During the Qingming Festival, the cadres and the masses cherished the memory of the martyrs and relived the history in different ways, felt the revolutionary tradition in the cemetery of the martyrs, and felt the spirit of the martyrs in the memorial hall. Some cadres and the masses also choose to use the Qingming holiday to experience traditional culture and cultivate family and country feelings.
In memory of the heroic continuous red blood
As the Qingming Festival is approaching, various commemorative activities for martyrs are organized in various places to inherit the fine traditions and continue the red blood.
In Caolou Village, Wei County, Hebei Province, snow-white pear flowers bloom in the countryside. In the Memorial Hall of the Martyrs Cemetery in Wei County, Yu Xueliang, an old party member, told a red story to the representatives of teachers and students of the No. 1 Primary School in Wei County. “After listening to the narration, I relived the glorious achievements of the revolutionary martyrs. It is precisely because of the countless revolutionary martyrs that we have today’s beautiful life.” Weng Ming, a student of the No. 1 Primary School in Wei County, said.
In the Red Army Mountain Martyrs Cemetery in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, teachers and students from Zunyi No. 2 Middle School presented flower baskets in turn to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs. “We organized and carried out the theme activity of ‘Continuing the heroic spirit to learn the strength of forging ahead’. We hope that the students will inherit the glorious tradition, establish lofty ideals, and contribute wisdom and strength to the development of the country.” said Han Jingwei, deputy secretary of the Party branch of Zunyi No. 2 Middle School. .
Shanxi Province Patriotic Supporting the Army Promotion Association held the Qingming Festival Sweeping Activities, and organized volunteer veterans, national model veterans, young pioneers and other people from all walks of life to visit and study at the Taiyuan Liberation Memorial Hall. During the activity, all party members and young pioneers revisited the oath of joining the party and the oath of joining the team respectively. “Without the dedication and sacrifice of the revolutionary martyrs, there would be no good life today. We must cherish the present, carry forward the spirit of the revolutionary martyrs, continue the red bloodline, and carry forward the cause of patriotism and support for the military!” Say.
The Monument to the Martyrs of the Chinese Workers and Peasants’ Red Army West Route Army in Gaotai County, Gansu Province stands quietly, with flower baskets and ribbons fluttering in the wind. On April 1, more than 200 people including representatives of all walks of life in Gaotai County, representatives of young pioneers, and members of the Communist Youth League sang the national anthem in front of the monument, followed by a collective silence and placed flowers around the platform to express their high respect for the revolutionary martyrs.
Volunteers line up to lay flowers at the Martyrs’ Cemetery in Yidu City, Hubei Province. Among the 7 tombs of revolutionary martyrs in the Martyrs Cemetery, 6 of the martyrs have no descendants, but they have never left their guardians or sacrificial sweeps. “We hold such activities every year.” Xie Yuanming, director of the Yidu Veterans Affairs Bureau, introduced that every year in Yidu, volunteers spontaneously come to sweep the revolutionary martyrs, clean and wipe tombstones, etc.
At the same time, more and more cadres and the masses choose to express their condolences in the form of online participation.
“Fuying daughter, you are over 20 years old…” Guo Ziyan, a lecturer in Little Red, recites the family letter written by the revolutionary ancestor Gao Zili to her daughter. On the eve of Qingming Festival, in Qingshan Town, Anyuan District, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, schools relived red family letters online, recited red classics, and watched situational party classes to cherish the memory of revolutionary martyrs and cultivate patriotism. On the official WeChat account of “Ruijin News”, Ruijin City has specially opened a “Red Reading” column. The cadres and the masses use this as a platform to release the audio of red-themed reading to express their memory of the revolutionary martyrs.
The Liulaozhuanglian Memorial Garden of the New Fourth Army in Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province opened a channel for sacrifice and sweeping on the official WeChat account and website to guide relatives of martyrs and citizens to participate in the online memorial. As of April 2, a total of more than 140,000 people participated.
In order to help the families of the martyrs to express their condolences, the Jizhou District Veterans Affairs Bureau of Tianjin City uniformly arranged a flower sacrificial sweep. The staff of the Panshan Martyrs Cemetery placed flowers in front of the martyrs’ tombs, and took the pictures of the sacrificial sweep into a video and sent them to the families of the martyrs.
Character, study, exhibition, comprehend traditional culture
Hu Lanlan, a citizen of Anyang City, Henan Province, brought her 6-year-old child to the Yinxu Museum to visit and explore history. The instructor Bai Ting recounted: “The bronze bull was cast by the ancients to commemorate the ancestors. Let’s see the cloud and thunder patterns on its body…” The children who came to visit were fascinated. Anyang is a famous historical and cultural city, and Yinxu, as a world cultural heritage, carries a profound history. During the Qingming holiday, many Anyang citizens came here to experience the long history of Chinese civilization.
In Inner Mongolia, the majority of young people participated in the “Knowing Qingming – Online H5 Answers” activity through the WeChat public account of the Inner Mongolia Museum, and learned about the Qingming Festival through online answering, as well as the cultural relics related to the Qingming Festival in the museum.
In Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, many citizens came to the Railway Culture Museum on Locomotive Pedestrian Street in Yuhua District to learn about the development of trains, experience the beauty of industrial culture, and appreciate the wisdom and diligence of the working people. Through the exhibition, people can feel the development speed of China’s railways keeping pace with the times.
In the Chengdu Museum of Sichuan Province, exhibitions such as the Silk Road Costume Culture Exhibition and the “Huazhongjin Official City—Chengdu History and Culture Exhibition” attracted many visitors. The museum provides regular free explanations and audio guides on WeChat public accounts. “The explanation service is thoughtful, you can watch it carefully and feel it slowly. The experience of viewing the exhibition is very good.” Yao Huixin, a resident of Chengdu, said.
In Luxi County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, Zhou Bingtao, the inheritor of Luxi peasant paintings, is instructing children to draw peasant paintings on the theme of Qingming Festival. “Luxi County has a tradition of creating peasant paintings. We teach children to draw peasant paintings on related themes, which can help promote new fashions, and at the same time carry forward the excellent traditional culture and inherit the heroic spirit.” Zhou Bingtao said. In recent years, Luxi County has hired more than 20 peasant painters as peasant painting instructors to carry out peasant painting inheritors into the campus, adding color to the revitalization of rural culture.
Close to nature and embrace green water and green mountains
Under the premise of implementing personal protective measures, people from all over the world choose to go on outings with relatives and friends in the surrounding areas to experience the green waters and green mountains.
On April 2, ten thousand mu of apricot blossoms bloomed along the Tao River in Tangwang Town, Dongxiang Autonomous County, Gansu Province, attracting many people to come to the green. Ma Lulu, a tourist, said: “There are both beautiful apricot blossoms and delicious food here, so I just took my baby out for a walk.” In recent years, the local area has guided farmers to adopt the “tourism + cooperative + farmer” model to promote the integrated development of agriculture and tourism, and promote agricultural growth. efficiency and farmers’ income.
In Bailong Township, Mancheng District, Baoding City, Hebei Province, apricot blossoms are contiguous, and the idyllic scenery is beautiful. During the Qingming holiday, the local organization organized parent-child hiking and fitness, apricot flower pastoral photography exhibition, quality development training and other activities to create a tourism cultural brand.
In Sharmalebag Village, Mixia Town, Shache County, Xinjiang, contiguous cherry blossoms are blooming. Li Sixuan, a resident of Shache County, and friends are taking pictures in the sea of flowers. “I come here every spring to play.” As the weather gradually turns Warm, Xinjiang’s apricot blossoms, mountain peach blossoms, plum blossoms, etc. quietly climbed the branches and bloomed in urban parks and rural fields. Many places held cultural tourism activities based on local special categories.
(People’s Daily reporters Shao Yuzi, Su Bin, Fu Mingli, Zhao Shuaijie, Wu Jun, Zhou Huan, Bai Guangdi, Wu Shaomin, Wang Zhe, Zhang Wei, Shi Ziqiang, Wang Mingfeng, Fu Wen, Li Yanan)