Jichuan Village, Shicang Township, Xianyou County, which is more than 0/00 kilometers away from Putian City, Fujian Province, is an ancient village of Han Dynasty with a history of 2,000 years. There is a Jichuan primary school in the village with more than 500 students and more than 20 teachers at most. However, after 2009, with a large number of young people in the village going out to work, many children were also taken to other places to study. This autumn, there are only two 6-year-old students and two teachers left in Jichuan Primary School. One of the teachers, Lin Guozhen, is 55 years old. He told Beijing Youth Daily that he didn't know what the school and his future would be like, but as a teacher, he hoped that the school would always exist.

Lin Guozhen said that she and another teacher, Wen Xianfeng, used to teach primary school mathematics and Chinese at school. For the sake of these two children, they specially studied the relevant content of kindergarten education on the Internet. "But we can't all teach like people in computers. People can sing and dance, but we can't learn, we can only imitate. "

The content of teaching children is not complicated. The one-day course starts at 8: 50 am and ends at 3: 30 pm. There are two classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. Lin Guozhen and Wen Xianfeng teach the children alternately. Sometimes two teachers teach their children to draw, sometimes they teach some ancient poems, sometimes they play games together, and sometimes they teach their children the contents of the book. "The boy is a little naughty, but so far, everything is going well in this class."

Today's classroom is very deserted. Lin Guozhen, who has been teaching for more than 20 years, misses the lively teaching scenes of that year. According to data reported by local media, in the 1990s, Jichuan Primary School opened two classes in each grade from grade one to grade six, with more than 500 students. At the peak, the kindergarten on campus accommodated more than 70 children. As for teachers, there were more than 20 teachers at that time, including many young adults. But around 2009, with a large number of young people from rural areas pouring into cities, the number of students in schools dropped sharply.

"In 2006, there were more than 200 students here, which began to decrease after 2009. I remember that there were about 5 11students in 201,and there were more than 30 students in 20 12, but there were only 6 students last year and only these two children this year. " Talking about the number of students, Lin Guozhen is quite touched.

As for the reasons for the decrease of students and teachers, Lin Guozhen believes that Jichuan is located in a remote mountain village, and there is no factory in the village to make money. "In recent years, young people in the village have gone to work in other places and taken their children out to school together, resulting in a decrease in the number of students every year. There used to be teachers, but later younger teachers were transferred or admitted to good schools to teach. Old teachers like me are still there, and these old teachers are slowly retiring. "

This is basically the case in rural areas now.