Lei feng biography template
Lei feng biography template
Biography template for professionals.
Lei Feng
Chinese soldier and propaganda icon (1940–1962)
Not to be confused with Lei Fang, Fang Lei, or Fan Lei.
Lei Feng[i] (18 December 1940 – 15 August 1962) was a soldier in the People's Liberation Army who was the object of several major campaigns in China.
The most well-known of these campaigns in 1963 promoted the slogan "Follow the examples of Comrade Lei Feng."[1] Lei was portrayed as a model citizen, and the masses were encouraged to emulate his selflessness, modesty, and devotion to Mao Zedong.
After Mao's death, state media continued to promote Lei Feng as a model of earnestness and service, and his image still appears in popular forms such as on T-shirts and memorabilia.[2]
The biographic details of Lei Feng's life, and especially his diary, supposedly discovered after his death, are generally believed to be propaganda creations; even the historicity of Lei Feng himself is sometimes questioned.[3][4]