In 2009, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China selected 100 people who have moved Chinese since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Xing Yanzi is one of them, although young people are not very familiar with her now, but if you ask the elders of the "post-60s" and "post-70s", she was even more popular than the current first-line superstars at that time.
He has appeared on the cover of national newspapers and periodicals such as "People's **" and "China Youth Daily" many times, and is famousGuo Moruo"Xing Yanzi Song" was tailor-made for her, and she has been received by *** many times, this kind of treatment is not something that ordinary people can enjoy.
What makes an ordinary intellectual youth become a big star of national civilization, time has passed, what kind of life is the original "big star" living now?
Xing Yanzi was born in Tianjin in 1941, when the country was still in the midst of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and there were wars everywhere, and the city was particularly chaotic, so her parents sent her to the countryside and let her grandfather take care of her.
When she was eight years old, the founding of New China, all aspects of society were restored to order, at that time her father was already the deputy director of Tianjin North China Enamel Factory, and her mother was also working in a sewing factory, the family was relatively wealthy, in order to give her a better study and living environment, her parents took her from the countryside to the city.
Xiaoyanzi, who has just arrived in the city, is still not accustomed to the city, although it is far more prosperous than the countryside, you can buy beautiful little clothes, eat delicious snacks, but she also misses the little friends who play together in the countryside, and always smiles at her grandfather kindly.
Xing Yanzi. Soon Xiaoyanzi's father arranged for her to go to school in the primary school for the children of employees of Tianjin Railway Bureau, where she met new friends and integrated into the new big collective.
Xing Yanzi in school has far more hard work than her peers, often other children go out to play, she is still studying in the classroom, so she has also achieved excellent results, which makes her parents proud.
Although she was happy in the city, she still didn't forget her grandfather in the countryside, who was getting older and more old, and he didn't want to move to the city to live.
Xing Yanzi, who was only 12 years old at that time, took the initiative to ask her father to go back to the countryside and take care of her elderly grandfatherAt that time, due to the busy work of his parents, he really couldn't find time to take care of the elderly, and seeing that his daughter was so filial, he agreed to her request to go home to study.
After four years, Xing Yanzi returned to the land where she was raised since she was a child, studied in a local primary school, and accompanied her grandfather at home when she was not in school, doing her filial piety.
Three years later, she was admitted to an agricultural middle school with excellent grades, and because she was more than 30 kilometers away from home, she had to say goodbye to her hometown and grandfather again, and embarked on the road of study.
In the agricultural middle school, in addition to learning theoretical knowledge in class, you also need to participate in farm work, three days a week, which is also to apply what you have learned and enhance your learning ability.
This is still difficult for many children from the city, but for Xing Yanzi, who grew up in the countryside, everything is easy to master, and she is more diligent than her senior classmates in farm work.
In 1958, Xing Yanzi graduated from an agricultural middle school, which was already a good academic qualification for a junior high school degree at that time, and she could also find a more comfortable job with this education.
However, for Xing Yanzi, life in the city is not what she wants after all, and she has always had a plan for her life in her heart.
Back in 1955, she was interested in ***"All intellectuals can go to the rural areas, where there is a vast space and great achievements will be made."I was very interested, and she had lived in the countryside since she was a childThe ideal of becoming the first generation of educated peasants in New China and building a new countryside of the motherland was buried in her heart at that time.
In July 1958, Xing Yanzi persuaded her parents, who wanted her to stay in Tianjin, to return to Sijiazhuang Village alone, and this time she returned not as a child, but as a rural builder.
The girl from the countryside returned to the countryside, although she was familiar, but there were still many things she was not used to in the change of identity.
The village party secretary saw that she was a little girl and arranged her to cook in the commune canteen.
One day, the master on the stove left for a while, and the porridge boiled and overflowed directly from the pot, so worried that Xing Yanzi hurriedly shouted: "Come on!" Come on! Porridge is running away! ”。
Fortunately, the master quickly ran back, otherwise the bottom of the pot would have been burned through.
The people in the village always thought that this little girl who took the initiative to go to the countryside to build a new countryside would return to the city sooner or later and stay in the countryside for a short time, but no one expected that this little girl would not only take root in the countryside, but also become a model for the whole country to study.
In 1959, when Xing Yanzi was mastering the various techniques of rural life step by step, a period of three years of serious difficulties came, and the output of grain and grain by-products in the whole country was greatly reduced.
At that time, many strong laborers had to go to steelmaking, digging coal, and building reservoirs, and only eight male laborers remained in the village to do farm work.
In order to ensure production and prevent everyone from going hungry, Xing Yanzi began to find ways to mobilize female comrades to work.
Because for a long time, many women who got married and had children would not come out to farm and had to take care of their children at home, and what Xing Yanzi had to do was to mobilize them too.
The first thing to solve is the problem of the child, if the mother goes out to work, the child is left unattendedAs an intellectual youth, Xing Yanzi can teach children to read and write on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also easy to manage.
The liberated mothers began to follow Xing Yanzi to set up a "commando" to save themselves, at first there were only seven people, and slowly, more and more people joined the team, and at most they could reach individuals.
The most difficult thing to reclaim wasteland is saline-alkali land, but there is a large amount of saline-alkali land in Sijiazhuang Village, the seedling emergence rate is very low, the seedlings that are good are good, after the rain, the alkaline salt in the land dissolves into the water, and the seedlings are all wiped out, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury for the village where the labor force is scarce.
In order to solve this problem, Xing Yanzi organized the female comrades of the commando team to use a variety of methods to control the saline-alkali land, and the most primitive method was used at the beginning: lifting the field.
The so-called lifting of the field is to raise the planted field, even if it rains, the water will go to the lower ditch, will not endanger the land, but this method is too inefficient, one is to consume human resources, there are not many people, and all are women, the strength is not so big to open a day can not be much, the second is an acre of land with the method of lifting the field, only six or seven percent can be used, the loss is too great.
Xing Yanzi used the knowledge she learned while studying and consulted the county experts to sum up the methods of sand management, straw management, autumn plowing and winter irrigation, etc., and led the female comrades to use advanced technology to manage the fields.
In the first year, they reclaimed 560 acres of wasteland in one go, preparing to sow wheat the following spring.
As a result, due to the cold weather, the fertilizer bumps were frozen as hard as stones, and if this problem could not be solved, the sowing would be in vain.
At that time, Xing Yanzi was about to cry, and all the hard work was gone, not only was his confidence hit, but the bigger problem was that everyone's rations were gone in the coming year.
The village party secretary saw her anxiety and told her that the success of the revolution was not achieved overnight, and that it was not terrible to encounter difficulties and failures, but to be defeated by difficulties.
These words greatly encouraged Xing Yanzi, and after consulting the old farmers, in order to ensure the sowing, they used the pimples to crush the fertilizer lumps.
There were few animals in the team, so they had to pull the stump by themselves, and their shoulders were swollen, so they took off their scarves and put them on the mat to continue to work, and when the road was slippery and easy to fall on snowy days, they used branches as crutches.
In this way, relying on the most primitive method, the soldiers of the Xingyanzi Action Team worked hard for 10 days and rolled 560 acres of land 8 times, laying a solid foundation for spring plowing and sowing in the coming year.
After a period of hard work, slowly, the land that could only produce dozens of catties and an acre of land before can produce 100 catties, 200 catties, and 500 catties and 600 catties in the back.
During the three-year period of severe hardship, when most of the people in the country were threatened by severe hunger, Sijiazhuang Village was not only self-sufficient, but also able to hand over the strength to the state, which has to be said to be a miracle created by Xing Yanzi leading the team.
Xing Yanzi not only led the women to manage the fields, but was actually not idle all year round.
After the autumn harvest, Xing Yanzi began to organize everyone to make fishing nets and hats, and take them to the town to sell them to supplement the family.
In the winter, he led the women to fish, when the winter was even colder than now, and the lake was covered with a thick layer of ice.
Xing Yanzi led the commando team members to smash the ice with a wooden cone, sprinkled the fishing nets and began fishing.
In this way, they fished during the day and did manual work at night, earning a total of more than 3,000 yuan this winter, which can be said to be a huge amount of money for a small village, laying a solid foundation for life in the coming year.
Maybe Xing Yanzi didn't expect that he would be able to make such excellent results just a year or two after he arrived in the village, not only in the county, but also in the provinceIt wasn't until it reached the national level that there were major reports and set off a wave of "all people learning swallows".
In that difficult period, everyone needed the power of such an example to lead everyone through the difficulties, Xing Yanzi herself said:
The main reason is that I publicized it earlier, so everyone remembers me more deeply, in fact, there are quite a lot of role models behind, and there may not be so much publicity, I was also quite confused at that time, I used to feel that idols were heroes like Dong Cunrui and Huang Jiguang, but I didn't expect me to become a hero? ”
At the height of the "Learn Swallows" trend, she could receive three or four sacks every time she received a letter, and the simple Xing Yanzi actually wanted to reply to the letters one by one every time, but she really didn't have so much time to be busy with production, so she could only reply to a part of the letters.
Later, through the opportunity to go out as a model to condole, she can meet her vast number of "fans", most of whom are elementary and junior high school students with the same pure heartAfter being influenced by her, many people actively participated in the "going to the mountains and going to the countryside", injecting new blood into the motherland's rural construction.
In the following ten years, Xing Yanzi was received five times and more than a dozen times, and she also began to gradually take on the work of leadership, solving problems and improving lives for more farmer brothers and sisters.
But no matter what position she held, even during her tenure as secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, she never asked for a single salary from the state, she was a leader when she went to work, she was still a farmer after work, and she had to go to collect firewood with her husband when she was struggling.
If you think she's just a hard-working, hard-working person, you're wrongAs the first batch of intellectual youths who went to the countryside, after the polishing of the theoretical knowledge learned by practice, Xing Yanzi can also be called a peasant scholar.
When she was a leader in various units, she always paid attention to going deep into the grassroots and respecting science, and repeatedly emphasized to the cadres that they should do more investigations, speak with data, and speak with facts.
The "Report on the Water Pollution Problem of the North Canal in Tianjin" and the "Report on the Protection of the Water of the Fengchang River from Pollution" completed by her can be said to be a clear stream of light when the emphasis on development and the neglect of environmental protection were taken into account in the 90s.
After the investigation of these two topics, Xing Yanzi deeply realized the severity of the pollution of the people's living environment.
In 1994, at her initiative, 13 kilometers of tap water were laid in Beichen District, so that people could drink clean tap water.
In 2000, the North Canal renovation project was officially launched, and in September 2001, the project was completed and won the Chinese Habitat Environment Demonstration Award, all of which are inseparable from Xing Yanzi's contributions.
At the end of 2001, Xing Yanzi officially retired, and after a lifetime of hard work, it was time for her to experience the joy of family at home.
After retirement, Xing Yanzi's main job is to accompany his wife and grandchildren, due to his busy work, the two of them get together less and leave more, her husband actually has severe angina, but for fear that she is worried, she endured it by herself, until one day she fainted on the road and was found by her.
Now that they are free, the two of them have more time to get along, which can be regarded as making up for some of the regrets of their youth.
In addition to accompanying her family, Xing Yanzi also has more time to develop her hobbies, she joined the Yangge team, participated in the university for the elderly, contacted painting, calligraphy, and lived a comfortable life for the elderly.
For many interviews and model worker sharing sessions, she will actively participate in it when her health and time permit, and she wants to share her strength with the new generation, so that everyone can have enough fighting spirit to build the motherland.
But for all kinds of business activities, she is not sensitive, she doesn't want to turn her past experience into profit-making capital, so she refuses everything like advertising and endorsements.
On the contrary, if the school wants her to write inscriptions, inscriptions, and motivate students, she always thinks seriously, writes, and sends them over.
In 2019, she won the title of "The Most Beautiful Struggler", and in an interview with "Party Building", she said:
"I just have always firmly obeyed the party's command and followed the party, honor is given by the party and the people, should be cherished, but must not be complacent. ”
The image of the old Communist Party member who is old and strong jumps on the paper.
Xing Yanzi is very enthusiastic about public welfare, she said that as an elderly person, she can only contribute to the society to a limited extent, so she can only do her best to support the disaster and help the people in the disaster area.
During the new crown epidemic last year, Xing Lao, who was in his old age, also actively donated 10,000 yuan to do his part for the compatriots in the disaster area and the front-line medical staff.
Time flies, from youth to old age, from educated youth in the countryside to retired cadres, what has changed is identity, but what has not changed is the original intention of serving the people.
This spirit of serving the country wholeheartedly and being indifferent to fame and fortune is worthy of learning and paying tribute to every young person now.