This year marks the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet
recently
A netizen on the video platform
Shared a video taken in the summer of 2019
In the video
Grandma recounted the story of her former serfdom
From the narration of the old man
We can do as much as we can
Restore that dark society
The days when ordinary people were forced into slavery
Grandma tells the story of her time as a serf, video source: Bilibili@TENNOR Danluo
Her grandmother's name was Lausanne Ram
Born in Chamdo Muang Kham
He is now almost 80 years old
Grandma's mother
When she was very young
He was forced to be sent to Langton Manor
"Be their servant"
Grandma said:
When to go
"Mother is still pregnant with me"
There, for 8 years
"On weekdays, mothers have to take care of their children
There was no time to take care of me
Just put me in a corner
[I] was a baby
But I was bitten by a rat."
A little thumb about one joint long is bitten off
But compared to others
A child who has his ears bitten off, ripped off his tongue, or eaten his eyes
Grandma thinks she's lucky enough:
"I was bitten off a little thumb
Good not to eat the whole hand."
afterward
Grandma was also called to work at the manor
She was only 15 years old
In the manor
Grandma was asked to work without interruption
Recall that tragic past
She said:
"(Let me) knit socks
It will be woven within ten days
Work behind them during the day
There is no time to weave
Wait until the night when everyone is asleep
Take another oil lamp and start weaving
Too sleepy at night
Socks are woven with holes
It can only be dismantled and re-knit the next day
It was covered with lice
I was wearing wide-leg pants
Paragraph by paragraph, inside and out are full of lice
I almost got lice
There was no oil or water in the mouth
Parents are not around
……”
When we walked to the residence of the manor lord and the ladies
"I've been beaten a lot here before
I don't usually get into this
The servants of the master's room are not allowed to enter"
"She used to torture me a lot at that time
I couldn't afford to wear good clothes at that time
Only one shirt
She pinched me when she had nothing to do
The body is full of wounds
I can't afford to wear shoes either
She just stepped on my bare feet
Tie my nails
Tortured beyond recognition
It also makes me puff up my face
Fan the face with a bamboo strip
Abused by the owner of the estate
It was the daily life of the serfs at that time
Grandma was beaten on the shoulder with a plough rake by the owner of the manor
Then the hands and the body are pressed together
Often it hurts so much that I can't work
No way to milk
There is no way to farm
"I can't even undo my pants belt
I can only fall asleep at night
Nothing can be done
There is also no hospital to visit"
But to support the family's 7 children
Grandma still worked hard against all odds
"Non-stop toiling
Particularly hard
Later, the armpits were all swollen
Can't do the manual work."
Later, Lhasa was liberated
The People's Liberation Army and my grandmother's mother said:
From then on, there was no distinction between manor owners and serfs
If you want to go back to the countryside, go back to the countryside
Those who want to stay in Lhasa stay in Lhasa
The state will provide food
For the children at home
The mother eventually chose to return to the countryside
"Before we set off, except for a bowl for eating
Nothing else
Not to mention private property
There were no cars or horses
She was on crutches
Bring some food in the bag
Just walked back with the others
The distance from Lhasa to Shaogang Township is 293 km
How hard it is."
Finally mother and son were reunited
The family lives happily together
The manor in the video
Today, it is protected by the state as a cultural heritage
But when Grandma in the summer of 2019
When I set foot in the place where I had been a serf for half my life
Seeing that everything in front of me has changed
Talk to the younger generations about that history again
She was always smiling
Maybe
Life is happy enough today
It can already soothe the old man's once wounded heart
Langtong Manor, where grandma used to be a serf
now
Grandma's family is full of children and grandchildren
Stayed in a newly renovated house
Never worry about eating or wearing again
She pointed to the distance and said:
"In old Tibet
That linka is the manor city vegetable patch
(Linka: Tibetan for garden, park)
Now it has been renovated into a linka
It's to give us a little bit of income
Tourist attraction"
"Life is the happiest today
And don't worry about eating and living
Now a lot of food is stored downstairs
Use to eat for yourself
You can also sell it when you are short of money
I heard that this house is going to be renovated again
I told them not to fix it
Just repaired it for two years."
Grandma has always been from the heart
Grateful to the party and the country
Although she was not a member of the Communist Party
But there has always been a portrait of Chairman Mao hanging in the house
"Compared to previous life
There is so much happiness now
There is no happier than that
Under the wise leadership of the Communist Party
Already very happy
Sometimes I want to be myself
It would be nice to be a little younger."
"Suffering ahead
Bliss is behind
Now the hall is full of children and grandchildren
Already satisfied."
It's the Communist Party
Bringing light to Tibet
When we set foot on this snowy plateau
Endless prairie
Snow-capped mountains
Magical and magnificent natural scenery
……
This "pure land on earth" is pure and mysterious
It's fascinating
Video: Here is the snowy plateau
But if you turn back the clock to old Tibet
We may not be able to relate these beautiful words to them
Beneath the beauty of nature
Buried is the dark and cruel history of old Tibet
Before the democratic reforms of 1959
Tibet has long been in a feudal serf society
Theocracy is one, and theocracy is supreme
Theocracy and regime are integrated
Jointly maintain the official family, the nobility and the upper monks of the monastery
Rule of the three feudal lords
The disparity between the rich and the poor has seriously hindered Tibet's development
Serfs and slaves, who made up 95 per cent of the population
There are no means of production and no personal freedom
Suffer from heavy taxes
Ural servants and usury exploitation
(Ulla: Tibetan for unpaid servitude)
Struggling on the line of death
They were to provide labor for the lords of the estates
There is no wage or food
Complete loss of personal freedom
You can be sent and bought and sold at will
Even killing
In the records
The serf owners simply mistreated the serfs
There are dozens of types of cruel torture:
Mouth punching, tongue cutting, eye gouging
Cutting hearts, sawing legs, breaking tendons
Just listen
It's creepy enough
If today go to visit the Potala Palace
You can also see a "snow prison" at its feet.
That was where the serf owners lynched the serfs
Shackles in "Snow Prison"
If the serfs are thrown into it
A dungeon called "Scorpion Cave"
Will be stung alive by scorpions
There are also shackles that weigh hundreds of pounds
Can tie up "five people and ten legs" at a time
The serfs couldn't lift their legs if they wanted to
I can't sleep and I'm very hungry
I had to eat the sawdust of the beams and pillars
Until death
then
There were too many serfs like grandmothers
Every day is like in purgatory
Physically and mentally devastated
This was a serf at the time
He is pictured holding his severed arm, which has dried out
Only because the Son of the Lord arose on a whim
Want to practice marksmanship
Just use him as a living target
Brutally broke his left arm with a gun
The serf was skinny
Even if it's hard work every day
Still wear chains
He was treated inhumanly
His face was full of sorrow
There was not a glimmer of hope in my eyes
They don't have a little dignity
It was used as a horse by serf owners for many years
Not even a place to live
It can only be like cattle
Huddled in the dirty messy stables
Malnutrition due to prolonged exertion
Most of the serfs had a short lifespan
Even if you can be lucky enough to live longer
It will also be because of old age and frailty and inability to work
Kicked out of the door by the serf master
Temperatures as low as minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius in winter
Serf children lived in the streets with wild dogs
Whenever someone throws rice dumplings at wild dogs
They went to grab food with the wild dogs
In old Tibet
"Follow the wild dogs to eat"
It was a homeless serf wandering child
The "wisdom of life" formed
In addition to not having enough to eat and not enough to wear warmly
These kids even
It will be like grandma's memories
Bitten off the ear by a rat
Rip off the tongue and eat the eyes
Turn over the serfs to sing
Until the founding of New China
People who live in misery
Only then did I see hope
Start with the march into Tibet
The People's Liberation Army respects the local people
Religious beliefs and customs
Actively carry out the work of influencing and winning over the masses
The Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress
Former Deputy Director Tsering Ram said:
"When the real PLA came
I felt liberated
I am very grateful
I was very happy."
1950 to 1951
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has successively issued instructions:
March into Tibet and don't eat anywhere
Be meticulous and self-sufficient
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was making decisions to march into Tibet at the same time
It was decided to build a road to Tibet
In 1954
The Sichuan-Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet Highways with a total length of 4,360 kilometers were completed
More than 3,000 heroic martyrs sacrificed their lives on the plateau
The history of Tibet without modern roads ended
110,000 road construction troops crossed the "roof of the world" to build roads
In 1959
Democratic reform in Tibet
Completely abolish the feudal serfdom of theocracy
The Tibetan people
Finally become the master of his own destiny
Jiangtang Town, Gongga County, Shannan
The village of Gamba heap poor AwangSi ruo said:
"The fate of my man
That is, it began to change from democratic reform
Democratic reforms saved my life
I wouldn't have lived today without democratic reforms."
"The snowy mountains are shining silver."
The Brahmaputra River turns into waves
Dispel the dark clouds and see the sun
Turn over the serfs and sing."
This song "Turning Over the Serfs Sing"
It is a song that many Chinese familiar with
Tsetan Dolma, who sang the song
It is the "daughter of a turned serf"
"I sang this song from my heart"
"I have personally seen Tibetan farmers and herders whipped
After the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army came
My fate was changed
The fate of many Tibetan compatriots has been changed
I'm going to sing my love and gratitude to them."
That in the history of Tibet
The broadest, the most profound, the greatest
Social change turned millions of serfs into masters
Millions of Tibetans who have been reborn
Building socialism in the snowy plateau
A brand new Tibet is unfolding before the world
Just seventy years
Spanning thousands of years
70 years of time, leaping thousands of years
Tibet has undergone earth-shaking changes
The old Tibet where the serfs were exploited and oppressed
Gone
70 years ago
There is no industry in the modern sense in the whole of Tibet
Not an inch of road
The delivery of documents depends on the station
There are only a few chain bridges on the Brahmaputra
There are no bridges that can be opened to traffic
Education is treated as a privilege
The illiteracy rate among young adults is as high as more than 95 per cent
Even in Lhasa
There are large numbers of homeless beggars
The vast number of serfs fell seriously ill
You can only resign yourself to fate
Effective medical treatment is almost impossible
Serf owners who accounted for less than 5% of The total population of Tibet
It occupies most of Tibet's means of production
It monopolizes Tibet's material wealth
Extremely cruelly oppressed and exploited
Slaves struggling in the misery of extreme poverty
70 years
Dangchuan-Tibet Highway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway
Cross the mountains and mountains to Lhasa
When millions of serfs turned over and sang
When the people's representative casts a sacred vote on behalf of the people
When the national aid project to Tibet entered Tibet
When the melodious whistle breaks through the eternal silence of the plateau
When China's last "secret" Metuo Highway was opened to traffic
When 74 poor counties take off their hats
628,000 people were lifted out of poverty
When the high-speed rail connects Lhasa Nyingchi
When "getting on the train to Lhasa" is no longer new
......
Snowy plateau, changed the human world!
This is a human miracle on the roof of the world
This is a happy life under the leadership of the Communist Party
When the song sounded again in the snowy plateau
We hear:
"Sing a mountain song to the party."
I put the party to come more than mother
My mother only gave birth to me
The brilliance of the party shines on my heart."
Tomorrow in Tibet
It will be as brilliant as the sun shining on the golden mountain!
Image credit: Planet Institute
Source: Central Committee of the Communist Youth League