A 88 year old man has kept more than 100 books in his diary for more than 70 years.
Chinese business network - Chinese business newspaper reporter Zhang Baolong
diary is mostly written, but sticking to a lifetime is not easy. Liu Qingshan, 88, who lives under the purple Cypress Mountain in Fengxian, Baoji, has kept a diary every day from the age of 18. The vicissitudes of the vicissitudes in more than half a century are recorded in more than 100 diary books by him.
70 recorded more than 100
the difficult years on the diary to play the spirit
"our whole family and the people of our country are happy, we should give full play to our own strength to make greater contributions to the building of the motherland..." Liu Qingshan's old man is reading to his family, a diary written by him in October 1, 1974, which is simple and plain, and has a distinct sense of the times. Since 1947, Liu Qingshan has kept writing diary every day for 70 years. His diary has accumulated more than 100 books and about 3000000 words.
he wrote in a diary in early April this year: "spring is coming, and farmers are busy with spring planting every day." People in this life, every day should be spent in harvest. " The content of the diary of the old man has been changed from 70 years ago to today, most of which have been recorded and heard in the life of the old.
asked about the original intention of writing a diary, Liu Qingshan said that the old man was in order to do a good job. When he was young, the old man told him that he wanted to write and write more diary every day, so it lasted for more than half a century.
Liu Qingshan, whose ancestral home was in Hanzhoung, read high school before liberation, studied in military academies, and worked as a teacher. In the 60s of last century, it lived in Gaoqiao village, Feng Feng Guan Town, Fengxian County. Liu Qingshan said that when he had the most difficult days, he and his wife had 3 children without eating, drinking, or having no place to live.
"dig fern root, dig wild vegetables, find roots. I came to the cow ring and I repaired the room now. When I sort out my diary, I sort out my memory when I remember how I got there. I admire myself. " The old man said, Liu Qingshan.
diary is home's spiritual wealth
open the diary of the old man, as if it opened the dusty history, from the new China, to the land reform, and to the reform and opening. The papers he wrote in his diary also changed from cigarette boxes and children's homework books to the diary of the present cortex. Liu said, now that life is better, his diary is more to sum up life experience and record local changes.
the old man Liu Qingshan said that every time he went to Feng County, he could feel the development and construction of the country is very fast, the building is much more, the road facilities are good, it is almost the same day, these will be written in his diary, sometimes record what you see and hear, and write a few sentences.
Liu Qingshan's daughter, Liu Miaolian, says that although his father is 88 years old, his habit of writing 120 brushes and a diary a day still remains untouched. Even if he went out, he would take a pen and paper to write a diary, and then he would return the paper to his diary.
"if I didn't have a diary of my father for more than 70 years, I wouldn't know how hard their life was. I think my dad's record of these seventy years is a spiritual wealth to our family, and it's also a history of half a century and a short history for society." Liu Miaolian said.