Chapter 7 chapter Five

On March 5, 1963, "People's Daily", "Liberation Army Daily", "Guangming Daily", "China Youth Daily" and other major newspapers across the country published an inscription on the front page that Chairman Mao learned from Comrade Lei Feng.Mao Zedong read countless heroes and models in the world throughout his life, and wrote many inscriptions, but only this inscription is particularly important.According to the recollection of Comrade Lin Ke who worked beside him, in the afternoon of February 22, 1963, Mao Zedong woke up from a nap, looking very energetic.He didn't change his clothes, he was still wearing a large white pajamas, the sleeves of the pajamas were a little worn due to the frequent writing at his desk.The chairman walked to the long table with the Four Treasures of the Study, picked up the inscription drafted by Secretary Link on the table, pondered for a while, then picked up the brush on the pen holder, dipped it in ink, and wrote it on the paper with 8 lines of red vertical grids. , In one stroke, wrote down 7 cursive characters of learning from Comrade Lei Feng.

After finishing writing, the chairman stared at it for a long time, shook his head, took it out and put it aside, and wrote a second one.He looked at it, but he was still not satisfied, and then he wrote a third one. This time, he was quite satisfied, and looked at it for a long time with an expression of appreciation, before he put down the pen in his hand, lit a cigarette, sat down, and then Instruct the staff on duty to ask Director Luo and Secretary Lin to come over. Chief Luo Ruiqing these days has been shuttling between the three gates and Zhongnanhai to write an inscription for the chairman.A few days ago, General Lai Chuanzhu, the political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region, asked General Luo Ruiqing to ask Chairman Mao to write an inscription for Lei Feng on behalf of the Military Region Party Committee during a meeting of the Military Commission, and Chief Luo immediately agreed.Director Luo has always paid attention to Lei Feng's typical propaganda, and knows that Chairman Mao is very concerned about the relevant reports of Comrade Lei Feng.He believed that the chairman would definitely write an inscription for this ordinary soldier, and he was sure of this, so he readily agreed to Commissar Lai's request.

Sure enough, Mao Zedong quickly agreed to the inscription. When Luo and Lin came to the chairman's bedroom, three inscriptions were already placed in front of them.Both of them were amazed, saying that the generalization is good, and the calligraphy is also good. Chairman Mao did not use the inscription drafted by Link, this inscription was drawn up by himself.It can also be said that this highly condensed and general inscription is his experience after seeing Lei Feng's deeds these days.According to Comrade Li Jing, the confidential secretary who worked beside him during this period, Chairman Mao talked about Lei Feng to her several times.Li Jing said that when he saw Chairman Mao watching the report of Lei Feng's deeds, his eyes were red.He said affectionately to Li Jing that Comrade Lei Feng is a good comrade, and we all should learn from him.It is rare in the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries that an ordinary soldier can occupy such a lofty position in the hearts of leaders.It should be said that it was Mao Zedong who first extended Lei Feng's spirit to the whole country, and it was Mao Zedong who really understood Lei Feng and resonated with him at the spiritual level and admired him. Mao Zedong, as a proletarian revolutionary, His strategic mind warms the pure soul of a soldier.He feels that the huge China is actually a virtual chessboard that actually exists.This is a struggle between two ideologies, proletarian ideology and non-proletarian ideology. They are like black and white chess pieces.There is no doubt that Lei Feng best represents his ideal ideological personality and moral personality, which is the image of a perfect proletarian fighter.And the revolutionary cause needs tens of thousands of soldiers like Lei Feng, and a pure soul like a white cloud like Lei Feng to occupy the vast space of thought in China.He believes that in the sense of the ideological and spiritual chessboard, if white pieces like Lei Feng do not quickly occupy the ideological position, then those black pieces of bourgeois ideology will fill the spiritual space.If so, how did communism triumph?Therefore, in the era when class struggle was the key link, Mao Zedong discovered the strategic significance contained in a soldier with the high acumen of a revolutionary.The spirit of Lei Feng has indeed successfully occupied the space of people's thoughts and beliefs, and quickly became the mainstream discourse of the times, becoming an important cornerstone of the building of the spirit of the Republic, and more importantly, it is a hero who has truly entered the hearts of the people , Lei Feng's behavior patterns have evolved into people's daily moral patterns.

Now, 30 years later, we can still confirm Mao Zedong's deep affection for Lei Feng, an ordinary soldier, from the memories of Lin Ke and others. At this time, Chief of the General Staff Luo Ruiqing also entered the room. Chairman Mao asked Chief Luo to sit on the rattan chair beside him, handed him the three written inscriptions, pointed to the third one and said: Use this Zhang, can you see it? Before Chairman Luo could answer, Chairman Mao continued: I have read newspaper reports and diaries about Lei Feng, and Lei Feng is worth learning.Chairman Mao pointed to the handwriting of the inscription and said: Learn from Comrade Lei Feng, including myself, I also want to learn from Comrade Lei Feng!

Chief Luo and his party took the inscription and rushed back to the three gates of the Military Commission. By the time the remake was finished, it was already midnight.Originally planned to publish the newspaper on March 4, because the layouts of the newspapers had already been arranged and it was too late to change them, so Director Luo decided to change the publication date to March 5. Therefore, on March 5, 1963, "People's Daily", "Liberation Army Daily", "Guangming Daily", "China Youth Daily" and other major newspapers and magazines across the country published Chairman Mao's inscription for Comrade Lei Feng on the front page headlines. handwriting.

March 5th is a day worthy of a big book in the history of the spiritual civilization of the Republic. On October 17, 1996, the editor of "Jianghai Daily" in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province received a letter from a reader titled "Looking for Mo Wensui".This letter was quickly forwarded to the desk of Mr. Fan Jichun, the editor-in-chief of the agency. As a veteran newspaperman with many years of reporting experience, the content of this manuscript aroused his interest.The writer of the letter is a student who has been sponsored by a person who calls himself Mo Wensui for many years. Now, this recipient is about to graduate, but he is eager to know who this Mo Wensui is, so that he can come to thank him one day.

Van was always a sharp man.Mo Wensui obviously means Mo Wensui, and when you interpret the name, you will experience many ambiguities.Now it is a market economy, learning from Lei Feng to do good deeds seems to have drifted away with the planned economy era, and some people even think that Lei Feng spirit is outdated, it is a product of the politics at that time, and Lei Feng embodies such as the spirit of screws, the spirit of a brick, the willingness to When the spirit of the revolutionary fool seems to have been relegated from the mainstream consciousness to the position of being ridiculed, some young people neither understand nor follow.In addition, people forcibly instill formulaic and formalized propaganda on the simple interpretation of heroes and models, especially after the Cultural Revolution, people are generally indifferent to politicized things. Therefore, the combination of many factors has created a huge vacuum in the consciousness of the people. The weakening or drifting away is actually the rebound of doubt, loss and alternative consciousness. Of course, this kind of doubt is not necessarily a bad thing, it also has a new concept of re-understanding.But in general, due to the fact that there is a general sense of loss, it has created an abnormal atmosphere in which it is difficult to be a good person.And how this Mo Wen Sui Wulun is a news story worth digging deeply.Therefore, Fan Jichun assigned interview tasks to the reporter. He must grasp the clue of finding someone, find both the person and the spirit, bring back the lost spirit of Lei Feng, and publicize it with great fanfare.

After listening to the report of the propaganda minister of the Municipal Party Committee, the leading comrades of the Nantong Municipal Party Committee immediately made a decision to study Mo Wensui in the whole city.Although we still don't know who the real Mo Wensui is, the return of this kind of spirit shows a kind of desire in the field of social morality. We should refer to the typical example of this moral field in the economic field, so that it can be used in the market economy and economic construction. play its due role.Due to the intervention of the Nantong Municipal Party Committee, this ordinary news instantly magnified and became a topic of widespread concern to the people of Nantong City. People seemed to open their eyes wide and began to look for who the real Mo Wensui was, and a series of beautiful branches were drawn out. .Mo Wensui found it.

Mo Wensui's unit is in Nantong Institute of Technology. Mo Wensui is a leading cadre of the academy. Since he firmly refused to allow his name to be published in the newspaper, the author must follow his advice and call him Mo Wensui. Nantong Institute of Technology was founded in 1912 by Zhang Qian in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the name of the school was Textile Specialized School. It was the earliest textile school in China. . During the interview, the author met the school's party secretary and dean, as well as department and department leaders, and some student representatives who had been sponsored by Mo Wensui.

Secretary Quan of Nantong Institute of Technology said that Mo Wensui's appearance in the academy was not accidental.From the beginning of the school, the college has attached great importance to the construction of spiritual civilization and put the ideological and moral construction in the first place. Most of the activities of learning from Lei Feng in the city's education centers have emerged and formed highlights from here.He said that the school leaders believe that with the surge of the market economy, this era should call for Lei Feng. The market economy era is not the end of Lei Feng's spirit, but the deepening of Lei Feng's spirit.To prove this point, Secretary Quan said that many years ago, they published a short commentary in the school newspaper titled "Lei Feng's Spirit Lives Forever". A few days later, the "People's Daily" also published the same short commentary, from the title to The content is almost the same. This is not to say how clever and foresighted the party committee of the college is, at least it shows that the party committee of the college still has some starting points for considering issues and the ability to grasp the pulse of thought. Thanks to such guidance, the microclimate of Nantong Institute of Technology is very Suitable for the growth of spiritual civilization, many activists emerged in the college.Later, the college introduced the originally individualized charitable activities into a collective mechanism. The college established the Mo Wensui Foundation. Hundreds of volunteers donated money and deposited it into the foundation's account.The foundation then provides relief to students in need.This approach, the leadership of the hospital described it as a spiritual effort under the conditions of a market economy, and a reflection on the secular value of money supremacy.

Wei Wei, deputy secretary of the Party branch of the Department of Chemical Engineering, was the director of the engineering office of the college a few years ago. During a meeting, he received a forwarded letter.The general idea is that some new students from northern Jiangsu come from relatively poor families. The letter writer is willing to donate 1,000 yuan per semester to subsidize the two most difficult students among them.The letter writers are from the Academy.I remember a female classmate named Shi Hongying whose father passed away suddenly and her family was difficult. She hadn't laughed for more than a year after entering school.So I sponsored her and another classmate.After the Mo Wensui phenomenon was reported in the newspapers, various departments responded one after another, and students and teachers all contributed money to support poor students.However, according to our statistics, the proportion of impoverished students is as high as 10% to 15%. Such a high proportion is difficult to solve even if the school mobilizes all forces, and it must be completed through social assistance. Mo Wensui graduated from Nantong Institute of Technology, but if he really wants to solve the problem, he still needs to rely on social forces. The main leaders of the Nantong Municipal Party Committee convened the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Civilization Office, Youth League Committee, "Jianghai Daily" and other news units to put forward a very meaningful proposition: Lei Feng came in March and left in April, can he keep his roots? This is a thought-provoking question, and it is also another promotion of Lei Feng's spirit! I don’t know when and when, learning from Lei Feng to do good deeds has become a form. As long as you do a few good deeds on March 5th to show your respect to Lei Feng, everything will be fine for a year.Foreigners have done bad things, and it takes a lot of time to enter the church to repent, but we solve the problem once and for all. One day is holy, and a hundred days is turbid, which seems to be at ease. However, at this time, Lei Feng traveled across the ocean, stepped out of the border, and took root in 38 countries and regions around the world. The United States has a specially established Lei Feng Research Association. The Thai government printed Lei Feng's deeds into a book and distributed it to all citizens so that the people could learn from Lei Feng. A cadet from the American West Point Military Academy called Sun Guiqin, a student Lei Feng had tutored, and asked why Lei Feng was loved by people. He said he wanted to learn from Lei Feng.Sun Guiqin is now working in the Army General Hospital of the Shenyang Military Region.She said that Lei Feng's photo appeared in West Point Military Academy and became a model for some beauties, and she got confirmation from this beauty. Zhu Bingran, a Hong Kong native, has long regarded Lei Feng as a role model to learn from, and has always been looking forward to having a photo of Lei Feng.When he heard that Shenzhen would hold a photo exhibition of learning from Lei Feng, he visited the exhibition twice and bought a photo of Lei Feng from photographer Zhang Jun. He wrote to Zhang Jun saying: It has been a few months since I left in Shenzhen last year to learn from Lei Feng's role model photo exhibition.When Comrade Lei Feng passed away, I was working in Hong Kong, so I didn't know much about Lei Feng's life and work.Later, after listening to the introductions of some elders and reading newspapers and magazines, I gained a little understanding.Comrade Lei Feng's spirit of being loyal to the party's cause, serving the people wholeheartedly without seeking fame or profit, is worth learning. In the past 20 years of opening up and reform in the motherland, people's lives have been greatly improved, and national strength has been continuously enhanced. In international affairs, China plays a pivotal role.However, on the other hand, there are some problems in today's society. In the past, some people could not be defeated by planes and cannons on the battlefield, but in the tide of reform and opening up, they could not withstand the temptation of material and money, and fell down. .Some ordinary people do things that disrupt social order and lose their moral standards. It would be great if these people could learn from Lei Feng's spirit! There is a Chen Guanyu on Zhongying Street in Shatoujiao, Shenzhen. In such a bustling commercial street, she has used Lei Feng's spirit as her ideological shield for thirty years and maintained her integrity in life.She once used the 450,000 yuan she earned from stocks to donate 400,000 yuan to the disabled and the Hope Project.Her mother lives in Hong Kong, and her life is not rich.She has two daughters and a wife, and no savings at home.But Chen Guanyu doesn't think about herself, she always thinks about the collective and the country.She said that if you think about Lei Feng, you will see who needs more care and love. The people Chen Guanyu is concerned about are some disabled and vulnerable groups. On the evening of June 7, 2002, the "News Network" program of CCTV reported the touching story of soldiers from the Zhuhai Garrison Army who had donated 17,000 yuan to subsidize dozens of impoverished students in the past few years. Soldiers in the army spontaneously organized and established a special fund for poverty alleviation and education.A few years ago, Beijing Guangqumen Middle School opened the Hongzhi Class to help poor students with excellent academic performance in the city.Urumqi Middle School in Xinjiang also opened a Hongzhi class for students.The Civilization Office of the Propaganda Department of Weihai advocates that the civilized units in this city subsidize college students who are admitted to colleges and universities in this city but cannot complete their studies due to family difficulties.The Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee promised not to allow a single student in the province to drop out of school due to family difficulties... These examples not only show that Lei Feng's spirit will never become obsolete, but also prove that Lei Feng's spirit is carried forward today. It is of extraordinary significance for Nantong people to bring up the spirit of Lei Feng again.If the phenomenon of Mo Wensui is a spring of love surging underground, then this spring water converges into a clear river. Chen Xiaodong, secretary of the Nantong Youth League Committee, and Fan Jichun, editor-in-chief of "Jianghai Daily", jointly brought the Mo Wensui phenomenon from the underground to the ground. They implemented the instructions of the Municipal Party Committee to keep the roots. After repeated consultations, they decided to carry out Jianghai volunteer activities. Nantong is bounded by rivers and seas. This unique geographical phenomenon is reminiscent of a famous dance drama "Small Streams, Rivers, and Seas". The choreographers were inspired by the convergence of rivers and rushing seas of people, showing the tide of the times.The development process of Nantong people's Jianghai volunteer activities is just like the development history of rivers. At the beginning, it was like a spring, then a clear spring, and then a clear stream, and then it was like a river going east, and finally merged into the sea, becoming a river. kind of eternity. Volunteers from Jianghai gathered 3,700 sages from all over the city. There was one main station and eight sub-stations. Students and other disadvantaged groups provided assistance, and truly managed to keep Lei Feng in Nantong, and gave Lei Feng a registered permanent residence and a home, making Lei Feng the patron saint and protector of the disadvantaged groups in Nantong. From the Mo Wensui phenomenon to Jianghai volunteer activities in Nantong, it conveyed to people the immortality of Lei Feng's spirit, and told the story of how Lei Feng's spirit entered Nantong's various fronts and took root. However, the true meaning of this story in Nantong lies in whether Lei Feng has any value today, and whether Lei Feng's existence is meaningful in the market economy environment.