雷鋒 Lei Feng

Yesterday I bought some notebooks for my classes. Although slightly different, both notebooks have an image of a cute little stuffed animal (I'm not really sure what it's supposed to be) with a red star on it. Both notebooks also have the following written on them: "雷鋒".

Out of curiosity, I looked up the characters. Apparently, 雷鋒 (Lei Feng) was a soldier from the People's Liberation Army. After his death in 1962, he was used in a lot of propaganda in a campaign called "Learn from Lei Feng" and to this day his name is pretty much synonymous with being selfless and a good person. And now he's on my notebook.

There's even a video game today called Learn from Lei Feng Online. Win, and you get to meet Chairman Mao. And get his autograph. LOL.

There are more characters on the notebook but I can't read them all. Something about how many years...or something...about can (people) remember me? Dunno. Anyway, I did not expect something so, well, cute to be propaganda.