#History has knowledge# #Remembering the great man Chairman Mao Zedong# Mao Zedong's Spring Festival (1) "Borrowing "New Year Goods" on the Ground of Dabai"
At the beginning of 1929, the Red Fourth Army left Jinggangshan to open up a base area, and after entering Gannan Province, it lost one after another. During the battle, Comrades He Tingying (party representative of the Twenty-eighth Regiment) and Zhang Wei (commander of the independent battalion of the military department) were all killed, and the enemy Liu Shiyi's troops were in hot pursuit with 3 regiments behind them. At this time, not a few companies of the Red Fourth Army had been cut off from cooking, and the morale of the troops was low.
Chinese New Year's Eve on this day, the team came to Dabaidi in the northern part of Ruijin. Mao Zedong, then a party representative of the Red Fourth Army and secretary of the Committee of Former Enemies, was worried that on this special day, he must stop and "eat a New Year's meal" to boost morale.
Fan Shude, director of the Quartermaster General, also knew the importance of the New Year meal, and was suffering from lack of money, so after some deliberation, he decided to "first write an IOU to the masses, and all the food and food should be registered." ”
The people of the village had heard early on that a team of several thousand people had come, and they all went up the mountain to hide without knowing it, and even the chicken, duck and fish prepared for the New Year could not be taken away. The Red Fourth Army, with the company as the unit, strictly implemented the formalities of first weighing the price and then making an IOU, collected the food of the masses, killed a few pigs, and everyone was busy until the afternoon when they finally ate a sumptuous "Chinese New Year's Eve meal" and had a full Year.
Mao Zedong said to the soldiers who were happy to eat: "Everyone has had a good year, and they have eaten enough to beat Liu Shiyi!" ”
The first day of the Lunar New Year is a festive day to visit the door and visit the New Year. Liu Shiyi's troops entered the ambush circle of the Red Army. The two regiments were basically annihilated, and more than 800 people were taken prisoner.
A great victory reversed the decline of the Red Fourth Army, capturing two regiments of guns and ammunition and silver money to replenish the troops' military supplies and hit the arrogance of pursuing the enemy.
In May 1929, when the Red Fourth Army returned from western Fujian to pass through Dabaidi, it cashed the money owed to the whole village.
Note: Due to the different standards of the "Spring Festival" in each era, Mao Zedong's New Year (New Year's Day) before the founding of the Republic is collectively referred to here as the Spring Festival.
