Zhang Jun photographs Lei Feng

How did lei Feng take the classic photo of carrying a gun on his shoulder and looking up 45 degrees?

Before he died in the line of duty, Lei Feng suffered hardships in everything first, enjoyed pleasures later, did a line of love and love, picked up heavy burdens at work, took the initiative to donate money to the people in the disaster area, did countless good deeds, and never left his surname and name... Many units invited him to give a bittersweet report, and some primary schools hired him as an off-campus counselor.

In late August 1960, Zhang Jun, then a reporting officer of the Propaganda Office of the Engineer Corps of the Shenyang Military Region, came to an engineer company in Fushun. He was looking for an ordinary soldier named Lei Feng. Earlier, Zhang Jun got two thank-you letters from the company below. The two letters came from the Fushun Peace People's Commune and the Liaoyang Municipal Party Committee, respectively. The letters all mentioned the donation of a soldier named Lei Feng.

When he arrived at the company, Zhang Jun saw Lei Feng, who had just been enlisted in the army for eight months, with a height of one meter and five fourths, and weighed less than one hundred pounds. Seeing Zhang Jun with a camera, Lei Feng took the initiative to say to Zhang Jun: "You take a picture of me first, Assistant Zhang." Zhang Jun was stunned and thought to himself: "Lei Feng is only a high-class soldier, and his rank is lieutenant, a new soldier dares to make such a request?" He then said to Lei Feng, "What kind of photo do you want to take?" Lei Feng said: "Shoot a majestic and exuberant person." Zhang Jun smiled and said, "Then you have to go back and get the gun." ”

Ten minutes later, Lei Feng came to Zhang Jun with a gun on his back and a military uniform, and hung two medals of Anshan's advanced producers on his chest. A few minutes later, Lei Feng held a gun on his shoulder and his eyes looked up 45 degrees. This is the first photo of Lei Feng taken by Zhang Jun, which has become a classic image in the future.

Zhang Jun interviewed Lei Feng's company for a week, and after the interview, he wrote a report entitled "Saving Pacesetter Lei Feng" and handed it to the editor-in-chief of the "Forward Newspaper" of the Shenyang Military Region. The article mentions Lei Feng's thrifty deeds and his bitter and vengeful family origin. After reading this, the editor-in-chief said to Zhang Jun: "There is such a typical example, and the Shenyang Military Region is looking for such a typical example of bittersweet thinking. That's great! But you can't write well. The editor-in-chief asked Zhang Jun to rewrite the manuscript into a type of bittersweet and sweet memories, and submit it before the National Day. Zhang Jun felt that he could not write, and hoped that the organization would send two people to write with him. Subsequently, four people, including two reporters from the Xinhua News Agency in the Shenyang Military Region, formed a group to write the manuscript. Because of the two thank-you letters and Lei Feng's origin, at this time, Lei Feng has been arranged to make a memorial report in his company. Several people in the writing group went down to the company again to listen to the report, and Zhang Jun took photos of the report at the same time.

In the end, the manuscript expanded from thrift and thrift to bittersweet, and was published in the "Forward Newspaper" on November 26, 1960 under the title of "Chairman Mao's Good Soldier". This is an earlier report on Lei Feng's deeds. It is reported that on November 10, 1959, the media published Lei Feng's deeds of rescuing cement, which is the date when lei Feng's deeds were first reported.

Chen Guangsheng, the author of the book "The Story of Lei Feng", is a "living material" familiar with the story of Lei Feng. He said: "In the 1960s, when the country was most difficult, it was Lei Feng's regiment Han Wanjin who took the lead in paying all the two thousand yuan he had accumulated for many years to pay the party fee. The cadres and fighters of our regiment all said that it was precisely because Han Wanjin himself was a 'living Lei Feng' that he was able to discover, identify, cultivate, and publicize Lei Feng's advanced model with unique insight. The reason why Han Wanjin's name is not seen in the reports that publicize Lei Feng is because the Han political commissar demands that he be quite strict. At that time, the newsletter I originally wrote about Lei Feng's deeds, and the book "The Story of Lei Feng" that I wrote later, both wrote the chapter of the Han political commissar 'BoLe Yu Newcomer', but when reviewing the manuscript, it was deleted by the Han political commissar. Until December 23, 1972, shortly before Han Wanjin's death, when I went to the hospital to visit him, the Han political commissar was still intermittently instructing me on his deathbed, '... Lei Feng was cultivated by the party and the people... We can't touch this light of Lei Feng'! ”

When a letter was received asking him to write an inscription, the Chairman read it but did not express his position

After Lei Feng's sacrifice, propaganda against Lei Feng throughout the country, inside and outside the military, set off a new and even bigger momentum. In the face of the fiery situation of publicizing Lei Feng throughout the country, Hu Yaobang, who was then the first secretary of the CYL Central Committee, listened to the relevant report and asked the Communist Youth League system to intensify the propaganda of Lei Feng's deeds and organize young people throughout the country to learn from Lei Feng with practical actions.