The primary school I received first year education

The primary school where I started my education is quite small, and in poor condition. The shool was located in small country village. And the shool is circled by clay walls, there is no money for brick wall.The doors and window of the classroom is badly broken. There was no glass on the window lattices. Inside the classroom, the blackboard is made by cement on the wall and then black-painted. Student either sit by broken tables or so-called stone ones. The bell was made from a small secton of rail suspended on the tree. The bell keeper just hammared at it to make it ring. Everything seemed to be so simple and crude.

I had remembered there is about 100 students and 7 teachers in the school. Most of the students lived nearby the school. They could get to the school in just a few minutes and they could go back home for lunch at noon.

Every 9:00 in the morning, when I had heard the bell rang, I ran to school for classs. The words of the teacher are local accent. The strangers can hardly catch them. But they were all resposible for their students. We had to recite the obscurity poems by ancient Chinese poet. Sometimes the angry teacher could slash at the hands of the lazy students who did not finish their homework. It was a kind of severe punishment.

I receiver my first 1 and half year in that school,then I shifted to a city school near my parents, where the circumstance was quite different. Everything is new and everything is well equiped.

How China has changed since late 1970'.(I)

When I was born, the country was in such a mass that most of the citizen can't feed themself.

The food could olny be supplied as notes, which could change for food ,but it is not money. The number notes allocated to every memer is strictly controled to a very limited amount.

When I was born!

I was born in April 1976. In China we call that year dragon year, I like that year for dragon is the symbol of power and action! I would like to me somebody.

1976 is a sorrow year for Chinese! Three important leaders of Chinese govement passed away. They are Premier Zhou En-lai, President Mao Ze-dong and Commander-in-chief of PLA Zhu De. Also, morn than 200,000 people were killed in a severe earth qhake in Tangshan, many of them are child and the old.

The place where I was born in is Zhangye, a northen-west city in China, which was built up in 220 B.C by West Han's emperor Liu Che. At that time my father was working for a wood company in China, and my mother work as a farmer. I and the family lived on the farm. But most of my relatives lived in Wuwei, my uncle included. Which is 300 mile away from Zhangye. At that time it is a quite long distance for there is no expess trains and so many buses on run. And also people are too poor to afford the trafic,such as train and bus.

I was the third child and the second boy of the family. In the days of late 1970's , most of Chines have no enough food. I was one of them. My parent had to send me to my uncle's family when I was just 2 years old,the age can not rememer anything. Until 10 years old, I could return to my parents. During the term, my parent came to see me for several times, but they are so strange to me that I could not recogonize them as my father and mother. For years I had thought of myself as a little boy born Wuwei, and my parents are my uncle and aunt for 8years.