1968, "knowledge."YouthThe phrase "to the countryside" was printed in newspapers and the fate of millions of urban youth was rewritten overnight. And an old general who was transferred to jiangxi said on that winter night, "the children are going to suffer."
The words in the paper and the fate of millions of young people
In december 1968, a number of newspapers in the country also published "knowledge youths go to the countryside to receive re-entry from poor farmers."EducationIt's very necessary to say that. At the time, urban students had just experienced disruptions and the school system had nearly collapsed. The central government decided to launch a campaign to get up to the hill, and from 1968 to 1976, the country accumulated almost 20 million dollarsZhiqingThe scale of rural migration from urban areas is unprecedented。
This exodus has changed the fate of countless families. Students in cities such as beijing, shanghai and guangzhou carry their bags, take green-skin trains or walk into remote mountainous areas. Many of them were under the age of 18 and had never left the city and never touched their heads. No one really told them what was waiting for。
The winter night in the cattle pit
October 1969Deng xiaopingHe was transferred to jiangxi suyu to work as a plier at the tractor workshop. Work is done in the early morning and at night back to the humble residence of the cattle pit. If he cannot express his views publicly, he can only reveal his true thoughts during his private conversation with zorin. He said, "these kids grew up in the city and suddenly went to the countryside, not just to exercise, but to really suffer."
Two people stopped talking that night. Outside the window is the silence in the jiangxi mountains, where only the light of kerosene is in the house. In his youth, he remembered those comrades who had been grinding through the pains in iiokayama and yanan. He looked at zorin and whispered, "what kind of life chapter are these kids writing in the countryside? "zorin didn't answer, just noded and was silent for a long time。
The old revolution saw the truth about rural life
Deng xiaoping did not live in the countryside for the first time. In the 1920s, he held a peasant movement in sichuan and hubei, during which he planted land and cut wheat in yenan. He was well aware of the reality of living in huts, eating coarse food and working every day, not in posters. "the children of the city have not suffered since childhood," he said to zorin, "it's a great test for them, not a joke."
He's not just worried about physical fatigue. Moving away from familiar cities, away from parents and friends, starting over in completely unknown rural areas, with language incoherence, cultural differences, human relationships, and mental stress tends to be more painful than physical labour. Many young people in urban areas have first arrived in rural areas, and the biggest collapse is not fatigue, but loneliness and ignorance. The old general who fought the rural revolution knows this better than anyone。
It's the true record in the diary
A shanghai zhiqing wrote in his diary: "for the first time i saw a hut in the countryside, i ate corn noodles for the first time, i worked in the fields with a sore back, and i understood what was really hard. "there were tens of thousands of similar records in those years. When many of them arrived in the countryside, urban habits were completely shattered, and even a hot bath was a luxury, and in winter they were too cold to write。
Over the past decade, some of them have adapted to rural areas and taken root; some of them have matured in hardship and become able to carry out their tasks. Deng xiaoping said in the 1980s: "that generation of young people suffered a lot in the countryside, but they also got a lot of exercise. They learned about the country's rural areas and about china's national situation, which helped them grow later." he said it calmly, but in great measure。
Zorin's point of view
Zorin was the mother of three children and understood how they felt to send their children to the countryside. When the station took off, some mothers cried so badly that others stood on the platform and said nothing. She was worried about her husband, and she understood that it was not a personal matter. "the campaign will eventually affect millions of families," she later recalled, and said, "there is nothing to talk about, there is hope。
Zorin mentioned that winter night in 1968 many times in her late years. She said, "ping was right about his worries, but his expectations were right." she watched her children grow up, and she watched those who knew how to return to the city and take up their posts. She believed that suffering was painful, but that it could also produce a bone. That belief was the common voice of many parents of that age and the most pristine attachment of her life。
Reflections and promises after suffering
After 1978, he returned to the city. When deng xiaoping returned to power, attention was paid to the growth and education of young people. He promoted the restoration of advanced examinations, the reopening of the school system and the rehabilitation of young people who had spent their youth in rural areas. He has repeatedly stressed the need forHistoryAnd behind that lesson, "let the younger generation grow in better conditions," is the continuation of the jiangxi winter night。
Most of those who knew young people were old and young, who used to shine and sweat on their posts, explained the special years by their actions. On that winter night in 1968, deng xiaoping lamented that "the children are going to suffer", both as a true record of history and as a deep expectation for a generation, reminding later generations that the focus on youth growth is not obsolete at any time。
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