Chapter 117 Three Posts to Young Readers Newsletter One

Dear children: Fifty-five years after I wrote "Send to a Little Reader" and 20 years after "Send to a Little Reader" again, I took up my pen again to write "Three Sends to a Little Reader", and I still can only take what I wrote fifty-five years ago. What I said: "I feel indescribable in my heart, I feel very honored" This sentence describes it! More than half a century has passed between the three occasions when I had the honor of communicating with my dear little readers.My "indescribable" this time My mood is more "tranquility" than "excitement", and more "joy" than "sigh".The experience of more than half a century has given me unlimited confidence in Chairman Mao's teaching that "the world is progressing and the future is bright, and this general trend of history cannot be changed by anyone."Neither the aggression of the Japanese imperialists decades ago nor the arbitrariness of the "Gang of Four" a few years ago can change the logic of the cause of the revolutionary people!

I didn't start writing until after the "May 4th" patriotic movement, let's talk about it from the "May 4th" movement. Yesterday I went to attend the commemorative meeting of the 80th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, which has the tradition of the "May 4th" Revolution.Surrounded by colorful flags, gongs and drums blare; in front of me are more than 20,000 staff, students, staff and family members of Peking University, including international students from 36 countries, and some children wearing red scarves.It was these young children who brought us into the venue by beating gongs and drums and waving bouquets of flowers!

Recalling the "May Fourth Movement" fifty-nine years ago. At that time, I did not realize the power of the revolutionary people. How could I have thought that we would have such a bright and happy today?On September 6 last year, in the poem "Tiananmen, Connected with Chairman Mao's Name" I wrote, the first stanza described the scene of the "May 4th" demonstrations that year: Groups of young people in long gowns and skirts walked through the dilapidated and dilapidated Tiananmen Square, stepping on the overgrown spring grass and waving small flags. We shout: "Down with traitors!"

"Down with Japanese imperialism!" Grief and indignation fill our hearts! Since "Mao Zedong came out of China", he and the Communist Party of China led the people of all ethnic groups in China and completely overthrew our biggest enemy at that time - the three mountains!The Chinese people have stood up, and the ideals of the "May 4th" Movement era have been realized. How rejoicing we are! Chairman Mao also instructed us to inherit the glorious tradition of science and democratic spirit of the May 4th Movement, and to transform it on the basis of Marxism; "In order to usurp the party and seize power, he tried his best to interfere and destroy Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, strangle the spirit of science and democracy, promote obscurantism and obscurantism, and regard "illiterate and hooligan" characters as models for young people.Dear little readers, when the "Gang of Four" was rampant, seeing your body and mind being corroded and devastated, it really "filled our hearts with grief and indignation"!

The Party Central Committee, which has a heart to heart with the people, led the people of all ethnic groups in the country to put the heinous "Gang of Four" on the trial bench of history.How we rejoice! Dear children, the big stumbling block of the "Gang of Four" has been removed, and the obstacle has been swept away!We must immediately start a new long march and march towards the four modernizations.By the end of this century, you are in the prime of life, and you are contributing to a magnificent cause with your brilliant youth.To be the master of history is not an easy burden!

How do you cultivate communist sentiments and collective heroism, especially carry forward what Chairman Mao instructed: inherit the glorious tradition of science and democracy of the "May 4th" movement, establish the fine style of seeking truth from facts and the mass line... ...You have read and heard a lot of these in the speeches of our party and state leaders, in the papers of newspapers and periodicals, and in the conversations of your teachers and parents. Repeat again. This letter has been written for a long time, and when I bring up the pen again after more than ten years, I always feel that the paper is short and the love is long, and I can't help myself!Fortunately, I will continue to write down in the future.This letter is in time to meet you on the "June 1st", so let's end here.

I will always be with you, study hard and make progress every day!Your friend Bing Xin May 5, 1978. (This article was originally published in the third issue of "Children's Times" in June 1978.)