(Endeavouring for a new journey and making contributions to a new era, a new look in the old area) "The most beautiful soldier mother" has supported the army for 20 years and traveled 500,000 kilometers to pass on the spirit of Yimeng from generation to generation

  China News Service, Linyi, June 9th: (Forge ahead in a new journey and make contributions to a new era and a new look in the old district) "The most beautiful soldier mother" has supported the army for 20 years and traveled 500,000 kilometers to pass on the spirit of Yimeng.

  Author Li Mingrui Liang Ben

  For more than 20 years, Zhu Chengrong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shandong Zhu Laoda Food Co., Ltd., known as "the most beautiful mother of soldiers", went to the frontier, entered the post, and Shanghai Island, and led the support team to visit the troops more than 400 times, with more than 50 trips. Ten thousand kilometers, the spirit of Yimeng will be transmitted to more places.

  In Linyi City, Shandong Province, the Yimeng spirit of "integration of water and milk, life and death" has been passed down from generation to generation.

In 1998, Zhu Chengrong was laid off. It was the story of the red sisters who supported the army that moved and inspired her, who was at a low point in her life.

  The former model "Six Sisters of Yimeng" talked about the experience of bullets flying overhead; Sun Yulan, a hundred-year-old "sister-in-law", recalled the scene of using her body to build a "human bridge" to let the troops pass quickly... "I thought at the time, Compared with the hardships these old red sisters have endured, the fact of being laid off is nothing, I want to be a 'Yimeng new red sister-in-law' and regain my life value." Zhu Chengrong listened when he visited the old red sister-in-law The stories that came to her have always inspired her.

Zhu Chengrong's daily work.

Photo by Liang Ben

  Zhu Chengrong pedaled a tricycle, sold candied haws, sold dumplings, and overcame all kinds of difficulties until he founded the company.

  But she never forgot to support the army and family members.

In 2003, when "SARS" was raging, Zhu Chengrong rushed to Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital with 5,000 kilograms of dumplings to express his condolences to the soldiers and medical staff who fought against "SARS"; In the severe cold, he brought 10 tons of dumplings and 602 boxes of dumplings across the four provinces to express condolences to the people's soldiers fighting the snow disaster; in 2020, when a new crown pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, Zhu Chengrong led the company's team to urgently make 20 tons of dumplings and traveled 920 kilometers away. Wuhan war "epidemic" front line...

  Talking about why she insisted on supporting the army, Zhu Chengrong recalled that one winter about 20 years ago, when she was just about to start a business and sell dumplings, she accidentally overturned the car while transporting dumplings, and the dumplings fell on the ground. Officers call for emergency help.

In the end, the officers and soldiers took back all the dumplings and invited her, who was suffering from hunger and cold, to the cafeteria to warm up and eat.

"I was determined to support the army for the rest of my life. They are the cutest people."

  At present, Zhu Chengrong's footsteps of supporting the army have spread all over China's military camps in the north and south of the Yangtze River. He has delivered more than 900 tons of dumplings, more than 80,000 pairs of insoles, donated goods and materials worth more than 10 million yuan (RMB), and "recognized" more than 5,000 soldiers. Son, they all affectionately called Zhu Chengrong "Mom".

  "It is not only necessary to support the army materially, but also 'spiritually'." Zhu Chengrong told reporters that in order to carry forward the spirit of Yimeng, she made the precious photos symbolizing the spirit of Yimeng into a picture display board, carrying some revolutionary cultural relics, through the "mobile museum" In the form of Yimeng, the spirit of Yimeng is transmitted to all places.

"Let the most remote outposts feel the spirit of Yimeng."

  At a station of the Nanhai Air Force in Sansha City, after Zhu Chengrong gave the soldiers a report on the deeds of Mrs. Hong, a soldier named Wang Dong approached her and said, "Mother Zhu, I have been in the army for more than ten years, and I originally planned to apply for discharge this year. When I go home, after listening to the deeds of Mrs. Hong, I am determined to protect my 'battlefield' for the motherland and the people, and I have decided to stay and stick to my 'position'."

  Up to now, Zhu Chengrong and his troops have carried out more than 120 "mobile museum" activities in Tiananmen National Flag Guard, Weidong Post, Hainan Military Region and other places, attracting nearly 50,000 visitors.

  Under the influence of Zhu Chengrong, her husband, daughter-in-law and granddaughter also joined the army support team, and 13 members of the family entered the army camp to serve the motherland.

In the process of supporting the army, she also received the understanding and support of many people, and entrusted her to keep the treasured revolutionary cultural relics.

Zhu Chengrong told reporters that in order to live up to the trust of the people, let these cultural relics play the biggest role, and let more people receive historical revolution education, she prepared to build the Hongsao Cultural Museum.

  Since its opening in May 2017, the Hongsao Cultural Museum has attracted 150,000 visitors from all over China.

  "When they were young, they called me Bing's sister, but now they call me Bing's mother. Soon I will be Bing's grandmother. Supporting the army will always be on the road. The spirit of Yimeng Hongsao who loves the party and the army, is loyal and tenacious, industrious and brave, and selfless dedication. 'It will inspire and lead more people." As the successor of Xinhong's sister-in-law, Zhu Chengrong hopes that through his own efforts, the spirit of Yimeng will be passed on from generation to generation.

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