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The Seven Laws Long March
Of the trying long march the Red Army makes light:
Thousands of rivers and mountains are barriers slight.
The Five Serpentine Ridges outspread like rippling rills,
The pompous Wumeng peaks tower but like mole-hills.
Against warm cloudy cliffs beat waves of Golden Sand;
With cold Iron-chain Bridge River Dadu is spanned.
Glad to see the Min Range snow-clad for miles and miles,
Our warriors who have crossed it break into broad smiles.
This poem by Chairman Mao
It is not only a record of the glorious achievements of the Red Army’s Long March.
At the same time, it is also a true portrayal of the arduous journey of the Red Army’s Long March
Zhang Wenyuan’s 1984 oil painting "Grassland Love"
Into the honor room of the 4 th Company of a Red Army Corps in Chengdu Military Region
A black-and-white photo stands out.
There is only one in the photo with a paragraph cut off.
Old cowhide belt
The back of the belt is branded with the words "Long March"
The owner of this belt
Is an ordinary Red Army soldier.
Eighth Company, 274th Regiment, 93rd Division, 31st Army, Red Fourth Front Army
(Now Company 4 of a Red Army Corps in Chengdu Military Region)
Warrior Zhou Guocai
It is such a belt.
Truly witnessed
That hard and hopeful time.
June 1936
Red Fourth Front Army and Red Second Front Army
Victory in Ganzi, Sichuan
Early July
Red Fourth Front Army
Began to cross the vast grassland northward for the third time.
This grassland is located at the junction of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Sichuan Basin.
Now this beautiful grassland.
For the Red Army soldiers at that time,
There are dangers everywhere
There is no road.
No food
Only the wind and rain
Marsh trap
And the approaching pursuers
In this difficult situation.
No food.
Belt, leather shoes, gun belt
Even the saddle
Have become the rations on which the Red Army soldiers live.
Although before crossing the grass
The whole army tried every means to raise food.
But because this March is farther than the previous two journeys,
a long time
There is a serious shortage of food.
When I first entered the grass
There are 3 Liang of highland barley noodles per person every day.
But soon the troops fell into a desperate situation of food shortage.
The grassland is deserted.
There is nowhere to replenish on the March.
The rest of the journey had to dig wild vegetables and chew grass roots.
Some soldiers even took it from cow dung
Pick up undigested grains from cattle.
While some soldiers eat poisonous vegetables and weeds by mistake.
Unfortunately poisoned to death.
However, wild vegetables and grass roots are not hungry at all
Some Red Army soldiers thought of eating cowhide belts.
They also created a song "Cowhide Belt Song" based on this.
Cowhide belt is three feet long.
Grassland and wasteland are good dry food.
Don’t smell when you boil water.
Wild fire is cooked and fragrant.
A section for cooking wild vegetables.
A passage for cooking fresh soup.
There are many kinds of soup and vegetables.
Leave a comrade-in-arms taste
Red Army soldier Zhou Guocai was only 14 years old at that time.
There were 14 soldiers in his class.
But when we got to the grass, there were only seven people left
Soon after entering the grass
Their class ran out of dry food.
You can only dig wild vegetables, eat grass roots and chew bark.
Later, even the wild vegetables could not be found.
They had to start eating leather from gun belts and shoes.
But these things didn’t last long and were eaten up.
So everyone took off their belts and cooked.
When the belts of the six soldiers were finished,
Everyone said to Zhou Guocai
"It’s time to eat yours."
Comrades all know.
Zhou Guocai’s belt
It was in 1934 that the Red Army fought in any joint battle.
Captured booty
Zhou Guocai really loathe to give up.
Eat what you love.
But in order to fight hunger
Save the lives of the whole class.
He had to contribute his belt.
Looking at the beloved belt
A belt thread that is finely cut into small pieces.
Drift in the watery soup.
Zhou Guocai couldn’t help crying.
When the front part of the first eye of the belt is finished
He really couldn’t help it.
Cried and begged his comrades to say
"I don’t eat, comrades.
Let’s keep it as a souvenir.
We took it to Yan’ an to meet Chairman Mao. "
that’s it
Everyone is looking forward to the victory of the revolution.
endure the torments of hunger
Will this leftover half belt preserved.
On the subsequent Long March,
Six comrades-in-arms of Zhou Guocai died one after another.
Only he arrived in Yan ‘an with the victory of the Red Fourth Front Army.
In memory of the fallen comrades.
He used iron chopsticks on the back of the belt.
Burn the words "Long March"
Wrap it in red silk.
1975
Zhou Guocai has treasured this half belt for decades.
Donate to the country
Later, it was collected by the Museum of Chinese Revolution (now the National Museum of China)
"The wind and rain soaked the bones harder.
The stronger the ambition of potherb to satisfy hunger.
The officers and men share weal and woe.
The revolutionary ideal is higher than the sky. "
Senior general of the red army
And the treatment of ordinary soldiers is the same.
The National Museum of China has collected half a belt.
The owner of this half belt is Ren Bishi.
Political commissar of the Red Second Army at that time.
When he and his guards
Is to cut a little belt every day
Everyone can eat about three small pieces at a time.
Leftover belts from Ren Bishi’s Long March across the grassland.
For this special ingredient
Soldiers should use special cooking methods.
In order to be able to swallow
Even with special "condiments"
That is optimism.
Burn it and cook it.
Let’s eat together
Although it’s hard.
But they have a very optimistic revolutionary spirit.
They call belts.
"Good dry food in grassland wasteland"
"Boiled beef"
Ren Bishi kept it.
Eat the remaining half of the belt
As a memorial
After the founding of new China
His guard Li Shaoqing
Donate this half belt to
Museum of Chinese Revolution (now China National Museum)
These special "foods" collected in museums
Like a letter through time and space.
Revealing the team led by the Communist Party of China (CPC)
The mystery of steel and iron
Let people more deeply
Got to know this special group of people.
Understand a special belief
Come and give me a compliment before you go ~ ~ ~
Original title: "Eat the remaining half of the belt, these are the rations they are reluctant to eat."
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