When Chen Yonggui is mentioned, some people will praise his miraculous life from a peasant to a "civilian premier", and some people will also lament how earth-shaking the "Dazhai spirit" represented by him is.
There are always people behind the light who are committed to silence and pay, willing to become the back of their own strength, so that the light can grace more people.
Chen Yonggui
Song Yulin is such a person, as Chen Yonggui's wife, she has tasted hardships together, but she has not enjoyed glory. With the image of a simple working woman, she became a defender of her husband's ideals and ambitions and became a participant in the road to Dazhai.
The meaning of greatness lies in greatness itself, not in the limitations of identity and role. Leaving aside the identity of "Chen Yonggui's widow", Song Yulin is alone and can also bear the memories and nostalgia of everyone.
Song Yulin
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In 1965, Chen Yonggui's original wife died of cancer, leaving behind a pair of children. At that time, the villagers' heroic deeds of collectively managing mountains and rivers, working hard, and changing their backward appearance were affirmed and praised by Chairman Mao.
For a time, Dazhai Village became a banner for the development of agriculture in the country, and Chairman Mao called on the people of the whole country to "dazhai in agriculture.". As the leader of the Dazhai transformation movement, Chen Yonggui was busy at both ends of the village and county, and there was no time to take care of the two children.
The parties concerned could not take care of it, and the of the leader broke their hearts. At that time, the county leaders of Xiyang County saw that Chen Yonggui's work was flourishing, but his family was overstretched, so he took it upon himself to act as a matchmaker, and Zhang Luo wanted to choose another suitable wife for Chen Yonggui.
Chen Yonggui (left)
At this time, Song Yulin, who was less than 40 years old, simple and capable, handsome-looking, divorced and raised a son alone, walked into the eyes of the county leaders.
Although it is not as good as Chen Yonggui's position as the "number one" of Dazhai, Song Yulin is not incompetent. Although she has little culture, she has worked as a female cadre, a health commissioner, and an active member of the front line of supporting military shoes and uniforms during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and even Song Yulin, an annual labor model conference in Xiyang County, was invited to participate.
And her first meeting with Chen Yonggui was at one of the model workers' conferences. At that time, labor models were the biggest idols.
A national labor model who leads the people of Dazhai to rely on themselves and get rid of the fate of relying on the sky to eat is enough to make people feel admiration and admiration from the bottom of their hearts.
So the marriage was settled.
The difference between them is more than ten years, perhaps in that most painful era, they experienced the thinness and ruthlessness of life, and when karma will eventually come together, gentle love will flow in the company of the twilight after that.
In his later years, a reporter interviewed Song Yulin, who had passed away at that time, and Song Yulin was more than 70 years old. When asked about the choice of marrying Chen Yonggui, the gray-haired old man was full of smiles.
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To this day, when it comes to Song Yulin, perhaps the first thing most people think of is her identity as "Chen Yonggui's wife". Since they started forming a family, this seems to have become the most eye-catching label attached to Song Yulin.
We do not deny the greatness of Mr. Chen Yonggui's hard work from a peasant all the way to vice premier of the State Council, but there are always people who are willing to be hidden under the light and willing to become a candlestick to hold up a round of light.
Song Yulin is a pair of hands behind Chen Yonggui's bright and smooth road, and he bears all the difficulties and complexities in the rear for him.
Chen Yonggui is dedicated to serving the people, and ordinary people may find it difficult to imagine what kind of family Song Yulin behind him supports for him.
When the two of them were married, Chen Yonggui took a son and an adopted daughter born to his ex-wife, and Song Yulin took a son with her ex-husband, and later the two of them gave birth to a son.
Chen Yonggui Song Yulin family photo
And Song Yulin was only more than ten years older than their eldest son, Chen Mingzhu. The complex reorganization of the family, four different children, and the frequent absence of the father all mean that Song Yulin, as a mother, has to carry the difficult majority of the family alone. The bitterness and difficulty are probably only known to Song Yulin himself.
Fortunately, these children will grow up well in the future.
The eldest son, Chen Mingzhu, had become the director of the Propaganda Department of Xiyang County; the second son, Chen Mingshan, went to Shaanxi to work as an engineer and later joined the Electric Power Bureau; and the daughter Chen Minghua had been managing files in the Xiyang County Public Security Bureau.
The youngest son, Chen Liangming, started business after graduating from university, and has never forgotten the roots of Dazhai, and is now the founding director of the China Jinshang Club and the honorary president of the Chongqing Shanxi Chamber of Commerce.
Although their children did not live a beautiful and decent life because of the relationship between their fathers, they all became ordinary people who were plain and excellent according to their own duties.
This is naturally inseparable from Song Yulin's careful education and care.
Song Yulin in his later years
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Some people must also know how to cherish, Song Yulin's labor Chen Yonggui naturally looked in the eyes. Although he is the "secretary" and "prime minister" of other people outside, Chen Yonggui never put up any shelves when he returned home, and the housework was done, and the warmth was not reduced.
The couple found a harmonious balance between Dazhai and Xiaojia, Chen Yonggui took the lead in serving the people in the front to transform a side of water and soil, and Song Yulin bent down to run the family in the back to relieve him of worries. She understands his ideals and dedication, and he cherishes her understanding and dedication.
After 1965, the successful experience of Dazhai attracted many international friends to visit, and Chen Yonggui, as the leader, often had to greet foreign guests and accompany the visit in Dazhai.
Chen Yonggui's work scene
In the face of this representative figure of the "Dazhai Spirit", many people also began to wonder what kind of person the "Xianneisuke" behind him was.
For the curiosity of the leaders and foreign guests, Chen Yonggui also did not hide it, generously and frankly introduced his wife. On the contrary, Song Yulin always felt that he was "embarrassed" and "not well dressed" and repeatedly pushed back.
She felt that she was an uneducated working woman, and she could not get on the table, for fear of losing chen Yonggui to herself. But Chen Yonggui did not shy away from mentioning her, and would jokingly tell her: "Hide from anything, there are rumors that I married a big girl in her twenties, you also let everyone see, labor is the most glorious." ”
Under Chen Yonggui's persuasion and persistence, Song Yulin slowly began to participate in some reception activities with him.
A civilian prime minister, a working woman, they showed all the Chinese and foreign guests who came to visit with the image of a simple couple, and this was the background of the simple era of that era.
Later, their home was placed with a photo of Song Yulin and the Dutch princess, which was the respect and decency that Chen Yonggui gave song Yulin. There may not be any sweet words between the simple old husband and wife, but the warmth naturally flows between the silent actions.
Chen Yonggui, Chen Mingliang, Song Yulin
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The world's attention to Song Yulin is more from her identity as "Chen Yonggui's widow". However, today, people can sincerely remember, and the memorial service has attracted the condolences of guests from all sides. It is enough to show that apart from all the aura imposed by the outside world, Song Yulin has its own greatness.
She was born in 1927 in Dazhai Village, Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, and became a female cadre at the age of 18. At a young age and hard-working, he later became a local women's commissar, a women's captain, and a health commissioner.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Song Yulin also made military shoes and clothes for the Eighth Route Army on the front line many times, and did her best as a female cadre to support the revolutionary cause. She was also named a former model for this.
Chen Yonggui and the villagers
In those days, "the most glorious labor" was more than just a slogan. During the period of national economic construction, everyone made every effort to change their destiny and build a homeland, and there were thousands of working women like Song Yulin.
When they go out of the house, they can work hard in the fields like men, and when they return home, they pick up the virtuous nature of being wives and mothers, and worry about the food and clothing of the family.
And how complicated the family that Song Yulin faces is, a husband who is dedicated to the people, sometimes rarely seen in ten days and a half months, and several children with different bloodlines and personalities, all need her to carry them all on her shoulders.
Because she was able to worry about her family, Chen Yonggui threw herself into her post, from the small mountain village of Dazhai to the State Council, and was promoted to vice premier. The four children also grew up healthy and safe because of her, and grew up to be simple adults.
Working women have always been the most silent names of this era, and silence has become more and more revealing of their greatness. Don't just because they are women, you can't see the strength and light in them.
Chen Yonggui work
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Born in Dazhai, grew up in Dazhai, struggled hard in Dazhai, and settled down in Dazhai. It can be said that the feelings for Dazhai have been deeply integrated into Song Yulin's bones and blood. Even the "Dazhai Spirit" forged by that generation also laid the foundation for Song Yulin's personality throughout his life.
At that time, Dazhai was still just a small mountain village in the Tushi Mountainous Area of the Taihang Mountains, with poor mountains and bad waters, "seven ditches, eight beams and one slope". After liberation, the people of Dazhai, who were not willing to rely on the sky for food, under the leadership of Chen Yonggui, Guo Fenglian, and others, ruled the mountains and rivers, vigorously carried out farmland construction, and exhausted ten years of painstaking efforts to build sponge fields with a yield of more than a thousand gold per mu.
Since then, the indomitable spirit of self-reliance and hard work has been engraved in the bones of every Dazhai.
In 1963, a devastating flood disaster destroyed Dazhai again, and the achievements of more than ten years of struggle were severely damaged, and the lives of the masses became very difficult. However, the people of Dazhai did not succumb to this, and the entire people buried their heads in hard work, fought against the heavens and the earth, and relied on hard work to rebuild their homeland.
Only those who have truly suffered understand the preciousness of a happy life. As a native of Dazhai, Song Yulin has personally experienced the difficulties and difficulties of Dazhai's makeover. And she is also a person standing next to Chen Yonggui, and she knows more about how many sacrifices and dedications there are on the road of Dazhai.
The life of suffering is engraved in the memory, even if the later life is getting better and better, the original intention of treating life has never faded.
Chairman Mao personally received Chen Yonggui
During the period of large-scale economic construction, Song Yulin followed Chen Yonggui to take the lead in handing over more grain, and when the family's rations were insufficient, they ate miscellaneous noodles. Later, Chen Yonggui was promoted to vice premier and went to work in Beijing, and Song Yulin remained in Dazhai, working as a nurseryman in the village nursery to help take care of the children.
The family did not receive special preferential treatment because of Chen Yonggui's status as vice premier, so that their lives were once very poor.
The youngest son, Chen Mingliang, was admitted to university a few months after Chen Yonggui's death, and according to his recollection: "After going to college, my family was very difficult, and when I was most poor, I only had 3 cents and 5 cents on me. ”
It was not until Chen Liangming graduated and earned money that Song Yulin's life improved. Moving into his son's villa in Beijing, Song Yulin still maintains a simple living habit, with old-fashioned furniture at home and photos of Chen Yonggui hanging in the room.
Labor, selflessness, and authenticity are the imprints on the personality of Song Yulin and Chen Yonggui's generation of Dazhai people, and the prosperity and comfort of Beijing have not made them forget the roots of Dazhai.
On April 6, 2018, the 92-year-old Song Yulin passed away in Beijing. According to the old man's lifelong thoughts, she returned to dazhai, where she had lived for decades, and slept in the homeland where she had personally struggled.
Comrade Song Yulin's farewell ceremony in Dazhai, Shanxi
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After Chen Yougui's death, "Iron Maiden" Guo Fenglian single-handedly took over the construction of Dazhai, and she led Dazhai to embark on the road of "developing the commodity economy and non-agricultural villages". The "spirit of Dazhai" is not extinguished, and the torch is passed on from generation to generation.
After Song Yulin's death in 2018, Guo Fenglian, then a deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the general branch of the Dazhai Party, attended the farewell ceremony and delivered a eulogy at the scene.
Guo Fenglian delivered a eulogy at comrade Song Yulin's farewell ceremony
"She loves her husband in the most simple and simple way, loves her children, loves the children she cares for, and loves every father and fellow villager in Dazhai." This is Song Yulin's sincere sincerity as a wife, a mother, and a Dazhai.
"She loves the party and the people in the most honest and loyal way, loves her work, loves her cause, and dedicates herself in obscurity." This is Song Yulin's fine qualities as a Communist Party member and a working woman.
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