"Mr. ZYZ" symbolizes the independent spirit of Zhengzhou No.1 Middle School ―― self-carving, self-shaping and self-transcendence.

Here, students learn self-respect, self-sharpening, and autonomous learning, so that their lives can be stretched and their souls can be clearer.

Here, the teacher is to be a sincere and rational person, and stick to a holy educational ideal, "Let the free grass grow and moisten, and let the quiet lake always be bright"!

Someone said, "The place where you are standing is your China. China is what you are. China is what you are. If you have light, China will not be dark. "

Today, the place where you stand is your future. What you are, what will happen in the future. If you grow up, the future will not be lonely. —— Einstein

Under the school-running philosophy of "cultivating the spirit of autonomy", the school has formed a gradual educational idea of "awakening the consciousness of autonomy, improving the ability of autonomy and shaping the personality" and a working system of "autonomous service in life, autonomous study in homework, autonomous management in organization, autonomous education in growth and independent respect in personality".

in addition to the main classroom and self-study classroom, this system also includes the political inquiry mechanism such as school-government dialogue, students' evaluation of teaching, teaching talk, food briefing and the self-selection mechanism of school-based courses.

"school-government dialogue" is a face-to-face communication between students and school leaders; "Students' evaluation of teaching" refers to students' feedback evaluation of teachers' educational feelings, literacy, classroom, homework, counseling and achievements.

"Teaching talk" is a face-to-face communication between students and school leaders on teaching, teachers and class management. "Food briefing" is the work content of the student self-governing organization's cooperative management department. The cooperative management department can sample food hygiene, calculate the cost of food, express opinions on the variety, quality and price of food and beverage, and have the right to ask the operators to attend the food briefing.