Returning home and scenery is the traditional concept of Chinese. However, many founding generals have broken this idea. Yang Yong was a native of Wenjia City, Liuyang, Hunan Province, and was later awarded the rank of founding general. At the end of the Liberation War, Yang Yong served as the commander of the Fifth Corps.
The commander of the corps has three armies under his command, with a strength of nearly 100,000 people. The commander of the 100,000-strong army, in the past, was a prince of one side, very glorious. In the eyes of the old family, this is the grand official of the shining lintel.
Yang Yong led the Fifth Corps to participate in the campaign to liberate the Great Southwest, and his main task was to liberate Guizhou Province. Passing through the border of Xianggan and Gansu, it is only 60 miles away from home, which is already very close. Yang Yong missed his hometown very much and did not know whether the old mother was still there.
Political Commissar Su Zhenhua saw through Yang Yong's thoughts and advised him to take time to go back to his hometown to have a look. Yang Yong took the guards and went to Wenjia City. After 20 years, the boy of the year has finally returned. Yang Yong was already able to see the big locust tree in front of his house.
Hurry up, however, Yang Yong suddenly stopped. Why? Yang Yong stopped and said to the guards that in their hometown, there is an ancient custom, which family has a big nobleman, becomes a big official outside, and returns to his hometown, that is a solemn welcome, firecrackers, gongs and drums, the masses come out to greet.
(Su Zhenhua, political commissar of the Fifth Corps, Yang Yong, commander)
Yang Yong said: This is not good, our army is the people's army, we are all the people's attendants, and we do not engage in feudalism. So he didn't want everyone to welcome him, it was too expensive. In order to avoid this set of customs, Yang Yong decided not to take the main road, but to quietly take the small road home, do not make a noise, and try not to alarm the villagers.
After saying that, Yang Yong led everyone around the path and quietly entered the house. Although Yang Yong was very careful, he was still discovered by some villagers. Firecrackers soon sounded, and everyone gathered around Yang Yong's door.
Several elderly people walked into Yang Yong's house and asked Yang Yong's mother, "When the man is back, why don't you tell everyone about it?" Yang Yong's old mother replied, I didn't know beforehand, as soon as the servant entered the door, she frightened me.
(Yang Yong and Mr. He)
Everyone complained that now that the servant was a high official, what a great event it was to honor the ancestors, and it could not be made cold, and it must be celebrated well. Yang Yong said, however, that our Communist Party does not enjoy these things, that we all serve the people, and that we do not engage in the guangzong yaozu system.
Some people proposed to reopen the ancestral hall of the Yang family and comfort the ancestors of the Yang family. Yang Yong also declined. He told everyone that these were all old habits left over from feudal society, a means used by the exploiting classes to deceive the people, and that the Communist Party did not believe in that set, so it could no longer engage in the matter of repairing ancestral halls and building ancestral temples.
Yang Yong stayed at home for a few days, talked with his mother, especially went to comfort the comrades who died, sent pensions to their families, and then hurried back to the army to continue the journey of liberating the great southwest.