(Original title: six million people's **** the same voice)
Liu Jun Zeng
The people who have been to Tangshan must have been located in the center of the earthquake monument plaza, must have read the inscription engraved on the monument. This inscription can be called a piece of heirloom masterpiece, only with more than 800 words that the world-shattering Tangshan earthquake and anti-earthquake historical facts, the people of Tangshan under the leadership of the party's fighting spirit of shocking the world and weeping God in front of the world.
After reading the inscription, people tend to naturally ask who is the author of the inscription. In fact, it is not a person's work, but the majority of the city's cadres and masses of the collective creation of the six million people of Tangshan *** with the voice of the people. 1983 Tangshan merger, the municipal party committee and the municipal government to make a large-scale commemorative activities in the 10th anniversary of the earthquake and the establishment of the earthquake monument decision, at the same time, the drafting of the inscription to the Municipal Party Committee General Office. In order to accomplish this sacred mission, the General Office of the Municipal Party Committee carried out a wide range of mobilization and collection of manuscripts in the city, and get the general support of all walks of life, and soon received a large number of manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts from retired cadres, some professors and lecturers from universities and colleges, some from industrial and mining enterprises, some from rural streets. Office of the organization of specialists in the comprehensive absorption of these contributions on the basis of the formation of a preliminary draft, and will be issued to the city's grass-roots units to seek repeated revisions. At the same time, were held in a number of people from all walks of life to participate in the symposium, face to face to listen to the views. Finally, the first draft was also sent to the provincial party committee and provincial government leaders, especially old comrades who had commanded battles on the front line of the earthquake, as well as writers and professors who are very famous in the country, such as Wei Wei, Yao Xueyin, Sun Li, Wu Zuxiang, Wang Li, Qigong and so on, and they were asked to help consider and correct the draft from different perspectives. Like the above, this call for manuscripts and revisions in the city repeatedly up and down a number of times, the time lasted more than a year, only the Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee to discuss no less than five or six times.
It is because of the concentration of the collective wisdom of the people of the city, so from the overall conception of the inscription to the structure of the layout, from the selection of historical materials to the words and phrases have their distinctive features. From the stylistic point of view, it did not stick to the traditional eight-study model, but from the actual need to take half-text and half-white, monument and eulogy style, both to take care of a considerable level of knowledge of the intellectual class, but also to take care of the vast number of workers, peasants, and primary and secondary school students, and really do the elegance of the popularity of the **** appreciation. From the structural layout, the level is clear, ring tight. The whole text **** divided into five paragraphs, one is the earthquake disaster, the second is the Tangshan people's self-help and mutual aid, three is the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the rescue of the whole country, the fourth is the construction of the new Tangshan, the fifth is the conclusion of the history and the purpose of building a monument. From the selection of historical materials to achieve a degree of choice, appropriate details. From the words and phrases, basically do the organic combination of historical and literary, both to avoid a dry list of figures, but also to avoid the flashy rhetoric pile, so that the whole article seems both solemn, serious, but also lively, lively, after reading can be really inspiring, memorable, and really play a "consolation to the quake of the deceased loved ones, flagging martyrs, inspire the contemporary people, educate future generations! The first is that it is not a good idea to have a good time, but it is a good idea to have a good time, and it is a good idea to have a good time.
Of course, the article can be created collectively, while the calligraphy can only be completed by individuals. So, who is more suitable for the calligraphy of the inscription? After the recommendation of the Chinese Calligraphy Association and the Tangshan City leaders of the study, decided to invite the People's Liberation Army General Political Department of the Department of Culture, Comrade Xia Xiangping to complete this important task. The reason is very simple, because in the great struggle of Tangshan earthquake relief, the Chinese People's Liberation Army can be said to be a great success, without the PLA there is no Tangshan today, and finally this "period" should of course be drawn by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and this is the city's 6 million people's *** with the same wish.
(This article was published on July 28, 2000 "Tangshan Evening News" and July 26, 2001 "Hebei Daily". On both occasions, the newspaper mislabeled the word "eulogy" as "admonition". (In particular, "Hebei Daily" also published the same period & lt; Tangshan earthquake monument inscription excerpts & gt;, which lost the wrong word as many as ten, it is regrettable)
Tangshan earthquake monument inscription
Tangshan is the Jidong an industrial town, the misfortune of July 28, 1976, at 3:42 a.m. occurred in a strong earthquake. The epicenter of longitude 118 degrees east 11 minutes, latitude 39 degrees north 38 minutes, magnitude 7.8, epicenter intensity of eleven degrees, the depth of the epicenter 11 kilometers. At that time, people were sleeping soundly and everything was quiet. Suddenly, the earth's light flashed, the sound of the earth roared, houses collapsed, the earth cracked and mountains crumbled, and within seconds, a hundred years of urban construction was reduced to nothing, 240,000 urban and rural residents were killed in the rubble, more than 160,000 people were disabled, and more than 7,000 homes were cut off from their doors and smoke. The disaster devastated Beijing and Tianjin and shocked the whole country, and it was the most devastating disaster in history. However, Tangshan is not lost as the spirit of the land of China, the people are worthy of the Ying Yan of the heroes, with this devastating disaster, the end of the will to return to heaven. The main quake party stops, aftershocks are still frequent, the survivors that the struggle of the force, move the body of the disabled, prostrate to save each other, to foam together, a chapter of the wind and rain, life and death and ****, the first people after their own, the public and forget about the ****productivist song of the tragic song. After the earthquake, the Party Central Committee, the State Council emergency telegram nationwide rapid rescue. More than 100,000 people of the People's Liberation Army, the first arrived in the city, sacrificing their lives, risk rescue, clearing the virtual building, the work of the world. Fifty thousand medical personnel and cadres and workers to transport supplies, relief of the people hanging in the balance, to save lives and help the injured, the grace is as heavy as a mountain. Donations and grants from all directions, hundreds of thousands of tons of materials delivered to the disaster area, Tangshan people peacefully through the lack of food and water of the desperate situation. At the same time, the central condolence delegation to visit, the provincial and municipal party and government leaders on-site command, such as the transfer of the injured, clearing the body of the epidemic, water and power supply, distribution of relief and other rapid start, step by step success. Ten days after the earthquake, the railroad was opened to traffic; before January, schools opened one after another, factories resumed production, stores opened one after another; before the winter, more than one million simple houses were in ruins, and all the victims were not frozen and discouraged; after the disaster, the diseases were reduced, and the plague did not sprout, which is called a miracle in the history of disaster relief. Since 1979, the reconstruction of Tangshan has been in full swing. The state allocated more than five billion yuan, set the design and construction team amounted to more than 100,000 people, and the central leadership also visited the city many times to give guidance. After seven years of struggle, 12 million square meters of residential buildings and 6 million square meters of factory buildings and public facilities were built in the urban area. After the earthquake, the new city, high-rise buildings, through the streets like weaving, green shade, spring light. The vast rural areas are also fresh and fresh, the harvest, the mountains and the sea to profit, all industries are flourishing. Today, Tangshan, such as the phoenix regenerated after the robbery, winged in the fertile fields of Jidong. Focusing on the past, you suddenly ten years. Here a brick, a stone, a grass and a tree all declare the truth: China **** the great and wise Communist Party, the socialist system is incomparably superior, the People's Liberation Army is loyal and reliable, independent of the fate of the people can not be convinced. I hereby erect this monument to console the deceased relatives, to honor the martyrs, to inspire the present generation and to educate the future generations. I have been working on this for a long time, and I'm sure I'll be able to make it work for you.
Tangshan Municipal People's Government
July 1986