Since the 1950s, the people's children and soldiers have had another title: the loveliest man! This all stems from the reportage "Who is the Loveliest Person" written by the writer Wei Wei from the front line of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and then this popular article was selected into the middle school textbook, which influenced entire generations. To this day, the people's children and soldiers still enjoy the reputation of the most lovely person, but the source of this title, the reportage "Who is the most lovely person", has been deleted from the textbook, on the grounds that it is inappropriate.
At the end of 1950, as soon as Wei Wei was transferred to the General Political Department, he was sent to Korea by his superiors to investigate the ideological dynamics of american prisoners of war in order to carry out targeted ideological struggle against the enemy. Some of these American PRISONERs of War were world war VETERANS, some were new recruits, some were war-weary, some were belligerent, some were passive, some were reactionary, but one understanding was highly consistent, that is, the volunteers were the most difficult opponents they encountered.
This result deeply touched Wei Wei, and after the investigation, he did not return to China immediately, but went directly to the front. Here, he personally experienced the indiscriminate bombardment of the US army and witnessed the bravery and fearlessness of the soldiers. His footprints spanned blood-soaked mud, artillery-plowed positions, and more than 20 real-world examples were interviewed. After returning, he repeatedly sifted through three examples and wrote a reportage, "Who is the Cutest Man?"
The Battle of Pine Bone Peak described in the book
On April 11, 1951, "Who is the Most Lovely Person" was first published in the People's Daily, which aroused strong resonance among the people of the whole country. At the Second National Congress of The Chinese People's Congress held in 1953, Premier Zhou Enlai shook Wei Wei's hand and praised: I thank you for giving our sons and soldiers the title of "the loveliest person." Since then, "the loveliest person" has become synonymous with the children's soldiers.
Subsequently, "Who is the Cutest Person" was selected for the middle school Chinese textbook. From this point on, the heroism of the volunteer soldiers who shook the earth and fought bloodily inspired generations to grow. Puzzlingly, however, after 2001, this far-reaching article was removed from secondary school language textbooks. What exactly is it that makes the editorial board feel that it is out of place?
The volunteers ran out of ammunition and attacked the Americans with stones
In fact, before it was completely deleted, "Who is the Cutest Person" was deleted many times. According to Zhang Hougan, editor of renjiao publishing house, in the textbooks of the 90s, the two sentences in the article" "When you stuff apples in your child's mouth, when you are walking with your lover, you feel very happy" were deleted, on the grounds that this lyricism was too blunt and lacked literary and artistic height.
Later, the entire article was deleted more directly, and the reason for the deletion was even more bizarre. There were three reasons given at the time: one was that it was a sensational and abusive work, and the other was that the article exaggerated the bloodiness of war and the cruelty of human killing each other. Its depiction is not like writing about the war between people, but about the duel between man and the devil; third, there is no necessary causal connection between our happy life today and the heroes described in the text. Young people in the new era have the values of the new era, and instilling them with outdated revolutionary heroism is not conducive to their mental development.
Renjiao Publishing House editor Zhang Hougan
Seeing these reasons, I can't help but think of a sentence that Zhuge Liang said in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when he was fighting Confucianism: "How can we revitalize the country and establish things when we are looking for chapters and excerpts, and the world's corrupt Confucianism is also there?" "Language learning, really just learn how to rhetoric, how to lyricism, how to improve the level of literature and art? Don't teenagers in the new era need to understand history and revere heroes? Is our education to cultivate the corrupt Confucianism of the world who has no power, or is it to cultivate the pillars of the country?
War is cruel, but war has never been far away from us. In today's world, there are still many places where wars are raging every day. We were not born in times of peace, but in countries of peace. And this peace is precisely what the martyrs in the article exchanged for eating fried noodles in the snow and defeating the aircraft cannons of the US army with their flesh and blood. If we delete the article just because there are descriptions of the cruelty of war, then the people we cultivate are probably the flowers in the greenhouse.
The U.S. military used white phosphorus bombs against the Volunteers
When the U.S. military blatantly violated international conventions and used white phosphorus bombs and bacteriological weapons against volunteers, they were not devils and what was it? Aren't our warriors defending our country dueling with the devil?
In recent years, there has been an evil atmosphere in the textbook publishing circles, "Who is the Most Lovely Person" has been deleted, "The Five Heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain" has been deleted, "Dong Cunrui Sacrificed Himself to Blow Up the Bunker" has been deleted, "Huang Jiguang", "My Comrade-in-Arms Qiu Shaoyun", "Stubborn Little Red Army", "Liu Hulan", and "I Am Chinese" have all been deleted, and all of these deleted are heroes and the indomitable souls of the Chinese nation.
There are many more flattering points in the textbooks
After deleting these excellent articles, many Western fairy tales and heroic legends have been added to the textbook. These articles are desperately trying to promote Western literary centrism and Western cultural values to our youth, and some of the Western heroes they promote are even pirates. While deleting domestic works full of revolutionary heroism, they filled them with entertainment to death and exaltation.
The spirit of Shangganling can never be lost
Today,the United States, Russia, Japan and other countries are teaching their young people to be heroic, while we, who have been ravaged by war, are whitewashing the peace. Some people try to make young people think that today's happiness has nothing to do with the heroes who defend their homes and defend the country, try to cultivate a generation without soul and blood, without iron will, without the spirit of sacrifice, without heroism, and try to make the young generation become spiritually sick, and their hearts are so poisonous!