Text/Qingping
"Surf and Sand"
Beidaihe
Summer of 1954
Heavy rain falls on the swallow,
White waves,
Fishing boats outside Qinhuangdao.
Not a single ocean is seen,
Who do you know?
The past is more than a thousand years,
Wei Wu wielded a whip,
There is a testament to the east of the jieshi.
The autumn wind is now again,
Changed the human world.
This song "Waves and Sands" is magnificent, and was inspired by Chairman Mao after swimming in the Beidaihe River in the summer of 1954 and conquering the waves. When Chairman Mao wrote such an imposing and majestic chapter, it can be seen that in his broad mind at that time, it was like the tide of the sea, surging and surging. The first half of this poem seems to be torrential rain and rough waves, but the chairman poured all his feelings into the "fishing boat" that wrestled with the wind and waves, which was his admiration and deep concern for the great courage of the working people to transform society and conquer nature.
The birth of this glorious psalm has a thrilling and touching story.
In the early summer of 1954, Chairman Mao went to Beidaihe for the first time and stayed in Bath No. 1. In Beidaihe, chairman Mao spent most of his time writing articles and reading books, except for some important meetings of the Central Committee. At this time, except for Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, and Zhou Enlai, none of the others were seen. At this time of year, the guards generally feel that chairman Mao's work is concentrated and rest time is the best day, and the best coordination of nourishing the mind and the brain can be obtained here, because there is a special thing at work, that is, the sea. Under normal circumstances, Chairman Mao had to swim every day, sometimes in the morning and afternoon, for an hour or two at a time, and for three or four hours.
When the sea is gentle, it is like a beautiful woman worthy of affection. Gently touching it, there will be a pleasant feeling, into his arms, will feel extremely tender. However, the sea is also fickle, and it is even more unscrupulous to turn its face when it is said to turn its face, especially with the help of typhoons. Chairman Mao loves the sea, the sea when it is calm and docile, but he loves the sea when he loses his temper, which is probably related to his personality: when he encounters opponents and enemies, he is always very energetic, highly intelligent, and courageous.
Beidaihe is a sea area that often blows typhoons. Together with the typhoon, the long-accumulated heat of the earth will be swept away, and the light brought by the sun god to the earth will also be swept away without a trace, replaced by black clouds. At this moment, looking at the sea, in fact, there is no need to go to the beach, as long as you are in the house, you will hear the howling wind, the roaring waves will beat the beach as if the earth is trembling, the thunder and lightning sky, sandwiched with spades like rainstorms, like horseshoes galloping on the roof.
One day, when Li Yinqiao, the head of the guard, was lying on the glass window to watch the incessant wind and rain outside the house, he suddenly heard the chairman behind him say: "Go, Silver Bridge, let's swim in the sea!" ”
"What, Sir, what do you say?" Li Yinqiao was astonished.
"Go to the sea, let's go for a swim!" This was Chairman Mao's voice, and at this moment, I saw Chairman Mao throw the pen in his hand on the table, get up, and stride toward the door.
At this time, Li Yinqiao's legs seemed to have been slammed by something, and he "snorted" in front of the chairman, "You... You say to swim in the sea? this...... At this time..." Li Yinqiao could no longer express it coherently in words.
Chairman Mao gently patted Li Yinqiao's shoulder and said, "Yes, swim in the sea, at this time it is most interesting to swim in the sea, go, Silver Bridge, get ready to go with me." ”
"No, absolutely not." Li Yinqiao said loudly, and the instructions of Premier Zhou and the members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee rang in his ears: to protect the safety of the chairman at all costs.
For Li Yinqiao, he has this right, as long as the security department does not approve, Chairman Mao cannot go out, for the safety of the chairman, even if he loses his temper, it will not help.
The typhoon blew all night, and the next morning it finally got much better, and the sun came out, but there were at least seven or eight winds on the surface of the sea. The guards were more nervous, because they knew that as long as the chairman saw the sun and wanted to swim, it would take a lot of effort to stop it.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the chairman stood up and made a chest expansion exercise, and said to the guard on duty: "Tell the captain of the guard that I am going to swim." ”
As soon as the guard on duty heard this, he was so frightened that he pulled out his leg and ran to Li Yinqiao's duty room to report to the chief guard.
When Li Yinqiao heard this, he waved his hand and stood in front of Chairman Mao with the guards, and also brought in Dr. Xu Tao to explain the big truth. But the mood of the chairman swimming came, and no one could stop it, and the momentum had to compete with the sea. The captain of the guards immediately gathered the guards to prepare and followed the chairman to the sea.
As soon as the captain of the guards looked at the sea, on the surface of the light black sea, a wave higher than a wave of tide, like a thousand beasts howling, and from time to time thousands of troops and horses, side by side, they rushed to the shore, and the first collision with the beach made a loud roar, as if the whole world was trembling. After the huge wave was shot, the splashing droplets of water flew tens of meters away, and they were full of power, hitting the human body, as if it was a stone thrown by a naughty boy.
Chairman Mao loved the sea too much, especially the sea with wind and waves, and he stared at the sea silently, his chest rising and falling with the roaring waves. At this moment, Chairman Mao's eyes flashed with a kind of blazing heat, a kind of love, and a strong desire that could not be imagined for a long time, as if the whole universe was two of him and the sea. I saw him gently part his hands, divide the guards crowded around him to the sides, and silently undress alone.
"Take off!" The Captain of the Guards ordered all the guardsmen and doctors. Chairman Mao glanced at the "shirtless contingent" around him and asked with a smile: "Are you afraid?" ”
"Don't be afraid!" It was as if the soldiers of the three armies were swearing an oath to the Supreme Commander.
"Good! Any of you can go to the sea with me, and anyone can not go to the sea with me, you can watch on the shore, you can also go back, but this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and comrades who have not gone to the sea should not regret it in the future! Chairman Mao's quipped that the already tense guards and guards and other staff members were much more relaxed.
"Go, we'll all go to the sea with the chairman!"
The chairman smiled satisfactorily, and then turned and walked toward the sea, the naked Chairman Mao looking more burly than the young men around him. The young people around him were blown to the east and west by the wind of the seventh and eighth levels, but Chairman Mao's steps were firm and invincible.
The guards and guards, like hearing the trumpet of the charge, hugged forward and backward, and followed the chairman toward the sea, and the eight guards in front of them lined up in a line, and the guards on the left and right were guards. In this way, on this extraordinary day, on the beach of Beidaihe, Chairman Mao seemed to lead his thousands of troops and horses to set up a decisive battle with an unprecedented opponent.
At this moment, the sea seemed to have come to the mood, and in the face of this fearless team, there was first a silence, and then there was a temptation: a wall of water more than a foot high, rising from the surface of the sea, immediately rushed to the brave challengers with the momentum of pushing the mountain upside down, and the water wall came too quickly, did not knock down Chairman Mao's challenge team, so it retreated sharply, covered with a thick layer of sand.
"Ah, babies, catch up with it!" Chairman Mao raised his arms and waved like a child, shouting incessantly in his mouth. Dozens of strong young men behind them, along with the footprints of the giants, threw themselves into the sea and chased away the waves.
Who knows that the sea did not really recede, but lured the enemy to the bait, accumulated strength, and when the challengers had not yet stood firm in the water, they roared with ten times the strength, with a loud rumbling sound, and built a wall of water in front of Chairman Mao that could not be seen.
The captain of the guards exclaimed, and looked at the chairman again, who seemed to be stepping on the flat tarmac. Suddenly, black oppressive water mountains obscured the sky. It's dark! Deaf! Dozens of lean young men turned into dozens of blisters and disappeared into the huge chest and abdomen of Shuishan Mountain, and their limbs seemed to be scattered.
"Chairman, what about the chairman?"
"Ah, Sir!" The guards reacted to the fact that the first person to look for was Chairman Mao? Where has the President gone? Li Yinqiao stood up from the sand nest pit, and his hands were sparsely pulling open his eyes that were blinded by the mud and sand.
Everyone was shouting eagerly, their voices choked and trembled, and Li Yinqiao slumped on the sand in a daze.
"Silver Bridge, what's wrong with you?" Ah, this voice is the voice of the President. Li Yinqiao turned his head, he was stunned, and he jumped up as if he had been electrocuted.
"Chairman, are you okay, Sir?"
"I'm okay! It's okay! The chairman touched his mouth full of mud and sand, smiled and pointed to the sea, and told his defenders: "Hey, you see, it is really an opponent!" ”
The chairman effortlessly stood up from the sand, and Li Yinqiao saw that the place where the chairman had just been lying was a half-foot deep print, how strong was the force of the waves? Before the captain could admire, another mountain of water on the surface of the sea was coming from afar.
Chairman Mao, as if he hadn't seen it at all, swayed his burly body and strolled toward the sea again.
So repeatedly, these strong boys could withstand this endless fight, their ears were deaf, their whole body was numb, and the only spiritual power that could support them was also collapsing sharply. At this time, there was only one person still standing, and that was Chairman Mao.
The chairman turned back and glanced at the captain of the guards beside him: "Silver Bridge, can't you get up?" Is this bit of water even more powerful than Hu Zongnan's army of more than 200,000 at that time? ”
"Get up, go with the Chairman..." The captain of the guards commanded the guards, who were like galloping knights, like galloping horses. At this moment, they no longer flinched or hesitated in the slightest, followed Chairman Mao, and protected Chairman Mao; they did not have the slightest distraction in their hearts, only this unswerving conviction.
In the front, the guards and fighters formed an iron array shoulder to shoulder, and the guards helped Chairman Mao to follow closely behind the iron array, facing the impact of the surging waves.
The sea seemed to be really provoked, and he lost the playfulness of the joke and revealed his hideous face. On one side is the sound of people, on the other side is the noise of the sea, in the middle is the roar of the wind, and the beach is like the sound of fighting on the battlefield.
"Lifebuoy, lifebuoy, give the chairman a lifebuoy!"
"Hey, don't panic, babies, don't panic, it's high tide!" The soldiers found chairman Mao's tall body standing majestically at the tip of the wave. "Don't be afraid, hold your breath, you will only be washed ashore by the waves, not dragged into the sea, brave comrades, the time has come to really test you."
"It's really painful, it's really enjoyable." Chairman Mao said happily after coming ashore. "The waves are not terrible, as long as we dare to fight him, he will be honest, like a tamed horse, at your disposal, it is said that we Communists have a strong will, it is because we dare to temper themselves in the wind and waves."
On this day, Chairman Mao's mood was particularly good, and after dinner, there was no drowsiness, and he felt it and wrote this poem "Surfing the Sand."
Chairman Mao's poems, like the great mind of his revolutionary leader, are full of magnificent and magnificent romantic colors, and at the same time they penetrate the realism of the revolution, which makes people feel particularly cordial and moving after reading them.