In October 2022, the volunteers of the Better School Project approached the third elementary school in Litang County and heard melodious singing from afar. A group of children in school uniforms, each holding an African drum, played a chorus with Zamne (a Tibetan national instrument) in the hands of music teacher Zeren Pengcuo. The voice of the chorus is sometimes neat and powerful, sometimes euphemistic and melodious and rich in layers. The instructor of the choir is Zeren Pengcuo, who is a music teacher in a rural school "halfway home". Through years of efforts, she has finally brought such beautiful changes to the children.

From "layman" to "guide on children's musical enlightenment"

Teacher Zeren Pengcuo's love of music is mainly due to a versatile music teacher he met as a child. In addition to teaching, the teacher also cares about students' daily life, which ignites teacher Pengcuo's dream of becoming a people's teacher. At the same time, he also began to have a strong interest in music. However, at that time, it was difficult to systematically learn music knowledge due to family conditions and other reasons.

When he grew up, Peng Cuo became a local teacher as he wished. After work, he always maintained his love of music, liked to play and sing songs of his own nation, and studied various musical instruments. After a little bit of conditions, he learned instruments such as Zamne and Xianzi himself, which can be said to be a true music enthusiast.

Later, when he finished teaching in Chengguan Third Primary School, the music teacher of the school had to leave the school temporarily due to physical reasons. Teacher Ze Renpeng Cuo volunteered to teach music for the school.

Chengguan Sanwan Primary School is a school mainly for children in pastoral areas, where most children grow up. The school has made great progress in recent years, but there are still some deficiencies in sound, physical and aesthetic education. Teacher Peng Cuo has taught music by himself for many years, but he has not received systematic training and training in music, and is relatively lacking in professional skills and accomplishments.

In order to improve his music teaching ability, Teacher Peng Cuo tried to teach himself by virtue of the video platform, and taught to the students after he learned it. In this way, Mr. Zeren Pengcuo stepped into the field of music teachers, integrating and innovating Tibetan characteristic music, song and dance, and modern instruments, and gradually became the guide of music enlightenment for rural children.

"Beautiful School, Kwai Music Class"

Let Teacher Peng Cuo's music class have a handle

In July 2021, Kwai, together with the China Rural Development Foundation, launched the "Beautiful School · Kwai Music Classroom" project to help rural children obtain high-quality music education by building a professional and effective music environment for rural schools, including hardware support and software training, and assisting in the development of related activities.

Chengdu Weiyang Social Work Service Center, supported by the "Beautiful School · Kwai Music Class" project, has implemented the music class project in 17 schools in Litang County, one of which is Chengguan No. 3 Primary School. According to the local cultural landscape, the Chengdu Weiyang project team has transformed the music classroom space for the Third Small School, equipped the school with special music equipment such as Ukri and African drums, and also held music skill improvement training for local teachers in Chengdu.

With the support of the beautiful school project, teacher Peng Cuo has more ideas and confidence to create better music education for children. In addition to the regular music courses arranged in the school curriculum, Mr. Ze Renpeng Cuo also organized music interest classes, Tibetan musical instrument classes and other courses according to the specific conditions and interests of the children. Children can register according to their own interests, hobbies and specialties, so that children can fully enjoy the joy of music.

Teacher Peng Cuo made music a "friend" of children

Teacher Peng Cuo's choir interest class has 15 people. The music makes the students more optimistic and confident, and sees the positive feedback and changes of the students' mental outlook. The school teachers and parents also increasingly support teacher Peng Cuo to carry out music classes.

On International Children's Day in 2022, teacher Peng Cuo led the students to participate in the live broadcast of the June 1 Tencent Little Red Flower Public Welfare Concert. Teacher Peng Cuo accompanied the children with different instruments, rehearsed with the children again and again, and practiced by himself during the off work time. Finally, she presented some wonderful programs with the children, such as "Meiduogangla", "Towards the Light", "Beautiful Headdress", "Hemerocallis", "Arrokamba", and "Arrokamba", Children gain confidence, happiness and friendship from music, which makes them love music more.

In October 2022, with the strong support of the County Education Bureau, the "Beautiful School · Music Classroom" project has established 6 choirs in 16 schools in Litang, and the Education Bureau has also listed the beautiful school music course as a key characteristic course.

The United Public Welfare Project of Better Schools was launched by the China Rural Development Foundation in 2018. In view of the current situation of single teaching, monotonous classroom and relatively backward student growth environment in rural primary education, the United Public Welfare Project of Better Schools provides funds and channel support to them through the association of institutions with expertise in all areas of rural education, encourages them to enter the campus, serves rural education, and helps rural children to learn well.