Mother's Day in 2024 happens to be May 12, and on this unusual day, celebrating Mother's Day and commemorating the victims of the Wenchuan earthquake at the same time really makes people have mixed feelings.
16 years ago today, when the earth in the fierce shock of more than 80,000 lives forever fixed on this sad day, this scar is still deeply stabbing those who have lost their parents, children's families, but also make this day our great motherland learn from the pain, has become a permanent national disaster prevention and mitigation day, with the general secretary Xi Jinping's "two insistences, three changes" disaster prevention, mitigation and relief of the new concept of disaster prevention, especially from the focus on post-disaster relief to focus on the pre-disaster prevention of the change, so that in recent years major natural disasters, In particular, the number of injuries and deaths in the most devastating earthquake disaster has decreased dramatically, and the safety of people's lives and property has been further guaranteed.
Filial piety comes first, mother is the person we need to thank for a lifetime, it is she who brought us into this world, and worked hard to raise us to adulthood, the traditional culture of the Chinese nation will respect the mother as a basic moral standard to fix, and inherit it for thousands of years. The loving mother and strict father are probably the deep impression engraved in the minds of every child, and it has also enabled the Chinese nation to create an uninterrupted Chinese civilization in the thousand-year-old cultural inheritance, despite the endless wars and sufferings. In the Wenchuan earthquake, when rescuers found that the young mother who had no vital signs from the collapsed rubble was pressed under the stone slab with her back bent, and the three- or four-month-old child in her arms was still sleeping quietly, she couldn't help but make the rescuers at the scene burst into tears, and there was a text message left for the child in the young mother's mobile phone: "Baby, if you can live, you must remember that I love you", I am convinced that when the disaster comes, the vast majority of mothers will make such a decision, Use your life to protect your children.
Since ancient times, there have been many poems that describe and praise mothers, and the most impressive one is Meng Jiao's "The Wanderer's Yin" in the Tang Dynasty: "The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt." Before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late. Whoever says an inch is careless, and he will be rewarded with three springs. "Mother's deep love, unrepentant giving, how to repay as a child! When I was a child, my impression of my mother was that she was busy all year round, and it seemed that she rarely had time to spare. In the eighties and nineties of the last century, the rural areas of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi still relied on the weather for food, and the harvest of the land mainly depended on the amount of rain, so intensive cultivation on limited land became the only source of income for most peasants.
At that time, my father worked outside all the year round, in the early days of reform and opening up, the protection of migrant workers was not perfect, and when the project boss did not make money or the payment was not timely, it seemed that the salary of four or five yuan a day could not be guaranteed to get it, and the family could not bring much income all year round, and the constraints of life also made my mother's work on the land harder, and the family's cash crops sunflowers and castors were harvested from a far away hillside to peel the seeds and dry, and then pulled to the purchase point by a rack car to sell, at that time our sisters and brothers were still young and in school, It can't help much, but no matter how busy it is, my mother also ensures that our clothes are clean, the yard and the cave are tidy, and the unique hard-working and thrifty virtues of Chinese women have been fully embodied in the mother.
Now life is rich, on the eve of Mother's Day, the streets are full of flowers, and even the door of the community has become a flower corridor, everyone's love for mothers can be more concrete, women in the new era participate in the construction of the great era with a more independent attitude, in today's material life is more abundant, the majority of mothers on the road of educating their children to grow up, while becoming talented and successful, pay more attention to the traditional education of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and bravery", Use the concept of the new era to interpret and inherit the virtues of the Chinese nation, inherit the fine family style, and let every child become the builder of the new era and contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. After the martyr Chen Xiangrong died, the troops asked Chen Xiangrong's mother if there were any difficulties? The heroic mother said: I don't have any requirements, I just want to know whether my family Rong'er is brave when she fights, in ancient times, there was a mother-in-law who was loyal to the country, and now there is a Chen mother who has nothing to ask for, but ask me if I am brave, from ancient times to the present, there is a heroic mother, there is a hero's son.
This Mother's Day is destined to be an extraordinary day, when we send a bouquet of flowers to our mother to thank for our selfless dedication to our upbringing, we also deeply remember the compatriots who died in the Wenchuan earthquake and the officers and soldiers who died due to emergency rescue and disaster relief. On the road of growth, my mother will always be our strong backing, and she will always stand behind us, like a gentle ray of sunshine, protecting us to move forward bravely. May all mothers in the world be happy and healthy, may we be safe and happy in the days to come, a prosperous and powerful motherland is the eternal backing of all our Chinese, with her we are not afraid of any disaster, and the Chinese nation will stand tall among the nations of the world with a more lofty attitude.
About author:Gao Dongwei, Han nationality, employee of Xinjiang Kezhou Earthquake Monitoring Center, has been engaged in document writing for many years.