The Chinese Communist Party's "100,000 Whys": Why is every household in Jiangxi County accustomed to drinking "salt-free soup"?

Beijing, March 18 (China News Network) (Reporter Wang Kai) Nowadays, many people are pursuing "less salt" healthy dining, but everyone knows how difficult it will be to eat if you don't put a little salt in your dishes. But in Ningdu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, every household has maintained the strange habit of drinking "unsalted soup", why is this?

This dates back to 1931, when the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic was established in Ruijin in November of that year. In order to strangle the Soviet government in its cradle, the reactionaries not only launched five large-scale military "encirclement and suppression" campaigns against the Central Soviet Region, but also imposed a strict economic blockade on the Central Soviet Region, with the intention of preventing "a grain of rice, a pinch of salt, and a spoonful of water" from falling into the hands of the Communist Party and the Red Army.

This caused a serious shortage of materials in the Soviet area, especially the shortage of salt, many soldiers and the masses were short of salt for a long time, their bodies were puffy, and the wounds were not easy to heal, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the Red Army.

In order to support the front line and allow the Soldiers of the Red Army to eat salt, the people of Ningdu proposed that "less salt should be put in stir-fried vegetables and no salt in steamed soup", and the precious salt was saved from between the teeth and all used to support the front line. Many years later, salt was no longer a scarce and popular item for Ningdu, but the local custom of drinking "salt-free soup" was preserved.

To others, this mediocre bowl of "unsalted soup" seems to be tasteless. But the proletarian party, which is deeply rooted in the masses of the people, can taste from it a "true taste", a taste of blood connection, a taste of life and death.

Looking back at the history of the Party, why are there more than ten million similar moving stories? What does the people pay for to support the Communist Party and the people's army than salt? As the old song goes– the last bowl of rice for military food, the last piece of cloth for military uniforms, the last cotton jacket on a stretcher, the last son to the battlefield...

Whether it is the Long March of the Red Army or the leadership of the people to resist aggression; whether it is the liberation of all China or the construction of a socialist new China, the COMMUNIST PARTY of China is inseparable from the wholehearted support of the masses of the people along the way.

It is precisely because of this that the Chinese Communist Party has the courage to meet any challenges and tempers. The Red Army soldiers of the Jinggangshan period had a song and ballad: "Red rice, pumpkin soup, autumn eggplant, fragrant taste, the meal is eaten well." Dry straw, soft and yellow, gold wire quilt cover body, not afraid of the north wind and heavy snow, warm and sleepy. ”

In such a harsh environment of struggle, the Communists were able to ridicule the difficulties they encountered with optimism and humor, not only because they had firm faith, but also because they knew that there were thousands of people behind them who would not abandon the storm.

To this day, as General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, the Foundation of the Communist Party of China lies in the people and its blood lies in the people. To start a new journey and move towards new goals, the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the masses are still a strong guarantee for seeking high-quality development and realizing the grand blueprint.

On the occasion of ushering in the centenary of the CPC, every communist should taste a bowl of "salt-free soup" at the spiritual level, feel that the party is connected with the blood of the masses, and keep firmly in mind the mass line of everything for the masses, relying on the masses, coming from the masses, and going to the masses. (End)