Wang Erxiao lives in a small mountain village in Laiyuan, Hebei. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army extended its claws to this quiet village. 1942101On October 25th, the second primary school was herding cattle on the hillside and met a devil who wanted to "mop up" the village. The devil asked him to lead the way, but the second child led the devil into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army. When the devil found himself cheated, he stabbed the second boy in the chest with a bayonet. ...
After Wang Erxiao's death, local soldiers and civilians buried him on the hillside behind the village. Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Daily published his heroic deeds in the first edition. Fang Bing, a poet among poets, was deeply moved by Wang Erxiao's deeds, and soon wrote this song which has been circulated for more than 60 years.
After the founding of New China, the story of Wang Erxiao was incorporated into primary school textbooks, and the second primary school became a hero in the eyes of thousands of children in Qian Qian.
In Lu Hua village, there is a boy named Yulai. He likes swimming and reading. One day, Uncle Li in the village hurried into Yulai's house, removed the water tank and jumped into the hole under it. The rain moved the water tank back to its original position. At this time, the devil also arrived. ...
This is a scene described in the novel Rain Comes Without Death.
Yu Lai is a microcosm of children in eastern Hebei during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, including the novelist Hua Guan himself. Huaguan stood guard with the children in the village since childhood, sent a chicken hair letter to the Eighth Route Army, climbed the tree and watched it capture the enemy. 1940, he left home and went to the anti-Japanese battlefield, moving to the north and south for many years. After he joined the army, childhood scenes often came to his mind. Therefore, he created a novel "Rain Never Dies" featuring rain, which was published in Shanxi-Chaji Daily.
After the founding of New China, an editor in charge of Chinese textbooks from the Ministry of Education made a special trip to find Hua Guan and told him that his novel was renamed Rain for Little Heroes and was selected as a Chinese textbook. Since then, the little hero Yu Lai has become a hero of a whole era in the eyes of children all over the country.