Fangshan: The story of the original heart behind a pennant

Fangshan geographically belongs to the northern section of the Taihang Mountains. The mountains are continuous, the vegetation is dense, the terrain is steep, the Juma River runs through the mountains from west to east, and the mountain body of the Shidu Town Scenic Area is a rare karst geomorphology in the north.

In the village committee of Ma'an Village, Shidu Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, a special flag is quietly displayed. The pennant is carefully protected by a glass cover, red satin, embellished with yellow tassels, and in the center is a two-line inscription "Carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory." Behind this is a story of the original heart that spans decades.

After the July 7 Incident in 1937, the Pingxi area, which included 12 counties of Fangshan, Changping, Liangxiang and Wanping, became the forefront of the Eighth Route Army's Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area. The Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region successively sent the Deng Hua detachment and the Song Shilun detachment into Pingxi, and created the Pingxi Anti-Japanese Base Area centered on the Baihua Mountain on the north side of Shidu. In 1939, Xiao Ke established the Eighth Route Army in Pingxi in accordance with the deployment of the Party Central Committee. Because it is located in the hinterland of Beiping, Tianjin and Zhangjiakou, the center of Japanese rule in North China, and is rich in mineral resources, Pingxi is regarded as a major problem by the Japanese and pseudo-Japanese, and frequently launches attacks in a vain attempt to eliminate it in one fell swoop. In his memoirs, Xiao Ke said that the village of Pingxi was not only burned down when the enemy "swept up", but also "became the enemy's firing range at the Nanyuan Air Force School... The relatively large village, probably only Xiayunling, one village has not been fried. ”

In 1943, Cao Mars, who had just joined the Communist Party, accompanied the Mass Drama Society to the Pingxi base area to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda. In Tangshang Village, Xiayunling, Fangshan, he witnessed the situation in which the broad masses of the people in the anti-Japanese base areas, under the leadership of the Communist Party, overcame all kinds of difficulties and persisted in the War of Resistance, and a distinct theme arose in his mind. He combined his love for the party and his personal feelings about historical practice to compose the song "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" in combination with the melody of folk songs.

Whether it is to clear the wilderness of the fortified wall or to set up an ambush, the villagers of Ma'an have resolutely responded to the party's call. According to the record, "the enemy who swept through Pingxi began to retreat from the 16th under the blows of our military and civilians... In particular, the battles near Ma'an Village and Shan Wing Ridge were the most important, killing and wounding more than 250 enemy and pseudo-puppets... At present, the basic area of Pingxi is invincible. "In Ma'an, mothers send sons, wives send men, and brothers rush to the battlefield. In 1941, Ma'an Village was awarded the title of "Anti-Japanese Model Village" by the Fanglaizhuo United County Government, which was the first anti-Japanese model village in the Pingxi base area.

After the founding of New China, the newborn people's power adjusted the old administrative divisions, the scope of the grass-roots political power changed, the old Eighth Road went down the mountain and into the city, and did the safety and security of the masses in the old areas still be taken to heart? In July 1951, the Central Committee made a decision to set up a visiting delegation to the old base areas in the north and the south in the name of the Central People's Government, and to go to the old revolutionary base areas to offer condolences.

The head of the Jin-Cha-Ji visiting delegation was Comrade Cheng Zihua. The delegation paid key visits to "the former seats of leading organs, model villages, military dependents, martyrs' dependents and many villages that were severely devastated by the enemy" Through on-the-spot visits to understand the actual situation in the old areas, the delegation saw the achievements and difficulties in the economic and social development of the old areas, and also sought truth from facts to record the problems that should be strengthened in the political leadership and ideological leadership of the old base areas. The pennant that reads "Carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory" preserved in Ma'an Village is a precious testimony to this period of history.

On the eve of the National Day in 1951, Premier Zhou Enlai received the representatives of the old district who accompanied the delegation to Beijing. He stressed, "The revolution is all about enabling the people of the whole country to live a good life. It should go down the hill, it should go into town. But when you go down the mountain, you should not forget the mountain, and when you enter the city, you should not forget the countryside. If you forget, you forget your roots. ”

Time has flown by and entered a new era, and the old revolutionary areas have embarked on a new journey of socialist modernization under the leadership of the party. Today's Ma'an Village is no longer a poor mountain and bad water that is easy to defend and difficult to attack in ancient times, but has become a pioneer in the implementation of the ecological civilization idea of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains". Now entering Ma'an, the village is clean and beautiful, the collective economy is growing, the villagers live and work in peace and contentment, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. This is the best answer to the pennant embroidered with the words "Carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory." (The author is deputy secretary of the Fangshan District Discipline Inspection Commission and deputy director of the District Supervision Commission)

Source: China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily

Author: Ma Yajun

Editor-in-charge: Zhan Yonglin

Audit: Smart

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