Chapter 132 Three mail to small readers newsletter five

Dear children: Yesterday afternoon, two young Japanese came to see me. Although we met for the first time, we talked as excited and joyful as old friends reunited! These two young people, one is a teacher at Japan’s Tokyo Rizhong College (this college specializes in learning Chinese, since its establishment in 1964, it has graduated more than 10,000 students), and now a teacher in Beijing The Institute of Foreign Languages ​​teaches Japanese.The other is the son of a Japanese expert working in my country. He grew up in Beijing and studied from elementary school to university.They are all young people under the age of thirty!

The three of us, who are half a century apart in age, talked endlessly about the blood-related culture that China and Japan have learned from and complemented each other for thousands of years, and talked about the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations in September 1972 The statement, the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship in August this year, and Vice Premier Deng's visit to Japan in October this year, etc.We all deeply miss Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou who cared deeply about the cause of Sino-Japanese friendship. They all firmly believe that China and Japan, two great nations with profound cultural relations and separated by a narrow strip of water, will eventually join hands closely. Come and contribute to the peace and progress of Asia and the world.Now, the wish of one billion people in China and Japan has finally come true.Premier Zhou once said, "Drinking water does not forget the person who dug the well." When Japanese friends talked about this, they said sadly: "Premier Zhou once promised us that after the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, he will Visit Japan. Now that we have drunk from this spring of peace and friendship, we cannot be visited by Premier Zhou, the greatest well digger in China. How will we miss him during the cherry blossom season next year!" After a while, I said: "Didn't you accept the visit of our Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping during the red leaf season of 'Wanshan is red' and 'Maple leaves are like red' in October this year? A great cause must have many achievements. Good successors, let us all work hard to be their successors." Children, when I said these words, I was not only comforting them, but also comforting and spurring myself.Speaking of Sino-Japanese friendship, over the past twenty years, the older generations of both China and Japan have worked so hard to dig out this mouthful of fresh and sweet spring water, which has gone through extremely twists and turns. The road, made an extremely arduous effort!This achievement did not come easily, and children must always remember it!

Speaking of the cultural exchanges and exchanges between China and Japan, as early as the first century AD, the "Book of Han" written by Ban Gu of the Han Dynasty There are records about Japan, and since then, such as Master Jianzhen of the Tang Dynasty (died in Japan), poet Li Bai’s friend of poets, Japanese Chao Qing (died in China), etc., their great deeds of cultural exchange are all What we admire and love.Since then, the two countries have had more frequent exchanges, and you will know and be interested in it when you read history in the future. From my own point of view, before the liberation, I went to the United States to study, and I passed through Japan several times. After the liberation, I participated in several friendship delegations to Japan, made friends with the Japanese people, and visited the beautiful land of Japan. I deeply feel the profound mutual cultural influence of our two countries and the profound friendship between the people.The people of our two countries share a common language, no matter in writing, painting, architecture, medicine, or even in dressing and eating.For the sake of stability and peace in Asia and the world, our two brave and industrious great nations must maintain friendship from generation to generation.

These two Japanese friends talked a lot with me. The young man who graduated from Peking University talked about the destruction and oppression of Peking University by the "Gang of Four", the "Tiananmen Poems", and the crushing of the "Gang of Four". ecstasy later.The teacher at the Japan-China Institute told me that the Chinese celebrities most loved by the Japanese people were Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and Lu Xun.Finally, when talking about children in China, he said: "Don't you love children very much? I also love children very much. I have just arrived in China, and I have not had the opportunity to contact Chinese children, but every Sunday, I bring a camera, I went to the park to take photos of children’s activities. I think Chinese children are very innocent and lively!” I laughed, and I said, “Don’t you think Japanese children are also innocent and lively and lovely?” They also laughed and said: "Yes, they are all good successors for us!" Before leaving, they shook hands with me tightly and said repeatedly: "We hope you will write more for children!"

Dear children, I have never forgotten my love and responsibility for a moment.You are the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, hope is pinned on you! In his opening speech to the First National People's Congress, Chairman Mao encouraged us to "strive to build a great socialist country, to defend international peace and to develop the cause of human progress".On the new Long March, you are a huge new force under the leadership of the Communist Party. You shoulder the important and arduous responsibility of building a socialist motherland with four modernizations and safeguarding international peace and human progress.In order to accomplish this task, I hope you will also share the responsibility of promoting peace and friendship between China and Japan on our shoulders, and accept the past, because this is what China, with a population of 900 million, can contribute to the progress and peace of Asia and the world An important part of !

I wish you health and progress!Your friend Bing Xin on the nineteenth night of November 1978. (This article was originally published in the first issue of "Children's Times" in 1979.)