The old text "The Role Model of the County Party Secretary - Jiao Yulu", originally published on February 7, 1966 by Mu Qing, the author of "People's **", was selected into the 1980 edition of junior high school Chinese, and the title was changed to "Do your best".
The news report was broadcast on the radio, and during the recording of the program, the announcer Qi Yue wept several times. As soon as the program was broadcast, the whole of China was moved to tears. Many people recall this old text, and remember one of the clearest details. It is Jiao Yulu's action of pressing his knee or fist against his abdomen because of the pain of liver disease:
Many people have found that he often puts his right foot on the chair and uses his right knee against his liver to push his right foot against his head, whether he is in a meeting or giving a report. The second and third buttons on his padded jacket were unbuttoned, and his left hand was often carried in his arms. Attention was paid to the fact that he was increasingly pressing his left hand against his aching liver, or with a hard object against the back of the chair on his right. After a long time, a large hole was pushed out of the right side of the wicker chair in his office. However, because of this detail, the veracity of this report has been questioned. Some people believe that liver disease does not feel pain, but this detail does not correspond to the facts. So netizens said:
When I was in elementary school, there was a Chinese text called "Bow to the End", which was to commemorate Jiao Yulu, and there was a plot in it that was still fresh in my memory, saying that Comrade Jiao Yulu insisted on working with illness because of liver disease, and when his liver hurt, he continued to work at the desk with his fists, and the rattan chair he sat on for a long time had a hole in it...
Fortunately, I learned that patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer do not feel pain...
The main interview subject of this report, Zhang Qinli, the introducer of Jiao Yulu's deeds, was the deputy secretary of the Lankao County Party Committee at the time, and his name appeared many times in the article "The Role Model of the County Party Secretary - Jiao Yulu", and one of them also added a definite sentence: "Jiao Yulu's close comrade-in-arms". After the Cultural Revolution, this "close comrade-in-arms" was sentenced to 13 years in prison, after which Jiao Yulu's newsletter was reprinted and published, and the words "Zhang Qinli" disappeared and were replaced by "a deputy secretary", but the content and plot remained the same.
In January 2009, writer Ren Yanfang published the book "Behind Jiao Yulu - The Tragicomedy of Me and Lankao", in which he wrote: "The Role Model of the County Party Secretary - Jiao Yulu" is a report with "many important plot inaccuracies", Xinhua News Agency reporters only spent three days interviewing, one-sided listening to Zhang Qinli's report, without in-depth investigation and verification, a mistakenly established "close comrade-in-arms", indirectly led to a series of tragedies in Lankao in the ten years of the Cultural Revolution.
However, located in the Zhang Qinli cemetery in Zhangzhuang, Nanzhang Town, Lankao County, the people spontaneously erected more than 40 stone tablets and jade tablets of various sizes to form a forest of steles, each of which was engraved with Zhang Qinli's deeds and the names of the dense tributes to him, and the people who erected the monuments came from different villages in Lankao, all parts of Henan, Shandong, Hebei and even Taiwan.
It seems that behind this old text, there are so many ups and downs in the fate of the characters; Behind this old text, there are still so many mysteries waiting to be solved; However, it is an old text that has touched us, and it has lifted the spirits of the people of the whole country in a special era, and the "Jiao Yulu spirit" of "being close to the people and loving the people, working hard, being scientific and realistic, facing difficulties, and selfless dedication" will also become the original intention of every Communist Party member.