Singing of Shihezhai
In the hard work, I spent seventeen winters and summers, and in the autumn of 1926.
One day, the chicken man had just called dawn and the sun had not climbed out of the mountain. I was busy getting up and squatting in the yard weaving baskets.
After smoking a bag of cigarettes, my uncle shouted in the room: "The rice is ready, let's eat."
"Don't panic", and I answered while weaving the basket.
"After eating, go to Wangfu store."
"Go to Wangfu store?"
"Go to Wangfu store and get back from cutting a few kilograms of meat.
"It's not the festival, but the New Year, why are you cutting the meat?''
"Don't ask, I'm use it."
obediently, my uncle is about to lose his temper, I didn't ask any further.
Uncle is honest and stubborn. You have to do whatever he asks you to do. If you don’t follow him, he will get angry and will not be happy for several days.
In order not to make him angry, I put down my work and hurried into the house for breakfast.
After eating, I tucked my money and walked out of the house. I wanted to go and come back soon. After weaving the basket early, I couldn't help but speed up my pace, walked along the path out of the village, walked along the long rushing ground, turned up a hillside, and walked towards Wangfudian.
When the sun climbs to the top of the mountain, I am almost at Shihe Village. From there, I crossed the Shihe River, and the Wangfudian was in front of me. I looked at the Shihe Village in front of me, and felt indescribable excitement. The scene of a meeting in Shihe Village was bumped into pieces again.
That was more than a month ago.
One day, I heard from a person from another village that there was a Communist Party in our village. In order to defeat the local tyrants and evil gentry, we wanted to establish a peasant association. I heard that the meeting was held in Shihe Village today. I asked me if I would like to participate. Before this, I heard that there was a Communist Party that was dedicated to the poor, but no one knew where it was. Today, when I learned that they were in Shihe Village, I heard thunder during the long dry season. I hoped that a rain would fall as soon as possible to save the withered and yellow seedlings, and I promised to attend. The man saw me happy and smiled and set off on the road again.
Just dawn the next day, before my uncle got up, I rushed out and walked on the road, happy in my heart and windy under my feet. I felt really proud of the spring breeze. I came to Shihe Village, looked up and saw that the sunset was spreading on the top of the village, with a dazzling golden glow.
Shihe, named after it is located on the banks of the stone river. It is independent of the mountain, rising up and surrounds the hills. The stream flowing from behind it bypasses the flat beach at the foot of the mountain and flows into the stone river in front of the village.
I bowed and climbed to the top of the village. On the top of the village, there are no resident families, only a row of tiled houses on the wall, with Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting inside. Behind the temple is a bamboo forest, with green shade covering the roof of the green tiles.
When I stepped into the temple gate, there was a young man of medium size who was looking at the number of people. I sat near the temple gate. I heard from the person sitting next to me that the man was named Wang Shusheng , and the Xiang family in Chengmagang was the headmagang junior primary school principal. Now it is a Communist Party. People are chattering and talking, Comrade Wang Shusheng announced the beginning of the meeting. I saw another young man sitting next to him. He smiled and nodded to everyone, and then said straight to the point, why are the suffering people in our world poor for generations? Because the government and the rich men squeezed out our blood and sweat. In order to defeat them, the suffering people from generation to generation have repeatedly raised flags and revolted and revolted. Some peasant uprising leaders even led their troops to Kyoto City, put on their dragon robe and called themselves the emperor, but in the end they had to end up in failure....
Another young man sitting next to him stood up and interrupted, and said that there were such things nearby. Everyone knows that there is Mulan Mountain to the south of us. A long time ago, there were two peasant uprising leaders who held up the righteous flag and occupied the mountain as king. He led his men to fight against the rich and help the poor, claiming to be the King of Niutou and named that mountain Niutou Mountain. They also flourished for a while, which scared the rich and the men, and did not dare to commit sins. They were very influential in this area.However, in the end, he fell into a pool of blood. Later, Niutou Mountain was renamed Mulan Mountain
. Then, the first person who spoke talked about the struggle between modern farmers and the reason for their failure was that there was no correct theory to guide and no revolutionary party to be the backbone. These are my enlightenment speeches, which left a deep impression on me in those years. In our Chengmagang area, many poor people also rose to fight, and they were defeated by the rich man one after another.
I remember that at the home of Ding Zhenyu, the rich man from Luojiahe, there was a servant who served them. He could cook good food and was a little famous in that area. The meal I made only once was not in line with the taste of his young master. Not only was the young master beaten up, but one ear was cut off by the young master. After the servant recovered from his injuries, he couldn't swallow his breath and wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge on him. Late one night, he called a few poor brothers, turned the hatred into a fire, and burned down some houses in the Ding family compound. This fire. Although the property of the Ding family suffered some losses, the rich man immediately handed the complaint to the county government office. A few days later, the county government office issued a wanted order to capture the people who set fire everywhere. The servant hid in Tibet every day, and could not return home, so he was charged with robbing money and arson.
Huang Chenghua from Fujiawu is a farmer who works hard all year round. Most of the rice he collected was forcibly plundered by the rich man to rent a class. Huang Chenghua and the rich man were not reasonable and went to the county government office to file a complaint, hoping that the county officials could make a fair decision, speak fairly, and pay less rent classes. He did not expect that there was a saying in the old society: "The yamen is facing south, don't come in if you have any reason or money." The government and the rich man are both angry. As a result, Huang Chenghua not only lost the lawsuit, but also got beaten up and limped home.
One year, disasters in our hometown fell from the sky. Many poor families were hungry and had no rice to put in the pot. They had to dig wild vegetables and hold the leaves to satisfy their hunger. Later, the wild vegetables were dug up and the leaves were all kept alive, and there was no food to find to fill the stomach. Many people were so hungry that they were lying on the bed, leaving only one breath.
Zou Da, the rich man from Zoujiawu, asked that the grain in the warehouse was flooded with large amounts of food and small amounts of food. He would rather let coarse food and mold and feed mice and than lend a grain of food to the poor. The poor people were so hungry that they could not help. They gathered together in groups and relied on the large crowds and bravely broke into the Zou family compound, smashed some granaries, and snatched the stored grain from the warehouse. After the incident, Zou Daqing not only went to the county government office to file a complaint, but also bought a few guns to guard the house. Those poor people who were so hungry that they could only sigh at the high walls and deep courtyard of the Zou family. I heard from their speech that in Huang'an, Hemacheng County, there was a gentleman named Dong Biwu. He founded Wuhan Middle School in Hansan Palace, Wuhan, spread Marxism-Leninism in Hubei, and established a communist group in Wuhan. He and Comrade Chen Tanqiu attended the First Congress of the Communist Party of China as representatives of the Wuhan Communist Group. After returning, he actively promoted the Communist Party’s propositions, developed party organizations, carried out revolutionary activities, and expanded the party’s activities to Huang'an and Macheng areas.
Around 1924, under the influence and education of Comrades Dong Biwu and Chen Tanqiu, many young students studying in Wuhan joined the party organizations and Youth League organizations, including students from Macheng Cai Jiman, Wang You'an, comrades Liu Wenwei, Gui Buchan , and other comrades. They also established the Macheng working group of the Party to take advantage of the opportunity of returning home during the holidays. Promote anti-imperialist and anti-feudal ideas and promote the propositions of the Communist Party of China.
In the autumn of 1925, Comrade Dong Biwu took his busy schedule to come to Zhang Jie'an, Songbu, Macheng, and used various methods to contact the masses, promote the masses, call on the masses to unite, fight against the feudal forces, rely on the united power, break free from the nephew of feudal shackles, and be a revolutionary who dominates his own destiny.
In the winter of this year, the superior leader decided to strike while the iron was hot, and appointed party members and students studying in Macheng in Wuhan, and returned to Macheng County to carry out work, establishing the Macheng Special Branch Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Comrade Wang You'an as the secretary of the branch committee.After returning to their hometown of Macheng, they went deep into the countryside to publicize the Party’s propositions, actively developed the Party’s organizations, and mobilized the masses to rise up and carry out the revolution.
By 1926, the country entered the climax of the Great Revolution. The National Revolutionary Army in the east of the factory began to fight against Northern Expedition, occupying Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge, reaching Wuhan Three Towns , which was influential across the country. Driven by the climax of the Great Revolution, Comrades Wang Shusheng, Xu Ziqing, Liao Rongkun and others established the first Chengma District Party Branch in the name of establishing the Kuomintang District Party Committee on September 9 of this year, with Comrade Xu Ziqing as the branch secretary.
After that, under the leadership of Comrade Wang Shusheng, the first village peasant association in Macheng County was established in Dongyue Temple in Chengmagang......
I was recalling the scene of going to Shihe Village for a meeting. Suddenly, from the top of the mountain in Shihe Village, there were bursts of high-pitched and bright songs heard carefully. It was a song I just learned to sing. The name of the song was "Farmers Quickly Awaken"
Farmers Quickly Awaken,
Five updates every day,
Return home to Dai Xingyue,
Hot days are hard and hard,
Talents and landlords-
Travelers and landlords-
Travelers to rent and kill people,
Full be busy for a year:
Do you still get rid of the land owner,
Hate the land owner,
Do not be so ruthless:
Sons and daughters,
Everyoneres are resentful......
Listen to this loud and sing, I couldn't help but sing, throwing my head at Wangfu shop to cut my flesh, and climbing to the top of Shihezhai Mountain in one breath.
The people who came to the meeting this time were more than last time. In the temple, there was a huge crowd of darkness outside the temple. After singing "Farmers Quickly Awaken", Comrade Wang Shusheng walked out of the temple. He waved his arm and said to everyone:
"Just just now, that comrade said. I will repeat the last point that we have said. We have established a peasant association and formed a peasant volunteer team. We must raise the swords and guns in our hands to defend the smooth progress of the revolution. Now, the comrades who volunteered to join the volunteer team went to the temple to register and fill out the form. As soon as Wang Shusheng finished speaking, many young people were rushing to squeeze into the temple. After listening to Comrade Wang Shusheng's speech, Following the crowd, he squeezed in. In the temple, the young man in charge of registration was the comrade who interjected in the middle during the first meeting. I shook left and right and squeezed to the registration table before I squeezed to the registration table. The comrade looked at me and asked:
"What's your name?''
"Cheng Zaidao"
"How old?"
"Seventeen years old."
Then, the comrade asked about his address, what education he received, his family's financial situation, etc., and I answered them one by one. However, I thought that when I registered for the Volunteer Team, the comrade asked me what my name was because of the homonym of the accent and my answer was "Cheng Zaidao", but he wrote "Chen Zaidao" on the table and it sounded like the pronunciation was the same, and only two of the three words were correct.
Later, I realized that the name was written incorrectly, but my name had been called out, and I had to write a report to correct it. In the tense years of military trance. I don’t want to cause more trouble for the organization, so I just made the mistake and asked Chen Zaidao.
About ten days later, Chengmagang sent me a message saying that I was asked to report to the Henan Guild Hall immediately, one was to participate in military training, and the other was to crack down on militia and landlord armed forces. After receiving the oral notice, I immediately got up and arrived at Chengmagang.
This year, my uncle who lives with me. He died suddenly due to illness. From then on, my relatives were all dead, and my revolutionary team was my home. The Communist Party led me on a long journey.
