At the beginning of the school, the school site was a mass grave full of thorns and barren graves everywhere. There are no classrooms and dormitories, so teachers and students do it themselves and build it themselves. The school initially enrolled 2 classes with more than 70 students. He Xiong Primary School has 5 formal middle school teachers and 2 part-time teachers (music and physical education). Comrade Huang Fengjie is the secretary and principal of the first party branch of any male middle school, and Liu Daxuan is the teaching director. Teachers include Tong, Yang and Li.
Comrade Ding Zhidun, then Party Secretary of the commune (later deputy secretary of the former Jiangling County Party Committee and county level) clearly instructed: "We should rely on ourselves, carry forward the party's spirit of hard struggle, and do a good job in education." At that time, the slogan put forward by the school was: "The living give ideas and the dead give materials." The so-called "providing materials for the dead" means digging coffins in graves to make classrooms, bedrooms and walls. Teachers and students work together, attend classes for half a day, dig graves and pry coffins in the second half of the semester and at night. Students are divided into three groups: Teacher Tong leads students to dig, Teacher Yang leads students to pry, and Teacher Li leads students to carry. Dig a grave and pry a coffin. Some cut their fingers, some have blood bubbles on their hands, and some have golden flowers in their eyes, but the students never complain and keep working until late at night every day. Tired of digging, some sat down to have a rest, others fell asleep on the ground. When I am really tired, my classmates will sing, clear their throats and lift their spirits. On a sunny day, when there is a moon, fight in the moonlight; On a cloudy day, the torch was held high, burning diesel, and the scene was brightly lit by the fire! After the materials are ready, please ask the carpenter to connect the coffins, connect the long ones one by one, and plant the short ones to make the central columns and eaves columns. When digging a hole, it should be long and flat, not round. After the hole was dug, some teachers and students planted pillars, and some smashed the planted pillars tightly with wooden pillars and iron bars. After the column is planted, tie the beam with bamboo sticks and steel wires. Then, the teachers and students cut a load of thatch, and a load of thatch was picked back.
Speaking of thatching, some comrades recalled: "some of our hands were cut and blood was dripping;" Students who pick their shoulders don't complain if they are swollen; Some legs are injured, and the lame still insist on picking. "The wall of the bedroom is rolled up with straw and bamboo, and then made of mud. In this way, day after day, month after month, after half a year's efforts, a straw classroom and a straw dormitory were built.
After a semester, teachers and students began to pull bricks and burn kilns themselves, fighting day and night. Set up a shed in the kiln to do temporary classes at night. Every night, I still insist on having four classes. Comrade Chen, the first student, said, "Teacher Tong (later the headmaster of middle school) should not only give us lessons, but also lead us to work. Really busy, very hard. " After class, some students began to burn the kiln to pull bricks, and some transported the bricks to the school. The burnt bricks were sold and the money was used to build the school. Make beams, saws, purlins and rafters out of dug coffins. After half a year's efforts and work-study programs, the first brick house was built.