The Chinese nation is a nation that pays attention to spiritual inheritance, and for thousands of years, our ancestors have handed down proverbs and allusions to convey the corresponding truths. This storytelling allusion is loved by children and has a strong inspirational significance. After the founding of New China, a number of advanced figures also emerged, and their deeds were compiled into the teaching materials of primary and secondary school students. However, in our memory, there is a heroic teenager who sacrificed himself to fight the fire, but in recent years has disappeared from the public's vision, he is Laining. Why is his deed no longer mentioned?
Heroic and good boy, not afraid of flames
One day in March 1988, the weather was unusually dry, and a disaster was quietly brewing deep in a forest in Asbestos County, Sichuan Province. In the depths of the woods there were several poles that had stood for many years, and four or five high-voltage lines passed through the branches, perhaps weathered by the wind and rain, and the insulating skin of one of the wires had long been broken, and the bare inner line rubbed against the leaves, and a little scorched black gradually spread into a beam of fire, greedily devouring everything around it.
15-year-old Laining was playing not far away, and the black pressure of smoke and the pungent smell of burnt paste caught his attention. Seeing that the fire was gradually rising, Lai Ning hurried to inform the adults nearby, and the fire brigade arrived at the first time to take measures to evacuate the enthusiastic people who spontaneously extinguished the fire. Due to the timely discovery and proper handling, the fire was quickly controlled. However, the villagers all returned home, only Laining's parents still did not see their children, and the panicked parents begged the villagers to help find them, and finally found Laining on a small hillside.
It turned out that he did not heed the firefighters' request to evacuate the fire scene, but put out the fire on the side. The billowing smoke contained a large amount of toxic gases, and Laining lost his precious life in exhaustion and scorching heat.
People are not small, but they died early
Laining was a good boy with good character and excellent learning, and he did not let his parents worry too much about him from a young age, and he was very interested in learning, especially in geology. Becoming a geologist like Li Siguang is his ideal. In addition to studying, he always likes to go around the woods on the mountain and get inner satisfaction in the quiet nature. But all this beauty was wiped out in this fire.
After Laining's death, in recognition of his spirit of self-denial, his superior leaders posthumously awarded him many honorary titles. His deeds spread throughout the north and south of the great river, and countless people were moved by it, and Lai Ning and Lei Feng became the two great peaks in the hearts of the teenagers of that era. It is true that the fearless spirit and noble character they displayed had a thought-provoking positive significance, but with the development of the times, the propaganda about Laining became less and less, and even disappeared later.
When the hero lives forever, life is more important
As we all know, in the 1980s and 1990s, the mainland was in the early stage of reform and opening up, the gross national product was low for a long time, and all kinds of means of production and living were relatively scarce. At that time, in the minds of ordinary people, the value and meaning of collective goods were not the same as today. Lai Ning's behavior of sacrificing himself for the public was in line with the mainstream values of the time, and with the continuous development of society and the gradual improvement of people's living standards, the value of people became more important.
We can still see from time to time all kinds of heroic acts of seeing righteousness and bravery, sacrificing oneself for the public, and the core of their values is the sense of collective responsibility, which is the sublimation of values that transcend personal interests. However, for adolescents, this behavior itself has a strong risk and uncontrollable factors, adolescent values and mentality are far less sound than adults, for peer behavior may be blindly imitated in the absence of careful judgment, increasing their potential safety risks.
And with the improvement of society, the government's emergency response plan for various emergencies is also becoming more and more mature, the strength of individuals is insignificant compared with the strength of professionals and professional equipment, blind individual heroism may even increase the rescue burden, so Laining's relevant propaganda has gradually faded out of people's sight.
As a young hero, we must not only fully affirm the starting point of his behavior, but also base ourselves on the current situation and effectively protect the safety of young people's lives. Looking at something holistically does not mean that we deny its meaning. It is just that while affirming its positive significance, we are people-oriented and responsible for the young generation of the motherland, which is the responsibility that society should bear.
Heroes are always heroes, there is no doubt about it. The spirit of Laining will always remain in people's hearts. Life is only once, if more people can think, find a more reasonable way to deal with it, and avoid personal crisis, it will definitely be what he wants to see the most.