Chapter 77 "The old are safe, the young are pregnant"

A Japanese friend who participated in a delegation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China asked me to say goodbye before returning home.This is a white-haired sinologist. I know his wife. When we met in the past, he always sat on the sidelines and didn't speak much.This time, he was so excited that he talked about his impressions of his visit to China. He said that China has changed so much that it was unexpected! He had been to China in 1923 and 1935, but when he came this time, he saw that the whole of China had a completely new look. Needless to say, Tiananmen Square has a completely new look, and even the small streets and alleys in Beijing have changed. Unrecognizable.He went on to talk about Xi'an, Chengdu, and Hankou... the more he talked, the more excited he became.I managed to squeeze in a sentence: "Which thing impressed you the most?" He smiled and said:

"This is a difficult test question! For example, the enthusiasm of the parade crowd for the leader on National Day; the historical sites preserved and restored by scientific methods; the Yangtze River Bridge, Wuhan Iron and Steel Plant... But I think it is the people's commune that gave me the impression Deepest, the People’s Commune is really good! I visited the nursery and nursing home of Sichuan Hongguang People’s Commune, which truly fulfilled the great ideal of ancient Chinese sages and sages—the old are safe and the young are cherished.” He shook his head in thought White hair, "This is the result of the combination of Marxism-Leninism and China's reality... I am also reading books, reading books on Marxism-Leninism, and studying how Marxism-Leninism can be combined with Japan's reality..." The change of this scholar is also true. Not small!

On the way back, I was thinking, I have never been to Hongguang People’s Commune in Sichuan, but I know that all the people’s communes in China are the same, and the Henan Daye People’s Commune that I visited this spring appeared before my eyes.The Comfort Paradise of Daye People's Commune is really a lovely place!There are maternity homes, nurseries, and kindergartens in Comfort Paradise.There is an elementary school not far away.The maternity hospital is fully equipped with Chinese and Western medicine.Children born on different days live separately.Around this large house, there are hundreds of children in the mother's arms, on the bed, on the cart, playing on the ground, and in the classroom, red, red and fat, really like flowers in the garden.We visited their nursing home again, which was in a very quiet cave dwelling on an uphill slope.The cave is also extremely cute!Walking into the gate, the inside is like a courtyard house in Beijing, with cave dwellings on three sides, wells, grape trellises and stone sheds. Inside the smooth and clean cave dwellings, there are several old men and women living in them. Sitting in the courtyard and chatting, seeing us coming, we were happy to sit down and give tea, and sang an allegro for us. Later, we visited the kitchen of the "East Wing Room". There were two cooks in white coats and hats, Prepare dinner for the old people.

All this makes me think with satisfaction that childhood and old age are the most difficult period in life to take care of and need support, especially the elderly who have no children or relatives are the most lonely and helpless in the old society.All of this would have been difficult to do without the people's communes.The People's Commune is great!One of the good things is to achieve "the old are at ease, the young are cherishing it". Spike Xiaozha". )