Reporter Xu Wei
Zhang Dasheng, a retired soldier from Queshan, captain of the Jiaolong Volunteer Rescue Team of Queshan County, and president of the Volunteer Association of Queshan County, has been returning to his hometown for nearly 40 years, and is still on the front line of voluntary rescue and volunteer service.
Zhang Dasheng visited the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War (data map).
Zhang Dasheng has participated in more than 360 voluntary rescues, rescued more than 16,000 people, and successfully saved 12 lives by himself. Zhang Dasheng has been rated as the most beautiful volunteer in the country, a national moral model candidate, a "good man in China", and the most beautiful retired soldier in Henan Province.
A sincere and enthusiastic "soldier's heart"
In 1986, Zhang Dasheng, who had served in the army for five years, was discharged from the army and returned to his hometown.
The five-year military career has forged Zhang Dasheng's strong physique and trained his excellent style. During his five years in the army, he always took Lei Feng as an example everywhere, rushed to do dirty work, rushed to do urgent, difficult, and dangerous things, joined the party in the first year of enlistment, and won many awards, and was also awarded a third-class meritorious service.
Warm-hearted, loud-voiced, loves cycling, and is a good winter swimmer, this is the impression that Zhang Dasheng left on the people around him.
In 1988, Zhang Dasheng rode in China, and when he was in trouble, he received enthusiastic help from strangers. "At that time, I made up my mind to help others when I was able." Zhang Dasheng said that he once encountered a 14-year-old boy drowning on the way to ride, and although he tried his best, he failed to rescue the drowning teenager, which gave him the idea of setting up a professional rescue team.
Just do it! He has prepared more than 3 million yuan to purchase jackets, diving suits, kayaks, and supplemented pickup trucks and assault boats, and called on caring people to join one by one...... After many efforts, in April 2017, the Jiaolong Volunteer Rescue Team of Queshan County was born. Zhang Dasheng led everyone to learn first aid knowledge, carried out emergency rescue drills, and finally formed a scientific and professional emergency rescue team.
On April 8, 2021, a teenager accidentally fell into the water and was in critical condition. Zhang Dasheng, who was participating in rescue training nearby, rushed over when he heard the news and jumped into the cold river without hesitation.
Zhang Dasheng was very relieved, this time, he rescued the boy back.
A rescue that sacrificed life and death
In August 2023, affected by extreme weather, Zhuozhou, Hebei Province suffered a sudden flood. Zhang Dasheng led the rescue team to the disaster area overnight to rescue and rescue. They drove assault boats through the waves, moving the trapped people again and again.
"I thought at the time, even if I fell in the flood, I couldn't give up a life!" Zhang Dasheng led the team members to swim against the current and wade into the water again and again to save people. When rescuing a paralyzed old man, Zhang Dasheng found that the iron door of the old man's house was closed and could not be entered. 60-year-old Zhang Dasheng disregarded his personal safety and dived into deep water many times, and finally opened the "door of life". He ventured to the second floor, picked up the old man and walked to the kayak step by step. As soon as he got out of the yard, the rescue operation encountered a turbulent undercurrent, but fortunately he was dragged by the team members, and Zhang Dasheng was not swept away by the flood.
The thrilling scene of "a 60-year-old rescue captain with white sideburns and a seventy-year-old silver-haired man against the current" was reported by many media such as "Qilu Evening News" and Henan TV, and was praised by thousands of netizens.
Time goes back in time, and there are many such rescue experiences. Once you enter the barracks, you will be a soldier for life. Behind the rescues that sacrificed life and forgot to die, it is a portrayal of Zhang Dasheng's original intention of retiring and not fading, sticking to the spirit of Lei Feng and serving the people.
A special "family photo"
In the early summer, the Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall is full of grass and trees, and the spring mountain can be seen.
On the Qingming Festival in 2021, it was also here that Zhang Dasheng and the 10 "veteran parents" who were in his heart got together again. Regrettably, seven elderly people passed away one after another. Of the 10 chairs, only 3 waited for the owner.
In front of the statue of the revolutionary ancestors in the Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall, Zhang Dasheng took a special "family photo" with the three elderly veterans (103-year-old He Guozeng, 99-year-old Liang Zhongxian, and 98-year-old Zhou Shengming) who were still alive with red eyes, as well as the remains of seven anti-Japanese war veterans Wu Guoxian, Huang Gufa, Xu Dexi, Guo Jingke, Chen Dejin, Zhang Tang and Zhang Zhongyao. Since then, the family photos of the two generations of veterans have been placed at the head of Zhang Dasheng's bed.
In order to search for veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, for more than 10 years, Zhang Dasheng re-walked the Long March, traveling more than 200,000 kilometers, covering more than 20 provinces, and visiting 360 veterans. He organized the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War to reunite and tried every way to meet the wishes of the veterans every year.
"The veterans of the Anti-Japanese War are national heroes, many of them have left, and those who are still alive are the elderly, riddled with injuries and diseases, and it is really too late to be unsatisfied." Zhang Dasheng said.
Zhang Dasheng wrote his mobile phone number on the wall of each veteran's home, and rushed to the scene as soon as he received a call for help.
The old man Zhou Shengming, who had participated in the Battle of Gushan Chong, always smiled every time he saw Zhang Dasheng, and the old man opened his arms like a son: "Dasheng, you have come to see me again!" ”
Zhang Dasheng drove a large harvester to the home of 99-year-old veteran Wu Guoxian to help harvest; Anti-Japanese War veteran Guo Jingke suffered a fracture, and Zhang Dasheng sent his own meals every day; Anti-Japanese War veteran Xu Debing's house caught fire and his house collapsed, and Zhang Dasheng invested 50,000 yuan to lead more than 30 workers to rebuild the ...... So far, Zhang Dasheng has provided for 7 veterans of the Anti-Japanese War in Queshan, Xiping and Suiping.
The story with the veteran also made Zhang Dasheng a model of "double embrace".
A life with no regrets in capital letters
The gold and silver cups are not as good as the people's reputation. Over the years, Zhang Dasheng has built a monument in the hearts of the masses with one heart-warming good deed.
Zhang Dasheng returned to his hometown after retiring to start a business, and led the Tianzhong agricultural mechanics to start the slogan of "Tianzhong Maike Harvest the Whole Country", on the way to harvest China, he was a good person, did good deeds, and carried forward the spirit of Lei Feng everywhere.
Zhang Dasheng said: "Harvesting the whole country is a pun, one is to harvest wheat for farmers across the country; The second is where to go, where to do good deeds, where to spread love, and where to establish the image of the old area. ”
Over the years, Zhang Dasheng has not only led the villagers to achieve common prosperity, but also opened his own Shengxiangyuan Hotel into a "rescue station" for the victims and a "base camp" for winter swimmers and riders, helping countless people.
It is not difficult to do a good deed, but it is difficult to do a good deed for a lifetime. How many good things Zhang Dasheng has done, no one can calculate. Today, Zhang Dasheng has become a business card of Queshan, influencing and driving a large number of caring people to do good deeds and give love.
Life is paper, love is ink; Zhang Dasheng used a pure heart to wantonly live up to the times' great love life, and let people remember his name in their hearts.