The author of this article: Lu Jibing Former director of the Department of Command and Management of the Armored Forces Engineering College, son of Xia Chuan
My father, Xia Chuan, was born in 1918 in Pingshan County, Hebei Province. My mother, Wu Jing, born in 1922 in Jining City, Shandong Province, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, they were all old Jiluyu people who fought and lived for many years in Jiluyu.
In 1946, my parents were in Jiluyu, holding one of my sisters who died prematurely.
My grandfather's name was Lu Jiegao, after the Republic of China, he was admitted to the Baoding Provincial Patrol Police Academy, and after graduation, he was assigned to the West District of Pingshan County as a district official, and later served as the director of the Pingshan County Branch Bureau and the director of the Public Security Bureau. In 1929, because he was dissatisfied with some bad deeds of the Kuomintang, he clashed with Zhang Tianjie, the head of the Kuomintang's Pingshan County Party Department, so he resigned from his post as a member of the Pingshan County Party Department and fled his hometown. Zhang Tianjie framed Lu Jiegao as one of the four major local tycoons in the county and ordered him to be arrested, after which he continued to serve as a clerk in Yan Xishan's old army under the introduction of his classmates, and also served as the director of public security in Dingxiang, Hongdong, and Wenshui. In 1937, when Japan occupied North China and the Government of Yan Xishan was in chaos, his grandfather Lu Jiegao, under the introduction of his fellow countryman Ma Xiaojing, served as the director of the military station sub-station of the 34th Group Army Station of the First Theater of Wei Lihuang and actively participated in the anti-War activities. After the 34th Group Army retreated to Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningqing and returned to the Tenth Theater of Operations, Grandpa left his post. In 1946, he died in Shichi, Henan.
Influenced by his family, his father, Xia Chuan, was upright, cheerful, and actively accepted new cultures and new ideas.
Xia Chuan, formerly known as Lu Zhenhua and Lu Xiangchen, pen name Bai Yan. In 1932, he was admitted to Hebei Provincial Lizhengding Middle School, in 1935 he was admitted to the Beiping Journalism College, on April 1, 1936 he joined the revolutionary contingent founded by the Communist Party of China, the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard, on August 1, 1937, he went to Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, to join the Shanxi Youth Anti-Enemy Death Squad, in May 1938 he joined the Eighth Route Army, and worked in the Democratic Movement Department of the Field Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, changing his name to Xia Chuan. In September, he went to Yan'an Kang Da to study, in December he was incorporated into the first branch of Kang Da, and joined the Communist Party of China in January 1939. In 1940, he was transferred to the Political Department of the Second Column of the Eighth Route Army, successively serving as the chief of the Propaganda Unit, the director of the Press Corps accompanying the army, the deputy chief and section chief of the Propaganda Section, the deputy director and director of the Propaganda Department, the director of the Political Department of the Brigade and Division, and the director of the Military Propaganda Department. In February 1950, he was transferred to the Eighteenth Army of the Second Field Fifth Corps as the propaganda director of the Political Department of the Army, carrying out the task of marching into Tibet. After the establishment of the Tibet Military Region in 1952, he served as the minister of propaganda and the minister of culture. In August 1955, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Bayi Film Studio of the General Political Department, and was awarded the rank of colonel, and was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class and the Liberation Medal of the Second Class. 26 years later, in 1980, he took the initiative to request to enter Tibet again, and served as deputy political commissar of the Tibet Military Region, member of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee, vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region CPPCC Committee, and honorary chairman of the Tibet Federation of Literature and Literature. After retiring in 1983, he became the vice president of the Chinese Liberated Areas Literature Research Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, an advisor to the Chinese Elderly Calligraphy and Painting Research Association, and an honorary member of the Tibet Federation of Literature and Literature. In August 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star of the Second Class by the Central Military Commission.
<h1>When he was a teenager, he pursued progress and devoted himself to the anti-Japanese salvation movement</h1>
When Xia Chuan was a teenager, he liked progressive literature and art, especially new poetry. When I was in high school and junior high school, I published articles in journals many times. He began reading progressive books in middle school, and at the age of 16 published his first new poem in praise of the working people at the bottom of society, "The Water Picker". At the age of 17, when he was in Peking Journalism College, he actively participated in the secret activities of the Peking Students' Federation and the literary and artistic activities of the progressive youth of Peiping, and became an enthusiastic member of the journal "Poetry Magazine", which had a positive impact on the Pingjin poetry movement at that time. In 1935, Xia Chuan joined the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement and participated in the demonstration of the 12.9 students in Beiping. After the 12.9 Movement, he joined the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard, a revolutionary contingent established by the Communist Party of China, and served as the leader of the Beiping Journalism College. In 1936, he was expelled from the school for actively encouraging and organizing students from the Peking Journalism College to participate in the demonstration of the 12.12 students who demanded that the Kuomintang government sever diplomatic relations with Japan and crusade against the puppet government in eastern Hebei.
At the end of 1936, Xia Chuan, who had been expelled from the school and was about to go to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, took a group photo with his classmates who had participated in the 129 Movement
<h1>Resolutely carry a pen from Rong and join the anti-enemy death squad</h1>
In 1937, Xia Chuan, who had been expelled from the school, under the leadership of Chen Dadong, an underground party member, went to Taiyuan, Shanxi To participate in the Shanxi Sacrifice and National Salvation League, studied in the Ninth Company of the Military and Political Training Class of the Taiyuan National Normal School, and was later incorporated into the Seventh Squadron of the Third Brigade of the First General Brigade of the Shanxi Youth Anti-Enemy Death Squad. After joining the army, Xia Chuan actively engaged in propaganda and cultural work, he wrote the "Death Squad Song", and also wrote the lyrics "Armed Defense of Shanxi" under the pseudonym Bai Yan (composed by the famous musician Lü Ji).
"Rise up, fellow citizens! Get up and fight the devils! He blew up our factories, he blew up our countryside. Only by fighting, only by fighting, can we survive in death! ......
Take up all those weapons—sickles, kitchen knives, axes, hoes, shotguns, earthen cannons, spears—to defend your parents, brothers, sisters, lives and property, pastoral land, and armed defense of Shanxi."
This magnificent battle song once resounded throughout the battlefield in North China and greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the broad masses and young people. In 2005, this song was selected as a classic song of Chinese national culture in the twentieth century to perform in Beijing.
Almost all the elderly who experienced the life of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression sang or listened to this song. The famous playwright Lu Zhuguo said with emotion in the preface to "Summer Rain Collection": "I have been with Comrade Xia Chuan for more than thirty years, most of which has worked directly under his leadership, and I did not know that the lyrics I loved to sing most in my childhood were originally from his pen. ”
<h1>Rushed to Yan'an and threw himself into the forefront of the anti-Japanese resistance</h1>
In September 1938, Xia Chuan, together with three other comrades-in-arms, crossed the Yellow River, passed through Xi'an, rushed through the Kuomintang's difficulties and interrogations, and successfully arrived at Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, and reported to the Five Brigades of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. On December 22, 1938, Comrade Luo Ruiqing, vice president of the Kang University General School, held a mobilization meeting in Ganquan, announcing that the central government had decided to establish a branch school of Kang Da to advance behind the enemy lines, and explained the purpose and significance of the establishment of the branch school. Xia Chuan and his comrades-in-arms immediately marched to Yanchang, formally established the Kang University First Branch On the 25th, crossed the Yellow River in the east in January 1939, arrived in southeastErn Jin on January 21, and held the opening ceremony of the first phase of the Kang University First Branch on February 23, began a formal study life, and joined the Communist Party of China. In May, the political department of the branch school transferred Xia Chuan to the political department as the head of the propaganda section, and later to the cultural and labor corps as the secretary of the branch, and from then on, he held a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, fighting and writing at the same time. In the Cultural and Labor Corps, he wrote the "Song of the Cultural and Labor Troupe", at the First Branch school of the Anti-Japanese University he wrote the "Study Song", and the song he wrote," "Driving the Devils Out of the Yalu River" (Jiuming Song), which also inspired thousands of revolutionary youth to join the anti-Japanese contingent, and together with the "Big Knife Song", "Exile Trilogy" and "March of the Volunteer Army", it became the most widely sung anti-Japanese song masterpiece at that time.
Natsukawa is in the first year of Kang University
In 1940, Xia Chuan was transferred to the Political Department of the Second Column of the Eighth Route Army, serving as the chief of the Propaganda Unit of the Propaganda Section of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and later as the chief of the Propaganda Unit of the Second Column and the head of the Cultural and Entertainment Unit of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei-Luyu Military Region, doing the political work of the troops.
In 1941, the political department of the column established the Reporter Corps of the Propaganda Department of the Jiluyu Military Region, and Xia Chuan served as the director of the Press Corps. In 1944, he entered the Party School of the Jiluyu Branch of the CPC Central Committee. He graduated from the Party School in May 1945 and served as the chief of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei-Luyu Military Region. On November 22, 1945, the Seventh Column of the Jiluyu Military Region was established, and he served as the chief of the Propaganda Section of the 21st Brigade of the Seventh Column. In August 1946, he was appointed deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Seventh Column of the Hebei-Luyu Military Region. In September 1947, after the 17th Column, he was appointed deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei-Luyu Military Region. In February 1949, he was appointed as the head of the Propaganda Department of the 17th Army of the Fifth Corps. He participated in the battles of Longhai, Giant Goldfish, huaihai and so on.
In 1941, when Xia Chuan was the head of the press corps, he was with the members of the regiment
During this period, he wrote poems and reports such as "Blood Battle in Su Village" and "After the Disaster in the Sand Area", which enthusiastically praised the heroic fighters of the Eighth Route Army who preferred to die unyieldingly, fought tenaciously, and followed their predecessors and successors, accused the Japanese robbers of committing heinous crimes committed by the inhumane "three lights" policy, and left a chapter in the literary history of the Liberated Areas that will shine forever.
<h1>March into Tibet and plant the red flag on the Himalayas</h1>
In February 1950, Xia Chuan, who was serving as the propaganda director of the Seventeenth Army of the Erye Fifth Corps, met Zhang Guohua, the commander of the Eighteenth Army, at that time, Xia Chuan was 32 years old, and after more than ten years of war life in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, he had just entered Guiyang and had a chance to live a stable life, but Xia Chuan did not consider his personal gains and losses at all, and immediately agreed to the invitation of Commander Zhang Guohua and was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Eighteenth Army to carry out the task of marching into Tibet.
In 1950, his father and Commander Zhang Guohua listened to Commander Zhang tell the story of the Red Army's forced crossing of the Dadu River on the road into Tibet, on the Chain Bridge of the Dadu River.
It is precisely because of the loyalty, sense of responsibility, and mission of this revolutionary soldier that he has made achievements in carrying out complex and meticulous united front work both during the arduous march and after arriving in Lhasa, and has won the praise of his superiors and the vast number of commanders and fighters. On the way to Tibet, he climbed the snowy mountains and wade through the glacier with his comrades-in-arms, and in order to communicate with the Tibetan people along the way, he took the lead in learning Tibetan, eating rice dumplings, and drinking butter tea. During the Battle of Qamdo, he led the army working group together with Li Ming, chief of staff of the Fifty-second Division, and Yin Fatang, deputy political commissar, to lead the 154th Regiment to carry out interspersed tasks, and participated in the operation of a thousand miles and a big detour on the northern front, which well achieved the expected purpose of the operation.
After the establishment of the Tibet Military Region in 1952, he served as the minister of propaganda and the minister of culture. In the united front and propaganda work, he not only mingled with the local masses, but also made friends with many upper-class patriots. In 1954, he led a small detachment to carry out the film shooting task assigned by the General Administration, overcame altitude sickness, went up to the northern foothills of Mount Everest, more than 6,000 meters, and planted the five-star red flag on the Himalayas for the first time.
<h1>We have actively opened up a new world of military teaching films and documentaries of our army</h1>
In August 1955, after Xia Chuan was transferred to the Bayi Factory, he was responsible for the organization and leadership of military education films and documentaries. He studied with an open mind, earnestly explored, and soon became an expert in filmmaking; the military teaching films he organized and selected, "Surprise Attack on Wuling Bridge," "Capture of Prisoners Across the Sea," "Jungle Warfare," and "Infantry Fighting Tanks," played a positive role in promoting the military training and all-round construction of the troops, and were warmly welcomed by the vast number of officers and men. In particular, the militia traditional educational films "Mine Warfare" (filmed in 1962) and "Tunnel Warfare" (filmed in 1965), which he proposed and mainly grasped, which vividly embodied Mao Zedong's thinking on people's war, had a far-reaching impact on society, and they have been screened for decades and become household names, becoming classics of Chinese cinema.
In 1962, the Prime Minister received photographs of the self-defense counterattack against India.
The news documentaries he organized and filmed, such as "The General Becomes a Soldier," "The Hero Defeats the Northern Wilderness," "Report to Chairman Mao," "The Great Warrior -- Lei Feng," "The Battle Song of Military Reclamation," and "The War of Self-Defense and Counterattack Against India," all truly reflect the appearance of the army, inspire the morale of the troops, and show the touching and heartfelt conditions of the military and the people. He also personally wrote lyrics for the documentaries "Six Company of Hard Bones" and "We Are All Sharpshooters", in addition to which he wrote many insightful and high-level film criticism articles for feature films inside and outside the factory.
<h1>"Although people are as late as fire, they return to the plateau with pride." </h1>
After Xia Chuan was transferred to Beijing to work, his heart did not leave Tibet, and he paid great attention to any news or work related to Tibet. When he left Tibet 26 years later, in 1981, Xia Chuan, who had entered the age of 62 years old, returned to Tibet with unusual courage and enthusiasm, "willing to spend more than one year in Bonkha", determined to dedicate his life's energy to the Tibetan people.
In 1980, my father went to Tibet for the second time.
During his second visit to Tibet as deputy political commissar of the Military Region, he concurrently served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee and vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region CPPCC Committee, and still mainly focused on propaganda and cultural work inside and outside the military in the region.
He repeatedly sent troops, went deep into the grassroots, to the border posts... He once went to the alpine outpost Chagora at an altitude of 5300 meters twice, and in the case of extreme lack of oxygen, he went to visit and encourage the heroic warriors who "based on the snowy mountains and looked at the world" and "built Tibet for a long time and took the frontier as their home", and wrote poems of praise for them. He was the only military district chief at that time who had ever lived in a post and a soldier.
Under his organization and presidency, Tibet prepared and established the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, of which he served as honorary chairman; convened tibet's first congress of literary and artistic workers; founded the magazine "Tibetan Song and Dance," published the "Album of Novels by Tibetan Authors," and personally wrote the preface; held forums on Tibetan literature in five provinces and regions; and made tremendous contributions to promoting the prosperity and development of Tibetan literature and art.
<h1>The "no idle cow" that never stops</h1>
In September 1983, at the age of 65, Xia Chuan retired from his post as deputy political commissar of the Tibet Military Region and returned to the capital, Beijing. He was a cheerful and highly enthusiastic person, and he did not forget the dings of yao xueyan, Wei traditional and other close friends: "Endure loneliness and endure cold, and do not worry about the body and the cripple." Spring is always good every year, swinging the pen to sprinkle the river sky. Loneliness just burned to the fullest, cold and philosophical joy, and what arose in his heart was a strong desire to "let go of the remaining heat" and do another career.
Xia Chuan worked with Wei Traditional, Wang Yuanjian, Cui Tianmin, and others to edit the Jiluyu Party History Book.
In April 1984, after writing articles for the "New Literary Historical Materials" in the "Poetry Magazine" and "Sea Breeze Poetry Sketches", he received an invitation from Zhao Jianmin, the veteran leader of the Jiluyu Military Region during the war years, and devoted himself to the task of compiling the "Memorabilia of the History of the Party in the Hebei-Luyu Border Region of the CPC". In addition, together with like-minded comrades-in-arms, he also set up a literary and art group, responsible for organizing and compiling the "Jiluyu Liberated Area Literature and Art Series", and persistently let his later years radiate light and heat in the Wenyuan.
Over the years, he and his comrades-in-arms worked together to study the topics selected one by one, and sometimes he had to run to libraries, archives, and reference rooms to consult materials from the mountains of books and newspapers, often lying down for six or seven hours a day, considering and making necessary changes to the manuscripts he was responsible for editing and reviewing word by word.
In order to complete the compilation plan in a hurry, Xia Chuan was sometimes busier and more nervous than he was at work. In 1987, when he was nearly old and rare, when he went to Guizhou to discuss the publication of a series of books, he suddenly had a myocardial infarction, and after emergency rescue by the hospital, he survived the disaster, and still insisted on continuing to work after recovering. Later, he was often hospitalized for angina attacks. Relatives and comrades-in-arms persuaded him: "You are an old and infirm person, you have done everything you should have done in the past, don't be a 'desperate sanlang' anymore!" But optimism and responsibility still sustained him to accomplish one thing after another. He couldn't put down the things in the editorial and publishing plan, and even used the ward as a studio. When organizing and editing the jiluyu liberated area literature and art series, once Xia Chuan was hospitalized in the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army due to illness, and he was always thinking about the compilation and publication of things. During his more than twenty days in hospitalization, he wrote thirty or forty letters to editors and authors.
Xia Chuan especially praised the old comrade-in-arms Ma Bingshan for writing a poem when he revisited the Jiluyu battlefield: "The plains have fought a hundred battles and eight spring and autumn, and the strong pressure on the Wunu is willing to kowtow." Late death is intentional, and the old man loves not idle cattle. And to encourage themselves. He said to his relatives and friends, "I will not be a desperate samurai, just be a 'cow that doesn't idle' that does not stop." ”
After leaving his retirement, Xia Chuan did not forget the complex of Ji Luyu, and participated in the editing and publication of books such as "Memorabilia of the History of the Party in the Hebei-Luyu Border Region of the CPC", "Series of Literature and Art in the Liberated Areas of Jiluyu", "Series of Literary Research Materials of the Literary Research Association of the Liberated Areas of China", and "Selected Poems of the First Two and Nine Dynasties", all of which have high literary and historical value. During this period, he also compiled and published his own poetry collections "Summer Rain Collection", "Battlefield Grass", and "Snow Song". Hard work in Wenyuan, the results are considerable.
He often pays attention to the living conditions and thoughts of ordinary people, and thinks about his fathers and fellow countrymen in his hometown. When he launched the poverty alleviation and education assistance activities in his hometown of Pingshan County, he alone was responsible for the tuition fees of ten children and established correspondence with ten children and their parents, often sending the books that the children needed. He also often misses the old landlord of Shandong during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. During the compilation of the "History of the CPC's Hebei-Lu-Yu Border Region," he made a special trip to visit him.
Comrade Xia Chuan was once affected by some leftist policies, especially during the Cultural Revolution, he was criticized many times and was beaten, but he was always loyal to the party and firmly believed that the party and the masses of the people, no matter how bad the circumstances were, always threw themselves wholeheartedly into the cause of the party, the army, and the people, and contributed his life's strength to the cause of the party and the army's cultural propaganda.
On August 25, 2005, Comrade Xia Chuan died of illness at the age of 87.
My mother, Wu Jing, was born on November 26, 1922, into the old bureaucratic family, joined the revolutionary work in 1944, joined the army in July 1945, joined the party in December 1948, and successively served as a cultural teacher, assistant, personnel unit chief, cadre officer, cadre section chief and other positions. He died on 23 October 1987 at the age of 65.
In 1951, her mother, Wu Jing, was on her way into Tibet.
Wu Jing was a veteran comrade who participated in the revolution at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; during the war years, she was strong-willed, immersed herself in hard work, withstood the test of the arduous struggle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and showed a high degree of dedication. During his work at Jiluyu Daily, he made great contributions once because of his outstanding work. In participating in the land reform review campaign in the Hebei-Luyu region, the work was active and conscientious, and the party's policies were correctly implemented. In 1951, she entered Tibet with the Eighteenth Army, and was the first batch of female soldiers to enter Tibet; in the absence of oxygen on the plateau, the harsh climate, and the hardships of life, although she was once in poor health, she was always able to endure great hardships, endure great hardships, overcome many difficulties, work hard, and contribute to the peaceful liberation and construction of Tibet.
After liberation, with the first tide of military transfers, he went to chongqing sanatorium as vice president, and then transferred to the Bayi Film Studio, engaged in political work and cadre work for a long time, and accumulated rich experience. Be conscientious and responsible for work, treat people sincerely, have a simple style, and unite comrades. She is familiar with the situation, the professional level is high, knows and is familiar with all the cadres of the Bayi Factory, known as the living files of the cadres of the Bayi Factory, and has made great contributions to the construction of the Bayi Film Studio and the work of cadres.
My Parents, we will always miss you.