If a person can hold up the sunshine, it will also give people light and warmth. Zhang Yugui, a 43-year-old professor at the School of Safety Science and Engineering of Henan Polytechnic University, is such a person in the eyes of many people.
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Yangchongchuanmen is an ordinary small mountain village in Shuangfeng Township at the foot of Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province. Twenty-seven years ago, Zhang Yugui became the first college student to walk out of this mountain village with a university admission notice from the Geological Exploration Department of Huainan Institute of Mining and Technology.
Hometown is a place where Zhang Yugui will always be grateful, not only because of the nurturing feelings of his hometown landscape, but also because one person has made Zhang Yugui understand the national luck and is glad that he has encountered a new era of reform and opening up. February 1 1, Henan Polytechnic University, Zhang Yugui told reporters about this man-father.
My father is an old intellectual who studied in a private school. He took part in the revolution before liberation. After the founding of New China, he became the leader of the county. This should have been a new starting point for an intellectual's life, but in fact it was the beginning of his father's fate turning to a low ebb. When young Zhang Yugui still remembers, his father has been reduced from township head to commune accountant.
When Zhang Yugui was in primary school, he was inseparable from the village at the end of the year, because his abacus calculation was more accurate than the village accountant. Just like teaching Zhang Yugui to learn abacus without telling anyone, the father did not talk about the praise that abacus brought to his son.
What Zhang Yugui admires is his father's calmness in buying red paper in advance before the Spring Festival every year, taking the initiative to write couplets, and his father's calmness in being present whenever there is any dispute in the village. Zhang Yugui also heard about his father's feat from his mother:
It was during the people's commune, and an unexpected heavy rain caused a flood. As the head of the commune, my father led the people into the battle to transfer the victims. In order to save people, my father was trapped in a tree by the flood. Three days later, the flood receded and the father who was rescued from the tree could not speak.
Zhang Yugui was awed by his father's majesty and dared not verify the detailed story in person. From his always calm father, he vaguely felt the resolute side of a hot-blooded man. It was an era when family background was regarded as a passport to life. An intellectual from a landlord background has been degraded several times in his life, which is far from being understood by a child.
It was not until he entered the university gate and gradually broadened his knowledge horizon that Zhang Yugui gradually realized the protection and care that his father brought to his family in the unpredictable political storm from the contradiction between his father Yu Jing and his violent personality.
Because Zhang Yugui graduated from his hometown, he was assigned to Jiaozuo Mining Institute, the predecessor of Henan Polytechnic University. His father's letters have obviously increased, mostly about the prosperity of the country and the new period of reform and opening up. Finally, he only said a greeting like "Don't forget to add clothes and cover the quilt in cold weather".
Father's letters are all written with a brush, with short sentences, excellent calligraphy and literary talent, which is simply a beautiful enjoyment to read. To Zhang Yugui's surprise, his father died suddenly in 1995 without any warning, and the letters he collected became his father's last words.
Looking back on one letter after another, Zhang Yugui's accumulated life knowledge suddenly sublimated into an understanding of the national fortune: when the national fortune was prosperous, wasn't it a rare "opportunity period" for his generation of intellectuals?
Face up to bad luck bravely
Thin Zhang Yugui is very introverted. Suddenly one day, happiness fell from the sky: he was promoted to deputy director of the department, or he was studying for a doctorate to set up a new major. He could choose either one. He chose to pursue a doctorate. Surprisingly, he studied for a doctoral degree across disciplines, which was considered taboo by people in the industry, because it was almost a heavy pass the parcel, starting a new business and then digging up tall buildings.
Zhang Yugui thought it was his father who made himself understand the national fortune. If he misses the best opportunity to learn and improve again, it will be another unforgivable regret after he lost the opportunity to bring his father to live with him in the city. 1998 After some preparation, Zhang Yugui was admitted to Xie Kechang, vice chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, and went to Taiyuan University of Technology to study for a doctorate in chemical engineering and technology.
Academician Xie Kechang is strict and flexible in teaching. Zhang Yugui is a simple man. In order to facilitate the experiment, he simply bought Chinese cabbage, radish and dried noodles for a week on Sunday and put them in the laboratory. Solve three meals a day on the spot, so as not to waste time eating in the canteen.
It was graduation time in a blink of an eye, but Zhang Yugui's paper unexpectedly failed. Just as he was anxious to get his doctorate as soon as possible, bad luck came. Seven years later, the pain caused by ankylosing spondylitis suddenly broke out and trapped him in bed. Nobody can turn over.
Her husband's illness frightened his wife Jiang, but Zhang Yugui calmed down. While looking for the starting point of pain like watching a movie, he "studied" his illness, and at the same time read "Southern Classics" as a bedside book, so that he could swim in the void in case he couldn't help moaning and disturbed his sleeping wife and daughter.
Excessive medication can no longer relieve the pain. After various treatments, Zhang Yugui underwent two operations in 2002 and 2003 to replace bilateral hip joints. Illness restricted physical freedom, but Zhang Yugui did not relax his academic responsibility. "Safety Technology and Engineering" won the Excellent Subject Award of Henan Province. He wrote application and evaluation materials in his hospital bed. It also drafted the application materials of the coal mine disaster prevention and rescue engineering center of the Ministry of Education and the research and innovation team of gas prediction and control. In 2006, he was awarded as the academic and technical leader of the "555 Talents Project" of Henan Provincial Education Department, and also successfully obtained his doctorate.
Up to now, Zhang Yugui is still inseparable from painkillers and sleeping pills every day, and it is extremely inconvenient to walk, bend over, lower his head and twist his head. His daughter Mao Mao, 18 years old, is now a freshman in Southeast University. She is confident and talkative. She told reporters about her father in memory: My father suffered too much to cure the disease, but he insisted on studying and working in such pain. He was so optimistic. In my impression, my father never scowls.
Mao Mao is cheerful and a little naughty. When he talked about his father who admitted his bad luck, he couldn't help crying. The reporter couldn't help but get confused and thought: Zhang Yugui's face is full of sunny smiles. Isn't it because he has a sun in his heart?
Good luck
Suffering from severe ankylosing spondylitis, the heartbreaking pain is a real torment, but Zhang Yugui feels deeply lucky because of his constant care and love.
When Zhang Yugui needed money to go to Beijing for surgery most, Wang Shaoan, secretary of the Party Committee of Henan Polytechnic University, specially approved 80,000 yuan to send it to him. 1988 After graduation, his wife Jiang worked in Jiaozuo Agricultural College and had to go to the countryside for three summers. President Zou Youfeng personally came forward to coordinate and transferred Jiang to Hegong University to let her take care of Zhang Yugui.
Before moving into the new house, Zhang Yugui took everyone on a shuttle bus between the old and new campuses. Whenever he gets on the bus, no matter how crowded it is, he will have a special seat that everyone gives up. Many strangers' teachers and classmates often give him a hand and leave quietly without hearing thank you.
Former classmates and teachers also extended a friendly hand to Zhang Yugui. Academician Xie Kechang said with tears when celebrating Dr. Zhang Yugui's degree: "It is a torment to my heart not to let your paper pass." Xie Lao kept the truth in his heart for six years, crushing the mental shackles that hung over Zhang Yugui's pain. He burst into tears and felt a different kind of luck
Henan Polytechnic University is a university with a history of nearly one hundred years. Gas geology is the brightest pearl on this ivory tower with a long history. The first "1:2 million coal seam gas geological map of China" was born here with the painstaking efforts of several generations of scholars. Professor Zhang Zimin is the only living expert in editing and publishing this map. When Zhang Yugui was bedridden, Professor Zhang Zimin gave cordial care, and Zhang Yugui admired his academic courage and courage as an excellent expert.
On June 20th, 2004, 10, a serious gas explosion occurred in Daping Coal Mine of Zhengzhou Coal Industry Group, which shocked the whole country.
Disaster is unfortunate, and no one will not mourn its misfortune, but whether it can become an opportunity to avoid the next disaster requires experts and scholars to shoulder the responsibility of exploration.
At the "10 20" accident direct cause analysis meeting, Professor Zhang Zimin boldly put forward his own inference. Just as the doctor found the patient's bone fracture, the reverse fault more than 600 meters deep underground judged by Professor Zhang Zimin with knowledge and courage was only two meters away from the actual accident qualitative excavation result, which confirmed the irresistible accident and expanded the academic understanding of gas geology.
Zhang Yugui is very happy to join the innovative team of "Research on Gas Prediction and Control" of the Ministry of Education with Professor Zhang Zimin. With everyone's support, Zhang Yugui climbed to the peak of scientific research of national key disciplines. He used chemical methods to study the achievements of gas geology for the first time, which also laid the foundation for the national high-tech development plan project (863 project). Today, Zhang Yugui has completed more than 20 provincial and ministerial projects, published 3 monographs and applied for 5 patents. He is not proud of these achievements in fighting against the disease, but more importantly, he understands and cooperates with Professor Zhang Zimin from the cause of the "10 20" catastrophic accident. When it comes to achievements, he doesn't want to say much, only saying: bow down and be a willing ox. After that, he smiled and seemed to forget that he was a person who could not do without indomethacin suppository to relieve pain.
The reporter's three visits made Zhang Yugui a little uneasy. "It's not worth writing. The only thing I can share with you is that if the disease is not cured, don't be afraid. If you really want to write, don't write me so well. Take out the photos taken by my daughter before the Spring Festival and let everyone see that I am ugly. "
Zhang Yugui's sunny boy-like smile on his face lit up many people and warmed many people.