Uncle Ho's letters to children on Mid-Autumn Festival

(Baonghean.vn) -During his lifetime, our beloved Uncle Ho always paid special attention not only to material things but also to the spiritual things for beloved teenagers and children. Every year, on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, Uncle Ho often visited or sent gifts to children. Some years on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, Uncle Ho also sent letters of praise or wrote poems to children with all his affection and immense, warm love..

As the beloved leader of the Vietnamese people, President Ho Chi Minh always cared and looked after the material and spiritual life of all classes of people. In particular, he had a special love for the children - the future generation of the country. That sacred sentiment was not only deeply expressed when he was alive but also deeply imbued in the people when he passed away. "Finally, I leave behind a lot of love for the children" (Will).

On International Children's Day, the first day of school, the Mid-Autumn Festival or whenever children did good deeds or achieved outstanding results, Uncle Ho often visited, encouraged or sent letters and gifts. Of the 16 poems Uncle Ho wrote for children, half were written during the Mid-Autumn Festival. These are very simple and easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember sentences and verses, always filled with his love.

After years of wandering to find a way to save the country, in 1941, Uncle Ho returned to the Fatherland to directly lead the national liberation revolution. On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, he wrote a poem calling on children on September 21, 1941, expressing his concern for them:

Children are like buds on a branch.

Know how to eat, sleep, and study is good

Unfortunately the country is in trouble

Children also have to suffer heartbreakingly.

Learning and education have been passed down

Poor family have to do plowing and harrowing...

Uncle Ho and children in Hanoi and abroad celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at the Presidential Palace flower garden.

The poems were written for children and for everyone. Children are the young shoots, the buds on the branches that should be cherished and cared for, but unfortunately the country's difficult circumstances have caused them to suffer many disadvantages and hardships. From there, Uncle Ho pointed out the cause of that situation was because of the brutal Japanese and French invaders. He called out, guided to broaden awareness and then went on to mobilize and enlighten the children:

So our country's children

We must unite to fight.

Adults save the country, that's for sure.

Children also contribute their part...

In fact, the young people and children obeyed Uncle Ho's teachings, responded to that call, participated in patriotic activities such as Kim Dong, Vu A Dinh... contributing significantly to the victory of the August Revolution in 1945. Right in the first autumn of independence, Uncle Ho sent a letter of encouragement, expressing his love, concern and belief in the children: Whether the Vietnamese mountains and rivers will become glorious or not. Whether the Vietnamese people will step up to the stage of glory to stand shoulder to shoulder with the world powers or not, depends largely on the children's studies.

For more than half a century, Uncle Ho's words of encouragement and messages have always echoed on every school opening day and Mid-Autumn Festival and have been respectfully engraved in every school, creating sacred emotions and being a source of motivation to help generations of Vietnamese children strive to study and practice to be worthy of Uncle Ho's wishes.

Uncle Ho visited and gave candy to children at Thanh Hoa Town Kindergarten.

Mid-Autumn Festival 1946, although busy with important national tasks, Uncle Ho still did not forget to write a poem for his children:

I hope you guys are good.

In the future, preserve the Lac Hong country

How to be famous as a Dragon Fairy

How to show the face of Vietnamese children

Still showing concern and hope that children would study hard and do many good deeds to contribute to building and preserving the country's young independence, Uncle Ho mentioned sacred names such as Lac Hong, Tien Rong, Viet Nam as if he wanted to recall the four thousand year old tradition of patriotism of the nation associated with the names of young heroes such as Thanh Giong, Tran Quoc Toan... These are shining examples in the history of the nation worth following.

Uncle Ho fed a child when visiting a children's camp in Viet Bac, 1950.

Throughout his life, Uncle Ho always wanted to forget himself for everything (To Huu's poem), and that was that children would be well fed, warmly clothed and educated. Therefore, in all circumstances, his love for children remained deep and passionate:

Mid-Autumn Festival moon bright as a mirror

Uncle Ho looked at the scenery and missed the children

Here are a few lines I wrote:

Send to the children to show love.

(Mid-Autumn Festival Letter 1951)

During the years when the whole nation waged the resistance war against French colonialism, Uncle Ho sent letters to the children every Mid-Autumn Festival and affirmed his immense affection: Who loves children/as much as Uncle Ho Chi Minh. Uncle Ho's words were always gentle and affectionate, associated with encouraging the children to participate and carry out specific tasks, suitable to the revolutionary situation, suitable to the psychology of children's age:

Who loves children

By Uncle Ho Chi Minh

The children are obedient.

The children's faces are beautiful.

Hope you guys try

Compete in learning and practice

Young age, small work

Depending on your strength...

You guys deserve it.

Uncle Ho Chi Minh's nephew.

(Mid-Autumn Festival Letter, September 25, 1952)

Uncle Ho with brave children in the South

The resistance war against the French entered its final stage, our army and people on all battlefields continuously won important victories. On the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1953, Uncle Ho happily sent a letter telling the news of the victory, sharing joy with the children. In those victories, there was a great contribution from the children:

Everywhere North, South, West, East

Hearing the news of victory, the red flag flew

The children are happy.

I'm happy too

Next fall is more fun than this fall.

In this poem, he predicted accurately and affirmed the victory of the resistance war. The next autumn will be happier than this autumn. The next autumn, that is, the autumn of 1954, will be happier than this autumn - the autumn of 1953. Indeed, on May 7, 1954, with the victory of Dien Bien Phu, our army and people ended the resistance war against the French, in the position of the victors and the autumn of 1954 was the autumn in which half of the country was cleared of enemies - the autumn in which children truly lived in independence and freedom.

Uncle Ho gave gifts to children in Hung Yen town.

But the US imperialists and their lackeys turned their backs on the Geneva Agreement on the negotiation to unify the country - the greatest wish of Uncle Ho and our people at that time. In that context, on the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1956, Uncle Ho sent a letter to the children of the South expressing his longing and encouraging them to believe that the day of reunion in the North and South would not be far away:

North and South will reunite as one

Uncle and nephew meet young and old to have fun together

Miss you so much

I hope each child is a child hero.

Responding to Uncle Ho's call, along with children in the North, teenagers and children in the South also competed to make achievements like hero Le Van Tam, hero Kim Lich... contributing to the great victory of Spring 1975, unifying the country, North and South reunited as one family, satisfying Uncle Ho's wishes...

Uncle Ho and children from Lang Sen, Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan, Nghe An visited his hometown.

Although our beloved Uncle Ho has passed away, his image is still close to every generation of Vietnamese youth and children. His sacred love for children and the children's love for him will forever shine brightly and gently like the moonlight on a full moon night. Reading his Mid-Autumn Festival letter, we are once again immersed in the immense, cool love radiating from a great soul and great personality.

For 47 years since Uncle Ho's passing, children across the country no longer receive his letters and Mid-Autumn Festival poems. But they still remember his teachings: "You must be worthy. You are Uncle Ho Chi Minh's grandchildren."

Peace

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