Inscription joke

More than fifty years ago, Chairman Mao wrote an inscription for a pupil: "Study hard and make progress every day." However, where and why this inscription came from is an unsolved mystery in many people's minds, including me, and now I finally have an answer.

The hero of this dusty past is Chen Yongkang, 59 years old. Before retiring, he worked as an accountant and project supervisor in Suzhou Shipping Company. Because of his excellent work, he has been rated as "five good workers" and "advanced workers" at the provincial and municipal levels for many times. 195 1, he is the little hero who bravely captured the spy. 1951On the afternoon of May 3rd, it was a political study day for school teachers and students. At that time, only 8-year-old Chen Yongkang was playing around the school with some classmates. Just as they were having fun, a well-dressed young man stopped them, then took out a bag of candy for him to eat, and mysteriously gave him some money and a bag of yellow powder, falsely claiming that it was refined flour (which was flammable and explosive after inspection) and let them put it on the teacher's desk. The alert Chen Yongkang immediately thought that the teacher had said many times that the people had just been liberated and the world was not peaceful. He thought the person in front of him was furtive and decided that he was not a good person, so he took the young man away tactfully. When he saw the People's Liberation Army patrolling the road, in order to prevent the bad guys from escaping, he resolutely hugged the young man's leg and shouted "Uncle PLA, come and catch the bad guys". The spy panicked and punched Chen Yongkang in the head and face. Although his blood is flowing, Chen Yongkang won't let go. The China People's Liberation Army who arrived quickly subdued the spy and took Chen Yongkang, who was bleeding, to the hospital.

Chen Yongkang's heroic deeds soon spread in Suzhou, and people from all walks of life gave him great care. Suzhou Municipal People's Government also publicly commended him and awarded him the honorary title of "Little Revolutionary Hero" on May 9 of the same year. Soon, his heroic deeds even spread to the central leadership. Chairman Mao learned that Chen Yongkang, a pupil in Suzhou, was injured while catching a spy. He wrote an inscription "Study hard and make progress every day" and sent someone to make a banner for the children in Chen Yongkang. At the same time, it issued a call for "study hard and make progress every day" to young people all over the country. In view of the fact that the whole country had just been liberated at that time, counter-revolutionaries sometimes created terrorist incidents. For the purpose of protecting the little hero's personal safety, Chen Yongkang was specially protected, and the inscription was kept in a highly confidential state, which also left the world with a mystery for decades.

Several years have passed, and today, more than 50 years later, this past event has been brought up again. Under the verification of the news media, the protagonist of the story finally came to the front desk. The little hero of that year is now gray-haired and nearly sixty years old. For decades, he has worked diligently and tirelessly in ordinary posts, being an ordinary person and never showing off his history.