During the Cultural Revolution, Lao Gan (played by Xie Yuan), a former educated youth who had been sent to the countryside for seven years, was assign[Expand All]
During the Cultural Revolution, Lao Gan (played by Xie Yuan), a former educated youth who had been sent to the countryside for seven years, was assigned to teach at a humble primary school in the mountainous areas of Yunnan and Guizhou. His fellow educated youth friends happily called him "the King of Children". But there was a severe shortage of teachers and scarce teaching materials there. The school assigned him to teach the third year of junior high school, which surprised him greatly. Old Gan was troubled by the overwhelming political study materials at school. He studied one critical article after another, but the children didn't even recognize the new characters in the primary school textbooks. Old Gan was filled with deep emotions and had no choice but to start teaching from scratch. Several months passed, and Lao Gan got along very well with the students. Wang Fu, a student from a poor family, was very eager to get the dictionary in his hand. When assigning an essay once, he bet with a dictionary that he could write an essay about tomorrow's labor today. As a result, Wang Fu lost and couldn't get the dictionary. He was determined to copy down all the dictionaries. However, Lao Gan was eventually sent back to the team. Before leaving, he left the only dictionary to Wang Fu...[Collapse]
