Author/Li Wubing
On April 24, 1970, the first artificial earth satellite "Dongfanghong I" on the mainland was successfully launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. This event marked that the mainland became the fifth country in the world after the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Japan to independently develop and successfully launch artificial satellites. Speaking of which, Dongfanghong I is only designed to live for 20 days, but since its successful launch in 1970, Dongfanghong I has been operating in space for 52 years...
Old like memories
Today's page of the calendar
I will shine in my memories for the rest of my life
It was spring, Spring in China
Spring in the depths of the Qinling Mountains
We sang The Oriental Red
Laughing and cheering
Beside oneself
……
That's what it was 52 years ago
I walked down an old cobblestone road
At the celebration meeting in Shiquan County, Shaanxi Province
Speaking as a representative of the garrison
I don't know how to elect me as a delegate
Nervous, happy again
It was the first time I participated in such a rally after joining the army
Every word comes from the heart
I dare say that the passion of the year was full of enthusiasm
- Truthfulness, sincerity
A sense of pride arises
The radio horn spread my voice far and wide
Let the feelings of the railroad warriors
Embrace the green mountains and green trees of the Qinling Mountains
Embrace the waves and wooden rows of the Han River
Determined to use China's spirit of "satellite to the sky"
Called the Xiangyu Railway to fly between the Bashan and Han rivers
Do miracles like astronauts
It's just that I wouldn't have anticipated it then
There was a girl on the space front
Will be my wife in 5 years
I know, this railroad force
Especially able to fight, especially able to endure hardships
Overcome difficulties, we have the road under our feet
Like "two bombs and one star"
Concentrate on doing big things
Grow wisdom, grow strength
Self-confidence and self-improvement, invincible
Road builders will fight on the Xiangyu Line
Dare to use steel brazes and hammers
Drill one hole after another for the mountain
Then use two steel rails as a color training
String together the thousand peaks and mountains of the Hubei-Shaanxi River
This is what we write on Earth
Two lines of poetry
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How nice, remember yesterday
The Railroads have a group of heroic men
Dare to use the cocoon flowers of both hands to compare with the stone
Dare to fight with your own life
Will forges the shoulders that dare to shoulder heavy burdens
Hard to put one railroad after another
Carry all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland
Let the "railroad spirit" and the "two bombs and one star" spirit
Stand together and shine
Cast the splendor of the People's Republic
Li Wubing Profile:
He is a retired military cadre of the Beijing Lotus Pond Military Hugh Institute, a former creator of the Railway Soldier Literary and Art Creation Group, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, and has authored "Selected Lyric Poems of Li Wubing" (upper and lower volumes), the essay collection "Sunbird", and the long-form documentary literature "Children of Nature".
Editor: Li Xunxiu Editorial Board of Qingyanwei Literature