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 spirit of his beloved children and teenagers. 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 for the material and spiritual life of all classes of people. In particular, he had a special love for teenagers and 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 teenagers and children" (Will).

On International Children's Day, the first day of school, the Mid-Autumn Festival or whenever children did good deeds or achieved excellent results, Uncle Ho often visited, encouraged or sent letters and gifts. Of the 16 poems Uncle Ho wrote for children, half were written by Uncle Ho on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Those are very simple and easy to understand and memorize 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 revolution to liberate the nation. 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.

Learning and education have been passed down.

Poor family have to do plowing and harrowing...

Uncle Ho and children in Hanoi and internationally 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 Japanese invaders, because of the brutality of the 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 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, care 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, Vietnam as if he wanted to recall the nation's four thousand year old tradition of patriotism associated with the names of young heroes such as: Thanh Giong, Tran Quoc Toan... These are shining examples in the nation's history worth following.

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

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

Mid-Autumn Festival moon bright as mirror

Uncle Ho watched the scenery and missed the children

Here are some lines Uncle Ho wrote:

Send to the children to show love.

(Mid-Autumn Festival Letter 1951)

During the years when the entire 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, appropriate to the revolutionary situation, appropriate 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 hard

Competition in study 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 in the South, North, 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 victors and the autumn of 1954 was the autumn in which half of the country was free 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 went back on their word and did not properly implement the Geneva Agreement on negotiating the unification of 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 family

We meet, young and old, happy together

Miss you all 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 - South reunited as one family, satisfying Uncle Ho's wish...

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

Although our beloved Uncle Ho has passed into eternity, 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 full moon. Reading his Mid-Autumn Festival letter, we are once again bathed in the immense, cool love radiating from a great soul and great personality.

Forty-seven years after 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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