Chapter 107 Books give me joy and benefits

I saw the news of the "Red Scarf Reading Medal" event in 1982, and felt happy for the little readers from the bottom of my heart. You were born in a good time! When I was young (that was more than seventy years ago), I never went to elementary school. Moreover, there was no Young Pioneers organization in elementary school at that time, let alone any "reading medals", but I did get great happiness and benefits from reading, and the ideological education I got from books influenced my life. I was a child who traveled alone since I was a child, and I lived in the mountains and sea corners. I could go out for a run during the day, but at night or on windy and rainy days, I had to stay at home.Thanks to my mother, she has taught me how to read since I was three years old. She gave me the key to open the "Palace of Knowledge", and my life has become extremely rich.

There were no books for children in those days, and all I could get were the novels that were on the shelves of grown-ups.The first book I saw was .This book aroused my interest in Chinese history and my yearning for ancient heroes.Then I read "Jing Zhong Shuo Yue" and the "forbidden book" hidden under the pillow of adults.It was the eve of the 1911 Revolution of 1911. I read "Revolutionary Army" written by Zou Rong and the publications of the Tongmenghui initiated by Mr. Sun Yat-sen, such as "Tianchao", which criticized the corruption, incompetence and vigilance of the Qing government. The danger of imperialist countries carve up China and so on.Reading it made me feel sad and angry, and made me think since I was a child that the great rivers and mountains passed down to us by our ancestors must be firmly preserved and made prosperous.

From the enthusiasm for loving the motherland given to me in the book, and from decades of life experience, I have deeply realized the two sentences "there will be no new China without the Communist Party" and "only socialism can save China". The irrefutable truth contained in it!It makes me feel proud that I can live in the socialist motherland, and I am willing to do my best to make due contributions to the socialist motherland.