Chapter 100 I stand in front of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall

I stood in front of the majestic and magnificent Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.Surrounding me are tens of hectares of squares, thousands of builders in white scarves and overalls running around.The flood of thoughts floated me like a boat on the boundless sea of ​​"feeling"! Just fifty days ago, I was standing here like this.The north wind was blowing, red flags were fluttering on several towering suspension towers around, and the memorial hall was still surrounded by criss-crossing scaffolding.Once upon a time, it has emerged in front of our eyes with its brilliance and dazzling body under the morning sun.This is an unprecedented human miracle!

Didn't Chairman Mao once said this: "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious. Under the leadership of the Communist Party, as long as there are people, any miracle in the world can be created." In China's long history of thousands of years, on China's vast land of 9.6 million square kilometers, our great leader and mentor Chairman Mao was the first to discover the vast number of people who work and live on this land. The first precious thing. He believed in the people, relied on the people, called them "heroes" and respected them as "Gods".He created the Communist Party of China and the Chinese People's Liberation Army under the leadership of the Party to completely liberate the people and serve the people thoroughly, to guide the Chinese people to constantly struggle for the liberation of themselves and all mankind and towards socialism and communism.

The erection of this miraculous memorial began at a most extraordinary moment in history.On September 9 last year, the great leader and mentor Chairman Mao bid farewell to us forever!The vast majority of the Chinese people are in deep grief and are facing the danger of the Wang Zhangjiang Yao anti-party clique usurping the party and seizing power.At this moment when the fate of the party and the country was seriously threatened, the party central committee smashed the "Gang of Four" and immediately made the decision to build the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall!After the rain, the sky is clear and the sky is clear. The excitement of the Chinese people is indescribable!

Since the day when the foundation was laid on November 24 last year, the hearts of the 800 million Chinese people have been beating violently with the hearts of those who can directly participate in the construction. The hands of the construction personnel on the construction site of the memorial hall worked diligently together.The 800 million Chinese people have dedicated all their strength and wisdom to Chairman Mao, the leader and mentor whom they love, respect and miss immensely.They cast steel, chisel stones, cut trees, move flowers...all materials and equipment were transported from all parts of the country to Beijing, the heart of the motherland.Inside and outside the construction site, work together to complete this unprecedented miracle in the world at lightning speed!

Here, I should specifically mention: Among the thousands of precious materials and equipment sent from all directions of the motherland, some of them are oily nanmu!It was our beloved Premier Zhou who sent people to the south to collect the stock for future use. Unfortunately, our beloved Premier Zhou has passed away before Chairman Mao, and his white ashes have been scattered on the mountains and rivers of the motherland by the wind of the sky!However, if he knows that the Wanfang Nanmu he left in advance has been used as the wall panel of the hall where Chairman Mao's body is placed in the Memorial Hall, the Chinese people will be there from every gust of mountain wind and every gust of sea waves in the motherland. I heard Premier Zhou's loud laughter!

There are 80 cherry blossom trees among the 13,000 flowering trees in the Garden of Greenery Memorial Hall.Those are the 16 million compatriots in Taiwan Province who sent them from overseas after traveling thousands of miles and tortuously!They want the cherry blossoms on these eighty trees to bloom among the thousands of spring flowers around the memorial hall, to express their deep memory of the great leader and mentor Chairman Mao and their eagerness to return to the embrace of the motherland as soon as possible Feeling.Looking eastward, how can our hearts not beat together with our flesh and blood brothers in Taiwan Province?

I stood in front of the majestic and majestic Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, thinking from the recent past to the recent future.I thought: On a bright autumn day not far away, I will slowly move forward in front of this memorial hall, following the long, solemn and silent stream of people.I look around, the spacious garden green belt, rows of boxwoods and willows, green and welcoming.On the "Shanlihong" trees, the coral-like fruits are bright red.The chrysanthemums in Beijing, the snow lotus in Xinjiang, the camellia in Yunnan, the azaleas in Sichuan, and the cherry trees with sparse branches and leaves in Taiwan are all equally as beautiful as the thousands of flowers and trees around the square!

I will follow the flow of people and climb up the steps—the red granite of Sichuan that forms the main corridor, the white granite of Fujian that forms the pillars on the corridor, and the pieces of stone embedded in the upper layer of the pillars. The golden yellow pottery plates of Guangdong, these three tones, how solemn, how solemn, and how brilliant the appearance of the memorial hall is decorated in the brilliant sunrise! After passing through two smooth and thick golden nanmu gates, we enter the hall of worship, and we will suddenly hold our breath! On the black Taishan granite base engraved with the national emblem and the party emblem, among the flowers and in the crystal coffin, lies our great leader and mentor Chairman Mao!His old man's face is just like before he was alive, calm and kind... At this moment, how should I describe the feeling in my heart?

This miraculous memorial hall will always stand in the center of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. In the endless years to come, it will be admired by hundreds of millions of people from all corners of the country, and it will also be admired by hundreds of millions of revolutionary people from all over the world. pay homage to.Every year, every month, every day, and every hour, tens of thousands of people of different ages and colors who visit the hall will cherish the memory of the great leader and mentor Chairman Mao for the people of China and the world. He will revisit his old man's teaching of "struggle to build a great socialist country, to defend international peace and to develop the cause of human progress", and all have their own personal feelings.Everyone will make their own vows and determinations in front of his old man, and everyone will shoot sparks of different colors and bright fireworks like fireworks from the depths of their hearts!

No matter how much imagination you have, it can't exceed the local experience at that time. I am looking forward to the arrival of this glorious and happy moment.I live happily in Beijing, China, and I know that in my remaining years, on flower mornings, moon evenings, snowy nights, and windy mornings, I will be with some old friends, or bring some children and grandchildren, or maybe Single and alone, go into the memorial hall to pay respects, or take a walk under the flowers and trees in the square.I will have a more detailed view, I will have a deeper feeling, I am looking forward to a little spark erupting from the depths of my own heart, faintly flickering in the sky full of fireworks reflected in the red sky!

Chairman Mao is the greatest and wise leader and mentor since the beginning of our China.Without his education and leadership, the hundreds of millions of Chinese people would not be able to smash the shackles of thousands of years, and as the masters, they would not be able to walk proudly on the road of socialism and communism guided by Chairman Mao. Today, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and with the efforts of hundreds of millions of people of all ethnic groups in the country, success stories are being reported frequently in agriculture, industry, and all fronts. Too much time to give!Thousands of horses are galloping, and the future is bright. Although we are old, we should not be content with "falling down"!We must turn our infinite reverence for Chairman Mao and our deep-rooted hatred for the "Gang of Four" into practical actions, and make infinite efforts in the limited years.We must work hard to transform ourselves, learn from workers and peasants, and make our due contributions in our own jobs. This is the first spark that erupted from the depths of my soul when I stood in front of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall! Late at night on May 3, 1977. (This article was originally published in the seventh issue of "People's Literature" in 1977.)