Wu Wei sent a letter to Wu Song, and Wu Song replied after reading it.

Dad:

I looked at your grandfather, and in front of my eyes he showed the image of a dedicated person, which was in stark contrast to my father's happiness. I think that Dad's happiness is a very good inheritance and transcendence of the dedicated grandfather. Whether it is grandpa's dedication or father's happiness, it is worth our younger generations to study, inherit and carry forward. So, I salute my dedicated grandfather and happy father!

Child:

This is what I wrote about my father when I was young, and it was your grandfather who wrote about it.

Few people can be proud and proud of having a hardworking father, but there are many who are proud to have a powerful father. In the eyes of some people, diligence is seen as a manifestation of incompetence, as a manifestation of being swayed and dominated by others. Thus, the appearance of industriousness is overshadowed by a dishonorable appearance.

Looking back at his father's past appearance, the roads he has traveled are actually the shadows of hard work, such shadows, but because they are too ordinary to be industrious, they are hidden and not noticed by themselves.

My father didn't do anything earth-shattering, and I never had such an idea in my mind. He devoted all his strength and all his mind to the everyday, mundane, trivial, heavy, endlessly repetitive activities of making a living. Although people today are compelled to engage in subsistence activities in one form or another, it is rare to find more people, including workers, peasants, cadres, or the young, the prime-aged, and the elderly, like their fathers. Take labor as the source of a happy life, as the supreme need, as the joy and enjoyment of one's own life.

If we look at the social and family conditions in which the father lived, it can be concluded that such an old man should enjoy happiness in his old age. What does this happiness mean in old age? It's nothing more than leisure, comfortable, able to afford a wine cup at once, not worrying about food and clothing, and carefree. Fathers are also fully entitled to this qiē. The retirement fee is 40 yuan per month, even if it is more than enough to support the mother, and there are many children who are not poor. If the father opens his mouth. They will never be stingy, and the parents are now living in their son's house. With such social conditions and family conditions, even one of them will enjoy the happiness of old age without difficulty. If the father is content with that, then he is not the father. In the eyes of the father. All of these conditions are completely gone. There is only one thing. Only if you have the ability to work, and you can do it, you should open up new sources of life. Not only did he not rely on his children's money to support himself. On the contrary, they can open up another source of income through their own labor, and engage in the work they can do. He is not adding trouble to his children, but sharing their sorrows. He used his own labor to greatly weaken the kind of family conflicts that the old man usually encountered.

My father was a man who believed that his own work could change his life, and his concept of labor was so deep-rooted. The activities of his later years are not only a test of his lifelong qualities, but also the most complete expression of his concept of life.

Picking up the rags, this is probably something that only people who have no other source of livelihood can do, and they have to do it. This is usually regarded as the lowest level of activity, which is to collect the garbage produced by people's consumption, so that just as the waste itself is not popular, so the people who pick up the rubbish are not welcome, just as people avoid the garbage heaps far away, and people usually hide away from the people who see the rubbish. Whoever picks up the rags must also be the one who has no other way out. But who would believe that the father who picks up scraps on the street and has to pick up a handful of grass on the way to get off work will be a person who receives a pension and can earn an additional salary of dozens of yuan; Who would believe that there were many children who would never agree with their father picking up the rags and hiding the rags again and again. In the father's labor, there is no coercion, no last resort, and therefore, in the father's incompetent action, it is the incomparable brilliance that radiates that labor becomes the first need, the only means of opening up the source of life, which makes the father ask nothing of anyone, including his own children.

My father was also fond of drinking and eating large slices of meat. In the pursuit of a father's life, he has always been based on his own labor, which is also the virtue of his father.

Fathers rarely have time to rest. From 1958, when he unfortunately fell into the vegetable cellar of the production team and was injured and was arranged to work in the commune supply and marketing cooperative, he always had to pick up some things on the way home from work, rarely empty-handed, and when he returned home, he just slept for an hour to get up to feed the pigs, clean up the pigsty, and serve the garden. My father's four seasons are from morning to night, with little leisure time, and he is always in a constant rush of busyness. It seems that there is never a sign of fatigue in my father. In the case of the father, who is considered incompetent, it is the expression that does not dominate and influence others, and that is the spirit of labor. The essential characteristic that distinguishes man from animals in the philosophers that labor is evident in the father. Despite all the persuasions of the children, it ended in failure, and only then did the children get to know their father completely.

If we leave my father's late chronology and go back to my father's prime, my father's industrious nature is even more remarkable. Of course, it is difficult to recognize such a true nature without extracting the social activities that can only be described later. If we don't make this distinction, those ways of social activity will make things as they really are, and we won't be able to discover true beauty.

I still remember that during the period of living in the countryside, my father's unit was ten miles away from the place where he lived, and my father always worked tirelessly between the unit and the family in all seasons, working at night, returning home during the day, picking up farm manure in winter, sowing seeds in spring, hoeing in summer, and harvesting in autumn. Although the children have become strong laborers, most of the family's gardens are completed by the father alone. Due to the lack of food rations, my father had to plow the land to grow crops, collect grain in the autumn and firewood in the winter. Looking back now, I am amazed at how much work my father was able to put in. Why? Because my father has always been meticulous during his work, he is a trustworthy and reliable watchman. Always conscientious, and often takes on some extra tasks, such as feeding the horses and cleaning the yard. In the more than 20 years that my father has been on the shift, there has not been a single theft, and there has been no impact on official duties because of housework, which is why my father is always a model worker of course.

In my father's eyes, there seemed to be no difficulty that could not be overcome. A lot of work that appeared in front of him would be done cleanly one by one.

Father's History. As if constituted a priori. Because the father everywhere expressed xiàn as industrious; Every difficulty that arises in front of him will be conquered by his unique industrious endowment, so it is as if history deliberately arranged such a place for his father to show his father. Fathers rarely have a time to support their children. Opposite. Children are often inspired and motivated by their fathers to work. The influence that fathers have on their offspring cannot be underestimated. The father not only passed on his spiritual endowment to his children. At the same time, it also provides the necessary material conditions for the progress and growth of children.

Now, we are such a big family, so we can develop to this day. First of all, it is our father, and it is the hard work of our father's life. Only by associating the father's palpable and daily toil can we feel the true power of this toil. Our father is just a microcosm of the Chinese workers' and peasants' working masses. In this microcosm, although the strength is so small, because it only feeds our small family and only provides conditions for the later development of our family, in this microcosm, is it not a clear embodiment of the historical role and great strength of the workers and peasants? Isn't it precisely the millions of industrious workers and peasants who, through their everyday, ordinary, and trivial material production activities, form the material basis of all life in the whole society?

When I don't really understand the meaning of my father's daily hard work, the power it contains, and the essence of my father's hard work, I stand on the standpoint of the philistines in society, and take a contemptuous attitude towards my father's activities, often accusing my father, and even using some words to ridicule my father, such as being incapable, being bullied and fooled, making children unable to raise their heads, and so on. These words pierced my father's heart deeply. Because of the scorn and neglect that my father was subjected to in society, he encountered the same situation in front of his own family and his hard-working children. Perhaps, the father did not think that his children are not only family members, but also members of society, and the philistine views in society can easily affect his children. Sometimes, my mother also told us that the people in the unit looked down on my father, said that he was too stingy, and used the word patina to describe him, which reminded me of my father, and whenever I was cooking, I deliberately stared at how much oil I poured into the pot, and I would get angry when I poured a little more. My father's behavior reminds me of a middle farmer described in the popular bestseller Cotai Strip at the time, who was reluctant to put oil when cooking, and reached into the oil bottle with chopsticks, dipped soybean oil in the pot. Such associations sometimes led me to deliberately pour more oil to irritate my father, and the words I used would be more weighty. Still, none of this hindered my father's hard work. Although, sometimes the fierce rhetoric of the accusations made the father angry and said that he would not do such a thankless task, as soon as difficulties appeared, the father threw this bitter and painful scene out of the clouds, drowned in the passion of labor, and reveled in the fruits of labor. This is where the true vitality of a person like my father lies.

The incomprehension of the father, to a large extent, is due to the mere attention of the social forms through which this material activity is stored, because these forms attract the attention of the father.

The father's industriousness is not only expressed in socialist production activities, but also in family and private production activities. Most of the above expressions are confined to the family, because he did not observe the father's activities in the workplace. Therefore, the father's industriousness, to a large extent, is expressed in the narrow confines of the family, and is based on selfishness, which is the way of life and way of thinking determined by the mode of production peculiar to the small peasant. This is the small-scale peasant enterprise, which is melted into millions of selfish material activities. Because this mode of activity merely sustains life, rather than radically transforms the mode of production, it determines the essence of the father's thoughts, which can only maintain life day after day, thus limiting the father's vitality. (To be continued......)