"Bright and bright to beautiful, to help the danger and to fight for the slightest; He is heavier than Tarzan, and his style is like that of Si Shishi. ”
This is a phrase proposed by Lin Boqu, one of the outstanding leaders of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, for the revolutionary martyr Xiang Xiuli, who sacrificed his life to fight the fire.
On the evening of December 13, 1958, Xiang Xiuli, a female worker at the Guangzhou He Jigong United Pharmaceutical Factory, and two other colleagues were working night shifts in the workshop to prepare and process new drugs.
Suddenly, a glass bottle containing 20 kilograms of anhydrous alcohol accidentally slipped to the ground, and the workshop instantly ignited a raging fire under the thermal radiation of the coal stove.
In order to separate the metal sodium material with strong explosiveness and protect the safety of the life and property of the factory and the surrounding residents, Xiang Xiuli resolutely threw herself into the fire without any regard for her own safety.
She used her thin body to block the flow of alcohol and the spread of the fire, and bought extremely valuable action time for extinguishing the fire.
The fire was extinguished, but Xiang Xiuli was severely burned, and after 33 days in the hospital, she died a glorious death due to the rapid deterioration of her condition, when she was only 25 years old.
Her son was less than two years old that year, and he no longer had his mother's company, and since then, his young memories of his mother are both strange and familiar, and the family has never dared to tell him the truth of the matter.
It wasn't until he was in elementary school that he learned about his mother's deeds from the text "The Story of Xiang Xiuli".
Today, more than 60 years have passed since the heroic sacrifice of his mother, and Cui Dingbang, who has passed the age of flower armor, is still struggling in the front line and making unremitting efforts to inherit the heroic mother's beautiful great spirit.
First, the good daughter of the party, desperate to fight for herself at an emergency
On May 13, 1933, Xiang Xiuli was born in a poor working family in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and the children of the family were very poor.
When Xiang Xiuli was born, there was chaos everywhere, and she had to follow her family to flee everywhere. During those difficult and painful years, hunger and poverty took the lives of five of her brothers and sisters.
Forced to make a living, her parents tearfully sent the 10-year-old to the landlord's house as an adopted daughter, saying that she was an "adopted daughter" in fact like a maid.
Every day, he gets up early and greedily does labor beyond his own physical strength, and he rarely eats on time and is always hungry and full.
In the second year of coming to the landlord's house, Xiang Xiuli accidentally kicked her toe while carrying water, and the wound did not get better because there was no money for treatment.
The ruthless landlord's family not only did not take her to the doctor, but also drove her back home without mercy.
By the time my mother had struggled to get her medical bills together, her wound had become completely suppurative and ulcerated, and she had to saw off one of the toe bones on her toe for conservative treatment.
As the saying goes, the children of poor families have long been in charge, and Xiang Xiuli, who has just recovered from a foot injury, immediately threw herself into work and tried to solve problems for the family.
After the peaceful liberation of Guangzhou, 15-year-old Xiang Xiuli entered the Guangzhou Peace Pharmaceutical Factory as a female pharmaceutical worker.
She, her brother and sister all found new jobs with the help of the Communist Party, and the family finally said goodbye to the hard days and their living conditions have improved greatly.
During the days when she worked in the Peace Pharmaceutical Factory, Xiang Xiuli actively participated in various workers' activities and enthusiastically signed up to join the party organization.
At the beginning of 1956, a frenzy of socialist transformation was set off nationwide, and capitalist companies and trades realized industry-wide public-private partnerships.
Founded in 1938, the long-established brand He Jigong Pharmaceutical Factory was also merged with 13 other private pharmaceutical factories such as Guangzhou Bailing and Sanlian in this wave of socialist transformation, and was renamed He Jigong United Pharmaceutical Factory.
Xiang Xiuli, who was a pharmaceutical worker at Heping Pharmaceutical Factory, was also incorporated into He Jigong Pharmaceutical Factory and became a packaging worker.
Not long after, the pharmaceutical factory received a trial production of a chemical agent called "methylthiopyrimidine", and in order to cultivate a group of new backbone technical forces, the factory selected a number of advanced molecules from the staff.
Xiang Xiuli, who had just been approved as a reserve party member, was also selected, and although the trial production work was dangerous and difficult, Xiang Xiuli still worked very energetically, and it took less than a month to master the technology.
However, what should have gone well was shattered by a sudden accident at the end of the year.
On December 13, 1958, a Sunday, Xiang Xiuli and two colleagues in the workshop, Luo Xiuming and Cai Qiumei, worked the night shift in the workshop as usual, responsible for dispensing raw materials and alcohol for the chemical agents being manufactured.
As they worked intently, a glass bottle filled with 20 kilograms of anhydrous alcohol slammed to the ground.
The alcohol in the bottle quickly flowed in all directions, and soon flowed to the side of the coal stove used in the 10 pharmaceutical products that were burning, and a large amount of anhydrous alcohol was burning madly under the hot gas radiation of the coal stove.
Seeing this situation, the three female workers immediately took off their aprons and picked up the towels in the workshop to wipe the alcohol on the ground, and looked back at Xiuli, and the fire was getting closer and closer to the corner where the metal sodium material was stacked in the workshop.
She knew that once the explosion of this pile of about 60 kilograms of metal sodium was enough to destroy the entire pharmaceutical factory and even the commercial and residential areas of Xiajiu Road, where the factory was located, the consequences were unimaginable.
Thinking of this, Xiang Xiuli could not care that her body was stained with alcohol, completely disregarded her personal safety, and lay down on the ground with her thin body to resist the spread of alcohol and fire.
Cai Qiumei, a worker on the side, found that she was on fire, screamed and rushed over to help, pushed her away from Xiuli, and shouted: "Leave me alone!" Call someone to put out the fire!" ”
Cai Qiumei had to obey Xiang Xiuli's words and rushed downstairs to seek rescue, and the workers on duty at the factory that night and nearby residents flocked to fight the fire after hearing the cry for help.
When everyone found Xiang Xiuli, they found that her whole body had been invaded by the fire, her legs were so stiff that she could not bend, and her knees were burned black and even her bones were exposed.
Xiang Xiuli's heroic actions won precious rescue time for this serious fire accident, and the fire was finally extinguished under the efforts of everyone, but Xiang Xiuli herself was seriously injured.
The heroic mother in the textbook: The son was only two years old at the time of the sacrifice
After Xiang Xiuli was found, the workers sent her to the Guangzhou Third People's Hospital nearest to the pharmaceutical factory for rescue, and because of the serious injuries, she was transferred to the Guangzhou First People's Hospital with better medical resources for rescue.
After examination by the expert group, Xiang Xiuli's injuries were very serious, with a burn area of up to 67.25% of the whole body, and most of the wounds were the most serious burn grade iii burns, and even the fat layer and muscle layer under the skin were also seriously injured.
Under the hard work of the medical staff of the First People's Hospital of Guangzhou, Xiang Xiuli finally woke up after three days and three nights of coma.
The first thing she said when she woke up was not to care about herself, but to ask: "Did the He Jigong Pharmaceutical Factory explode, and did the nearby residents suffer from the disaster?" "I asked everything but I didn't ask about my own injury.
After that, Xiang Xiuli's heroic deeds spread throughout Guangzhou, and when people learned that she was in urgent need of blood transfusions due to excessive blood loss, more than 600 people spontaneously rushed to the hospital to donate blood for her, donating more than 8,000 milliliters of blood.
The Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China summoned more than 20 top Chinese and Western medicine experts in the city to conduct joint diagnosis for her, organized the most powerful resources, and spared no effort to rescue her at all costs and material resources.
The large-scale severe burns put Xiang Xiuli in a state of extreme pain, and the treatment process was even more difficult, but she still showed surprising composure and strength.
Even if she sometimes hurts to the point of tears, she never cried out in pain and always cooperated with the medical staff's treatment work with a smile.
Xiang Xiuli's attending doctor at the time, Yu Andy, had a particularly deep memory of that period, and whenever he recalled it, he would always say: "Xiang Xiuli, this female comrade is so remarkable, she never showed a trace of fear and complaint during the whole rescue process, always quietly cooperated with our treatment, and every time she saw her, she was full of smiles." ”
When the pain was unbearable, Xiang Xiuli asked the medical staff who accompanied the bed to read the newspaper of the day for her to learn about some fresh current events, or read some condolence letters sent by the masses across the country for her, drawing some strength from them, and sometimes taking out the tape recorder to listen to her favorite songs to ease her depressed mood.
Every time the doctor came to the ward to consult her, she would always ask herself when she could get out of bed and walk? How long will it take to get back to work?
Unfortunately, due to a large-scale burn, Xiang Xiuli was infected with Staphylococcus aureus after more than half a month of admission, and her condition began to deteriorate rapidly.
On the day of her death, Xiang Xiulixu had a premonition that she was about to be unable to hold on, so she asked her sister Xiang Xiujuan and her husband Cui Junxi to carry their son Cui Dingbang, who was not yet two years old, to the sickbed, and she wanted to see her son again.
Before she died, she left her husband, who was a train driver, with one last cry: "After I die, don't pay too much attention to me, and concentrate on my work, otherwise it is easy to have accidents when deserting." ”
After saying this, Xiang Xiuli did not breathe, and she did not even have time to explain the question about the child before she left the world in a hurry, and her life was fixed at 12:43 on January 15, 1959, when she was only 25 years old.
Three days later, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government held a grand memorial meeting for Xiang Xiuli, and thousands of people from all over the city rushed to send her on her last journey.
Xiang Xiujin, the eldest sister of Xiang Xiujin, hugged her little nephew Cui Dingbang to the scene of the memorial service to make a final farewell to her mother. Cui Dingbang, who was not yet two years old, did not understand what death was, and he felt that his mother was just lying there asleep.
He took his mother's hand and said, "Mom, get up soon, it's time for you to go to work!" Mom, it's time for work! When the people around them saw this scene, they couldn't help but shed tears.
After his wife's death, Choi Joon-seok, who was a train driver, had little time to return home and had no time to take care of his young son, so he had to send him to his grandparents to take care of him.
When his mother died, Cui Dingbang was too young to leave any mark in his mind, and he often argued to his grandparents to see his mother.
The two elderly people, who did not want to make the child sad, had no choice but to answer him like this: "My mother went to work far away from home, and she can't come back for the time being." Mom said that when she is not there, you must also be obedient. ”
It wasn't until the first grade of elementary school that the teacher in a Chinese class told a text called "The Story of Xiang Xiuli".
Before starting the lecture, the teacher invited Cui Dingbang to the podium and introduced himself to the students: "This is the son of the heroic female worker in the text we are going to talk about today." ”
Cui Dingbang, who heard the teacher's words at that time, could be described as dizzy, he couldn't believe that Xiang Xiuli was his mother, after all, his family had always told him that his mother had lost a job far away.
After learning this text, Cui Dingbang truly understood his mother's heroic deeds to Xiuli and unveiled the question that had been sealed in his heart for a long time.
The image of his mother in his mind instantly changed from vague to vivid, but he also knew that his mother would never return to him.
Third, the heroic spirit is passed down from generation to generation, and the flower armor is still struggling in the front line after the year
Since then, Cui Dingbang has always hidden the thoughts of his mother deep in his heart, silently missing her, and rarely confiding in outsiders the pain of his thoughts.
In Cui Dingbang's memory, when he had just joined the work, one night when he was lying on the dormitory bed and sleeping, he suddenly dreamed of his mother who had long passed away, and the thoughts suddenly came to his mind, and he suddenly cried loudly.
His youngest uncle lived next door to the dormitory, and when he heard the crying, he quickly got up and knocked on his door and asked, "Dingbang, what happened at night, why are you crying?" ”
Cui Dingbang cried and said, "Uncle, I miss my mother." Hearing his nephew's words, his uncle also sadly hugged him and wept.
After the heroic sacrifice of the beautiful martyr, major mainstream media such as People's Daily and Guangming Daily reported her touching deeds, and after that, a wave of learning from firefighting heroes quickly set off across the country.
The Guangzhou Municipal People's Government will also rename the office building of the He Jigong United Pharmaceutical Factory, where Xiuli saves money, "XiuliLou", and name it "Xiuli Street" under the workshop where she spent her youth sweat.
A "Xiang Xiuli, Lei Feng" volunteer service team was also set up to commemorate this "good daughter of the party" and to better pass on her spirit.
In that era full of energy and passion, Xiang Xiuli became a spiritual symbol, inspiring a generation of people to strive forward and grow.
After graduating from high school, Cui Dingbang entered the Guangzhou Bicycle Factory as an apprentice, and in the early 1990s he was transferred to work for the South China Sea Petroleum United Service Consulting Company, which lasted for more than 20 years.
In his work, Cui Dingbang, as a descendant of heroes, has always spurred himself on with his mother's great dedication, and strives to serve the people and contribute to society like his mother.
Whenever he encountered something unpleasant, Cui Dingbang would always think of his mother's figure when he threw himself into the fire, and he immediately had unlimited strength to overcome the difficulties ahead.
In addition to spurring himself, Cui Dingbang also taught his mother's spiritual words to his children and grandchildren, often telling them the story of his mother's beauty, and hanging her photos in the most prominent position in the home.
In June 2019, Cui Dingbang's son Cui Jing graduated from university and chose to join the place where his grandmother once worked and fought, that is, the former He Jigong United Pharmaceutical Factory, to engage in data monitoring related work.
Cui Jing once said in an interview with reporters that the reason why he chose to stay here to work was because the traces of his grandmother could be seen everywhere from the workshop to every place in the pharmaceutical factory, which made him feel very kind.
Cui Jing also took over the new stick of inheriting the spirit of her grandmother from her father, and joined the "Xiang Xiuli and Lei Feng Volunteer Service Team" to become a new member of it.
He uses his free time to participate in community volunteer service organizations to help more people in need alleviate difficulties and work with everyone to carry forward the beautiful spirit.
At the same time, Cui Dingbang, who has passed the age of flower armor, also retired from his job.
After his retirement, he had more time and energy to spend on volunteer service activities and publicity activities related to the spirit of beauty, and with his efforts, projects such as the beautiful memorial hall and the memorial square were quickly completed.
Bibliography:
1. China Youth Magazine: Xiang Xiuli: She lives forever in the fire
2. Xiaoxiang Morning News: "The Daughter of the Party: Fighting to the Beauty of FireFighting Heroes"
3. Southern Weekend: Xiang Xiuli's grandson took over as the honorary captain of the volunteer team and carried forward the spirit of "beautiful red"
4. Guangzhou Daily: The city of volunteers has achieved great results, and the heroic spirit has been passed down from generation to generation
5. Xinhua Net: Xiang Xiuli's spirit lives forever in the fire