October 22, 2021 is the centenary of the birth of her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen.
On October 22, 1921, her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, was born into a family of a small shopkeeper in Dongmen, Panshi County, Jilin Province.
Her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, completed primary school at Tianyi Girls' School in Panshi County, Jilin Province. Due to the death of her grandfather in middle age and the fall of the family, her mother could not continue her studies, so she had to leave her beloved campus and prematurely shoulder the burden of the family.
The mother is the eldest in the family, with a younger sister and a younger brother. In order to let the younger siblings finish their studies, her mother struggled to help her grandmother run the shop...
The clothes, pants, shoes, etc. worn by my second aunt and uncle were completely sewn by my mother.
After my grandmother's death, my married mother continued to actively support her second aunt and uncle, so that they could successfully complete their university studies.
Later, the second aunt and uncle participated in revolutionary work in Siping City, Jilin Province, and Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
During the "Manchukuo" period, her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, who had never traveled far away, carried her eldest brother Zhang Hongzhi, who was less than one year old, to visit her father, Lord Zhang Xiping, in Shenyang's Dongdaying.
That's really inquiring all the way to the address to find ah!
In 1945, her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, led her toddler elder brother from Changchun Railway Station all the way to the "Tank School" in the eastern suburbs of Changchun to visit her father, Lord Zhang Xiping, who was busy with military affairs...
At that time, "Manchukuo" fell, the entire northeast was in chaos, and the entire Changchun City presented a scene of decadence and decay.
My mother inquired from east to west, and finally arrived at the "Manchukuo Army Officer School" of that year. By this time, the students here had long since dispersed, and the whole campus had become a barracks...
The mother raised seven children in her lifetime, two of whom died tragically.
Mothers always have broken hearts for the growth of their children.
Although there are many children in the family, the patches and patches worn by the children in the family are always clean and sharp, and the children's "tuition and miscellaneous fees" for two semesters a year, the mother always prepares in advance with frugal food and clothing, and never makes the children embarrassed because the "tuition and miscellaneous fees" cannot be paid!
In the special era, the school was closed for more than two years. Many children learn badly: wandering around all day, robbing, stealing, fighting in groups...
At that time, before going to work every day, my mother always had to tell the second brother, who was already a third-grade high school student, the third brother of a junior high school third-grader, not to participate in "martial arts", to treat others with kindness, not to hang out on the street, to read books at home, to listen to the radio, to learn painting...
In 1967, for special reasons, trams and buses were always absent, and there were always guns and bullets flying in the urban areas, and in such a dangerous environment, my mother did not delay a day of work.
Every day, my mother walked out of the house early, when there were few guns and bullets, and she walked without a tram. In case of emergency, take a detour to the alley and run to the work unit to report.
These things, only after experiencing that era do we know the difficulties, know the dangers, and know that they are not easy!
In November 1969, the family followed his father, Lord Zhang Xiping, on the "May 7Th Road" to Mujiatun, Anle Commune, Panshi County, Jilin Province.
Life has changed, the environment of life has changed, and the way of life has completely changed, but the spirit of self-improvement of her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, has not changed!
At that time, in the countryside, the families of the "May Seventh Warriors" gave some preferential policies, allowing them to raise some livestock, poultry, etc. without having to hand them in.
In order to improve family life, the mother raises pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, etc.; in order to improve family life, the mother carries a large basket into the mountains to collect cat's claw vegetables, bracken, mushrooms, etc.; in order to improve family life, the mother carries the big rake and goes straight to the train road Bangzi to burn the dead branches and leaves ... My mother's actions greatly infected me, after school, winter and summer vacations, I often carried a large basket into the field to collect wild vegetables, into the depths of the mountains to cut firewood, carry a shovel to dig a rat hole to obtain brown rice, soybeans ...
The virtues of her mother, Zhao Shuzhen, who is hard-working, thrifty, lenient, simple and kind, honest and tenacious, deeply affects her children, so that her children actively pioneer on the road of life, strive to forge ahead, have the courage to fight, actively carry out work in their ordinary jobs and achieve achievements.
On July 23, 1990, her mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, completed her ordinary and great seventy-year life path...
On October 22, 1991, his father, Lord Zhang Xiping, wrote on the calendar of that day: "Zhao Shuzhen's Birth Day" in six big characters.
The short six words contain a piece of affection from his father, Lord Zhang Xiping.
I can imagine that my father, Lord Zhang Xiping, was in extreme pain at that time - his mother, Zhao Shuzhen, died for more than two months...
Cixi of the late Qing Dynasty wrote in the Poem of Wishing Mother's Birthday:
The love of fathers and mothers in the world is the most true, and tears and blood dissolve into the bodies of children.
Exhausting all his efforts will eventually be a son, and the heart of poor parents in the world.
Poor parents in the world!
Before my mother was born, I had a very superficial understanding of maternal love, and my feelings of gratitude were very faint and light. This has something to do with the era we experienced when we were young.
As I grow older, with the increase of experience, I deeply realize that the limit of love in the world is the kindest and most selfless maternal love!
But how much can we reciprocate maternal love?
My mother, Lord Zhao Shuzhen, was an ordinary and ordinary person, but in my ordinary mother, she fully embodied the industrious, kind, and simple virtues of millions of chinese mothers.
I loved my mother, especially her hard work all her life, and there are many things I will always remember!