The motherland has irreplaceable significance for everyone, and since ancient times, countless people with lofty ideals who are willing to sacrifice their heads and shed their blood for the motherland have emerged in China, all of whom have inseparable sacred feelings for the motherland.
From the leaders of the country to the villagers of the countryside, there is a relatively special figure who dedicated his life to the motherland before his death, and donated his life savings to the country after his death, this person is Zhou Libo, a famous writer of local literature on the mainland.
Born in a scholarly family, he was first acquainted with new literature
In 1908, a young boy named Zhou Shaoyi was born in a family of teachers in Yiyang, Hunan Province, and his father gave his son rich knowledge and nourishment at an early age because of his status as a private school teacher, but he was also slightly poor materially due to his income level.
It may also be precisely because of her father's dedicated teaching that the young Zhou Shaoyi cultivated an extremely rich interest in "literature", often forgetting herself in reading, and never forgetting to think about the worldly principles learned in books.
In 1922, Zhou Shaoyi relied on hard work to advance to Changsha No. 1 Middle School, where he came into contact with the new ideas that had budged in old China.
You know, Changsha No. 1 Middle School has a large number of advanced scholars with new ideas such as Xu Teli, and Zhou Shaoyi has also developed a strong interest in "new literature" under the influence of these famous teachers.
Later, Zhou Shaoyi was accustomed to the numbness of the countrymen in the face of poverty and weakness of the country, and realized that the devastated country urgently needed to awaken, so he resolutely let himself be deeply rooted in the field of literature, and tried to awaken the sleeping countrymen with warm and sober words with Mr. Lu Xun.
Dedicated to the revolution, famous for local customs
The aforementioned Zhou Shaoyi is the original name of Mr. Zhou Libo, and later Mr. Zhou borrowed the homonym of the English "liberty" to name himself "Libo", I have to say that Mr. Zhou's name is still the essence of the integration of Chinese and Western cultures.
When Mr. Zhou was 21 years old, he was successfully admitted to Shanghai Labor University, which was an important turning point in his life, because at this time he encountered the "revolution" and first came into contact with and joined the alliance of left-wing dramatists.
In the following years, Mr. Zhou began to actively participate in the embrace of the revolution, and devoted himself to using the weapon of literature to mobilize more aspiring young people to join the revolution, and successively published many "red works".
When Japan tore its face in 1937 and began a full-scale war of aggression against China, Zhou Libo also resolutely joined the anti-Japanese front.
Of course, he also knew that his civilian strength was not comparable to the front-line soldiers, so he tried to give full play to his own advantages, took up the pen in his hand and turned it into the sharpest weapon and plunged it directly into the throat of the enemy.
Being on the front line, Zhou Libo has repeatedly turned into a war reporter and seen all the scenes of our soldiers fighting and heroically dying on the frontal battlefield.
After accumulating enough strength, he selected many touching deeds and wrote articles to praise the fearless dedication of frontline soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, which also inspired a large number of people behind enemy lines and in enemy-occupied areas.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Libo was appointed as the vice president of "Qiqi Daily" and "Zhongyuan Daily" successively because of his outstanding contributions on the cultural front.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, because Zhou Libo deeply cultivated the anti-Japanese front and the land reform reform after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he successively created many thought-provoking works such as "Stormy Rain", "Night of the Xiangjiang River" and "Impressions of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Area". Among them, the article "Tempest" can be called a classic work of the temple of local literature, and the book vividly shows the era of land reform in New China with the help of exquisite writing.
The sick body donated his savings, and his wife cried
However, such a great local writer did not win the mercy of life, and unfortunately died in Beijing due to illness at the age of 71, even Beijing, which is full of famous doctors, could not save his life from death.
At the time of his death, Mr. Zhou still made a will for himself with his sick body, the content of which was that after his death, he would donate all his savings to the country, not seeking fame and fortune, but hoping that this little bit of wealth could provide the last bit of help for the development and progress of the country.
In the face of Mr. Zhou Libo's will, his wife couldn't bear to look at her dying husband on the hospital bed, and finally couldn't help it, couldn't help but feel sad and tears filled her cuffs.
She knows that her husband has a deep love for the motherland, and this will is also the last contribution he has made to the country, and he has fulfilled the great ideal of dedicating his life to the motherland.
In 1979, Mr. Zhou Libo passed away.
After dealing with her husband's affairs, his wife donated 800 yuan of her husband's life savings to the state.
He is not a combat hero, nor does he have the special ability to develop "two bombs and one satellite" for the motherland, but he still does all the contributions that a writer and scholar can make to the motherland within a professional scope.
In his lifetime, he never forgot his principle of "coming from the people and going to the people", actively devoted himself to the writing of local literature, and contributed his only life to enriching mainland local literature and commemorating the years of land reform.
Perhaps, Mr. Zhou Libo did not do a good job in the role of "husband" and "father", and may have many shortcomings in taking care of his wife and children in family life because of his special status.
But I want to say that Mr. Zhou sacrificed his ego, but left many classic works for future generations and new China, and this is his greatness.
He experienced too many hardships in his life, from the division of warlords, to the Japanese invasion of China, and then to the catastrophe of the following decade.
It may also be such a rich history of suffering that has watered such a "literary master" as Mr. Zhou.