Lei Feng, formerly known as Lei Zhengxing. 1940 65438+February 18, Lunar165438+1October 20th, Lei Feng was born in a poor farmer's home in Jianjiatang, Wangcheng County, Hunan Province. Because this year is the "Chen Geng" year of the lunar calendar, I gave him a baby's name "Geng Duck". When Lei Feng was born, it was during the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and people were living in dire straits. Lei Feng once wrote in his diary: "My family is very poor. My father, mother, brother and younger brother all died at the hands of national enemies and class enemies. I will always remember this blood feud. "
Lifelong honor:
1In August, 949, when Hunan was liberated, Feng found the passing company commander of the People's Liberation Army and asked to be a soldier. The company commander disagreed and gave him a pen. From 65438 to 0950, Lei Feng became the head of the Children's League and took an active part in the land reform. In the summer of the same year, the secretary of the Party branch of the township government provided him with free education, and later joined the Young Pioneers.
1956 summer, worked as a correspondent in the township government after graduating from primary school, and soon transferred to Wangcheng County Committee as a civil servant, and was rated as a model worker of the government. He joined the league on 1957. 1958 In the spring, Lei Feng went to Tuanshanhu Farm and learned to drive a tractor in only one week. In September of the same year, Lei Feng responded to the call to support Angang and went to Anshan, Liaoning Province as a bulldozer. In August of the following year, he came to Gongchangling Coking Plant to participate in infrastructure construction, led his partners to fight in the rain, and saved 7,200 bags of cement from loss. Liaoyang Daily reported the story at that time. During my work in Anshan and Coking Plant, I was rated as an advanced worker for three times, a pacesetter for five times, a red flag bearer for 18 times, and won the honorary title of "Young Socialist Construction Activist".
After he died in the line of duty,1963,6543817 October, the Ministry of National Defense named his class "Lei Feng Class". On March 5th, 1963, Comrade Mao Zedong wrote an inscription: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng". Zhou Enlai's inscription: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng: a clear class stance of love and hatred, a revolutionary spirit of matching words with deeds, a proletarian style of * * * that is public and forgets private, and a proletarian fighting spirit that is selfless." Since then, people all over the country, especially teenagers, have been learning from Lei Feng. Since then, March 5th every year has become the day when all people learn from Lei Feng.
In February 1963, the older generation revolutionary Dong wrote a poem praising Lei Feng:
Many people read Mao Xuan, and Lei Feng is very serious.
Not only words, but also spirit.
The concept of class is clear and labor is simple.
Screws don't rust, but history is always new.
If you only do ordinary things, you will become a great treasure.
Lei Feng Diary:
..... If you were a drop of water, would you moisten an inch of land? If you were a ray of sunshine, would you light up a little darkness? If you are a grain, have you ever given birth to useful life? If you were the smallest screw, would you stick to your life forever? If you want to tell us something, are you preaching the best ideals day and night? Since you are alive, do you work hard for the future human life and make the world better day by day? I want to ask you, what does it bring to the future? In the warehouse of life, we should not just be endless givers.
—— Excerpted from Lei Feng's June 7th diary 1958.