When you grow up, you become you, it is fate and inheritance. 20 years ago, at , Huangpu Foreign Language Primary School, Ding Yuefeng was a student of Xu Meijie, and 20 years later they became colleagues.
"In 2019, after graduating from college, I came here to become a Chinese teacher, and then returned to this familiar campus, both familiar and unfamiliar. What is strange is that the campus has been completely renewed, and what is familiar is that most of the teachers who were studying in the past are still in school now." The first thing on the first day of employment, Ding Yuefeng, who graduated from Huangpu Foreign Language Primary School in Shanghai in 2008, went to find his class teacher Xu Meijie, who was then. "Teacher Xu has not changed at all. Whether it is the class teacher who always encouraged me when he was a child, or the senior who teaches me a variety of rich experience in various role models, she is still as cool and charming as she remembers."
Xu Meijie took over her class since Ding Yuefeng's third grade in primary school. The level, Ding Yuefeng in my impression is not equated with this boy-sounding name. "Little Ding Ding is very careful in doing things and speaks very gently. At that time, her grades were not the best in the class, but she was particularly talented in Chinese, especially poetry and composition. She was always unique and expressed her ideas, giving me a new feeling. So in order to encourage Ding Yuefeng, I made her a Chinese class representative and told her to study Chinese well and be a teacher in the future." Xu Meijie's memory of Ding Yuefeng was specifically in the year of the Wenchuan earthquake. "I remember very clearly that Ding Yuefeng wrote related articles that year, and wrote very well, so I encouraged her to read aloud at the flag-raising ceremony." After 14 years, Xu Meijie still remembered that morning, the teachers and students on the playground were moved by the articles written by Ding Yuefeng.
Ding Yuefeng admitted that he chose the education cause by encouragement and influence of Teacher Xu. On the same campus, I was not used to the transformation from a student to a teacher at first. I was always nervous in the classroom. During the internship, she sat in the back row of the classroom to listen to the class. When she heard the teacher’s words “in class”, she couldn’t help but want to stand up. When encountering children who are not very mature in the transition between kindergarten and primary school, Xu Meijie will also share with Ding Yuefeng the small "methods" such as "Don't make it overnight" and "give more encouragement and comfort to children".
From students to colleagues, the mission of teaching and educating people is continuing. Ding Yuefeng regards Xu Meijie, the good teacher he respects and admires, as his goal. Xu Meijie felt even more relieved: "Looking at the quiet little girl in the class standing in front of the podium like me, it is like a seed planted by herself. Now it has not only sprouted, but is also slowly growing into a towering tree. It is probably difficult for others to understand this kind of relief that there are successors."
