Human life is limited, but serving the people is unlimited, and I want to devote my limited life to unlimited service to the people......This sentence was written by Lei Feng when he was working in Gongchangling District, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province.
Gongchangling is the place where Lei Feng worked, lived, studied and joined the army, and it was also the place where Lei Feng's spirit was nurtured and formed. From August 20, 1959, when he came to work in Gongchangling Iron Ore Coking Plant, to January 8, 1960, when he walked from Gongchangling to the barracks, Lei Feng worked, studied and lived here for 142 days.
For 142 days and nights, he wrote 23 Lei Feng diaries, leaving behind many ordinary and touching stories, as well as the Lei Feng spirit of dedication, dedication and innovation. Today, it is still timeless.
Offer to go to the toughest environments.
In May 1959, Anshan Iron and Steel decided to build a coking plant with an annual output of 300,000 tons of coke in Gongchangling Iron Mine, and transferred a group of technical backbones and young workers from Anshan Iron and Steel Chemical General Plant, Lei Feng was one of them.
Zhang Huishuang, the former vice chairman of the Gongchangling District CPPCC, who was over 80 years old, told reporters that on August 20, 1959, on the night when Lei Feng came to the coking plant, he introduced his life experience to the secretary of the general branch of the party and the Youth League and told him about his difficult childhood. He said: "I know that the coking plant has just been built, and the conditions are difficult, so I asked for it. ”
The conditions of the coking plant were difficult, and some people were in a mood and said strange things, but Lei Feng actively did their ideological work. He said: "Difficulties are temporary and can be overcome, and the production and living conditions will get better and better through our own construction." ”
However, the difficult environment is a reality that has to be faced. Because there are no dormitories, the workers' accommodation is very simple. What to do? Build! There were no raw materials, so Lei Feng took the young workers up the mountain to pick up stones. Seeing that the wall is getting higher and higher, the transportation of yellow mud has become a problem again. After pondering again and again, Lei Feng came up with a trick: use the principle of leverage, one end is loaded with mud, and the other end is transported to a high place by stepping on people. This earth crane immediately came in handy, and the construction efficiency was greatly improved, and everyone named it "crossbar bucket".
Crossbar bucket (photo by CCTV reporter Zong Shaofeng).
Because of this invention, Lei Feng was later rated as a pacesetter in the innovation of coking plants. In addition, Lei Feng also responded to the party's call to vigorously ** waste materials, there is a wooden box under his bed containing screws, screw caps, steel heads and other waste products, as well as two carton boxes, which contain broken rain cloths, old gloves and other items, sorted out and cleaned and handed over to the factory, every month he was rated as a saving expert.
A special quilt.
On the morning of March 1, in the Liaoyang Lei Feng Memorial Hall in Gongchangling District, there was an endless stream of people from all walks of life who came to visit. A safflower quilt printed with flower and bird patterns attracted the attention of many visitors. This quilt was donated to the memorial hall by Yi Xiuzhen, Lei Feng's fellow villager and worker.
Liaoyang Lei Feng Memorial Hall is the only "Worker Lei Feng" Memorial Hall in the country (photo by CCTV reporter Zong Shaofeng).
In the middle of the night on November 4, 1959, the weather changed abruptly, and torrential rain suddenly came. Yi Xiuzhen, who was asleep, was awakened by a shout and footsteps outside the window, but when she pushed the door open and looked at it for a long time, she didn't see anything because of the heavy rain and the night. Early the next morning, Yi Xiuzhen saw a quilt on the cement pile at the construction site - this is Lei Feng's quilt. "His quilt was red and conspicuous, but it was already soaking wet and mixed with muddy water, and it didn't look like it anymore. Yi Xiuzhen recalled.
It turned out that more than 7,200 bags of cement had not been unloaded that night, and the sudden heavy rain put these cements in danger of being scrapped. When Lei Feng learned of the situation, he immediately ran back to the dormitory and shouted to everyone to rescue the cement. Everyone looked for rain cloths and reed mats, but there was still some cement that was not covered. In a hurry, Lei Feng ran back to the dormitory, took out his safflower quilt, took off his cotton coat, and covered it on the cement together. In the end, 7,200 bags of cement were not damaged, while Lei Feng's coat and bedding were soaked by rain.
At that time, a futon was half of the worker's belongings, and it was very precious. Yi Xiuzhen took Lei Feng's quilt back and dismantled and washed it, and found that the soaked cotton wool was hard after drying, and it was no longer warm. "I secretly put the cotton wool in my quilt into Lei Feng's quilt. Yi Xiuzhen recalled, "Later, Lei Feng found out about it, and when he went to serve in the army, he left this quilt to me, which I treasured for more than 50 years, and later donated it to the memorial hall." ”
Today, 84-year-old Yi Xiuzhen is still insisting on carrying forward the spirit of Lei Feng. "Yesterday I also gave a lesson to primary school students, and I said that your conditions are so good now, you have to learn from Lei Feng, you must learn from Lei Feng's attitude of learning, and insist on reading. Yi Xiuzhen said.
In his lifetime, he must inherit the spirit of Lei Feng".
In Gongchangling, whether it is Lei Feng's workers, comrades-in-arms, neighbors, or villagers, all the people Lei Feng has come into contact with have become "Lei Feng's successors". The same is true of Lei Feng's brother Lu Xueguang, who formed the "Lei Feng's brother Lu Xueguang's love team", which has now expanded to more than 200 people, and has also set up a detachment in Lei Feng's hometown of Hunan.
At noon in the summer of 1959, Lu Xueguang, a 9-year-old elementary school student who walked into the barber shop for the first time, met Lei Feng. Later, Lu Xueguang's father, Lu Changtai, went to the coking plant for four consecutive days, and finally found Lei Feng and expressed his gratitude. Since then, Lei Feng has formed an indissoluble bond with the Lu family, Lei Feng recognizes Mrs. Lu Changtai as his father-in-law, and Lu Xueguang as his brother-in-law.
Lei Feng often took time to go to Lu's house, sent clothes he changed from work clothes, and helped the Lu family clean the sheepfold and wash clothes. "He bought me books, pens and other learning tools, and also spent money to buy me a schoolbag, and helped me wrap all my textbooks ...... book coversLu Xueguang said that he often slept with Lei Feng in a quilt, and Lei Feng's words and deeds also deeply affected him. Once, Lei Feng sent a lady home in the snowstorm, Lei Feng was short, the lady was on Lei Feng's back, and her feet were not off the ground, Lu Xueguang was holding the lady behind and sent the lady home all the time.
Although Lei Feng's brother has passed away a long time ago, his spirit has always inspired me to be a useful person to society. Lu Xueguang said, "My lifetime is to let my whole family learn from Lei Feng and inherit the spirit of Lei Feng." ”
Worker Lei Feng (photo by CCTV reporter Zong Shaofeng).
During Lei Feng's 142 days in Gongchangling, he realized the transformation from a peasant to an industrial worker, and this period was also an important period for the formation of Lei Feng's spirit, and also paved the way for him to grow into a great communist fighter.
At present, after years of unremitting efforts, the distinctive image and rich connotation of "Worker Lei Feng" have become the soul of Liaoyang. The strong spiritual strength of "worker Lei Feng" who loves his job, studies hard, and serves the people wholeheartedly has been immersed in the fabric of Liaoyang. Up to now, Liaoyang has established a four-level volunteer service network of cities, counties (cities, districts) and municipal departments, streets (towns) and communities (villages), with more than 270,000 volunteers and more than 2,200 registered volunteer service organizations. (Reporter Zong Shaofeng, Li Ziping, intern Shao Yudan, Fang Anqi).