The author of "The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace" is Yu Yongzheng. Yu Yongzheng, born in Laiyang, Shandong Province in 1941, is a member of the Communist Party of China. After graduating from Xuzhou Normal School in 1962, he has been engaged in education and teaching. Teacher Yu Yongzheng passed away at 6:02 am on December 8, 2017, at the age of 77.
Yu Yongzheng’s main deeds are as follows:
In 1985, he was rated as a special teacher in Jiangsu Province, and in the same year he was awarded the title of Model Worker by the Xuzhou Municipal People’s Government; in 1990, he was filmed by China Education Television Three episodes of the TV series report on Yu Yongzheng's "verbal communication expression training" composition teaching reform experiment.
In early 1991, "People's Education" published the reportage "There is a Yu Yongzheng in Xuzhou"; the National Small Language Society's journal "Primary School Chinese Teaching" and "Jiangsu Education", "Primary School Teaching" and other publications have Reported on Yu Yongzheng's educational reform deeds.
From December 14th to 16th, 1992, the Ministry of Education held a special "Yu Yongzheng Chinese Teaching Seminar" in Nanjing to promote Yu's "five-fold" teaching method. This is the first teaching seminar held by the Ministry of Education for individuals since the founding of the People's Republic of China;
In August 1995, Teacher Yu was rated as a "national expert with outstanding contributions" and enjoyed special government subsidies issued by the State Council ;
In 2001, he was rated as an education model in Jiangsu Province.
Extended information:
The text "The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace" has concise language, rigorous structure, and ingenious conception. The title is "The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace", but it devotes a lot of space to describing its glorious past, destroying beautiful things, and arousing the readers' pain and hatred.
Historical background:
The Old Summer Palace is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" and has extremely high artistic value. From October 6 to 17, 1860, the British and French forces looted the treasures in the garden for 11 days and set them on fire for three days and three nights. In 1983, the Beijing Municipal People's Government raised funds for renovation, and Wanchun Garden, Fuhai, Ten Thousand Flower Array (European-style maze), etc. were gradually restored and named "Old Summer Palace Heritage Park".
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