The true and sincere Yimeng sisters

"Spring wind blows, willow leaves are green, I send my brother to be a soldier, brother you join the army to go to the front, I am busy in production in the rear, there are cotton clothes in winter and grain in summer..." Watching the movie "The Six Sisters of Yimeng" again, this familiar melody sounded in my ears again, and there was a tear-jerking scene in front of my eyes, and the image of a group of Yimeng women was clear and tall in my mind again.

Eight hundred miles of Yimeng is a red hot land, a sacred land. The red sister-in-law is the most magnificent scenery among them. Mengshan gave them a strong and indomitable disposition; Yishui water soaked them with motherly warmth; war tempered their sincere faith and the nature of perfection and beauty.

I am also the daughter of Yimeng Mountain, and grew up listening to the story of The Red Sister-in-law. Now revisiting this red history, I am full of emotions and emotions, and once again feel the great love of YiMengHong's mother's love, the strength in softness, the wisdom in simplicity, and the lack of regret in dedication!

The holy maternal love of the red sister-in-law, in this deep land, sublimated into the great love of the world. I can't forget the winter of 1941, during the artillery fire of the Japanese sweeping Yimeng, a 13-year-old young soldier was wounded and shocked due to excessive blood loss. The deaf-mute woman Mingdeying cleverly rescued her, and in the absence of water, she thought more about it while breastfeeding and saved the warrior with milk. Poor, she killed the only two old hens, gave everything she could to adopt young warriors, and hid from the enemy in the name of her son. However, his youngest son was broken by the Japanese devils and could not take care of himself because of his mentally handicapped life.

Letting go of the shackles of the thousand-year ritual, the mute woman Ming Deying used hot and sweet milk to nourish the dying life, which is the nature of maternal love. In her silent world, she obviously witnessed the communist party and the Eighth Route Army persisting in the war of resistance and all the practical actions for the people, and was full of deep affection for the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army.

This kind of maternal love was also continued by Yimeng's mother "Wang Changyu" for several years. Beginning in 1939, Wang Yiyu risked his life to set up a wartime nursery during the difficult years. In order to take good care of the children of the revolutionary martyrs, she tearfully told her daughter-in-law, who was breastfeeding: "The children of the martyrs are starving to death, they are cut off from their roots, our children are starving to death, you can still give birth, let the children of the revolutionary martyrs eat milk, and our children will eat coarse!" In this way, she raised 86 revolutionary descendants, and four of her own relatives died of malnutrition. What a heavy maternal love this is, it obviously goes beyond the scope of maternal love, it is absolutely sincere human love, that is selfless love for the Party and the revolution.

The tenderness of the red sister-in-law is like water, through the pervasive smoke of gunfire in the fire of war, transformed into the strength of softness. I can't forget that before the Menglianggu War, the Yimeng women represented by the six Sisters of Yimeng, in just a few days, baked 150,000 kilograms of pancakes for the troops, raised 30,000 kilograms of military horse and hay, washed more than 8,000 military uniforms, and made more than 500 pairs of military shoes... You know, some of their children have not worn shoes until they are 4 years old, and they even offer the 50 acres of wheat that have just been flowered to the troops to feed the horses, and the grain grass that has been newly planted on the roof is pulled down as hay. During the battle, the six sisters and their villagers ate only one meal a day, went back and forth dozens of miles of mountain roads every day, used their weak bodies to pick up the heavy burden of support, acted as guides for the troops, delivered ammunition, delivered grain and grass, and nursed the wounded... Stop and sing for the soldiers, do propaganda, and boost morale.

It is said that war makes women go away. But they could not retreat to the backstage of the war, but rushed to the front line of the war without hesitation, and accepted the baptism of blood and fire, the tribulations of love and hate with their weak bodies. I remembered Yue Fen's cry in the movie "The Six Sisters of Yimeng": "The men of Yimeng Mountain have all gone to the front line"; after Chunlan heard the news that her husband was sacrificed on the battlefield, she forced tears to kick the glorious certificate into her pocket. The war made them who should have been weak and tender become so strong, fearless and regretless!

The simple Rulan of the red sister-in-law became more straightforward and frank when the nation was in danger and the country was in danger. Time back to 1944, the Eighth Route Army urgently needed to replenish its strength, at the village to mobilize young men to join the army, seeing that many people hesitated, a weak woman stood in the crowd: "If anyone is the first to sign up for the army, I will marry whom!" Under her touch, the on-site registration for the army was very enthusiastic. This is Liang Huaiyu, the young and beautiful literacy class leader. This is my lovely Yimeng sisters, upright, kind, and innocent, who do not hesitate to dedicate their youth and the pursuit of perfect love to the revolution.

Can't forget the period during the Battle of Menglianggu. There was a unit that needed to cross the Wen River quickly, Li Guifang organized 32 women in the village to tear down their own door panels, jump into the cold and bone-chilling river water, and build a "fire line bridge" with their bodies as piers. What the warriors did not expect was that some of these women were already pregnant. "There is no bridge leg with human legs, and there is no bridge board with door panel", which is also my dear and lovely Yimeng sisters. Some people say that war has eliminated human nature, but the qualities and personalities of the Yimeng female surname have been highlighted and sublimated in the war.

"The last ration is used as military food, the last piece of cloth is made into military uniforms, and the last son is sent to the battlefield", this is the truest portrayal of Yimeng Hongjie. No wonder Marshal Chen Yi once said affectionately: "Even if I lie in a coffin, I can't forget the Yimeng people, who used millet to feed the revolution and pushed the revolution across the Yangtze River with a cart!" "There is such a set of data to witness: during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, more than 1.2 million of the 4.2 million people in the Yimeng Mountains participated in the front of the branch and more than 200,000 people participated in the war. Of these, 155,000 women covered 94,000 revolutionary soldiers and resistance fighters in different ways, and 42,000 women took part in the rescue of the wounded and sick of the Eighth Route Army, saving 19,000 wounded.

Time flies, the years have passed, now more than half a century has passed, I can sing and cry Yimeng women, when people are used to calling you "red sister-in-law", in fact, you have long passed away, some have passed away, but I also want to use a thick Yimeng accent, call you a voice - my dear Yimeng sisters, because in those passionate years, you were once handsome, beautiful, young, and boiling full of blood!

I am proud, I am a yimeng child, and I am even more proud of my yimeng red sister-in-law. Because, I deeply realized that the words "Yimeng Hongjie" have a heavy weight: loyalty, fraternity, self-improvement, and dedication are the connotation of their essence, and they are also the concentrated embodiment of the spirit of Yimeng.

Today, the Yimeng spirit, which is rooted in the land of Yimeng, belongs to a region, but it is not limited to a region; it belongs to the people of Yimeng, but it is not limited to the people of Yimeng mountain; it belongs to an era, but it is not limited to an era, it also reflects the sons and daughters of Qilu and becomes the core and representative of the spirit of Shandong in the new period. Remembering the struggle of the ancestors and carrying forward the spirit of the Red Sister-in-Law and the spirit of Yimeng has become the unshirkable responsibility of those of us who grew up in the new era.