But I was too young to understand the truth of this incident ... I remember it was the early spring of 1979. In his early twenties, he left Xishuangbanna with several educated youth teachers in an iron cow 55 tractor. On the eve of school, I dare not say goodbye to my classmates. They are children of the old farmer's farm. As the head teacher of the Sixth Company Branch of the Fourth Battalion of the First Division of Yunnan Corps, I took them from the third grade to the sixth grade. They were about to graduate, but I left. I remember I left at noon, crossed Dadugang on the northern edge of Banna and looked back at the mountains behind me. My heart suddenly felt afraid: the mighty sun shone on the endless rubber forest in the dry season, and the bare red soil between the woodlands was fresh and dazzling. How many young people's dreams are buried there?
At that moment, we burst into tears and shouted in unison: Yunnan, I will never pee in your direction again!
But this is wrong.
Nearly 30 years have passed, and nearly 1,000 Yunnan educated youths who went to Yunnan with me have almost gone back, some with children. What are they looking for when they return to Yunnan? Can their children understand their parents' love, pain and lingering complaints? Numerous gatherings also let me know the educated youth from Harbin, Hainan Island, Shandong and Guizhou. They are full of respect for Yunnan educated youth and thank them again and again for their pioneering determination to change the fate of the entire educated youth.
But if you think about it carefully, the Yunnan complex of a generation of educated youth may have been poeticized, just like the old paper of history was enlarged over and over again, only the flowers between the lines were seen, and the musty smell of the old paper itself was forgotten. When the oil lamp in the hut went out for many years, under the distant clear sky, what kind of warmth and ugliness did the joy and pain, blood and cold tears contain? Calvino said: "People's quality of life can't be the same." Yes, who among us dares to speak out of turn about his youth without regret?
Let's end this! It's almost 30 years, and the truth of many things is gradually understood! So, in the past two years, I went to Chongqing, Chengdu, Yunnan and Shanghai to record, think and salvage ... in order to restore the suddenly broken link in the educated youth movement chain. It should be remembered, because this is the personal experience of our generation of educated youth.
Although the return of Yunnan educated youth to the city is only a fragment in history, it has changed the fate of tens of millions of people. The data, time and remarks of the political figures in this article are well documented. This is not only because I study history, but also because too many educated youth in our generation (including Ding Huimin himself) have the habit of keeping diaries. They still keep the books of donations in the north and the red flag of going to the countryside, and every word of the central leadership is recorded by many people. They said, "This is history, and we dare not forget it". Therefore, I repeatedly checked the references and details in the article and carefully revised them in order to accurately present myself and that short and long history.