December 20, 1964, was destined to be extraordinary for an ordinary rural woman.
She struggled all her life in an ordinary post, and on this day she would enter the Great Hall of the People, which symbolizes the highest level of the meeting, as one of the deputies to the National People's Congress, and there is a scene that has been constantly mentioned by posterity, I am afraid that no ordinary working people have ever enjoyed such treatment.
Before the opening of the meeting, Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, and other important leaders went to the lounge of the participants, but they did not expect that Chairman Mao would begin to look left and right after arriving, and repeatedly inquired into her seat, and when he saw her, he tightly held her hand.
Because she did not have any prior preparations, she was stunned by the chairman's sudden move, and tears gushed out, and she could not imagine that she could get so much attention from Chairman Mao. Later, she recalled that her mind was blank at that time, and she could only feel that Chairman Mao's hand was very warm and very powerful.
Later, Chairman Mao took her hand, took the initiative to find her a seat, and took her to the meeting seat arranged for her in advance. This year, this ordinary rural girl was only 24 years old, she was Xing Yanzi. As the only rural girl to hold hands with Chairman Mao at the meeting, what kind of background did she have that allowed Chairman Mao to find her a seat?
Xing Yanzi
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Some leaders have mentioned that the countryside is a vast world, and if you cultivate deeply there, you will have great achievements. Xing Yanzi has always kept this sentence in mind, in 1958, there were many rural laborers began to move toward the city and carry out socialist construction work, but Xing Yanzi, who was only 18 years old, did not follow this wave.
At that time, she was already a junior high school graduate, and she was one of the few "little knowledgeable youths" at that time, but she was willing to give up the seemingly comfortable mental work in the city and return to the countryside.
Some people may not be able to figure it out, thinking that the central authorities did not put forward a slogan of going up to the mountains and the countryside in those years? Xing Yanzi did this at that time in line with the call of the state, and many people like Xing Yanzi enthusiastically participated in this wave. In fact, it was almost 8 years since Xing Yanzi returned to the countryside before the central authorities put forward this slogan.
Xing Yanzi, who had just returned to the countryside, although she was full of enthusiasm, but the farm work was not simply accomplished by a clever brain, but more by manual labor, and the village cadres could not bear the fact that a young girl suffered in the countryside, so they simply transferred her to the canteen to help.
However, Xing Yanzi, who was very competitive, did not give up, and while doing the work at hand, she observed the movements of the villagers working in the fields. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, not to mention a clever girl of seventeen or eighteen.
Soon after, she thoroughly learned the essentials of farm work, and personally went to the field to work, every day to follow the pace of the villagers to plant seedlings, every day to live monotonous and hard.
But Xing Yanzi can feel happy in it, and she feels that it is also a very happy thing to be able to contribute to socialist construction in the countryside of the motherland, and the profession does not distinguish between noble and lowly.
Just like this for a long time, those men can do the work, Xing Yanzi can do, at that time there were villagers joked, don't look at the swallow little girl, did not expect to be an "iron lady".
By the end of the 1950s, there had been some shifts in the country's development, and all the villages had huge tasks on their shoulders, and it was almost impossible to complete these tasks.
At this time, a sudden idea drilled into Xing Yanzi's head, and she thought, since I can do it, then other women can do it, plus many young and middle-aged laborers have already entered the city, and if the female compatriots do not unite, they will almost be impossible to complete.
In this way, under the vigorous call of Xing Yanzi, there were more than twenty working women in the village, and these women formed a group, rushed to work with men, and also gave a well-known name, called "Xing Yanzi Commando".
With the continuous efforts of Xing Yanzi, these female laborers who came with her, no matter whether it was windy, rainy or hailed, as long as there was a place to help, the "Swallow Commando" was ready to go at any time, and it was hard to create a big career in the vast rural areas.
Specifically, in more than three months of labor, this commando team earned more than three thousand yuan for the whole village, which was a huge amount of money at that time, which was enough to change the style of a village.
Later, the sudden arrival of natural disasters dealt a great blow to all of China. However, it was precisely at this most difficult juncture of the rural economy that Xing Yanzi handed over a perfect answer.
Under her leadership, women were all scrambling to work and contribute to the cause of socialism, which was also very much in line with the national criteria for selecting talents. In this way, Xing Yanzi successfully attracted the attention of the vast number of media.
Since 1960, there have been famous "Hebei Daily", "People's Daily" and other media have successively reported xing yanzi's glorious deeds, for a time, there are other local media rushing to reprint and publish, the wind of learning Xing Yanzi immediately roared, even the famous Guo Moruo, have created a poem in vernacular, praising Xing Yanzi's glorious deeds.
Xing Yanzi in the photo, with a short haircut, looks very capable, but also very much in line with her own image, in those two years, she was the country's biggest "star", every day sent to her village letters can not be counted, have expressed admiration for this great female comrade.
Later, under the call of the intellectual youth to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, countless people listened to the "swallow song" and rushed to all sides of the motherland. Perhaps in the eyes of people at that time, Xing Yanzi was also one of their spiritual leaders.
Xing Yanzi's fire has also successfully brought about a large number of intellectual youth in the city, and they also realize that female compatriots can also have such a great deed, which is what a typical youth should look like.
What is unexpected is that it is such a female representative who is admired by countless people, and finally married a difficult family in the village, in her eyes, poverty can be changed by labor, but if the spirit is not rich enough, then even if there is more money, it is an irreparable gap.
The husband he chose is an old party member, and his ideological quality is relatively strong in all aspects, and if he marries him, the two can talk.
In the middle of December 1964, Chairman Mao was about to celebrate his 71st birthday, and although Chairman Mao did not want to celebrate his birthday, he finally made up his mind to use his own writing fees to pay for a birthday when he thought that we had experienced difficulties in the past few years and would continue to move forward with a new look in the future.
In the end, the chairman drew up a list through careful selection, including Xing Yanzi, and at this birthday banquet, Chairman Mao did not sit with these old friends such as Premier Zhou, but chose new friends like Xing Yanzi, and kept adding vegetables to the swallows, which touched many people in the venue.
In this way, Xing Yanzi became an indelible memory for people of that era.
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Chairman Mao alone, Xing Yanzi has seen 5 times, she will still be very proud when she thinks of these things, when she goes to the Central Committee for a meeting, Xing Yanzi sits in a small car, because she must respect the etiquette of the meeting, after going back, this swallow, which was originally beautiful in Beijing, was immediately replaced by a hoe.
The best way to make the broad masses of people aware of policies and calls is to set an example.
In the 1960s, Xing Yanzi was such a model, and under the kind care of the Supreme Leader, Xing Yanzi never forgot what her original intention was. Subsequently, as an "idol", she even paid tribute to the soldiers who participated in the front-line battles, and also made reports to cadres and peasants in various regions, which was well known at the time.
Later, she became the secretary of the municipal party committee and directed the production work of the whole city.
The outstanding historical figures of that era all had the same commonality, and after they came down from their jobs, they continued to dedicate according to their past and played an exemplary role.
Whenever a natural disaster occurs, those scenes always make Xing Yanzi's heart unable to calm down for a long time, and every time she will take out her savings and send them to the disaster area, hoping to contribute her own strength.
In her lifetime, she went from an ordinary rural woman to an active newspaper headliner, and finally an ordinary citizen. This is actually what she hopes, she simply hopes that people can learn her spirit, and does not want to be remembered by history, in her mind, it is also this era that has made her.
In 2009, when it was the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xing Yanzi's name once appeared in everyone's sight, once again evoking the memories of that generation, she was also named one of the "100 Chinese Things That Touched since the Founding of New China" at that time, and on the occasion of the recent first National Day ceremony, she won the title of "the most beautiful strivers".
Once, someone asked Xing Yanzi what he thought of the fact that the intellectual youth went to the mountains and went to the countryside in those years, and as far as the current situation is concerned, will their choice at that time be delayed by youth?
Xing Yanzi was very calm when she thought about this issue, she felt that they were not a generation that was delayed at all, youth could bloom anywhere, and the pain of the country needed to be shared by everyone.
In that special era, the countryside was the best place to struggle, when you were young, you suffered a little, and when you faced various problems in society in the future, you could deal with them more calmly.
Well, we can follow this line of thinking and ask the young people of today.
If your father is a factory director in the city, you don't have to worry about eating since you were a child, and after graduation, will you go to the place where the motherland needs you most like Xing Yanzi?
In addition to being personally received by Chairman Mao five times, Premier Zhou also received her 13 times, and this model figure who is well-known throughout the country, even now, still has a lot of shining points to learn from.
Today, Xing Yanzi is more than eighty years old, she has also changed from a girl in the flower season to a faltering old man, looking at the recent live video interviewed by reporters, this old man is still bright-eyed, people always need a faith, life always needs a direction, rooted in the heart, and will not pass away with the years.