2. The Spirit of Lei Feng (Part Two)

Lei Feng has left people so much spiritual legacy.But the most important aspects are his unwavering loyalty for the Communist Party of China and the socialist cause, his lofty thoughts to serve the people heart and soul, his conscientious and meticulous attitude to love any job given to him and to try his best to finish it, his tenacity in studying socialist theories, and his moral virtues of diligence, thrift, plain living and hard work.He had a famous motto:“We must treat our comrades as warmly as spring, treat our work as enthusiastically as summer, treat our mistakes as the autumn wind sweeping away the dead leaves, and treat our enemy as sternly as the winter.”That is the essence of his spirit.

In 1963, Mao Zedong(毛泽东)and other members of the Chinese leadership called on the whole country to“Learn from Comrade Lei Feng.”It soon brought in a wave of nationwide enthusiasm to learn from Lei Feng.Lei Feng became the model of the noble-minded people in the Chinese socialist construction and his name was closely related with the socialist morality.People follow the slogans“To learn from Lei Feng to do good, ”“To learn from Lei Feng to offer help to needy families, ”“To learn from Lei Feng in job and to create a good professional ethics”in their voluntary actions.March 5 of every year is the memorial day of Lei Feng.Almost all Chinese people, no matter who they are, know about Lei Feng more or less.The spirit of Lei Feng has become a great cohesive force of the spiritual life of the whole nation.