In the autumn of 1958, Lei Feng signed up for Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and was hired. Before signing the contract, he changed his original name from "Lei Zhengxing" to "Lei Feng".
"The name Lei Zhengxing was given by my uncle when I was a child, which means our family is very rich." On the way to register, Lei Feng revealed his idea of ??changing his name to Zhang Xiwen. He was a county projectionist in his profession. "I didn't even have a home in the old society. I said it was prosperous. It's better to find another opportunity to sign up as a worker now." He called himself "Lei Feng" on the application form, which means "climbing high and looking far." Before liberation, Zhang Xiwen only read books for three months. At Lei Feng's suggestion, he changed his name to Zhang Jianwen to build socialism and new culture.
When bidding farewell to County Party Secretary Zhao Yangcheng, the secretary suggested that Lei Feng change the word "Feng" to "Feng": "You are going to the steel factory. To be precise, you have to change the word "金"."
On November 12, "Lei Feng" went to Anshan Iron and Steel with his new name and companions.
Two days later, the train bound for Anshan changed trains in Beijing and stayed for several hours. This is Lei Feng's first visit to Beijing.
Walked with his colleagues to the Jinshui Bridge in Tiananmen Square. Lei Feng looked up at Chairman Mao's portrait and stood there for a long time. It can be said that the founder of New China changed his destiny. Before Lei Feng left his hometown in Hunan, he made a special trip to Mao Zedong's former residence in Shaoshan.
I don’t know how long it took, but the soldiers on duty at Tiananmen told Lei Feng that he could not stay at Jinshui Bridge for a long time. Lei Feng turned around reluctantly and asked: "Where is Chairman Mao?"
The soldier said: "I have been on duty here for so long and I have never seen Chairman Mao."
Mao Does the Chairman live in Tiananmen Square? Continue to ask Lei Feng.
"Chairman Mao lives in Zhongnanhai, and he is very satisfied every day. If you want to see Chairman Mao, you must do great things, be a hero, and be a model." The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. Lei Feng was deeply moved by the little soldier's words.
Lei Feng stood at the end of the Jinshui Bridge and took a photo with a woven basket with Tiananmen Gate as the background. At this time, he saw a young man riding a fixed motorcycle to take pictures, so he walked over and asked a photographer from Dabei Photo Studio to take this "artistic photo" for him. These are the only two photos of Lei Feng in Beijing.
In the two photos, Lei Feng smiles like a child. No one knows that at this moment, he has regarded it as his greatest wish to meet Chairman Mao after his "great achievements".
Lei Feng had a dream, which was to go to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao after "making great achievements". But his brilliant and fiery life came to an abrupt end in August 1962. What is the regret behind this dream? How does Lei Feng’s life trajectory “intersect” with Beijing?
Shen Jiao: Central Media Correspondent in the Capital
Lei Feng has been a reporter, tractor driver, bulldozer driver and People's Liberation Army soldier. He has always been a literature lover. But few people know that Lei Feng, a young scholar who was accustomed to keeping diaries and summaries, also liked to write poetry and prose. He was hailed by Mao Zedong as "knowing a little philosophy" and was also a reporter for central media such as the PLA Daily.
In the Lei Feng Memorial Hall of the Shenyang Military Region, there is a yellow official newspaper headed by the "People's Liberation Army Daily". The title of the official document is "Comrade Lei Feng", with the official seal of the People's Liberation Army Daily stamped underneath, and the signature date is January 17, 1961. In July 1961, the correspondent certificate awarded to Lei Feng by the China People's Broadcasting Station was also displayed in the display case.
A major newspaper in the army rarely writes to recruits who have just joined the army for one year. Take a closer look at the contents of this official document. It was the "letter of appointment" that formally hired Lei Feng as a correspondent. The yellowed letter of appointment read: "Comrade Correspondent is the pioneer of propaganda and reporting, the right-hand assistant of the newspaper editorial department, and an important force in the implementation of 'the whole party runs the newspaper'. It is an honor to be a reporter for the party newspaper." The letter of appointment was given to Lei Feng It brought three hopes: "First, actively write articles for this newspaper; second, report the situation of the troops in a timely and truthful manner; third, mobilize the masses to write articles and often reflect their opinions and demands in the newspaper."
"Lei Feng writes very well. He is a very diligent person. He likes to learn, think and research. It can also be seen from his diary that he is very poetic and philosophical." Original deputy Editor-in-chief Tao Ke told reporters, "The Shenyang Military Region reported on Lei Feng's name when it was improving news reporting and promoting the development of journalists."
In accordance with the principle of streamlining at that time, the appointment letter was issued through internal communication. For Lei Feng. Therefore, Lei Feng did not come to Beijing this time.
Unfortunately, so far, we have not seen Lei Feng’s article in the People’s Liberation Army Daily. From January 8, 1960 to August 15, 1962, Lei Feng was busy with military training, transportation and driving skills training, and local construction. Although he wrote "People's Liberation Army Daily" and "Military Region Forward News", he did not have time to write "Fushun Iron and Steel Plant Red Star News".
Unfortunately, we have to wait 45 days.
Although he did not have the opportunity to come to Beijing while serving in Fushun, Beijing has always been Lei Feng's dream place.
It can be seen from Lei Feng’s diary that Chairman Mao entered Lei Feng’s dream three times in October 1959, February 22, 1961, and June 30, 1961. In my dream, Lei Feng came to Beijing again.
In fact, according to the arrangements between the Shenyang Military Region and Lei Feng’s unit, Lei Feng should go to Beijing to attend the National Day Ceremony on the eve of the National Day in 1962. If the accident on August 15 had not happened, Lei Feng would have been able to realize his wish to see Chairman Mao in Beijing.
The Shenyang Military Region Engineering Corps recommended Lei Feng as a model representative to participate in the National Day Ceremony in Beijing. In fact, his superiors had approved it months ago. This news was known to Zhang Jun, director of the Political Department of the Engineering Corps of Shenyang Military Region, who often took pictures of Lei Feng. Han, political commissar of the Tenth Engineering Corps; Zhao Wei, the party's spokesperson and leader of the Lei Feng organization, and Gao, the traffic instructor who handled the party membership procedures for Comrade Lei Feng.
Lei Feng had a dream, which was to go to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao after "making great achievements". But his brilliant and fiery life came to an abrupt end in August 1962. What is the regret behind this dream? How does Lei Feng’s life trajectory “intersect” with Beijing?
However, they did not tell Lei Feng. They also have a task, which is to educate and help Lei Feng grow up more strictly.
Not long before the accident, Zhang Jun took a photo of Lei Feng at work with a gun in front of Chairman Mao's portrait. While filming, Lei Feng said: "I want to see Chairman Mao!"
"It can be done right away." When the words came to his lips, Zhang Jun swallowed them again and changed his words: "You use practical actions to fight for it. , I will definitely be able to see Chairman Mao.” To this day, this is still a regret in Zhang Jun’s heart.
On July 29, company instructor Gao talked to Lei Feng because he heard someone saying that Lei Feng loved young women and was worried that he would make a mistake in this regard. Although he was wronged, Lei Feng patiently explained the whole story. Lei Feng wrote the last sentence in his diary on July 29: "Change it if it exists; if not, encourage it. Things will always come to light. Let the organization test me." Seeing this, Gao almost burst into tears. : This little comrade left with his grievance. If I told him that he was going to Beijing to meet Chairman Mao, that would be a comfort to him!
In this way, Lei Feng and Beijing waited forever for 45 days.
Lei Feng left with deep regret without seeing Chairman Mao. On August 1, 1963, Chairman Mao, who seldom watched TV series, watched the Shenyang Military Region's TV series "The People's Liberation Army Daily" in Huairentang, Zhongnanhai. During the interview, the actor Zhang Yumin, who played Lei Feng, held Chairman Mao's hand and said: "Chairman Mao, Lei Feng's biggest wish during his lifetime was to see you, and I fulfilled it for him."
Later the movie "Lei Feng" " was released, and Chairman Mao went to watch it again. Seeing Lei Feng donate money to the people's commune, I said: "I am the son of the people, I am the son of the commune. You must accept your son's heart." Chairman Mao took out his handkerchief to wipe his tears. Our reporter Tong Yuquan.
Feng Lei Feng
Twenty-three years ago, there was a Lei Feng Primary School in Beijing.
Beijing Lei Feng Primary School, located in Xitai Hutong, Gulou Old Street, Xicheng District, is the first school in China that Lei Feng has not been to. It is named after Lei Feng.
Lei Feng Primary School was originally named Shuangsi Primary School. During the "Cultural Revolution", there was little awareness of learning from Lei Feng, but Shuangsi Primary School was in full swing. In 1973, on the tenth anniversary of Comrade Mao Zedong's inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng," the school launched an activity to "invite Uncle Lei Feng back." The team counselor Lu Jinhua emotionally told the students the story of Lei Feng. After hearing this, the children were very moved and wrote a letter to Lei Feng's class, Class 4, 2 Platoon, of a transportation company in the Shenyang Military Region where Lei Feng lived.
Soon, Zeng Linshu, the eighth "Lei Feng Squad Leader", led the whole class to write letters to the children under the small oil lamp used by the old Lei Feng Squad Leader. The letter read: When Lei Feng’s spirit was blasphemed, when Lei Feng’s squad leader began to be forgotten, when the slogans of learning from Lei Feng no longer sounded, you and the students in the capital Beijing shouted out our comrades’ wishes. : Learn from Comrade Lei Feng. Students cannot give up their studies. Let us join hands and overcome various difficulties together.
The answers from Lei Feng’s class inspired thousands of teachers and students. Since then, they have "gone hand in hand" with Qingshan Primary School in the impoverished mountainous areas of Guizhou. They take care of lonely old people who have retired from school. They deliver boiled water every morning and evening to the traffic policemen under the Gulou Bridge who cannot drink hot water.
By 1990, Shuangsi Primary School’s reputation for imitating Lei Feng was growing.
Hu Hongxing, then director of the Xicheng District Education Bureau, attached great importance to Shuangsi Primary School’s outstanding achievements in moral education and urged the school to be renamed “Lei Feng Primary School” to create an example and window for the education system to learn from Lei Feng. Under her promotion, Shuangsi Primary School was officially renamed Lei Feng Primary School on March 5, 1990, after approval by the former Beijing Municipal Government’s Cultural and Educational Office and the former Beijing Municipal Education Bureau.
To this day, every year, teachers and students invite "Lei Feng Class" to come on stage or serve as monitors, and *** students carry out activities to learn from Lei Feng; generation after generation, children continue to write Lei Feng's diary. Over the past 40 years, they have written 40 books and nearly 2,000 articles.
Lei Feng witnessed the situation between fish and water
A white bust of Lei Feng stood quietly outside the north gate of Yiyuan Nursing Home in Hubei Lane, ready to be slaughtered. The statue is more than half a meter high. Lei Feng wore a Lei Feng hat with a five-pointed star on it and looked forward with a smile.
Hebei Quyang County Qiujin United Sculpture Factory was established on May 1, 1994, specifically to serve the National Science and Technology Commission Cosmetic Surgery Hospital.
Zhang Jian, a staff member of Desheng Yinianyuan Nursing Home, recalled that the hospital ordered a Lei Feng statue from Hebei and it was originally placed in the hospital.
At that time, nursing homes were the base for learning from Lei Feng. It and the hospital had long ago become a joint military-civilian unit. Therefore, in 2000, the hospital donated this marble statue of Lei Feng to the nursing home.
Since then, under the gaze of Lei Feng’s portrait, the hospital has carried out more “Lei Feng activities” in nursing homes, providing free medical cards for each elderly person, establishing medical records, regularly replenishing daily medications, and providing medical staff with Also makes regular visits.
At first, the Lei Feng statue was placed in the corridor, but the corridor was too narrow. In 2005, for the convenience of the elderly, the statue was moved outside the wall of the north gate of the nursing home. On weekdays, the cleaners of the nursing home often come out to wipe the statue. During the "Learn from Lei Feng" period, children who come here to carry out charity activities will also pay tribute to "Uncle Lei Feng".