In 2021, there was an annual blockbuster that triggered a movie-going boom, the key of the drama was postponed three times, and it is currently winning the box office title in the history of Chinese cinema with 5.7 billion yuan - "Changjin Lake". Set against the background of the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the film depicts the combat units of the Eastern Front of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with their tenacious will and fearless fighting spirit, turning the tide of the war, turning defeat into victory, and making major contributions to the victory of the Battle of Chosin Lake.
For this nearly three-hour film, most of the evaluations are real and grand, showing the truth and cruelty of the war. Several contrasts in the movie caught my attention, our fighters basically just went to Korea from the south to fight, due to the tight time, most of the soldiers did not have time to change into cotton clothes and cotton pants, wearing thin clothes to advance into the Korean theater, Chosin Lake is located between 1000-2000 meters above sea level, the temperature at minus 20 degrees just met the cold winter of 50 years, more than a dozen soldiers can only get two or three quilts. The camera turns to the U.S. troops, each with a coat and a duck down sleeping bag; we end up with only frozen potatoes left on our march, while the U.S. troops eat a turkey meal. Under the double siege of enemy aircraft and tanks, our volunteer army, with its iron will and old rifles, broke out of the siege without hesitation.
"There are no heroes who can't freeze and don't die, and there are no heroes who can't die, only the glory of soldiers." This is the heartfelt words of Tanzi as the battalion commander in the play. In the series of documentaries on the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, such a volunteer soldier was introduced: his limbs were severely injured, and one eyeball was injured, and he was only 18 years old at the time, after dozens of large and small surgeries, his condition finally stabilized, but he wanted to end his life again and again, and finally the mission of the soldier gave him the strength to "hold the position and defend the country." There is a lyric called: Why the battle flag is picturesque, the hero's blood stained him red.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a just act, and its victory enabled New China to truly gain a firm foothold and laid the foundation for New China's status as a great power, while at the same time encouraging the great cause of other oppressed nations and peoples striving for independence. The spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea formed by the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a concrete embodiment of patriotism, and it still profoundly affects the people of Chinese to this day. In today's era of seeming peace, in fact, there is also a dark tide, in the process of the Confrontation between China and India in 2020, we have sacrificed a total of 4 fighters, one of whom is a soldier named Chen Xiangrong, who said such a sentence as "clear love, only for China", and the 18-year-old wrote words worth remembering when he joined the army.
The reason why we can now bask in the sunshine of peace is that the People's Volunteer Army has bought with their lives, because their generation has won the war and kept us away from the war forever. Today, patriotism is still not outdated, whether it is the soldiers of the previous generation who fought bravely on the battlefield or the masses of the people who have made their own contributions to the construction of the motherland today, even if the ages are different, the patriotic hearts are the same. Remembering history is to move forward better, and at the new starting point, we still have to rely on patriotism as a spirit to strive for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!