Our team is wearing
Young people in dresses and skirts,
Stepping on the overgrown spring grass,
Waving messy little flags,
Walk through the dilapidated Tiananmen Square.
We shouted, "Down with the traitors!"
"Down with Japanese imperialism!"
Sadness and anger fill our minds!
Since "China has a Mao Zedong", he and the China * * * production party have led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, completely overthrowing our greatest enemies at that time-the three mountains! The people of China stood up and the ideal of the May 4th Movement was realized. How happy we are!
Chairman Mao also instructed us to inherit the glorious tradition of the scientific and democratic spirit of the May 4th Movement and transform it on the basis of Marxism. This is the fine style of seeking truth from facts and the mass line established by Chairman Mao. In order to usurp the party and seize power, the Gang of Four, which brought disaster to the country and the people, tried their best to disrupt and destroy Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, stifle the spirit of scientific democracy, pursue the policy of ignorance, and regard "illiterate and hooligans" as role models for young people. Dear readers, when the Gang of Four was rampant, it was really "grief and indignation" to watch your physical and mental suffering.
The CPC Central Committee, which is heart to heart with the people, led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country and put the gang of four, a heinous crime, on the judgment platform of history. How happy we are!
Dear children, the big stumbling block of the Gang of Four has been removed, and the obstacle has been removed! We must immediately start a new Long March and March towards the four modernizations. By the end of this century, you are in the prime of life and are making contributions to a magnificent cause with brilliant youth. Being the master of history is really a heavy burden!
How do you cultivate proletarian feelings and collective heroism, especially carry forward the glorious tradition of scientific democracy instructed by Chairman Mao, and establish the fine style of seeking truth from facts and the mass line ... You have heard a lot about these in the speeches of our party and state leaders, papers in newspapers and periodicals, and conversations between your teachers and parents. You should remember to eat them thoroughly.
This letter has been written for a long time. After more than ten years, I always feel that paper lacks love and can't control itself! Fortunately, I will continue writing in the future. This letter met you on June 1 day, so let's end it.
I will always accompany you, study hard and make progress every day!
Your friend Bing Xin
1May 5, 978.
(This article was originally published in the 3rd issue of Children's Times in June, 1978. )
Tong Xuner
Dear children:
In this newsletter, I will introduce you to an extremely touching picture called "Memories of Cleaners". The picture shows our beloved Premier Zhou shaking hands with the cleaner. The inscription on the painting was written in the tone of a cleaner:
In this dead of night street, who would have thought that the Prime Minister held my hand with a broom handle and said, "Comrade, you have worked hard, and the people thank you." Warm my heart, tears streaming down my face. Oh, Prime Minister, how many times have you been worried about the people's joys and sorrows in the worst time of the night? Prime Minister, who said you left? You didn't leave. The people's prime minister shines with the sun and the moon, and the people miss being with heaven and earth for a long time.
Look! In the upper left corner of this painting is the Great Hall of the People. There is only one car parked in front of the door, and the driver is standing by the car waiting. It's dead of night. Premier Zhou was very tired after being busy with state affairs. He walked out of the Great Hall of the People and was about to get on the bus. He looked up and saw a cleaner sweeping the floor on the other side of the street. He immediately strode across the wide street, held the worker's right hand tightly with both hands, and expressed his heartfelt thanks to the broad masses of the people with short, sincere and cordial words. There are deciduous branches in the upper right corner of the painting and some unfinished leaves on the ground. The worker has an iron dustpan on his shoulder and a broom handle in his left hand. The autumn wind was cold in the middle of the night, but the Prime Minister's words "You have worked hard" made him "warm in heart and shed tears". This painting depicts the heart-to-heart relationship between the Prime Minister and the people, caring about everyone's hard work, but thinking about their own hard work day and night. How great the Prime Minister is!
I have been deeply moved since I saw this painting at an art exhibition last year. I mention this to you today because I had some feelings when I visited the Summer Palace with foreign friends in late April this year!
When we walked into the garden gate and walked through the promenade by Kunming Lake, I saw scattered papers wrapped in candy, bread and popsicles. On the railings on both sides of the corridor, there are many children laughing and having a spring outing. Of course, there were many tourists in the garden that day, and these papers were not necessarily thrown by children, but I can't help thinking that they may have a share here.
Walking to the end of the corridor, I saw a very young female cleaner, who was bending her head to sweep the messy paper on the floor. I suddenly feel that the picture of Premier Zhou shaking hands with the cleaner hangs high in front of me! Premier Zhou's concern for cleaning workers will always be an example for us to learn from. Can we, who are on a spring outing, take the Prime Minister's heart as the heart, pay more attention to some public morals, talk more about the cleanliness of public places, and reduce the hard work of some cleaning staff?
Because of the interference and destruction of the Gang of Four on children's education, we haven't heard the propaganda about five loves (love the motherland, love the people, love labor, love science and love public property) for many years. Break glass, remove tables and chairs, etc. It has become a "brave" action against the trend, not to mention throwing wrappers or even spitting. I remember that during the revolutionary war, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants led by the great Chairman Mao and the revolutionary predecessors swept the floor and carried water as soon as they entered the villages and towns, so that we could not only enjoy sightseeing, but also breathe clean and fresh air. How can we protect it and cherish it today?
Dear children, you are the main force to realize the four modernizations at the end of this century and shoulder the glorious and important task of improving China's scientific and cultural level. Do you want to take practical actions to show that you are inheriting and carrying forward the fine style and tradition of the revolutionary predecessors, and show your determination to cultivate yourself into a capitalist successor?
Children, we must eliminate the pernicious influence of the Gang of Four and emphasize the education of "five loves". Let's start with the painting "Memories of Cleaners". Let's enjoy ourselves when we go out for team days or outdoor activities in the future, and remember to clean up the places where we played or picnicked, pick up the wrapping paper and throw it into the trash can or dustbin. If you can't find a dustbin or dustbin in the water corner of the mountain, put these things in your bag, bring them back and throw them in the dustbin. Perhaps teachers and parents have told you about this practice. Here, I remind you again.
Spring goes to summer, and the weather is warm. You must have more outdoor activities. I wish you good health and good spirits!
Your loyal friend Bing Xin
1May, 97818th.
(This article was originally published in the 4th issue of Children's Times in July, 1978. )
Tongxun powder
Dear children:
This communication interval is too long! I have been busy with other writing the other day. In fact, I miss you all the time! Especially in the last few nights of last school year, I saw the lights on every window of the dormitory building in front of my residence until midnight. I knew that many children were preparing for the final exam under the lights. I'm happy and worried. After smashing the Gang of Four, teachers and parents dare to seize your class. You know you have worked hard.
However, it is very difficult to make up the accumulated debts in a few months and days. I'm really afraid that you will collapse because you study hard for the exam, can't sleep well and can't eat. Besides, our beloved leader Chairman Mao put forward the hope of "three good" students for you, and the first one is "good health".
But the final exam has passed and the summer vacation is coming. Can you take a break, catch your breath, put aside your summer homework, have a good time for a few days, and then catch up with school in autumn? I think this is also an unscientific and unrealistic idea.
Dear children, Grandpa Guo Moruo, a giant in China's scientific and cultural circles, said goodbye to us on June 12 this year. In March this year, he left us a dazzling article entitled "Spring of Science", which I think many children have read. Some children may recite it. In this article, he solemnly put forward: "I wish the young people all over the country to devote themselves to the great cause of * * * from an early age, strive to cultivate revolutionary ideals, learn modern science and technology well, be proud of their diligence and be ashamed of their lack of progress." You are the rising sun in Ran Ran, and our hopes are pinned on you. Revolution and science will make you stronger, and the torch lit by the older generation of revolutionaries and scientists will continue. Shine on you more than blue. "
Shine on you is better than blue, which is "catching up" and "surpassing". Grandpa Guo added: "The key to catching up is time. Time is life, time is speed, and time is power. " Son, I'm afraid you don't feel the preciousness of time and the flight of time as deeply as we old people do! I often think that I am an 80-year-old man. Take the whole 80 years as an example. There are more than 29,000 days and nights (29,200 nights), more than 700,800 hours (700,800 hours), more than 42,048,000 minutes and more than 2.5 billion seconds (2.5 billion seconds). How much work can I do if I work hard against time in my study and work. How sad and regretful I am when I think about it!
So, I mean, do children have to spend all their time studying and reviewing their lessons except for eight hours of sleep and eating? No, absolutely not. If we want to seize time, we must be good at using the weapon we use to seize time, that is, our brain, the most precious weapon. If we don't use it, it will rust. If we use it too much, it will be more flexible. If we use it too much, it will be damaged. Rust or damage, it can't be sharp enough to charge for us and climb high to tackle key problems!
Therefore, in order to make our brains work and rest reasonably, we must learn to arrange time scientifically. The brain, like a child, is very active. Besides sleeping, it refuses to rest (in fact, it also gives us some fairy-tale dreams when we sleep ...), but it does the same work over and over again, and it becomes impatient and tired after doing it for too long. I have a child who is a "three good" student. Once I asked him how to achieve "three good", he smiled and said, "The problem is to arrange the time reasonably. Specifically, I strictly abide by the habit of going to bed early and getting up early. I must go to bed before nine o'clock in the evening and get up before six o'clock in the morning. After washing my face and gargling, I do morning exercises or run. Before I go to school after breakfast, I do more complicated homework, such as arithmetic. My mind is clearest in the morning, and I often get twice the result with half the effort when I do my homework. In class, I insist on listening attentively and taking notes attentively, which is much easier than asking teachers or classmates after class. After lunch, before class, you must take a nap on time, so that your mind can rest and you will be energetic in class in the afternoon. I will do my homework after class, but I will never get dizzy. I felt tired, so I gave it another job. For example, I can't finish my composition. I got up and read some teenagers' books and newspapers, or did some outdoor sports, such as playing ball games, running, or did some housework, such as cleaning tables, washing dishes and taking out the garbage ... "He said with a smile," In fact, my classmates arrange their time like this now, and everyone does. We think that learning to arrange time reasonably and scientifically is the beginning to improve the scientific and cultural level! "
Looking back on what he said today, I don't think there is anything particularly surprising or "ambitious", such as what he will do at home at the end of this century, but he has a down-to-earth determination and confidence, and he will use every minute to step into the 2 1 century diligently and skillfully, and realize his overall task in the new era. He is always ready!
Let us all learn from him. Wish you all the best.
Good health, good study and good work!
Your friend Bing Xin
1July 27th, 978.
(This article was originally published in Childhood1September 6, 978. )
Communication iv
Dear children:
Over the years, especially recently, I have often received letters from children asking me how to write a good composition. I really feel that I can't talk about it at the moment. The specific situation of each child is different, and I can't answer them one by one. I can only think from my own writing experience and practice.
First, creation comes from life. Without real feelings and facts in life, what is written is not clear and vivid. Without real and touching situations in life, what you write can't be touching. The ancients said that "love and literature are born together", that is to say, sincere feelings produce sincere words. Then, if you vividly reflect things that make you like or make you sad from real life, you will naturally write better articles.
Many children asked, "I have met many things that moved me, and I have a lot of feelings in my heart, but not." "
What if there is no meaning of words? "So, from my own experience, there is no other way but to read more books and study more.
Children are much happier than me! When I was a child, there were few books for children in the old society, and there were few things suitable for children to read. I just looked through the adult's bookshelf and barely understood it, so I took it out. Those books were just The Journey to the West's The Water Margin and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and later there were some poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, China's View of Ancient Literature and so on. But now that I think about it, these ancient books have given me great benefits.
Chairman Mao taught us: "We must inherit all the excellent literary and artistic heritages and critically absorb all the beneficial things in them as a reference for us to create works from the literary and artistic raw materials in people's lives here and now. There is a difference between having this reference and not having this reference. There are differences in the field of literature, with thickness, height and speed. " My own experience of Chairman Mao's words is that learning from previous articles and poems can at least enrich our vocabulary and make us write more succinctly, vividly and vividly when writing our feelings.
After the downfall of the Gang of Four, not only more children's books and publications were published, but also many modern works that could not be reprinted during the period when the Gang of Four was rampant, such as Selected Prose of Liu. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, new works came out, such as Collection of Short Stories by Teacher Liu. I only quoted the above two books, and there are many books that children need to read by themselves-in addition, selected readings of Tang poetry and Song poetry, China's view of ancient literature and other ancient books have also been reprinted. These ancient works are carefully selected, so you can have a look at them when you have the chance. If you don't understand them, you can read your notes and ask the teacher. The most convenient thing is that I can use reference books, such as Xinhua Dictionary, or Ci Hai and Ci Yuan. A word or word is easier to remember after looking it up by yourself.
In this way, the more books you read, the more things you can learn and the richer your vocabulary. When you write a composition, such as my first teacher, the image of your first teacher stands in front of you with a smile, and you will use your newly learned vocabulary to describe her appearance, voice, language and movements. Because all you write are true stories that you are familiar with, you write so vividly that it is naturally a good article. When you write a composition, such as a day in the zoo, you will use your newly learned vocabulary to describe the birds, animals, insects and fish you see. Colors, movements and sounds of flowers, grass, trees and wood. Because your description is so lively, it will be appreciated and appreciated by readers. This is the other side of "love and literature are made for each other"!
Children, the summer heat is over and school begins. I can feel your joy when you meet your teachers and classmates and when you are holding a new textbook. These are the forces that inspire you to March into science and culture. I hope you not only study these books in class, but also read more books after class when you are free, such as those I mentioned above. This is not only to help you write a good composition, but also to expand your knowledge. Knowledge is power. Don't successors of our socialist motherland also need this power?
I hope you love books, and good books will always be our best friends!
Your friend Bing Xin
1September 7, 978.
(This article was originally published in Childhood 1978 1 1 Issue 8. )
Tongxunwu
Dear children:
Yesterday afternoon, two young Japanese people came to see me. Although we met for the first time, we were as excited and happy as seeing old friends!
These two young people, one of whom is a teacher of the Japan-China College in Tokyo, Japan (the college specializes in Chinese and has graduated more than 10,000 students since its establishment in 1964), are now teaching Japanese in a foreign languages college in Beijing. The other is the son of a Japanese expert who works in our country. He grew up in Beijing, from primary school to university. They are all young people under thirty!
The three of us, half a century apart, talked endlessly about the flesh-and-blood culture that China and Japan have borrowed from each other for thousands of years, the statement of normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in September 1972, the signing of the Sino-Japanese peace and friendship treaty in August this year, and Vice Premier Deng's visit to Japan in October/kloc-0 this year. We deeply miss Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou who cared about Sino-Japanese friendship. They all believe that China and Japan, two great nations with deep cultural roots and separated by a strip of water on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, will eventually join hands closely and make contributions to peace and progress in Asia and the world. Now, the wish of one billion people in China and Japan has finally come true. Premier Zhou once said, "People who dig wells never forget to drink water." When Japanese friends talked about this, they said sadly, "Premier Zhou promised us that he would visit Japan when cherry blossoms were in full bloom after the signing of the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Since we have drunk this peaceful and friendly living water, we can't let Premier Zhou, the greatest well digger in China, visit us. How much we will miss him in the cherry blossom season next year! " After a while, I said, "Didn't you accept our Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit in the red leaf season in October this year? At that time, there were mountains and fields, and maple leaves were like Dan. A great cause must have good successors. Let us all strive to be their successors. " Children, when I say these words, I am not only comforting them, but also comforting and urging myself. Talking about Sino-Japanese friendship, for more than 20 years, the older generation of China and Japan have gone through extremely tortuous roads and made extremely hard efforts to dig this sweet spring of living water! This achievement is hard-won, and children must always remember it!
Speaking of cultural exchanges and exchanges between China and Japan, as early as the first century A.D., there were records about Japan in the Hanshu written by Ban Gu in the Han Dynasty. Later, such as Jian Zhen, a master of the Tang Dynasty (who died in Japan), Li Bai's poetry friend, and Chao Qing of Japan (who died in China). They all admire and enjoy the great deeds of cultural exchange. Since then, the exchanges between the two countries have become more frequent, and you will all know and be interested in reading history in the future.
Personally, I passed through Japan several times before liberation because I went to study in the United States. After liberation, I joined several friendly delegations, went to Japan, made friends with the Japanese people and visited the beautiful land of Japan. I deeply felt the profound cultural influence and friendship between our two countries. The people of our two countries use the same language in writing, painting, architecture, medicine and even dressing and eating. For the sake of stability and peace in Asia and the world, our two brave and hardworking great nations must be friendly from generation to generation.
These two Japanese friends and I talked a lot. The young man, who graduated from Peking University, spoke bitterly about the destruction and oppression of Peking University by the Gang of Four, the copying of poems in Tiananmen Square, and the ecstasy after the Gang of Four was crushed. The teacher of China-Japan College told me that the most beloved Japanese celebrities are Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and Lu Xun. Finally, talking about children in China, he said, "Don't you love children very much? I love children too. Not long after I arrived in China, I haven't had a chance to get in touch with children in China, but I take my camera to the park to shoot children's activities every Sunday. I think the children in China are particularly naive and lively! " I smiled and said, "Don't you think Japanese children are naive, lively and lovely?" They all smiled and said, "Yes, they are all our good successors!" " "When they left, they shook hands with me tightly and repeatedly said," We hope you can write more for the children! " "
Dear children, I have never forgotten my love and responsibility for a moment. You are the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and my hopes are pinned on you!
In his opening speech at the First National People's Congress, Chairman Mao encouraged us to "strive for building a great socialist country, safeguarding international peace and developing the cause of human progress". On the new Long March, you are a huge new force under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, shouldering the great and arduous responsibility of building the four modern socialist motherland and safeguarding international peace and human progress. In order to accomplish this task, I hope you will share our responsibility of promoting peace and friendship between China and Japan, and accept the past, because this is an important part of the contribution that China, with a population of 900 million, can make to the progress and peace of Asia and the world!
I wish you health and progress!
Your friend Bing Xin
1978 1 1 month 19 night.
(this article originally contained inNo. Childhood 1979. )
Liu Tongxun
Dear children:
A firecracker outside the window woke me up from my meditation. When I looked out of the window, I saw a child setting off firecrackers in the snow. He is only about seven or eight years old, wearing a blue cotton monkey, squatting on the ground, and stretching his arms long to light firecrackers standing on the ground. In the distance stands a little girl in a red cotton monkey, which may be his sister. She covered her ears with her hand, but her eyes full of surprises stared at the firecrackers that sounded before ... what a vivid and lovely picture!
This reminds me that when I was young, every Spring Festival, I always saw red paper Spring Festival couplets posted on people's doorways, some of which read: "Firecrackers kill the old, peaches and plums are everywhere"-Fu Tao is another name for Spring Festival couplets-it still has its practical significance, that is, a firecracker and a thick smoke swept away all the old things that hindered our progress, for example, feudalism. After that, every household's Spring Festival couplets should also write their latest and best New Year's resolutions and wishes, which not only spur themselves, but also encourage others! Children, 1979 is coming. What are our latest and most beautiful resolutions and wishes?
The Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee called on us to say: "The focus of the whole party's work should be shifted from 1979 to socialist modernization." Children, you are all reserve forces for socialist modernization. Where should you focus today?
The key to the four modernizations lies in science and technology, and the foundation lies in education, while primary and secondary education is the foundation of the foundation! So, which course is the most important in primary and secondary schools? I think the most important thing should be Chinese!
Words are languages written on paper. Being unable to recognize or understand words is equivalent to blindness; If you can't write, you can't write well, which means you are dumb. Have we heard less and seen less about the illiteracy suffered by the working people living in the old society?
Several teachers of graphics, science and physics have talked to me seriously. If students' literature is not good, they will not understand the books and exercises of mathematics, science and physics, and the most important courses of mathematics, science and physics will not be well understood. They said with emotion: "Poor mathematics, science and chemistry have held back the four modernizations, and poor language and literature have held back mathematics, science and culture." How profound they spoke!
Learning Chinese is to cultivate our reading and writing ability, which is the last thing on the road to the four modernizations. Chinese is the sharpest weapon in all equipment. If you learn Chinese well, you can do your work well and make continuous progress, as well as learning a foreign language. Also, no matter how well you learn a foreign language, if you don't work hard in your own language, you can't translate it accurately, vividly and vividly, and you can't achieve the effect of "making foreign things serve China"!
Learning Chinese well, attending lectures, attending lectures and doing homework is of course the main thing, but it is not enough. We must open the door to learning Chinese. Everyone should find his own books to read except textbooks. After reading a good book, students should introduce each other and ask teachers and parents for advice.
Children, don't take reading as a burden, reading is a kind of happiness and enjoyment. Gorky, a Soviet writer, once said: "I have read many books with excitement and surprise, but these books have not divorced me from reality." On the contrary, they strengthened my interest in reality, improved my ability of observation and comparison, and ignited my desire for life knowledge. " Once you enter the treasure house of life knowledge, you will be surprised and linger. And everything you find from this treasure house will make you "well dressed" and make you a very strong soldier on the long March of socialist modernization.
I tell you an important news: the National Children's Book Publishing Conference has drawn up a plan to publish some key children's books from 1978 to 1980. There are nearly 30 books to be published, such as Encyclopedia for Teenagers, Pupils' Library, Juvenile Natural Science Series, Juvenile Science Album and Foreign Children's Literature Masterpieces. We have published many children's books, plus nearly 30 sets of books, which will be enough for you to swim in the ocean of knowledge in the next three years. Isn't it?
I am full of hope and joy. Congratulations, I wish you a healthy and happy Spring Festival!
Your friend Bing Xin
1978 65438+February 30th.
(This article was originally published in the second issue of Childhood 1979. )
Communication seven
Dear children:
Last year1mid-February, I received a letter from Wellesley College in the United States.
Respondent: Rola Chen-assistant level 310-1917: 00.
Dear children:
Fifty-five years after I wrote "For a Little Reader" and twenty years after "For a Little Reader", I can only describe my feelings with the words "I feel very honored because my heart is indescribable" that I said 55 years ago!
Personally, I passed through Japan several times before liberation because I went to study in the United States. After liberation, I joined several friendly delegations, went to Japan, made friends with the Japanese people and visited the beautiful land of Japan. I deeply felt the profound cultural influence and friendship between our two countries. The people of our two countries use the same language in writing, painting, architecture, medicine and even dressing and eating. For the sake of stability and peace in Asia and the world, our two brave and hardworking great nations must be friendly from generation to generation.
These two Japanese friends and I talked a lot. The young man, who graduated from Peking University, spoke bitterly about the destruction and oppression of Peking University by the Gang of Four, the copying of poems in Tiananmen Square, and the ecstasy after the Gang of Four was crushed. The teacher of China-Japan College told me that the most beloved Japanese celebrities are Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and Lu Xun. Finally, talking about children in China, he said, "Don't you love children very much? I love children too. Not long after I arrived in China, I haven't had a chance to get in touch with children in China, but I take my camera to the park to shoot children's activities every Sunday. I think the children in China are particularly naive and lively! " I smiled and said, "Don't you think Japanese children are naive, lively and lovely?" he