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The long-form documentary literature "This Is a Red Land" was published

A few days ago, the long-form documentary literature "This is a Red Land" created by Han Chunshan, chairman of the Dezhou Lingcheng District Writers Association, was officially published and distributed by Jinan Publishing House.

The book is divided into two volumes, with a total of more than 500,000 words. Through in-depth visits and a large number of factual materials, the author presents in a panoramic manner the arduous struggle waged by the military and civilians of the three counties in northwest Lubei (Lingxian, Dexian and Deping) during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, centered on Lingxian County. Many of the historical materials in the book are presented to the world for the first time.

Tie Liu, vice chairman of the Shandong Writers Association, president of the Shandong Reportage Literature Society, and winner of the Sixth Lu Xun Literature Award, commented on the book as: combing through history, recalling the dusty past, and presenting a tear-jerking picture for future generations. The words are full of national integrity between the lines, and they are read to sway the intestines and directly pound people's hearts.

Xing Qingjie, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, chairman of the Dezhou Writers Association, and a national first-class writer, commented on the book as: This is an epic literary work with a panoramic description of the Lingcheng War of Resistance, integrating historical value, reading value, and literary value, and a large number of details are vivid and shocking. The detailed record reflects the history of China's arduous War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the suffering of the Chinese people from a corner of Lingcheng, and is a unique and solid red literary work.

In the process of creation, Xu Chen, former vice chairman of the Shandong Writers Association and winner of the Seventh Lu Xun Literature Award, gave strong support and wrote a preface to the book.

Looking back, it is for a better way forward

——Preface to Han Chunshan's long-form documentary literature "This is a Red Land"

□ Xu Chen

Beautiful is not beautiful, hometown water. Kiss or not, hometown people.

My hometown is in Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, which was historically named LingXian County in Dezhou District. Although I have long grown up with my parents living outside, the land with the blood line has always remained in my heart. In particular, my father came out of the smoke of war, and often recalled the history of the War of Resistance in the Jilu Border Region, and I also learned about it from scattered historical materials after I entered the society. "Dazongjia Battle", "Kuang Wu County", "Eighteen Regiment", "Yu Tuan", "Cao Fifth Brigade", etc., these names and stories are like rivers of life, surging forward, and after a long time, they will gradually blur under the layers of waves...

However, in the unusual spring of the Gengzi years, in the days of the unity and war of the whole country, I read the long documentary literature "This is a Red Land" that the Texas writer Han Chunshan had just finished, and suddenly felt a kind of strength, the hard disk "folder" that had not been touched in my heart was opened, and the wind and smoke that happened in the land of my hometown more than seventy years ago reappeared in front of my eyes, arousing the grandeur of a military writer and the attachment to my hometown.

In 1937, within a few months of the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the iron hooves of Japan stepped into the territory of the three counties of Lubei (Dexian, Lingxian and Deping) as the northwest gateway of Shandong Province. The first unit of the Kuomintang Twenty-ninth Route Army, which had fled all the way, disappeared after a little resistance here. Local vigilante groups such as the "Yu Tuan" and "Li Yu Shuang Tuan" in Lingcheng spontaneously organized armed struggles to resist foreign invasion and protect their homeland. In July 1938, after Xiao Hua, director of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led an advancing column into the Jilu Border Region, the anti-Japanese struggle in Lingxian County began to enter the general layout of the national War of Resistance. In the face of the ferocity of the Japanese Kou, the stubborn arrogance of the bandits, and the co-optation of the Kuomintang reactionary forces, some militia groups swayed left and right and fell in love with each other. Even when our main force was unstable, it colluded with the Japanese. In the face of the grim situation of struggle against the enemy, the military and people of Lingxian County, while waging a tenacious struggle against the Japanese and the puppets, established anti-Japanese democratic governments at all levels under the guidance of the government construction work group. At the same time, Party organizations at all levels were secretly established. The third, fourth, and fifth districts in the eastern part of Lingxian County gradually became the anti-Japanese base areas of Lingxian County, Dexian County, and Deping County, and sanhuanhe Village in the fourth district became one of the important activity venues of the second prefectural committee of Jilu Border District. He Haoju, Guan Feng and other leaders of the Second Prefectural Committee at that time worked and lived in Sanhuanhe Village for a long time.

Han Chunshan's documentary literature "This is a Red Land" reflects the arduous struggle between the military and the people and the enemy in this land against the background of such an era. The origin of the Village of Sanhuan river is taken as the beginning of the whole work, which can be seen in the author's ingenuity. In this way, we want to tell people that for the rural area of Northwest Lu, which has a strong Confucian cultural ideology, the reproduction of the history and culture of a village is a microcosm of the continuation of the history of all villages in this area. The reason why this land is dyed red is because of its deep cultural genes. After more than two thousand years of accumulation, in the face of external aggression, its spiritual characteristics such as integrity and tenacity and inability to resist violence have all been displayed. It is inevitable that the people of Lingcheng will show a kind of national integrity that regards death as a homecoming and is awe-inspiring in righteousness in the face of the enemy's butcher's knife.

Next, the work provides a panoramic depiction of the war that took place on the land of Lingcheng. From the process of forming party committees at the prefectural and county levels and the county anti-Japanese democratic government, the personnel changes of leading members, to the division and adjustment of county and district administrative regions; from the scenes of hundreds of operations against Japan to the arrest of traitors and bandits, grain for disaster relief, and so on, the author strictly describes the chronological order of the development of the incident. However, this description is not a simple accumulation of events, but while connecting all events in an orderly manner in time and space, it also provides an in-depth and meticulous portrayal of the complicated historical events and the various characters involved in them: from qiu Yangui, director of the sub-district women's federation, fighting against the enemy in prison to wang Zhao, the minister of extermination of traitors, Wang Zhaozeng, who killed the leader of the traitorous brigade; from Wu Kuang, the governor Chinese New Year's Eve of the anti-Japanese county, who worshiped his mother at night to be buried on the banks of the sand river on a rainy night after the Su family temple; from the miscellaneous noodles rolled out by Wei DaNiang of the Sanhuan River to the "iron rooster" The carpenter's greedy scheme to demand Xiaomi; from the work dispute between the members of the prefectural committee to the love story of the county-level cadre... Pile by pile, piece by piece, the reader feels as if he is in the middle of the war years more than seventy years ago. Agitation, grief, hatred, sympathy... Various emotions intertwine with the flow of words.

The Battle of Dazongjia was the most tragic battle that took place in the three counties of northwest Lu during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Unwilling to accept defeat in the Battle of Pingxingguan, the Itagaki Division sent the Yasuda Brigade to follow the 115th Division's eastward column into the Jilu Border Region, and while the five detachments of the Eighth Route Army were resting in the Area of Dazongjia, they gathered more than 2,000 Japanese troops and took advantage of the darkness of the night to suddenly divide and encircle several villages, including the Dazong family and the Hou family. The enemy wants to completely annihilate the main force of our Jilu Border Region in the form of a sneak attack to save the face of defeat. The battle lasted from dawn until more than 4 p.m. Although our army began to be in a passive situation, due to the heroic struggle of the commanders and fighters, it not only broke out of the enemy's encirclement, but also killed more than 500 Japanese troops, including Yasuda. This battle has been described in many works in the past, but on the basis of the original historical materials, the author has enriched many little-known details of the story through in-depth visits. This not only enhances the appreciation of reading, but also improves the reader's level of ideological discernment of the behavior of different characters in the face of the cruel war environment.

"This is a Red Land" also provides an in-depth and meticulous description of the respective development processes and mutual enmity and grievances between the two most representative militia organizations in Lingxian County, the "Yu Tuan" and the "Eighteen regiments". One went from being active in the early days of the War of Resistance to Japan to finally becoming an enemy of the people; the other who had been killed by the Wokou in front of the door and was still there clinging to the ignorant and narrow-minded thinking that "no one offends me, I will not offend anyone," and finally joined the torrent of the War of Resistance. The twists and turns in this process not only showed the wisdom of our Party in the democratic united front, but also reflected the complexity of the situation of struggle against the enemy at that time. These descriptions allow the reader to see at a glance the two distinct destinations of the development of good and evil to the end, and also imply from another side the historical continuation of the eastern part of Lingxian County, which is based on the "Eighteen regiments".

My hometown of Nanxu Village in Zizhen is only a few miles away from Sanhuanhe Village, which is also located in the hinterland of the "Eighteen regiments". In "This Is a Red Land", there is a plot about the secretary of the prefectural party committee, He Haoju, escaping from danger, which takes place in our village. Compared with my understanding of this history and the "Eighteen Regiments" from my father's narration in the past, the author's description in the book is more symbolic. The wit and courage of the commissary Lao Xu, the several tribulations experienced by the "Eighteenth Regiment" and their struggle against fate, one by one showed the simple, righteous, tenacious and indomitable spirit of the hometown people, which made my pride spontaneously arise.

The author, Han Chunshan, is currently the chairman of the Lingcheng District Writers Association, and like me, he has several years of military career. Five years ago, when the Lingcheng Writers Association was established and founded "Lingcheng Literature and Art", Han Chunshan was elected as the first chairman and invited me to write a few words for the publication, which began the friendship between literary friends, comrades-in-arms and fellow villagers. At that time, as the vice chairman of the Shandong Provincial Writers Association, I was naturally very happy that the literary cause in my hometown could develop, and I was obliged to do my part for its prosperity. The 5 years are not short nor long, and the Lingcheng Writers Association has made remarkable achievements: it has successively established party branches, trade unions and other organizations, developed nearly 100 members, and cooperated with the party committee and government to carry out many essay contests, and also organized inter-provincial style exchange activities, which is relatively rare in grass-roots writers association organizations. At the same time, Han Chunshan's literary creation also kept pace with the times, following the publication of the long reportage "Children of the Majie River", the novella "Han Tomb Group" with obvious regional characteristics, and the short story "Hunter Zhang Sheng" were also published. I feel sincerely gratified and joyful that he can still work hard and write well under the premise of doing a good administrative job.

"I want to make my own efforts not only to make the works reflect the function of literature, but also to make my hometown go further." This is Han Chunshan's inner words, and it can also be said to be the source and motivation of his literary career. The interview and writing of "This Is a Red Land" is undoubtedly a re-embodiment of this creative idea, and it is also the inheritance and development of the history and culture of the hometown, and it is also the responsibility and responsibility of the chairman of the Lingcheng Writers Association.

General Secretary Xi Jinping once pointed out that cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence. The excellent traditional Chinese culture nurtured in the development of five thousand years of civilization, the revolutionary culture and the advanced socialist culture nurtured in the great struggle of the party and the people have accumulated the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation and represent the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation. We must carry forward the core socialist values, carry forward the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core, and constantly enhance the spiritual strength of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country.

On the road to realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the publication and distribution of "This is a Red Land" allows us to look back at the vicissitudes and tragedies of this history of Lingcheng in a panoramic way, which will make future generations not forget their original intentions, keep in mind their mission, forge ahead, and the wind and bones will always exist. It is foreseeable that our road ahead will not be smooth, but no difficulties and obstacles can suppress the backbone of the rise of the sons and daughters of China! I hope that Han Chunshan will continue to work hard and produce masterpieces to write a new and magnificent chapter for the ancient and young land of our hometown --- Lingcheng!

is the preamble

April 2020 in Qingdao

(The author of this article is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the former vice chairman of the Shandong Writers Association, the former editor-in-chief of Shandong Literature, and the honorary chairman of the Qingdao Writers Association.) Writer at the national level. Winner of the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award. )

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