Born in 1993 in Caijiagang town in Changde, Hunan Province, Ma Xiaojuan attended the Hunan First Normal University, graduating from the College of Music and Dance in 2015.
As a teacher at a rural school, she teaches a range of different1including music and English, and is also a head teacher. She knows school nights at rural2schools can sometimes be lonely." It3me of my own childhood. My parents4in big cities, so I know the students feel5sometimes. I want to spend time with them and6them company," Ma said. That was how she started telling her students 7 stories.
One day, Ma noticed that some of her students were 8their red school scarves the wrong way. That evening, she told them a story 9The Color of the Red Scarf, so that they would10understand why they all wore them. Occasionally, Ma tells stories about famous11figures, including Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai. To tell better stories, Ma spends her free time searching book stores for12, and now she has written 168 stories.
Thanks to their teacher's13Ma's students don't just enjoy listening, they also enjoy14stories themselves. Her devotion to teaching and to her students is15other teachers in Hunan.
