southwest Henan. Chen Yang, who failed twice in primary school and middle school and finished high school with the help of his old principal, took a minibus from Nanyang back to his hometown with a college diploma from Nanyang Teachers College. Everyone thought that he would take the iron rice bowl of the county central school and jump out of the farm to eat commercial food. However, he plunged into the rural alma mater Liuhe No. 3 Middle School, which was on the verge of closure, and took over the most chaotic junior high school class in the school. The ups and downs of the nine-year general education campaign, the wave of withdrawing schools and merging schools, the dropout crisis amid the labor wave, and the loss of students on the road to urbanization. In the past thirty years, he gave up the opportunity to go to the city again and again, turning down invitations with a million-dollar annual salary in the provincial capital, and guarding the three-foot podium in the loess. He sent away the 30th class of graduates and sent thousands of rural children out of the yellow land; from a young rural teacher, he became a national model of teaching and educating people, a special teacher, and a people's educator. He only came for one thing in his life, with a piece of chalk and the breeze on his sleeves. He was a lamp-burner on the loess land and a keeper of rural education.