【100 Chinese objects that have touched since the founding of New China - Xing Yanzi】
If you were born in Tianjin, your father was the deputy director of a factory in Tianjin, you grew up with no worries, when you graduated from middle school at the age of 18, did you choose to continue school? Or work in your father's factory? Or go to the poor countryside to farm?
According to most people's ideas, it is definitely the first two to choose, and if you choose the third, everyone will think that you are "sick".
However, instead of being ill, Xing Yanzi also made a career in the countryside, and was received by Chairman Mao 5 times and Premier Zhou 13 times, becoming an advanced model that resounded throughout the country!
Xing Yanzi was born in 1940 in Baodi County, Tianjin, and after graduating from high school in 1958, Xing Yanzi was faced with the two choices just mentioned, one was to continue to go to school and the other was to work in his father's factory. It should be said that these two roads are very good, but Xing Yanzi chose the third way that no one thought of: to go to the countryside to become a farmer!
The reason why Xing Yanzi made this choice is not without reason, because her grandparents lived in the countryside, and she often lived with her grandparents when she was a child, knowing the hardships of the countryside, so when she graduated from middle school, just when the country was calling on intellectual youth to go to the countryside, Xing Yanzi was determined to change the poor face of her hometown and lead the villagers to get rich together.
In this regard, Xing Yanzi said: "Rural youth should contribute their own strength to the construction of a new socialist countryside, listen to the party's words, not empty slogans, depending on actual actions, agriculture is so important, the party needs to stay in the countryside itself, no matter what the situation should stay in the countryside." ”
When she first arrived in the countryside, the village cadres saw that the female doll from the city could not do farm work at all, so they let her go to the kindergarten and was responsible for taking care of more than 30 children.
Once, the canteen boiled a large pot of porridge and made her look at the pot. After a while, the porridge was boiling, and Xing Yanzi, who had been pampered since childhood, had never cooked before, and did not know what to do, panicked and looked around for someone, shouting: "Come on people!" The porridge is out! ”
Everyone joked with her, "Silly girl, if you give it a kowtow, it won't run." The simple Xing Yanzi actually believed it to be true, and quickly knelt down toward the porridge, and everyone laughed and leaned forward and backward.
This incident also made Xing Yanzi begin to realize that it is not enough to have a heart to serve the people, and it is necessary to exercise a skill in order to truly become a qualified farmer in the new era.
At that time, the whole country was advocating the emancipation of women's labor, and Xing Yanzi organized the women in the village to form a women's commando team and actively participate in labor production.
During the day, Xing Yanzi led the commando team members to smash open the three-foot-thick ice hole in the biting cold wind and catch fish in the net; at night, Xing Yanzi led everyone to beat reeds under the horse lamp to generate income for the production team.
Xing Yanzi led the commandos to plant 430 acres of "six or nine wheat" and asked for grain from the wasteland, which played a great role in helping everyone survive the famine.
Later, a local leader came to the village to inspect the work, and was very satisfied with the "Xing Swallow Commando" founded by Xing Yanzi, saying: "You swallow can fly the Yellow River and cross the Yangtze River!" ”
At that time, it was a national famine, not only the economy suffered serious losses, the pessimism in people's hearts was gradually rising, and Xing Yanzi, who led the peasants out of the predicament and rekindled their hopes, became a model figure that all walks of life in the media rushed to report, and for a time, Xing Yanzi's name spread throughout the country, and the "Xing Yanzi Commando Team" she founded also became a model for the whole country to learn.
Guo Moruo also wrote a "Xing Yanzi Song" for her——
Xing Yanzi, a good example.
Learn the Kingdom Domain, learn the Iron Maiden.
The whole family is in the city, and they are willing to stay in their hometown.
The kindergarten is full of young children, and the nets are full of fish on the ice.
The sky is frozen, and the seeds are cultivated.
Let the stone grow grain.
Suffering comes first, pleasure comes later.
All work is subordinate to the Party.
Beidawa became a nest of gold and silver.
The swallows formed in a team and flew across the Yellow River!
Xing Yanzi, who has become "popular" in the country, has also received love letters from all over the country, often able to pack a sack in a few days, but Xing Yanzi has ignored it, but married Wang Xuezhi, a poor household 6 years older than her.
At first, Xing Yanzi was not very satisfied, but her grandfather liked Wang Shuzhi very much, saying that he was an old party member, highly politically conscious, honest and reliable, and a person worthy of trust. After some psychological struggle, Xing Yanzi listened to her grandfather's words and agreed to the marriage.
Wang Xuezhi's family was very poor, the four brothers and their parents were crammed into a small house, the first three days of marriage, the couple lived in the house, and three days later, they moved to the livestock shed. It wasn't until ten years later that the couple built three adobe houses.
Although Wang Xuezhi's family is poor, she is very kind to Xing Yanzi and often rides her bicycle to take her to meetings.
Once, Xing Yanzi passed through a water canal on the way to a meeting, and the bicycle could not pass, in order not to delay his wife's work, Wang Xuezhi carried her across the river. When he walked to the middle of the canal, Wang Xuezhi fell into the mud and almost fell, and his first reaction was to protect his wife on his back, afraid that she would wet her clothes and delay the meeting.
After Xing Yanzi gave birth to two children, Wang Xuezhi knew that his wife was busy at work, so she became both a father and a mother at home, fully supporting her work and never complaining.
Xing Yanzi took root in the countryside and worked hard to become stronger, not only into the hearts of the people in the village, but also into the eyes of the state leaders, Chairman Mao has received her 5 times, and Premier Zhou has received her 13 times.
On December 26, 1964, when the Central Committee held an enlarged meeting, it coincided with Chairman Mao's 71st birthday, and everyone proposed to give Chairman Mao a birthday.
Although Chairman Mao never advocated birthdays, this time he also rarely agreed, saying that he would use my fees to entertain guests.
After Chairman Mao personally drew up the list, three tables were finalized, with a total of more than 40 people, including Xing Yanzi, Chen Yonggui, Wang Jinxi, Dong Jiageng, and other model workers.
Moreover, Chairman Mao did not sit with Premier Zhou, President Zhu, and others, but sat at a table with xing yanzi and other labor models, which flattered Xing Yanzi and others.
After the banquet began, Chairman Mao himself did not eat much, but constantly gave Xing Yanzi and others vegetables and advised them to eat more, which made everyone very moved and could never forget it for the rest of their lives.
As a model of the new peasants, Xing Yanzi's position has also risen, and he has successively served as deputy secretary of the Tianjin Baodi County Cpc Committee, secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, vice chairman of the Tianjin CppcC Committee, and was also elected as a member of the 10th to 12th Central Committee.
However, although Xing Yanzi is in a high position, she still cares about the countryside, and most of the time she is rooted in the lowest rural areas, working in the fields, raising pigs, collecting firewood... Be able to farm and govern, and not forget the original intention.
After entering the 1980s, due to changes in the situation, Xing Yanzi was dismissed from the posts of secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and vice chairman of the Tianjin CppcC Committee, and Xing Yanzi also accepted it calmly, continued to exert her residual heat in the society, participated in various social activities, and also taught herself calligraphy and painting, and lived a simple and fulfilling life in her later years.
In Xing Yanzi's later years, a reporter interviewed her and asked whether the "Zhiqing going to the countryside" at that time had delayed a generation.
Xing Yanzi said frankly: "I don't think we have delayed a generation, we have exercised a generation, and everywhere I go now, I say that we shared the suffering in place of the country at that time, we suffered a little, but we had to suffer a little when we were young, and the seedlings that grew out in the warm nest did not grow well." ”
In 2009, Xing Yanzi was named one of the "100 Chinese Things That Touched Since the Founding of New China", and in 2019, she was awarded the honorary title of "The Most Beautiful Strivers".
Today, Xing Yanzi is 81 years old, still in good spirits, and hereby wishes the elderly health and longevity, not old Nanshan!
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