Unforgettable educated youth years

20211February 26th is the 50th anniversary of our 7/kloc-0 junior high school graduates and educated youth going to the countryside. As time goes by, the educated youth of that year was created by history. It once wrote a triumph of youth for this generation, paving an impossible life track. Educated youth has also created history, which has become a historical product of a period and will be recorded in history. Looking back now, it is a beautiful memory.

Fifty years ago, I left school, the city, my hometown and my parents like my classmates. During the same period, 2 1 people in our class went to the countryside, and 19 people came to the Liu Hao Commune in Liaoyang County to jump the queue to farm in the countryside and receive re-education for poor middle peasants. They were assigned to the commune spindle brigade, a total of five people, and I was assigned. This is the trend of history, but also a memorable eventful years, an epic historical ode!

Looking back on the past 50 years ago, it seems to be in front of us, just like a movie, scenes are constantly presented in my mind and fresh in my memory. Remember 197 1, after the National Day, the fresh students of our school will soon graduate and leave the school. One morning around 9: 00, someone suddenly called me out of the classroom and introduced me to the office of Bai, the school-run teacher. Two comrades of Liaoyang Public Security Bureau (then called the Public Security Bureau Martial Management Committee) are waiting here. I didn't know at the time, so I had a brief chat for a while. An old public security comrade handed me a People's Daily, handed it to me, chose an article, let me read it first, and then let me read a paragraph. After being stopped, let me describe how many paragraphs the article is divided into. What is the general content? After I made a simple statement, I filled out a resume. Later, I learned that they selected public security staff among fresh graduates. Because of the Cultural Revolution, family composition and historical relationship are very important. So in the audit, I was banned by the public security system because of my grandparents' historical problems. This is my first opportunity to work in the city. When my grandmother was 90 years old before she died, she was still guilty! But I didn't give up the opportunity to stay in the city, so I began to choose the second chance to be a soldier. I wrote a letter to the Armed Forces Department of Liaoyang City on a whim. A few days later, I returned both my letter and a reply to the school. I remember that Mr. Bai personally talked to me and advised me. Looking back now, I feel a little childish and ridiculous. Say it in the article and let the students know a little secret of mine.

Around the middle of June 1 1 We 7 1 Junior high school graduates will start employment distribution. Under the premise that students don't know the truth, the school has carried out black-box operations, and some parents entrust acquaintances to do work and operate privately. I remember our head teacher, Mr. Chen Wanfeng, told me clearly and mobilized me to say: You are a class cadre taking the lead in going to the countryside, and you are good at sports. After going to the countryside, you can be admitted to the Institute of Physical Education. What's even more incredible is that among the 660 fresh graduates, Xueyan called on the students to take the initiative to sign up for the countryside, and decided to join the * * * Youth League temporarily to encourage the fresh graduates. I am the sixth person to take the initiative to sign up to take the lead in going to the countryside. But also responsible for persuading the school to mobilize other fresh graduates to jump the queue in the countryside.

On the line of fire, I also gloriously joined the Youth League of * * *. It can be said that this laid a certain political foundation for me to go to the countryside and even step into the society and embark on the road of joining the army.

In the early 1970s, in Liaoyang, our 7 1 fresh graduates had four jobs to assign, namely, going to the countryside, entering a factory, transferring to public security, politics and law, and entering a health school. Most students go to the countryside to jump the queue. At that time, the educated youth were all having fun in hardships, and those who lived an educated youth life were unforgettable. Educated youth is a unique phenomenon in China from 1960s to 1970s. At that time, the industry was backward and the city's employment ability was limited. Comrade Mao Zedong called on young intellectuals to fight for land in rural areas and receive re-education from poor and middle peasants. In fact, we just graduated from junior high school, and our academic qualifications are not high. We are commonly known as "educated youth". I was also one of the millions of educated youth who went to the countryside that year.

After graduating from junior high school, I was first announced by the school to jump the queue in the countryside. It can be said that this is also my voluntary choice after I lost the opportunity to stay in the city. At that time, I had a wish that I could be a soldier and exercise in the army after going to the countryside, and now I am admitted to the university for further study. This is the only belief that I choose to take the road of educated youth. My educated youth life experience is not long, only one year, and there are not many experiences of working and living too hard and tired. But in my life experience, there was an unforgettable eventful autumn when educated youth went to the countryside, and I had no regrets all my life. Although I went to the countryside and realized my personal expectations, I joined the army in the countryside and lived in the army for 20 years, which changed my life track from then on. However, I am also eager for educated youth to go to the countryside and never return. The history of our generation is the product of an era and is determined by historical destiny!

In this article, what I describe is my personal experience. In the spirit of seeking truth from facts, there is no exaggeration or fiction. Although everything I saw had some negative energy, it was universal in the minds of young people at that time, especially in the lives of educated youth. The main factors are that the country is poor and backward, the people's living standards are not high, and there is no demand for quality of life at all. It is enough to solve the problem of food and clothing, maybe it will.

I have the deepest experience of the life of educated youth, and what benefits me for life is to cultivate a simple, kind, optimistic and dedicated attitude towards life, never giving up, laughing and laughing.

I went to the vast countryside on February 27th, 197 1, and it has been 50 years now. The mood at that time could not be described in words. I remember a jingle widely circulated among educated youth students in Liaoyang city, that is, "I looked at the white spire with tears in my eyes." If I want to go back to Liaoyang, I don't know that day!

Therefore, in the minds of most educated youth, that unforgettable history has become the secret of educated youth students. Even, sometimes, the heart is closed at ordinary times, and only at the moment of lightning will the emotion surge. Especially female educated youth, when recalling the years of educated youth, if they send a speech, they may suddenly choke up and burst into tears. This is a realistic portrayal of history.

Educated youth refers to young people who were voluntarily or forcibly sent from cities to rural areas to become farmers from the 1950 s to the end of the Cultural Revolution. In fact, most of these young people have only received junior high school or high school education. We graduated from junior high school, but actually we didn't fully reach the cultural level of junior high school. We were forced to go to the countryside to be farmers and farm for several years, wasting our youth!

The movement of educated youth to the countryside has also produced a series of serious consequences. For example, most educated youth who go to the countryside cannot be self-sufficient in life, and the educated youth who go to the countryside increase their parents' financial burden. The state-owned enterprises that have placed educated youth are overcrowded, and most of the recruits have gone to collective enterprises and service industries, and the labor productivity has declined year by year. In rural communes with a large population and a small population, educated youth and farmers also have contradictions for rations and work points. These problems have seriously troubled the healthy development of the party, the country and the whole society. After the educated youth went to the countryside, although they were shocked to see the backwardness, poverty, ugliness and ignorance of the countryside and farmers, the clan discrimination in individual village communities was still very serious, and I clearly understood the actual situation of the people's feelings.

However, the city, which was relatively far away from the noisy revolutionary atmosphere, came to rural life in a blink of an eye, which influenced the educated youth, or softened the rigid and blunt thoughts and feelings of educated youth students under the long-term revolutionary education, and gained a lot of humanity and human touch.

In my opinion, the most meaningful influence of educated youth is to know the real countryside and farmers, the truth of society and the true meaning of life. But at the same time, my faith collapsed and my ideals were shattered, and I was deeply at a loss about the future. Especially for the old educated youth who have been in the countryside for more than three years, their mood is low and their thoughts are negative and pessimistic, which is also a portrayal of the objective reality in the historical period and cannot be erased in the hearts of many educated youth.

I went to the rural commune that cut in line in the countryside, which is about 90 kilometers away from the urban area. At that time, it belonged to Liu Hao Commune, Shaling District, Liaoyang City, and the fourth production team of the rotating shaft brigade was located in the lower reaches of the Taizi River. Some farmers and villagers of the production team still live on the riverbed of the Taizi River Beach. The foundation of the house is 3 meters higher than the river bed, mainly to prevent waterlogging invasion after the flood. The place where you go to the countryside is very close to the mouth of Taizi River into Liaohe River. Low terrain, known as vulgar mouth. Water networks and paddy fields are developed, and there are many fish ponds, streams and irrigation and drainage stations. After the rainy days in summer, people in this land are not close to the soil, and yellow mud sticks to their feet. Here, the constant farm work in four seasons is the only source and guarantee for villagers' survival. However, it is really difficult for us children who grew up in cities at the age of seventeen or eighteen to undertake heavy physical labor with our young bodies. In my brigade, there were 26 educated youths, including 68,70,765,438+0 junior high school graduates. There are 9 boys in the two youth spots, Han and Hui, and the rest are girls of different ages. The oldest is Ma, a 26-year-old Hui educated youth, and the youngest is me, 19 years old. At the same time, after several educated youth students from our production team were transferred back to the city, only m-girls was left, and I was the only boy. It was winter when I went to the countryside. When I first started doing farm work, I just planed the dung heap. When I went down with a pick, Daikin also scratched a white seal, which didn't work. My hands and feet are numb, my back aches, and my face is full of tears. The peasant brothers also secretly laughed at me. Now, in winter, the dam is reinforced, frozen blocks are planed and transported to the top of the dam by trolley. In a team of two people, the clod couldn't be planed and the motor car couldn't be pushed, so we had to pull the car with a rope, and our palms were blistered and our shoulders were worn out. We can't do much work in a day, only give half a worker money. Hard to say, man! Persevere with tears.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer. Yang and Zhiqing, captains of the production team, call him Uncle. He is in his fifties. He is quick in action and neat in doing things. He cares about me very much. He always cares about me and is considerate of me. Once when he was assigned to work, he asked me to drive an ox cart to the grain and rice processing factory of the brigade to grind rice noodles. I am very comfortable. I was lying on the ox cart in a quilt, a hemp rope and a straw hat. Before long, the land turned green, and corn fields were shoveled everywhere. Once, the sun had just risen, and I was carrying tools to shovel the ground with the villagers. When you get to the place, you can see it as far as the eye can see. I heard that I can only shovel two ridges in the morning, and I can't keep up with the team. I'm anxious. I became a master of seedling removal and a foreman who led the team. I told the old captain that he pushed me down rudely and refused to shovel the ground.

The next day, early in the morning, I was assigned to pick the top in the cantaloupe field with several older male and female members. This time, Captain Yang was disappointed. I took off the tips of the trunk with flowers, which affected the growth and maturity of cantaloupe and was criticized by members many times!

Nevertheless, I did some disappointing farm work, which was a great test for me. I won't forget the experience of short production teams doing farm work.

Spring is the season for transplanting rice seedlings in rice fields. Every day, we have to walk more than ten miles of bumpy country roads, transplant rice seedlings and weed the rice fields. The paddy field is very big, members who work everywhere come and go, and there is no toilet. Farmers defecate everywhere. We were not used to it when we first went to the countryside. If there is no water to drink, dig a hole in the low-lying place next to the rice field, float the water through osmosis, settle for a while, then take water by hand and hold it for drinking. At that time, there were no pesticides in the countryside, the water source was pollution-free and the water quality was relatively clean. Especially whenever I rake the ground to transplant rice seedlings and weed, I have three fears: First, I am afraid of the eels in the rice fields, which are commonly known as sons of bitches by the local people. They are staggering and rampaging in the rice fields. Unexpectedly, they are now delicious on the table. Second, I am afraid that leeches will crawl on their legs to suck blood and get into their legs and feet. Thirdly, I am afraid that I will work in a rice field in thin ice water. After more than a month of hard training, I tried the bitter and tired test. I even have some aftertaste when I think about it!

When I first went to the countryside, the life in the youth spot was very simple, and the living conditions and environment were very poor. The Youth Point, with an area of less than 300 square meters, consists of seven rooms, including a warehouse for storing grain, a corridor and a kitchen. The other two are male dormitories and the other three are female dormitories. More than 20 male and female educated youth students are accommodated in this narrow space. It was the middle of winter, and the most difficult time was the long and cold days. At night, under the dim light, the educated youth are bored, crying, singing and thinking about their loved ones. They see it every day. In the dormitory, there are no books and newspapers to read, no radio to listen to, and speakers are installed at home. Sometimes there was a knock at the door, and sometimes there was the noise of the brigade conveying the notice. Our youth camp is near the brigade headquarters. Every night, I often go to the firewood pile with several educated youth students, find out the corncob that looks like enzyme, chop it into particles and bake it on the stove to kill time. So day by day passed. Around the autumn, the old brigade headquarters and the youth point will be transformed into village primary schools, the brigade headquarters and the youth point will be moved to the ruins of dilapidated temples demolished at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, and the youth point will rebuild several tile houses. Because of the hurry to move, the soil is not dry enough, the room is cool and humid, and the frost on the surrounding walls is dazzling. A fire is lit at night, the roof is civilized and it rains, and melted frost is flowing in the corner of the wall. When I got up the next morning, I found that the quilt was soaked and turned into ice, so I had to take it outdoors to cool it. In winter, the sun shines for a short time, melting and freezing, so I have to take it to the dormitory at night. Boys sleep in cotton caps and get up in the morning. When people get out of bed, their hats are still frozen on the wall, and they have to be put on their heads when they are taken off, because it is too cold in winter!

Summer wheat harvest season, the weather is hot, just in the busy summer harvest season. I remember one time, several female educated youth students trudged back to the dormitory with blood bubbles in their palms when pulling wheat back to the youth point, tears streaming down their faces. I was resting in the boys' dormitory. When I heard that, my heart was sour. Suddenly, after knowing something, three boys and I ran to the fish pond of the brigade, jumped into the fish pond, mixed grass in the water and surrounded some fish to improve our life. Although, excessive behavior, but feel very happy, are teenagers, boys are relatively stronger than girls, suffering and not giving in. At that time, the life of educated youth was particularly bitter. The last meal was cabbage soup with clear water and no oil, and the cornmeal pot was covered with a big cake. Now it's called a pot. The pot is covered with tortillas. The bottom of the pot is vegetable soup, so I have never lived at home. In order not to worry my parents, I eat with tears in my eyes almost every day. Every time I hear that someone is killing pigs in the village, we boys make AA system, buy a few Jin of pork and take it to the kitchen to find some girls to taste. It's like ending a meatless diet in the new year.

In the winter of 65438+February of 72, conscription began. Tian Shuli, secretary of the brigade, and I went to the commune to hold a conscription meeting. I am responsible for recording and sorting out materials. The meeting confirmed that our brigade has three places to be soldiers. This is also the first time I have the opportunity to leave the countryside to find a job. After the meeting, I approached the leading cadres of the army and became the secretary of the brigade. I want to join the army. The head of the army and the cadres who took over the soldiers recognized me. There was an argument between two troops who were willing to accept me to their troops. However, the secretary of the brigade Tian disagreed with me as a soldier. He told me personally that now I will train you to join the party and take over my class later. I'm a little confused when I hear this. When I joined the party, I was able to transfer back to the city and train to be a rural cadre. At that time, I was not sensible and very anxious. Besides, I work hard as a secretary, repeatedly. Finally, I was drafted into the army.

In the past 50 years, I have been back to my hometown four times, and I have been to the countryside when I jumped the queue, and I have visited my folks who still live in that fertile soil. 1974, it was the first time that I took the opportunity to go back to my hometown on a business trip. I happened to meet a group of fellow villagers when I first entered the village. In the process of chatting and consulting, it is amazing that several fellow villagers still remember me clearly and called my name. I am very happy. The villagers here still remember me, which I will never forget!