Not afraid of sacrifice and relying on the masses

In the early 1930s, Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, Xi Zhongxun and other revolutionaries of the older generation formed the 26th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army under extremely difficult and difficult circumstances, established the Shaanxi-Gansu-Border Special Committee and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian Revolutionary Committee, and created the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian Revolutionary Base Area centered on Zhaojin. This was the first mountainous revolutionary base area established by the Communist Party of China in the northwest region, and the spirit of Zhaojin was forged in the practice of revolution and combat.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian revolutionary base area centered on Zhaojin has written a glorious page in the history of the Chinese revolution. It is necessary to strengthen the study of the history of the revolutionary base areas, sum up historical experience, and better carry forward the revolutionary spirit and fine work style.

"Ruijin is in the south, Zhaojin is in the north." At the Zhaojin Memorial Hall, historical photos depict the hardships and hardships of the Glory Years, and precious cultural relics reflect the surging passion of blood and fire.

-- A firm belief in loyalty to the party and unswerving determination. After the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927, in accordance with the spirit of the Eighty-Seventh Session of the Communist Party of China, the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China launched an agrarian revolution and armed struggle, and successively launched and guided dozens of uprisings in the Shaanxi-Gansu region. However, these uprisings failed.

"The dry revolution can still be afraid of failure!" What if it fails. Just as Liu Zhidan said at that time, in the face of the white terror and the butcher's knife held high by the enemy, the Communists always strengthened their ideals and convictions, firmly believing that the climax of the Chinese revolution was bound to come.

From the formation of the Northwest Anti-Imperialist Alliance Army and the Shaanxi-Gansu Guerrilla Army, to the creation of the first main Red Army in the northwest region, the Red Twenty-sixth Army; from the launching of guerrilla struggle to the creation of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Border Revolutionary Base Area, a new situation in the revolutionary struggle in Shaanxi-Gansu has been opened up. Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang, Xi Zhongxun, and other revolutionaries of the older generation have firm revolutionary ideals and convictions and unlimited loyalty and support for the party.

------------------------------------ "Lead the neck to the death of the world sincerely happy, blind to celebrate the red flag flying." This is a tragic poem written in prison by Wang Taiji, the leader of the Yaoxian uprising and the commander of the Red Forty-second Division, after being arrested for being betrayed by the old department. Faced with the threat and temptation of the enemy, Wang Taiji regarded death as a homecoming, and was eventually brutally killed by the enemy.

The Kuomintang troops "encircled and suppressed" Xue Jiazhai, and Li Miaozhai, commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Guerrilla General Headquarters, died tragically and heroically; after the fall of the Jinsu District, zhou Dongzhi, Wang Wanliang, and Wang Mantang, leaders of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Committee, died tragically under the enemy's butcher's knife...

Sacrifice more ambitions for having. In the course of the creation and development of the revolutionary base areas in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian Province, countless Communists and the revolutionary masses have followed in the footsteps of their predecessors and successors, with their revolutionary will to work tenaciously and diligently and the spirit of struggle that is not afraid of sacrifice, without fear of difficulties and dangers, without fear of making a new comeback, and constantly summing up lessons and lessons in the midst of defeats and setbacks, and finally winning one new victory after another.

——Independent, pioneering and enterprising courage of innovation. "Do not fight big wars and fight small wars, but accumulate small victories into big victories; concentrate the main forces, extensively carry out guerrilla warfare, and carry out mass work in depth." This was the military strategic guideline determined in August 1933 at a joint meeting of the party, government, and army held by the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region Special Committee of the CPC at Chenjiapo in YaoXian County.

At that time, the revolutionary struggle in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu-Bian suffered successive serious setbacks and lost contact with higher-level organizations, and the base areas reached a critical juncture of life and death. The Chen Jiapo meeting persisted in proceeding from reality, independently explored and formulated a strategic principle that conformed to reality, corrected the right-leaning pessimism among the ranks and the erroneous idea of dispersing the Red Army, and unified the leadership of the various revolutionary armed forces gathered in the base areas.

The Chen Jiapo meeting brought about a new major turning point in the revolutionary situation in Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu, which was at a low ebb, and made important contributions to the restoration and reconstruction of the Red Twenty-sixth Army, the consolidation and development of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Bian revolutionary base area, and the creation of the Shaanxi-Gansu revolutionary base area.

-- Proceeding from reality and maintaining close ties with the masses. The agrarian revolution was carried out, and "the tillers have their own land"; the landlords' granaries were opened and the struggle for grain distribution was waged; trade fairs were established, the local economy was developed, and the "public buying and selling" and "letting the masses buy first" ... These measures in the border areas have aroused the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses, who have enthusiastically joined the army, the army and the people have united as one family, and the base areas have presented a gratifying scene of vigorous development.

The Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region has always persisted in proceeding from reality, unswervingly followed the mass line, done mass work in an in-depth and meticulous manner, always mingled with the masses, shared weal and woe, and won the sincere support and resolute support of the masses of the people.

In July 1935, the Kuomintang army's second counter-revolutionary "encirclement and suppression" of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu border and northern Shaanxi base areas was completely smashed, and the two base areas were connected together to form the Shaanxi-Gansu revolutionary base area. In October of the same year, the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment led by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which was reorganized by the Red First Army, the Red Third Army and the column of the Central Military Commission, arrived at wuqi town in northern Shaanxi, and the main force of the Central Red Army successfully ended the Long March.

In April 1945, Mao Zedong said at the preparatory meeting of the Seventh National Congress of the Party: "I said that northern Shaanxi is two points, one foothold and one starting point. ”

The Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base Area, as the only relatively complete and stable base area that has yielded fruitful results in the later stages of the agrarian revolutionary war, has also become the starting and turning point of the Chinese revolution -- the Long March of the Red Army has landed here, and the Eighth Route Army has rushed to the anti-Japanese battlefield from here, ushering in the historical transformation of the agrarian revolutionary war into the War of Resistance Against Japan, and opening a new chapter in the revolutionary struggle led by the Communist Party of China from victory to victory.

The bucket turns to the stars, and time flies. Today's Zhaojin is not only famous for its beautiful natural scenery and Danxia landforms, but also as the birthplace of the Zhaojin spirit, it has become one of the important destinations for red tourism.

Song Jianbin, deputy director of the Zhaojin Memorial Hall, introduced that the memorial hall receives more than 800,000 tourists every year, and many young people come here to receive education and cultivate sentiments. By the end of 2020, the Zhaojin Spirit Tour exhibition has entered 44 cities, held 55 exhibitions, about 4 million people have received revolutionary traditional education, and the influence radiation has continued to expand.

On May 30, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the students of Zhaojin Beiliang Red Army Primary School, saying: "I hope that you will learn more about the historical knowledge of China's revolution, construction and reform, learn more from heroes and model figures, love the party, love the motherland, love the people, and pass on the red gene from generation to generation with practical actions." ”

As a grassroots party history worker, Song Jianbin hopes that everyone can deeply understand the spirit of Zhaojin and let the spirit of Zhaojin shine with new brilliance in the new era and be passed on forever.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 27

Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Kaixiong

Source: China Youth Daily