Inheriting red culture, Changsha "long red"

Changsha Evening News all-media reporter Yin Wei

"Loyalty and righteousness are martyred for the country, and Zhicheng spills blood on the Xiangjiang River." On the evening of the 20th, a beautiful and moving Xiang opera high voice touched the hearts of the audience of Hunan Grand Theater. The original Xiang drama "The Road of Loyalty", which tells the heroic deeds of Chen Shuxiang, a revolutionary martyr from Changsha, is being staged here.

In Changsha, the mountains have stories and the rivers have legends. The solemn and intense "Changsha Red" is the most distinctive background color of the city. Changsha insists on making good use of red resources, carrying forward the red tradition, and inheriting the red gene well, using the red gene to cultivate the temperament of civilization, enrich the red elements, tell the red story well, deepen the red education, let the red blood of the star city land live endlessly, and let the people of Changsha draw the spiritual strength of forging ahead from the glorious course of the party.

Rich red elements, red resources glow with the charm of the times

Changsha's red cultural resources are unique and rich. According to the "Census Report on Revolutionary Sites in Hunan Province", there are currently 2,095 red resource points in Hunan, and 275 in Changsha, including 26 footprints of great people, 22 former residences of celebrities, 26 hot lands of workers' and peasants' revolutions, and 19 memorial sites for revolutionary martyrs.

Changsha deeply excavated the red elements and value connotations of revolutionary sites, and grasped the census, restoration, protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics in the whole process, so that red resources could glow with the charm of the times.

Wang Han's TV show "Little Shop on the Clouds" is currently being broadcast, allowing Xiaohe Township in Liuyang City to enter the national audience's vision. Xiaohe Township, located in the upper reaches of the Liuyang River, because of its remote location, became an important area of the Xiang'e-Gansu Revolutionary Base Area during the revolutionary war years. As the "logistics base" of the Red Army, many revolutionary sites such as arsenals, hospitals, schools, mints, libraries, and quilt factories were left here. Tianxin Village, Xiaohe Township, has a Fan Family Ancestral Hall with green tile cornices and white walls and Hakka architectural style, which is the location of the Rear Hospital of the Red Army. In the six years from the autumn harvest uprising in 1927 to the transfer of the main force of the Red Army in 1933, the hospital treated more than 7,000 wounded and sick soldiers, and after treatment, most of them returned to the front. In 2010, Liuyang City carried out a comprehensive renovation of the old site and opened it to the public, so that visitors can see the pharmacy, operating room, ward and other restored displays. In 2019, the Fan Family Ancestral Hall was announced as the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, together with the former sites of other Red Army activities.

In Changsha, there are many red scenic spots like the Fan Family Ancestral Hall. Open the H5 Changsha red map of Changsha in your hand, as long as you click on the mobile phone, you can "cloud tour" dozens of red attractions and exhibition halls in Changsha in a 360-degree VR panorama, visit and visit relics, ruins, and memorials; you can also relive the century-old party history and pursue red memories through the "Party Lessons on the Cloud", "Party History Picture Books" and "Learning History Quiz" and other plates, so that the soul can be baptized and the spirit can be sublimated.

Tell the red story well, and the creation of red products inspires people's hearts

At the end of the year, the triennial Hunan Art Festival and the annual Changsha Rhododendron Art Festival are being held in Star City. Focusing on major themes and important time nodes such as celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, various units in the provincial capital have created and rearranged a large number of outstanding red plays, allowing the audience to look back at the century-old party history and feel the power of faith in the literary and artistic performances.

"If there is a thought, the red flowers will bloom all over the mountain." As long as the red flowers bloom all over the mountain, people do not go far. "A national opera , Half a Red Army Quilt " warms the whole of China. "Half a Red Army" was shortlisted for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's 2020-2021 "Chinese National Opera Inheritance and Development Project" key support repertoire and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Stage Art Creation Project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China", and it is also a key work presented by Hunan Province and Changsha City to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party. Following the premiere of Changsha and the guangzhou tour in July, "Half a Red Army Quilt" appeared on the stage of the China Opera Festival as the first work in Hunan in October, and won the "Excellent Repertoire" award issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The play has been selected for the 7th Hunan Arts Festival, and on January 4 next year, the song of "Half a Red Army Quilt" will be sung in Changsha again.

The large-scale modern flower drum play "Forever Shuheng" created by Ningxiang City was also selected for the Hunan Arts Festival, which is the first theatrical work in China to depict the glorious life of the martyr He Shuheng, a major representative of the Communist Party of China and a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation. "Forever Shuheng" deeply excavates He Shuheng's spiritual beliefs and lofty demeanor, and embodies the great spirit and majestic strength of the Communist Party of China in leading the Chinese revolution to victory. After more than 300 days of meticulous planning, creative arrangement and training, the work showed the audience an original red drama with a distinct theme, touching and exquisite art, which was praised by all sectors of society as a vivid party lesson of "learning the red spirit, feeling the feelings of the family and the country, enhancing the personal realm, and stimulating patriotic fighting spirit". In order to meet the needs of the majority of grass-roots audiences, the director team carefully planned and carefully choreographed the version suitable for grass-roots performances, from October 10 to November 24, "Forever Shuheng" toured 40 times in more than 20 townships and scenic spots in Ningxiang, which was warmly welcomed by the audience.

Deepening red education, star city red blood is endless

On December 7th and 8th, the Theoretical Learning Center Group of the Party Committee of Changsha Southern Vocational College came to the teaching base of Changsha Red College to carry out the theme party day activity of "condensing the history of the party and tempering the party spirit and fulfilling the mission". At the former residences of He Shuheng and Xie Jueya, following the introduction of the explainers, everyone recalled the great achievements of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, and through one photo after another, paragraph by paragraph, felt the great spirit of "dedicating oneself to the party and always drawing on the party, and seeking more diligently with the people." At the ningxiang coal dam site, the winch house, mine derrick, old chimney and coal mining tools and machinery and equipment of different periods show the outstanding contributions of coal workers, and their selfless dedication and spirit of not being afraid of hardships are always worth carrying forward.

Changsha Red College is guided by the Propaganda Department of Changsha Municipal Party Committee and jointly established by Hunan First Normal University and Changsha Evening News. Changsha Red College relies on the red cultural advantages of Hunan First Normal College and the platform advantages of Changsha Evening News mainstream party media, based on the fertile red soil of Hunan and Changsha, adopts the cooperative school running model of "party building + universities + party media" to spread red culture and inherit red genes. Since its establishment at the end of April, it has received nearly 10,000 students from inside and outside the province to receive red education.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Changsha celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, "Symphony Season of Great Rivers and Rivers, Hundred Mile Gallery Centennial Song" series of cultural actions, "Just Recognize this Principle, Always Follow the Party" theme propaganda, make the solemn and strong "Changsha Red" the most distinctive background of the city.

The 275 revolutionary sites on the banks of the Liuyang River and on both sides of the Xiang River and the 19,639 heroic figures are vast classrooms and living teaching materials for the study and education of party history. Changsha has planted red memories, red elements of situational, immersive experiential learning, all-round, three-dimensional innovative cultural dissemination, and constantly heat up and create momentum for the study and education of party history. The red theme tour of the original mission of the original heart makes "Changsha Red" enter the mind.

In 2021, Changsha will add two new national patriotic education demonstration bases - Mao Zedong Youth Art Sculpture in Orange Island and the old site of the Xinmin Society, which will add impetus to play a leading role, tell the red story well, and strengthen publicity and education. Changsha has also built 94 red bases such as Hunan First Normal College, Qingshuitang, Yang Kaihui Memorial Hall into a red education array, with dots and lines, radiation into surfaces, launching a red education brand that can be felt, heard and experienced, so that the red blood of the star city land will continue to live.