[The spiritual pedigree of the Chinese Communists]
Guangming Daily reporter Yu Haiping Geng Jiankuo Hu Xiaojun Yang Jue Zhao Qiuli
On the evening of June 28, 2021, at the National Stadium, a grand performance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held. In the first chapter “Going on the Fire”, the scene dance “The Uprising”, the drama and dance “Long March”, the scene chorus “Roar on the Yellow River” and other programs, vividly interpret the stories that took place in the old red revolutionary area. Pull back into the smoke of the Great Revolution, the arduous Long March…
The old revolutionary base is the cradle of new China and the root of the party and the people’s army.
In a patch of red hot soil, the Chinese Communist Party has led the people in the old districts in the long-term revolutionary struggle to form the unwavering ideals and beliefs of loving the party and the party, the tenacious will of self-improvement and hard work, and the broad sense of selfless dedication. Mind, the glorious tradition of deep fish and water, life and death, and a scientific attitude of seeking truth and being pragmatic, pioneering and innovative. Like a towering spiritual peak, the spirit of the old district is full and heavy, vivid and fresh, and it is the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of the party and the people.
This spirit is permeated on the grain-picking trails of Jinggang Mountain, contained in the trolleys of fellow Yimeng villagers, and stirred in the labor chants of Nanniwan…together outline a red and bright new China;
This spirit is the magic weapon for victory in the era of revolutionary struggle. It has played an stimulating and leading role in different historical periods such as socialist construction and reform and opening up. It still has strong vitality and charisma in the new era, nurturing and nurturing generations of Chinese people. .
1. Loving the party and trusting the party, unwavering ideals and beliefs
In November 2012, shortly after the end of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping led members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and comrades from the Secretariat of the Central Committee to the National Museum to visit the exhibition “Road to Rejuvenation”. The general secretary pointed out: “Since modern times, the magnitude of the suffering and sacrifices made by the Chinese nation are rare in the history of the world.”
Behind the suffering is the unyielding resistance of the heroic people, which has won a “pravable and bright future” for China.
“Large-scale Production in Nanniwan” (oil painting) Zhang Ziyu
In the Dabie Mountains, the central area of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Revolutionary Bases, many main Red Army troops were born here. From the birth of the Communist Party of China in 1921 to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the old revolutionary base area of Dabie Mountain “unfolded the red flag for 28 years.” The red flag is always flying high above Dabie Mountain;
On Hainan Island, the Coconut Village battle opened the prelude to the general armed uprising of the Hainan people. This revolutionary team experienced the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation until 1950 when it took over and cooperated with the field army to cross the sea, and finally liberated Hainan Island. Revolutionary fighting spirit has been extolled for a long time by future generations.
The magnificent waves still remember the red flag. For the “lovely China” in the ideal, countless revolutionary martyrs have dedicated themselves to pursuing the light of ideals, sacrificing themselves to protect the fire of faith.
Qiu Peien, a professor at the Central Party School (National School of Administration), believes that the people in the old districts treat and support the revolutionary cause, the construction cause, and the reform and opening-up cause with firm ideals and beliefs and a simple, solid, heavy-duty, and no-regrets character to treat and solve themselves. The practical difficulties and various developmental problems of China show a high spirit and strong will power.
Time flies as time flies. Nowadays, “there are active creations everywhere, and progress with each passing day”, the lovely and bright China has become a reality.
2. The tenacity of self-improvement and hard work
The Eighth Route Army Taihang Memorial Hall in Wuxiang, Shanxi, displays a pair of straw sandals. Its owner, Ye Chenghuan, head of the 772 regiment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, was only 24 years old when he sacrificed wearing them. Worn-out uppers and incomplete heels have evoked more memories of Taihang Mountain: In the winter of 1939, the wind on the towering Taihang Mountain was bitterly cold, and the Japanese invaders continued to “cannibalize” and “sweep” against the Japanese base, and the supply was cut off. In a difficult situation, the soldiers and civilians in the old district wore single clothes, straw shoes, and boiled wild vegetables with black beans, fighting fiercely in the ice and snow…
With the enemy tightly sealed and unable to sustain food and clothing, the military and civilians in the old districts struggled, worked hard, worked hard, and fought hard. These stories have moved and inspired countless Chinese people.
When American journalist Edgar Snow visited Yan’an, he saw Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other leaders, like ordinary soldiers, living in cave dwellings surrounded by loess, eating potato and millet, and wearing patched coarse cloth. He was shocked by the military uniform. He asked Mao Zedong: Can the Red Army not even be able to support a few leaders? Mao Zedong said: This is called hard struggle, and it is the true nature of our Communist Party. This true nature has become the invincible “Oriental magic” in Snow’s eyes.
What’s commendable is that under bad conditions, the spirit of revolutionary optimism is permeating in the old district——
Yan’an City was taken on April 22.Xinhua News Agency
“Red rice, pumpkin soup, autumn eggplant, fragrant, and the meal is well-done. Dry straw, soft and yellow, covered with gold silk, not afraid of north wind and heavy snow, warm and sleepy.” This is A song popular in Jinggangshan. At that time, the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base was very scarce, but the military and civilians still maintained a strong revolutionary fighting spirit, which smashed the “encirclement and suppression” of the Kuomintang army.
“The fragrance of the flower basket, listen to me sing, sing and sing, and come to Nanni Bay, Nanni Bay is a good place, a good place, a good place comes with good scenery, a good place comes with good scenery.” “Nanniwan” has been sung for 80 years, and once the melody sounded, it can still bring us to that era of extremely scarce material but burning passion.
The hardships and material poverty of the situation are in sharp contrast to the spiritual abundance. This kind of spiritual power attracted countless people of lofty ideals to the base areas and liberated areas, making Jinggangshan and Baotashan a symbol of the Chinese revolution; it also made this tenacious fighting spirit of self-improvement and hard work become the spiritual code for the victory of the Chinese revolution.
This kind of spiritual force, like a stream of clear spring, gurgled into the blood of generations of Chinese people, and continued to play a huge role in the period of socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up, and the new era of socialist modernization.
This spirit is also reflected in the struggle in the new era. Tantou Village, Zishan Town, Yudu County, Jiangxi Province, is a famous “Red Army Village” with 32 martyrs in total. However, due to multiple factors such as physical geography, the development here has been relatively slow. In 2017, Tantou Village established a professional planting and breeding cooperative with a 10,000 mu of selenium-rich vegetable base as the leader, adopting the development model of “leading enterprise + cooperative + farmers and poor households”, and planted a wealthy industry on this selenium-rich land , And drove about 110 agricultural cooperatives throughout the county to develop the vegetable industry. At present, the planting area of selenium-rich vegetables in Yudu County has reached more than 200,000 mu, with an annual output of nearly 500,000 tons of vegetables, and a comprehensive output value of more than 3 billion yuan. “Happiness is the result of struggle.” The eight words on the red tablet at the entrance of Tantou Community express the feelings of the villagers in Tantou Village.
Today, from Jinggang Mountain to Yan’an, from Ruijin in Jiangxi to Xibaipo in Hebei, from Zunyi in Guizhou to Huining in Gansu, from southern Jiangxi to Minxi to Huaihai Yimeng, from Dabie Mountain to Taihang Mountain, from Guangxi Zuojiang to Hainan Qiongya, from Hunan and Hubei To Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, from Huang’an in Hubei to Yancheng in northern Jiangsu, the old districts showed a new development.
3. The broad mind of giving up life and selfless dedication
An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, a touch of hot soil and a touch of soul.
During the two years and four months of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary struggle, more than 40,000 people were sacrificed. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were only about 135,000 people in Wuxiang County, Shanxi Province, and more than 90,000 people participated in various anti-Japanese groups. , More than 20,000 people sacrificed…
In order to make a stretcher, the gates of the houses in the village were all removed; information was sent in the chicken feather letter, and documents were hidden in the reeds… Similar stories circulated in almost every piece of land in the old district.
Actively participated in the army, participated in the war, carried out full support, carried out armed struggle, and actively participated in the construction of the base area… The selfless dedication of the people in the old area has contributed infinite strength to the victory of the Chinese revolution.
This spirit has infected generations of Chinese people.
“A good example of the county party committee secretary” Jiao Yulu, led the Lankao people in the struggle to seal sand, control water, and improve land. There are cadres and masses of the county in his heart, but he does not have himself. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly encouraged party members and cadres to vigorously study and carry forward the spirit of Jiao Yulu, and be a good cadre and county party committee secretary in the style of Jiao Yulu. Zhang Fuqing, the winner of the “Medal of the Republic”, hid the medal deep in the bottom of the box, never claiming credit for it, just to stick to his original mission and give silently.
Thousands of loyal bones, thousands of blood. History and the people will never forget the great stories that happened on the red land.
In Dabaidi Township, Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province, in February 1929, the Red Army soldiers of the Central Soviet Area fought the famous Dabaidi battle here, and the enemy was embarrassed. Mao Zedong once wrote the famous article “Bodhisattva Man· Dabaidi.
This year’s National Day holiday, at the battlefield site of Dabaidi, 81-year-old Liu Chenghan volunteered to explain the red story to the students. “As an old party member who joined the party in 1977, what else can I do for the party?” After retiring in 1997, Liu Chenghan thought of being a commentator. This lecture lasted for 24 years, with no less than 3,000 batches of tourists being voluntarily received, and no less than 60,000 people have heard his explanation.
He said: “As long as my body allows, I will continue to talk about it, and I hope that the younger generation will take over my baton, so that the story of Dabaidi will be passed on forever.”
4. The glorious tradition of deep fish and water, life and death
In the Chinese Communist Party History Exhibition Hall, there is a pair of “melaleuca sole” soles on display. This was accepted by a woman from Yinan County, Shandong Province for the Eight Route Army. The color was yellow and there were a lot of wear and tear, but the stitches and workmanship were still visible. It has witnessed another story of military and civilian fishes.
In Miyun, Beijing, rural woman Deng Yufen sent her husband and 5 sons to the front of the Anti-Japanese War. Her husband and 5 sons gave their lives for the War of Resistance. She was hailed as the “hero mother”;
In Pingshan, Hebei, during the hard years of “mopping up”, “the mother of soldiers” Rong Guanxiu led the women of the village to send water and food to the soldiers. Wash the wound with warm water, apply Chinese herbal medicine to the wound, and feed the wounded bite by bite with a small spoon. Under her meticulous rescue, many of the Eighth Route Army commanders who were seriously injured and dying have recovered and returned to the front line.
In the old area of Yimeng, Ming Deying, the “Yimeng Red Sister” who saved the wounded with breast milk, the “Yimeng Mother” who devoted selfless and fearless love to the Chinese revolution, and the “Yimeng Six Sisters” who supported the army and supported the former model…
Small fleet, stretcher team, logistics team; making shoes, grinding noodles, and rice milling. The people in the old districts “push” them with small carts, not just for supplies, but also for the military and the people.
“The people in the old areas have the deepest understanding of the party, the strongest connection with the party, the strongest feelings with the army, and the greatest contribution to the revolution.” Han Yanming, vice chairman of the Shandong Revolutionary Old Area Construction Promotion Association, said affectionately, precisely because of this. It is only in the old revolutionary base that the Chinese Communist Party has grown from small to large, from weak to strong in the blood and blood, and forged ahead in the smoke and smoke of war, and finally led the people to seize power, control power, and rule for a long time.
have gratitude. Fuping in Hebei, Linyi in Shandong, Gutian in Fujian, Yan’an in Shaanxi, Zunyi in Guizhou, Jinggangshan in Jiangxi, Jinzhai in Anhui, Luliang in Shanxi, Xinyang in Henan… Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited various old revolutionary bases.
In Fuping, Hebei, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that we must find ways to make the villagers live a good life as soon as possible; in Yudu, Jiangxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we must drink water to think about the source, and we must not forget the revolutionary ancestors and revolutionary martyrs. Old folks in the revolutionary area; in Zunyi, Guizhou, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that whether the policies formulated by the Party Central Committee are good or not depends on whether the folks cried or laughed.
Only with long-term origins can be long-term, and deep-rooted can only be leafy. This has become the consensus of party members and cadres in the old districts. Not long ago, due to continuous rainfall, Shilou County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, located in the Taihang Mountains, was prone to geological disasters. More than 4,000 cadres throughout the county rushed to help villages and communities to mobilize the masses to relocate, and quickly transferred 855 households and 2,487 people.
“The last bowl of rice was used to make military rations, the last foot of cloth was sent to make military uniforms, the last old cotton-padded jacket was covered on a stretcher, and the last flesh and blood was sent to the battlefield.” This song, widely sung in the old district, expresses It is the people’s deep feelings and unlimited trust in the revolutionary army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China; it is a true portrayal of the People’s War, and it is also the basis for the victory of the Chinese revolution and construction.
5. A scientific attitude of seeking truth and being pragmatic, pioneering and innovative
In the Chinese Communist Party History Exhibition Hall, a group of black and white photos are eye-catching:
Sparrow warfare in groups of three to five, flickering east and west, flickering and appearing; siege warfare of alternate monitoring, cutting off the enemy’s supply, and breaking the enemy’s retreat; using rivers, lakes, harbors, and branches to carry out mobile and flexible water warfare; using the night to turn Destroying railways, destroying roads and bridges, and forcing the invaders to paralyze the traffic of the Japanese army; the armed forces behind enemy lines went deep behind the enemy lines to launch a mass struggle combining military, political, economic, and cultural…
These stories are no stranger to every Chinese: they are vivid black-and-white photos in textbooks. They are made into movies and TV series to accompany the growth of generations of young people.
Behind this lies the heavy history of the people in the old districts: in the extremely arduous struggle against “sweeping” and “clearing the countryside”, soldiers and civilians behind enemy lines created sparrow warfare, tunnel warfare, mine warfare, raid warfare, water raid warfare and other forms of struggle. Enriching and developing the strategies and tactics of the People’s War and trapping the enemy in the vast ocean of the People’s War is a great pioneering work in the history of war.
Li Leibo, an associate professor at the School of Political Science of the National Defense University, said that during the War of Resistance, with the support and help of the people in the old areas, our party created a unique and diverse struggle strategy based on actual conditions and adapted measures to local conditions; it continued to develop in the arduous war against aggression. Strengthen and grow into the mainstay for the final victory of the War of Resistance.
The scientific attitude of seeking truth and being pragmatic, pioneering and innovative, is reflected in the new development of the old district: red resources are transformed into economic value, mountains and rivers are more beautiful, economic development, social progress, people are prosperous, people in old districts are pragmatic and innovative, and a red color leads green development. The road to a well-off society:
In Jianning, Fujian, red tourism + green economy has become a sample of well-off life in the old area, and a national rural tourism poverty alleviation demonstration village and a party history education base in Fujian Province have been built.
In Zunyi, Guizhou, red tourism focusing on the “Zunyi Conference”, “Sidu Chishui”, “Loushan Victory”, and “Breakthrough Wujiang River” is being promoted in an all-round way.
In the Taihang Mountains, the clear water of the Zhang River was rippling and the “Fuxing” pitted in and set off again. Villagers’ ecological agricultural products such as millet, miscellaneous grains, and walnuts walked out of the mountain via the Internet.
From the all-round progress in politics, economy, society, and culture of the base areas to the great development of the revolutionary old areas today, the people of the old areas are the witnesses of practice, the creators of history, and the inheritors of excellent traditions. Why is socialism with Chinese characteristics good? The answer to the development and change of the old district is the answer.
“Guangming Daily” (version 05 on November 10, 2021)
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