In February 1936, part of the Central Red Army in the Long March, under the compulsion to cross the Jiajin Mountain with thin air, deserted people and impermanent climate change, for the third time, created an amazing miracle on this "sacred mountain" with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.
Before crossing the Jiajin Mountain, this Red Army unit had been stuck in the Tibetan areas of northwest Sichuan, and the clothes, blankets, and quilts of cotton thread fabrics had been exhausted, and the whole army was trying to find a way to solve the problem of warm clothing.
One day, when the leader of the unit was studying and organizing the soldiers to prepare the warm supplies using the existing materials, a small soldier walked in wearing a strange "big vest" with the sound of the creaking door.
I saw that his vest was made up of several pieces of "skin" pieced together, which was covered with beautiful brown leaves, and as his body moved, the leaves made a strange sound like a wind chime, which was extremely good.
Everyone gathered around the warrior and asked,
"Where did you get the skin?"
"What did you sew?"
"Good boy, you're not afraid of the wind and snow..."
The little warrior named Ji Shiqing giggled, untied the grass rope around his waist, opened his vest, and said, "Look at yourself." ”
The crowd gathered around him and took a closer look, and found that these "skins" turned out to be palm bark.
One of the chiefs patted the warrior on the shoulder and said, "Little devil, how did you come up with this idea?" ”
Ji Shiqing scratched his head, smiled broadly, and told the process of making this big vest.
A few days ago, the troops were resting in a brown forest, and Ji Shiqing was lying on a pile of palm leaves, looking at the snowy mountains in the distance, and thinking: If I climb over the snowy mountains, I can reach the front line.
A gust of wind blew through, and Ji Shiqing felt extremely cold with his body facing upwards, but the back next to the leaves was hot.
He hurriedly covered the leaves around him, but he didn't expect that it was not cold up and down.
Ji Shiqing slowly fell asleep and had a strange dream.
He dreamed that he was covered with layers of palm leaves, like wearing a particularly thick dress, wrapped around him and flew over the snowy mountains to a warm place, there was sunshine, trees, grass, flowers, making him jump and jump with joy...
Suddenly, he felt the cold wind piercing, opened his eyes and looked, it turned out that he had kicked off the leaves on his body in his dream.
Although his body was very cold after waking up from the dream, this dream made Ji Shiqing have an epiphany in his mind: Why not imitate the scene in the dream and make a dress for yourself with leaves?
He suddenly forgot about the cold, and quickly moved his hands, collected a bunch of leaves, and tied them on his body with a straw rope.
He tried it on this special costume and found that the wind would be poured into the cracks of the leaves, so he casually tore off a piece of bark and stuffed it in the leaves, and the wind was much smaller.
Later, Ji Shiqing pondered first sewing the bark of the tree, and then hanging the leaves, and really made this special large vest.
The chief excitedly shook the soldier's hand and praised: "You had a strange dream, but you solved a big problem for the troops. ”
Subsequently, the troops actively took action, using local materials to make warm clothes for turning over the snowy mountains.
Before long, the warriors not only had "leather vests", but also "leather cloaks", "leather skirts", "leather shoes", and "leather leaf hats".
They looked at each other in "leaf costumes", and one by one they were happy to lean forward and backward.
It turned out that the warriors dressed up in "leather leaf suits" looked like "palm trees" that could move from a distance, and looked like "big brown bears" up close. Walking up, the sound of the rushing leaves, in the empty valley, is particularly beautiful.
Under the conditions at that time, this kind of "leather leaf suit" similar to the coat was already the best warm clothing for the warriors to cross the Golden Mountain.
If there is no "skin leaf suit" to resist the wind and cold, it is not known how many warriors will fall into the wind and snow of Jiajin Mountain, nor how many people in this unit will survive.
Although Ji Shiqing was only a nameless little soldier in the history of the Red Army, the "leather leaf suit" he invented inspired by his dream solved the big problem of the shortage of clothes for the troops, and made a special contribution to the final successful crossing of the Jiajin Mountain by the Central Red Army for the third time.