Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Zhu Lizhen
Zhu Fuchang, an old man in Hangzhou, wrote a handwritten letter to a police station in Zhuji to find a friend who had disappeared more than 60 years ago. At that time, they supported the construction of Qinghai together and left the most beautiful youth in the frontier of the motherland.
With the help of the police and enthusiastic volunteers of the Zhuji Public Security Bureau's Hupu Police Station, Zhu Fuchang and his old friend Chen Youchuan renewed their friendship (a friend who went to Qinghai Branch together 65 years ago was found!). The old man wrote a letter to Qian Bao: I want to thank a person).
Letter after letter also arouses our curiosity about the years of that year. When this group of young people who are full of prosperity came to the great northwest of the motherland, what kind of difficulties did they overcome and what kind of regretless youth did they spend?
Today, the hourly news reporter came to Zhu Fuchang's old man's home. The elderly are old, their hearing is deteriorated, and they can only communicate through writing. In word by word, question by question, and answer, the old man returned to his 20s and relived the years of burning passion with us.
Windswept sand, salty well water... Harsh conditions scared away many family members
In 1956, When Zhu Fuchang was 20 years old and young, he encountered the motherland's development of the Great Northwest. In response to the call, on August 1, not long after graduating from high school, he boarded a train to Lanzhou. For three days and two nights, the speeding train carried more than 1,000 young people, leaving their relatives, away from Xizi Lake, bidding farewell to the water town of Jiangnan, and heading to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is thousands of miles away.
These zhibian intellectual youths were assigned to the government, commerce, grain, transportation, culture, education, and other departments of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures (counties) in Qinghai Province.
Zhu Fuchang and 14 other Hangzhou natives were assigned to serve in the Commercial Bureau of Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai. Qinghai Province is vast, the area of one county, equivalent to half the size of Zhejiang Province.
Although they work in the Commerce Bureau, Zhu Fuchang and his colleagues spend most of their time not sitting in the office, but going deep into the grassroots and often going to the countryside to do research.
"At the beginning, I was very uncomfortable in Qinghai, and I had nosebleeds every day." It was August when I arrived in Qinghai, and the most difficult thing was the winter there, "from November to March, it was cold and freezing, and the minimum temperature was around minus 20 °C." Especially on windy and sandy days, at least two or three days a week are full of sand and stones, which is completely different from the Jiangnan charm of the hometown. ”
Zhu Fuchang in his youth
In addition to the climatic conditions, the eating habits and living conditions there have made many young people cry their noses.
"Basically, you can only eat flour, barley flour, and multigrains. 2 kilograms of rice per capita are distributed every month, which is already a great care for our knowledgeable youth. "What you eat is noodles made of flour, and there are almost no side dishes; what you drink is well water, and it has a salty taste," The peasant family has homemade pickles in winter, mainly turnips and cabbage, so we take a cup to buy a cup, when it is a side dish. ”
After marriage, Zhu Fuchang's wife also came to Qinghai to live and live for a while, but she came twice and was frightened by the harsh conditions here.
"At first glance, it's all mountains, and it's not our mountains and rivers here, it's bare, only stones and dirt. If you want to dig, you can't dig it. "The deepest impression is to the store in the provincial capital Xining," the most in the store is persimmon cakes, full of them, and the other is Yangzhou soy sauce, and other things are really very few." ”
What makes the people in the city even more unbearable is the local sanitary conditions. Living in a rough house, the toilet is a hole in the ground next to the house, and the wall is erected on three sides, "open-air, on rainy days, you can only go to the toilet with an umbrella." ”
The old comrade in Qinghai told Zhu Fuchang that the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is much better than other prefectures in terms of climatic conditions and materials.
Zhu Fuchang looked back on his own side years
Dedicate youth to the construction of the northwest, harvest friendship and touch
In Qinghai, Zhu Fuchang worked for 19 years, from the initial Commercial Bureau, to later transferred to Duxiu and Qugou as a primary and secondary school teacher, he dedicated the most beautiful youth to the construction of the northwest.
And there are many young people like him. In Zhu Fuchang's memory, there were nearly 1,700 people who went to Qinghai from Zhuji Railway Station with him that year, and in Qinghai, his colleagues came from all over the world, including Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places.
Because in Qinghai for many years, many colleagues' families have also moved to Qinghai, married and had children in the local area, and suffered a lot. The traffic is inconvenient, the access is based on horse-drawn carriages, some people have children, and other family members complete the "operation" with seven hands and eight feet.
But looking back on the past, Zhu Fuchang is reluctant to talk more about the suffering of that year, and will always talk about the feeling of harvest.
When you come to Qinghai, you have to go down to the grassroots level, go to the countryside, deal with tibetans, and learn Tibetan, which has become the top priority.
Soon after coming to Qinghai, the organization arranged for a 56-year-old Tibetan uncle named Abba Xiangtang to be their teacher and teach them to learn Tibetan and local customs. "Uncle Da is amiable, can speak Tibetan, Uyghur, chinese, and has a wealth of knowledge." It took more than 50 days for Zhu Fuchang and his colleagues to learn Tibetan for daily life and work.
In August 1957, on a trip to the countryside, Zhu Fuchang and Aba Xiangtang and five people rode to Qajar Township, and in the vast grassland, someone saw a big bird and tried to shoot the big bird down, but was stopped by Abba Xiangtang.
"He said it wasn't a big bird, it was a big eagle." Abba Xiangtang told them that the great eagle was a "condor" in the eyes of the Tibetan compatriots, and was the messenger of the heavenly burial. Taking the opportunity, a group of people sat around the grass and let Aba Xiangtang popularize a heavenly burial folklore class.
The intellectual youth like Zhu Fuchang gradually became integrated with the Tibetan compatriots from the language, customs, and so on.
"Tibetan compatriots are really hospitable, and sometimes when we go to the pastoral areas and enter their tents, they will entertain us with barley wine, hand-grabbed lamb, butter tea, saying that we are good cadres from the party, and at night everyone will dance Tibetan dance around the campfire."
Chen Youchuan sent a letter to Zhu Fuchang
"Suffering when we are young is not bitter, we are typical examples of hard work"
After working in Qinghai for 19 years, Zhu Fuchang basically returned home to visit his relatives once every two years, and considering the separation of the two places, at the end of 1974, the organization transferred him back to Hangzhou and served in the Hangzhou Power Generation Equipment Factory Workers' School.
Looking back on the time in Qinghai, Zhu Fuchang summed it up: no complaints and no regrets.
In 19 years, Zhu Fuchang saw that because of the participation of knowledgeable youth in construction, the development of the Great Northwest has improved. "When I first went, there were no buses, and then not only did I have buses, but I also got trains. Houses have also changed from adobe houses to buildings, and trees have been planted on the side of the road, and the environment has slowly improved. Teaching and educating people in schools, Zhu Fuchang felt that it was even more meaningful, "Cultivating generations of talents is the greatest contribution, some of them have become local cadres, some have worked in television stations, and they have contributed to the construction of their hometown." ”
Under difficult conditions, Zhu Fuchang's will was also tempered, and after returning to his hometown, he worked harder to devote himself to his work.
"When I was in Qinghai, once when I was chopping firewood on the mountain, I met a wolf, and I remembered that the Tibetans said that wolves were afraid of fire, so they took down a pile of dry firewood and lit a bonfire, and the wolf was really scared, but still did not retreat, and at this critical juncture, I shouted loudly and sang the "March of the Great Knife", while throwing the burning firewood at the wolf, and the wolf ran away." Whenever he encounters difficulties in work and life, Zhu Fuchang will always think of this past of his retreat from the wild wolf, even the wolf can overcome, what is there to be afraid of?
After returning to Hangzhou, in order to improve the level of teachers, zhu Fuchang insisted on studying in the Hangzhou Teachers' Training College in order to improve the level of teachers, and finally passed the examination. After his retirement, he did not forget to exert his residual heat, and substituted classes in schools such as Hangzhou Normal College Affiliated Middle School, Xuejun Middle School, and Long March Middle School, until his hearing in both ears was poor.
Today, Zhu Fuchang is retired at home, reading books and newspapers every day, caring about major national affairs, and occasionally writing articles to review the years of his youth.
Zhu Fuchang in 2002
"My brother is more than 90 years old, and when he was young, he also devoted himself to the construction of the motherland and made a home in Xi'an. Now that he's old, he can write a memoir, write a book, and be my role model. Zhu Fuchang said that when he was young, it was not bitter to suffer hardships, and it was really a blessing to enjoy the blessings of old age. After retirement, his children took him on a tour of famous places, such as Putuo Mountain, Huangshan Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain, Mount Emei, Shaolin Temple, Great Wall, Forbidden City, Laoshan Mountain, Gulangyu Island, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan... Footprints all over the motherland's great rivers and mountains, in the trip, he also saw the prosperity and development of the country, "we are a typical example of first bitter and then sweet." ”
Recently, a popular question is, what is your original intention? "I will go wherever the motherland needs me; I will do whatever the motherland needs me to do." This is probably the original intention of Zhu Fuchang's generation.
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