Chapter 111 From the apple-faced girl

Every time I travel and visit, I meet the apple-faced girls aged 17 or 18 the most. Whether it is in factories, people's communes, reservoir construction sites or guest houses, there will always be such lovely girls who come forward with smiles , their enthusiasm for work, enthusiasm for hospitality and their healthy and ruddy faces all make people feel happy in the heart. The female companions who are traveling together, when they see these apple-faced girls, they always say in admiration: "After all, they are young and born in this vigorous era, no wonder they grow up so beautifully!"

Among them, what moved me the most were the young female guides in the exhibition halls all over the country, with their enthusiastic, red faces, dark eyes glowing with pride, crisp articulate words, and loud throats. The thin long stick, while pressing the button, poured out the local construction plan and the vision of the near future to the audience skillfully in poetic words.When talking about the difficult situation in the past, the tone is so low and passionate, and when talking about the bright and happy society in the future, he is so elated.Their facial expressions and voices attract you tightly, making your excited heart walk along the Yangguan road of socialist construction in the motherland with the tip of her stick!

I visited Hubei some time ago. At a reception party in Zaoyang County, I saw a performance by the People’s Commune Amateur Art Troupe. The performers were mostly seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls. It's really touching.What we all admired was a girl named Zhou Yongzhen from the Quyi Team of Zaoyang County. She sang to us a few pieces of Henan Zhuizi. On the heartstrings, you wake up in the middle of the night with lingering ringing in your ears and heart, as if you personally participated in the battle of "thousands of troops rule Yaogang". Yaogang in Zaoyang County (the hometown of Yaoqi in the Han Dynasty) is the largest of the 216 hills in the county.As sung in the pendant: Slurry and stones are all over the ground, humbling, high ground, fear of drought, low ground, fear of flooding, neither high nor low, and fear of grass shortage. We once visited the "cured" Yaogang: digging on the 31-mile-long ridge A canal was formed, with orchards, economic forests and livestock farms on both sides. There were sixty-four weir ponds for raising fish and lotus root on both sides of the mound, and there were paddy fields under the weir. We have seen this "Red Flag of Zhigang", and we are very moved. We wanted to write something but couldn't!That night, after listening to the resonant singing of this apple-faced girl, seeing her looking forward to the wind, the two bamboo boards were so crisp and powerful in her hands, and accompanied by the melodious strings, she sang " The Communist Party is a good leader, and the people are strong in eradicating barren hillocks," sang it heartily and with gratitude and pride.Compared with the words and phrases praising Yao Gang that we thought of in our hearts, they paled in comparison!

I silently and excitedly thought: the folk art troupe in the county commune directly serves the production struggle of the people’s commune. This libretto is a collective creation of the peasant team members. What come out are all my own personal feelings and experiences, which is why they are so profound and vivid, even the speeches of the female guides in the exhibition halls are the same.Chairman Mao said: "We literary and art workers who are born as intellectuals must change and transform their thoughts and feelings if they want their works to be welcomed by the masses." This is truly a wise saying!Otherwise, even if you live in the era of vigorous socialist construction, you will not be "young" in spirit.

Xiaozha". )