On the evening of February 8, at the 2017 China Top Ten People Awarding Ceremony held by CCTV, Zhi Yueying, the representative of the most beautiful rural teachers in Jiangxi's rural areas, was elected as the "2016 Chinese Characters Moved".
Move you and me, move China. In ordinary life, there are always some people who move us sincerely, and there are always things that warm our hearts and lungs. Known as the "Chinese People's Annual Spiritual Epic", "Moving China" has excavated a group of role models for us. Although these role models are ordinary, they provide a height that life can reach and give people a positive spiritual guidance. The bravery, kindness, responsibility, and strength in them have allowed 1.3 billion people to see the most beautiful brilliance of human nature.
Zhi Yueying, who has been teaching and educating people in the depths of the mountains for 36 years, has profoundly interpreted persistence and dedication. There is an extreme shortage of teachers in remote mountain villages. At the age of 19 years old, Zhi Yueying, a girl from Jinxian County, Nanchang City, had disregarded the opposition of her family and stayed away from home. And the Niyang Elementary School, which had no access to the road, became a female teacher in the mountains. For 36 years, Zhi Yueying has been standing on the podium in remote mountain villages, educating two generations of people deep in the mountains from "Sister Zhi" to "Mom Zhi".
From "Sister Zhi" to "Mom Zhi", the title has changed, but the constant is persistence and dedication. She cares for children, subsidizes poor students, prevents a child from dropping out of school, and shows the spirit of children on the road to dreaming. It’s not just Zhi Yueying, not just the selected "Moving China 2016 Person of the Year". For the dreams in their hearts, countless children of Yan and Huang are also doing good deeds day by day, integrating basic ethics such as patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness. Standardization is integrated into work, life, and study.
"Don't do something small for good, don't do something small for evil." The touching deeds of Zhi Yueying, the representative of the most beautiful rural teacher, made us more warm in the cold winter. Like the spring breeze and the rain, moisturizing things silently; like the lanterns, lighting up thousands of households. These role models also inspire us to start from small things, from ourselves, from bit by bit, turn the power of role models into spiritual motivation, put them into practice, and make our own efforts to build the Chinese spirit, Chinese values, and China. Strength gathers more positive energy.
