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Introduction:
Every morning, on the mountain road leading to Xiangshan Temple in Jinzhai County, I always see a short and energetic old man.
while humming the " August osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere" popular during the Dabie Mountains Revolutionary period, while casually greeting every fellow who meets who carry a hoe and a load.
"Website Manager Li, it's early!" "Website Manager Li, we're going to work again so early!" greeted with respect and affection, bringing the old man's thoughts back to the glorious years of the revolution...
Don't want home, don't want life, just be determined to make a revolution
1927, the Kuomintang reactionaries raised the sinful butcher knife to the Communists, and the blood of a large number of revolutionaries dyed the land of China red. The Chinese Communists were not intimidated. They buried the bodies of their comrades and continued to fight against the reactionaries.
Li Kaiwen
After the failure of the revolution , in addition to the famous Nanchang Uprising , Autumn Harvest Uprising , and Guangzhou Uprising . In just two years, the Communists also organized three uprisings in the Dabie Mountains: the
in November 1927 in the Jinzhai riot in May 1929, and the Liuhuo Uprising in November 1929
Li Kaiwen participated in the Jinzhai riot. These three uprisings were born, with the outstanding contributions of the Red Fourth Front Army and the two famous general counties - Hong'an County and Jinzhai County .
: The 59 founding generals represented by the "Six-Star General" Hong Xuezhi.
"August osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere, the bright red flags are standing up, the lights are carved with color, the lights are carved with color, the lights are brilliant, the new world..."
This song "August osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere" was sung shortly after the Jinzhai riot. It was sung from the Dabie Mountains to the whole country, and has been sung for a century and has remained fresh for a long time.
In the year when Li Kaiwen was in the revolution, he was no longer the age to come and go without any worries. He was already the father of four children, and he was full of worries inside and out.
The Chinese in that era, as long as they still have a bite of food, they dare not think of "rebellion"; and "think about children and family" often makes people look forward to it and lose the courage to revolution.
Li Kaiwen's old house
In the remote village of Dabie Mountain , many poor farmers have lost their way. After working hard for a year, 70% and 80% of them entered the landlord's granary.
also has all kinds of heavy taxes and taxes. After eating, I didn’t have the last meal, and I was so poor that I couldn’t even wear my pants. It was really a day-to-day response, and it was called "the ground was not working."
The arrival of the Communist Party is like igniting a fire in a barren field, which immediately makes the struggling poor people on the brink of death see hope.
So, they picked up big swords, spears, axes and sickles, bravely threw themselves into the torrent of revolution, and roared towards the reactionaries!
Red Army soldiers
This is a magical team, not only Li Kaiwen, but also thousands of people like him, breaking the family revolution.
Some of them did not fulfill their filial piety in front of their white-haired parents, but were filial sons and grandsons of millions of slavery and oppressed people; some not only sacrificed their lives and shed their blood, but also brought their whole family to sacrifice for the bright and heroic spirit; some were just children, but sacrificed their lives to the end and treated death as if they were home.
They really achieved " wants revolution, don't have family, don't have life ".
Living in such a revolutionary group, Li Kaiwen is stirred by the passion of the revolution every day. He secretly inspired himself:
No matter the wind and rain, no matter the cold weather, the red flag of the revolution must take root in the land of the Dabie Mountains!
No matter how strong a man is, how many people are really as hard as a stone?
No matter how hard or tired a man is, he will not shed a single tear, but the tears of his closest dear and beloved family are the most unsightly.When you see your family's tears, you can make steel all the time, and you will turn into softness around your fingers.
Red Army soldiers who were fighting the encirclement and suppression
In 1932, the Red Fourth Front Army was forced to embark on the Long March.
Li Kaiwen, who had just joined the Red Army from Red Guards , happened to pass by his own house when he was transferring. His eight-year-old son saw him and cried and hugged his legs tightly, begging him not to leave and go home to see his mother who had just given birth. Should
go or stay? Li Kaiwen knew very well that once he entered the house, he saw his wife's tears and two twins who had only been half a month old, he would definitely not be able to leave again; and there was only one result left behind - dying under the enemy's butcher knife...
After returning to his hometown for many years, Li Kaiwen couldn't help but ask his son: "Did you hate your father before?"
son honestly replied:
"It is false to say that he doesn't hate him, he must have hated him at the beginning, but now he doesn't hate him anymore, knowing that what his father does is a glorious thing. Besides, if you didn't follow the Red Army, not only you have to die, but our whole family will die."
Carrying a stretcher and doing cooking is not easy at all than fighting
There is a saying that goes: when fighting, everything is fighting from beginning to end.
In the brave and fearless people's army, there is never a shortage of commanders who dare to draw their swords, be resourceful, and be able to command thousands of troops like Li Yunlong. Li Kaiwen, who participated in the Red Army, also wanted to pick up his gun and fight against the enemy directly on the battlefield.
, but he never took a gun a day, nor was he able to command thousands of troops. At the highest, he only served as a squad leader - first the squad leader of the stretcher squad, and then the squad leader of the cooking squad.
However, he regarded the squad leader as the ceiling, and even Chairman Mao affectionately called him "old squad leader".
Compared with comrades fighting on the front line, the soldiers of the stretcher squad face no small danger at all.
When a soldier falls down with injuries, he will carry it down one or even half a minute every morning to rescue him, the hope of survival will increase ten times a hundred times.
Therefore, the soldiers of the stretcher squad must be ahead and even higher. Once a comrade fell to the ground with injuries, they must rush up immediately in the rain of bullets;
they must also be smart enough to distinguish the enemy's guns and can instantly recognize dangers and avoid dangers, otherwise the next person who is carried off by the stretcher is likely to be themselves.
Whenever the battle sounds, Li Kaiwen and his stretcher team members always appear next to their injured comrades at the first time, snatch them back from the God of Death, and quickly send them to the rear hospital.
On the Long March Road, every step was full of difficulties and every step left the bloody footprints of the revolutionaries. After repeated encirclement and blocking, and in repeated cruel battles, Li Kaiwen unfortunately fell under the enemy's artillery fire.
A fellow villager of his, a fellow villager who once wanted to be a deserter and was persuaded by Li Kaiwen to return to the revolutionary team, forced him to dig out of the soil full of smoke and shrapnel and fed him a bowl of rice soup. Li Kaiwen woke up again.
After waking up, Li Kaiwen did not have the joy of survival, but was filled with pain - he found that his hearing was seriously damaged, not only could he not get a gun, but he could not even lift the stretcher.
cannot carry the stretcher, does the revolutionary team still need itself? What should I do if the revolution cannot continue?
Red Army Cooking Team is preparing to cook
Li Kaiwen's concern is unnecessary. The revolutionary team did not abandon him, but let him join the kitchen team and serve as the squad leader.
Don’t think that the kitchen team is far away from the front line, it is much better than the stretcher team.
Think about the "old squad leader" in the primary school textbook " Golden Fish Hook " (coincidentally, the "old squad leader" is also a cook squad leader of the Red Fourth Front Army), and you will know how hard it is to the cook squad leader on the Long March! How tired you are!
Whenever they arrive at the campsite and when other soldiers are tired and resting, they have to dig wild vegetables and dig grass roots everywhere, trying every means to find something to eat.
things are cooked, and better they are tightened to the wounded and sick first, and then to other cadres and soldiers. When they eat by themselves, there is often almost nothing left...
is not only lacking in food, but also on the cold and humid grass, raising fire is also a big problem.
cannot eat well for a long time, and the soldiers' bodies will collapse and it will be difficult to get out of the vast grassland. Who can bear the red flag of the revolution?
didn't sleep all night, and Li Kaiwen finally came up with an idea. Before the march every day, he would pick up a handful of wet firewood and a handful of handfuls in his chest and two under his armpits. When the next time he cooked, the firewood would be dried up.
Red Army crossed the grasslands in the Long March
So, every time I went to a camp, when other cooking teams were still worried about not lighting firewood, the smoke from Li Kaiwen's side had already risen, and the tired soldiers could always have a bite of hot rice quickly.
When other kitchen classes ask him what secrets he has, he always smiles and says he is "lucky" and welcomes everyone to borrow fire at any time.
In fact, why did he cherish it yourself? He just doesn't want other comrades to hurt their bodies like him!
In this way, the spark of Li Kaiwen's kitchen team became the spark of hope on the Long March and the spark of revolutionary fighting spirit.
No seeking fame, no seeking profit, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking fame, no seeking from the Red Army,
, the Red Army successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi, in the complex environment, the central government needed a loyal and reliable person to be responsible for the food of the central leaders.
After recommendation, Li Kaiwen was lucky enough to become the one who mastered the "Imperial Chef", and worked for eleven years, and also established deep feelings with the leaders led by Chairman Mao.
Chairman Mao in Yan'an
During those difficult years, in the smallest command in Yan'an, he commanded two great wars that reformed China's future and destiny - the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.
Li Kaiwen’s mission is to ensure that leaders eat well and have a good body.
With the development of the situation of the Anti-Japanese War, Yan'an's economy is becoming more and more difficult.
But the Communist Party of China has never been intimidated by difficulties. Under the call of Chairman Mao, the border area launched a vigorous "big production movement".
Li Kaiwen is also actively involved in the large-scale production movement. His unique skill is to weave straw sandals. Not only the soldiers like to wear the straw sandals he made, but also the leaders such as Chairman Mao and Vice Chairman Zhou. This also made Li Kaiwen feel particularly glorious and proud.
Yan's production movement
It is this period of Yan'an, especially when you are influenced by the leaders every day, personally accept the leaders' teachings, and always feel the leaders' care, so that Li Kaiwen, who was originally devoted to the revolution, will grow into a true Communist Party member step by step.
A leader who can cultivate thousands of ordinary people into great warriors must be a great leader. This is vividly reflected in Chairman Mao: in his youth, he voluntarily gave up the opportunity to study abroad, plunged into the fields of farmers, and explained all classes in Chinese society clearly; in the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he served as the Minister of Propaganda, which was a bright future, but in order to liberate the working masses, he stood on the opposite side of the depraved and brutal government and launched a vigorous autumn harvest uprising; in the later stage, he refused to work in the central government of Shanghai, and forced to go up the mountain to make friends with the "mountain king", creating the first red piece of China Revolutionary base - Jinggangshan base;
When many people were shaken in their minds and were pessimistic and disappointed with the future of the revolution, he wrote the famous " Spark Fire , Can Start a Prairie"...
Chairman Mao had a friendly conversation with fellow villagers in northern Shaanxi
According to the needs of the development of the situation of the Liberation War, in 1948, the central government moved from northern Shaanxi to Xibaipo in Hebei. In 1949, Li Kaiwen, who was over 50 years old, was arranged to study at the Central Cadre School. After graduating from
, the organization originally arranged for him to go to Tianjin Sugar Factory to serve as the director, but he refused.He said that he knew what material he was, and he might be able to use some revolutionary energy when he returned to his hometown!
Yes, Li Kaiwen is such a person who never forgets his roots at any time.
He was born a farmer. He started a revolution because he couldn't survive. Now the revolution has won. Go back wherever he comes from, do the farmer's work, eat the farmers' meals. He believes that this is his best destination.
Local leaders would not arrange an old comrade who came back from the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao in this way, and said to him:
"How about you serve as the deputy county magistrate of our Jinzhai County!"
Li Kaiwen hurriedly waved his hand: "The organization arranges me to do something, as long as I can continue to contribute to the revolution."
Finally, he became the webmaster of his hometown grain station. Dealing with food made him feel that he had never lived a solid life.
Zhang Side
The first time he stood in front of the gate of the grain station, somehow, Li Kaiwen suddenly remembered the scene when he attended the memorial service of comrade Zhang Side in Yan'an, and even more remembered Chairman Mao's famous eulogy.
Although he is not well-educated, he still remembers something in it: "Our team is entirely to liberate the people and works completely for the interests of the people..."
This is Chairman Mao's requirement for the revolutionary team, and it is also Li Kaiwen's requirement for himself.
From the moment he entered the grain station gate, he dived into his work, showed his momentum to do revolution, and treated every small thing as a big thing. The grain stood in his hands and changed every day, and his face was completely renewed.
April 30, 1956, this was a day that made Li Kaiwen extremely excited. After being elected as a model worker model in the Yan'an production movement, he was re-elected as a model worker in the national food system. When he returned to Beijing, he was lucky enough to meet Chairman Mao.
1956 National Model Workers Conference
Li Kaiwen held Chairman Mao's big hand tightly and said excitedly:
"Chairman, I have not embarrassed you in recent years, nor have I smeared our team..."
In the long history of the Chinese revolution, Li Kaiwen is just an ordinary member. He did not have the so-called great achievements, but he truly achieved "no selfishness."
As Chairman Mao said: "A person has great abilities, but as long as he has this spirit, he is a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who is separated from low-level interests, and a person who is beneficial to the people."
This is exactly the most precious spiritual wealth left by Li Kaiwen to future generations!
