The Chinese New Year's Eve on Mount Faka

Looking at the "Spring League" hanging on the border, one by one

Chen Yuzhou

In the long river of history, the stars and dots, the colorful years, and the wisps of human nature can always pass through the tunnel of time and reproduce the original appearance of that year, that period of poignant and tragic moving stories. In 1984, during the Spring Festival of the first year when I came to the Farka Mountains on the southern frontier to serve as a soldier, I deeply felt the joy of the officers and men of the big family of the army and the lingering feelings of comradeship. The Farka Mountains, 501 meters above sea level, are built on the back hill, the mountain is cut into almost 90 degrees, the walls are painted green, and the concealment is excellent. From a distance, the green barracks are integrated with the green mountain love. Her beauty is her armor, and every inch of the land is stained with blood, which has been exchanged for the young lives of 154 soldiers. Although it is desolate and lonely, life is hard, and there are often gunshots, it is extremely glorious and proud to be stationed here. Border guards have their own warrior fun. The position was full of tension and pleasure, and the soldiers on duty for the festival tightened their vigilant strings and clenched the submachine guns in their hands. In order to enliven the festive atmosphere and boost morale, some soldiers picked some mountain flowers from the hillside and used various flowers to form the Tiananmen Tower and the national and military flags to decorate the position; some were busy fiddling with candy, melon seeds, and other food sent by relatives of the motherland; some read letters of condolence; some wrote the first family letter of the New Year, but more importantly, officers and soldiers carried out the activity of writing the Spring Festival in the battlefield, which was also the highlight of the Border Pass to celebrate the Spring Festival. Although the front line of Faka Mountain is located in the southern frontier where a hundred flowers bloom, the dazzling big red spring league is inferior to the hundred flowers of the competition, which seems to add a little more gorgeous to the flower and fruit mountain. The festive elements of the "Great Red Spring League" have become an important internal form and content that enlivens the festive atmosphere and encourages morale. Our Heroic Garrison Company of Mount Faka often uses the patriotic, loyal, martial and other spirits contained in these border cultures to forge inspiration, and enhances the pride of border guards, so that the soldiers go to the front line and are more cordial with the people of the motherland. The most direct love, the true feelings, is expressed at a glance through the carrier of this emotion. From the Battlefield Spring League, you can find the answers of the warriors. "The nameless grass quietly offered a little emerald green, and the ordinary soldier silently offered his fist and pure heart." They pondered the nation, history, life, and war in the cat ear hole, thinking was the burning fire of poetry, and calligraphy was the twin brother of the couplet, so they took a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, and created a field couplet full of youthful vitality, self-styled as the cat ear cave poetry school, a bit like the taste of the "April Five-Year" Tiananmen poetry tide in 1976, a school of pastoral poetry and landscape painting. I have always loved calligraphy in middle school, and I also devoted myself to the activities of creating and writing Spring Festival, which not only played a skill, but more importantly, let me and my comrades-in-arms close the distance and felt the warmth of the army family. The comrades-in-arms concentrated on pressing paper, dipping ink, starting and closing the pen, and together, one by one, the big red spring league waved by the letters, lines, and letters was perfectly presented to everyone. Some are vigorous and powerful, some are fresh and flowing, some have both square and round, some are waving horizontally and horizontally, and the battlefield couplets that emit a strong ink fragrance are full of festive atmosphere. "Laughing and fighting wind and rain to guard the border pass, the wind and food sleeping in the heart are sweet", "The ear hole of the cat is better than the fairy cave, the incense sprays the sunflower Asay Junzilan", "The long sleep of the wild with a smile, forever maintaining the spring light of the river and the mountain", "On the full moon night, you miss me and miss the two hearts, and the triumph day is happy and tearful and the family gathers", "Countless sweet springs are happy wine, and the endless peaks are difficult to reach for the dowry", "Only the heroes and soldiers bear the cannon fire, wind and rain and hardships, so that the motherland is full of flowers, sunshine and love", "The sound of gunfire and cannons reading, the sound of the sound into the ears, Long holes, short holes, cat ear holes, holes out of talents", "Warriors defend the country and do not call wolf smoke rolling up, loyal bones buried in the border why do you need to wrap the body of Ma Ge back" These battlefield spring festivals emit an enticing fragrance of ink, which adds to the soldiers' pride and poetry, and the officers and men participating in the war have found the best carrier and platform for realizing their ideals between the needs of the motherland and their personal wishes, and are also a vivid portrayal of their patriotism and love for the people and the meritorious frontier. "It doesn't matter if you suffer losses, as long as the doctrine is true; if you lose me, you will be happy for a billion people." This Spring Festival, especially the last two sentences, was also changed to "Sacrifice me and be happy for a billion people", which spread from the frontier to the interior, and once caused repercussions and resonance among the masses of the people, especially young college students. At that time, our country was in the midst of the reform and opening up of "the government is in harmony with the people, and a hundred wastes are waiting to be revitalized", the economy is developing rapidly, and people are pursuing a better life. Only part of the writing is written with pen and ink paper, and there are more that are tailored to local conditions and simple because of ugliness. On the mountain wall, on the stone at the mouth of the cat's ear hole, there are some painted on the tent, some with small stones, some with mountain flowers, and some with banana leaves. Some of these Spring Festivals were copied into diaries, some were recorded in family letters, some were photographed on cameras, some were collected into books, and some organized battlefield Spring Festival recitation evenings. Once patriotic enthusiasm is aroused, it will gush with infinite wisdom and strength. This is true of fighting wars, and it is also true of writing and using the Spring League on the battlefield; in a certain sense, the Spring League on the battlefield is also a microcosm and a true portrayal of the spiritual world of the officers and men participating in the war. The past is like smoke, the years are like songs, behind a pair of battlefield spring leagues, there is a little unknown dusty past, although it is frozen in the moment of history, but it has not been sealed in the dust, always involuntarily drilled out to talk with me in the air, like nostalgia, lingering, haunting the dream. Chen Yuzhou