Speaking of which, I really don’t know how many times I have come here because of the reason: Huanglu Town, a small town known as a university town that exudes a long and scholarly atmosphere. This small town used to be the memory of my childhood and adolescence. It was the "warm

Author: Li Jinyan

Speaking of which, I really don’t know how many times I have come here because of the reason: Huanglu Town, a town that exudes a long and scholarly atmosphere and is called a university town. But no matter how many times I come to this small town, it always surprises me and makes me feel intimidated by my hometown. This small town used to be the memory of my childhood and adolescence. It was the "warmth" engraved deep in my heart. This "warmth" has always been with me like a shadow.

According to relevant historical records, Huanglu Town was formerly known as Tongyin Town. It was renamed Huanglu Town after Mr. Zhang Zhizhong, the famous peace general, in 1928 in his hometown of Hongjiatuan Village (Hongjiatuan Village is ten miles northwest of Tongyin Town). After the establishment of the rural normal school " Huanglu Normal School ", it promoted the cultural development and prosperity of Tongyin Town. Therefore, the local government followed the current situation and renamed Tongyin Town "Huanglu Town". In January 1966, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the then Chao County (now county-level Chaohu City) People's Committee Minzi No. 0024 document officially changed Tongyin Town to Huanglu Town.

In the memories of my childhood and adolescence, people in Huanglu Town at that time still used to call it Tongyin Town. It was the 1950s and 1960s. My family lived in the "Huanglu Normal School" campus founded by the peace general Zhang Zhizhong, and my father was the physical education teacher at the school. Although Huangshi is a rural school far away from the city, because my family has an urban household registration, we eat commercial grain supplied by the state. The state supplies a certain amount of rice per person every month (in those days, grain was purchased and sold uniformly by the state). However, you need to go to the Tongyin Town Grain Station ten miles away from the school to buy this rice with your household registration book.

In that era, not only life was very poor, but the transportation was also extremely backward. Going to Tongyin Town to buy rice every month not only had to walk 20 miles back and forth, but also carry heavy rice on the shoulders, which was naturally very hard. When I was about 10 years old, my father would go to Tongyin Town to buy rice every month. Sometimes he would take me with him to let me pick less rice, so that I could experience the hard work. However, as an encouragement, I will also take me to the only morning tea shop in town to have morning tea (commonly known as the teahouse).

In my memory, Tongyin Town at that time was a long bluestone street of only a few hundred meters, with shops, rice shops, photo studios, homes... it was bustling and very lively. It was the only teahouse, and there were several Eight Immortals tables in the hall, which were bustling with people and filled with diners. At this time, my father would simply buy a few sesame balls, lion heads or rice cakes, fried dough sticks, etc., along with a pot of tea. After eating and drinking, he would be full of energy and carry rice on his shoulders, and go back 10 miles all the way. I didn’t feel tired when I got home. Instead, I looked forward to coming to Tongyin Town to buy rice every month and going to the teahouse to have morning tea. I still remember how the breakfast in the teahouse could be so delicious.

In the late 1960s, due to my father’s job transfer, our family left Huanglu Normal School and Huanglu Town (Tongyin Town) with my father. Unexpectedly, four years later, in 1974, my father returned to Huanglu Normal University again due to a job transfer. So our family returned to Huanglu Normal University with my father again, and I also transferred to Huanglu High School from another place.

It is known that Mr. Zhang Zhizhong, the general of peace, founded the "Huanglu Normal School" rural school in his hometown of Hongjiatuan Village, Huanglu Town, with the intention of "education to save the country" and "education to rejuvenate the country." Therefore, after many years of advocacy by the general and the "Huanglu Normal School" Under the influence of radiation, even in the special days of the 1960s and 1970s when knowledge was not highly valued, people in the small town of Huanglu still attached great importance to education. The two-year "Huanglu High School" in the town , was a well-known rural high school at that time.

In my memory, Huanglu High School at that time was a rural middle school without walls on a hilly land not far from the west of Huanglu Town. The campus is surrounded by vast fields. Standing at the door of the classroom, you can have a panoramic view of the field scenery all year round. There are several bungalows in the school, which are used for classrooms, teachers' offices, cafeterias, dormitories for students living on campus, and residences for teachers. Although the school is very simple, the learning atmosphere in the school is very strong and the teachers are very serious in teaching.I remember that one of the Chinese teachers who taught us at that time was explaining Liu Zongyuan's "Snake Catcher" by Liu Zongyuan . His vivid teaching language made me deeply understand the cruelty of "tyranny and excessive restraint" to the people. The happiness that people hope for is to be prosperous together, enjoy equality, not be exploited, and live under the bright sunshine.

remembers that there were fifty or sixty classmates in the class at that time, and most of the classmates lived a few miles away from the school, some even more than ten miles away (my home was ten miles away from the school). In that era, transportation was backward, and most students had to walk more than ten miles to school every day, leaving early and returning late. Although going to school is so hard, the students come to school on time regardless of rain or shine, and there is basically no phenomenon of being late or leaving early or skipping classes.

Looking back now, in that special era, although there was no hope of being admitted to college, because of the learning atmosphere in Huanglu Town that emphasized education, subconsciously the students still had a desire to learn knowledge. More than forty years later, at the only high school reunion, I learned that when I returned to my motherland in the spring of 1977 and the college entrance examination was resumed, more than 10 classmates in our class had changed their destiny by passing the college entrance examination. This cannot but be attributed to the good knowledge foundation laid by the students at the school.

Because my father’s job was transferred again, in the late 1970s, my family once again completely left Huanglu Normal University and left this small town of Huanglu where education was emphasized and the folk customs were simple.

Time flies so fast, as if in just one turn, I jumped from the age of 28 to the age of knowing my fate. Although the years have been ruthless, after this year of knowing my fate, I have met and known each other many times in the small town of Huanglu. It is really the love of fate for me.

Due to business reasons, I returned to the friendly town of Huanglu again in 2018. At this time, Huanglu Town is no longer what it was in my memory. Originally there was only a small street that was no more than a hundred meters long, but it is being transformed into an old street with the style of the Republic of China. What is even more surprising is that at this time, Huanglu Town has been named Shuxiang Town. Not only that, since 2011, Huanglu Town has been planning to build a university town, and many universities have settled in the town, relying on the shareholder style of being the hometown of generals and the famous "Huanglu Normal University".

With the continuous construction in the next few years, I came to Huanglu Town again in the early autumn of 2021. At this time, Huanglu Town has really changed its old appearance. Four main streets extend in all directions, making it the size of a county town; the original old streets still retain some of their original features, reminding you of the longing for the ancient town. At this moment, walking on the streets of the town, you can see the teahouses and inns along the street, the European-style bell tower, blue bricks and black tiles... The strong "Republic of China style" makes people happy.

Not far from the street, walking around, you can see the beautiful colleges and universities settled in the small town, which makes people sigh. At this time, Huanglu Town already had eight colleges and universities: Hefei Normal University Binhu Campus , Anhui Jianzhu University Urban Construction College , Anhui University Jianghuai College , Anhui Organization Cadre College, Anhui Public Security Vocational College , Huanglu Branch of Hefei Administration College, etc. These colleges and universities are like crystal pearls, shining against the small town of Huanglu, filling the town with a long and long fragrance of books.

Looking at everything in front of me, the scenes of the past and present life of Huanglu Town are replayed in my mind one by one like a movie. The earth-shaking changes in Huanglu Town today are enough to comfort the peace general Mr. Zhang Zhizhong’s spirit in heaven. , the vision he aspired to realize in his hometown more than 90 years ago: "A rich country must pay attention to economic construction; to pay attention to economic construction, we should first pay attention to education, especially rural education." Finally, with the unremitting efforts of people, it was realized. I believe In the future, Huanglu Town will be gaining momentum and ushering in an even more exciting bloom.

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