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When I was in junior high school, the Chinese textbook had Mr. Wei Wei's famous passage , "Who is the Most Lovely Person?". Mr. Meng Xianzhong, a Chinese teacher at that time, said in his lecture that Mr. Wei Wei, a writer in the military service, used simple words to select the three most touching and typical stories of the sons and soldiers of the volunteer army on the Korean battlefield, and used vivid language to passionately express the heroic spirit of the people's volunteers who are not afraid of sacrifice, the patriotic enthusiasm of not fearing hardships, and the deep friendship with the Korean people. The title of "loveliest person" given by Wei Wei to the Chinese Volunteer Army is deeply engraved in my heart.
Later, I learned that Mr. Wei Wei was an old Zhengzhou native, and his family lived in Weijia Hutong on East Avenue, which was opposite my house. Wei Wei was also my second uncle's classmate at the Zhengxian Simple Normal School. I'm really proud to have this celebrity in Zhengzhou.
Mr. Wei Wei, whose original name was Wei Hongjie, was born on March 6, 1920 to a poor urban family on East Avenue, Zhengzhou. His parents died young, and he grew up with his cousin. In his childhood, he attended Zhengxian Civilian Primary School (now Chuangxin Street Primary School) and Guanyuemiao Primary School. When Wei Wei was in school at the Zhengxian Simple Normal School, she was influenced and influenced by the young female teacher Cai Yunzhi, who loved poetry and literature, and many poems were published in newspapers when she was a student.
When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, Mr. Wei Wei was influenced by progressive ideas, threw himself into the pen and went to the anti-Japanese front line in Shanxi, joined the Eighth Route Army, and soon transferred to the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and joined the Communist Party of China. Mr. Wei Wei smelted steel in the revolutionary furnace of kang da. After graduating from kang da, he was assigned to the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area, began his career as a military writer, and published a long poem "The Storm of Dawn" in the newspapers and periodicals of the base area under the pseudonym of red poplar tree, and won the Lu Xun Literary and Art Prize awarded by the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Literature and Art Federation.
At the end of 1950, Wei Wei rushed to the front line of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and returned to China three months later to publish a number of war literature works, including the famous article "Who is the Most Lovely Person". On April 1, 1951, after the article was published on the first page of the People's Daily, it caused a huge response throughout the country. The single book has been printed more than 20 times, distributed more than one million copies, and has been translated into more than ten languages and sold at home and abroad.
In the next 22 years, Wei Wei created a large number of works, and the novel "Orient" was praised by the well-known writer Ding Ling as an "epic novel", and later called the "Revolutionary War Trilogy" with his "Red Streamers on earth" and "Fire Phoenix".
As a native of Zhengzhou, Wei Wei is full of love and attachment to his hometown, although his sideburns are white and his hometown voice has not changed, he loves to listen to hometown dramas and eat hometown meals. In 1985, he returned to his alma mater to give a lecture to all the teachers and students. He responded to every request and wrote prefaces to the works of many authors in his hometown. Later, I heard the second uncle say that he had visited Mr. Wei Wei in Beijing in 1996 and was warmly received by his old classmate Wei Wei.
On August 24, 2008, the most lovely person Wei Wei left us forever. In accordance with his will, on April 11, 2012, part of Wei Wei's ashes were buried along with the weapons he fought in his lifetime— brushes, magnifying glasses, notebooks, etc.
In front of the tomb of Wei Wei in Zhengzhou, a statue of him dressed in a military coat stood, and he looked at the land that gave birth to him and raised him, as if to say: Zhengzhou, the son has returned.