I read most of the literature when I was a teenager, and then I read more political books. I remember when I was very young, I guess I was five or six years old, my mother took me to buy books. At that time, my mother was working at the Central Party School. On the way from the Central Party School to Xiyuan, there is a Xinhua bookstore. I was lazy and didn't want to walk, so my mother carried me on my back and went there to buy Yue Fei's villain book. At that time, there were two versions, one was "The Biography of Yue Fei", a set of many copies, one of which was "Mother-in-law's Tattoo"; There is also a version dedicated to the story of serving the country with loyalty, and my mother bought it for me. After I bought it, she told me the story of serving the country with loyalty and her mother-in-law's tattooing. I said, how painful it hurts to tattoo the words! My mother said it hurt, but she remembered it. The words "loyal to the country" have been remembered from that time to the present, and it is also the goal of my life.

——"General Secretary Xi Jinping's Literary Love" (People's Daily, October 14, 2016, 24th edition)

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The feeling of family and country is a consistent cultural tradition in China for thousands of years, and it is deeply rooted in the soul of every outstanding Chinese son. The allusion of "mother-in-law's tattoo" interprets the family style teachings and the feelings of the family and the country.

Yue Fei, born in 1103, was born in Pengju, a native of Tangyin County, Xiangzhou (now Tangyin County, Henan), a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, a famous military strategist and strategist in Chinese history, and one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty. He joined the army at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and from 1128 to 1141, he led the Yuejia army to fight hundreds of battles with the Jin army. In 1140, after Yan Wu destroyed the alliance to attack the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei waved his army to the north, successively recovered Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places, and defeated the Jin army in Yuncheng and Yingchang, and marched to Zhuxian Town. After the victory of Zhuxian Town, Jin Wushu sighed that "it is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family's army". Song Gaozong and Qin Hui were bent on seeking peace, and ordered the troops to withdraw with twelve "golden plates", and Yue Fei was forced to teach in isolation. In the process of Song and Jin's peace negotiations, Yue Fei was framed by Qin Hui, Zhang Jun and others, and was arrested and imprisoned. In January 1142, Yue Fei was killed along with his eldest son Yue Yun and his subordinate general Zhang Xian on the charge of "treason" and "rebellion". When Song Xiaozong, Yue Fei was rehabilitated and reburied in Qixialing on the bank of the West Lake.

During Yue Fei's Northern Expedition to the Jin Army, he wrote the eternal swan song "Man Jianghong": "Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests." Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad. Jing Kang is ashamed, it is still snowing, and the courtiers hate, when will it be destroyed? Drive a long car and step through the lack of Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. Stay from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky! This poem is fierce and vigorous, covering mountains and rivers, fully demonstrating Yue Fei's patriotism of serving the country and recovering his homeland.

Yue Fei has been taught by his parents since he was a child, and he has cultivated loyalty, righteousness, courage and integrity. The romance story of "Mother-in-law's Tattoo" was first seen in the Qing manuscript "The Legend of Ruyiguan" and Hangzhou Qian Cai's "Jingzhong Says Yue". "History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Yue Fei" records that when Yue Fei was wronged by the crime of desire, he tore open his shirt, and on his back "there are four characters of 'loyal to the country', which go deep into the skin". Later generations commented on the story of "serving the country with loyalty" as "serving the country with loyalty", and the story has a wide influence and has been passed down to this day.

Xi Jinping once compared the cultivation of values to "buttoning buttons", and "the buttons of life must be buttoned from the beginning". The story of Yue Fei's "loyalty to the country" is the "first button" of the young Xi Jinping. At the symposium on literary and artistic work, when Xi Jinping talked about his literary relationship, he recalled the influence of "The Biography of Yue Fei" on himself, and the feelings of family and country contained in "serving the country with loyalty" inspired him to cherish the people and struggle. Always cherishing the heart of loving the people, always thinking about the way to rejuvenate the country, and always thinking about the aspiration of rejuvenation are exactly the vivid portrayal of the feelings of the communists for the country and the country.