The reunion moment pursues those who are vigorous and energetic: the wind and snow are on the border, and the year after year is crossed

Wind and snow border pass, every year across the road

——The reunion moment to pursue those vigorous figures (1)

■ Yang Huaming

"Today, I am on duty with you!"

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2014, President Xi Jinping came to the Triangle Mountain outpost in Inner Mongolia to visit the officers and soldiers who were on duty and patrolling.

"Thank you very much for sending me a 'family portrait', this is my most precious gift." Not long ago, the family of Chen Hongjun, the "hero of the patriotic state", received a gift from Karakoram - a computer-synthesized photo of a family of three. As the New Year draws to a close, the taste of the New Year is getting stronger, the fiery red window flowers reflect the cheeks, the festive lanterns are hung high, and this tearful, warm and cold winter "family portrait" makes more people's eyes turn to the thousand-mile border pass that is full of wind and snow, and also makes the homesickness of the officers and men of shubian more and more hot.

"I heard that the desert yellow sand is connected to the Gobi Desert, I heard that the long wind and snow hold the border, I heard that you are less green, I heard that you are uninhabited, and I heard that your lonely name has been called Border Pass since ancient times." Border passes are geographical indications and cultural symbols of the home and the world. Speaking of border passes, it will make people's hearts hot, it will make people stand up their shoulders, and it will make people's blood veins stretch. Thousands of miles of border pass, the border of the country. The mainland has 22,000 kilometers of land borders and more than 18,000 kilometers of continental coastline. In the eyes of ordinary people, the border pass is just a border far away from the city; in the minds of the officers and men of the Shubian border, the border pass is the wall of the country, and the boundary monument is the highest peak.

"For homesickness, homecoming is the only antidote." Reunion is the theme of the Spring Festival and the magnetic field of emotion. On ordinary days, it slowly ferments; at the moment of reunion, it is unbridled. When the footsteps of returning home for the New Year meet the oath of "there are us in the frontier, please rest assured of the motherland", the reunion is precious to the officers and men of shubian, but it is quite luxurious, "the most loved is the outpost, the most looking forward to is the family letter, and the most afraid of saying reunion." Soldiers and years are always a side drawing of Jingo as a pen, the battlefield as paper, and the dust and ink. The distance coordinates of the military reunion have always been calibrated by the motherland. In order not to teach Humadu Yinshan, they can only "see the spring breeze every year"; in order to "reunite ten thousand families and warm families", they can only "be together in the year"; in order to "be ecstatic and ecstatic", they can only "go on a straight line".

Since ancient times, the border has been difficult. Opening the territory of the motherland, it is difficult to find these two posts: the Triangle Mountain Outpost and the East Pole Outpost. One is very cold, with a minimum of minus 50 degrees Celsius in winter; one is far away, and the first to welcome the sun into the motherland every day. President Xi braved the wind and snow to come to these two posts, signed his name on the observation register, and took a group photo with the officers and men. Snow and frost are all over the sky, and there is love and cold at the border. Now on the wall of the Triangle Mountain outpost hangs a photo of President Xi Jinping taking a group photo with the officers and men of the outpost. No matter how many times the fierce wind swept the snow and the cold was severe, no matter how many times they dreamed of returning to their homeland and wetting their pillow shirts with tears, the officers and soldiers said: "Every time I see the photos and think that the border pass is so close to President Xi, I will feel warm in my heart, and at the same time feel the responsibility of the mountain." ”

There is a saying: "He who can hear the voice of his heart is a happy person." "Thick Chinese New Year's Eve night, who doesn't want to have a hot Chinese New Year's Eve meal with their family?" Warm reunion day, who doesn't want to talk with their loved ones about the unforgettable things in the barracks? When the footsteps of the patrol sent away the Chinese New Year's Eve, when the fire in front of the stove reflected the red diary, the "voice of the heart" once again sounded in the ears of the officers and men on the side of the shu. "The battle of the frontier, with the protection of the frontier, the great defense of the country, is not important to this", this is their most solid insistence; "even if the wind is like a knife to the mountains like iron, the motherland's mountains and rivers can not lose an inch", this is their most sonorous oath; "as long as one of the lights of the ten thousand homes is lit for me, how about the wind and snow at the border pass", this is their most affectionate confession.

"The sea of people is vast, you will not know me, I am on a long road with wind and rain; neon flashes, you will not find me, I wear a moon and a star on a high mountain." This melodious and majestic song, "The Soul of the Border Pass Army", sings the heroic ambition of the officers and men of the border to dedicate themselves to the frontier, and also expresses the lonely feelings of being far away from their relatives. The year will come to an end, and the wind and snow have not returned. "Without concern, life will not have positive pursuits and tenacious perseverance." On the reunion day of ten thousand families and the celebration of the whole country, the more the officers and men of Shubian "do not take care of their families in Kunlun," the more we must "send cold and warmth to ourselves in the snow," the more we must understand the great righteousness of the homeland and the country of "clear love, only for China," the more we must understand the profound meaning of "there are no quiet years in the world, but someone has carried the burden for you.", more real care, more measures to solve difficulties and help difficulties, and must not "make the people of the city hungry and cold."

Hegel said: "The human spirit must and should be worthy of the noblest things." An "old border guard" who has not returned home for the New Year for more than 10 consecutive years always has a poem in his mobile phone: "Bitter? bitter. But the pain is worth it! Tired? tired. But tired and relieved! Because we are the boundary monument of the motherland, the place we guard is China. There is no doubt that the loyal faith, iron-blooded responsibility, and family and country feelings forged by generations of officers and men on the frontier have fought against the severe cold, accompanied by loneliness, and challenged to the limit, are such "noble things." This kind of spirit and strength cannot be stopped by wind and snow, and the icebergs are constantly separated, so that the border roads are like rainbows, the border nets are woven, and the border passes are like iron, guarding the tranquility and peace of the New Year festival, watching over the happiness and well-being of the people, and guarding the peace and tranquility of the Land of China.

(Author Affilications:Armed Police Officers College)

Source: China Military Network - People's Liberation Army Daily