In the 1980s, there was a far-reaching debate about whether it was worth it for college students to risk their lives to save old farmers?" ”
Those who support it believe that everyone is equal and that college students save the old peasants, which reflects a noble moral sentiment; those who oppose it believe that although everyone is equal, there is a difference between the value created by people, and it is not worth advocating to exchange the lives of college students for the lives of old peasants.
It should be said that such a discussion is applicable even today.
So, what really happened back then? Who is this college student Zhang Hua?
Zhang Hua was born in 1958 in Hulin City, Heilongjiang, his father Zhang Wenliang was a soldier, so his education of Zhang Hua also has a strong military camp color, so Zhang Hua cultivated a strong and brave character.
When he graduated from the third year of high school, Zhang Hua was faced with a major choice in life, whether to take the college entrance examination to become a college student? Or do you go to the farm and become a young intellectual? In the end, with the support of his father, Zhang Hua chose the latter and came to the "May 7 Cadre School" farm in Raohe County, Heilongjiang, and became a Zhiqing.
In the late autumn of the year when Zhang Hua first arrived at the farm, a fire suddenly broke out on the wasteland, and the fire spread all the way to the distant forest farm with the cold northwest wind, if it could not be stopped in time, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Zhang Hua immediately called a dozen young men, ran all the way to the front of the fire, they pulled the grass vigorously, cut the grass with a sickle, and tried their best to create a fireproof road!
But the fire is getting more and more fierce, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that time will be too late! Zhang Hua immediately made a decision, directly beckoned everyone to lie down in the wild grass, and quickly pressed out a fire prevention road with his body rolling, and finally isolated the situation of the fire spreading to the forest farm.
Afterwards, Zhang Hua was selected as a "model worker" by the farm, but Zhang Hua said: "This model worker is not my own, it should be everyone's, if there was no everyone at that time, this fire road would not have been pressed out so quickly." ”
At the beginning of 1977, Zhang Hua chose to join the army, and his father Zhang Wenliang was also very happy when he knew, writing in a letter to Zhang Hua: "Son, I am very happy that you can choose to be a soldier. I was also a soldier, and life in the barracks was very hard, and I hope you will be mentally prepared. Although you come from a military family, from the moment you step into the barracks, you have to forget your background, your parents, and like other soldiers, you are an ordinary soldier. I hope that you will do something in the barracks, worthy of yourself, worthy of the country. ”
After receiving the letter, Zhang Hua, who has always been strong, cried and wrote in the reply: "Dad, you can rest assured, I will do my job well, I will never smear you and my mother's face, and I will never live up to the expectations of the country!" ”
Zhang Hua served in a certain unit of the Shenyang Air Force, and after a short period of recruit training, he became an umbrella keeper.
The work of the umbrella keeper is mainly responsible for the maintenance and maintenance of life-saving umbrellas, resistance umbrellas and life-saving items, although this job seems to be easy, but the responsibility is heavy, there is no room for sloppiness, more importantly, Zhang Hua also has to learn to parachute in advance in order to adapt to the follow-up work.
In the past, when recruits were training for the first parachute jump, veterans would "help" them from behind, in fact, kicking them from behind and helping them leave the cabin faster. When Zhang Hua first parachuted, he felt that there was no need, if he let the veterans kick themselves, it would be a little disgraceful, so when the cabin door slowly opened, he quickly checked his parachuting equipment, and then jumped towards the ground, cleanly completing the first jump of his career.
This move surprised the veterans, who had served for so many years and had never seen such a brave and decisive young man!
After Zhang Hua's own work was completed, he used his spare time to start studying, because the college entrance examination had been resumed at that time, and Zhang Hua wanted to make up for the knowledge of cultural classes and apply for a military school.
However, the comrades-in-arms in the class did not understand his behavior and thought that there was no need for this, and one day, Zhang Hua's squad leader said to him: "To come here to be a soldier, in addition to doing a good job, you should join the party. ”
Zhang Hua explained: "Class leader, there are no flaws in my work, and I applied for the university in order to work better in the future, and I also joined the party. ”
After two years of study, Zhang Hua's efforts finally paid off, and in the summer of 1979, when he received an acceptance letter from the Fourth Military Medical University, his heart was broken.
The squad leader was also very happy, and before leaving, he hugged Zhang Hua and said, "Your boy is really powerful, I really didn't expect that the soldiers I brought actually walked out of a college student!" Go to college to study well, do a good job, can not discredit our class! ”
Zhang Huali saluted and said loudly: "Class leader, please rest assured, I will never embarrass our class!" ”
(Pictured: Zhang Hua on the far left of the second row)
In August 1979, Zhang Hua stepped on a train to Xi'an and officially began his university life.
Studying medicine has never been an easy task, especially for people like Zhang Hua who have no foundation. But what is gratifying is that Zhang Hua relied on the spirit of never giving up that he had exercised in the barracks, step by step, like conquering one bunker after another, and solved the difficult problems in learning one by one.
Moreover, Zhang Hua is not buried in learning, but also helpful, humble and courteous in life, and has been welcomed and loved by all teachers and students.
On July 11, 1982, a Sunday, Zhang Hua took a shirt to a tailor's stall on the west side of Xi'an Rehabilitation Road after breakfast, ready to let the master change his shirt.
Zhang Hua was talking to his master when he suddenly heard a urgent cry for help coming from the east side of the road--"Come on people! "Help!"
It turned out that an old farmer named Wei Zhide, when dredging the dung road, accidentally fainted by biogas and fell into the cesspool, and his life was in danger.
After Zhang Hua heard the cry for help, without hesitation, he ran all the way to the side of the underground cesspool on the east side of the road, and after a brief understanding of the situation, he immediately took off his military uniform and jumped into the cesspool to look for the old man.
The temperature in Xi'an that day was as high as more than 30 degrees, and the narrow cesspool not only smelled pungent, but it was also sweltering, but all this was nothing in Zhang Hua's eyes, he only had one thought, that is, he must find Uncle Wei and rescue him!
Finally, Zhang Hua found Uncle Wei, and then held the ladder with one hand, and picked up Uncle Wei with the other hand, while shouting to the people above: "People are still alive!" Quick, hurry up and find the rope, pull the master up! ”
People hurriedly looked for ropes and prepared to pull Uncle Wei up, but just at the moment of this thousand gunshots, the biogas that filled the cesspool made Zhang Hua overwhelmed, and he fell into the cesspool with Uncle Wei and was unconscious.
At this time, the onlookers were also touched by Zhang Hua's feat, and several young and strong young men jumped into the cesspool together, rescued Zhang Hua and Uncle Wei, and then rushed them to the hospital.
In the hospital, Uncle Wei finally woke up after the emergency rescue of the medical staff, and in another emergency room, the medical staff used all the first aid methods, but Zhang Hua's heartbeat still did not recover, and there was no sign of awakening.
In this way, Zhang Hua's life is forever fixed at the age of 24, a vigorous age.
When the story of Zhang Hua's sacrifice to save the elderly spread, the whole of Xi'an was sensational, and countless citizens spontaneously came to the rehabilitation road to send the hero on his last journey.
When his father, Zhang Wenliang, learned of this bad news, he endured his grief and comforted his wife Pan Yinghua and said: "I know that you are sad in your heart, I am sad, and I can't stand it in my heart, but he did the right thing, he is a good party member, and he is our good son!" ”
In November 1982, the Central Military Commission awarded Zhang Hua the honorary title of "Outstanding College Student With Ideals and Courage to Dedicate Himself", and the following year, Zhang Hua was named one of the "Top Ten Heroic Models in China".
In 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, "100 Chinese objects that have touched since the founding of New China" were selected, and Zhang Hua's name was also among them.
Zhang Hua used his young life to save the life of the old farmer Wei Zhide, should this kind of behavior be promoted?
This issue not only caused extensive discussion at the time, even today, there is still a lot of controversy, in the eyes of many "exquisite egoists", Zhang Hua's approach is too irrational, the state trains a college student, in order to let you create more value, rather than to change the life of an old farmer.
So, what do you think?
(References: People's Daily, People Weekly, Huashang Daily)