The first time I met Chen Baojun was at the "5.23" "Commemoration of Chairman ***'s Speech at the Yan'an Literary and Art Symposium" organized by the Pinglu District Federation of Literary and Art Circles the year before last. As a matter of fact, I have heard of Comrade Chen Baojun's reputation for a long time, but that is only in the news and newspapers and magazines.
Baojun and his people. According to my understanding from relevant information: Chen Baojun is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, a member of the Chinese Prose Poetry Research Association, and a member of the Shanxi Writers Association. After the institutional reform in recent years, he continued to work and continue to work silently for the food business, despite suffering from various diseases such as high blood pressure, chronic gastritis and plantar fasciitis pain. Especially after serving as the head of the material reserve unit of the Pinglu District Development and Reform Bureau, he not only has daily trivial matters, but also undertakes heavy secretarial material tasks, because his style of life and work is "different from ordinary people", and he has been doing good deeds for many years, regardless of remuneration, and selfless dedication, thanks to the good habits he has developed since childhood. He has been awarded the honorary titles of "Good Man of China", "The 8th Shanxi Province Righteous and Courageous Moral Model", "The 3rd Shuozhou Righteous and Courageous Moral Model" and "Top Ten Moral Models of Pinglu District". His deeds of righteousness and courage have been reported in "Shanxi**", "Shanxi Evening News", "Shuozhou**" and Shanxi TV, Shuozhou TV, Pinglu TV and other news**, so I will not repeat it here. What I want to talk about is what kind of person Comrade Chen Baojun is in an ordinary and ordinary job. First of all, I think Chen Baojun is a warm-hearted person, why does everyone say that he is a good person? I have learned carefully that he is always considerate of others and helpful. Through my contact with him, his personality is that he does not see the poor and the needy. In his ideology, it is his duty to help the poor and the needy. For example, in the spring of 2018, while he was hospitalized in the district hospital, he met a strange middle-aged man in Shenchi County who was seeing a doctor, and learned about the poor family of this sick middle-aged man through chatting. It turned out that because life was very difficult, his wife left, leaving several children to be raised by him alone, but through more than ten years of hard work, he worked hard to cultivate three key college students and one graduate student. In this regard, Chen Baojun's love for talent was spontaneous, and he did not hesitate to squeeze out a meager salary to support this middle-aged man from other places 1,200 yuan, and the recipient was moved to say: "You are really a kind person, I will never forget your kindness!" ”；For another example, he donated more than 3,000 yuan to many patients through the online "water drop fund", and rescued eight sick families. Out of his amateur literary hobby and creation, in order to strengthen the ideals and beliefs of young people and practice the core values of socialism, he donated 20 volumes of his prose collection "Songs to Spring" to the District Museum in 2021, worth more than 1,000 yuan.
**Say: It is not difficult for a person to do a good deed, but it is difficult to do good deeds without doing bad deeds in a lifetime. Chen Baojun is such a person. Secondly, being honest, low-key, and cautious is his consistent style. In the comings and goings of people in the world, he is always so polite to the three firsts, and would rather suffer a loss for himself than let others say otherwise. For example, if a friend invites him to dinner, he may be the kind of person who must invite others to two meals. He's probably the kind of guy you give him a foot and he'll make you a foot long. He said, "In doing so, my heart is steady." Another example is when working with colleagues, holding meetings or discussing problems, even if he has full right to speak, he always insists on asking for the opinions of others first and never takes a stand easily. This may be personal cultivation or the nature of children from poor families. He himself said: I was born in the countryside, since I was a child, my parents taught me to be an obedient and sensible good child, my father, as a veteran cadre who participated in the revolutionary work in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, often explained to me the stories of Lei Feng, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Dong Cunrui, Zhang Side and other heroes, let me learn from heroes, be a good student, a good child. My mother, who served as the director of the Women's Federation in rural areas, often taught me to endure hardships and stand hard work, respect the old and love the young, and be a good person. It is precisely because of such family edification since I was a child, the words and deeds of my parents, and the good guidance of the circle of friends that I have a correct orientation in my life values, and I have also gained a lot of praise and love from the public. However, it is difficult to be a good person, which is a major proposition in today's society. But Chen Baojun has been a person for decades, and it is not easy to be a good person. In fact, sometimes, even though you are wholeheartedly for the good of others, there are also times when some people will not understand or even misunderstand, but he says that as long as you do your best, you can have a clear conscience.
Baojun Qiwen. As a member of the Writers' Association, Chen Baojun was influenced by his father since he was a child, and he loved literature. Later, through years of unremitting efforts, his works have been published in newspapers and magazines such as "China Prose and Poetry News", "Chinese Women", "Shenzhou", "China Grain and Oil Market News", "Ancient and Modern Legends", "Spark" and so on. "Songs for Spring", "Memories of Hometown" and the non-fiction collection "Between the Earth and the Heart" are all collections of works in recent years, which are very popular among readers. Among them, the book "Song to Spring" is a detailed record of his basic understanding of the formation of life values and the milestone of struggle; It is a true story of how a poor child in the countryside came out of his misery and went to a distant place; It is the most touching friendship between a man and his fate. I can empathize with many of his experiences, and his awareness of suffering and his ability to endure poverty are very touching. The optimistic, open-minded, and indomitable personality and indomitable spirit of hard work expressed in his book made me feel sorry for and admired by me when I read it. In particular, his love for words has reached the point of obsession, not only reading a large amount of books, but also reading notes and experiences. There is a saying: "If you are familiar with 300 Tang poems, you can't compose poems and chant them." Yes, as he wrote: "The clumsy pen copies poetry with great difficulty, and perseveres in spring, summer, autumn and winter." There is a road to explore diligently in the book mountain, and the truth is written in the bittersweet years". This little poem truly records his bumpy experience of borrowing, copying, buying, collecting, writing, and publishing books for more than 30 years. After reading the book "Songs for Spring", in fact, I really understood its people and its text. Because of his unremitting amateur creation, so far, he has struggled from the original literature lover to become a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association and a member of the Shanxi Writers Association. Yes, without decades of perseverance, rain or shine, how can there be today's fruitful and infinite scenery?
I thought of it from being a man and being a person.
After reading Baojun's book, I thought about it carefully, and I thought that Baojun's growth could be said to be created in suffering, tempered in the furnace, and tested for a long time, so that we have today. I feel that there is always an experience in life that comes from suffering, because this road is steady and solid, and I am ambitious. So, I realized a truth: the thing that fills you with pain and loneliness is called growth. I even doubt that a good life and a happy experience don't lead to growth, do I? We often see such a phenomenon: some people are not young, but their way of speaking and doing things is very small, even very naïve, which is probably because he has not been tempered by the hardships of life. From this, I think of Wu Chengen's ** "Journey to the West", Tang Seng led his apprentices to learn scriptures in the west, Sun Wukong could have changed seventy-two times, and it was easy to fight for 108,000 miles, so why should he move forward step by step? It turned out that this path of learning from the scriptures was their life. Looking at "Journey to the West" carefully, I found that it is like a mirror, how can each of us not be the one who learns from the scriptures? On the way to learn the scriptures, what is the ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty? In fact, it is the various tribulations that we go through in life. Even if he is the most capable person, his life has come step by step, there is no shortcut, let alone crossing. Only when we have come step by step and experienced the ups and downs of the world and all kinds of ups and downs, can we find the true scripture of life, and this "true scripture" is our stormy life road along the way. Countless facts have proved that the things that can make you grow are mostly things that make you suffer, things that make you reflect. Looking at the animal world, we can see the survival principle of natural selection in nature, evolution is natural selection, and not evolution means destruction. But evolution is painful, and no one spontaneously wants to change themselves, unless they are forced to grow by external influences. Therefore, growing up is not pleasant, but growing means getting better, just like melons and fruits will naturally release the most fragrant and beautiful taste and love when they are ripe, and they are inseparable from the last effort.
February 27, 2024.