On December 26, 1964, the usual quiet Zhongnanhai seemed particularly lively, for no other reason. This day was Chairman Mao's 71st birthday. Chairman Mao has always been diligent and thrifty. He never allowed the staff to manage his birthday to avoid waste. The only time he had a birthday treat was during the Yan'an period.
Chairman Mao, Dong Jiageng and Xing Yanzi
But this time in 64, Chairman Mao decided to host the birthday party himself. Not only did he invite Premier Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and many other state leaders, but also Qian Xuesen and Chen Yonggui. , Wang Jinxi, Xing Yanzi and other representatives from all walks of life attended the meeting in order to further shape models, communicate ideas, and deepen the feelings of all walks of life. However, Chairman Mao did not allow Li Min, Li Ne and other children to attend. He told the comrades who attended the banquet: " today is not a birthday, let alone a birthday, but the realization of the "three ties". Take my contribution fee and invite everyone to dinner. , My children did not participate in the mountains and the countryside. They are not qualified. Let’s just eat a meal and talk about it! ”
At the dinner, Chairman Mao noticed a youth representative and personally invited him to Sitting on the left, and smilingly asked: "You are Comrade Dong Jiageng from Jiangsu, right? I have heard of your writing' living in a hut, seeing the world, stepping on the mud, worrying about the world', very If you have ambitions, the country needs a young and promising cadre like you!" He said, adding vegetables to Dong Jiageng.
Chairman Mao's words made Dong Jiageng flattered, and he was deeply moved. Over the past ten years, he has witnessed his father’s tragic situation before his death. He has been sent to Peking University with great pains, but he resolutely chooses to root in the countryside. For this reason, his mother has a temper, and his girlfriend does not understand. , Choose to break up with him. The people in the village said he was staying, saying he was stupid, and he left Peking University well, and ran home to be a farmer. Several years later, Chairman Mao's teachings on him at the banquet made him feel that it was all worth it!
Dong Jiageng
Abandon Peking University,Returning to the countryside to work in agriculture
is another year of school season. For students who have been studying hard for more than ten years, being admitted to Peking University and studying at this internationally renowned university means that their life goals have been achieved in half. , The future can be expected. However, sixty years ago, a young man from the countryside held the qualification of Peking University and wrote the eight characters of "returning to farming, determined to work." He resolutely chose to return to farming. That was the dream of someone who was admitted to Peking University sixty years ago, but this young man chose to give up. He is Dong Jiageng. However, after learning about Dong Jiageng's growth experience, we sighed and understood his choice.
Dong Jiageng, formerly known as Dong Jiageng, was born in 1940 in a poor peasant family in Donghuo Village, Gewu Township, Yancheng County, Jiangsu Province. Yancheng is located in the northern part of Jiangsu, in the Huai River basin. After Chiang Kai-shek exploded the Huaiyuankou, the Yellow River flooded the Jianghuai River and the original fertile soil became saline-alkali land, causing decades of food shortages and people's livelihood. Dong Jiageng's family became poorer and poorer, until the founding of New China, their life had no hope.
Recent photos of Longgang Middle School
Jiangsu has always had a strong learning atmosphere and first-class teaching level. Under the influence of this atmosphere, Dong Jia Gengmai enrolled in the school and began his student career. Although he went to school a few years later than his peers, Dong Jiageng was talented and hardworking, and his academic performance quickly ranked among the best. In 1958, he was admitted to Longgang Middle School, a key high school in Yancheng, and has served as class leader and Communist Youth League secretary for three years in high school. And joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1961, Dong Jiageng obtained a high score of 96 points in each subject in the graduation examination, which was far ahead of the graduates of the same year. He was sent to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University by the school. However, in the face of this honor, Dong Jiageng made a decision that all the teachers did not expect.He wrote the eight characters of "returning to the village to work in agriculture, determined to work hard" on the application letter, and resolutely chose to return to the village to work in agriculture. The school suddenly exploded: Is Dong Jiageng crazy?
Dong Jiageng made such a decision for two reasons. In 1961, it was the most difficult year of the "three-year difficult period". Grain production was drastically reduced. Over 100 million people were hungry across the country, and people died of hunger. In Donghuo Village, Gewu Township, where Dong Jiageng's hometown was, many people were starved to death due to the saline-alkali land everywhere and almost no grains of grain. Dong Jiageng couldn't stop crying after witnessing this tragic situation, determined to change this situation.
It was also in this year that Dong Jiageng's father drank the sprouting Cigantang without food and died of poisoning. Before his death, his father, with grief and anger, bit the spoon in his mouth. That scene lingered in Dong Jiageng's heart, and he could not forget it for a long time.
Because of this, Dong Jiageng gave up the opportunity to enter Peking University and returned to his hometown to work in agriculture. He wanted to do a career in the Social University. In order to show his determination, changed his name to "Dong Jiageng", which means "strengthen agriculture and resolve to cultivate" .
Dong Jiageng
Take root in the countryside and become a role model
After returning to his hometown, 21-year-old Dong Jiageng was assigned to work in the fourth production team of Donghuo Brigade. The mother didn’t understand the choice of the son, so she tried to persuade him to change his mind and said to him, “Why do you come back when you don’t go to such a good university? What will you do if you stay in the countryside?”
Move, and say to my mother: " I can certainly go to university, but as a new socialist youth, I should take root. Besides, I don’t think farming is hard! ”
Mother didn’t move him. ,The girlfriend who was a teacher in elementary school came forward to persuade: "We want to go out of the countryside and face the world. Now you have a future without a future. What do you want me to do in the future?" ideal. In the end, the girlfriend chose to break up peacefully with him, with a difference.
In the second year when Dong Jiageng returned to his hometown, he used the knowledge he learned to solve a major issue in the commune. At that time, Yancheng flooded, the paddy fields of the production team were all flooded, and it was impossible to plant late rice according to the usual season. In order to change this situation and allow the masses to have winter grain, Dong Jiageng changed the paddy field of the production team to dry field and planted cotton. Cotton needs to be fertilized, but the team has no money to buy it. Dong Jiageng led the team members to burn firewood to ashes to make good fertilizer and sprinkle it on the cotton field.
In the autumn, the production team had a bumper harvest of cotton, which made up for the lack of rice cultivation. The villagers of the production team are grateful to Dong Jiageng and never share his gossip .
Dong Jiageng
Dong Jiageng is rooted in the countryside and is respected by more and more villagers. They unanimously elect Dong Jiageng as the accountant of the commune. Once, Dong Jiageng took the money from the commune to the town to buy things for the production team. After returning, he left a few cents in his trouser pocket. While helping Dong Jiageng to wash the clothes, his mother found the money in his trouser pocket, thinking it was pocket money saved by her son, so she took it and bought some bags of salt.
After Dong Jiageng arrived at the commune, he realized that he couldn't be accounted for, so he thought of the few cents in his trouser pocket. When he returned home and learned that his mother used the money to buy salt, he did not question his mother, but patiently said: " These are collective money. Although it is not much, we can't spend a cent. .”
"China Youth" magazine uses Dong Jiageng as the cover character
Under Dong Jiageng’s enlightenment,The mother silently took out a few eggs saved by the family and handed them to her son. Dong Jiageng took these eggs, exchanged money in the town, and supplied them to the commune.
is ordinary, it doesn't mean that you can't make a difference. Dong Jiageng has used his sincerity in agriculture, which has won everyone's unanimous affirmation and made him a household name. " Xinhua Daily" was the first to publish an article titled "The goal is always the same", reporting on Dong Jiageng’s deeds of giving up Peking University and returning to his hometown to work in agriculture. People’s Daily and China Youth Daily followed closely and followed up on Dong Jiageng’s work. Deeds affirmed.
Dong Jia is on fire, and the fire is in a mess. He not only participated in the Shangshanxiaxiang Intellectual Youth Representative Symposium held by the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, he reported his deeds, and he was also selected as the intellectual youth representative of the "Ninth Congress of the Communist Youth League". "And attended the Third National People's Congress.
Premier Zhou talked with Dong Jiageng and others
was received by the chairman and guarded the spirit for the chairman for 7 days
In December 1964, Dong Jiageng went to Beijing to attend the third meeting as the deputy head of the Jiangsu People’s Congress delegation. Session of the National People's Congress. As the first representative from Yancheng, Dong Jiageng was warmly sent off by the local people. They put up banners and sent Dong Jiageng on the train to Beijing. At that moment, Dong Jiageng was moved to tears.
On December 26, after the afternoon meeting, the staff asked Dong Jiageng, Chen Yonggui, Wang Jinxi, and Xing Yanzi to stay in the venue. After a while, Premier Zhou came over and said to them: "Follow me."
Under the leadership of Premier Zhou, the group came to a banquet hall behind the rostrum. When you see Zhu De, Chen Yi and other leading comrades,And when science giants like Qian Xuesen were in the lobby, Dong Jiageng was suddenly too nervous to speak. When Premier Zhou introduced him to Dong Biwu, Dong Biwu held his hand tightly and said, "Xiao Dong, we are our own family!" Looking at the kind eyes of Dong Lao, Dong Jiageng's nervousness finally eased a little. point.
Not long after, Chairman Mao also came to the venue to greet everyone to take their seats. Chairman Mao personally arranged Dong Jiageng to sit on his left, which is a great honor. Only then did Dong Jiageng remember: This day is Chairman Mao's birthday!
Chairman Mao received Dong Jiageng (second from left) and other typical
After Dong Jiageng took the seat, Chairman Mao talked with him cordially and learned that he was only 24 years old, but he had already done a job. , The chairman nodded repeatedly: "Good! Good!"
After a while, the banquet officially began. In order to avoid waste, the banquet adopts a split system, and as soon as the first dish is seen, Dong Jiageng is served. Dong Jiageng thought about where he could afford it. He quickly brought the dishes to the chairman, and said excitedly: "Chairman, please first, please first!" "Thank you", and from time to time to bring him vegetables, said to Dong Jiageng and Xing Yanzi: " , you are young, come from the countryside, eat more ."
At the end of the dinner, Chairman Mao got up and gave it to everyone One person attending the banquet gave Dong Jiageng an apple as the first one. Dong Jiageng was infected by Chairman Mao's kind attitude, and he muttered in his heart: This is the leader of the country, the leader of the people, with extraordinary tolerance!
After this banquet,Dong Jiageng is known as "the number one guest at the Chairman's birthday banquet", and his deeds have been widely publicized and have become an idol in the hearts of countless young people.
On September 9, 1976, Chairman Mao, the leader of the Republic and a great man of a generation, completed a glorious life. After learning of the bad news, Dong Jiageng rushed to Beijing, as a member of the funeral committee , and was the only person authorized to guard Chairman Mao for seven days and seven nights.
Dong Jiageng
Don't forget the original intention, no regrets for a lifetime
After the ten-year storm, Dong Jiageng has returned to the original starting point. He is no longer a representative of the National People's Congress, but an ordinary farmer. Dong Jiageng is like a dandelion seed drifting in the wind, going around for more than ten years and returning to his homeland . He had no unnecessary loss, and he felt a sense of sufficiency in his heart.
talents shine everywhere. In 1982, Dong Jiageng received attention again and was elected as the deputy head of Guo Meng Township, Yancheng County, focusing on agricultural production. Dong Jiageng went back to his old profession. He did not forget his original intentions and showed his enthusiasm. He rode a bicycle that was too old to be old. He ran a lot of places without any obstacles. When he was hungry, he ate at a roadside stall. . The hard work paid off. Guo Mengxiang’s industrial output value doubled in just three years, and his products are exported overseas. Dong Jiageng’s contribution is indispensable.
Due to his outstanding performance, Dong Jiageng was appointed deputy director of the local township enterprise bureau five years later. Although his position has changed, his heart for working for the people has not changed. He runs all year round at the grassroots level. The reporter wants to interview him. He could not be found. Under the leadership of Dong Jiageng, the economy of Yancheng County has developed rapidly, and it has become one of the top 100 township and village enterprise counties in the country.
In 1994, Dong Jiageng was unanimously elected as the vice chairman of the CPPCC Yancheng County. Although he left the front line, he still often ran to the grassroots level and continued to use his waste heat.
In 2000, Dong Jiageng officially retired. In his later years, he was asked, "If I give you another chance,When you went back to the question of whether to go to Peking University or go to the countryside to work in farming, he was silent for a moment, and then said: " has no assumptions in history, but if time goes back, I will still choose the most difficult place to go ! ”
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