燃灯校长--张桂梅 | 谭可欣 (南宁,8年级)

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张桂梅，“燃灯校长”，七一勋章、时代楷模获得者。1957 年生于黑龙江，1974 年赴云南支援边疆，扎根华坪山区四十余年。她目睹山区女孩失学困境，2008 年创办全国首所全免费女子高中—— 丽江华坪女高，让贫困女孩免费读高中、考大学。

她身患 20 多种疾病，仍每天 5 点起床、深夜才休，坚持家访、陪读，把全部心血与积蓄献给学生。建校至今，已帮助2000 多名大山女孩考入大学，阻断贫困代际传递，用生命点亮山区女孩的人生之路。

"Lighting Lamp Principal" Zhang Guimei“

燃灯校长”张桂梅

Zhang Guimei has dedicated her life to improving girls' education in a remote, mountainous region in Southwest China's Yunnan Province by starting the country's first free high school for female students. 

张桂梅毕生致力于改善中国西南部云南省偏远山区的女子教育，她创办了全国第一所免费女子高中。

Zhang（born in 1957）, the founder and principal of Huaping High School for Girls in Huaping county of Lijiang, Yunnan Province, is legendary not only because she started such a free school for girls who dropped out for economic reasons, but also her huge commitment for decades to persuade girls to study hard and change their destinies. 

张桂梅（1957年出生）是云南省丽江市华坪县华坪女子高级中学的创办者兼校长。她的传奇之处不仅在于为因经济原因辍学的女孩创办了这样一所免费学校，更在于她数十年来为劝学、说服女孩们努力学习以改变自身命运所付出的巨大奉献。

Despite its disadvantaged location and resources, Zhang's school ranked top on the rate of graduates entering universities in Lijiang. Since 2008, nearly 2,000 girls from Zhang's school have entered universities and change their lives via education.

尽管学校地处偏远，教育资源并不丰富，但学校的本科率在云南丽江高居第一，迄今已帮助将近两千名贫困山区里的女孩走进大学，（张桂梅不仅为女孩子提供免费教育，还数十年如一日的劝导女孩子努力学习，鼓励并帮助女孩们通过）读书改变自身的命运。

Her story has moved millions of Chinese people and is now written into a newly published Brief History of the People's Republic of China (PRC) — making a splash on social media last Thursday after the books reached readers. The hashtag of "Zhang being written into brief history of PRC" topped the most searched list on Thursday night.

张桂梅的事迹感人至深，如今被写入《中华人民共和国简史》，也再度引发网友关注，占据社交媒体热搜榜首。

The brief history described Zhang as a moral model who is willing to "burn herself to light others," and uses love and wisdom to help thousands of rural girls realize their dreams. 

《简史》中写道，张桂梅“坚韧纯粹、甘当人梯”，用知识改变贫困山区女孩命运，用爱心和智慧点亮万千乡村女孩的人生梦想。

"She deserves it!" read a comment on Sina Weibo regarding Zhang's being written into history.

Zhang was recognized as one of the "10 people who moved China in 2020." She was also a recipient of China's July 1 medal.

而在相关话题下，网友们的一句句“值得”，足以表达大家对张桂梅的敬佩。

张桂梅入选《感动中国》2020年度人物，也是“七一勋章”的获得者。