The Power of Tradition Essay 800 Words

Changzhou has always had a tradition of emphasizing sports, and the provincial Changzhong Middle School is a clear example. Let's start with a short story.

On the afternoon of May 5, 2005, I went to the province's middle school to attend a party for the 20th anniversary of the graduation of the sixth class of 1985 students. Physical education teacher Wang Miao Yi came and the students asked him to speak. He opened his mouth and said, "I know my classmates must have scolded me at that time, all kinds of scoldings." The students laughed. "But we are totally for the healthy growth of our students." Indeed, the physical education teachers at Provincial Standing Middle School have traditionally been particularly dedicated, and therefore particularly hard-working. Every day, they go into the dormitory early in the morning to get the students up and then take them for an early morning workout. The students are young and vigorous, and sleep well in the morning, so it is inevitable that they will scold the physical education teacher who woke them up. However, over time, they will realize the good intentions of the school and teachers. This, class president Jiang Fangming followed Mr. Wang's words and said that he suffered from chronic bronchitis in his first year of high school, at first he ran two laps in the playground every morning; then he ran one lap along the school's periphery, and slowly he threw away his medication. In the province in the middle of the average running performance, he actually became a long-distance running master in the university, in the department of the champion, and still maintain a good exercise habits.

The words of Mr. Jiang Fangming are also shared by me. I also feel that the good habit of exercising regularly is a great favor to me from the province's Changchun Middle School. The school originally had a strong sports atmosphere, and in 1953, Chairman Mao Zedong issued a great call for young people to be "physically fit, to study and to work well". In the following year, the school formally implemented the national "labor and national defense" sports system (referred to as the "labor and defense system"). As a result, the school took a tighter grip on students' physical exercise. In addition to the two physical education classes per week, two extracurricular physical education activities are also included in the schedule. Classes are organized into groups according to the gender of the students. The school provides centralized training for the leaders of the exercise groups, who then lead the group members to develop activity plans and lead the exercise during extracurricular physical activities. Physical education teachers, on the other hand, provide the necessary guidance in the course of their inspections. At this time, the entire playground dragon and tiger leaping, but also well organized.

In this way, exercising and strengthening the body has gradually become a conscious habit. Even if there is no prescribed sports activities, the afternoon homework to do tired, there is a person proposed, several students will go to the playground to run a few laps. After running in this way, you will immediately feel refreshed and energized.

I used to be physically weak, and when I was in elementary school and junior high school, I would often get sick for a few days before the exams. My mother once took me to Dr. Tu Kui-sen's apartment on Beizhi Street and asked him to personally look at me and take the medicines he prescribed, but I didn't see any results. When I entered the provincial middle school and reached the end of junior high school, my physical condition became significantly better. I think, this is absolutely adhere to the effectiveness of regular physical exercise. I passed all the tests required by the "labor and health system" and obtained a medal and certificate of qualification at the first level of the "labor and health system", and in the spring of 1957, I was also awarded the title of national junior athlete. So I am as grateful as Jiang Fangming to the provincial standing middle school, because it is the foundation laid in those years, so that I always keep a good habit of regular exercise, and always have a relatively healthy body.

The importance attached to sports in the provincial Changzhong Middle School can be traced back to the school's Fifth Form period. At that time, the school held occasional sports competitions, called "monthly competitions". For example, in 1916, the school was held at the end of February, the end of May and mid-October, held three "month more" games to encourage students to actively participate in sports. On October 30 of the same year, the school organized the whole school students to Yangzhou to participate in the province's provincial schools in the third joint games. In this Games, there are 3 people 4 projects outstanding results: long jump champion, high jump champion, pole vault champion, hurdles won the runner-up. What is even more amazing is that on the third day of the field day, the clouds were suddenly overcast, and the rain gradually turned from a drizzle to a downpour. Other schools students are rushed to have withdrawn from the stadium, but our teachers and students are still standing in the rain do not move. The neat team in the marching band under the leadership of Mr. Liu Tianhua accompanied by singing the song of the Games. Until the other teams on the field have been dispersed, only in accordance with the order of the orderly retreat to rest.

When I was a student at the provincial high school in the 1950s, the school held an athletic meet every year in the spring and fall. The competition was held in the spring and fall, with a full range of events in the field and track, and was conducted in strict accordance with the procedure of preliminaries, repechage, and finals. The meet lasts for three days, and every student in the school is required to sign up to participate. Before the start of the games, each class set up their own tents in designated locations around the track as a resting place for their athletes. It goes without saying that the athletes who have a sport to compete actively, but the students who do not have a sport either carry clothes and water for the athletes as logistics, or as cheerleaders at the side of the field. Whenever an athlete from their own class won a place, they would run to tell each other and rush back to the classroom to write a happy report on the blackboard. Whenever a player breaks a city record or even a provincial record, the good news is immediately reported to the whole school on the radio loudspeaker. So the Games are simply a grand festival for every student.

The citywide games, our school is always in the limelight. I remember one year at the city's athletic games, the provincial standing middle school team won all seven championships in boys and girls field events, boys and girls track events, men's total points, women's total points and team total points, etc. After the city's games, the weightlifting team won the championships. After the end of the City Games, weightlifting champion, big man Zhou Fuxing held the school flag in front of the team as a guide, athletes holding seven shiny trophies, stepping in a neat and majestic pace, from the city stadium, by the city's main streets back to school. Along the way the spectators like a jam, I do not know how many onlookers attracted the eyes of the public.

When it comes to sports in the province, there is another thing worth mentioning, that is, there has been a family of several mouths in the school as a good story of physical education teachers. In the early 1950s, there were three people, Mr. and Mrs. Chu Xiongbao, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Juxin, and their father, Mr. Wu Jeanxian, teaching physical education at the same time in the school. Around the 1980s, Mr. and Mrs. Cheng P'ui-Ming and Zheng Fu-Ying and their daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ye Wen-Ying, taught physical education at the same time. To this day, Mr. Ye still leads his students on the school's sports field with great vigor

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