From 1961, Lei Feng was often invited to make presentations in foreign countries, he traveled more, more opportunities to serve the people, people circulated this sentence: "Lei Feng traveled a thousand miles, good deeds done a train.
Once Lei Feng went out in Shenyang station to change the car, once out of the ticket gate, found a group of people surrounded by a middle-aged woman carrying a child, it turned out that the woman went from Shandong to Jilin to see her husband, the ticket and money lost. Lei Feng used his own allowance to buy a train ticket to Jilin and stuffed it into his sister-in-law's hand, who said with tears in her eyes, "Big brother, what's your name and which unit are you from?" Lei Feng said, "My name is the People's Liberation Army, and I live in China."
One day in May, Lei Feng braved the rain to go to Shenyang, he in order to catch an early train, 5:00 in the morning to get up, with a few dry buns on the rain coat on the road, on the road, saw a woman carrying a child on her back, the hand is also leading a little girl is also struggling to walk to the station. Lei Feng took off his raincoat draped over the sister-in-law, and picked up the little girl to accompany them to the station, get on the train, Lei Feng saw the little girl shivering in the cold, and took off his own personal threadbare clothes to her to wear, Lei Feng estimated that she had not eaten in the morning, they will bring their own steamed buns to them to eat. When the train arrived in Shenyang, it was still raining, and Lei Feng kept sending them home. The woman said gratefully, "Comrade, how can I thank you!"
Leifeng came back from Andong and changed trains in Shenyang. He picked up his backpack, crossing the underground, saw a gray-haired old lady, leaning on a stick, carrying a large bag, very hard step by step, Lei Feng went forward and asked: "Ma'am, where are you going?" The old man came up for air and said: "I came from Guannei, to Fushun to see his son ah!" When Lei Feng heard that he was going the same way as himself, he immediately took the big baggage and supported the old man with his hand, saying, "Come on, ma'am, I'll send you to Fushun." The old man was touched and praised him as a good boy.
Entering the carriage, he found a seat for the old lady, and stood beside him, took out the bread he had just bought, and stuffed one in the old lady's hand, who pushed it outward and said, "Child, I'm not hungry, you eat it!"" Don't be polite, ma'am, eat! Eat, ma'am, eat! Children, children," this affectionate name, gave Lei Feng a great feeling, he felt like a mother called his own little name like that kindly. He was beside the old man, and the old man chattered away. The old man said, his son is a laborer, out for several years. She is the first time to come, do not know where to live miles. Said, pulled out a letter, Lei Feng took a look, the above address he did not know, but he knew the old man looking for his son's eagerness, said: "Auntie, you can rest assured that I will help you find him."
Lei Feng did what he said, to Fushun, picked up the old man's baggage, assisted the old man, east to inquire, west to inquire, looking for more than two hours, only to find the old man's son.
On New Year's Day, comrades in arms happily engaged in some various recreational activities together. After playing table tennis with everyone at the club for a while, Lei Feng thought that every New Year's Day, the service and transportation departments were the busiest time, and how much these places needed help. He put down his paddle, called up a few comrades in the same class, and together they took leave and went straight to the nearby Ladybird Tun station, where this one helped clean the waiting room and that one poured water for travelers, and Lei Feng drove the whole class up.
Lei Feng is to choose to never stop, wholeheartedly for the people to do good things, no wonder people see people do good things for the people will think of Lei Feng.
A voluntary labor
1960 a Sunday in the early summer, Lei Feng stomach ache is very strong, he came to the regiment health company opened some medicine back, see a building site is in full swing construction, the original is to the Benxi Road elementary school to cover the building, Lei Feng can not help but push up a cart to join the ranks of the transport of bricks until the midday break, Lei Feng was surrounded by a group of workers. Surrounded by a group of workers, in the face of everyone he said: "We are for the socialist construction of bricks and mortar, I am the same as everyone else, as long as they do their own little obligation, but also be considered a part of the light of a light it!" This afternoon, inquired about Lei Feng's name and troops stationed in the city of the second construction company to organize the workers to send a letter of thanks, we know that the sick Lei Feng did a good thing, had a special Sunday.
Admirable "fool"
August 1960, the resident Fushun floods, transportation connected to the flood rescue order. Lei Feng endured the pain of the burned hand just to participate in the fire and his comrades in the upper Temple Reservoir Dam fought for seven days and seven nights, was recorded a second-class merit.
Wanghua District held a large production call mobilization meeting, a great momentum, Lei Feng on the street just to see this scene, he took out the passbook in the factory and the army to save 200 yuan, ran to the party office in Wanghua District to donate to the construction of the motherland to make a contribution, the reception of his comrades could not refuse his friendship, had to accept half. The other 100 yuan was donated to the people of Liaoyang when the country was hit by a hundred-year flood. When our country was hit by a serious natural disaster, he donated all his savings for the construction of the country and the disaster area, but he could not afford to drink a bottle of soda.
★Lei Feng's deeds 2: the children's sweetheart
After October 1960, Lei Feng successively served as an outside counselor at Fushun Construction Street Elementary School (now Lei Feng Elementary School) and Benxi Road Elementary School.
Leifeng was usually very busy with his work and studies. Learning is very busy, he can only use the lunch break or stormy days can not leave the car days off to the school to find teachers, students to talk, or other counseling activities. He was good at uniting children and inspiring them to study hard and get better every day.
Lei Feng with a high sense of mission. The next generation is growing up. *** Youth League Fushun Municipal Party Committee in recognition of Lei Feng's deeds, had on May 28, 1962 issued a certificate of appreciation, which reads: "Awarded to the excellent tutor Comrade Lei Feng, keep the glory, continue to move forward."
★Lei Feng deeds 3: model class president
September 1961, the whole regiment unanimously elected Lei Feng as a representative of the Fushun City People's Congress.
Lei Feng returned to the company after participating in the National People's Congress as the second platoon of the fourth squad leader, under his leadership, the fourth squad became the "four good class", Lei Feng also became the company's four good squad leader.
One evening, it was raining heavily, Lei Feng saw a woman on the highway, holding a child in her arms, and pulling a child in her hands, and carrying a burden, in the downpour step by step slippery walk, Lei Feng busy to go forward to inquire, only to know that the sister-in-law from the field to visit relatives to return to the dozen miles away from the camphor gully to go, she was anxious, said: "Comrade ah, today's rain all the water I confused, there are still I'm confused, there are still children here, I can't cry home even if I cry!"
Lei Feng put his raincoat on his sister-in-law, picked up the older child and walked toward Zhangzigou in the rain, preferring to get soaked himself, and kept walking for more than two hours before sending them home.
★Lei Feng deeds 4: modesty and prudence
Lei Feng enlisted in the army, many meritorious awards, he was elected as a deputy to the Municipal People's Congress, attended the Shenyang Military Region, the first session of the **** Youth League Representative Conference, his photo, diary and exemplary deeds. Through the newspaper. Radio made a wide range of publicity, Lei Feng received one after another from all over the country warmly praised his letter, he wrote in his diary this paragraph: "Everything I have is given by the Party, glory should be attributed to the Party, to help me warmly comrades, as for my personal work, that is too little, I so little contribution, compared to the requirements and expectations of my or very insufficient! ......"
★Lei Feng deeds 5: the sacrifice
August 15, 1962, more than eight o'clock in the morning, the rain fell, Lei Feng and his assistant Qiao Anshan drove from the construction site back to the site. When they drove into the company yard, they realized that the car was splashed with mud and water, so they immediately asked Qiao Anshan to start the car and go to the open space to wash it, despite the fatigue of the long-distance drive. Passing through a relatively narrow section of the aisle in front of the barracks, for safety reasons, Lei Feng stood at the edge of the aisle and raised his arm to direct Xiao Qiao to reverse the turn; "To the left, to the left ...... pour! Reverse!" The car suddenly left rear wheel slipped into the roadside ditch, the body violently shook, suddenly touched down a usual sun clothes quilt with a square wooden pole, Lei Feng unfortunately was down the square wooden pole smashed in the right temple, on the spot flopped on the ground, fainted ......
comrades immediately with a stretcher to send him to the nearby hospital to save the life of the chiefs of all ranks Immediately rushed to the hospital, at the same time as the fastest speed to Shenyang medical experts received Lei Feng bedside. Due to cranial injury, resulting in brain dysfunction, Lei Feng, a good son of the working people, an outstanding member of the Chinese ****anufacturing party, at the age of 22 years old, so and we said goodbye forever!
August 17, in Fushun City, Wanghua District Government Auditorium held a grand memorial service. Nearly 100,000 people escorted Lei Feng's coffin toward the Martyrs' Cemetery.
In January 1963, the Ministry of National Defense named Lei Feng's class "Lei Feng class", **** Youth League posthumously appointed Lei Feng as the National Young Pioneers excellent counselor, the PLA General Political Department, **** Youth League Central Committee, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the All-China Women's Federation have issued a notice on the study of Lei Feng, the People's Daily, the People's Daily", "PLA Daily", "China Youth Daily" and so on successively published editorials, comments and articles introducing Lei Feng's deeds. On March 5, 1963, major newspapers in the capital published Chairman Mao Zedong's glowing inscription: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng."
Lei Feng's famous words:
A drop of water never dries up until it is put into the sea, and a person is most powerful only when he integrates himself with the collective cause. A man is most powerful only when he integrates himself with the collective cause.
A flower can not dress up a beautiful spring, a person advanced always single-handedly, the crowd advanced in order to move mountains and fill the sea.
We are the masters of our country, and we should think of our country in every way.
Man's life is limited, but, to serve the people is unlimited, I want to put the limited life, into unlimited service to the people.
Treat your comrades like the warmth of spring, treat your work like the heat of summer, treat your individualism like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and treat your enemies like the cruelty of winter.
...... If you are a drop of water, do you moisturize an inch of land? If you are a ray of sunshine, have you illuminated a minute of darkness? If you are a grain, do you feed a useful life? If you are the smallest screw, are you forever at your station in life? If you were to tell us what to think, would you preach that most beautiful ideal day and night? Since you are alive, are you giving your labor for the future of human life, making the world more beautiful day by day? What, I ask you, have you brought to the future? In the storehouse of life, we should not be just an endless payer. Lei Feng quotes and aphorisms
Youth, ah, is always beautiful, but the real youth belongs only to these people who always strive for excellence, who always forget their labor, who are always humble.
Strength comes from unity, wisdom comes from labor, action comes from thought, and honor comes from the collective.
In the work, to the highest motivation of comrades, in life, to the lowest level
Looking back at the history of that period, the attention is often not Lei Feng's own biography, but to learn Lei Feng "movement" of the evolution. For example, for more than 40 years after that, the regular annual study of Lei Feng was never chosen on the day of Chairman Mao's inscription, not on Lei Feng's birthday or anniversary. For example, in the General History of the People's Republic of China, the "Learning from Lei Feng Campaign" is listed as a "major political event"; before it, it is listed as the "National Learning from the People's Liberation Army and Strengthening Political Work"; immediately following it is the "National Learning from the People's Liberation Army and Strengthening Political Work"; and immediately following it is the "National Learning from the People's Liberation Army and Strengthening Political Work". "and immediately after it was "excessive criticism in the field of ideology". Incidentally, at the end of 2000, I searched the website of the National Library and found that the bibliography provided on Lei Feng *** there are 311 kinds of books - this number is comparable to that of Guo Moruo, and is about one and a half times as many as those of Hu Shi and Chiang Kai-shek, more than twice as many as those of Liang Qichao and Zhou Zuoren, four times as many as those of Qian Zhongshu and Li Hongzhang, eight times as many as those of Yan Fu, more than ten times as many as those of Chen Yinke, and more than ten times as many as those of Chen Yincheng. Chen Yinke's more than 10 times, Jiang Fangzhen's more than 20 times, and Li Yizhi's 100 times....... (Going back to the search more than a year later, the Lei Feng bibliography has been greatly reduced.)
Overseas historians are also concerned with the political implications of learning from Lei Feng. Related writings mention related events, but also after the Lushan meeting, "Lin Biao's rise in status", "socialist education campaign", criticizing the "two and one" and so on. Meissner notes that in the early 1960s, the PLA "first appeared on the Chinese political scene. The army's role was at first largely confined to propaganda. The first soldier-hero to be promoted as a standard example of Maoist morality with a high sense of life was the legendary Lei Feng". Fei Zhengqing analyzes a number of political events related to the study of Lei Feng, and then argues that the campaign had six effects: "superstitious worship of Mao", "emulation of the army", "physical labor", "education for all", "reawakening the spirit of collectivism" and "proletarian culture". It was these, Fei went on to point out, that "set out the goals and methods that would later become the basic elements of the Cultural Revolution".
But in any case, when Lei Feng himself was alive, he was not a political figure. In fact, in the minds of the vast majority of Chinese people, learning from Lei Feng has always been a public service activity that promotes helping people. Regardless of its origins, after four decades of refinement, it has now been reduced to a "simple symbol" that can be "condensed into three words: 'Do good! Doing Good! '. This is obviously more apt, more down-to-earth, and less controversial than summarizing the "Lei Feng Spirit" with the words "politically oriented" or "selfless dedication". As for recent years, some people are still willing to explore the "Lei Feng spirit" belongs to the "spirit of ****productivism", "the spirit of the times" or "the spirit of the nation "Lei Feng Spirit" and today's market economy and consumer society, is it "antagonistic", "complementary", or is there a possibility of "fusion"? The "fusion" of ...... let them continue to explore.
Over the past half-century, the ordinary but great in all kinds of official publications of the heroic figures, countless. Zhang Side, Meng Tai, Shi Chuanxiang, Zhu Biru, Li Suli, Kong Fansen ......
After the naming conference, the Xinhua News Agency, the People's Daily, the People's Liberation Army Daily, the China Youth Daily and other major national media have all stepped up publicity efforts on Lei Feng's ordinary but great deeds, creating an unprecedented sensational effect across the country and the entire army. Lei Feng's name became a household name, resonating inside and outside the Great Wall, north and south of the Yangtze River. Immediately after that, several big newspapers and magazines wrote reports on Lei Feng's deeds and distributed commentaries and excerpts from Lei Feng's diary at the same time, and writers and poets in the literary world also enthusiastically celebrated Lei Feng's spirit by writing articles and poems. In short, the whole country has coincidentally proposed to let the Lei Feng spirit blossom and bear fruit on the land of God. A campaign to consciously learn from Lei Feng was launched with great vigor on all fronts across the country.
At the request of the China Youth Magazine, Chairman Mao Zedong on Feb. 22, 1963, inscribed the words "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng.
On March 2, 1963, the fifth and sixth issues of China Youth were published together, and the inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" was the first in history to be published by Chairman Mao Zedong. Three days later, on March 5, 1963, Chairman Mao's handwriting was prominently displayed on the front page of People's Daily, People's Liberation Army Daily, Guangming Daily, and China Youth Daily. From that day on, a nationwide campaign to learn from Lei Feng flourished. Since then, March 5 every year has become the anniversary of learning from Lei Feng.
Inscriptions by Party and state leaders.
On March 6, 1963, the day after Chairman Mao's inscription was published in the capital's major newspapers, the People's Liberation Army Daily exclusively published the handwritten inscriptions of state leaders Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Deng Xiaoping, who were in Beijing.
Liu Shaoqi's inscription reads, "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng's ordinary but great ****productivist spirit."
Zhou Enlai's inscription reads, "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng's class position of clear hatred and love, revolutionary spirit of consistency in word and deed, public but selfless ****productivist style, and proletarian fighting spirit of defiance."
Zhu De's inscription reads, "Learn from Lei Feng and be Chairman Mao's good soldier."
Deng Xiaoping's inscription reads, "Whoever wishes to be a true ****proletarian should learn from the character and style of Comrade Lei Feng.
At the request of China Youth Magazine, Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed on February 22, 1963, "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng".