回味2008年京城百姓古道衷肠（中英文）

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回味2008年京城百姓古道衷肠（中英文）




Retrospect 2008: Memories from local people in Beijing, the old capital city of China

（上图是站在市中心最高处西望北京。The photo above is the si ghtseeing west to the top center of Beijing.）




北京一家人第一时间怎样面对汶川大地震

――记中国著名民主人士马弘毅先生一家

2008年5月12日周一下午北京时间14时28分04秒，极震区高达10万平方公里之大，其震感直接波及中华大地1/2省（直辖市、自治区），使全球为之震惊的汶川强烈特大地震发生了。直线距离震中1530公里之遥的中国首都北京，当天就有人家很主动地迅速做出了积极反应，用悲悯、用爱心、用良知、用行动，表达了对灾区受难同胞的深厚感情，自觉捐款实际支援国家，支援全民族抗震救灾。这其中，就包括中国著名民主人士马弘毅先生一家。

一、马弘毅夫妇的独生女儿平常和父母一样都在紧张忙碌着

马弘毅先生的唯一孩子——女儿马宇歌在北京的清华大学，目前正上大学本科三年级。她的在校任务很重。地震发生期间，马宇歌的现实学习和工作任务基本如下：

第一、首先在校工作方面，马宇歌是清华大学电视台新闻播映的主持人。她从2005年考入该校，至今不仅需要每周亲自出镜，负责策划、写稿和在镜头前的节目主持和播映制做工作，还从去年大三2007年9月15日星期一开学之日起，担任了该台主要由在校生组成的播音组的组长，每个星期都有一些更重要的任务要求她来亲自思考、布置完成。须知清华电视台天天要有新的内容不断被推出的；

第二、马宇歌是即将于三个月后举行的2008年北京奥运会，及其即将于奥运会一结束马上就要跟着举行的2008年北京残奥会，这两会赛事的清华大学志愿者。她和同学们共同担负着2008年刚刚建成投入使用的北京水立方游泳馆，外来各媒体的接待服务任务。从2008年2月13日农历正月初七寒假期间的集训开始，直到现在，马宇歌需要经常参加北京奥组委课余培训事项和赛事现场服务工作；

第三、马宇歌是清华大学少有的同期攻读文、理科双学士学位在校生之一，这两项都要求她在2009年即明年暑假前按时拿到学位证书毕业；

第四、马宇歌在校第一门外语英文，在2008年3月5日通过她首次参加的全球IELTS（雅思）统考，已经达到了7. 0分的好成绩；（雅思全球统考满分为9分）第二门外语法语，她根据自己的实际掌握情况，2008年3月30日在清华大学外语系也已经报名，准备参加本校考点将于当年6月21日举行的法语四级全国统考；

第五、每年仅举行两次的GRE考试，马宇歌已在今年4月28日报名。目前正在有条不紊地加紧备战几个月后， 2008年下半年的10月份将在北京进行的当年最后一次全球统考。她要争取都拿到好成绩，以便为大学双学士学位到手毕业后出国继续深造，预先做好所有充分准备。马宇歌立志承继更多人类文明成果，早早学到国内外顶尖科学文化知识，尽可能地实际掌握到有关科技工作本领，为将来能把祖国建设得更加富强、民主、文明、和谐而努力！

我们仅从以上工作和学习日程现状来看，马弘毅先生的女儿马宇歌的每天在校任务，的确是排得满满的。更何况她平日还要定期参加一些社会活动，不断应邀去帮助清华大学建筑学院内外，甚至包括要应邀到校内外去主持一些不能推却的大型公益活动、帮助做各种重要的新闻采访报道了。不仅如此，她多年如一日，还给自己规定了雷打不动必须定时看些课外书，目前正在读的主要是中国已故著名史学家范文澜先生写的4本一套的《中国通史简编》。关于祖国历史方面，她以前只看过全套的字书《中国历史故事》和有关正史类的个别断代史。马宇歌始终保持着每天锻炼身体的这个从小以来形成的良好习惯，跑步、游泳或打球，当然这些都是忙里偷闲来做的。正因为如此，她的体质才至今越来越棒，一年到头几乎连感冒都不发生。视力仍然处于自然裸视状态，无需佩戴眼睛。身材很好，腰板挺直。精力旺盛。这为她胜利完成繁重的工作和学习任务、为她享有奋发有为的人生，奠定了异常良好的身体基础。

二、地震了先看家长的表现

马宇歌的爸爸马弘毅先生在全家人中，是第一个感到2008年5月12日这次地震发生的人。当时他正在北京，突然觉得有些耳胀、胸闷、天晕、目眩。马弘毅先生立即上网查知，证明震中在中国四川省汶川县发生了中国国家地震局声称的里氏7.8级强烈大地震；（2008年5月19日获悉，中国国家地震局已在昨天将这次震级修改为里氏8级地震）当时它波及直线距离1530公里开外的北京，也发生了地震。马弘毅先生在北京感到的震级，被中国国家地震局当天证实至少达里氏3.9级。回想中国京津塘地区1976年7月28日凌晨3时42分54秒发生的那次破坏性极大的地震，马弘毅先生是身在北京亲身经历过的。那次地震的极震区面积达2.6万平方公里。它毁灭了一个中等城市唐山，造成全市至少98%的建筑物瞬间倒塌，数十万人牺牲，100多万人受伤，15886户家庭解体，3817人成为截瘫患者，25061人肢体残废，因地震而遗留下的孤寡老人就有3675位、孤儿达4204人，数十万居民转眼间变成了无亲可投、无友可靠，失去家园的无家可归难民亟需救济。然而尽管如此，却没听说远在四川的居民当时有什么震感。这回汶川地震发生，为什么震中在四川，直线距离比天津还远的北京城，震感都要这么强烈呢？可见眼下的汶川大地震，破坏力要更甚于中国20世纪下半叶最大的地震唐山发生的那一次！马弘毅先生敏锐地意识到，这回极震区受灾人民少不了，损失一定很惨重！于是马弘毅先生马上和正在上班的妻子及在校的女儿马宇歌分别进行了电话、手机联系，互通情况，商量怎样全家动员马上自觉援救援助灾区人民。

马弘毅先生在第一时间，当天第一个向自己的工作部门和自己所属的民主党派组织，分别郑重递交了捐款书和第一笔赈灾捐款。他以书面文字的形式，提请工作单位的组织系统、党派和所属行业同仁们，立即动员起来，援助灾区，支援国家抗震救灾！他的这一行动得到了中央和北京市有关方面的积极关注和支持。马弘毅先生的妻子则即刻留守单位，随时待命进行应急处理，倾全力协助所在部门一把手共同率领各处，投入到了抗震救灾工作中去。马弘毅先生妻子的工作单位虽然就在北京市中心，但从地震发生次日起，按上级组织要求，她一直须臾未离单位，除了踊跃参加捐款救灾以外，整日整夜值班，紧张地和同事们一起工作，至2008年5月17日星期六那天才得回家。等于地震发生5天以后，马弘毅先生的妻子，才和家人重聚过周末。夫妇俩人利用礼拜天休息日的机会，立刻到清华大学，去看望了马宇歌及家在外地的她的校内同学好友们。

三、地震了再看孩子的表现

马弘毅先生的女儿马宇歌，地震那天，一整日没有片刻闲暇，直到2008年5月12日周一下午14时28分汶川大地震发生过后近8个小时了，她才忙完各种事情，半夜里从教室下课回到校内东北方向的紫荆公寓自己宿舍。马宇歌就在地震这天的夜里，连夜赶写了四封信：

第一封信致清华大学建筑学院自己所属的基层支部组织；

第二封信致自己一直兼职服务的清华大学电视台领导；

第三封信致自己的清华大学校红十字会青少年会员负责人；

第四封信致在校团委楼内的的清华大学学生联合会（即校学生会）。

每一封信各都附上了100元钱作为赈灾捐款。那是她的在校生活费，加起来总计人民币400元。在每一封信里，她都呼吁大家要马上行动起来，以实际行动抗震救灾！天亮以后，她将其分别亲手递交给了各有关方面，接着跑回教室按时上课。

下面的摘要是马宇歌递交的其中一封信的内容。它是2008年5月12日星期一下午14时28分汶川大地震当天夜里，马宇歌写给清华大学校红十字会的那封信。该信集中地折射并代表了马弘毅先生一家人的当时反应，从中可见这个北京人家到记者发稿时的2008年5月19日止，是如何身在中国首都，心系边远地震灾区的：

《清华大三女生马宇歌致校红十字会志愿书》

敬爱的红十字会组织：

惊悉我国今天14时28分发生了以四川省汶川县为震中的7.8级大地震，强度连距震中1530公里之遥的北京，当时都感觉到了（我们这里的震级在14时35分达到3.9级）。我国最高领导人胡锦涛已在第一时间做出了重要指示，要求马上组织抗震救灾。中国红十字会也在第一时间迅即行动了起来。

我的亲人曾经给我讲述过32年前唐山大地震的异常惨烈情况。那次地震造成了我国河北省唐山几十万人的一个中等城市，生命和人民物质财产瞬间毁灭！但即使这么强烈的大地震，当时也没有现在这次汶川大地震震感来得更强烈，危害波及这么远。所以我想，汶川大地震可能造成的人员、财产损失比唐山大地震还严重。我的心情十分沉重！

我是一名“老”红十字会成员，7岁加入红十字会，10岁当我小学5年级时，北京市红十字会和北京市教委授予了我首批“北京市百名优秀红十字青少年会员”的荣誉。作为目前正在首都的清华大学读书的20岁的一名组织成员，我积极响应中央的号召，在此连夜向红十字会申请，要求积极参加当前的抗震救灾工作。重灾当前，责任与需要，要求我怎么做，我就怎么做。为了以实际行动积极跟进，援助灾区，我先从自己的在校生活费中拿出100元钱，请校红十字会帮我及时捐给灾区。

我号召我们每一个红十字会成员，于清华率先站出来，在上级的正确有力领导下，一方面模范地加倍完成好各自的本职要务，同时按照红十字会的统一要求，以各种形式积极参加抗震救灾工作，帮助保护我国人民的生命和财产，使其损失程度减至最低最小。

附100元钱捐款在这。

此致

敬礼！

清华大学建筑学院大三女生 马宇歌

2008年5月12日星期一夜于清华大学紫荆公寓学生宿舍


四、爱的熏陶永恒的追求

记者在走访校方时了解到，马宇歌是第一个在清华大学以实际行动响应胡锦涛总书记抗震救灾指示的在校大学生。她之所以能以这么高的觉悟主动自觉站出来这么做，是有历史渊源的。往前倒推五个年头，那时的马宇歌，还是一名北京的清华大学附属中学高一年级（02•08）“一条龙试验班”的15岁在校生，当时她和大家面对SARS（“肺典”）大面积在中国内地恶性爆发，到处人心惶惶之际，就曾第一个站了出来，于2003年“五•四”青年节那天，主动投书给校团委和同龄人大量订阅的《中学生科学报》、《少年科普报》、《德育报》等海内公开发行的大众舆论平台，挺身而出发表了刊登在各报头版头条的马宇歌《告全国中学在校共青团员倡议书》，（原文附后）勇敢地号召全国青少年要很好地应对危险传染病的大面积传播侵害，砥砺大家在中央的有组织的统一领导下，信心百倍地去夺取抗疫的胜利！文章入情入理，影响很大。马宇歌的公益行为，受到了老一辈人和年轻学子们的首肯，团中央学校部张部长当时还专门找到马宇歌，鼓励她。

那一年首都北京规定，SARS（“肺典”）肆虐期间，为防疫情蔓延加剧，全市在校生一律放假回家，不定期停课。清华附中的老师至今清晰记得马宇歌的表现。她为配合组织，稳住军心、稳定大局，顺利落实有利在校生的各项安排，置个人安危于不顾，在自己家长的赞许支持下，主动留下来热情帮助因各种原因暂时未能离校的老师和同学们。她是最后一个离校回家的附中学生。几天以后忙完一切背上自己的书包，拿着行李回家那天，清华附中基本上已经没有什么人了，洒满阳光的大街小巷空空荡荡。马宇歌在家等待北京市教委复课命令下达的长时间内，每天坚持与家人一起跑步、打球，锻炼身体；和学校党委、团委、年级长、班主任及各科老师经常电话沟通，一方面配合学校继续做工作、一方面认真自学，不落下任何一门功课。与此同时，她在家里还不断接听大家的来电并抽空往外主动打电话，保持和每一个同学的密切联系，共同探讨防疫抗役措施，共同回忆美好的住校生活，共同探讨正在自学的功课、正在阅读的课外书中内容、学校班级上的工作以及对明天的憧憬和具体安排打算……等等。那些日子马宇歌一直身体力行，率先做到了个人在《告全国中学在校共青团员倡议书》说的，以实际行动配合各方，夺取抗击“肺典”的胜利！

现年20岁的马宇歌，在自身家庭崇高的人道主义良好家教熏陶下，从小轮流胸戴爸爸送给她的出生礼物“博爱”和“天下为公”这两枚寓意深刻的徽章。她10岁时，便认准了非凡的坚定信念，要 “博爱伴我走天下”！这么多年以来，她就像全国政协副主席阿沛•阿旺晋美和全国人大副委员长布赫1999年2月12日，共同在当时庆祝藏历土兔年新年的首都联欢会上，专事题词赞誉马宇歌的那样，一方面刻苦治学，一方面继续为民众做事，已经渐渐地学会了怎样更好地把博爱为怀无私地献给我们的社会、献给我们的民族、献给我们的国家。

有关马弘毅先生身体力行影响家人，特别是怎样教育女儿马宇歌这样做的背后很多动人故事，多年来已经广为民间所流传，并且还被有心者随时记载和刊登到了不同时期出版的书、报、刊中。上网按照人名来查找，尤其是以“马宇歌”这个目前网上唯独只有她一人正在使用的人名去进行搜索，你可以随时看到不下10万篇感人的这方面纪实报道。那一篇篇文字，从不同角度，映射出了我们时代，来自中国首都的一个普通家庭，对社会、对他人、对人间的大敬大爱。它是北京人主流社会意识的一个缩影，代表了首都居民的主体形象。

此外同样感人、更值得一提的是，马宇歌在父母的赞同支持下，小小年纪，为了实现自己的远大理想，她后来真的背起行囊，实践了“博爱伴我走天下”的誓言。马宇歌从9岁以来，只身走遍了祖国大地，至13岁时利用每一个假期，已经亲历中国大陆所有省（直辖市、自治区）共计31个，学访天下，在200多市、县、乡、村一 一停留过，到处献爱心。用马宇歌的话说，她从中得到的是“读万卷书，行万里路，交天下友”！

五、万众一心国家有望民族幸甚

马弘毅先生全家就是这次汶川大地震，远在震中千里之外、无数参加抗震救灾家庭的一个缩影，也是历久不衰的中华民族良心的一个缩影。这种在大是大非面前，敢于举家挺身而出无私奉献的护民爱国精神，的确是值得今人大力提倡和发扬光大的！

汶川大地震的救灾工作目前正在紧张进行。按照中华人民共和国国务院2008年5月18日发布的公告，国旗已于今天2008年5月19日一早开始，全国各地包括我驻外使领馆一律下半旗三天，并要求在汶川大地震爆发的那一刻即今天下午北京时间14时28分起，全体民众都要鸣笛默哀三分钟。这是中华人民共和国建国59年以来，我国第一次为受难的普通民众，举国降半旗、鸣笛、静默致哀！国务院的公告还命令，从2008年5 月19日至21日为举国哀悼日，占世界人口1/5的全中国13亿人，将血浓于水，含泪共向大地震中我死难同胞，深深致哀。

　　中华魂魄，由此气贯环宇。此时此刻，每一个人的心中都在庄严默念：中国不败，胜利永远属于伟大的中华民族！因为咱们的年轻一代正在继承人类的文明精髓，以深邃的远大目光和壮阔的胸怀崛起于世界的东方。他们绝对是有希望的。对此，我们一百个放心！


附马弘毅先生夫妇的孩子马宇歌2003年因SARS，全民族暂时处在危难时刻发表在报章上的《告全国中学在校共青团员倡议书》于后，供阅：

《告全国中学在校共青团员倡议书》

亲爱的各位团员：

我们都曾戴过红领巾，你一定记得那时的我们一句呼号吧：“时刻准备着！”这一天已经来临，SARS在全球、在全国的蔓延，已经夺去我们人类不少兄弟姐妹的宝贵生命。这是一场全球共同面临的灾难。他对我们每个人，从身体素质、心理素质，甚至知识水准、思想品德等方面，都提出了极其现实的严峻挑战和考验。

共青团员是全体中国青年的中坚力量，在这支队伍中，汇聚了无数精英才俊。我们肩负着中国未来实现富强、民主、文明的社会发展、经济建设目标的重任。2020年全面实现小康社会的宏伟景象，将在我们这一代人面前展现。在当今全球面临SARS灾难的危急时刻，我们每个团员应该更加头脑清醒，意志坚定，充满科学向上精神。我们要以实际行动，服从上级组织的统一领导和指挥，在校内模范地带头维护正常的教学秩序，充满爱心地关爱我们周围的所有人。我们细致周到地搞好个人卫生就是为老师、同学献出的最大爱心。无论在什么情况下，我们都要以学为本，绝不能稍事放弃刻苦治学的目标追求。同时，当然还要严守社会公德，决不能够由于自己的疏忽大意，而危及他人的健康甚至生命安全。

在校我们是学生，校外仍是学生。大家要比一比谁的自我管理能力和自学能力最强。完成课内任务后，希望大家在目前的特殊时期能够争取做到：

一、每天收听、收看广播、电视，阅览报纸、杂志，特别是要借此随时关注SARS的各种情况；

二、在老师和家长的辅导下，尽早制定出自己的课外阅读计划，广泛涉猎，充分利用现有时间，完成过去无暇完成的课外阅读目标；

三、每天坚持身体锻炼和做眼保健操；

四、在家帮助父母操持家务，希望大家都能走进厨房；

五、每天安排一定时间适当进行太阳浴，利用紫外线灭菌杀毒。

同学们结合所处的环境，还应该自行制定一些更加符合个人特殊情况的具体安排。有条件的同学，彼此之间要通过电子邮件、电话，尽量多沟通信息，密切联系，增进友谊，互相鼓励。任何人发现新的情况或个人出现意外，要及时向自己的班主任和校方汇报情况。在大家的努力下，有各校领导的正确带领，我们充分发挥共青团组织的先锋模范带头作用，一定会团结一致度过难关，战胜这场病毒灾害侵袭的。作为刚刚跨入21世纪的一代青年，这次的人生经历，对于我们今后的茁壮成长和争取实现未来人生的成功目标来说，也是一次很好的历练和预演。我们要在困境中看到前面的光明，面对负面情况来临之时，更应该设法化不利为有利，使自身在思想素质上每人都能达到新的认识飞跃。

“五四”青年节这个值得纪念的日子里，愿每位共青团员和同学，都能不忘那句永远难忘的呼号“时刻准备着！”最终把握人生，赢得属于我们的美好明天！

清华附中校团委委员、高一（02•08）“一条龙试验班”女生  马宇歌

2003年5月4日 青年节于北京清华园




（下图是站在市中心最高处南望北京。The photo below is the sightseeing north of the top center of Beijing.）

（【注】以上报道《北京一家人第一时间怎样面对汶川大地震——记中国著名民主人士马弘毅先生一家》文章原始来源：中央统战部。这里引自“中国出版集团”www.cnpubg.com等网站同题报道，下附英译全文）





回味2008年京城百姓古道衷肠 [英译]



Beijing Family Faces Wenchuan Earthquake First Moment


A record of Mr. Ma Hongyi, a Chinese Renowned Democratic Personage, and His Family




(Author: United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee)



At 14:28:04 Beijing time, Monday afternoon, May 12, 2008, the extremely violent Wenchuan Earthquake occurred and shocked the world. Its meizoseismal area reached as wide as 100,000 square kilometers, and it affected nearly 1/2 of Provinces, Municipalities directly under the central government and Autonomous Regions in China. In capital Beijing, this was 1530 km away from Wenchuan, as the crow flies, many families made reactions initially and immediately at the same day, expressing their profound feelings with grief, compassion, conscience and motion to the disaster area and their fellow countrymen who suffered calamities. They donated voluntarily to support their country, and the quake relief of the whole nation. The famous democratic personage Mr. Ma Hongyi’s was just one of such families.

I.    Mr. and Mrs. Ma’s Only Daughter Was Busy in Intense as Usual as Her Parents

The only daughter of Mr. Ma Hongyi(Ma Hong-yi/馬弘毅), Ma Yuge(Ma Yu-ge/馬宇歌) is now a junior student in Tsinghua University, Beijing. She is very heavy in the school. During the earthquake days, her studies and basic work were as follows:

First, the job at university: she is a news telecast director of the Tsinghua TV station. Since her entering into the University in 2005, she has been responsible not only for frame-out, planning, writing manuscripts, hosting, broadcasting before the scene, but for her holding the post of head of the broadcasting group since her junior year, Monday, Sep. 14, 2007. There are more important issues for her to ponder and arrange personally every week. The Tsinghua TV station must have new content to promote unceasingly everyday.

Second, Ma is a volunteer from Tsinghua University of the two Olympic Games, the Beijing Olympic Games, which will be held three months later, and the Beijing Paralympics Games soon after the former one. She and her schoolmates are responsible for media reception and other kinds of services of the newly-built and newly-used Beijing Water Cube Natatorium. From February 13, 2008, the seventh day of New Year of the lunar calendar in winter vacation, Ma needs to participate in the after-school training and sports event locale services held by the Beijing Olympic Organization Committee frequently.   

Third, Ma, as one of those rare students who strive for double bachelor’s degrees of arts and natural science at the same time, these two items request her attain the diplomas on time before her graduation on the summer holiday, 2009.

Fourth, Ma’s first foreign language is English. She achieved a good result as 7.0 points when she took the general test worldwide of IELTS on March 5, 2008 the first time (the perfect score is elegantly 9.0 points). Her second foreign language is French. She registered on March 30 in the foreign language department of Tsinghua University for the June 21 TFU nation wide tests according to her own circumstances.

Fifth, Ma has also enlisted on April 28 for GRE tests, which are held only twice a year. Now she is preparing in strain for the last test worldwide this year in October in Beijing. She strives for high score so that she can make full preparation for the higher education abroad after she receives her double bachelor’s degrees. Ma resolves to inherit more human culture achievement, to learn the more advanced science and technologies domestic and foreign, and to master the ability of scientific jobs so that to work for the construction of motherland to be a stronger, more prosperous, democratic, civilized and harmonious country.

When only observing from her current jobs and studies above, Mr. Ma’s daughter Ma Yuge has a full schedule everyday, let alone her joining in lots of social activities at regular intervals on ordinary days from invitation to help in and out of School of Architecture of Tsinghua University to hosting large-scale public welfare activities which can’t be refused, and her helping with kinds of important news reports. Furthermore, several years as one day, she stipulates herself to read some extracurricular books regularly. At present she is reading the four-column Concise History of China by the late Chinese historian Fan Wenlan. About the history of motherland, she only completed the whole set calligraphy book of The Chinese Historical Stories and some related officially periodic history. Ma maintains the fixed habits of doing exercises everyday from her childhood, such as jogging, swimming or playing a ball game. She snatches a little leisure from her busy life. So she has got better and better physique now and she hardly has a cold all year round. Her eye-sight is also very good needless of wearing glasses. She is slim, stiff and rigorous. All these build up an excellent bodily foundation for her fulfilling the arduous work and studying duty successfully and for her enjoying a promising life.

II．  Parents’ Performance When Quake Took Place

Ma’s father, Mr. Ma Hongyi is the first person who felt the quake of May 12, 2008 in his family. He was in Beijing at that certain time, he felt suddenly some ear bulge, chest stuffy, day corona and a little bit dizzy. Mr. Ma searched the websites immediately then it proved that an intense earthquake of 7.8 Richter magnitudes took place, declared by China’s State Bureau of Seismology (from a news of May 19, China’s State Bureau of Seismology revised it as 8 Richter magnitudes yesterday), with its epicenter in Wenchuan, Sichuan province, and it involved Beijing, a city as far as 1530 km linear distance. The quake Mr. Ma felt in Beijing was at least 3.9 Richter magnitudes, proved by the China’s State Bureau of Seismology. He recalled the particularly devastating earthquake in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region at 3:42:54 a.m. on July 28, 1976; the meizoseismal area was 26,000 square kilometers Mr. Ma once experienced by himself in Beijing. It destroyed a middle-sized city Tangshan, at least 98% buildings of that city collapsed instantaneously, thousands of people died, and over 1 billion people injured, 15,886 families disintegrated, 3,817 people amputated, 25,061 handicapped, left 3,675 widowed, 4,204 orphaned, thousands of hundreds of residents needed relief since they were helpless, homeless, and with no relatives. Nevertheless, no data shows that any person in Sichuan had felt the quake. Why this time, with its epicenter in Sichuan, could be felt in a city as far as Beijing, even farther than Tianjin (the Tangshan earthquake took place nearby)?
   
Thus this Wenchuan earthquake must have greater destruction than that of Tangshan, the most devastating quake in the latter half of twentieth century. Mr. Ma realized this acutely that there must be more victims suffered more losses. So he called his wife, who was at work then, and his daughter with phones and cells to exchange information and discuss how the entire family to help and rescue the victims on initially right away.
   
At the first moment and as the first person, Mr. Ma submitted his donation application and his first disaster relief donation to his work department and the Democratic Party he belongs to. He then wrote and called up the organization system of his work place, his Democratic Party and his profession colleagues to act immediately to aid the disaster area and support the nationwide quake relief.
   
Mr. Ma’s motion obtained attention and support from the central government and the certain fields in Beijing. While, Mrs. Ma just stayed at her work place instantly to stand ready for emergency treatment. She assisted with all her strength with leaders of her department of arrangement in quake relief.

Mrs. Ma works in central part of Beijing, but she didn’t go home until May 17, as she was required by her higher authorities to stayed there and donate for quake relief enthusiastically from the next day of quake. She worked in tense together with her colleagues from morning till night. Until May 17, that was five days after the quake, could Mrs. Ma go home to meets her family again. The couple then went to Tsinghua University that Sunday to see their daughter and her good friends coming from other places.
   
III．  How Did the Daughter Act When Quakes

Ma, the daughter, did not have a moment of leisure all day long on that earthquake day. It was until mid-night, nearly 8 hours after the quake took place that Ma had finished kinds of matters and classes from the classroom to her dormitory, Zijin (cercis chinensis) dormitory, northeast of Tsinghua University. During that same night she wrote four letters without any delay: the first letter sends to the base branch she belongs to of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University; the second one to the leaders of Tsinghua TV Station, where she hold current jobs during her spare time; the third to the persons in charge of the Youth Committee of Red Cross Organization, Tsinghua University; the fourth to the Student Association of Tsinghua University (the School Student Council), in the building of the School Committee of the Communist Youth League. Each letter was enclosed with 100 Yuan as disaster relief donation. All together there were 400 Yuan, and that was actually the amount of her living allowance per month.

In each letter, she appealed that everybody must go into action immediately and practically for the quake relief. The next day after dawn, she submitted these letters personally to each party concerned then ran back the classroom to attend class on time.
  
Here is an excerpt from the letter Ma wrote to the Red Cross Committee, Tsinghua University, in the evening on May 12, the quake day. This letter intently refracted and has represented this Beijing family’s response to and concerning about the strong quake and victim areas far away from them till May 19 the reporter published his news.

An application to the Red Cross Branch, Tsinghua University from a junior student Ma Yuge
                           

     
May 12, 2008 Monday evening
                                 
Zijin dormitory, Tsinghua University



Respected Red Cross Committee:

I was shocked when I learned that at 14:28 a Wenchuan intensive earthquake, which was 7.8 Richter magnitudes in its epicenter, occurred in our country’s Sichuan province. It could be felt in Beijing, a city away from it 1530 km. The quake was 3.9 Richter magnitudes at 14:35 here. Our president Mr. Hu Jintao made important instructions at the first time to organize for the quake relief. The Red Cross China took actions rapidly, too.

My family member narrated the exceptionally frigid situation of Tangshan earthquake took place 32 years ago. That quake damaged the medium-sized Tangshan, a city of thousands of residents in Hebei province, together with their properties in instantaneous deconstruction. But even such an intense quake is still weaker than and does not have the harm affects so far as this Wenchuan quake, no matter its seismaesthesia or its damaged area involved. Therefore I thought that the Wenchuan quake must have more victims and more serious damages than that of the Tangshan quake. My mood is very heavy.

I am an “old” Red Cross member, as I joined it at 7, and was awarded the first batch of “Beijing outstanding Red Cross Youth Member” by Beijing Municipal Education Committee when I was 10 years old in Grade Five of my elementary school. As a 20-year-old Cross member and a student of Tsinghua University, I’d like to follow the instructions of our central government positively so as to write this application at mid-night and hope to participate in the current quake relief. Facing this calamity, I will do what responsibility and need request me to do. I put out 100 Yuan first from my living expenses enclosed here for practical action positively to aid the disaster area. Please help me to donate the money promptly.
  
I summoned that each of our Red Cross member, under the correct powerful guidance of the higher authorities, completing the respective official duty on one hand, and defers to Red Cross’s unified request simultaneously the other hand, stand out here from Tsinghua University to take part in the quake relief immediately and help to protect our people’s life and property of our nation from damage as less as possible.
   
Attached 100 Yuan donation here.
                          

Sincerely,
                                             
Ma Yuge
                 
Junior student of Architecture School,Tsinghua University
                    



IV．  Gradual Influence and Eternal Pursuance of Love

Ma, as the correspondent found out from Tsinghua University, was the first university student there responded the quake relief instructions of General Secretary Hu Jintao in practice. The reason that she could stand by with such high consciousness on initiative willingness rapidly had its historical origin. Going 5 years backwards, when Ma was a 15-year-old student of “coordinated process experimental class”, a continuous training programme in Grade one (the 8th class in those enrolled in 2002) of the Senior High School Attached to Tsinghua University, she stepped forward as first and wrote to the Youth League committee of her school and some popular public opinion platforms in favor of her contemporaries such as Middle-School Student Branch Journal, Youth Popular Science Newspaper, Moral Education Newspaper and so on on May 4 Youth Day when there was public disquiet with the serious consequence of SARS. The written proposal she wrote to Youth League members of middle schools nationwide was logical and reasonable and became quite influential since it was published on the first column of the front page (the original text is appended below). In it she advocated bravely the young people of the nation against the dangerous infectious disease’s wide-area dissemination, encouraging them to strive for the final victory of anti-epidemic disease fully and confidently under the organized unified rule of the central government.
   
Her public welfare behavior had received agreement from both the elder generations and her contemporaries. The minister of the school branch of Central Committee of the Youth League Mr. Zhang went to encourage her in particular at that time.
   
During the havoc period of SARS indulgence in persecution, the whole city of Beijing had set some regulations to all the enrolled students there that they would relief from school and stop their lessons not at all certain for the sake of the conditions not getting worse. Teachers of the High School Attached to Tsinghua University could remember Ma’s positive practice as staying at school to help those who had not been able to leave school temporarily for some certain reasons with the consent and support from her parents. Despite of her own safety, she coordinated with her school to stabilize the condition and set teachers and schoolmates’ mind at rest. She was the last student leaving school. When she carried on her baggage for home days later there were few persons at school. The sun-bathed main streets and small alleys were almost empty. Ma, during those long time at home waiting for orders of resuming classes from Beijing Municipal Education Committee, insisted on doing exercises with her family members, e.g. jogging, playing balls games, and keeping in touch with the Communist Party Committee, the Youth League Committee of her school, the head student of her grade, the supervisor and other teachers. Thus she cooperated with her school and studied independently and earnestly without dropping any schoolwork.
  
Meanwhile she stayed at home unceasingly answering telephones from and found time outside telephoning others, maintaining close relation with each classmate, searching for means anti-epidemic service, recalling happy days of school life, discussing lessons of curriculum and extra-curriculum books, planning for the expectation of her class and grade, and so on. Ma personally set an example and earnestly acted what she advocated in the written proposal, cooperated with the certain parties to strive for the final victory against SARS.
   
Ma, currently 20, with the good and gradual family influence of lofty humanitarianism, always wears two badges alternatively, one “universal love”, another “the world belongs to all”. When she was ten, she had firm faith of “the universal love to accompany me to take the world”. Many years past, she did scholarly research assiduously and serve for people simultaneously as she was praised and encouraged on the New Year’s party of celebrating the year of earth rabbit of the Tibetan calendar in the Capital on February 12, 1999 with written words by the two leaders: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, the vice President of CPPCC, and Booher, the vice President of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. She had come to realize how to contribute her love selflessly for our society and our nation.
   
Many stories about Mr. Ma’s influence upon his family members, esp. on his daughter Ma, were noted down by people having a mind and then circulated rapidly and widely among ordinary populace on books, newspapers and publications during different times. When searches on the website with Ma Yuge’s Chinese name “马宇歌”, a name now used by Ma particularly, one may momentarily see no less than 100,000 reports on actual events. Those articles, from certain aspects, mapped the love of an ordinary Beijing family for others and the society of our time. It is a miniature of the main stream of social concept and a representation of the main body image of capital inhabitants.
   
Another thing also moving and worthy mentioning is that Ma, with support and approval from her parents, did shoulder her packs afterwards with that belief “the universal love accompanies me to take the world” to realize her loft ideal in her small age. During the four years from 9 to 13, she had gone all over the motherland solitarily and offered her compassion for her people when paused among over 200 cities, counties, towns, villages of 31 provinces, municipalities or autonomous regions. In Ma’s words, she was “read a lot and make trip further, and make friends worldwide”.
   
V．  The Whole Nation Is Hopeful with All the People of One Mind

The Mas is a microcosm not only of those countless families participated in the quake relief while living far away from the epicenter of Wenchuan earthquake, but of the unfading Chinese nation conscience. This kind of patriotism, of stepping forward boldly of one’s whole family with selfless contribution in front of the major issue of principles to protect the people, is worth of promoting, enhancing and carrying out with great effort nowadays.
  
The Wenchuan quake rescue effort is carrying on intense now. The announcement of the State Council of CPC on May 18, 2008 issued that all the national flags on May 19, 2008 would be at half-mast for three days from early in the morning of May 19, including the flags nationwide and the Chinese embassies abroad. It instructed that the whole nation stand in silent tribute for three minutes from 14:28 p.m., the moment when Wenchuan earthquake too place. It is the first time in China for 59 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China that our whole nation flies a flag at half-mast, blows a whistle and pays silent tribute for the ordinary populace who suffered distress. The announcement of State Council also ordered the three days as the National Mourning Days from May 19 to May 21, 2008, 1,300,000,000 people of the entire China, which was 1/5 of world population, may deeply express grief with tears to the quake victims, with whom our blood is thicker than water.
  
From this the Chinese soul, was as lofty as the rainbow spanning the sky. At this moment, each person made a solemn vow in his heart: China will not be defeated; the victory belongs to the great Chinese nation forever, because our younger generation is inheriting humanity’s civilization essence, rising to prominence with the profound broad vision and the grand mind in the east of the world. They are absolutely hopeful. Regarding this, we felt relieved totally.

Attached An Initial Written Proposal to Youth Leagues in middle School all Over the Country in the back for reading, which was written by Mr. and Mrs. Ma Hongyi's child Ma Yuge and was published in the newspapers in 2003 when the whole nation was in critical moment temporarily because of SARS:

An Initial Written Proposal to Youth Leagues in middle School all Over the Country


"May 4th" Youth Day, 2003  Tinghua Campus


Dear all League members:         

All of us have worn the red scarf. You will certainly remember a call sign of ours at that time: &quotreparing constantly!” This day has already come. SARS is spreading throughout the world and over the whole country, and has already bereaved human being of many siblings’ valuable lives. This is a disaster that the whole world faces together. It, to us, from body constitution, psychological quality, even respects such as knowledge level, morality, etc., has proposed extremely realistic, severe challenge and test.
   
Communist Youth League member is the backbone of all the Chinese youth. Countless elites and boy wonders assemble in this team. We shoulder the important task of achieving the goal in social development and economic construction that are prosperous, strong, democratic and culturally-advanced in China’s future. The grand scene of comprehensively building an affluent society in 2020 will open out before our generation. In this critical time that the whole world is confronted with the catastrophe SARS, we each League member ought to be more clear-headed, strong-willed, and is full of upward spirit of science. We should obey the unified leadership and direction from parent-organization with actual deeds, take the lead to maintain the normal teaching order exemplarily on campus, and concern all people around us with love. The biggest compassion that we give teachers and schoolmates is that we do the personal hygiene carefully and meticulous. No matter in what case, we should always be learning-oriented and in no case should we slightly give up the goal of diligently studying. Meanwhile，certainly we still have to strictly observe social morals, and there should appear nothing that endangers others' health or even life safety owing to our negligence.
   
We are students at school, and still students outside. Everyone should compare with each other whose self-supervisory capability and self-study ability is the most strong. After finishing the assignment in the class, we hope everybody can strive to achieve these following things during this special period:

1. Listen to the radio, watch television and read newspapers and magazines everyday, and especially whereby pay close attention at any time to various situations of SARS.

2. Under the coach of teachers and parents, work out our own program of outside reading, read extensively, make the most of existing time, and complete the goal of outside reading that we had no time to finish in the past as early as possible.

3. Insist on doing physical exercise and ocular gymnastics everyday；

4. Help parents with household maintenance at home, and we hope everyone should go into the kitchen；　

5. Arrange a certain period of time for sun bath everyday, taking the ultraviolet ray to sterilize and kill viruses.
　　
Combining with the locating environment, schoolmates should also make some concrete arrangements much more in accord with individual's unique feature. Schoolmates with permissible conditions should exchange information，communicate closely, improve friendship, and encourage each other over E-mail and telephone as much as possible. Anyone who found a new situation or encounter an unexpected thing should report to one's own head teacher and the school authorities in time. With the concerted efforts, the leaders’ correct guidance in each school, and we giving full play to the leading function of pioneer and model of the League, we are certain to go through it with solidarity, and overcome the attack of this virus disaster. As a generation of youth newly entering into the 21st century, this life experience is also a good test and rehearsal for us to grow up strong and sturdy henceforth and achieve the goal in future life successfully. We should see the bright in the plight. Facing the approach of the negative situation, we still should manage to change the disadvantage into advantage, and enable us to get a realization leap on our own ideology diathesis.
　　
On this memorable "May 4th" Youth Day, I hope every League member and schoolmate should keep in mind that unforgettable call sign: “preparing constantly!” And live before you leave finally and win the bright tomorrow that belongs to us.

Sincerely,
                             
Ma Yuge

Student of “coordinated process experimental class” in Grade one (the 8th class which enrolled in 2002), Senior High School Attached to Tsinghua University

(图为2008年马宇歌在家的自己生日蛋糕，蛋糕上的中文字是“21岁生日，心系汶川”。The photo is the birthday cake for Ma Yuge in her home 2008, it writes: 21 years old, have Wenchuan earthquake disaster area in heart.)





The Chinese original report Beijing Family Faces Wenchuan Earthquake First Moment-- A record of Mr. Ma Hongyi, a Chinese Renowned Democratic Personage, and His Family comes from China Publishing Group

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