Modern Express News (Correspondent Liu Yanlong, Ji Yu, Reporter Gu Xiao) "Hello friends, everyone! The red story preaching has begun now." In recent days, Chen Yi and , retired teachers of Xi'an Feng Middle School in Baoying County, Yangzhou City, have taught red stories through short video platforms, attracting many netizens to watch, with a total of 300,000 people.

△Chen Yihe preaches red stories through short video platforms
77-year-old Chen Yihe has arranged his daily life since his retirement, "I only do one thing in my life to teach and educate people. After retirement, I don't teach books anymore, but I can continue to do things about educating people." Xi'an Feng Town is an old revolutionary base. As a member of the Red History Education Propaganda Team of the New Fourth Army Research Association in Baoying County, Chen Yihe deeply explores local red resources to continuously enrich the content of the red story.
In 1995, Chen Yihe began to tell red stories before he retired, and it has been 27 years since then. By July this year, Chen Yihe had more than 100 special red stories, and had more than 110,000 educated listeners. In 2021 alone, Chen Yihe told a total of 30 red stories in the judicial system, tax system, education system, and community rural grassroots lecture halls in Baoying County.

△Chen Yihe conducts patriotic education
preaches the red story for 27 years, Chen Yihe has collected, sorted and verified a large amount of historical materials and compiled them into a book. In 2001, after his compilation of "Lu Dang Fenghuo", he was deeply loved by readers. In 2017, he added "Lu Dang Fenghuo" (revised version), adding two-thirds of the content.
Starting from mid-July this year, Chen Yihe began to learn short video skills by himself and preach red stories through short videos. Short videos are new things, and Chen Yihe humbly worships others as his teacher. He also used his evening hours to listen to classes on his mobile phone and learned how to use short videos to preach red stories on a larger scale.
Chen Yihe originally planned to do 20 episodes of the show, but at the request of netizens, he continued to add content, and by October 10, he had talked about 31 episodes. At present, the number of red stories played by Chen Yihe has reached 310,000, with the highest number of people reaching 27,000.
In 2021, Chen Yihe was rated as "Jiangsu Province People's Learning Star" by the Jiangsu Provincial Education System. "Life until old age, learn until old age." Chen Yihe said that his grades belong to the past, and he will use short videos well, constantly learn new ways of dissemination, and continue to tell the red story.
(Correspondent Photo provided by Editor Li Weiwei)