95-year-old village teacher Ye Lianping – the glimmer of fireflies, guarded by JM sugar throughout his life

“Come, classmates, please read this English word loudly with me!” At 8 o’clock in the morning, the sonorous teaching voice came from the classroom. It is hard to imagine that this white-haired and energetic teacher is already 95 years old.

His name is Ye Lianping, a retired teacher from Buchen School in He County, Ma’anshan City, Anhui Province. From the time he stepped onto the podium in 1978 to the present, for 45 years, he has devoted all his energy and energy to rural education work.

In 1991, 63-year-old Ye Lianping retired. Holding the textbooks and blackboard eraser, he burst into tears: “Being a teacher is not enough, I can’t bear to leave the children, I can’t bear to leave!”

 RetirementJamaica Sugar, Ye Lianping did not want to be idle. Whenever a teacher in the school was sick or had something to do, he would appear in the classroom as soon as possible. In 2000, he vacated a house in his house and built it into a “home for minors”. He helped the surrounding children with their homework at no cost on weekdays and concentrated on giving English classes to the children on weekends. Over the past 23 years, Teacher Ye has welcomed and sent away more than 2,000 theoretical students.

At 9:30 in the morning, class was over. Teacher Ye picked up the chalk again, copied short English sentences on the blackboard one stroke at a time, and began to prepare for the afternoon Jamaicans SugardaddyClass.

“For decades, Teacher Ye has maintained this habit. Jamaicans Sugardaddy He also We are often reminded that we will never teach if we don’t prepare lessons,” said Ju Pingshu, Ye Lianping’s teacher and principal of Bu Chen School.

 

At the scholarship award ceremony, Ye Lianwen took a commemorative photo with the award-winning gentleman. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Bohan

Half an hour later, Ye Lianping walked off the podium with a list.Proudly handed it to the reporter: “Look! These are the high school entrance examination results of Bu Chen School this year. There are 9 students with scores above 500, and 6 of them have taken classes here.”

During the interview, Qu Changchun, the principal of Xinqiao Middle School in Hexian County, came to visit. It turned out that his children who were in college heard about Teacher Ye’s deeds and hoped to help Teacher Ye teach the children during the holidays.

Qu Changchun told reporters that every winter vacation, the “home for minors” city Jamaicans SugardaddyWelcome volunteers from all over. “Not only do we teach and learn, we also take the children to learn music and do Jamaicans Sugardaddy activities, which opens up the horizons for the students in these villages.”

When leaving, Principal Ju was changing the notice board at the door. On the new notice board, dozens of names were written densely. “This is the twelfth year that Teacher Ye has distributed scholarships to students with both ability and political integrity.” Principal Ju said that in 2012, Ye Lianping raised funds with the local government and Bu Chen School to establish the Hexian Wujiang Loving Teaching Assistants Association and ” Ye Lianping Scholarship” has so far provided scholarships worth more than 370,000 yuan to 379 rural children.

In recent years, Ye Lianping has successively won many honors such as “National Moral Model”, “China’s Greatest Man” and “The Most Beautiful Struggler”. Some people say that he is “the eternal candlelight of the village”, but Ye Lianping said that he is just a firefly at best and has not yet reached the brightness of a candlelight. At the moment, he only hopes that he can do more work for the children. “The future of rural children is worth guarding for my whole life.” (National Daily reporter Li Junjie)