Gaotang Gang Guide: Dustpan (bo) Ji (also known as Dustpan Rim), located near the junction of Gaotang Town and Daming Town, east of Gaotang Pharmaceutical Factory Dapo, and the Camel Bridge that everyone knows is also on the Dustpan!
As for why the Camel Bridge is called Camel Bridge, it has always been a question in the heart of the editor!
Dustpans
Author: Wei Jian
My hometown is two miles away from Daming, on daming to go through a slope, there is a village called Du Beiya on this slope, when I was a child, school often passed from here, it was cold in winter, it was still very dark when I went to school, and when I went to the slope, it was not yet clear, we picked up a bunch of bag grain poles on the slope to make a fire for warmth, the red fire roasted the red face, the heart was warm, especially beautiful, so, on the slope of Daming, I still remember it.
My hometown is two miles away from Gaotang, and I have to go through a mound on Gaotang, there is no village on this mound, this mound is called tuft mound, although the dustpan does not belong to Daming territory, it is a place that I was particularly familiar with when I was a child.
The dustpan is located at the junction of Daming and Gaotang on the Red Railway. It is named after the dustpan shape.
Camel bridge over dustpans
The dustpan is not a well-known place in Gaotangyuan District, and even many people do not know that there is such a thing, and even many people who live near it all year round or even pass by here do not know its name. It is not as famous as those Wei Jiayuan, Liu Jiayuan, Pan Yuan, Yan Yuan, Lü Yuan, Huang Yuan, etc., but it has a particularly broad mind, and I can say that almost no one on Gaotang Yuan has not passed through the dustpan, because it is in the necessary place of the main traffic between Gaotang and Daming.
The dustpan is wide in the east and narrow in the west, just like a huge dustpan placed horizontally at the junction of Gaotang and Daming, from the time I remember, no matter the spring, autumn, winter or summer, I always stuck to my post, dusted away the nothingness in life, and left the true story; the difficult years were dusted away, and the eternal memory was retained; the physical and mental fatigue was dusted away, and the ripe fruits were left behind.
Dustpans are a testament to my childhood life. As a child, there was a fertile field under the dustpan, and under the dustpan there was a babbling stream flowing down from the bridge.
My friends and I cut grass for pigs, dig medicine, and collect firewood often come to the dustpan, where they are high and low, hide and seek, catch grasshoppers, pick wild sour dates, run all over the slopes, tired, lie on the ground, look up at the blue sky, it is not comfortable; hungry, carrying grain in the field, planing sweet potatoes, roasting taro beans, or even catching sparrows, beautiful wives; thirsty, just crawl by the stream, regardless of whether the water is clean or not, hungry and hungry, always feel that the water is so sweet.
Dustpans are also a good battlefield for us to fight as children. When I was a child, during the summer harvest season, the adults cut the wheat, the wheat was carried, the boys were responsible for the wheat, and we carried a cage to collect the wheat. Our land is under the mound, the ground of The South Fort of Gaotang is on the mound, across from us, in the wheat collection, we sometimes happen to encounter a piece of the South Fort, it is inevitable that bumps will occur, so the children of the two villages have a large-scale "war", that scene, that position, I dare say, the children now have never heard of it, let alone seen it.
After the war began, the "bullets" were fired like raindrops, some rushing forward, some hiding backwards, shouting, crying, and scolding, and they sounded like a battlefield. In fact, our battles also talk about strategy and tactics, and the "commander" saw that the tit-for-tat blow was both damaged and it was not easy to obtain a position, so he adopted a roundabout tactic, he let the front firepower exercise protection, sent the main team members to copy bread from the side, captured the thief first, and finally captured the opposing "commander" and begged for forgiveness and ended the battle.
The memory left by the dustpan is sweet and bitter, then Daming did not gather, the whole Gaotang people will meet in Gaotang, there was no asphalt cement road at that time, there was a dirt road that went around from the southern end of the dustpan, at that time there were few cars and no motorcycles, most people would be on foot, so the dustpan was particularly lively, every May Ninth Meeting, the people on the road were endless, bustling, the road was pulling sheep, carrying a wooden push single rudder, looking very lively, But from the clothes and eyes of hurried pedestrians, it always shows the poverty of people's lives and the helplessness of life.
The dustpan is also a magnificent revolutionary epic. It was here that the anti-encirclement and suppression battles of the Weihua Uprising, which shocked China and foreign countries in 1928, took place.
In early June 1928, the Kuomintang Weinan County Security Regiment rushed out to attack Tashan, but was heroically blocked by the Red Guards in eastern Shaanxi. Xie Haoru, member of the Northwest Working Committee of the CPC and responsible person of the Northwest Revolutionary Military Commission, led reinforcements from Gaotang, and the rebel army attacked from both sides, causing heavy casualties and a rupture of the security regiment.
On June 10, the Tian Jinkai Cavalry Division of the Nationalist Army set out from the county seat of Huaxian County and drove directly to gaotang town via Guapo and Daming Temple, in a vain attempt to attack the headquarters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. At dawn, it occupied the commanding heights near Gaotang, Camel Xiang, and formed a fan-shaped encirclement of the revolutionary army from the east and north directions. At this time, the second and third brigades of the revolutionary army carried out guerrilla activities along the Chishui Highway, and the troops in the Gaotang area were empty. Squadron Commander Zhou Yisan led his troops and the remaining personnel of the Second Brigade to charge the Tian Army, and the fierce sound of gunfire and charging horns was heard all the way to the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army. Tang Shu's commander-in-chief immediately sent Zhang Hanquan to lead the Red Guards to attack and fight fiercely with the Tian army at Camel Xiang. During the battle, Zhang Hanquan was wounded in the arm, and the chief of staff, Wang Taiji, commanded the troops to continue the fighting, crushing the Tian army under the camel. At this time, Gao Wenmin, Xie Haoru, and others returned with their troops, and immediately made a decision, commanding the troops to launch an attack from behind the Tian army, which thought that it had been ambushed, panicked, dropped many boxes of mortar shells, and fled back to the county seat of Hua County.
After winning the two anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, Liu Jinggui presided over an enlarged meeting of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Military Commission under two ancient locust trees at Gaotang Primary School to analyze the current situation and the whereabouts of the revolutionary army. In order to counter the enemy's re-attack, the headquarters redeployed the rebel army and civilian armed forces, and moved the headquarters from Gaotang Primary School to Nanbao Village, Jianyukou.
On June 19, Song Zheyuan, chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Government, personally led three divisions of Wei Fenglou, Sun Lianzhong, and Tian Jinkai, under the guidance of the Kuomintang local militia and landlords and gentry, divided into three roads in the east, middle, and west, step by step, and attacked Gaotang and Tashan in a vain attempt to eliminate the rebel soldiers and civilians in one fell swoop.
A division of the Song army in the middle of the road, under the personal supervision and command of Song Zheyuan, led by the bully landlords Li Jinpeng, Wang Zuo, Wang Zhenqian, and Niu Zhenlong, attacked from the east and west rivers of Chishui to Gaotang and Weijiayuan in two ways. Under the cover of heavy artillery, the Song army in Dongchuan took turns to storm the forward positions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army on the slope of the Camel Canal. Liu Jinggui led his troops to stubbornly resist, and after a day of fierce fighting, the two sides formed a confrontation. The Song army that Attacked By Xichuan attempted to occupy Wei Jiayuan and then seize Jianyukou and cut off the communication between the headquarters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and the Tashan stronghold. A squadron of the Second Brigade of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and a unit of the Red Guards of Eastern Shaanxi, commanded by Tang Shu and Xue Zishuang, repelled many chargees of the Song army according to the fortifications. The Song army took another battalion, changed into plain clothes, and detoured from the west side of Wei Jiayuan. Xue Zishuang led hundreds of armed peasants to copy the situation, and the battle situation slowed down slightly. At noon, the Song army was led by the landlord Wang Zhenqian to attack from the flank, but was repulsed by the revolutionary army. Xue Zishuang then led the Eastern Shaanxi Red Guards to attack from the flank, and the Song army was in disarray. After a day of fierce confrontation between the two sides, the Wei jiayuan position was always an insurmountable barrier for the Song army. Whether the camel necklace or the camel canal here is on the dustpan, although the Weihua uprising failed, it dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the reactionary ruling class in the northwest and inspired the fighting spirit of the people in the northwest. At the same time, it has trained a large number of revolutionary backbones and leading figures for the party, accumulated rich experience in struggle, and educated and tempered the people of Shaanxi. For more than eighty years, dustpans and camel canals have been silently waiting here, recording this unforgettable history with its silence.
Nowadays, under the inspiration of the party's reform and opening up policy, people's lives are richer, there are more cars on the road and fewer people, and the dustpans no longer have the lively scene of the past, but the scenery under the dustpans is more beautiful, and the patches of pepper trees and cypress trees have decorated the dustpans more beautifully, and the wide cement roads, fertile fields, and the large and small vehicles that come and go make the dustpans show a modern rural atmosphere.
Dustpan, the memory of my life that I will never forget.