After chasing "When the Mountains Are Blooming", what made me sleepless the most was not the enthusiasm of young people returning to their hometowns, but Principal Zhang, who was based on Teacher Zhang Guimei in the play - this woman who dedicated her life to the education of girls in the mountains, carried the future of countless girls with her thin shoulders, and every shot brought tears to my eyes.
The image of Principal Zhang is too real, with dark skin, rough hands, corners of clothes that are always stained with chalk gray, and a hoarse but firm tone when speaking, very much like the "lantern principal" in reality. She dragged her sick body over the mountains and mountains to visit her home, and the muddy mountain road wore out the soles of her shoes, but she couldn't erase her determination to "not be missing one"; In the face of the prejudice of parents that "it is useless for girls to study, it is better to marry early", she persuaded her over and over again, even if she was rejected and misunderstood, she never gave up on any girl; In order to raise funds for running a school, she put down her dignity and asked for help everywhere, saved all her salary and donations, paid tuition fees, bought books, and added clothes to her children, but she wore old clothes all year round, and she was reluctant to buy even a bottle of skin care products.
What poked me the most was a detail in the play: Principal Zhang's hands were covered with plaster, and her joints were swollen and deformed, but she still insisted on writing on the blackboard stroke by stroke, she said, "If you write one more word, the children will understand a little more truth and have one more way out." In class, she is a strict principal, urging the children to study hard; After class, she is a gentle mother, sewing clothes and cooking hot meals for left-behind children, remembering each child's birthday and thoughts. The lights in the office late at night, the rickety figures standing on the podium with illness, the lights that flickered in the eyes of the girls when they were admitted to college, there were no earth-shattering declarations, but they were more powerful than any line.
This drama made me understand the greatness of Teacher Zhang Guimei more deeply. She is not a born hero, just an ordinary person with great love, but with a lifetime of perseverance and perseverance, she broke the shackles of "patriarchy" in the mountains, and made "knowledge change destiny" from a luxury to a reality. Watching the girls in the play go out of the mountains through studying, becoming doctors, teachers, and engineers, and some people returning to their hometowns like her to feed back to their homeland, I suddenly understood that Principal Zhang's perseverance was never a solitary struggle, but a heart to light up another heart and awaken countless beams of light with a beam of light.
She is a majestic mountain and an invincible mountain flower.
