The jade-belt-like Huixiang River flows quietly through the Fengrun Urban Area, and the two banks along the river have been opened up as the Huixiang River Park, which has become a good place for the Fengrun masses to relax and play. The Guan Hua Exhibition Hall is located in a beautiful and peaceful forest in the Cao Xueqin Cultural Park on the banks of the Huixiang River.
The museum was established in 2004 and renovated in 2017, with a construction area of 871.2 square meters, and is divided into four parts: warrior Guan Hua, writer Guan Hua, poet Guan Hua, and painter Guan Hua. Guan Hua Exhibition Hall integrates the functions of display, calligraphy and painting competition, academic research and so on, displaying the calligraphy and painting works created by Mr. Guan Hua in the 1990s, as well as some of the calligraphy and painting works donated to Guan Hua by the painters Huang Ji and Li Kuchan, calligraphers Qi Gong and Zhou Ruchang. It is not only a new cultural coordinate of Fengrun District, but also an important window for domestic and foreign audiences to appreciate cultural abundance and feel the charm of abundance.
Tourists visit the Guanhua Exhibition Hall.
Record an era with pen and ink
Entering the museum, the first thing that catches your eye is the statue of Mr. Guan Hua, with a mighty and upright posture and a weathered face, which solidifies the moments of history. Mr. Guan Hua bathed in the vicissitudes of the 20th century, felt the cold and warm of the 80th Spring and Autumn, and his deep and wise eyes insight into an era, and he recorded an era with pen and ink.
Statue of Mr. Guan Hua.
Guan Hua (1922-2002), formerly known as Bao Huapu, was a native of Fengrun Village, Tangshan City. Guan Hua is a soldier who served as a reporter accompanying the army of the Party Committee of Jidong District, the party committee organ newspaper "Salvation Daily", the captain of the literary and art team of the Jianbing Drama Society of the Political Department of the Jidong Military Region, and the deputy head of the literary and artistic troupe of the Jireliao Military Region; Guan Hua is a writer whose main works include "General River", "Little Hero Rain Coming", "Xin Jundi", "Ge Mei", etc. The novella "Little Hero Rain Comes" Chapter 1 "Rain Comes Not Dead" was selected into the language textbooks of primary schools in New China, infecting and educating several generations; Guan Hua is also a poet, who has created "The Cry and Love of Life". Guan Hua's prose collection", his moving songs "Listen to My Mother Talk About the Past", "Our Field", "Happy Festival" and so on are full of too many people's childhood memories, and the beautiful melody is still widely sung today; Guan Hua is also a painter, especially known for painting ink bamboo, publishing the ink bamboo picture album "Cangqing Collection", and the huge ink bamboo "Shen Xiong" and "Heavenly Wind and Sea Rain" are collected by museums in Sweden and Denmark.
In 2002, the 80-year-old Guan Hua completed his last journey in his hometown of Tangshan, blending into the land and fields that he loved all his life.
The red resume breeds the idea of red
On the Jidong Plain, there was an ordinary village called Nüguozhuang, which was under the jurisdiction of Fengrun County (present-day Fengrun District). Not far from the village is the Mother River of Fengrun, the Huixiang River. In 1922, Guan Hua was born here. His childhood and elementary school years were spent in his hometown, and the Homecoming River was where he and his playmates played in the water.
In 1933, the Great Wall Was Defeated and Tangshan fell. In 1935, the puppet regime "Jidong Defense Communist Autonomy Committee" was established, and Jidong was completely reduced to a Japanese colony. The Japanese and the Kosovars carried out brutal military and political rule, and the people of Jidong were precarious. In 1941, the Japanese invaders created the tragic "Panjiayu Massacre" and implemented the "Three Lights" policy to every inhabited place, and for a time "no village did not wear filial piety, and every household cried." Wherever there is aggression, there is resistance. In 1938, under the leadership of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, a major anti-Japanese uprising of 200,000 workers and peasants broke out in Eastern Hebei. Guan Hua's father, Bao Zijing, was the commander of the Seventh Division of the Ninth Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, and after leading 8,000 sons and daughters of his hometown to fight against the Japanese invaders, he worked in the Political Department of the Jidong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. In the autumn of 1944, he died in battle with the Japanese Kou and was buried in the Jidong Martyrs' Cemetery. Previously, under the influence of his father's anti-Japanese and national salvation ideas, Guan Hua began to assist his father in the riot work in 1938. In 1940, Guan Hua officially threw himself into the anti-Japanese torrent, enlisted in the army and became a real fighter, embarking on the revolutionary road. The country hates the family and the family, and it is quenched into steel. Guan Hua grew up in the melting pot of the revolution and joined the Communist Party of China in 1946.
Along the way, during the war years, Guan Hua successively served as a student of the Literature Department of North China Union University, a reporter of the "Salvation News" of the party committee of the Jidong District, a deputy captain and captain of the literary and art team of the Jianbing Drama Society of the Political Department of the Jidong Military Region, the deputy head of the Cultural and Labor Troupe of the Jireliao Military Region, and a researcher of the Northeast Lu Xun Art Institute. After the founding of New China, Guan Hua successively served as a member of the Central Orchestra, a resident writer of the Beijing Writers Association, a member of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; a vice chairman and chairman of the Beijing Municipal Federation of Literature and Art; the president of the Beijing Laoshe Literary and Art Foundation, the president of the Beijing Laoshe Research Association, and a national first-class writer.
Red resume, red road, the idea of giving birth to red. Guan Hua has always believed that only when a writer, especially a writer who is a party member, closely links his creation with the fate of the country and the nation, and throws ink on the standpoint of the party and the people, can he create fine works worthy of the times and pass them on to future generations. The novella "Little Hero Rain Comes" is Guan Hua's legacy.
Yulai is the epitome of children in jidong during the War of Resistance Against Japan
Little Hero Rain has become a hero in the hearts of children and teenagers in an entire era since its birth. This teenager fed by the water of the hometown has accompanied generations of Young Pioneers to grow up, and for the children, Yulai is no longer just a literary image created by Guan Hua, but a real anti-Japanese hero. The endless return of the river, the beautiful reeds, the heroic and indomitable people of Jidong... It has long been cast with the epic of the great War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression of the Chinese people and has become an eternal monument.
Guan Hua Exhibition Hall exhibits.
"In order to continuously carry forward the patriotic spirit of 'Rain Coming', Guan Hua proposed to build a small hero Rain Memorial Garden in the rich Huixiang River Park in his hometown before his death, so that the new generation can get closer to the heroes, learn from the heroes, and consciously accept the education and influence of patriotism and heroism." The Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the Fengrun District Party Committee and the District Government attach great importance to and vigorously support it. Zhang Lifu, director of the Guan Hua Exhibition Hall, introduced that in 1998, the "Little Hero Yulai Memorial Park" was completed in Huixianghe Park, and Guan Hua wrote in his own handwriting on the monument to the Little Hero Yulai: "In 1937, the Japanese fascists invaded China. China waged a nationwide War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and young and middle-aged people joined the Eighth Route Army and took up guns to resist the Japanese invaders. Militiamen, elderly people, women, children and children in various villages on both sides of the Huixiang River in eastern Hebei have waged a tenacious struggle against the enemy to defend the motherland's homeland. In those war years, there were many, many, many people who stood guard like rain, sentries, and held up their small breasts with red guns in their hands to deliver letters and lead the way to the Eighth Route Army. ”
"In the 12-year-long Jidong War of Resistance, tens of thousands of outstanding sons and daughters of Jidong sacrificed their precious lives. During the extremely arduous period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, countless small heroes emerged in this land of Jidong, where the Japanese Kou were raging and entrenched. Liu Tianchang, a researcher at the Fengrun District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, told reporters that Xiaoyulai is not only a literary image created by Guan Hua, but also a real anti-Japanese hero. Yulai is a microcosm of the children in the base area of eastern Hebei during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
"CCTV is producing a 13-episode animation of 'Little Rain', which is now nearing its end and is expected to meet with the public in October." Zhang Lifu said that in order to make this animation film, the director and the main creative team came to the Guan Hua Exhibition Hall and the Yulai Memorial Garden many times to listen to the narrator tell the story of Mr. Guan Hua's life and the mental process of creating the artistic image of Yulai, and they also copied back different versions of "Little Hero Rain" in the collection and carefully pondered.
The patriotic red spirit will be passed on forever
Exiting the Guan Hua Exhibition Hall, heading west into a deep forest path, a few pebbles engraved with the famous verses of Guan Hua's poems lie quietly on the side of the road, leading pedestrians to the statue of Xiao Yu. Zhang Lifu told reporters that since the completion of the exhibition hall and the memorial park, millions of teenagers have come to visit.
Little Hero Rain comes to the memorial garden.
The statue of Xiaoyulai is 2.5 meters high, with clenched fists, a firm posture, a childish face and lips, a resolute gaze, and a tenacious and indomitable force condensed throughout the body. The black square marble pedestal of the arch statue is inscribed with the words that resounded throughout the land of China: "We are Chinese, and we love our motherland!" On each side of the statue, two granite reliefs 1.1 meters high and 2 meters wide were erected. From north to south, these four reliefs are, in order: Reed Flowers Playing in the Water, Starry Night Reading, ZhiHu Traffic, and Reed Crows. On the back of the relief, the full text of "Little Hero Rain Comes" is engraved.
In Liu Tianchang's view, the most precious wealth left by Mr. Guan Hua is summed up in two words as "patriotism", and Guan Hua's life's works, novels, poems, and paintings are inseparable from "patriotism". After Mr. Guan Hua's death, Mrs. Li Wan, on behalf of the whole family, donated more than 900 calligraphy and painting manuscripts of Guan Hua's life, including "Little Hero Rain Coming" and "Listening to My Mother Talk About the Past", to the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature and the Guan Hua Memorial Hall in her hometown. Li Wan once said to the person in charge of the donation: "Although these manuscripts and paintings can sell for a lot of money, we can't do it." We know what Guan Hua had in mind. What was in Mr. Guan Hua's mind? I suspect that he wanted the people and the children of the younger generation to read his paintings and calligraphy works to know the original intention of the Communist Party in leading the people to make a revolution and seek liberation, and to know that today's peace was not easy to come by. Liu Tianchang said.
"In recent years, the surrounding environment has changed so much that it is unimaginable, and it was unimaginable to have such a good environment before." Shi Wenya, a famous writer and cultural scholar in Fengrun, said that he would go to Yulai Garden almost every day to walk around and exercise. "When it comes to understanding the grass and trees here, I am not necessarily comparable to Teacher Schwenya." Zhang Lifu said admiringly. Today, the Guanhua Exhibition Hall echoes the Yulai Garden on the west side and has become a patriotic education base in Tangshan City, a juvenile activity center in Fengrun District, and a women's and children's activity center in Fengrun District. Due to the quiet environment, it has become a good place for the leisure of the citizens.
Source | Tangshan + reporter Liu Tianyue