Chapter 145 "June 1st" sent to young readers

Dear children: I would like to thank the editors of "China Education News" for allowing me to occupy the space of the Education Newspaper to repay the credit debt I owed to the children in the past two years. Since I fell ill in the summer of 1980, I have received letters of condolence from you almost every day, whether in the hospital or at home.You first care about my daily life after illness, and wish me a long and healthy life; then you will report on your study and life.Finally, I would like to write a few words of appreciation to you.These passionate letters have given me the greatest comfort and made me feel happy!But the limited time and energy do not allow me to reply one by one.Now let me be grateful and take this opportunity to congratulate you on the International Children's Day and write a general reply to you.

My condition is repeated, and I have been admitted to the hospital four times in two years.After being ill, his legs are weak and he has to walk indoors with a stick.If you go downstairs for a walk, you need someone to help you.I'm an active person, and I often feel depressed and irritable because of "powerlessness", but I haven't felt lonely yet.I can still use my brain and hands, and I can also deal with reading, writing and writing.My time is still full every day.I don't sleep much, wake up early in the morning, and lie down for a while after breakfast and lunch.At this time, I turn on the semiconductor radio to listen to some music, news, songs and literature programs.I read books and newspapers in the morning and afternoon.

Twice a day the postman arrives and sends me five kinds of newspapers and two or three kinds of periodicals—most of them are literary periodicals, and of course there are children’s newspapers and periodicals. From overseas, of course there are also letters from children.It is through radio, television, books, newspapers, and letters that I have close contact and contact with the outside world.I see familiar faces every night and hear familiar voices every day. I know the major events in China and the world, and I constantly see many new scenery and gain a lot of new knowledge.Overall, my daily life is peaceful and enriching.I also know to take care of myself and will never be too tired, please rest assured children.

Your letters are all well written, with neat handwriting and fluent writing, especially your pure and sincere friendship, which is vivid on the paper, and I can't help but shed tears of gratitude after reading it.In addition to thanks, I also want to remind the children of two things: One is that there are some typos in your letter. It is best to read the letter carefully after writing it. If you feel that there is a word that is not accurate, you should look it up in the dictionary. When I forget a word, I often do this. Second, there are very few children who use public envelopes and letterheads when writing letters, such as the public letterheads of a certain enterprise or a certain agency. This is very bad.I hope that the children will develop the habit of "public and private" from an early age, and not abuse any public property!

In your letters, you often ask how to write a good composition.To write a composition well, you must learn Chinese well, read more and write more.I have already said these words in "Newsletter 4" and "Newsletter 6" of "Three Letters to Young Readers".Here, it happens to be related to the matter that you asked me to give a speech.I remember when I was eleven years old, my grandfather wrote me an eight-character motto, which is: "Doing good" means doing good deeds, which means that doing good deeds is the happiest thing. People live to make others live a better life. When others live a better and happier life, they will also be happier.In this era, doing good deeds has the specific content of "five stresses", "four beauties" and "three loves", and there are role models for learning. Both Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou called on us to learn from Lei Feng, and now the Party Central Committee calls on us to learn from Zhang Haidi .Regarding this point, I think your parents, teachers, and counselors will speak in more detail and thoroughness than what I want to say.Let us learn from Lei Feng and Zhang Haidi together!

"Reading is good", which means that it is good to be able to read and willing to read.Speaking of reading, there are more children's books now than when I was a child!Now there are seven professional publishing houses for children's books nationwide.In the past two years, more than 3,690 kinds of children's books have been published.The Party and the whole society are concerned about your healthy growth, and are doing their best to satisfy your thirst for knowledge.How happy you are to have so many books to read! Children, twenty years later, you will all be builders of the socialist modernization of our motherland.People engaged in construction work must have a high level of knowledge and comprehensive cultural accomplishment, all of which can be obtained from reading.Once you knock on the door of the palace of knowledge through reading, you will find different rare treasures in every palace in the palace: knowledge of history, geography, astronomy, geology and many other subjects.The more knowledge you acquire, the greater your ability to work.After twenty years of accumulation, you will be able to become a competent builder by then!

Over the years, I have also received many gifts from you, such as your own paintings, stories written by yourself, red scarves and various landscape pictures at home and abroad.These, I have treasured up.Now I will take my favorite eight-character motto as my gift to you in return, please accept it. A night of spring rain washed the red flowers and green leaves in front of my building very vividly.When the sun comes out, it should be full of spring! Here, I wish you a happy and hearty holiday of your own! My friend who will always love you, Bing Xin, in the early morning of May 18, 1983