President Ho Chi Minh's prediction from spring poetry in the year of the Dragon

There are few heads of state like President Ho Chi Minh, who always sends New Year and Spring greetings and poems. Reading Uncle Ho's New Year and Spring greetings during the traditional New Year of the nation, we always feel sacred and proud.

Uncle Ho's New Year greeting card in 1956 (Internet photo).

His New Year greetings are not ordinary greetings but are congratulations, encouragements, advices, and calls. On the traditional New Year of the Year of the Dragon 1952, from a great source of thought, from the optimistic inspiration about the resistance war against colonialism moving into a new phase, Uncle Ho wished his compatriots and soldiers across the country a Happy New Year with the poem Spring:

“This spring, the spring of the year of the Dragon

Resistance just six years

Long and arduous

100% sure win

Soldiers compete to kill enemies

Compatriots increase production

New year new competition

Victory is ours.

Some simple honest sentences

It is both a call and a celebration of spring" (1)

That was the time when, under the leadership of the Party, our army and people continued to maintain the initiative, continuously attacking and destroying many enemy forces, while at the same time promoting widespread guerrilla warfare. The verses resounded with the belief in victory: "One hundred percent victory", "Victory will surely be ours". That is also the soul of the poem Xuan. This is a congratulation, encouragement, and his genius prediction about the resistance war. President Ho Chi Minh's prediction came at a time when the resistance war was taking place in a tense and fierce manner, but in the condition that the position and strength of our army and people on the battlefields were growing, we were proactively attacking to expand the liberated areas.

Uncle Ho planted trees in Ba Vi (Ha Tay) on the first day of the Lunar New Year 1969 (photo: Internet).

He called for and aroused the patriotic spirit of the entire people and army, actively competing to increase production, competing to kill the enemy and gain achievements, leading the resistance war to a quick victory. His New Year's greetings were quickly widely propagated in all fields; encouraging, motivating, and motivating the entire people and army to uphold the spirit of patriotic emulation, speeding up the implementation of the 1953-1954 Winter-Spring strategic offensive to achieve complete victory. "One hundred percent victory..." - a decisive, certain affirmation.

Also on the occasion of the Lunar New Year of Nham Thin 1952, Uncle Ho gave a speech to the people, soldiers and overseas Vietnamese about the situation in the world and in the country. After analyzing the situation and setting out major tasks in 1952, Uncle Ho emphasized the need to be determined to eliminate three diseases and three problems that were causing obstacles: one is fighting bureaucracy; two is fighting corruption; three is fighting waste. That is also a reality, a prediction that is still relevant today.

12 years later, welcoming the spring of Giap Thin 1964, in his "New Year greetings", Uncle Ho wrote:

"North and South are like roots and branches

Brothers fight together

Then the unification was successful

North and South we are happy together again

Some friendly words

It is both a call and a celebration of spring" (2)

Uncle Ho's New Year's greetings in the year of Giap Thin 1964 expressed the consistency and steadfast belief in the strategic goal of the struggle for unification. It was an affirmation of the eternal, immutable truth of national unification: "North and South are like roots and branches". North and South are blood brothers. It was the determination, unity, and strength to fight for national unification. It was the belief and prediction that "North and South will be happy together again", the country will be united. His wishes and aspirations have come true.

A special thing is that Uncle Ho's New Year's greeting poem in the year of Giap Thin 1964 and the New Year's greeting poem in the year of Nham Thin 1952 both ended with two six-eight verses with the same meaning. In 1952, Uncle Ho wrote: "A few simple, honest sentences/ Both a call and a spring celebration"; in 1964, Uncle Ho wrote: "A few simple, friendly words/ Both a call and a spring celebration".

Photo: Internet.

His New Year's greetings expressed all his heart, feelings, and the actual content of the New Year's greetings. It was his sincerity, sympathy, love, and wishes for our compatriots, soldiers, and overseas Vietnamese every time Tet came and spring came. That is why his New Year's greetings and poems have penetrated deeply into the hearts of the Vietnamese people.

President Ho Chi Minh - a genius leader always has accurate predictions that transcend time. As always, at the beginning of spring, the beginning of changes in all things on earth and in people, Uncle Ho always gives the best wishes and wishes for new successes. And always, there are predictions and forecasts to create confidence and aspiration to strive and rise up. That belief is the motivation and inspiration that he gives us every time Tet comes and spring comes.

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(1). According to Ho Chi Minh Complete Works, CD-ROM (3rd edition), volume 7, page 292.

(2). The cited book, volume 14, page 224.

Phan Trung Thanh

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