I live in Dancheng, Zhoukou City, Henan Province and have worked here for nearly forty years. I love Dancheng, I love everything here, and I love the local customs here. Dancheng, a piece of yellow land, produces grain, oil and cotton, and feeds more than 300,000 people/kloc-0. In my eyes, this is a land of feng shui. Li Er (the legendary Tai Shang Lao Jun) chose this place to make an alchemy and set up an alchemy furnace, which was a great success. Taking the elixir and writing the Tao Te Ching with a brush left a valuable cultural heritage for the world. During the Warring States Period, a great strategist Guiguzi ... Wang Chan came from here. He opened the first military school in the history of China and trained many outstanding military strategists. Now twenty or thirty students come out from here every year and enter Tsinghua of Peking University. How beautiful this hot land is, I will always love it. ...

My hometown is in a village in Jihu Township, Shili, north of Dancheng. I have never been out of the village in elementary school and junior high school. At that time, the administrative village was called brigade, and each brigade had a school. Five years in primary school and two years in junior high school. Only a few teachers are public teachers, and most of them are private teachers. At that time, the relationship between teachers and students was very good, and there was no corporal punishment of students. In addition, all farm children can go to school, and students don't have to pay tuition or textbooks. At that time, although the farm was poor, the children didn't pay.

I go to primary school in the village. The school is very small in the village, just at my uncle's house. As I remember, my father took me to school. The school building at that time was two east rooms of my uncle's house. There are several mud tables in the room, with a portrait of Chairman Mao hanging on the north wall and a small blackboard hanging under the portrait of Chairman. The small bench was brought from home. The teacher is my second brother (uncle's second son). The classmates are all children who grew up together in the east of our village. After entering school, I was curious and learned to read and write. When the trumpet sounded, the class was over, and the children played together after class. After school, my aunt always won't let me go home, but stays at her house to cook good food for me. All my brothers love me. Although the living conditions were poor at that time, I ate sweet potatoes and steamed elm leaves, and occasionally I could eat a boiled egg, but I felt very happy. Now think about it, I feel happy because of my parents' love. Second, have the love of neighbors; Third, there is love between children. How can you be unhappy if you live in an environment full of love?

I joined the Young Pioneers when I was eight years old. How happy and proud I am to wear a bright red scarf around my neck! Especially on the way after school, the young pioneers lined up to return to the village and then went home. When the players saw teams of red scarves, their faces showed a satisfied smile. At that time, no parents sent their children to school, and the children all went back by themselves. Nothing happened, but it was safe!

I've been the shift supervisor since the fourth grade last semester, and I'm doing well. At school meetings, our class is always praised by the headmaster, and my classmates and I are always in high spirits. At first, I became a monitor not because I studied well and kept discipline, but because I was too naughty. Fortunately, I met a good teacher. He asked me to be a monitor and said to me: As a monitor, you should study hard, observe discipline and take the lead in doing good deeds. After listening to the teacher's words, I changed my past naughty and did my homework well. On every page of my exercise book, the teacher wrote a red "A". After school, I took it home to show my parents. My parents are very happy. My young father will hug me and throw me around, while my mother will take out an egg from the chicken coop on the windowsill and cook it to reward me. You know, it was not easy to eat eggs at that time. Farmers exchange eggs for salt, eggs for foreign oil (kerosene) lighting, eggs for pencils and exercise books. The more Miss Kuafu loves her mother, the greater the motivation to learn. As a monitor, we should not only learn well by ourselves, but also let all our classmates learn well. My classmates and I also secretly do good deeds, carrying water and sweeping the floor for the five-guarantee households. Every time I do a good deed, I will be happy for a few days. Strive to be a good student of Chairman Mao. This slogan is so appealing that children are not skinned and lazy children are not lazy. Times are such times. I have come all the way from that era and experienced changes and reforms. The soul and character forged during that period have always accompanied my body, from black hair to white hair, and I have always been proud of it. ...

/kloc-When I was in the first grade of junior high school at the age of 0/4, on May 4th of that year, I swore in front of the League Flag that I joined the China Youth League with honor. I can't forget the past when I joined the league. I remember I was a monitor and an activist in Yong ying. The teacher is very kind to me and my classmates. They not only teach culture, but also pay attention to the moral education of students, teach how to make progress and be a man, encourage students to learn culture well and strive to be red successors. One of my referees for joining the League is my teacher. He is not only my head teacher, but also the secretary of the Youth League branch of the school, and he is very enthusiastic about the students. As a monitor, I respect the teacher and cooperate with the teacher to do a good job in the class. The teacher is very keen on me joining the league, personally investigating and personally going to the commune youth league Committee for approval. I have been studying in the school of our brigade since I entered junior high school. All my teachers are my benefactors. I love my teacher, my school and my unpretentious village. ...

I left the village for the first time and went to commune high school. At that time, the current township was called commune, and each commune had a high school. When I was in high school, our village belonged to Li Lou Commune, so my high school was called Li Lou High School. There are three conditions for high school. First, the children of poor and middle peasants can go to high school, but the children of landlords and rich peasants can't enter the school gate. Second, good moral character; Third, young. I have all three conditions. After entering the school, I am the monitor, the secretary of the League branch, the vice chairman of the student union and the deputy secretary of the League branch. That's ridiculous. Young people have many official hats. At that time, under the influence of ultra-left ideology, students did not study culture classes and had little time for formal classes. Four courses are offered. The first is politics. They read articles in the newspaper. The second course is Chinese and reading newspapers; The third is math class, where the teacher leads the measurement of pits and wheat straw piles; The fourth course is labor, which accounts for more than half of the whole course. I always arrange work. In addition to the experimental field of the school, I have to go to the village to help the poor middle peasants of the production team. I am the monitor, and I am at the forefront of everything. When I was in high school for two years, I saw a textbook called Chinese. The rest were printed pages and a newspaper that I must read every day. These were all caused by the big environment at that time, and the teacher was really helpless when he was in a hurry. Now that I think about it, it is really the best time to delay cultural learning, which is difficult to make up in the course of life. Two years of high school also experienced several major events in the history of China. First, the death of Zhou Enlai, the founding prime minister, caused great sorrow to the whole people; Second, the death of Commander-in-Chief Zhu De made the whole people sad; Third, the death of Mao Zedong, the founding leader, caused national mourning. The fourth is the Tangshan earthquake, which shocked the whole people; Fifth, the smashing of the Gang of Four made the people of the whole country happy. These earth-shattering events shocked everyone in China at that time to varying degrees.

The above paragraphs are fragmentary memories before I joined the work, from childhood to adolescence to youth. During this period, many interesting stories happened. Looking back now, some caused me infinite meditation, and some caused me to laugh. These are ordinary things that happen to ordinary people. I will slowly recall it and write it out to share with you. ...