Faith leads the way of life

On the eve of the National Day, his father-in-law received a commemorative medal issued by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Central military Commission to retired veteran cadres to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. Seeing the exquisitely designed, five-star shining, golden commemorative medallion, the 93-year-old father-in-law was very excited and filled with emotion. Thank the party and the state for their concern, respect and love for the veteran cadres, and wish the motherland more prosperous and strong! We are also proud of him!

Coincidentally, when members of the extended family were reunited on the Mid-Autumn Festival not long ago, the old father-in-law held a very thick sample booklet. Tell me: this is my memoir. Can you write a preface to this book after reading, correcting and proofreading? The old father-in-law affectionately told me that this is a long manuscript that he spent eight years to complete. There are 12 chapters, 32 parts, nearly 280000 words. This is a true portrayal of his life experience. I think Memoirs happens to be his birthday present to the motherland!

In the face of the respect, love and trust of my old father-in-law, I gladly took over the memoirs, holding heavy manuscripts, I felt a great responsibility on my shoulders. After the manuscript was sent to me electronically, I spent a week eagerly reading it carefully, excited and shocked with the ups and downs of the manuscript plot. The life track, mental process, work and family of the old father-in-law are vivid. Although the text is simple and simple, such as chatting, pulling the family, telling stories and telling stories, it involves all aspects of life, including everything, but it is clear and touching. The record in the book is true and credible, with mixed feelings and scenes, and some plots make people cry; the history reflected in the book is heavy, the background of the times, the account of characters and events are clear and specific; the point of view is clear, and the reflection on life and history is profound and rational; and the emotion is sincere. Bear humiliation, love and hate clearly. Let me see a wise and kind, low-key and open-minded image of the old man, tall and majestic coming to us! Close the volume of contemplation: I thought it was a firm belief that led him to forge ahead amid the ups and downs. To sum up, the memoir starts with personal growth experience and writes:

First, a precocious childhood: according to the book, he was born into a farming family and an illiterate family, so the family placed high hopes on him. I studied at the age of 6 and herded cattle and farming at the age of 10. At the age of 12, he learned to plow, rake, sow, fertilize, transplant seedlings, cultivate crops and other farm work. When I was at school, in addition to doing farm work on Sundays and holidays, I had to go to the mountains to cut firewood. Early childhood, because of naive, naughty, there are a lot of bloody lessons. He wrote: a yellow dog ran quietly from the grass behind me, took a hard bite on the right elbow and belly, and ran away, bleeding from the wound

Joy leads to sadness. After I tied the hook knife to the bamboo pole, I was eager to eat oak trees. Unexpectedly, when I was using the hook, the knife fell from the tree and hit the right side of my forehead, and there was a lot of blood.

In the panic snatching, only pay attention to cut more than hurt fingers, Li Song unexpectedly cut the second joint of my right index finger, immediately blood flowed. The occurrence of this incident really made me regret for the rest of my life. Up to now, the second joint of my right index finger still retains a knife mark, which is uneven and shows a protruding pimple under the knife mark, which is numb and unconscious, causing a lot of inconvenience to my work and life.

One day, when I went to the field to plant rice seedlings, my brother suddenly asked me to look at my leg. I was so scared that I looked down. My leg was covered with leeches, and some of them had five or six sticks in a hole, and I didn't know how much blood I had sucked. Reading and appreciation of American articles

When I was studying, once the mouse got into my quilt in the middle of the night, caught the mouse and killed it. The big mouse has a heavy weight, and he is a little afraid when he thinks of it. I don't know where the power came from at that time.

As a result of studying and studying hard, I have achieved very good results. Won the trust of teachers and classmates, was selected as the monitor (monitor), until the graduation of primary school.

Second, hard-working teenagers: they slowly study the road, and they are beset with difficulties. In junior high school, they have to walk 60 miles through the mountain trail to school, and it is even more difficult to study in senior high school. They have to travel 300 miles across mountains and rivers and travel day and night for three days in a row. In order to get to the Ruoxi town of Jiangxi Province Establishment Association and Middle School.

During the period of study, due to rations, tuition fees were not paid in time, and faced with the danger of dropping out of school. His parents, elder brother and he did not change their original mind, adhering to the belief that there is only a high level of study, and supported letting him continue to study. As a result, with the help of kind-hearted people, we survived the danger and tide over the difficulties. In order to support themselves to go to school, their parents work hard and support hard. Sometimes I still face the danger of catching strong men, doing hard labor and avoiding military service, so that I can't go back home and live a life of fear all day.

Until I graduated from high school, I tried to find a way to work actively in order to realize my dream. In the early autumn of 1949, when he was alone looking for a job, he finally came across the local cadre training class of the CPC Xiushui County Party Committee to recruit trainees. Because he had a high school diploma on him, he spoke confidently. After hearing this, the staff seemed to have some questions and was surprised to say that they had graduated from high school. Parents' hard-earned money is not in vain, study hard in the cold window is not in vain. At that time, it was almost rare for peasant children to graduate from high school.

He was very happy to enter the training course with excellent results through the examination and was later elected as the group leader. He said: this is different from being selected as the leader by his classmates in high school. It is a tool that requires students to be managed into the old society and serve the old system. Now the team leader is required to organize and lead the whole group of students, actively study, enhance ideological understanding, strengthen political awareness, exercise good work, and be prepared to serve the people. It is completely different in nature, so I am very happy and comfortable. At the end of the training course, he was assigned to work in the Sandu District Government of Xiushui County, which belongs to the eastern part of the county seat. Since then, many villages and towns have been actively involved in the land reform work. They all opened up the situation, were welcomed by the masses, and were rewarded and commended by government departments at a higher level.

Third, humiliating middle age: in'57, because in the rectification movement. After making three suggestions to a certain cadre, he was retaliated and was classified as a Rightist. He said: at that time, it was like a loud thunderbolt, and the thunder knocked me to the ground like madness. I wanted to roar that the sky should not be answered, and there was no way to enter the earth. I am so aggrieved! What an injustice! In the spirit of the heart has been greatly destroyed, a great loss. There will be a series of fights, large and small, at night.

The family suffers from involvement, exclusion and difficulties, and life is miserable. Although he was beaten as a Rightist in the movement, he was wronged for 24 years and forced to reform through labour. However, after he was devolved, he did not give himself up and was dejected, but always maintained the cadre character he had honed in the past few years. He wrote: in retrospect, the work was really great and exercised the individual's body. In the past, there was only one bowl of rice per meal at work, and there were also good dishes, but now in the face of hard work, it takes a lot of physical exertion and a lot of effort. I can only be satisfied by eating one jin of grain per meal, otherwise I can't bear such gravity and support it.

When the Cultural Revolution began, he was criticized again and his family was raided. Wear a high hat, hang a black card, and parade in public. Forced to kneel, beaten and tortured for no reason, covered with bruises. He lived in a cowshed and was forced to live in a duck shed. However, it is when the mind and body are subjected to all kinds of torture. In several struggles, life is better than death, several times want to kill themselves, it is reason and responsibility to save themselves. He firmly believed that the darkness was temporary and that the sun would come.

During the period of distress, he was comforted by the preservation of a complete family. It is written in the book: no matter how bitter it is, the family members of the rebels can't suffer the children. The family members of the rebels have made every effort to sell the commercial grain household registration, the relationship between grain and oil and non-staple food. I want to kill the family. I am determined to protect my family and children. I would rather suffer myself than suffer the children and make them suffer. I was tortured beyond recognition outside. When I was in a mess, I had to clean up after the meeting, wash the black ink off my face, and go home after restoring the original appearance, so as not to bring the inhuman and strange image of the struggle to my home, and when the children saw that they were deeply traumatized and mentally stimulated, they had to hug the children first, laugh and play with them, and have fun with them. I never take it out on the child when I am upset and angry, beat and scold the child, and the child at home is always a happy little fairy.

Fourth, happy old age: when the weather cleared up after the rain, it was rehabilitated in 1980. Resume work, pay, and then go through the formalities of retirement. Every year, the government and units visit and visit veteran cadres, ask about the situation of providing for the aged and families, and send care to their hearts, making veteran cadres feel extremely warm and happy. As the saying goes, filial piety comes out of poor families, and hardships produce talents. in 1977, the state resumed the college entrance examination, and the children matured after all kinds of turbulence, fully aware that the good situation was not easy to come by. They study hard, actively prepare for the exam, and have been admitted by colleges and universities inside and outside the province. And graduated with honors, now they all work in the international metropolis of Shanghai, and have made meritorious deeds and made great achievements in various industries. In particular, the youngest daughter is now a doctoral director at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and her granddaughter went through a master's degree program at Oxford University in the United States last year. At present, this big family has been living together for four generations, and it is very happy. Although his father-in-law is over 90 years old, he is in normal condition in all aspects, healthy, optimistic and positive, helping each other with his wife, enjoying the filial piety of his children and bringing them happiness in peace and prosperity. I love photography collection, life is full of sunshine!

Shanghai, September 29, 2019