1964 February 9th is the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and the Spring Festival is approaching. A festive atmosphere hangs over the Ming 'an Prairie in Dahan. Early this morning, Dad helped another herder paint the house. The task of herding 384 sheep in the commune fell to Long Mei of 1 1 and Yu Rong of 9 years old. At noon, the sky suddenly darkened, with strong winds and heavy snow. A rare snowstorm approached the Na Ren Gezhile production brigade of Xinbaolige commune. The wind and snow are unstoppable and seem to engulf everything on the vast grassland. The temperature dropped to MINUS 37 degrees Celsius, the northwest wind blew harder and harder, and the sheep began to run with the wind. The two sisters hurried to stop the sheep from returning, but the snowstorm blocked their way home. What shall we do, leave the sheep and find a place to hide? They remembered ABBA's words: "Sheep are the property and lifeline of the collective. You can't lose one! " They gave up the idea of running away and didn't go back to find ABBA because they were afraid of losing their sheep. The two sisters blocked the left and the right, and they struggled to chase the sheep together in the thick snow. Hunger, cold and fatigue tormented the two little girls, but the sheep didn't stop, and neither did Long Mei and Yu Rong. The east turned pale, and the two sisters trudged more than 30 kilometers to the vicinity of Baiyun Obo Station. Sister Yu Rong lost her felt boots and her feet became two ice weights. Long Mei tried to take off the felt boots for her sister, but her fingers wouldn't listen, and the felt boots and feet were firmly frozen together. The two sisters helped each other, herded sheep and moved to the railway step by step. Jade let exhausted the last strength and fainted in the snow. Haas Lu Chao and his son Na Ren Mandula, who came to the station to see their friends off, found Long Mei, and then rescued the little sisters together with several railway workers. On the afternoon of February 10, the two sisters were sent to the Baiyun Obo Iron Mine Hospital of Baotou Steel.
The sisters' lives were saved, but Long Mei lost her left thumb, and Yurong's foot was amputated, resulting in lifelong disability. Of the 384 sheep they grazed, only three were frozen to death, and the rest were safe and sound. 1964 March 12, People's Daily published a long newsletter "A Day and Night in a Snowstorm". On March 14, Inner Mongolia Daily published a long newsletter, Miss Hero of the Grassland. Ulanhu, then chairman of the Inner Mongolia government, wrote an inscription asking young people of all ethnic groups in the region to learn from them. Long Mei, as a minority girl who is only 1 1 years old, risked her life to protect the property of the commune. Heroic deeds have educated two generations of young people in China, which are our precious spiritual wealth and always inspire people's high enthusiasm for loving the collective and the country.