That's how steel is made
One by one, Chongfa has four great life tempering
That's how steel is made
——Read Comrade Zhang Chongfa's essay "The Days of Working Next to Marshal Ye Jianying and General Dong Qiwu".
Written by Wang Peng
Recently, I read Comrade Zhang Chongfa's [August 1 Special] article "The Days of Working Next to Marshal Ye Jianying and General Dong Qiwu - The Sixth Style of the Zhang Legion in Yangjiaxiang Village, Hejin City", and I couldn't calm down for a long time.
Comrade Chongfa's long article, which recounts his life course of nearly 80 years, is actually an autobiographical book. The book is rich in content, precious historical materials, shocking and thought-provoking.
Comrade Zhang Chongfa's long essay is reminiscent of the autobiographical novel "How Steel is Made" by the former Soviet Hero Osternovsky. This red classic has influenced the growth of several generations of Chinese youth, and it is still an inspirational classic for the growth of talents.
Comrade Chongfa's long article also uses his own experience of growth and struggle to reveal the meaning of life, interprets the dialectical relationship between life experience and life value, and also answers the theme idea that a successful life is refined in struggle, which also inspires people to grow and urge people to forge ahead.
From ore to final smelting, a piece of high-quality steel needs to go through thousands of degrees of high-temperature smelting, multiple quenching, and forging forming. A person's growth also needs the exercise of a specific environment: working on his skin, suffering his mind, going through hardships, and achieving success.
Looking back at Comrade Chongfa's magnificent life of 80 years of ups and downs, he has experienced many life situations that are difficult for ordinary people to endure. If Comrade Chongfa is compared to a piece of high-quality steel, he has experienced at least four major life tempering.
Zhang Chongfa and General Dong Qiwu
The first tempering of life: courage and perseverance in danger.
In the spring of 1965 of the last century, Zhang Chongfa enlisted in the army and was assigned to the 157th Regiment of the Engineer Corps to participate in national defense construction. Defense construction is a high-risk job, and who knows when the cave will collapse? Who knows when the Squib will go off? As a map reader, he soaked in the front end of the construction site day and night, holding the drawings, and guiding the construction comrades to install formwork, weave steel bars, pour, and tamp concrete. The uncovered tunnels are littered with rocks and dogs, and the cracks in the mountain seep water, and there is a danger of collapse at any time. Zhang Chongfa worked selflessly day and night in this dangerous situation of impermanence and unpredictable fate.
As a new soldier who had just joined the army, he put his life and death out of the way, threw himself into the business, and did the work of a map reader with ease. He was responsible for the project of map reading and created a model one after another. His company's reputation for high-quality engineering was shocked, and there was an endless stream of people visiting and learning from the brothers' company. During a pilot project, he stayed at the construction site for three days and three nights, lying sleepy and taking a nap on a tweed bag, and the company commander kicked him when he encountered something he didn't understand, and he immediately got up and solved the difficult point with the company commander.
Four months later, he joined the party, setting a record for the fastest time a soldier to join the party. Immediately after that, he was transferred to the regiment's engineering unit, and three months later, he wrote a summary of the regiment's construction experience for the whole year, which was published in the "People's Engineers", causing a sensation at the army and division levels, and at the same time published a set of press releases in local newspapers. This is the achievement of a recruit who has been in the army for less than a year. Since then, he has won the first tempering in his life.
August 1965 "Zhangjiayan Daily"
Published in the Brothers-in-Arms newspaper on May 25, 1966
It was broadcast by Xinhua News Agency on December 24, 1967 and published in People's Daily on December 25, 1967.
In 1966, the first issue of "People's Engineers" was published
The second tempering of life: carrying the weight in the difficult situation.
Zhang Chongfa is not only famous as a cartographer, but also as an amateur writer of newsletters. A number of articles reflecting the achievements of the construction unit and the relationship between the military and the people were published in the army and local newspapers, which brightened the eyes of the division leaders, and the division's political commissar named Zhang Chongfa to work in the news reporting group of the division's political department. Another background to this move was: the communication report of the Fourth Work District (Engineer Division) at that time was the first to last in the 65th Army. The division leaders dispatched troops and had great ambitions to overtake in corners and catch up.
Zhang Chongfa, who was ordered to be in danger, felt a lot of pressure and was determined to live up to his mission and do a good job. He took out the spirit of enduring hardships in the construction company day and night to fight caves, went to the company, conducted interviews, worked overtime, and climbed the lattice. God rewards hard work, hard work pays off, and he has created a legend of more than 30 articles a month. The engineering division took off its hat in one fell swoop and jumped to the top of the 65th Army in one fell swoop. For this reason, he was awarded a third-class meritorious service and won the second prize of the "Engineer Soldier Daily".
Carrying the weight forward, living up to the mission, the second life tempering, he won shiningly.
The second page of the People's Daily in 1968 published a revolution in the resumption of classes at Wanquan Dongfanghong Middle School, reported by Zhang Chongfa and Wu Changsheng.
In 1968, Guangming Daily published a long report written by Zhang Chongfa on the management of the poor middle school of the Cigou Brigade in Wanquan County.
The experience of the Fourth Work Zone of the Engineer Corps of the Beijing Military Region was published in the 25th issue of the Newsletter of the Engineer Corps in August 1969.
Jingzi Unit 415 (code name of the fourth work district) participated in three armies and two armies in Wanquan County, Hebei Province. The investigation report on the poor and middle-class peasants in Anjiabao in Wanquan County, the editor's note is Chairman Mao's instructions. Zhang Chongfa participated in the writing of the investigation report. All newspapers at or above the provincial level in the country forwarded the "People's Daily" article in full.
In the first half of 1969, the 65 th Army's communications and reporting results were statistically listed, and the Fourth Engineering Division ranked first in the whole army.
The third tempering of life: act cautiously in good times.
As an outstanding talent, Zhang Chongfa enlisted in the army for four years, and was transferred to the "Brothers-in-Arms Daily" of the military region as a reporter by the division reporting group of the Beijing Military Region. After joining the "Brothers-in-Arms" office, Zhang Chongfa continued to carry forward the fine quality of seizing the day and making great achievements in his work at the grassroots level, worked hard and made great achievements, and every year he collected and wrote three to five important articles that had an impact on the military region and the whole army. Therefore, it is more and more valued by leaders.
In January 1974, at the age of 29, he was transferred to work next to Vice Chairman Ye Jianying, directly serving the highest level of the Military Commission, and once drafted and submitted written materials for Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou.
It is said that this is the highlight moment of Zhang Chongfa's life. He is high-spirited, young and promising, and when he goes in and out of important military aircraft and comes into contact with high-level leaders, he is most likely to have a condescending and fluttering feeling. However, Comrade Chongfa withstood the test of this good situation. He is well aware of the heavy responsibility, always conscientious, cautious in words and deeds, capable and prudent, efficient and high-quality in handling documents, and has been praised by the senior management many times. So much so that Ye Shuai personally arranged for him to attend the 24th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China National Day reception, sit at the same table with Chairman Mao's daughter, and listen to Premier Zhou's speech together.
It can be seen from this that Comrade Zhang Chongfa's work in the middle and upper echelons of the army is remarkable, and his life is brilliant, and he should be greeted with new hopes. His third life tempering was qualified.
The fourth tempering of life: work hard in the face of adversity.
Just when Comrade Zhang Chongfa was working hard to make meritorious contributions in the middle and high ranks of the army, an encounter came unexpectedly. He was innocently implicated in the changing political situation, and after he left the office of the Central Military Commission, and after returning to the military region, he was treated unfairly and forcibly transferred to the local grassroots level. At this point, his adversity career began.
The infinite scenery is at the dangerous peak, and the heroes have been in adversity since ancient times. Zhang Chongfa, who was wronged and aggrieved, is like a phoenix nirvana, and even more like a butterfly, opening a new chapter in his unyielding and brilliant life. The explosion of energy is not a day's work, and the catalysis of adversity makes strong people more energetic.
Let's take a look at Comrade Chongfa's extraordinary deeds in the face of adversity.
After transferring to the local government, he served as the editor-in-chief of a number of cultural newspapers and periodicals, and turned the tabloid into a big newspaper and a famous newspaper, which was highly praised by people inside and outside the industry. He has edited and published a number of monographs on people, tourism, cultural relics, medicine, historical materials, etc., with more than 20 million words. He used the pen like a rafter to speak for the times, to establish a biography for heroes, to establish faith for academics, and to establish a soul for culture.
Due to his outstanding performance and outstanding contributions, Comrade Chongfa has won many awards, and has been exceptionally rated as a "national first-class screenwriter" and enjoys the treatment of a full professor.
His extraordinary life once again tells us: without wind and rain, there is no rainbow; There are no heroes without tribulation. It is precisely in different circumstances that Comrade Chongfa's will, quality, and ability have been tempered, and his loyalty and great love for the motherland, the people, and the army have been tempered.
Comrade Chongfa's high-quality steel is made in the superposition of danger, predicament, good and adversity, and he does not change its shape, does not rust, and will always shine.
At this time, on the eve of "August 1st", I wrote a paragraph to Chongfa's comrades-in-arms in WeChat as a tribute to him. The transcript is as follows: Brother Chongfa, you are a legend in your own right. Seawater bubbles, salt water boiling, high-temperature refining, from the sky to the ground, from the temple to the rivers and lakes, you are unswerving, more than struggle, never fade, never deteriorate, you are a piece of glittering high-quality steel!
Wang Peng (veteran of the Political Department of the 584th Regiment)
July 26, 2024 in Jingzhou, Hubei
"Cultural Life Newspaper" edited by Zhang Chongfa.
Zhang Chongfa's "Qinhuangdao Culture" magazine.
Zhang Chongfa edited "The Legend of Qinhuangdao Scenic Spots" with 250,000 words.
Zhang Chongfa participated in the compilation of "National History Mirror" with 4 million words, 4 volumes of hardcover.
Zhang Chongfa edited the first and second volumes of "The Legendary Life of General Dong Qiwu", 600,000 words.
Zhang Chongfa edited the Handbook of Clean Government Culture, 300,000 words.
Zhang Chongfa edited the first and second volumes of "Interesting Facts of Chinese Places of Interest and Historic Sites", 400,000 words.
Zhang Chongfa edited the "Practical Dictionary of Chinese Famous Doctors and Good Medicine" with 500,000 words.
Zhang Chongfa edited 5 volumes of "Essentials of Clinical Treatment", 1.5 million words.
Zhang Chongfa edited 5 volumes of "New Treatise on Chinese Medicine", with 1.5 million words.
Zhang Chongfa set up the office of the "Editorial Committee of New Treatises on Chinese Medicine" at the Qinhuangdao Reporter Station of "China Introduction Daily".
The famous writer Wei Wei wrote an inscription
Founding General Dong Qiwu inscription
Calligraphy Author: Zichu (Chen Fang)
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The author is really praised, and the question is golden
"He used the pen like a rafter to speak for the times, to establish a biography for heroes, to establish a credibility for academics, and to establish a soul for culture."
The author's sentences are a high summary of Brother Zhang Chongfa's life, and the whole article borrows the title of Ostovsky's "How Steel is Made", and uses his life experience to discuss Brother Zhang's extraordinary deeds in this life, which is exciting and emotional to read.
Recently, Brother Zhang's "August 1st Special Draft" has been continuously seen, and the more I read it, the more I admire it. Zhang Jiaerlang's innate intelligence and studiousness, dedication, diligence, and hard work are vividly reflected in the text.
Especially Brother Zhang Chongfa, people admire him even more. He collected materials, mobilized comrades-in-arms, relatives and friends with writing to write their feelings, talk about their experiences, leave comments, day and night, and sorted out poems and praises and praises from all over the world, as if he saw Brother Zhang in front of the computer, wearing glasses and working silently. He is really hearted, talented, and energetic.
When I was sick and hospitalized, I didn't read his articles for a day, and I was full of emotion, and I wrote eight poems in a few days to express my feelings, but I didn't want to, as if I still had a lot of inner words to say.
Today's article by Mr. Wang Peng once again triggered my thoughts, and I left the above testimonial on my mobile phone.
Brother Zhang is a benchmark for aspiration, a model for learning, and a role model for success!
Young people should really study hard, whether it is good or bad, it is a time of test, and Brother Zhang has set an example.
Comrade Chongfa's long article also uses his own experience of growth and struggle to reveal the meaning of life, interprets the dialectical relationship between life experience and life value, and also answers the theme idea that a successful life is refined in struggle, and also inspires people to grow and urge people to forge ahead. From ore to final smelting, a piece of high-quality steel needs to go through thousands of degrees of high-temperature smelting, multiple quenching, and forging forming. A person's growth also needs the exercise of a specific environment: working on his skin, suffering his mind, going through hardships, and achieving success. ”
The author writes awesomely! Point to gold.
Chen Fang (Retired cadre, Beijing Chuiyangliu Hospital)
Text: Wang Peng
Calligraphy: Zichu (Chen Fang)
Photo: Zhang Chongfa
Production: Zhang Chongfa