The most shining legacy of Jiao Yulu's family style: "No specialization at any time."

Jiao Yulu educates children

Jiao Yulu's family style is the concrete manifestation of Jiao Yulu's spirit in family life. "No specialization at any time" is the most shining legacy of Jiao Yulu's family style.

A bowl of rice, a pot of water can not be ignored

 

In daily life, Jiao Yulu is very strict with his wife and children. He told his wife that he could not accept anything from others and take advantage of the public. The Jiao family has many children, and the country's food supply was also very tight in the early 1960 s. The Jiao family's lunch was almost fixed as a pot of ordinary noodles with steamed corn-bread or sweet potatoes. One day, when Jiao Yulu came home from work, his wife brought him a bowl of rice with some brown sugar on it. The shiny rice was very attractive. At that time, Lankao did not produce rice, and 70% of the food supply was coarse grains, and the rest was given a little white flour. Where would there be rice? He asked his wife, "Where did this come from?" The wife told him, "This is from the county party committee office considering that you are in poor health and need to be taken care."

Jiao Yulu allocated a chopstick rice to each child's bowl, carrying the bowl with more than half of the rice left, and said to his wife, "We are not the ones who need to be taken care of most. We can't eat any more after this. You can send these to the two southern college students who study paulownia trees."

Jiao Yulu not only does not engage in special activities, but also often teaches his family to take the lead through trivial matters in life. When he first came to work in Lankao, Jiao Yulu's wife and children lived with him in the county compound. Once, when he saw his wife bring a pot of boiling water to the canteen of the county party committee, he severely criticized his wife. Jiao Yulu said: "This boiled water is convenient for you to use, but you are the wife of the county party committee secretary and cannot take the lead in disrupting the order of the office. "A pot of boiling water is a small matter, but it made him realize that living in the county party committee compound may bring many adverse effects. Therefore, upon his proposal, all the family members living in the county compound moved out.

 

"Ten No" from "Watching White Drama"

 

One day shortly after Jiao Yulu went to work in Lankao, his son Jiao Guoqing, who was in the fourth grade of elementary school, heard the sound of gongs and drums in the theater separated from the county party committee. He rushed over curiously and wanted to go in to the theater. However, Jiao Guoqing had no money to buy a ticket, so he had to poke his head at the door and squeeze around. The ticket inspector saw him dawdle and asked him who he was. When the ticket inspector learned that he was Jiao Yulu's child, he let him go in and watch a play for nothing. After watching the play, Jiao Yulu asked his son, "All the other children went to bed early. Why did you come back so late?" Jiao Guoqing admitted that he had gone to the play. "Where did you get the money for the tickets?" didn't buy the tickets. "How did you get in without a ticket?" When Jiao Guoqing finished retelling the story, Jiao Yulu was very angry and said to his son, "You don't buy a ticket to go to the theater. If everyone is like you, wouldn't it be a mess?"

Jiao Yulu took Jiao Guoqing to the theater the next day to admit his mistake and made up 20 cents for the tickets. This time, Jiao Yulu discovered a new problem. It turned out that the theater had always left the seats in the first three rows empty and did not sell tickets. It was said that it was reserved for the county leaders, and the middle position in the third row was reserved for him.

This matter surprised Jiao Yulu. He did not expect such a thing, so he presided over an enlarged meeting of the county party committee. Taking the theater as an example, he drew inferences from one instance and formulated "Ten Prohibitions for Cadres", including not using national or collective food funds or other materials to eat and drink, treat and give gifts; not participating in or taking the lead in feudal superstitious activities; not gambling; not using food as wine and sugar, which is wasteful; it is not allowed to take the existing grain money of the production team or send grain money to the members, sing operas, act in movies, organize collective and other entertainment activities, whoever goes to the theater will take money, whoever eats and drinks will take grain, and it is not allowed to apportion to the society. All parties are not allowed to be organized with public funds, and all tickets are not allowed to be sold to the authorities or several agencies before the 10th row. Not allowed to take the Spring Festival, do longevity eat happy, big firecrackers, squander waste and so on.

 

The secretary's daughter can't be superior.

 

Jiao Yulu's eldest daughter, Jiao Shoufeng, failed to enter the Senior high school after graduating from junior high school and became an unemployed youth. The daughter of the county party secretary is unemployed at home, which naturally attracts the attention of some units. At that time, the popularity of education was low, and he was considered a small intellectual after graduating from junior high school. The positions provided by these units, from county party committee officers to school teachers, from typists to telephone operators, were all very decent jobs. Jiao Shoufeng thought these units were quite good, but his father poured cold water head-on: the children of cadres cannot go to good units. This is the rule he set for county cadres after becoming the county party secretary, you must take the lead in compliance. As a result, Jiao Shoufeng was assigned to the county food factory, which is actually a pickle factory. Jiao Yulu personally sent his daughter to report for duty, not to let the factory leaders take care of her, but to tell the factory leaders: "just because she is the daughter of the county party Committee secretary, she should not be given light work and should be treated like other workers entering the factory."

One of the heavy products of the food factory is pickled pickles. When turnips are on the market in autumn, Jiao Shoufeng has to cut more than 1,000 catties of turnips a day. What is more painful than cutting turnips is cutting chili. At first, when cutting hundreds of catties of chili a day, his hands will be soaked by chili juice. At night, it is too painful to fall asleep. He makes a basin of cold water and puts his hand in it for a while to relieve a little pain. At that time, Jiao Shoufeng had a lot of opinions about his father and felt that his father was unfair to him. Jiao Yulu patiently educated her: "The daughter of the county party secretary should love labor and take the lead in enduring hardships, instead of taking the lead in specialization!"

 

Pickled pickles are not the most difficult, the most difficult for Jiao Shoufeng to accept is selling pickles. One day, Jiao Yulu said to his daughter, "Dad has not much to do today. Let's take you to sell pickles. "He took his daughter, picking pickles and shouting along the streets. He also taught her how to pick pickles without grinding her shoulders and how to shout to attract customers' attention so as to sell the goods quickly. She said while walking like this, her daughter suddenly figured out a truth: I am a small worker, nothing, still so save face, my father is a county party secretary, he has no face? How can he shout up? Thinking like this, she said to her father: "you go back, I will not make trouble in the future, others can do, I can do."

After Jiao Yulu was seriously ill and hospitalized, Jiao Shoufeng went to the hospital in Zhengzhou to visit his father. Jiao Yulu took the watch he had worn for many years from his hand and gave it to her. He said with some guilt: "Dad didn't let you continue studying, nor did he give you. Arrange a good job, Dad is sorry for you. This old watch is Dad's only possession. I'll give it to you as a souvenir. "For more than 50 years, Jiao Shoufeng has never used his father's name to make a special case. When the unemployed daughter wanted her mother to help her find a job, she flatly refused, as her father did in those days.

Jiao Yulu has six children. They follow their father's will and "do not ask the government for subsidies, care and specialization at any time". The eldest daughter Jiao Shoufeng, the eldest son Jiao Guoqing, and the second daughter Jiao Shouyun retired from Kaifeng City Federation of Trade Unions, Kaifeng City Local Taxation Bureau and Zhengzhou City Science and Technology Information Research Institute respectively; the third daughter Jiao Shoujun participated in the war twice in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. The second son Jiao Yuejin became an educated youth and started from the grassroots step by step. Now he is the chairman of the Kaifeng CPPCC. His children said: "Dad is not only a spiritual wealth, but also a kind of pressure to spur, and he must not discredit his old man's face."

 

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Wang Junwei

March 09, 2017 Source: China Organization and Personnel News