Chapter 41 Three Posts to Little Readers Newsletter Ten

Dear children: Three more weeks into the eighties, how fast the days go by!Some time ago, I was busy with many affairs, and I didn't want to write to you in a complicated mood.Yesterday, by chance at a friend's house, I met an old man who had returned from overseas to visit relatives, and talked for an afternoon. His talk made me happy and excited. everything heard. The old man was the same age as me, and he was also "the same age of the century". He said happily and sighed: "I have been back three times since I left the motherland for thirty-five years. The first time was in the autumn of 1959. I first came to Tiananmen Square and looked around. The Tiananmen Tower was covered with magnificent new clothes. The tall buildings on both sides were so dignified and solemn. They were all so healthy and happy that I was so happy that I shed tears.The Chinese people stood up, and I went overseas again. I felt that my chest and back were straightened, and my voice was louder!The second time I came back was in the spring of 1976, when the "Gang of Four" was rampant, Premier Zhou passed away again, and I saw sad and miserable scenes everywhere. My heart went cold and I felt as if China suddenly collapsed again.However, this year's Ching Ming Festival, I went to Tiananmen Square again, and seeing the mountain of flowers, the sea of ​​poems, and the crowd of angry people, my blood boiled again, and I held a young man who was copying poems with tears Hand said: "Do it well, hope is pinned on you!" '" But I still went back overseas with uneasy feelings. This time, it was the third time I came back, and what I saw was much better than what I imagined or heard overseas.

Only people as old as you and I can understand how difficult it is to clean up the mess left by the 'Gang of Four' to what it is now!Of course, I also saw many shortcomings. For example, there are some young people on the streets of the city, wearing colorful and exotic clothes, with long hair and beards, chewing gum, and humming the popular and educated foreigners overseas in the 1960s A ditty that doesn't even sing!However, in the homes of my relatives and friends, I saw the essence of the Chinese nation. Their second generation, that is, people in their forties. Most of these people are the backbone of the units they work in.They are very frugal in food and clothing. What moved me the most was that in the small desk they lived in a room of more than ten square meters, they were still earnestly tutoring their children's studies until the children After they fell asleep, they started to spread out the drawings or take out the books, and concentrate on doing their own work!And their children, that is, our third generation, are mostly healthy, lively, generous and polite.In terms of the respect and warmth these children show to me, a strange old man who has returned from overseas, I feel that the good and intimate relationship between our traditional Chinese people has not been lost.This makes me, who is used to the social atmosphere of 'money first', suddenly smell a healthy and fresh breath!

"I admit that China is far behind the West in terms of science and technology, but we have so many young and promising young people. As long as we all work hard and catch up, we can realize the four modernizations within this century. It is very possible. But it must be 'one mind' and 'hard work', otherwise it will be hard to say, don't you think? "As for us overseas Chinese, we also have our second and third generations. They also love the motherland. They are willing to do their best in science and technology to contribute to the socialist edifice of the motherland. Adding bricks and tiles..."

His rosy smiling face and sincere and resonant laughter lingered in my ears all the time.Dear children, I remember when I was young, I always liked to sit next to the old people and listen to them talking about their memories of the past and their visions for the future.Their words often inspire and encourage me a lot.Now I will tell you this old man's conversation with great care, and I hope you will remember it when you know it: how many of our relatives overseas have pinned all their hopes for the motherland on you!How great is your responsibility! By the time this letter arrives, you have finished your semester exams and are celebrating the spring break. I wish you health and happiness!

Your friend Bing Xin January 22, 1980