Source: People's Daily - Guizhou Channel Original draft
"The great Communist Party of China, my mother, the mother I miss day and night, I am finally going to walk into your arms." Tan Jinrong wrote in a notebook.
On June 20, 2018, Tan Jinrong, 71, participated in the training of party activists at the Party School of the Honghuagang District Party Committee of Zunyi City. This day, for the elderly, is exciting, but also happy.
"I want to join the Chinese Communist Party!" This is Tan Jinrong's lifelong belief, which is her lifelong pursuit.
In 2016, tan Jinrong, 69 years old, submitted an application to the party organization to join the party.
For this belief, Tan Jinrong said: "I can't sit idle. In 2000, after retiring from the teaching position of Zunyi No. 11 Middle School, she was obliged to join the Honghuagang District Theme Education Propaganda Group and the School Customs Work Committee to preach the history of the party, the history of the country, and the red culture in all primary and secondary schools in the district, especially the story of the Red Army's Long March, and interpret the mission of a people's teacher Li De Shuren in the way of retirement without leaving his post.
Tan Jinrong, executive deputy director of the Honghuagang District Theme Propaganda Group and the Customs Work Committee of the Eleventh Middle School, went to the Eleventh Middle School to carry out the red propaganda.
"At a very old age, you still preach everywhere, and you haven't taught enough?" Colleagues are puzzled.
"If you are not in good health, you will talk less about it." Family members are worried.
"I hope that these red stories I tell will enable children to pass on the red genes of Zunyi, so that they can understand what examples they should set and what spirits they should learn." If children can draw strength and inspiration from the tenacious will and heroic spirit of their revolutionary ancestors, they will be able to strive to walk well on their own new Long March. ”
For this belief, Tan Jinrong said: "I want to recharge myself." Every day, she always spends several hours studying red culture books, carefully taking notes, preparing and combing through the propaganda drafts, and then memorizing the contents of the lectures, or printing them into a book, and neatly arranging the red propaganda texts she carefully arranged on her desk.
For this belief, Tan Jinrong said: "I want to keep pace with the times and let the red preaching not only be in the classroom." Tan Jinrong, who is in her 70s, has worked hard to learn to use WeChat and QQ. Now she is playing "well" in beauty and music photo albums, and can be regarded as a very "young" old man and a very "trendy" old man.
"I like to make the things I preach into beautiful articles and send out circles of friends, and I hope that more people can feel the red culture and receive red culture education."
In her philosophy, red preaching is a classroom everywhere, and everywhere is a classroom. While getting the likes of the circle of friends, it has also invisibly affected more people.
Tan Jinrong preached on Willow Street.
Becoming a party member is Tan Jinrong's lifelong dream. Originally, I thought that after retirement, the desire to join the party was hopeless, but the original intention of joining the party was constantly sublimated in the course of preaching and studying again and again.
In 2019, Tan Jinrong officially became a member of the Communist Party of China, and the whole person was more radiant with the "spirit of young people".
In the same year, Tan Jinrong gladly accepted the employment of the old city street in Honghuagang District and became the red volunteer publicist of the old city street.
"On the small platform on the west side of the monument to the Red Army Martyrs Cemetery in Phoenix Mountain, the mausoleum of this 'Red Army Hygienist' is buried, and under the steps in front of the tomb stands a tall bronze statue of the hygienist..."
Therefore, on the side of the Red Army Story Wall on Yangliu Street in the old city street, you will often see a thin old man wearing a red coat of volunteer propaganda, carrying a "little bee", and preaching the story of the Red Army hygienist "Xiao Hong" to tourists everywhere...
Tan Jinrong preached to foreign tourists on Willow Street.
Her audience expanded from students to tourists and party members. Schools, streets, communities, rural areas...
"I'm a party member." That's what she thinks, and that's what she does.
To fight the epidemic, she donated 2,000 yuan to the community through WeChat; the school carried out activities, she took the initiative to buy clothing for students; colleagues had difficulties, she reached out to help...
She said: "The party has trained me, and I should come out and do something until the day I can't do it." ”
"Joining the party in his 70s, what do you want?" Some people don't understand.
"I am a child of the old revolutionary area, I grew up in the Red City, the school I attended and the school where I taught were close to the site of the Zunyi Conference, I loved the party, believed in the party, and it was the party that gave me today's happy life." She said affectionately. (Text/Photo By Liu Hongai)