Chapter 136 Three mail to small readers Newsletter six

Dear children: A sound of firecrackers outside the window woke me up from my contemplation. When I looked out the window, I saw a child setting off firecrackers on the snow.He was only about seven or eight years old, wearing a blue cotton monkey, squatting on the ground, and lighting a firecracker standing on the ground with his arms stretched out.Standing far away was a little girl wearing a red cotton monkey, probably his sister.She covered her ears with her hands, and her eyes full of surprises were watching the crackling firecrackers... What a vivid and lovely picture! This reminds me of when I was young, every Spring Festival, I would always see red paper Spring Festival couplets pasted on people’s doors. —These couplets still have practical significance even now, that is to say, a loud firecracker and a burst of thick gunpowder smoke sweep away all the old things that hinder our progress, such as feudalism and bureaucracy; after that, The Spring Festival couplets of every household should also write their own latest and best resolutions and wishes to welcome the new year. This is not only to spur themselves, but also to encourage others!Children, 1979 has come, what is our latest and most beautiful resolution and wish?

The Third Plenary Session of the Party Central Committee appealed to us: "The focus of the work of the whole Party should shift from 1979 to the construction of socialist modernization." Children, you are all the reserve army of socialist modernization. Today, your Where should the focus be? The key to the four modernizations lies in science and technology, and the foundation lies in education, and the education of primary and secondary schools is the foundation of the foundation!So, in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools, which one is the most important?I think the most important thing is language!

Words are languages ​​written on paper.Those who cannot recognize or read characters are equal to blind people who turn a blind eye; those who cannot write or write well are equivalent to dumb people who cannot speak. Don’t we hear and see little of the hardships of illiteracy suffered by the working people living in the old society? Several teachers of mathematics, physics, and chemistry have sincerely talked to me that if students do not master Chinese well, they will not be able to understand the books and exercises on mathematics, physics, and chemistry. If there is no cultural curriculum, there will be no good understanding.They said with emotion: "If you are not good at mathematics, physics, and chemistry, you will be hindered by the four modernizations, and if you are not good at Chinese, you will be hindered by mathematics, physics, and chemistry." How profound they spoke!

Learning Chinese is to cultivate our ability of literacy, reading and writing, which is the minimum armament on the road of the four modernizations.Language is the sharpest weapon among all equipment.Only when Chinese is good can one do a good job and keep improving, and the same is true for foreign language learning.Also, no matter how good you are at learning a foreign language, if you don’t work hard on your own language, you won’t be able to translate the foreign language accurately, clearly, and vividly, and you won’t be able to achieve the effect of “using foreign languages ​​for China”!

To learn Chinese well, attending classes, listening to lectures, and doing homework are of course the main things, but this is not enough.We must open the door to learning Chinese widely. In addition to textbooks, everyone should find books to read by themselves. After reading a good book, students should introduce each other and ask teachers and parents for advice. Children, read books must not be regarded as a burden, reading is a kind of joy, a kind of enjoyment.The Soviet writer Gorky once said: "I read many books with excitement and amazement, but these books did not make me divorced from reality, but instead strengthened my interest in reality, improved my ability to observe and compare, and ignited my passion. It fulfills my desire for life knowledge." Once you enter the treasure house of life knowledge, you will feel delighted and surprised, lingering and forgetting to return.And everything you find out from this treasure house will put you "in full clothes" and enable you to become an extremely strong fighter on the long march of socialist modernization.

Let me tell you a piece of good news: the National Working Conference on Publishing Children's Books for Juveniles has drawn up a plan for the publication of some key children's books from 1978 to 1980.The books to be published include: "Encyclopedia for Juveniles", "Library for Primary School Students", "Natural Science Series for Juveniles", "Picture Album of Juvenile Science" and "Famous Works of Foreign Children's Literature".We have many children's books that have been published, plus these nearly thirty sets of books, in the next three years, it is enough for you to swim in the ocean of knowledge.isn't it?

In a mood full of hope and joy, I congratulate you and wish you a healthy and happy Spring Festival!Your friend Bing Xin December 30, 1978. (This article was originally published in the second issue of "Children's Times" in 1979.)