In 1932, the Eastern Route Army advanced to the Area of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, and the soldiers could not understand Minnan. A soldier from Zhangzhou stood up, rehearsed a play, and actively publicized the ideas of the Red Army. In less than two months, led by soldiers, the Eastern Route Army recruited 1 million oceans and recruited more than 1,000 new recruits.
The soldier' name was Li Zhaobing, a well-known propaganda cadre in our army, who was awarded the rank of founding major general in 1955. Li Zhaobing, a native of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, was a representative of propaganda cadres among the founding generals. Li Zhaobing was admitted to the Second Division of Fujian in his early years, and after graduation, he served as a primary school teacher for a period of time.
After that, Li Zhaobing joined the Red Army and was assigned to the 4th Army of the Red 1st Army as a propaganda officer. In May 1932, due to strategic deployment, the Eastern Route Army of the Red Army advanced to the area of Zhangzhou in Fujian Province. Most of the soldiers of the Eastern Route Army were sons of Hunan and Jiangxi, and after coming to Zhangzhou, they could not understand the Minnan dialect of the villagers.
Because of the language barrier, there were many misunderstandings in the process of communication, and the villagers thought that the Red Army was the Kuomintang army, and they were too afraid to open the door. The white dogs wantonly oppressed the people, burned and plundered, and the people were already afraid to the extreme. If the problem of communication could not be solved, then the Red Army would not be able to take root in Fujian, let alone drive out the reactionaries.
At this moment, Li Zhaobing stood up, he was a native of Zhangzhou, familiar with the Hokkien language, and began to help the Red Army soldiers communicate with the villagers. The villagers had heard of the Red Army, but they had never seen it, and when they heard that the Red Army was coming, they rejoiced. They opened the gates, invited the Red Army to live in their homes, and brought many good food and drinks.
The soldiers of the Red Army strictly observed discipline, did not take a needle and a thread from the masses, and expressed their gratitude to the villagers for their warm hospitality. The red army bought the grain at a high price, carried water to help the villagers pick it out, and won the love of the villagers. In order to publicize the ideas of the Red Army, Li Zhaobing began to rehearse dramas and led the propaganda team to perform programs.
The plays he rehearsed were easy to understand, and the villagers never tired of watching them, and through watching the plays and singing, the hearts of the villagers and the Red Army were closely linked. The villagers hated the white dogs and volunteered to donate 1 million oceans to help the Red Army. Aspiring young people around Zhangzhou actively joined the army and broke through the threshold of the recruitment office, just to become glorious Soldiers of the Red Army.
In less than two months, the Eastern Route Army recruited more than 1,000 new recruits, and the troops grew rapidly. In the 5th anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the Red Army captured many Kuomintang soldiers, but unfortunately some of the prisoners were stubborn, saying: "The Nationalist army and the Red Army are the same, and the officials eat and take the buckle, and the small soldiers bleed and turn around." ”
In response to this part of the captives, Li Zhaobing created a drama called "For Whom Blood and Sweat Flow", which reflected the bad behavior of the Kuomintang officers in wantonly beating and cursing their subordinates. After the drama was staged, some of the stubborn prisoners watched it, and they cried and asked to join the Red Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army trampled on China's territory with iron hooves, and the sons and daughters of China joined hands to jointly resist the Japanese Kou.
Li Zhaobing, head of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army's Left Behind Corps, established the Beacon Theater Troupe on the basis of the Beacon News and began to perform propaganda plays on the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In 1939, the "Yellow River Chorus", composed by Guang Weiran and composed by Xian Xinghai, was completed, which attracted the attention of Li Zhaobing.
In April of that year, Li Zhaobing moved the "Yellow River Chorus" to the stage of the Beacon Theatre Troupe, and since then the song has spread throughout the north and south of the great river, inspiring the Chinese military and people to resist the war. During the Liberation War, Li Zhaobing continued to shine brightly, successively serving as deputy political commissar of the Second Military Subdistrict of the Jijin Military Region, political commissar of the Independent Fourth Brigade of the North China Military Region, and political commissar of the Taiyuan Garrison Headquarters.
After the founding of new China, he served as deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the North China Military Region and deputy director of the Cultural Department of the General Political Department, and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.