In the early 1990s, the international situation was turbulent and the surrounding environment was tense and complicated, and it was in this context that some people triggered a trend of thought that blindly advocated foreign countries to belittle China, stirring up the motherland.
In the second issue of the journal "Children's and Young Children's Studies" in 1993, an article was published for the first time, the title of this article was simple and straightforward, comparing Chinese children with Japanese children from the ordinary perspective of summer camps, and also creating a "nightmare" that swept Through China's post-80s and post-90s youth.
It was the author of the article, titled "Competition in Summer Camp," that became a source of all evils that belittled Chinese youth and enjoyed the huge traffic dividends it brought, and published the article in the July issue of Golden Age magazine in the same year.
The latter article is more simple and clear, directly pointing out its central point of view, and the title of the article is: "Are Our Children the Opponents of the Japanese?" 》
The author of this article is Sun Yunxiao, as a popular educator in China, even he does not know how his article has become an unforgettable "memory" of post-80s youth.
In fact, as early as March 5, 1994, Beijing Youth Daily questioned the authenticity of the article during the Youth Weekend, and published an article to debunk the rumors.
In an article published by The Youth Daily, "Fabricated 'Contest': The Myth of the So-Called Japanese Children Defeating Chinese Children," the author refuted Sun Yunxiao word by word, trying to return the truth to the Chinese youth.
However, under the environment at that time, more people still believed in the quality of the people behind Japan's glamorous appearance, and selectively did not care about the truth of the matter, which also led to the "myth" of Japanese summer camps still on the altar, affecting the childhood of a generation.
The times are progressing, the articles that blindly touted foreign countries in the past have gradually "passed", when a new generation of young people finds themselves deceived, the so-called German sewers and the big passports of the United States have also been exposed as fictitious fabrications, and the spearhead has finally pointed to the Japanese summer camps.
It is not only Japanese summer camps that are under fire, but also toilet water in Japan, craftsmanship in Japan... Sun Yunxiao's original intention in publishing the article has also been interpreted by a new generation of netizens as advocating Japanese teenagers and belittling Chinese teenagers.
Decades ago, when controversy was revived, Sun Yunxiao had to clarify that the purpose of his writing was to inspire Chinese teenagers, while affirming the young people's doubts, believing that this was the cultural self-confidence of a new generation of young people.
Of course, we do not know the purpose of Sun Yunxiao's original article, but objectively speaking, this article also has a huge impact on the education of Chinese youth, and indeed plays an encouraging role.
However, we cannot deny that in the period after the publication of the article, some well-known boats have become a "sharp weapon" to smear China and a fuse for criticizing China.
Perhaps this is not the original intention of the author Sun Yunxiao, but under the blowing of the historical tide, even he can't help himself, becoming a part of being known to be "used", and has brought us some thoughts since then.
In Sun Yunxiao's article "The Contest in Summer Camp", a documentary summer camp off-road trip is depicted.
The article compares the psychological actions of Chinese children and Japanese children, in the daily 50-kilometer cross-country itinerary, Chinese children are lazy with each other, crying bitterly, and like to speculate and slip, and have no sense of survival.
During the picnic, all those who are white and fat and do nothing are Chinese children. The Chinese people criticized them: "You get it for free, do you mean to eat it?" "But these Chinese children reacted numbly. - "The Contest in Summer Camp", Sun Yunxiao
On the contrary, Japanese children are hard-working, especially polite, and they have to walk through the finish line with their bodies, and the waste garbage used by Japanese children will be packed in plastic bags during the trip, which is in stark contrast to Chinese children.
In our Chinese grasslands, the sundries used by Japanese children are packed in plastic bags and taken away. They found the lark egg and immediately surrounded it with small wooden sticks to remind everyone not to step on it, but the Chinese children lost things all the way. - "The Contest in Summer Camp", Sun Yunxiao
When the author depicts Japanese children who never give up and cross the finish line, he can't help but sigh in this regard:
Is this the Yamato National Spirit? When the Japanese child looked up, tears flashed in everyone's eyes. - "The Contest in Summer Camp", Sun Yunxiao
The sensational article led to a plausible conclusion: Japanese children are more promising than Chinese children.
But when the lies are exposed, the articles that affected a generation are also regarded as jokes by the Chinese people, just as the public who used to advocate that Japanese toilet water can be drunk has been carved into the column of shame, and the Japanese children who can cross the country for 50 kilometers a day in the text are also laughed at as "humanoid Gundam".
But who could have predicted that the bull that was known to be bragged at that time was realized by a Chinese principal today for 26 years...
Two middle schools in Guyuan City, Ningxia, a total of 2,000 students, during each Qingming Festival, will organize a commemoration of the martyrs, all the way over the mountains, walking up to 108 miles, in order to go to the martyrs' cemetery to visit the graves of the martyrs who died that year.
The initiator of this activity was Han Hong, the principal of one of the middle schools, who recalled that it was precisely because he saw the article "The Contest of Summer Camps" in 1993 that he felt inspired and decided to devote himself to the development of student education.
Han Hong said with great emotion: "This (the article of the summer camp) stimulated me a lot, as an educator, I have been thinking about the long-term development of the children, so finally I proposed to take them on foot to the Renshan River Martyrs Cemetery to visit the graves." ”
Who would have thought that the yin and yang mistakes of that year would actually become the fuse for this Chinese educator to carry forward patriotism and learn the spirit of the Long March.
A female student who participated in this long journey, because she had never traveled such a long distance before, she was left behind twice in the 15-hour journey, and finally with the help of her classmates, she insisted on walking the whole distance.
The student sighed with excitement: "I understand the difficulties of the Long March of the Red Army soldiers even more, and I really feel the strength of the collective strength." ”
During the Qingming Dynasty, the rain was pouring, and the students braved the wind and rain, stepped on the mud, overcame all difficulties and dangers, and were not afraid of suffering, whether it was physical or psychological, which had a profound impact.
A graduate who participated in this activity more than a decade ago, she is still sighing, she is also a woman, but she dares to break through herself, dare to challenge the limit, in the circle of friends she wrote such a string of words, as a memory of the past:
"15 years ago, we also set off at dawn, hiked 108 miles over Huangmao Mountain, and went to The Renshan River Martyrs Cemetery in Pengyang County to commemorate the martyrs. Along the way, we sang 10 revolutionary songs that we had learned in advance, majestic and exuberant. ”
Although he retired five years ago, the principal who carried out this activity, whenever he saw his students, the students would proudly tell him about their experience of commemorating the revolutionary martyrs on foot.
These experiences made the students involved unforgettable, and they truly experienced the hardships of revolutionary martyrs through practice, which was the most vivid patriotic education for them.
Looking back at the past years, the blind praise and beautification of foreign countries has made generations of young people convinced, but the times are to progress, and all rumors have been self-defeating.
But our educators are not willing to tie their hands and feet, but they have realized the well-known and fabricated words, not only did not fall into the trap of cultural self-confidence, but went against the current and turned it into the rise of Chinese youth.
For the martyrs, The new generation of Chinese youth will break the well-known "myth", and the mud and sweat of the young people's hands and feet are the best consolation for the revolutionary martyrs!
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