Decades of birth and death, participation in the War of Resistance Against Japan, participation in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the test of blood and fire, Chen Qiqi has experienced many things and forgotten, even what the names of several children are, only the discovery of grain during the Long March is still fresh in his memory, and the description is so clear and complete that we cannot associate him with a patient with cerebellar atrophy. He remembered this incident so clearly, which shows that this incident had a great impact on him. We left him a thousand dollars to express his contribution to the revolution and his high respect.
From April 25, when the Jinsha River entered Diqing, the Red Army left Zhongdian. The main force of the Second and Sixth Army Corps passed through seven townships, 22 administrative villages, and 114 villages in Zhongdian, covering a distance of 405 kilometers. In addition to being moved, the villagers helped the Red Army raise military food, and the Red Army also paid according to the price. The households that helped the Red Army raise grain, the Red Army had to leave three or five oceans, wrote letters and put silver on the grain that no one used at home, and in order to climb the snowy mountains, the Red Army began to play straw shoes in the village when they were idle, and when they were too much, they also presented a pair of straw shoes to each of the local villagers. The villagers gave everything they could to help the Red Army.
When the follow-up troops entered the city, the masses spontaneously went to the south gate to welcome the Garang Gongka, and took the initiative to help the Red Army as a guide, find a house, and buy food; Some took the initiative to give their family's grain, oil, meat, ghee, brown sugar, etc. to the Red Army free of charge, and some Tibetans followed the Red Army north to become one of them, and many women took the initiative to carry water, sweep the floor, grind barley, sew clothes, arrange food and lodging for the Red Army, and help bury the Red Army who fell ill and died during Diqing's rest.
Nong Bu Qilin, director of the United Front Work Department of the Diqing Prefecture Standing Committee, has been studying the history of the Red Army's Long March through Diqing over the years; when talking about the Red Army's Long March in Diqing's practice of the party's mass line, he said: Looking back at the history of the Red Army passing through Diqing, we deeply feel that our party came from the people, rooted in the people, and served the people, the party's foundation is in the people, the bloodline is in the people, and the strength is in the people.
The Red Army rested in Zhongdian for a short period of 19 days, and the 26th Army continued north. The local people have since remembered the red star on their heads. In an interview with Xiang Xuan, the old Red Army said that the Long March was a propaganda team, which along the way told people about the party's policies, the party's propositions, and everything the party did along the way, and told the CPC what it did, and won people's sympathy, understanding and support. Eighty years later, stories between the Red Army and Tibetan monks and lay people have been passed down from generation to generation in Tibetan areas in northwest Yunnan. It's just that it's not a legend, it's a moving portrayal of the affection of military and civilian fish water.
Li Gang, director of the Long March Memorial Hall of the Red Army in Diqing, Yunnan, said that it is now necessary to inherit this tradition and pass it on. To truly build our beautiful homeland into the peaceful and blissful society that the Red Army wants. Now we boast that the whole world is saying that this is Shangri-La, and that we martyrs of the Red Army should also be pleased to build this place into such a home.
As a result of the correct implementation of ethnic and religious policies, the Red Army received a short-term rest in Zhongdian County, raised grain, and made full ideological and material preparations for continuing its journey north to Ganzi. Zhongdian before liberation was restricted by natural conditions. Historical, geographical, and social reasons, the low degree of social development, the toast system, the armor protection system, and the coexistence of feudal serfdom that integrates politics and religion, etc., have long hampered the development of productive forces, coupled with banditry and continuous ethnic armed fights, the great rivers and mountains are still full of desolation, cultural backwardness, social turmoil, and relatively slow economic development. Since the Red Army's Long March passed through Diqing in 1936, the flame of revolution has been deeply rooted in this snowy plateau, and in September 1948, the first party branch was established in the Jinjiang area of Zhongdian. Since then, the vast numbers of poor peasants and herdsmen, who have long been under the feudal enslavement rule of "theocracy," have waged arduous and singing revolutionary struggles against the counter-revolutionary forces under the guidance of the party's bright torch. From the time the Red Army left Diqing to the liberation of Diqing, many ordinary people in Zhongdian County treasured the documents, notices, slogans and other souvenirs left by the Red Army, such as treasures. Today, there is still a small tune "Farewell Song" praising the Red Army in the Jinjiang and Shangjiang lines in Diqing, and I have sent people to look for this minor tune, but because the history is too long, many of the old people of the year are no longer there, and I did not find it, I downloaded another "Farewell Song" from the Internet: outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue. The evening breeze blows the sound of the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain. The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the acquaintance is half scattered; A taste of turbid wine is over, don't dream cold tonight. Outside the long pavilion, on the side of the ancient road, the grass is blue. Ask Jun when he will come, and when he comes, he will not linger. This "Farewell Song" is certainly not the minor tune that praised the Red Army back then, and the reason why I recorded him, I think the lyrics of the two songs are different, but they can also express the same state of mind.
In July 1987, when visiting the Zhongdian Tibetan area where the Red Army passed through the Red Army that year, he said in a serious manner: "In nineteen days, in a county, nearly 20,000 people survived, it is really a great thing, nearly 100 Red Army soldiers died heroically here, and the people of Zhongdian Tibetan area did their best and bore the greatest difficulties for the Red Army to go north to Ganzi, which is the contribution of the people of Zhongdian to history and the greatest glory, without this touching experience of the Red Army in Zhongdian." The PLA's march into Zhongdian in 1950 and the Diqing garrison after it could not have gone so smoothly, and people's feelings for the troops would not be so sincere. Revisiting the history of the Red Army's journey through Tibetan areas is of special significance to the great unity among all ethnic groups in Tibetan areas, stabilizing Tibetan areas, prospering economic construction in Tibetan areas, and building Diqing Tibetan areas into the best Tibetan areas in the country.
From April 27 to May 13, 1936, the Second and Sixth Red Army Corps lasted 18 days from crossing the Jinsha River in the north to leaving Zhongdian County, which was the longest stop on the long march of the Second and Sixth Red Army Regiments, and it was also the first extensive and in-depth contact between the Party and the Red Army and ethnic minorities. It eliminated barriers and misunderstandings, won the trust and support of the broad masses, and laid an indispensable foundation for the victory of the Red Army's Long March. More importantly, the party's ethnic policy during the Red Army's Long March period provided valuable reference and profound enlightenment for how to do a good job in ethnic work under the current new historical conditions.
Peace, tranquility and harmony. The reason why Shangri-La is called the sun and moon in the heart is not precisely because this place that left the footprints of the Red Army is not only a beautiful scenery but also a pure spiritual home.
To be continued.