Side stories about Lei Feng's spirit (urgent ！！！！！)

Wangcheng County, Hunan Province, the birthplace of Lei Feng.

From Changsha City across the Xiangjiang River, 15 kilometers west along the Changning Highway, between the rolling hills, there is a small village called Jianjiatang, which is Lei Feng's hometown. on December 18, 1940 (the twentieth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar), Lei Feng was born here in a poor farmer's family, and at that time named Lei Zhenzhen. Because it was the year of "Gengchen" in the lunar calendar, his family called him "Gengsaiko".

3-year-old child, if now, is in the kindergarten in the age of fun, but Lei Feng 3 years old, grandfather was forced to die by the landlord; 5 years old, his father was beaten by Japanese invaders, sick and died in bed; 6 years old, his brother was in the capitalist factory was rolled off the arm, by the capitalists to return home, and then got "consumption", and He had no money to pay for treatment and died; soon after, his younger brother Jinman died in his mother's arms; at the age of 7, his mother couldn't stand the bullying of the landlord and hung herself from a beam, so he was orphaned; he went up to the mountain to chop wood at a young age in order to make a living, and was cut three times by the landlord's wife in the hand.

From blood and tears, Lei Feng, at the age of nine, became a member of the Children's League in the struggle against bullying and banditry. At just 15, he became a civil servant in the fledgling regime.

Today, some people can get a certificate to arbitrarily extend their military service and working life. If Lei Feng were alive today, he would be an old revolutionary.

Let's follow the path that Lei Feng once traveled and trace his footsteps.

After the liberation, with the help of Uncle Peng Demao, the village chief of Anqing Township, Lei Feng was enrolled in an elementary school. Soon this school was closed. One day, when Lei Feng went to a mountain village more than ten miles away to herd cattle, he found a school. Overjoyed, Lei Feng approached the teacher and asked to study. At first, the teacher did not agree, but after Lei Feng's earnest request, he passed the examination and enrolled in the school. Because of the recent liberation, people's lives were extremely difficult, Lei Feng sometimes read and wrote under the moonlight. Later, because he could not afford the tuition, Uncle Peng recommended him to the township as a correspondent. No doubt because of Lei Feng's excellent character, many years later, when someone interviewed Lei Feng's former teachers and classmates, they were still able to clearly recite the quick-playing book they made up back then:

"Little Lei Zhen Zhen (Lei Feng's name in his early years), he studied the most diligently, went to school the furthest, and did the best work.... ..., In the fall of 1956, Township Chief Peng went to the Wangcheng County Committee for a meeting. Zhang Xingyu, the secretary of the county party committee, wanted to find a civil servant and asked him if he had any good juniors. After Mr. Peng introduced Lei Feng's life and his performance in the township, Mr. Zhang decided to transfer him to the county. Peng was a bit reluctant to let Lei Feng go, but he was happy for him because he would be able to progress faster if he went to a higher authority. Mr. Peng bought Lei Feng a mosquito net, a hot water bottle and a set of new clothes, and personally sent him to the county party committee office.

The Origin of the Screwdriver Spirit

On a mountain path in Wangcheng, a tiny screw caught the eyes of both Secretary Zhang and Lei Feng. Little Lei Feng jumped up and down and kicked the screw away. But Secretary Zhang took a few steps forward, stooped down, picked it up, wiped the dust off the screw, and solemnly handed it to Lei Feng: "Keep it, it will be useful."

Just such a bend, a sentence, an old **** production party member's words and deeds surprisingly affected a young man's life. Later, Lei Feng wrote a diary, the screw was Lei Feng repeatedly thought, and finally formed a unique "screw spirit".

January 12, 1960, Lei Feng wrote: "Although it is a small screw, is a small gear, however, if it is missing, that the whole machine can not run, slow to say that the lack of it, even if it is a small screw is not tightened, a small gear is slightly broken, but also to make the operation of the machine malfunctioned, in spite of this, but then the good screws, and then precision gears, and then the machine will not work, it is a good screws, and then precision gears, and then the screws, and then the screws, and then the screws, and then the screws, and then the screws, and then the screws, and then the gears. Nevertheless, even the best screws, even the most sophisticated gears, if it leaves the machine as a whole, it is not inevitable that it should be treated as scrap and thrown into the scrap metal material warehouse." April 7, 1962, Lei Feng again wrote: "A person's role for the revolutionary cause, such as a machine on a screw. Machine due to the many screws linked and fixed, only became a solid whole, in order to run freely, play its huge working capacity, screws, although small, its role is inestimable, I would like to always do a screw. Screws should be regularly maintained and cleaned in order not to rust. The same is true of the human mind, which has to be checked frequently in order not to go wrong."

Appearance in the barracks

In December 1959, the 19-year-old Lei Feng walked into the barracks. The cadres who received the soldiers saw from the man whose physical condition was not too qualified, yet who had an unusual curriculum vitae, that he was an excellent tractor driver on the agricultural front, an advanced producer on the industrial front for three times, a standard bearer for 18 times, a red-flag bearer for five times, a thrifty worker for three times, and had been praised in the newspapers... ...The receiving cadres thought, if not for his resolute request for enlistment, how could Ansteel afford to send him away.

New recruit Lei Feng to the army on the first day, on behalf of more than 1,000 new soldiers, in the warm applause, not timidly mounted the whole regiment to welcome the new comrades of the General Assembly podium. The eyes of two thousand pairs of eyes in the room were focused on him. He stood in front of the microphone with his head held high, and although he was not tall, he appeared energetic and extraordinarily godlike. He shook the snowflakes falling on the body, from the trouser pockets to pull out the script, operating in a thick Hunan accent read aloud: "Dear chief and all the old comrades, let me on behalf of the new warriors ......" He just spoke two sentences, the wind blew the script folded up, and he desperately wanted to He desperately wanted to unfold the script, but the wind as if deliberately looking for him to be awkward, just spread flat, not waiting to open his mouth and then blowing mess. Chen Guangsheng, the director of the regimental club who was present at the time, wanted to come forward to help him, but I did not expect Lei Feng simply put a speech into his pants pocket, rushed to the microphone to make an impromptu speech: "We are these new soldiers, in the 60's about to start the day to put on the uniform, carry a gun, really have indescribable happiness. Among us there are workers, social workers, there are students, from all directions, but we only have one mind, learn to be good at defending the motherland, when a decent soldier. Just now the head of the regiment speech, I hope we strive to be five good soldiers, according to me, there are leaders here, there are old comrades to help, not to mention the five good, there is a ten good eight good also guaranteed to be."

The whole audience was amused with a roar of laughter. Lei Feng looked a little flustered, grabbed the microphone and said: "What are you laughing at? I'm telling the truth." He turned to salute the chief, and the room erupted in another round of applause.

This is the Lei Feng that Chen Guangsheng, the author of "The Story of Lei Feng," saw for the first time. Now, Chen Guangsheng is over 60 years old, but a living Lei Feng is still in his mind. The more time passes, the more he misses Lei Feng, who has the same feelings and desires as ordinary people, and who shows many colors under the sun like ordinary people.

Chen Guangsheng does not blame his young friend who wrote to him asking, "Is there really a Leifeng? He told his story with deep emotion. He speaks with great affection about the Lei Fengs he has seen.

Ask "Blessings"

Since that recruiting meeting, Lei Feng and Chen Guangsheng, the director of the club, gradually became familiar with each other, and he found that Chen Guangsheng had so many books there, and from then on, he became a regular visitor to the club. Once, Lei Feng saw Lu Xun's Collected Novels on Chen Guangsheng's bedside, so he borrowed it back. After some time, when Lei Feng returned the book, Chen Guangsheng asked him, "Which ones have you read? Lei Feng said "Scream" and "Indecision" in many read. Chen Guangsheng really admired his reading ability, in particular, Chen Guangsheng never die of memory is, when they talked about the "Blessing" in the sister-in-law of Xianglin, Lei Feng suddenly some sad emotions. He said, "I shed tears again when I read Blessings this time. Xianglin Sister-in-law's tragic life is very much like my mother." As Lei Feng said this, tears flowed out. He wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "My mother suffered all her life and died a miserable death in the old society. I was only six or seven years old that year." Saying this, Lei Feng suddenly sidetracked the topic. He said, "I have a low level of culture, a little bit of reading, the author will not be for the Xianglin sister-in-law blessing it, nor for the Lu four masters blessing it, then how to call it a blessing? "Although Lei Feng is not quite understand the intention of the great writer, he likes Lu Xun's works so much. The Blessing obviously sent ripples through Lei Feng's mind, and Chen Guangsheng felt that he could not underestimate the young soldier who loved to use his brain.

Lei Feng's training

In all the books written about Lei Feng, it is probably hard to see a positive description of his training. However, in real life, not all that accompanies Lei Feng is praise and honor.

Whenever Lei Feng borrowed books from Chen Guangsheng, he was always happy. One day, however, he walked into the house with a gloomy face. It turned out that Lei Feng had bumped into the deputy head of the regiment on the way, but the deputy head did not realize that this was Lei Feng. Lei Feng happily greeted the deputy head, but the deputy head saw his exposed outside the brim of the "Liu Haier", and severely reprimanded him. Chen Guangsheng complained in his heart that the deputy regimental commander was a bit too harsh on the new soldiers, but verbally he still comforted Lei Feng, saying that the deputy regimental commander was strict in arresting the troops, so that Lei Feng should not take it to heart. In a short while, Lei Feng will be angry, and as in the past, talking and laughing, before leaving also said to Chen Guangsheng, go back to the hair cut. Later, Chen Guangsheng really saw Lei Feng's

hair short. But once, Chen Guangsheng laughed and said, "I was attracted by the sound of your harmonica, not to check the military appearance." Lei Feng put down his hat and laughed too. It was then that Chen Guangsheng noticed that although his hair was neat, the short hair in front of his forehead was still in the bangs style, only shorter than in the past. Chen Guangsheng stroked the short hair in front of Lei Feng's forehead, joked, "still dare to stay, not afraid of the head of the regiment to see again? "He hemmed and hawed, "Going out on the street again, I'll wear my hat lower." Chen Guangsheng secretly laughed in his heart, what a stubborn wit.

Chen Guangsheng recounted this story, just to say: Lei Feng is a person with personality, not a transparent god. When we publicize an advanced model, we should not be like putting make-up on an actor to cover up the things that belong to his personality, including his shortcomings, so tightly. That way, the typical can only appear on the stage.

A "liberation" photo

Lei Feng, who spent only one year and eight months in the military camp, is full of pride in being a master of his own house. Ji Zeng, who has taken many photos for Lei Feng, was working as a photographer in the regiment's propaganda unit and is now the chairman of the Chengde branch of the Chinese Photographers Association in Hebei Province. He recalled this story:

I remember a noon in the spring of 1961, I sat with my camera down the company interview, just in time for Lei Feng lying on the ground to maintain the vehicle. At this point I went over to him and said: "Lei Feng, right here to take a picture of you how? "Lei Feng shook his head: "No, you go take a picture of someone else, I have enough pictures. Besides, it's a waste to take more pictures." I said, "You have quite a few photos, but have you taken any in a car? Don't forget, you are the driver!" Hearing my words, Thunderbolt was moved, his little face was happy: "Just take a picture!" Said and got out from under the car.

He did a good job of taking pictures in front of the car, I also adjusted the focus, just when I was about to press the shutter, he suddenly said to me: "not here to take pictures, go over there." It turned out that Lei Feng wanted to take a picture in the "liberation" brand car, and the car he was driving was an old Soviet-style car "gass 51". So, I followed him to a "liberation" car. He pointed to the "liberation" sign on the car and said to me, "Can you take a picture of these two words?" I was puzzled and asked, "What are you going to do? "He pondered for a while, said in a deep tone: "Without liberation, where is my Lei Feng?" Hearing him say this, I realized what it meant. With that, I took this more familiar photo of him." More than 20 years later, Ji Zeng still keeps this precious original photo. When Sun Yungui, a public information officer of a garrison department, visited him, Ji Zeng took the original photo out of the album he had kept and showed it to him.

Receiving the album, Sun Yungui curiously flipped through it. This was not an ordinary photo album, but a beautifully produced album of Lei Feng's photos. Lei Feng's life scenes of that year are concentrated in this thick booklet: there are shots of his hard work and mending clothes, scenes of him helping the old and the young at the station, helping people, and scenes of him telling stories for the children when he served as an out-of-school counselor....... Underneath the faded photographs, there is a well-preserved negative attached to it, which can see How careful the owner is. Ji Zeng said most of these photos were washed for the first time since he took them.

I compare the party to my mother

"I sing a song to the party,

I compare the party to my mother,

My mother only gave birth to me,

The party's light shines in my heart,

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The party's light shines in my heart,

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The party's light shines in my heart.

The whip of the old society lashed my body,

Mother would only be drenched in tears;

The ****productivity party called me to make a revolution,

Snatched the whip and beat the enemy."

In Lei Feng's diary, the lyrics of this song had been transcribed so neatly that many people later took it to be Lei Feng's verse. But one thing is for sure, "I compare the Party to my mother", indeed sings Lei Feng's sincere feelings. Nowadays, there are some young people who have not experienced Lei Feng's experience and thus find it difficult to understand this emotion of Lei Feng, but merely take it as an artistic exaggeration. Let's take a look at Gao Shixiang, Lei Feng's instructor, who recalls Lei Feng's entry into the party.

Gao Shixiang, now 64, is the captain officer who talks to Lei Feng in a familiar photo. He was an instructor in Leifeng's company at the time, and was also Leifeng's introduction to the party.

In April 1964, Gao Shixiang was transferred to the Transportation Company as an instructor, just as Lei Feng finished his recruit training and was assigned to the company to learn how to drive.

Gao Shixiang recalled: In the two years of living together, I have the deepest impression of Lei Feng's feelings for the party, the party told to do what to do ha, a heart eye with the party, he often find me and the company commander to talk about, to report on the ideological situation, and many times to apply for membership in the party organization. I saw that he was in such an urgent mood, so I paid attention to cultivate him. I gave Leifeng a copy of the Party's constitution that I had saved and gave him a lecture on the Party. Since then, Lei Feng has been more consciously in accordance with the standards of the Party members to strictly require themselves, take the initiative to find work to do, as soon as possible to help others to do good deeds, there are two soldiers from the same hometown in the company conflict, Lei Feng like cadres, with the reasoning of Chairman Mao's writings, to do ideological work, so that the two comrades soon made peace with the first time.

The company has been the first time to see the two soldiers from the same hometown. I was the instructor of the watch, not to mention how happy. At a branch committee meeting, Lei Feng, who joined the army less than seven months ago, was nominated by the branch committee as a development object. However, in the later discussion of Lei Feng to join the party, individual branch members heard about some of the reflections on Lei Feng, saying that he was doing face work to praise, and some people think that Lei Feng's military service is short, he can do good things to adhere to the regular test test. This puts Lei Feng's membership in the party on hold.

November 7, 1960, in the Shenyang Military Region Engineering Corps Department of the assessment of the "four good company" and "five good" soldiers political work, deputy political commissar Liu Jiale found me, said the PLA newspaper reporter was very touched by Lei Feng's report, decided to write a "bitter child, good soldier". He decided to write a report on "Bitter Child, Good Soldier", but once he realized that Lei Feng was not yet a Party member, he asked why such a soldier had not joined the Party. Please have your branch study it first and come up with an opinion to report to the regimental party committee. After the meeting, I reported the decision of the last branch committee to the instructor and returned to Fushun in the afternoon. That evening, I found Li Chaoqun, deputy secretary of the branch and company commander, and consulted other branch members separately, and all of them passed. I solemnly wrote in the column of the party introducer: "

Comrade Lei Feng remembered the purpose of our army, wholeheartedly serve the people, love and hate, have a firm political position. I voluntarily introduce Lei Feng to the Party."

The next day at noon, I returned to the conference guest house, the branch conference through the resolution of Lei Feng to join the party to the regiment political commissar Han Wanjin reported, during a break in the meeting, the battalion party committee members specifically for the discussion of Lei Feng to join the party held a party committee to pass the resolution of the Transportation Company party branch approved Lei Feng's application for admission to the party. This day was November 8, a day that Lei Feng would never forget. After dinner, the comrades of the Ministry of Engineering notified a middle school in Shenyang City, "two memories and three investigations" report on the memory of suffering Lei Feng to come to me. Lei Feng on the stairway of the guest house let a group of waiters surrounded, asked him to make a small report. At that time, less than a year after enlisting in the army, Lei Feng was a little famous, he went wherever the good things to do, quite popular with the people. As soon as Lei Feng walked into the dormitory, I took out his Party membership application from the bedside, at which time Lei Feng's line of sight stared tightly. Not moving away in the slightest. "Lei Feng, from now on you are a member of the Chinese ****production party! "I said seriously. He seemed like a child who had been away from his mother for a long time jumped into his mother's arms, "wow" cried, at this time, several instructors present all froze, touched by Lei Feng's sincere feelings for the party, only to see Lei Feng flipped his hand over his membership application, choked and said intermittently: "Mom, I have found you! I will listen to you in the future! "At this time in the Lei Feng side of the Cui instructor came over to pull Lei Feng's hand and said: "You are already a party member, in the future you should be more modest and prudent, wholeheartedly serve the people!" Lei Feng listened and nodded his head, and at night he wrote in his diary, "Great Party! You are my kind mother, all I have belongs to you, I want to always listen to you, be your faithful son."

Flipping through Lei Feng's diary, one can see that he expressed his wish in many places that he would strive to realize his fondest wish to meet the great leader Chairman Mao. Once for Lei Feng has taken more than 200 photos, the former Shenyang Military Region Political Department officer, now working in Anshan Correctional Institution, Comrade Zhang Jun recalled: I was with Lei Feng, he has repeatedly told me: "to study hard, do a good job, and strive to see Chairman Mao in Beijing! "Why do I still remember Lei Feng's desire to see Chairman Mao? Because the Shenyang Military Region Engineering Corps Party Committee has made a decision to assign Comrade Lei Feng as a representative to attend the 1962 National Day Observation Ceremony. Never thought that the good news had not had time to tell him, he was killed in the line of duty on August 15 of that year, was not able to realize his long-cherished wish to see Chairman Mao. In 1963, "August 1" on the eve of the Army Day, in the capital city of Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall for Comrade Lei Feng met the great leader Chairman Mao, I was in tears, thrilled, snatched more than a dozen of Chairman Mao received the Shenyang military region anti-enemy drama troupe, "Lei Feng" cast and crew of the precious photographs. It is said that Chairman Mao, who loved opera, never watched plays, and also said, give me 200 pieces of ocean also don't watch plays. However, Chairman Mao was attracted by the play Lei Feng and was excited by the Lei Feng in the play. Zhang Jun was sadly choked up every time he talked about it.

Lei Feng, an orphan who survived the misery of the old society, learned from his own experience that there is no new China without the ****production party. When he thanked the party to repay the party's simple class feelings, rose to the party's cause and ideals, and become a member of the ruling party, how can he not feel a lot of emotions. Without understanding the history and trajectory of thought of Lei Feng's generation growing up, it is difficult to understand what Lei Feng has done, and it really creates a question mark about Lei Feng, and how childish and superficial such questions are.

Party newspaper letter of appointment

A few years ago, some people also published articles in the press, said Lei Feng is "human resources", not "talent". Lei Feng is not talent, we do not say more, only to provide a bit of history, can be quite illustrative of the problem. 1961 November, a letter of appointment sent to the hands of Lei Feng has not yet been famous:

Comrade Lei Feng:

Learned that your unit to determine you as a correspondent of the newspaper, we warmly welcome, and hereby send a letter to formally hire ... ... ...and hope to strengthen contact in the future.

Sincerely

Salute

People's Liberation Army

Correspondence and Liaison Group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army

Liberation Army Newspaper

November 17, 1961

Some graduate students at People's University saw the letter of employment at the Military Museum. Several students drew out some emotions. Some said that to be a correspondent for a centralized party newspaper, one had to have some real skills, and they didn't expect Lei Feng to be so good at it. Some said, this is an important historical material of Lei Feng, it makes the image of Lei Feng more full. Lei Feng is not only helping people, he also has a certain level of science and culture, which is attractive to contemporary youth.

A natural contribution

How did Lei Feng come to be a typical person, how did the leader discover Lei Feng, and who was the first to publicize Lei Feng?

We finally figured it out. In a hotel in Shenyang, we met with the gray-haired Tong Xiwen, Li Jianyu, the two military correspondents of the Xinhua News Agency in Liaoning, now retired. When we were still wearing the red scarf, we remembered the name of Lei Feng, but we did not pay attention to who was the first to preach Lei Feng. Now, two of those authors who have written about Lei Feng are sitting in front of us.

They, however, said modestly, "We didn't publicize Lei Feng; he was famous long before he was publicized."

"In October 1960, the Forward Newspaper editor-in-chief JI Bingqian called the two of us, said the newspaper received a natural article, reflecting a new soldier called Lei Feng hard work and simplicity. Said, JI Bingqian handed us the manuscript. We look, this new soldier enlisted less than 10 months, picking up toothpaste skin, socks, donations to the People's Commune, a lot of good things to do. At that time, we thought, the country is in a difficult time, the party emphasizes the strong, Lei Feng to do this is not simple, but also very lovely. JI Bingqian asked us to go to the army to understand and meet this soldier. We went to the military region of the Engineering Corps Political Department, met Wang, deputy director, asked him to find us Lei Feng is which unit. Deputy Director Wang said that Lei Feng was in Shenyang in the next few days and was going to Liaoning Normal University to give a report on his memory of suffering. He is a typical person who remembers suffering.

"The two of us discussed it and decided to feel it on the spot. The day Lei Feng came to the university to give a report, the two of us sat with the students and listened. Hearing Lei Feng talk about his own bitter life, the heart is too sad to bear. Lei Feng not only talked about his past sufferings, but also about the Party's cultivation of him and his present work. Some students cried and whimpered as they spoke from above and cried from below. At this time, the slogan suddenly rang out, 'Lei Feng's suffering is our suffering, Lei Feng's hatred is our hatred'. After this leader shouted, that student stood up again and led the reduction: 'Learn from Lei Feng', 'Learn from Lei Feng'. The scene was so exciting. This report for both of us, solved the problem of emotional infection, both feel that this soldier is really lovely, he is not just a typical savings. After the meeting, we talked directly with Lei Feng. He talked very honestly, and he brought with him three diaries and notes. We found that this young man is very focused on learning, JI Bingqian also listened to the report that day, excitedly said, to report a big typical.

"Zhao Zhihua of the propaganda department of the Corps of Engineers, photographer Zhang Jun, they have contacted Lei Feng many times. We listened to their introduction again, and then went up to Lei Feng's company, whose instructor at the time was Gao Shixiang. His evaluation of this soldier was positive. He described the characteristics of this soldier, one was hard work, the other was helping people, saying that he was very affectionate to the people, and expressed a spontaneous affection to the old comrades, workers, and peasants with his actions. The troops issued four moon cakes, which he delivered to the workers' hospital. When Wanghua District established a people's commune, he sent 200 yuan."

Zhang Jun recounted the donation more vividly in his recollections:

"In late October 1960, the regiment's propaganda assistant and I took the two letters received by Lei Feng's regiment from places praising Lei Feng, and again came to Lei Feng's Transportation Company for verification. A letter is Fushun City Wanghua District Peace People's Commune to thank Lei Feng sent 100 yuan to support the establishment of the People's Commune; a letter from the Liaoyang Municipal Party Committee, enthusiastically praised Lei Feng to the people in the disaster area to send 100 yuan of deep affection. After investigation and understanding, the facts were clarified: once the people in the company premises were beating gongs and drums to celebrate the establishment of the people's commune. When Lei Feng saw this lively scene, he immediately ran to the savings office and took out all the 200 yuan he had saved up in the factory and the army, and then ran to the party committee office of the People's Commune of Heping in a gust of wind and put the money on the table and said, 'I have long been looking forward to this day, and this is a little bit of my heart, so please accept it! The comrade of the Party Committee Office was very touched and said: 'We accept your love for the commune, but we can't accept this money, you keep it and send it home! Lei Feng said earnestly: 'The People's Commune is my home! If my parents were still alive, they would not have refused the money given by their son.'' Lei Feng repeatedly asked, the commune still refused to accept, until Lei Feng said tears, the comrades of the commune only agreed to accept half of the 100 yuan, although the number is not large, but it gave the peace of the people's commune all members of a spiritual wealth.

"Shortly after the incident, the Liaoyang area was hit by a hundred-year flood. When Lei Feng saw in the newspaper that Chairman Mao of the Party Central Committee sent airplanes to the people in the disaster area to transport clothing and food, he thought to himself what can I do for the people in the disaster area as a soldier? He rushed to write a letter of condolence, in the pouring rain, ran to the post office, the commune returned 100 yuan, sent to the Liaoyang Municipal Party Committee ......

"Lei Feng support the people's commune and the people in the disaster area, willing to give up their own everything, but he could never afford to spend a penny. After joining the People's Liberation Army, he received a monthly allowance, in addition to leaving 10 cents to pay the regimental fee, 20 cents to buy soap, and then use some money to buy books, the rest of all deposited in the savings center. The socks he wore had been mended many times, and in the end they were completely changed, but he could not throw them away. The company issued summer uniforms, two sets of single uniforms, two shirts and two pairs of shoes for each person. Lei Feng only received a single set of uniform, a shirt and a pair of shoes. Lei Feng's revolutionary spirit of hard work is praised by comrades, but there are some individual comrades do not understand Lei Feng, saying that he saves money and does not spend, really stupid!

"Lei Feng wrote in his diary: some people say I am a fool, is not true. I want to be a person who is good for the people and good for the country, and if this is 'silly', then I am willing to be such a 'silly'. The revolution needs such a 'fool' and the construction needs such a 'fool'.

"Some comrades have seen the "Lei Feng" movie, I do not know if you remember a soldier called Wang Dali threw Lei Feng's broken socks of the footage, as well as Lei Feng in the name of Wang Dali to his mother to send 20 yuan to cure the picture, which is true. Wang Dali always thought Lei Feng was 'a little stingy' and only changed his opinion of him when he realized it was Lei Feng who sent 20 yuan to his mother in his name."

There was controversy

The good things Lei Feng did have long been recited by the general public, but some people still don't understand them. Not only today, but at that time, even cadres who spent all day with Lei Feng doubted his motives for doing good deeds.

Tong Xiwen and Li Jianyu continued to tell us:

"There were cadres in the company who held the opposite view. Some cadres said that he loved the limelight and did good deeds specifically for others to see. At that time we were very careful in writing, we consciously let the two opinions of the comrades to sit together to talk, accept our interview. We talked calmly for half a day. At the beginning, those who agreed with Lei Feng were in the majority, and through the conversation, the comrades who originally had some views on Lei Feng gradually changed. The political commissar of the regiment, Mr. Han, who was a cadre during the war, said, 'It is normal to have different opinions, and it is good for us to exchange them together'. If you want to say who was the one who discovered Lei Feng, it was Political Commissar Han. He is a 'living thunderbolt' in his own right. His own family is in difficulty, and he has donated money to disaster areas.

But when it came to publicizing Lei Feng, he wouldn't let others write about him. He died some years ago. Few people still know about his advanced deeds.

"Back then there were work-study schools and juvenile detention centers, and some children went in wearing red scarves. People had realized the importance of educating the young generation. So we felt, 'Lei Feng is a good descendant of the Party'. That was the title of the newsletter we wrote later. At that time, the country was in economic difficulties and the international environment was not favorable to us, but we felt that as long as the Party was there, the political backbone was there, and there were good scions like Lei Feng, the country would be as stable as Mount Taishan."

Lei Feng became the "fire" of the Northeast

Tong Xiwen and Li Jianyu went on to tell us, "After the manuscript was written, we showed it to JI Bingqian. He took to the then director of the political department of the Shenyang military region, Du Ping to see. Du Ping has a unique eye, read the manuscript, waved his pen and wrote down the words 'Chairman Mao's good soldier - Lei Feng'. 26 November 1960, this article in the Forward Newspaper published two and a half pages. The manuscript was also sent simultaneously to the Xinhua General News Agency, the People's Liberation Army Daily, the Liaoning Daily, the Liaoning **** Youth League Member magazine, the Liaoning Worker's Newspaper, and the Shenyang Daily. However, the headlines published by the newspapers were modified. The People's Liberation Army Newspaper published on December 13, 1960, on the second page, the title is called 'Thriving Seedling'; Liaoning Daily called 'Red Warrior';

Xinhua News Agency issued a release titled 'Bitter Children Growing Into Outstanding Soldiers', and at that time the highest-toned was the Forward Newspaper. The military district also simultaneously put forward the slogan of 'Learning Lei Feng, Catching up with Lei Feng, Exceeding Lei Feng'. Lei Feng's name spread throughout the Northeast. Lei Feng's reports of his grievances were spoken everywhere, at air force airfields, on navy ships, in factory workshops, and on rural threshing floors, so that his voice was muffled. Everyone said that Lei Feng was a ball of fire, and wherever he went, there were scenes of excitement. Lei Feng that regiment in Fushun City, Fushun City, the youth carried out activities to learn Lei Feng. The newspapers publicized many good young people who studied Lei Feng. Later we wrote two articles, one called 'A Thousand Hammers', about Lei Feng's growth under the Party's education. The other was called 'Ten Million Lei Fengs Growing Up', reflecting the great repercussions of Lei Feng among the youth. At that time, Lei Feng's name was basically a household name in Liaoning and had a certain impact on the whole country. A letter soon came from the China Youth Publishing House asking us to write a book on Lei Feng. Because we had to go to the front line for an interview, we excused ourselves from this assignment. One of the two of us went to the front line in the East China Sea and the other to the front line in the South China Sea."

The Death of Lei Feng

Tong Xiwen and Li Jianyu continued, "It was a coincidence that on August 15, 1962, the day Lei Feng was killed, we were walking back from Guangzhou, and when we came back, we heard that Lei Feng had been killed in the line of duty. At that time, I couldn't speak at once, emotionally I couldn't bear it. Later, I heard that the regiment was going to mourn Lei Feng, and Fushun City attached great importance to it, and the workers, youth, and women all sent representatives to attend the memorial service and send the spirit. The memorial service was held in a large auditorium in Wanghua District. At that time, the auditorium could not fit inside, and the outside was crowded. The funeral road was crowded with people. The streets were lined with white flowers. It was a ten-mile long street. We were y moved by Chairman Mao's words, 'Even though you die, you still live,' and we thought that Lei Feng was good enough. People who have heard him give a report, people he has directly helped,