Brief introduction of Xinjiang horseback primary school

"Riding Primary School" in Amdo County

2002 1 1.06 08:29

Fu Zhili Zhang Weidong

Chen Qianbin, Minister of Armed Forces of Amdo County, can hardly forget one thing. Two years ago, when he signed up for a militia training, he asked the militia to sign the registration form. Suddenly, the officers and men on the side laughed and saw several militiamen running out of the meeting room with red faces. Minister Chen leaned over and saw some painting a cow and some painting a flock of sheep ... It turned out that these militiamen couldn't even write their own names, so they had to use various patterns instead. More ironically, when the staff of the People's Armed Forces Department called the roll in Chinese, the militia in the queue hardly knew that they were calling themselves.

This incident deeply hurt Minister Chen. After investigation, most local herders did not go to school for a day, but studied for a day. "Now we have entered the information age, but most of our militia and the masses are illiterate. How can we get rich through science and technology? " Therefore, how to help the poor through culture in pastoral areas has become the most important thing for officers and men of the People's Armed Forces Department: running schools? However, most of the herdsmen here are nomadic and cannot be concentrated. The restless Minister Chen is even more anxious these days. During the day, officers and men get together again and again to give ideas and think of ideas. Finally, everyone finally came up with a long-term and realistic way: to run a "horseback primary school" in grassland pastoral areas. The officers and men got carpenters, made a dozen small blackboards, and borrowed a dozen horses from the pastoral area. In this way, a "horseback primary school" flowing between pastures was born. Thus, in Amdo pastoral area, deep in the grassland of northern Tibet, there is an unprecedented scene: facing the morning glow of the grassland, herders on horseback are reading aloud. In their spare time, they always gather around the teachers sent by the People's Armed Forces Department to read, write and write. Puqiong, a militia member, was once illiterate and had the slowest ability to accept. However, in cultural study, he is the most active and diligent one. Every day, he is always the first to see the horse of the instructor of the People's Armed Forces Department. Three months later, he became the best student in Riding Primary School. He can not only write simple Tibetan and Chinese, but also read ordinary Tibetan books.

The officers and men of the People's Armed Forces Department are delighted in their eyes. They helped Pubul borrow money to buy two Dongfeng cars and started the transportation between Golmud and Lhasa in Qinghai. In that year, they paid off the loan and built four new houses. Now, whenever he talks about his new life, he is filled with emotion besides joy.

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Riding Primary School was founded three years ago by the People's Armed Forces Department of Amdo County, Naqu Military Division, Tibet. Luo, who had just been transferred to the Ministry of People's Armed Forces at that time, found that several Tibetan youths could not even write their own names, so they had to use patterns such as "cattle" and "sheep" instead. Through in-depth understanding, he found that there are still many illiterate young people in Amdo and Naqu, because most local herders are mainly nomadic and can't go to school at all.

How to build a well-off society without culture? Minister Luo was deeply anxious. He immediately discussed with Luo Zeren, political commissar, and decided to take cultural poverty alleviation as a breakthrough to help Tibetan compatriots run towards a well-off society and set up a mobile "horseback primary school" in grassland and pastoral areas.

The school should have teachers, and the leaders of the People's Armed Forces Department carefully select several outstanding officers and men with higher education level as counselors; There must be a blackboard in class, and the officers and men made four small portable blackboards themselves. "Riding Primary School" can't live without horses, so the leaders of the Ministry personally came forward and borrowed eight horses from the military sub-district ranch. After some efforts, the "horseback primary school" is about to start school.

Since then, a new landscape has appeared on the grassland in Amdo pastoral area: in some pastoral areas, you can often see three or five herders sitting around teachers, learning pinyin, arithmetic, Chinese characters and Tibetan, and the books are loud and clear. During the break, teachers and students drink buttered tea, dance Tibetan dances and sing plateau folk songs together, which is full of enthusiasm and fun. Wherever the herdsmen go, the "horseback primary school" follows: it is warm in summer, and they teach on the prairie; When it is cold in winter, the school moved into the herdsmen's tent.

Riding Primary School has brought knowledge and hope to herders. Raj, a Tibetan youth, is one of the earliest students in Riding Primary School. His family has been illiterate for generations. When he heard that the People's Armed Forces Department was going to run a "horseback primary school", he was so happy that he immediately signed up. After school, as long as you see the counselor and teacher riding over, you are always the first to meet them. Soon, Raj became one of the best students in Horseback Primary School. He not only learned fluent Chinese conversation, but also read some books in Tibetan and Chinese. With cultural knowledge, Raj has a new vision for life. With the help of the leaders of the People's Armed Forces Department, he bought a Dongfeng car with a loan, learned driving skills and started long-distance transportation between Golmud and Lhasa in Qinghai.