Author: Gao Jianguo (military writer, author of the long-form reportage "The Initial Heart of the Great River - The Stormy Course of the Birth of Jiao Yulu's Spirit", "A Bullet and a Red Classic", etc., and has won awards such as the Xu Chi Reportage Award. ）
Yancheng, named after salt, flourished with salt, And in the Song Dynasty, Lü Yijian, Yan Shu, and Fan Zhongyan successively served as salt officials in Dongtai Xixi in the southern border of Yancheng, and then successively entered the dynasty, and the "Xixi Sanjie" was passed down as a good story through the ages; Yancheng, Jinge Iron Horse, Qitun Mountain River, the New Fourth Army Headquarters was reborn here, the Central Bureau of the CPC Central Committee was subsequently announced, and the Gancheng City of the State bent bow and shot the Sun To build Gong Jianghuai; Yancheng, the ecological city, the crane dance deer singing, China's first coastal wetland-type world natural heritage realized its dream here. A hundred years of hard work, suffering and glory, engraved on the land of Yanfu magnificent epic, swinging intestines.
"Fan Gong Causeway", "Song Gong Causeway", "Han Xiao Causeway", the three causeways of Yancheng that have risen and fallen for thousands of years reflect the hearts of many people in the world
A thousand years ago, in the fifth year of Song Tianxi (1021), the 32-year-old Fan Zhongyan went to serve as the supervisor of the salt warehouse in the eastern Taixi Xixi in the southern border of Yancheng. The line from Yancheng to Dongtai "goes to the sea for only one mile", and the frequent yellow sea tides "hear from afar like the sky collapses, and come like an axe", irrigate farmland and destroy salt stoves, causing local people to be unhappy. Fan Zhongyan surveyed the site and found that the Changfeng Weir built by Li Cheng in the Tang Dynasty could no longer resist the invasion of the sea tide, so in the first year of Tiansheng (1023), he wrote to Zhang Lun, the deputy envoy of the Jianghuai system and transportation, to rebuild the seawall. Emperor Renzong of Zhang, who had a people-oriented feeling, was favored by Emperor Renzong, and Fan Zhongyan was recommended to be the commander of Xinghua County and presided over the construction of the seawall.
At that time, the remains of the Changfengyan embankment were blurred, and it was not easy to re-explore the site! Fan Zhongyan led migrant workers to dump rice husks along the coast, and the tidal chaff was left to form a "chaff line", which became the site piling logo. People admired fan gong wisdom, and the name "chaff di" was born from this.
Jiangsu Yancheng Song Gong Monument and Song Gong Di Old Site. Profile picture
In the sixth year of Tiansheng (1028), 40,000 migrant workers in the four prefectures of Tong, Tai, Chu and Hai worked hard for more than 4 years to build a levee from Yancheng Temple Bay to Nantong Lvsi Port. The Yancheng section of the levee is more than 90 kilometers long, 5 meters high, 10 meters wide at the bottom, and 3.3 meters wide at the top. The embankment was built to dredge the river in each section of the salt field, and the river was connected to the river that was convenient for the transportation of salt. The levee was repaired in January, more than 3,000 fugitives returned to their homes, and more than 1,600 salt families resumed work. The Yanfu seashore recreates the scenery of the ridge brine of the East Tuntian Ridge, the boiling sea as salt, the fragrant rice in the west of the river, and the prosperity of the mulberry and the wild, and the reputation of Fangong Causeway has been praised for thousands of years.
911 years after the completion of the Fangong Causeway, on August 29, 1939, a sudden hurricane on the coast of the Yellow Sea broke through the shore, and the tsunami that had not been encountered in a hundred years broke through the seawall, leveling the villages, and the coast was hundreds of miles into a Ze country, and more than 13,000 people in Funing County were killed!
After the disaster, Funing, who was full of mourning, flew to the desk of Han Deloitte, chairman of the Kuomintang Jiangsu Provincial Government and deputy commander-in-chief of the Lusu Theater. Helplessly, this official was busy fighting for power and profit all day long, and he was still keeping a close eye on the New Fourth Army to engage in friction, who had the heart to help the victims of the disaster?
In the winter of 1939, Yang Zhijiang, an enlightened gentry from Funing who had resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, indignantly appealed to the local Noble Families to jointly write a letter to Han Deloitte and personally go to Xinghua, the seat of the provincial government, to call for disaster relief and re-construction of the seawall. Forced by the pressure of public opinion, Han Deqin allocated 200,000 yuan to Funing, and after several deductions, only 110,000 yuan was left, which took several months to build a small embankment more than one meter high, which was ridiculed by the people as "Han Xiaodi". Sure enough, the following year, the Funing tsunami started again, and the han's small embankment collapsed completely, and the people of Funing experienced another catastrophe.
In the autumn of 1940, Huang Kecheng led the Fifth Column of the Eighth Route Army into Yanfu, and on October 10, the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government of Funing County was established, and Song Naide, director of the Supply Department of the Fifth Column, was elected as the first county magistrate. When Song Naide took office, he asked the government and the people, and the discussion was quite touching to listen to the call for rebuilding the seawall. However, there are also objections: "The construction of the seawall is very expensive, and the new government is waiting for a long-term plan." Song Naide said: "The people of Funing are deeply affected by the tide of the sea, the anti-Japanese government should respond to the people's anxieties, and building a seawall is the top priority!" ”
Song Naide reported to Huang Kecheng on the construction of the embankment in Funing, and Huang Kecheng made a clear statement: "The construction of the embankment in Funing is also a bridge between the communist army and the new regime and the masses!" ”
In the blink of an eye, it was a cold winter, and Song Naide led people to the coast to survey, measure the remnants of the embankment, measure the earthwork, and grasp the first-hand information. On November 23, Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi led the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army of the Central China New Fourth Army to move from Hai'an to Yancheng, and Song Naide submitted a report on the construction of the embankment. After reading it, Liu Shaoqi immediately instructed: "All the problems that the masses of the people urgently need to solve, even the smallest things are big things!" ”
In February 1941, the first Senate of Funing County reconsidered the matter of repairing the embankment, and Song Naide, on behalf of the democratic government, proposed that the cost of repairing the embankment should not be borne by the people, and that public bonds should be issued, and the government would repay it, and work would be used as a substitute for relief. After the proposal to repair the embankment was approved, a levee repair committee was established with Song Naide as the director, and Song Naide personally served as the chief commander of the project. Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi personally coordinated the situation, and the county anti-Japanese democratic government issued 1 million yuan of public bonds with salt tax as collateral.
Near the middle of May, the construction began, but the public debt only sold more than 100,000 yuan, but the rumors were like wings flying all over the world: "Repairing the embankment is a circle of money, buying public debt meat buns to beat dogs has no return!" Song Naide decided to raise funds while starting construction, and first build a north embankment to stabilize people's hearts. On May 15, the construction of the north embankment began, and there were only more than 1,000 migrant workers. Huang Kecheng found that the migrant workers were short of grain at the construction site, that is, he allocated all the newly purchased 120,000 yuan of military grain to receive assistance, and the number of workers quickly increased to more than 9,000. The 27-kilometer-long north embankment with 830,000 earthworks was completed in 15 days.
The construction of the south embankment is early summer. Some people follow the local old practice of "not picking the river in the cold, and not piling up in the summer" and suggest that it be rebuilt after autumn. Song Naide said that the flood season is not waiting for anyone, and construction must be started on June 19! The embankment had to be built to block the eight-foot-wide estuary, and Song Naide took the lead in jumping into the turbulence to organize the waves, and the embankment was closed as scheduled. At the time of the epidemic, torrential rains were pouring down, and there was a lot of loss of migrant workers. Song Naide, who was suffering from malaria, helped the sick to fight and personally wrote the "Letter to Workers" to recall the migrant workers. Japanese planes jumped on the construction site three times to bomb, the bandits tied up Chen Zhendong, the mayor of battan District and the commander of the project site, tied up his broken leg and threw it into the sea, and Yu Xin, head of the military section of the county government, was also killed at the same time. Huang Kecheng ordered the 23rd Regiment of the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army to enter the embankment to escort, and on July 5, the 18-kilometer-long south embankment was successfully completed. A few days later, the tsunami broke out, the water level was 20 centimeters higher than the 1939 tsunami, and the duration was nearly half an hour, and the levee stood still.
The new levee is 45 kilometers long, 3 meters high, more than 2 million earthworks, and 516,900 francs. The following year, all millions of bonds were redeemed by the government. The people of Funing called the levee "Song Gong Causeway" and erected a monument to Ji Gong. A folk song is popular along the coast of northern Jiangsu: "From south to north, a dragon, do not let the salty tide reach Fudong." Since then, I have not heard of the family disaster, and I want to song Gong every time I smell the tide. Yang Zhijiang wrote a poem praising: "Fan Gong has passed on to the Song Gong, and worships the ancestors and worships the later sages." After the founding of New China, Song Naide served as vice minister of light industry.
The three of the millennium, the mirror of the people's hearts! The Song Xiao Causeway, which has no trace of the sea, has long been reduced to a laughingstock of history; the wordless monument Fan Gong Causeway, with the extension of sediment into the New World to the east to the Yellow Sea, passes through the city from Yancheng District and merges into the main artery of Coastal Traffic in Jiangsu; and the Song Gong Causeway, which has been in the Hanhai for 80 years, has become a vivid teaching material for weathered people, together with the Song Gong Monument treasured in the Memorial Hall of the New Fourth Army in Yancheng.
Yancheng originally had no mountains, and the "Five Ridges" built by more than 2,000 loyal skeletons made the peaks of Yanfu's land majestic
The history of Yancheng is called the Yanfu Plain. The name "salt" is derived from the "salt field around the city", and the "Fu" is because of the vastness of the land. The city's elevation is only 4 to 6 meters above sea level, and the low-lying area is below 2 meters. However, the only prefecture-level city in the country without mountains has peaked because of a touching sacrifice in that year.
In late December 1947, the Nationalist Army reorganized more than 13,000 people from the 4th Division, the 21st Division, and the 51st Division, and attacked Yancheng from Eastern Taipei. On December 26, the 6 regiments of huaye's 11th column and 12th column, together with local armed forces, launched a blockade battle south of Yancheng along the Tongyu Road in the area of Wuyou and Bencang, southeast of Yancheng.
That battle was fought too hard. "The sound of gunfire is more intense than the firecrackers of the New Year, and the fireballs that jump back and forth burn the sky red..." In Gangnan Village, Yuankan Township, Wuyou District, which is close to the battlefield (now renamed Qingyuan Village in Bufeng Town, the name of the two martyrs), villager Cheng Buying described the battle that lasted for 4 days and 4 nights.
After New Year's Day, He Fushuo, instructor of the 5th Company of the 104th Regiment, and Ye Kaiqu, a security officer, led people to assist the local burial of martyrs. On the saline land in front of Gangnan Village, migrant workers excavated ditches more than 40 meters long, 3 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. At first, I didn't know how many ditches to dig. When people saw that in the small river called the benedg port, more than a dozen small boats carrying the remains of martyrs came in a row, and the remains carried down were lined up into long dragons: These are all children of eighteen or nineteen or twenty lang years old, a few days ago, they were still carrying water for the people in the village, that day the company opened a meal, the soldiers in front of them just picked up the bowl, and the soldiers behind them were still lining up to eat, and when they received an emergency reinforcement order, they didn't even bother to eat and went up... From ancient times to the present, the cropper He has seen such a tragic sacrifice!
One ditch, two ditches, three ditches... The tantalum head waved the full moon, and the shovel awakened the dawn. For two consecutive days, Bian Derong, a 42-year-old man in Qingyuan Village, was always digging with his head hooked. When the sun shone on the third day, he saw that he had begun to dig the fifth ditch, and the strong man could no longer suppress the grief in his heart, and he suddenly cried.
Bian Derong's daughter-in-law Cheng Buying came to deliver food and led her 8-year-old son Bian Hua to count the remains of martyrs, but it was impossible to count the number of them. Overheard people scratching their hearts and saying: It's over two thousand... Cheng Buying wiped his tears and told the children, don't forget these soldiers who died for the poor!
Gao Jian, chief of the civil affairs section of Yandong County, comforted the migrant workers, and although the huaye disciples and soldiers sacrificed a lot in this battle, the Kuomintang army "cucumber beat the donkey - went halfway" and was wiped out more than 7,000 people, and more than 3,000 prisoners were captured alive by the Platon Alone...
After the hastily prepared coffin was used up, the body was wrapped in a white cloth, and the white cloth was exhausted, so the remains of the martyrs had to be placed at the bottom of the ditch covered with reed mats, covered with white cloth and placed on another layer of remains... Each ditch is stacked with 5 layers. After burying the martyrs, the migrant workers looked at the wilderness and raised 5 ridges more than one meter high, and they were stunned one by one.
"Gojo Ridge!" I don't know who whispered, but everyone present heard it.
South of salt, the state is destroyed. WutiaoLing, a new landmark cast with the loyal bones of martyrs, and people's tears into history, quickly spread throughout the ten miles and eight townships. At the critical moment of the strategic turning point of the War of Liberation, the heavy victory that more than 2,000 soldiers in Huaye exchanged their lives for showed a unique weight when tilting the balance of history to the people. Later, careful Yancheng people found that the record of the yancheng south blockade war appeared in the fourth volume of the "Selected Works of Mao Zedong".
Jiangsu Yancheng Wutiaoling Martyrs Cemetery, nearly 3,000 heroic martyrs are buried here. The picture shows that on March 25, 2021, the tomb keeper Bian Kangquan maintained and sorted out in front of the tombstone. Xinhua News Agency
The grass on the Wujo Ridge is 72 years old, and the Bian Derong 3rd Generation Shouwang Cemetery in Qingyuan Village is rain or shine. The sacred relay is always carried out by two generations, not to experience the ritual of double posting, but to pass it on from generation to generation and never forget. In the spring of the following year, the martyrs entered the earth, and the five ridges that melted and snowed with red blood flowed out, and after that, the graves buried on top of each other collapsed one after another, revealing white bones. The Bian father and son renovated for 10 years, and the tomb was stabilized. When Bian Derong died in 1961, he pointed to Wujiaoling, who accompanied him for half his life, and told his son Bian Hua: "Don't forget them..." Bian Hua nodded vigorously and took over the responsibility of taking the lead in guarding the tomb from his father. At dawn, he often took his son Bian Kangquan to repair the tomb, placed earthen "yarn hats" according to local customs, and saw unlucky weeds uprooted one after another. The cemetery was stationed, and the two grandfathers always looked around, as if they were waiting for something.
The Bian father and son finally waited for the person they were looking forward to. On the eve of the Qingming Dynasty in 1991, Chen Jiye, the daughter of martyr Chen Tonggui, followed the road map drawn in the letter of her father and old comrades-in-arms from Handan to Wutiaoling. After more than half a century of emotional trek, the daughter who graduated from the Harbin Military Engineering College finally approached her father, but she did not know where he lived. Chen Jiye borrowed a shovel from Bian Kangquan and turned from north to south, adding 3 shovels of soil to each ridge, and from time to time he threw himself on the tomb and cried bitterly. After the female engineer donated money to erect the monument, she asked Bian Kangquan: "I am not in good health and cannot come often, can you add shovel soil to the grave on my behalf every year?" Seeing Bian Kangquan solemnly nodding his head, he looked back three times and waved away in tears.
In March 2008, the Yancheng Evening News reporter Zheng and Dong were shocked to hear about Wutiaoling on the bus, and followed the trail to write the magnificent and fierce "Wutiaoling, How to Forget", and then launched hundreds of heart-shaking reports with reporters Chen Ting and Zhou Chenyang, awakening the blood and fire memories of Yancheng, which immersed in the peaceful and peaceful Yancheng. The name of the place cast by the heroic spirit of Gojo Ridge has returned to the public vision after lifting the smoke and clouds of history, and has become a majestic mountain that people in the city of no mountains look up to. The government allocated special funds to repair the cemetery and build a memorial hall, and 424 martyrs were relocated from nearby Yijiaoling and Ertiaoling to be buried here. Many government agencies, enterprises, and schools have moved their education classes to Wutiaoling; Yancheng taxi drivers have formed a caring team to open up Wutiaoling special lines to pick up and drop off the mourners from afar for free.
Unprepared, Bian Kangquan suddenly became a news figure, feeling like a speck of dust illuminated by a hero. Since 2009, he has begun to match the return of martyrs, sending more than 900 letters to the hometowns of 836 martyrs based on the list of 751 martyrs and the clues he found 85 people. The rejection of the letter is naturally frustrating, but the snowballing enlargement of the family search group continues to ignite new hopes: more than 300 postmen in Yancheng have been running for the martyrs all year round to find their relatives, and today's headlines "Looking for the Descendants of The Martyrs" public welfare project team has also joined free of charge. The Society has persevered in its search and has found relatives for 339 martyrs. In December 2019, Bian Kangquan was selected as a "Good Man of China".
246 red relics have dyed the eternal background of the city, and the names of 128 martyrs have become the glorious business cards of the town and village
On September 1, 2014, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the first group of 300 famous anti-Japanese heroes and heroes, and Chen Zhongzhu, commander of the Fourth Guerrilla Column of the National Revolutionary Army Army's Lusu-Anhui Border Region, was in full view. This "severed general" named Jianghuai was cut off in June 1941 in the war against Japan, and his wife Wang Zhifang, who was 7 months pregnant, walked into the Japanese headquarters in Taizhou with a big belly and recovered her husband's head and buried it. In 1945, the Nationalist government approved Chen Zhongzhu as a martyr and posthumously promoted him to the rank of lieutenant general. In 1987, the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government posthumously recognized Chen Zhongzhu as a revolutionary martyr, and the remains of the martyrs were relocated to the Yancheng Martyrs' Cemetery. The People's Government of Jianhu County named the middle school where Chen Zhongzhu studied as Caoyan Zhongzhu Middle School. The feats of the iron-blooded couple have always been proud of the children of Yanfu.
The years have been quiet, and the 246 red relics throughout the city have never been forgotten. The noble integrity of the martyrs who died without mercy was transformed into a spiritual skeleton implanted in the cultural blood of the Lixia River Plain, outlining the skyline of the spirit of Yancheng City.
The Memorial Tower for The Anti-Japanese Fallen Soldiers of the New Fourth Army Yanfu District, Lupu Town, Funing County, was built by the people of Funing in 1943, and under the tower are buried 1,890 martyrs, including Peng Xiong, chief of staff of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, Tian Shouyao, commander of the 8th Brigade, Xie Xiangjun, commander of the 10th Column of the Central China Field Army, and Yin Shaoli, commander of the 4th Division of the 2nd Column of the East China Field Army. In September 1947, the Kuomintang army broke into the cemetery, excavated the tomb and destroyed 30 corpses, and shelled and destroyed the memorial tower on the abandoned Yellow River pile. The masses treasure the bronze statue of the warriors of the New Fourth Army with guns at the top of the tower, and the 1959 memorial tower was restored as it was, and the bronze statue was once again erected on the top of the tower.
Hegel said, "Architecture is a frozen poem. Yancheng conforms to the will of the people to care for the red relics, in order to make the "frozen poem" a landscape that will always be in the hearts of the people.
On the road to jianjun in the old city, the most inspiring thing is the classic relics of the iron army cultural landscape axis "new (New Fourth Army Memorial Hall), horse (large bronze horse and iron army knight in Jianjun Square), and Tai (Taishan Temple, the former site of the new fourth army reconstruction of the military department)". Stepping into the Yancheng New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, a state-level patriotic education base, it is as if you feel the magnificence of the spirit of the Iron Army in the air crossing. If you explore the depths of history, look at the former site of the New Fourth Army Headquarters in The Port of The Dragon, the Monument to the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army in Shizikou... It's like being in a historical live theater that never ends.
Respecting martyrs is respecting the history of the party and the army, and praising martyrs is to plant the red gene of the country and mountains forever. In 2009, Funing County set a precedent for the centralized burial of 836 scattered martyrs in a martyrs' cemetery, and the province held an on-site meeting here, and the "consolation project" of "letting the martyrs go home" was pushed to the whole city, and more than 4,200 scattered martyrs were honored to return to the martyrs' cemetery.
On August 15, 2018, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Yancheng City passed the Regulations on the Protection of Revolutionary Sites and Memorial Facilities in Yancheng City, which was promulgated by the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress on September 21. On October 30 of the same year, Yancheng City issued a document to regulate the repair and display of martyrs' cemeteries in 128 towns (streets) and villages (residences) named after the martyrs. The rule of law and administrative means are also transmitted from generation to generation by evoking a social conscience that honors heroes and martyrs, and dives into the historical texture of revolutionary customs.
In the memory of Pan Xiulian, the daughter of the 77-year-old martyr, the appearance of her father is blurred. Getting to know my father begins with getting to know the rice that the family has been compensated by the government. These rice grains, which entered the house in 1952, are treasured in the thick jar of the former residence of the martyr Pan Liuhuang in Liuhuang Village, Longgang Town, Yandu District. Pan Xiulian remembers that when her mother was alive, she always had to dry the rice in the tank when the weather was good, and during the three natural disasters in the 1960s, the Pan family preferred to beg for food hungry rather than move a single grain.
The figure of my father coming and going hurriedly was printed on the eight-masted windmill used for water in front of the house, and it rippled in the quietly flowing river behind the house. Born in 1909, Pan Liuhuan joined the Party in 1941 and served as a traffic officer in the third district of Yancheng. During the Japanese-pseudo raid, he once pushed the district Changjiang Bo, who could not swim, across the river with a bath barrel to escape from danger, and also hurriedly dropped the windmill tarpaulin to hide pan Yi, the secretary of the "dry duck" district party committee, and swept the water across the river to lure the ghosts away. When the Japanese could not catch Pan Liuhuan, they arrested his wife and children, and the two daughters in captivity starved to death. The youngest daughter of 4 months, Pan Xiulian, was taken away in the cradle by the devil with a bayonet, but fortunately was seen by a kind neighbor and risked death to exchange for two large geese.
On August 9, 1945, Pan Liuhuan, then the township chief of Xinfeng Township, was arrested for transferring the wounds of the masses, and was tortured and buried alive by the enemy. In 1946, the Longgang District Government named Xiaopanzhuang, where the martyrs were born, Liuhuang Village.
In 1950, Pan Yi, director of the Organization Department of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, returned to Liuhuang Village to mourn the martyrs, visited his bereaved family, and proposed to take Pan Xiulian, who lived the rest of his life under the Japanese bayonet, to raise her. Wu Zhiying was reluctant to bow to his daughter who had suffered and suffered since he was a child, and bowed to Pan Yi, who was hot in the ancient road. Under the cultivation of the party, Pan Xiulian graduated from Fudan University and worked in the Women's Federation.
The former residence of Pan Liuhuan was renovated in 2018. After 70 spring and autumn seasons, the golden rice has turned a dark brown, and the heavy grains have become carbonized empty shells. The sympathetic rice soaked in the thoughts of the undead, together with the martyrs' former residence, the martyrs' tomb and the eight-masted windmill, as well as the soul-stirring Longgang past, constitute an immersive situational education classroom.
In Jiafu Village, Dagang Town, Yandu District, named after the martyr Ding Jiafu, the villagers are most pleased that the martyr's widow, Ding Lushi, is still alive after a hundred years of wind and rain.
Ding Jiafu was born in 1922, joined the party in 1942, and was born before the head of the district public security unit punished the evil bandits to intimidate the enemy's guts, and unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy in the spring of 1946. In 1948, the democratic government of Yancheng County named the martyr's hometown Jiafu Township, which is now Jiafu Village. Two years ago, the Jiafu Red Memorial Hall was built in the village, which became a holy place for local guests to linger with yancheng, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places. Ding Lushi enjoys a regular pension of 3300 yuan per month, daughter Ding Fulan has a monthly living allowance of 590 yuan, the village provides 800 yuan per month to take care of the mother, the mother and daughter each have a new agricultural insurance of 160 yuan per month, and they live free of charge in a townhouse in the village with a usable area of 104 square meters, 3 bedrooms, 1 living room, 2 bathrooms and 1 kitchen.
Widely planted red genes, becoming the yeast of Yancheng winning the national double-support model city for 6 consecutive years and being rated as a "national civilized city". Walking into the Yancheng Good People Museum, 100 "Good Chinese People" are like safflowers competing for the odds. Xu Zhenli, president of the Binhai County New Fourth Army Research Association, who was awarded the title of "Good Man of China" and "Model of Morality in Jiangsu Province", has found relatives for more than 60 martyrs in 38 years, and more than 60 unidentified martyrs have been awarded certificates.
The feelings of home and country in the same vein have become the unique "Yancheng code" on this side of the scenery
The Xiang River flows to the sea, the humanities are thick, and history is destined to create a legend of the chu and Han dynasties and the intersection of Wuyue civilization. "There is a Yan'an in northern Shaanxi and a Yancheng in northern Jiangsu", the pillar of the New Fourth Army in central China, making Yancheng the first time to the forefront of the history of the Chinese revolution. In that year, the Central China Party School, where Liu Shaoqi was also the principal, and the Kang Da Fifth Branch School, where Chen Yi was also the president, became a melting pot for tempering the party, government, and army cadres in Yancheng; Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi sat in Yancheng and planned central China, effectively improving the political quality of the Communists in Yancheng and opening up their strategic vision in the years and months of the Gathering of Storms and Clouds.
In the autumn of 1945, the Yanfu Prefectural Committee (the Five Central China Prefectural Committees) began to explore internally, looking for unusable relatives and friends in the Kuomintang Jiangyin Fortress. Precautionary planning stems from a kind of historical self-consciousness -- Cao Diqiu, secretary of the prefectural party committee, thought that sooner or later the Chinese revolution would have to cross the river, and the Jiangyin fortress was a major obstacle for our army to cross the south.
In the spring of 1946, the Yanfu Prefectural Committee once again explored the cadres, and it just so happened that Tang Junzhao, director of the Organization Department of the Prefectural Committee, received a letter from his younger brothers Tang Binglin and Tang Bingyu, who were in the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing, and immediately handed it over to Cao Diqiu. Cao Diqiu saw the value of the two Tang brothers who were determined to abandon the secret cast in the letter, "Xiao Ben has eroded Ben and wants to go back to do business", and instructed them to send a letter to make them wait and send someone to contact. In March 1947, the two districts of Yanfu and Huaihai merged to form the Northern Jiangsu District Committee, and Cao Diqiu, secretary of the district party committee, sent a meeting with Tang Binglin, who was already the chief of staff of the colonel of Jiangyin Fortress, and opened the prelude to the work of plotting rebellion.
On October 10, 1947, the Central China Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, which spanned the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, was established in The Gongtang in Hede Town, Sheyang County, and Chen Pixian, secretary of the Working Committee, and Guan Wenwei and Cao Diqiu, members of the Standing Committee of the Working Committee, listened to reports on the situation of Jiangyin Fortress when they took office, and managed Wenwei to take charge of the matter. On behalf of the Working Committee, Guan Wenwei approved Tang Binglin, Tang Bingyu, and Wu Guangwen, the officials of Jiangyin Fortress, as special members of the CPC. In accordance with the instructions of the Working Committee, the underground party organization of the fortress steadily increased its strength and controlled key posts, and Dai Rongguang, commander of the elevated fortress, made a historic contribution to the commander of the Huaye 10th Corps, Ye Fei, who crossed the river to command the Uprising of the Jiangyin Fortress, broke through the heavenly barrier in one fell swoop, and threatened Beijing and Shanghai to attack Jiangnan.
The transmutation of the times has not extinguished the feelings of the older generation in the "far away of the rivers and lakes" without losing the "worries of the temple", and it has become the common pursuit of successors to be a leader and assume responsibilities for several generations. In the face of GDP growth, which is a hard indicator for measuring the team and examining cadres, is it to sacrifice green water and green mountains for political achievements, and to use all the money for projects that can achieve rapid GDP growth, or would you rather sacrifice some growth rates and create green waters and green mountains for future generations that are comparable to Jinshan Yinshan? The party and government leaders in Yancheng consciously chose the latter. Because they understand that behind them there are thousands of pairs of martyrs' eyes, and 8 million Yanfu fathers and elders.
Sha Jinmao, former director of the Standing Committee of the Yancheng People's Congress, is a descendant of martyrs, and his mother, Sha Yangshi, joined the party in 1944, and fell into the hands of the enemy in 1946 because of betrayal by traitors. Before Sha Yang's sacrifice, he took off his green cloth pants and brought them to Sha Jinmao, telling him to leave home quickly to survive and follow the party revolution. After his mother was martyred, 12-year-old Sha Jinmao put on the pants left by his mother and escaped the enemy's pursuit by relying on the cover of his villagers to join the revolution. Since then, he has been like a spruce tree with upright branches, bathed in the sunshine and rain of the party and grown vigorously, and worked diligently for the benefit of the people in the homeland where he sprinkled his mother's blood.
Dongtai Sancang is the seat of the First Division of the New Fourth Army and the leading organ of the Party, Government and Army of the Central Soviet Union. Sha Jinmao served as the secretary of the Dongtai County Party Committee for 7 years, and the most memorable thing is that in 1975, Su Yu, a teacher of the First Division of the New Fourth Army, returned to Sancang. In the early summer of that year, Su Yu saw that many people still lived in thatched houses in the base area, and said to him with a heavy heart: "The revolution is to let the people live a good life." During the war years, the villagers fully supported and covered us, and what a sacrifice they paid! Now that we are in power, there is no reason why we should not lead the masses to get rid of poverty and become rich, to comfort the martyrs who sacrificed, and to repay the people's kindness! ”
The earnest entrustment of the revolutionary predecessors, like steel chiseled stone, and like a heavy hammer beating a drum, made Sha Jinmao sleepless all night. He stomped his feet and led the masses to launch the "four pests" project of eradicating drought, flooding, staining, and alkali outside the Fangong Causeway with his back to the sea, and a bead of sweat fell eight petals to uproot the poor, turning the Didong Plain, which accounts for most of the cultivated land area of the county, into a fertile land for drought and flood protection. The county has opened wide open doors and roads to develop diversified operations, lint has broken the million-quintal mark, and the masses have lived a solid life.
In October 1977, Sha Jinmao led 100,000 migrant workers to build a 20-kilometer-long seawall for three months, excavated river ditches to drain salt stains, planted trees and alkalis to increase fertilization, and made the Dongtai Forest Farm, founded in 1965, usher in vigorous vitality. Through the 10th team of the forest farm, the staff continued to work hard, built the largest artificial garden in East China, ranked among the national forest parks and 4A-level scenic spots, and laid the foundation for the restoration of the natural ecology of the Yellow Sea wetland.
On 5 July 2019, the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (World Heritage Assembly) inscribed the Chinese Yellow (Bohai) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat (Phase I) on the World Heritage List, filling the gap in China's coastal wetlands as a world natural heritage site and greatly enhancing the popularity and reputation of the Xianhe Sacred Deer Homeland.
Nanxiu Beixiong, Wu Yun Chufeng, looking at the vast Yanfu Plain, the red iron army culture, the white sea salt culture, the green ecological culture, the blue ocean culture, the four colors of the same brilliance, blending and developing, is composing the epic of Yancheng magnificent colorful music!
Guangming Daily (2022.01.14.13 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily