In April, at the Longhua Martyrs Memorial Hall in Shanghai's Xuhui district, a spirited veteran soldier with a military medal on his chest told a group of "red scarves" and "green scarves" about the liberation of Shanghai.
When the veteran soldier told the story of the battle in his characteristic loud voice, the children listened intently, their eyes shone with excitement and admiration, and they were strongly attracted by the story of the "old soldier" born in the era of peace, and felt the revolutionary feelings of countless revolutionary pioneers who went forward to make sacrifices and dedications to the liberation of new China. This "veteran soldier" is Liu Shi'an, a former veteran of the "Shajiabang" unit of the New Fourth Army and president of the "Shajiabang" unit history research association of the New Fourth Army.
At this special "Red Imprint" theme class meeting, students from Yuqiao Primary School in Pudong New Area, Aiju Primary School in Xuhui District and Huangxing School in Yangpu District commemorated the martyrs through poetry recitation and chorus.
"Veterans" at the Theme Class
Liu Shi'an, an 89-year-old man, was one of the main forces at that time, a soldier of the Twenty Army of the People's Liberation Army, one of the main forces at that time, and later he also participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the military medal hanging on his chest recorded his meritorious deeds for the birth and death of New China several times. On this day, he and two other veterans of the Red Army, who are also in their eighties, came to the scene to participate in the live broadcast of the "Red Imprint" national network theme class with the children.
Yu Renchang, the old company commander of the unit where Comrade Lei Feng worked before his death, also shared his feelings about Lei Feng's spirit and encouragement for the healthy growth of young people through the Internet. The small docent of the Lei Feng Memorial Hall in Fushun, Liaoning Province, also told the story through the connection, mobilizing young people to pay more attention to learning and inheriting the spirit of Lei Feng in the new era. At the end of the event, the red lecturer of the Longhua Martyrs Memorial Hall shared his expectations for the growth of young people with the theme of "The Power of Growth" with the students present. The theme class meeting was broadcast live to 2,500 primary and secondary schools across the country, and more than 120,000 students watched the live broadcast in real time, the red ribbon connected the hearts of the majority of teenagers, and the red imprint extended to the whole country.
To inherit red education, pay tribute to the mother of the motherland, lead the young generation to inherit the red gene, and fly the ideal as the main purpose of the "red imprint" theme class will be guided by the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, since 2019, the organizer will organize a "red education" network theme class meeting every month, and use the Hujiang network "mutual plus plan" CCtalk network platform to broadcast live to a number of primary and secondary schools across the country in real time.
A group of "veterans" with an average age of more than 80 years old, represented by Liu Shi'an, have insisted on participating in each "Red Imprint" theme class meeting and other series of activities rain or shine since March 2019, and their revolutionary experience has become the "beloved" of children. Even if the elderly Liu Shi'an had heart bypass surgery in the autumn of 2019, as soon as he was discharged from the hospital, he gathered with the students again, he said: I am pleased to be able to do something for the growth of teenagers, I like to be with the children, tell them how today's happy life came, so that they can remember the glorious and outstanding red history, cherish the hard-won living and learning environment now, and strive to grow into the pillars of the country.
Continue the red gene and pass on the torch
The "Red Imprint" project was launched in June 2016, initiated by the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and jointly built by a number of units, the "Red Education" platform aims to strengthen the ideological and political guidance of young people, guide them to "buckle the first button of life", continue the red blood, inherit the red culture, carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng, and draw the strength of progress in the red gene. The project makes full use of the "Internet +" model to strengthen exchanges and interactions with poor areas, and uses "red culture" to help education alleviate poverty. For more than three years, the project has left a set of precious shots in Shanghai and poor areas...
In order to highlight the educational effect, the "Red Imprint" project has carried out a series of colorful activities among young people relying on major festivals such as Qingming, "June 1st", "July 1st", "August 1st" and National Day. At the "Power of Faith - Red Collection Exhibition for the 70th Anniversary of Liberation", student representatives from six primary schools in Shanghai each brought a red book to the event. Liu Shi'an and other veteran soldiers also brought their own anti-Japanese theme novel "Lonely Island Boy" and wrote a message for the children, hoping that the children would aspire and dream, express patriotic feelings, establish a strong national aspiration, and report to the country, become a new person of the times who can assume the great task of national rejuvenation, and transmit positive energy to the realization of the Chinese dream. In the activity of "Inheriting Red Genes, Presenting Gifts to the Mother of the Motherland - Inheriting Chinese Virtues with Sanmao", through the special exhibition of "Golden Dream Chasing - Children's Sparks", sparks were used to publicize national unity, five stresses and four beauty and traffic safety knowledge to the majority of young people, so that Chinese virtues were rooted in the hearts of young people. On the day of august 1st Founding Day, the "Red Imprint" of "the army loves the people and the people, loves the army, learns the heroic People's Liberation Army - celebrate the founding day with the good eight companies on Nanjing Road" was held in the "Nanjing Road Good Eight Companies" deeds exhibition hall, and children from 5 primary and secondary schools in Shanghai got to know the people's army in the new era at close range. Veteran soldiers and young officers and soldiers celebrated the Founding Day together, and the students also brought wonderful programs written and directed by themselves for the uncles of the People's Liberation Army.
Lei Feng's spirit infects generation after generation, shining forever in the long river of years, Comrade Lei Feng's youthful appearance has never gone away in people's hearts, he is a symbol of immortality of the times. The "Red Imprint" project integrates the study of Lei Feng's spirit into the ideological and political education of young people, ignites the fire of children's hearts, and passes on the lei feng spirit that will never be out of date. On the Day of Learning Lei Feng, the "Red Imprint - Learning Lei Feng" network theme class will be held at Yuqiao Primary School in Pudong, Shanghai, and the children will make 20,000 red bookmarks by hand, take to the streets to distribute and send them to children in the far west, calling on everyone to learn the spirit of Lei Feng together. When a passing expat took the red bookmark handed by the child, he smiled and said in jerky Chinese: "Thank you!" I also want to learn from Lei Feng! In order to further tell the story of Lei Feng and carry forward the spirit of dedication, the unveiling ceremony of the "Lei Feng Station" of the "Inheriting the Red Gene and Presenting the Motherland" activity was held at the Mao Zedong Former Residence Exhibition Hall in Shanghai's Jing'an District, and Liu Shi'an veteran soldiers and student representatives selected a batch of good books and wrote a message to give to the "Lei Feng Corner" established by children in Wenshan, Yunnan Province, and carry the friendship of Shencheng teenagers to the depths of the mountains. The "Red Imprint" touring exhibition has successively entered Shanghai campuses, communities, airports and subway stations to further promote and carry forward the red spirit. In addition, a Children's Day that led the "new fashion" kicked off in the "Inheriting Red Genes, Presenting the Motherland's Mother, Hand in Hand, Welcoming June 1st" activity, and the Youngsters of Shanghai wrote their blessings and small wishes on cards, together with donated extracurricular books and 200 Lei Feng story machines, to the students of many primary schools in Yunnan. Through hand in hand and heart to heart, the spirit of patriotism has been transmitted from the older generation to the youth, from the east to the west, and also to all sectors of society.
I want to be a firework and give you light
"I hope that one day we can say these words face to face, and I am willing to become your eternal friend", this is a sentence written by Li Hua, a student in the fifth (3) class of the senior department of Thea town of Diqing Prefecture, in reply to the family letter of jin Yitong, the third (1st) of Shanghai Huangxing School. Family letters, for thousands of years, the inheritors of Chinese culture, is a way of emotional contact between people, "red imprint" since its inception, each activity has a link to write a family letter, veteran generals and veteran soldiers, labor models, magazine editors-in-chief, calligraphers and painters, grassland heroes little sisters Long Mei, Yu Rong, etc., and students in Shanghai and the western poverty-stricken areas through a letter full of true feelings of family letter exchanges, blending, in the youth to carry forward the red culture, advocate the study of Lei Feng spirit, the combination of wisdom and zhi. Since the launch of the project, tens of thousands of family letters have been handed over, bringing together small love into the great love of national unity, cultivating morality and urging people to forge ahead.
Strengthening the exchange and interaction between Primary and Secondary School Students in Shanghai and the corresponding areas is another essence of the "Red Imprint" project. In the exchanges between the children in the east and the west, they promote each other, watch over each other, and compose moving songs. The series of activities of "Red Imprint - Drunken Beauty Zunyi" covers many sections such as red exhibitions, red bookstores, and red visits, aiming to promote the excavation and inheritance of valuable red culture in the east-west poverty alleviation cooperation, further carry forward the spirit of Lei Feng and the spirit of the Long March, and help fight the battle against poverty. At the launching ceremony of the series of activities "Red Imprint - Lei Feng Story Machine Westbound" held in Malipo County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, the Youth League Municipal Committee and other organizers donated 2,000 Lei Feng story machines to 2,000 primary schools in Yunnan, Qinghai Guoluo, Guizhou Zunyi, Xinjiang Kashgar, Karamay, Xigaze in Tibet, and Yimeng Old District in Shandong Province. Among them, in the "Red Imprint" patriotic education theme activity held in Wenshan, Yunnan Province, the "Little Red Talents" from Shanghai and local friends looked at the national flag at the Sino-Vietnamese port, shared red stories, painted red paintings, listened to the soldiers of the main peak of Laoshan Mountain to tell the heroic deeds of the Chinese military and people in the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, and felt the heroic aspirations of the Chinese people to defend their homes and defend the country. The event deepened the friendship between the children of Shanghai and Wenshan, who expressed their desire to jointly inherit the red culture and look forward to the future integration and development. In the hand-in-hand exchange activity of "Red Imprint - Lighting Candlelight, Connecting Hearts and Hands", 22 primary school students from Qujing, Yunnan Province, came to Shanghai, saw Liu Shi'an and other veteran soldiers of the Red Army, and listened to them tell the revolutionary stories of the war years and make dumplings together and establish a deep friendship.
In January this year, the "Red Imprint of Poverty Alleviation, You and Me Together - Young People From All Over the World To Build Lei Feng Corner" activity opened the transmission of love between Shanghai and the corresponding areas. As soon as the "Lei Feng Corner" activity was launched, many schools in the city responded positively and became the "Love Corner" for young people in the east and west to hold hands and practice volunteer dedication.
Eleven red bookstores, two thousand Lei Feng story machines, twenty thousand bookmarks, ten thousand books... For several years, these donations have continued to fill the spiritual world of children in poor areas of the west. The Shanghai Communist Youth League system and the city's primary and secondary school students will continue to fully contribute to the education cause in the western region, extending the red imprint from east to west, so that the red culture can continue to be inherited and carried forward.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Xu Ruizhe Text Editor: Xu Ruizhe Photo Editor: Xiang Jianying
Source: Gong Jieyun