In 1958, after the nationwide anti-rightist movement expanded, it ushered in an era of grandiosity and grandiosity. People all over the country are "working hard and striving to the top", etc. "Education in a big way" also came into being. At that time, "education was run by the whole party" and "education was run by the whole people." Yuncao Middle School was born in this red tide.
In the golden autumn of 1958, Yuncao Middle School was established on the site of Peide Primary School. Return to Yuncao Primary School), the full name of the school is "Yuncao Junior High School in Hanshan County, Anhui Province". The school occupies the entire area of ??the original Peide Primary School, that is, a small playground to the east of the church, bounded by the west wall of the church to the west, the ditch to the north, and the street bounded by the gate to the south. After enrollment, the classrooms were the original primary school classrooms, and teachers and students lived together in a dozen small houses and churches facing the street. Beginning after the autumn of 1959, it took nearly three years to expand the school area and improve school conditions. Under the initiative of the government, the school requisitioned hundreds of private houses to the east of the school at low prices, that is, from the old commune wall to the west to the original food company The west wall of the poultry and egg factory, this area faces the street to the south. During this period, teachers and students were full of emotions and enthusiastically devoted themselves to the expansion of the school. They demolished old houses and leveled the playground, burning the midnight oil and working day and night to build two rows of school buildings. The front row is the boys' dormitory and the back row is the classroom. The construction area is nearly 2,000 square meters. The new area is connected with the original campus, and the campus area is expanded. Double. During the expansion period, Director Cheng Dingru, who was the director of general affairs at the time, donated all the wood, bricks and stones from the demolition of his own building to the school free of charge and used them in the construction of roof beams, doors and windows of the school building, which was widely praised by people at the time.
In the initial construction period, the school had a complete management structure: Teaching Office, General Affairs Office, Party Branch (established in 1960), Youth League Branch, as well as subject teaching and research offices and student unions. The principal is Hong Jiaguo, the vice principal is Shao Yeliang, and the heads of each department are: director of education Xie Huimin, later Ge Guangzhen, deputy directors Hu Changqi and Zhang Tongyu; directors of general affairs Cheng Dingru and Cheng Naiming; and secretary of the Youth League branch Chen Liangwen. The staff include: academic staff Guo Changqing, Zhang Rubao, and Lu Dafa; accountants Wang Shaozu, Zhang Xizhao, Diao Jiezhi, Yin Guohua, and Yan Shende; workers Cheng Zhengting and Fan Zengping; cooks Wang Sanduo, Yang Dingzhen, Gao Cuiying, Zhang Chuangen, and Wu Huaying. School doctors Wu Zonghai and Zhou Liang in the school medical office. The teachers include Zhao Renhao, Zhang Zengping, Wang Zhongkui, Xie Shizhang, Zhang Tongyu, Yang Yizhao, Zhang Bangning, Xiong Hengmu, Song Bangguo, etc. After 1959, a batch of graduates from Wuhu and Wuwei Normal Schools were successively assigned to Yunzhong. They were Ning Shigui, Zhao Wenjing, Song Zhiguang, Wang Jilin, Wang Shenwei, Xu Yingfu, Cao Jintang, Huang Qimo, Zhao Shijiang, Song Rujie, Hu Zhiyou, and Zhao Shanwu. , Lu Liangxu, Wang Shiyuan, Kong Lingbo, Cheng Lizhong, Cheng Zhiming, etc.
In 1958, the first class of students was recruited from all over the county, and more than 200 students were recruited. Among them, students from some surrounding counties such as Wuwei, Hexian and Chaohu are studying at the school. There are four classes, one labor class and three entrance classes. The class teachers are Zhao Renhao, Zhang Zengping, Xiong Hengmu, and Zhang Tongyu. Teacher Yang Yizhao also served as the class teacher for a short time.
When the school was first established, the conditions for running the school were extremely difficult. It could be said that there were no school buildings, no teachers, and no funds (the county only provided 3,000 yuan for the establishment fee). Teachers and students at the school slept on bunks, and used kerosene lamps to work and study at night. However, the teachers and students at the school were not intimidated by the difficulties. They were full of pride and enthusiasm, and used their youth and passion to describe the pioneering period in their destiny. magnificent poem.
In April and June 1958, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held two educational work conferences. The conference determined that the party’s educational policy is: “Education must serve proletarian politics, and education must be consistent with productive labor. "Combined." At this time, the wind of the "Great Leap Forward" had blown into the campus, and the wind of exaggeration was rampant. The school, along with the people across the country, suspended classes and implemented a major overhaul. Under the leadership of teachers, students washed iron sand and built blast furnaces, using window steel bars and scrap iron as raw materials, door frames and tree stumps as fuel, and fully engaged in iron-making work. Education and teaching activities were affected.
After the exaggeration trend, what follows is the "prostitution trend". In March and April of 1959, there was a food shortage in the school. The rations for teachers and students were reduced from the original thirty to twenty-eight kilograms to the lowest level of eighteen kilograms. The grain station only supplied a few kilograms of rice, and the rest was mostly dried potato and dried yam. Broken potato vine powder, peanut shell powder, oil cake powder. It was difficult for teachers and students to maintain their lives, with insufficient food rations and no guarantee of life. The school had no choice but to organize teachers and students to work in the fields and produce to save themselves. Students had to devote their fragile bodies to heavy production labor. At that time, the rural fields were deserted, and the school took advantage of this situation to ask for dozens of acres of land from the Panqiao brigade (in 1962, the brigade asked for a lot of land). The school also built two vegetable bases: the Zhouxiang base in Huangdun and the one in the east of Zhendong. "Bone Tower" base. Each class is stationed at the base in batches, and teachers participate in labor with the class. Due to the disaster, the miserable scenery of the countryside was unbearable to look at. Principal Hong Jiaguo returned to school from the base and was impressed by what he saw on the way. He wrote with emotion: "The broken walls are visible, and the yellow annua is taller than a person. The weeds are bursting through the fields, and there is not a single rice." Occasionally, Some people came to visit, and they were as skinny as firewood. The students lived in Daweiwan and had no room in the house. It’s full.” This is evident. Due to good production management, the school's grain warehouse stores tens of thousands of kilograms of rice, which not only maintains the livelihood of teachers and students, but also lent 3,000 kilograms of "life-saving rice" to Panqiao Administrative Village at one time, saving many villagers in critical condition. Principal Hong Jiaguo was criticized by relevant leaders for this incident, but in the end he escaped the disaster of "right deviation" because of his commendable good deeds.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient school funds, the school organized work-study activities, organizing teachers and students to work in Dongguan and pick up porcelain clay for the Dongguan Ceramics Factory. Each class rotated once a month. It was the end of 1960. Teachers and students packed their backpacks and walked for dozens of miles. They built shacks beside Dongguan Station and slept on the ground, fighting the severe cold. On New Year's Eve, teachers and students still refused to go home. They took a steamer in Dongguan. The dock unloads yellow sand from ships for others. On New Year's Eve, we had no home, ate porridge, and slept on single quilts, but the teachers and students were still full of energy and did not complain. This is the famous "War at Dongguan".
In the three-year difficult period, under extremely difficult conditions for running a school, the school saved itself through production and saved the lives of all teachers and students; at the same time, it expanded the school, expanded the area, and built school buildings; In the past six months, teaching management has been strengthened and education and teaching activities have become normal. The courses offered at that time included Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history, geography, music, physical education, and art. Not only were the courses offered in full, but the teaching facilities were also improved and equipped with teaching instruments. The teaching instruments are all consigned to the school from the teaching instrument factory affiliated to the Ministry of Education. There are 55 sets of microscopes of various magnifications, cameras, globes, chemical instruments, various reagents and drugs, and a variety of teaching wall charts, which provide applications for teaching activities. Some guarantees. In March 1963, the school launched a learning activity from Comrade Lei Feng. Ideological education was strengthened, campus order was comprehensively stable, and the school's focus shifted to education and teaching management. Teaching quality became the central task of management, and teaching quality ranked among the best in the county. Students Xie Daohua and Lin Yuhua participated in the Wuhu area (formerly known as Wuhu and Chaohu) mathematics competition and won first and second place respectively.