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The story of "Three Prairie Sisters"

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Mongolian girls Long Mei and Yu Rong are a pair of little sisters. They live in Darhan Maoming'an, the former Ulanqab League in Inner Mongolia. Narenge Rile Production Brigade, Xinbaolige Commune, United Banner (now within the United Banner, Darhan Maoming'an, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia).

On February 9, 1964, the little sisters took advantage of their holidays to volunteer to herd the 384 sheep for the production team. At that time, Long Mei was 11 years old and Yu Rong was not yet 9 years old. At noon, the low clouds sprinkled bunches of heavy snow, and the roaring wind swept away the flying snowflakes. In an instant, the white-haired wind swallowed up the vast grassland: a snowstorm was coming! Long Mei and Yurong hurriedly gathered the sheep and turned back to herd them. But the violent storm and snow were like an invisible wall, blocking the return of the sheep, causing the sheep to run wildly in the wind. At this critical moment, Long Mei said to her sister: "Go and ask dad to help us stop the sheep!" Xiao Yurong listened to her sister's words, turned around and ran desperately against the wind and snow, and fell down before running very far. When she got up and looked back, she saw that her sister was alone in the blizzard, holding a sheep whip in her left hand, and swinging the fur coat she had taken off with her right hand to block the sheep. Without her as a helper, the sheep became more chaotic. Xiao Yurong didn't bother to call her dad anymore and immediately returned to the sheep, waving her little fur hat in her hand and shouting continuously.

Long Mei and Yu Rong just blocked for a while and then ran for a while. He continued to block and ran again, no matter how many times he blocked or how long he ran. After the first round of fighting the blizzard, Long Mei and Yu Rong finally gathered the scattered sheep together. Storms are all diffuse and directionless, and they appear even more frightening and lonely in the strong wind and cold, even for adults. What's more, what about children? The snowstorm seems to become even crazier at night. They relied on the reflection of the snow on the ground to identify their sheep. The sheep were still running towards the southeast in the howling wind and snow. While chasing the sheep, the sisters were afraid of getting separated, so they shouted to each other wittily: "Dragon-Mei" and "Jade-Rong". Looking out for each other inspires.

From noon until dawn the next day, the two sisters struggled for more than 20 hours. Cold, fear, hunger, fatigue, and sense of responsibility were all concentrated on the two little girls. Finally, Yu Rong collapsed on the snow and was dying. Her sister Long Mei was not much better, but she still followed the sheep. Fortunately, the herdsmen Has Chaolu and his son arrived in time and found out. They called the railway workers and the commune secretary who was looking for them and others arrived, and the sisters and the sheep escaped safely. The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League wrote a letter to praise their noble behavior on March 20 of that year, and warmly congratulated them on joining the Chinese Young Pioneers. The People's Daily reported their touching story with the title "The Brightest Flowers" Due to their deeds, they are known as the "little heroic sisters of the prairie".

After the snowstorm, the little sisters were first treated at Bayan Obo Mining Hospital, and then transferred to Hohhot to continue treatment and recuperation. Due to severe frostbite, Long Mei lost the big toe of her left foot, and Yu Rong had to have her right leg amputated below the knee joint and her left leg below the ankle joint. After the little sister was discharged from the hospital, with the care of the government, the little sister returned to her hometown and started studying, and she never herded sheep again.

Sister Long Mei’s experience after the snowstorm was also smooth. He was honorably enlisted in the army at the age of 16, and later studied at Baotou Medical College and Inner Mongolia Mongolian College. In 1982, he was transferred to work in Donghe District, Baotou City. In 1988, he has been the chairman of the Donghe District CPPCC until now. In the same year that my sister was appointed Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region established the Disabled Persons’ Federation, and my sister Yurong was transferred to serve as the Vice Chairman of the Disabled Persons’ Federation until now.

The sisters were elected as representatives of the fourth and fifth National People's Congress. Yurong was a representative of the 11th and 12th National Congress of the Communist Youth League, and the first, second and third representatives of the China Disabled Persons' Federation. Representative of the session, and also won the title of National Advanced Individual in Assisting the Disabled and a Model of Self-improvement. Long Mei also visited France and Japan, and Yu Rong visited Romania and South Korea. For more than 30 years, the sisters have been the focus of media attention. They warmly receive every visitor. Every visitor can feel the sincerity and generosity of an ordinary Mongolian woman.

On December 26, 2002, when interviewing Yu Rong in Hohhot, a reporter talked about a story in "The Reading Lady": In order to let her son learn Chinese, a mother living in the United States talked about "prairie" "Heroic Little Sisters", when his son heard that the little sisters were seriously injured by freezing while protecting the commune's sheep, he suddenly asked: "Mom, if they do this, the commune will pay them a lot of money, right?"... "Our teacher said that no job should be unpaid." The mother later told her son: "The best reward is for children all over the country to learn from these two heroic sisters of the prairie. Can this be bought with money?" The son finally understood. "There is still a kind of job in the world for which the remuneration cannot be calculated."

After listening to the reporter's story, Yurong said: "I remember that the price of a sheep at that time was two yuan, and there were 384 sheep. Three dead animals equaled a loss of 6 yuan. But for these 6 yuan, I became permanently disabled." Yurong smiled and said, "Spirit cannot be measured by money.