"Liu Yuan, you have your letter!"
1978, in Beijing crane factory, a 27-year-old riveting and welding worker Liu Yuan received a letter. There are six big words written on the envelope: "Beijing Normal University ".
Liu Yuan’s excitement at this moment is beyond words. This means that the university he had been waiting for for more than ten years has finally opened the door to him! And all of this is inseparable from the help of that person...
When I was young, I was ignorant and gave up the college entrance examination. I sought the college entrance examination ten years later and asked for the college entrance examination
Liu Yuan is the son of Liu Shaoqi, who was once the President of the People's Republic of China. When he was young, he once did something that he regretted, that is - proposed to his father to abolish the college entrance examination.
In 1966, Liu Yuan, who was only 15 years old, was still a junior high school student. At that time, his two senior brothers from the same school solemnly handed him a letter telling him: Abolishing the college entrance examination will allow the children of workers and peasants to enter the school!
So Liu Yuan handed the letter to Liu Shaoqi. Not long after, the letter appeared in " People's Daily ". With the publication of this letter and another letter from a female student from the North No. 1 Middle School Girls' School, the college entrance examination was officially announced to be abolished at this moment.
11, that is, in 1977, the college entrance examination resumed. However, Liu Yuan, who advocated the abolition of the college entrance examination at that time, now hopes to take the college entrance examination and enter the university.
Liu Shaoqi gave Liu Yuan a lecture to the soldiers and trained
At this time, Liu Yuan had already been an apprentice in a crane factory in Beijing. In the past ten years, because there was no college entrance examination, Liu Yuan could not go to college and could not receive a better education.
Seeing the notice of resuming the college entrance examination posted on the factory, Liu Yuanzai carefully reviewed it: he found that the political review conditions for registration did not involve his background, and only said that he could not have historical or political issues.
. Deng Xiaoping, who advocated the resumption of the college entrance examination at that time, said this:
"Political review, mainly depends on his own political performance. has clear political history, loves socialism, loves labor, abides by discipline, and is determined to study for the revolution. With these, it is enough. In short, there are two main points to enrollment: First, I perform well, and the second is to choose the best. "
Liu Yuan thought to himself: Isn't this very qualified? So, he happily signed up. After registering, Liu Yuan began to take time to study during work, hoping to get into a good university.
However, Liu Yuan had not waited for the examination notice, but he waited for the failed registration result. The factory did not approve his registration application because: he is over the age.
Liu Yuan
was withdrawn from the exam because he was over the age of age. In a fit of anger, he wrote a letter
In addition to Liu Yuan, there are 9 other workers older than him who have all returned the application for registration. It seemed fair and just at the beginning because the informal communication of applicants at that time included "It is best to be under 25 years old" .
But that's not the case. In the college entrance examination at that time, the high school students who were " third-year " were all relaxed. Liu Yuan dropped out of school in the second year of junior high school and is a junior high school student in the "old third class".
"They are definitely older than me!" Liu Yuan believes that since the "old third class" high school students can take the exam, he will definitely get the exam, so this should be a conflict in the regulations.
Liu Yuan was naturally dissatisfied with this. He thought of Deng Xiaoping who resumed the college entrance examination. In his memory, he always called Deng Xiaoping "Uncle Xiaoping".
In the letter, Liu Yuan told all the events straight to the point. and said that if it was because of age, he would not accept it; if it was because of his own thoughts, he would not complain about anyone...
is not long, just one page of paper, and the pen is neatly written. Liu Yuan signed the recipient on the envelope, "Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China". After posting a stamp, he found a mailbox at his residence and stuffed it in.
Liu Yuan is not sure about how Deng Xiaoping treats this letter.But later he learned that Deng Xiaoping gave the result to Wu De, who was then the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, and Wu De transferred it to the person who was enrolling in the Beijing college entrance examination at that time. Finally, the factory Education Department notified Liu Yuan that he could apply for the exam. When applying for
, Liu Yuan carefully filled out the political review form. Fill in "Liu Shaoqi" in the father's column, and fill in "Wang Guangmei" in the mother's column. He filled in "workers" for his ingredients.
Finally, the four words filled in all his hometown, political appearance, social relations, etc.: "It is well known".
Liu Yuan and those 9 "over-age" workers got the last 10 test numbers in the Beijing college entrance examination hall that year. At that time, there were only seven days left before the college entrance examination was held. The moment got the admission ticket, they all cried with joy.
In June 1977, Liu Yuan walked into the college entrance examination room nervously.
He still remembers the situation at that time: there were 40 people in each examination room, and the last examination room where was in seemed quite empty. There were less than 20 candidates sitting in , of which 10 were him and his colleagues.
After the college entrance examination, it will be enrolled. Liu Yuan filled out his first choice: " Department of Philosophy, Peking University, ", and his second choice: "Department of History, Beijing Normal University (now Capital Normal University)". He was very nervous and didn't know if the university would give him this opportunity.
公司公司公司 is preparing to be admitted. The meeting was held to study and decided to
at that time, the history teacher Zhou Xingwang, who was only one year older than Liu Yuan at that time. The room he lives in was full of file bags on the bed. The files he can access are all screened by the Beijing College Entrance Examinations Office.
The College Entrance Examinations Office held a list of 20 "educational children" at that time. Their ambitions were all Beijing Normal University, among which Liu Yuan was.
Zhou Xingwang After multiple weighing and thinking, he decided to choose Liu Yuan. However, he knew that Liu Yuan’s parents were very special and could not be decided casually.
In order to take the file to school immediately the next day, Zhou Xingwangzhen placed the file on a high double bed in his shockproof shed for one night.
Zhou Xingwang
The next day, Zhou Xingwang brought the file to the school and reported the matter of whether to admit Liu Yuan to "Revolutionary Committee of Beijing Normal University".
This committee specializes in handling some school affairs issues. Mr. Cui Yaoxian, the president of the committee, has participated in the revolution and has known Liu Yuan.
"Liu Yuan, I remember that he once went to the countryside, but later he had liver disease, so he returned to Beijing. Can he pass the current physical fitness? If he goes to the hospital for a review and there is no problem, why can't he join?"
Cui Yaoxian cleverly converted Liu Yuan's special identity into a physical problem. also provided a feasible solution for Liu Yuan to join the university.
Cui Yaoxian
But at that time, Liu Yuan was not clear about the committee's decision because his score had already come down and passed the score lines of the first and second choices at the same time.
However, after various considerations, Liu Yuan was not admitted. Liu Yuan felt that the same should be true for the Chief Normal University, so he was already discouraged.
But what I didn’t expect was that not long after, Zhou Xingwang told him to take the admission physical examination. This made Liu Yuan wonder. Is there a chance to enter university? After
, Liu Yuan found that he was the only one left in the entire physical examination site. He affirmed: Maybe he can really go to college this time!
Liu Yuan finally went to college and the family finally reunited
January 1978, Liu Yuan will always remember that day. The security guard at the door told him that he had a letter. When he walked forward, he saw the six words "Beijing Normal University", and tears filled his eyes.
htmlOn December 8, Liu Yuan, who was already 27 years old, stepped into the school gate he had always dreamed of and began to officially become a student in the history department.
And it happened to be this year when the mother Wang Guangmei and her son Liu Yuan's family were reunited. Although Liu Shaoqi has passed away, Liu Yuan feels that it is good for his mother to be by his side.
1979, Wang Guangmei and Deng Xiaoping met again, and Wang Guangmei specially mentioned Liu Yuan’s college entrance examination. The biggest contributor to the whole incident - Deng Xiaoping, has been silently behind him, but has never spoken.
Deng Xiaoping didn't think it was a big deal, but just waved his hand with a smile and did not answer.
Liu Yuan felt pain after the excitement of entering university at the beginning. This kind of pain was not brought to him by knowledge, but his identity.
Liu Yuan (first from left) and his classmate
He said in a letter to others:
"In the 4 years of college, I experienced the earth-shaking changes of the so-called 'personal destiny', and I also experienced a period of extremely severe and painful spirit. When I rushed out of adversity, I realized that there was an invisible wall between me and the people around me. I tried to push down this wall... Prove that I am no different from everyone, I am an ordinary person, but in vain... After nearly a year of thinking, I understand that I cannot force anyone to understand me, and can only win the trust of the people with my own actions, and demolish that wall with several years and decades of unremitting efforts."
So, after Liu Yuan graduated from university, he refused the school's help to stay in Beijing, and also rejected the professor's kindness to help him study abroad. chose to go to a more difficult place.
No matter what achievements Liu Yuan has achieved afterwards. But it can be said that the source of all comes from the recovery of the college entrance examination, and Liu Yuan’s achievements not only come from his family, but also from his school.
So, Liu Yuan is extremely grateful to Deng Xiaoping and the Chief Secretary.
donated military uniforms to the alma mater, and the resumption of the college entrance examination is of great significance
In 2016, Liu Yuan had retreated from the army. When was closed at the end of , Liu Yuan also went to his alma mater, which he had been away from for many years.
At this moment, Beijing Normal University has been renamed Capital Normal University , and everyone and things are different. However, Liu Yuan still feels about his familiar flowers, plants and trees.
Back then, Peking University heard that Liu Yuan had good grades at the CNU Normal University and felt a little regretful, so it asked if Liu Yuan would come back to Peking University to study in the Department of Philosophy.
Although Liu Yuan's first choice at that time was Peking University, , if there were no CNN, he would not have been who he is now. So he politely rejected Peking University's request, did not transfer the school, and stayed at the CNN.
Nowadays, Liu Yuan still has a gratitude to the Chief Normal University. He donated his military uniform with extremely commemorative value to the First Division University.
During the donation period, Liu Yuan also said that the school would act in a low-key manner. The school only published the matter in the school magazine afterwards, but unexpectedly it attracted some heated discussion.
Many people admire Liu Yuan's gratitude. However, many students who came later did not know how precious the kindness of admission back then was to those young people who could not enter university.
Mr. Liu Xiyao, who was the Minister of Education at that time, once said in an interview with reporters: "The decision to resume the college entrance examination is a monument, which marks the end of a period of history and also the beginning of a new era."
Liu Xiyao
Currently, Professor of the History Department of the First Normal University Xu Lan , he returned to school through the college entrance examination. At that time, she was already thirty years old. She went to the hotel in Chongwenmen , where the Beijing Admissions Office was located every day, and she lost 20 kilograms of meat in 20 days.
The problem was reflected in the Ministry of Education. In early 1978, on a chilly spring night, she waited in the small reception room of the Ministry of Education until 12 o'clock, and the staff took out a note with a plagiarism.
was approved by Liu Xiyao, and the general meaning was "This student must let her go to school." Xu Lan sat down and cried like a child. The mother who was waiting with her said to the family who accompanied her, “Don’t worry about her and let her cry."
Like Xu Lan, he was admitted through "second expansion" and later became the class leader of the day class. Zou Changlin , but still remembers that outside the gray brick building in Chongnei Hotel, there were crowds of people in the courtyard.
They all scored enough and were not selected for various reasons. " Especially the senior high school senior, I think this is my last chance. I may not allow the exam in the next class, and I strive to achieve great success. "
Several weeks later, those with better grades were supplemented. There were 41 people in the History Department of Capital Normal University, and they became classmates with the first 41 people.
Zou Changlin later heard that there were more than 1,600 people in Beijing who reached the score line at that time. Deng Xiaoping gave instructions halfway through a meeting that should be admitted .
Later, all of these 1,600 people were accepted by the First Normal University and Beijing Normal University . He therefore thanked Deng Xiaoping for special thanks to Deng Xiaoping: "If there were no Deng Xiaoping, I would not have a chance. ”
July 1979, Deng Xiaoping took a photo with college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination in Huangshan
30 years later, when we look back and look at the significance of the college entrance examination again, we can clearly understand its importance:
Resumption of the college entrance examination fully reflects the people's strength and the people's voice.
The warm welcome of young people and their parents to the resumption of the college entrance examination, explaining The people are filled with great enthusiasm for learning scientific and cultural knowledge.
Resuming the college entrance examination has brought an era to change the fate of everyone through fair competition. This mechanism of fair competition has played an important role in selecting talents.
Resuming the college entrance examination has promoted the establishment of "respecting knowledge and respecting talents" as the mainstream social values. "knowledge hero" replaces "white book hero".
The resumption of the college entrance examination has re-established the evaluation standards of ability and scores, broken the theory of origin and bloodline theory, and has re-established the concept of building a country with talents.
Conclusion:
And the Liu Yuan’s college entrance examination is just a microcosm. It represents the importance of the college entrance examination to everyone in the contemporary world, and the college entrance examination supporters represented by Deng Xiaoping at that time made efforts and contributions to the college entrance examination!
Reference:
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[2] Yan Kaoliang. The historical significance of Deng Xiaoping's decision to restore the college entrance examination - commemorating the 30th anniversary of the college entrance examination [J]. Journal of Chongqing Institute of Technology (Social Science Edition), 2007(10): 80-83.
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