There was a group of people who had surpassed their abilities, but were willing to take root in the barren and poor Yan'an area and give up their wealth of life in the big city. They could have lived their lives smoothly, but they chose a arduous and thorny road than ever before. Among them, countless people who had shared ideals sacrificed one after another, but failed to stop their progress.
They were ragged, wearing all kinds of patched clothes, eating simple food, but their spirits were fuller than anyone else, and their faith was firmer than anyone else. This is the red holy land of Yan'an. There are a group of people with common beliefs living here, and countless founding fathers came out here in the future.
1942 Chairman Mao’s speech at the Yan'an Senior Technical Cadre Conference
Chairman Mao’s speech has always been humorous and witty. Everything will be explained in simple language when Chairman Mao is explained, and it can even be explained very humorously, such as what is guerrilla warfare ? If you can fight, fight, run away if you can’t fight. This is guerrilla warfare, easy to understand and concise.
8-1, 1938-1, Chairman of the Communist Party of China spoke at the graduation ceremony of the fourth session of the Yan'an Anti-Japanese University
Chairman Mao wearing patch
1944 photo at the commemoration of the July 7 Incident, and there are also Mr. Zhu, Mr. Nie, Mr. Lin, etc.
And I was facing the people every day, but the people didn’t know much literacy, and some policy languages were too obscure and it was difficult for the people to understand. Sometimes Chairman Mao would modify some content personally and post it out. After reading it, the people could understand it immediately. For example, changing "opposing the transaction of marriages, abolishing the betrothal gifts and gifts" to "taking a wife for money, marrying voluntarily", and telling it to the people in the language of the people. This is Chairman Mao’s language art.
Rare smiles very happy photos
Walking on the road in Yan'an
You can see that the bags in the eyes are heavy
1944 in Yan'an
The photo is a photo that everyone is familiar with. I believe many people have seen it in textbooks. It is a photo of Chairman Mao teaching two Eighth Route Army soldiers to read. This photo was taken in Yan'an on April 24, 1939. Chairman Mao attended the conference on Anti-God of . Before entering, he met two Eighth Route Army soldiers. After seeing Chairman Mao, they walked in front of him excitedly and said hello to the Chairman. Chairman Mao was very happy, communicated with them happily, and taught them to write.
Chairman Mao taught Eighth Route Army soldiers to write
Do you know the characters in this photo?
This is a photo of Chairman Mao and Zhu Rui. The photo was taken in Yan'an in 1944. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhu Rui made great contributions to the establishment of the Jin, Hebei and Henan anti-Japanese base , and founded the North China Military and Political Cadre School, which trained a large number of anti-Japanese military and political cadres. Unfortunately, Zhu Rui died in the Liaoshen Campaign in 1948. He was the commander of the artillery in the Northeast Military Region at the time. He was only 43 years old. He was the highest general who died in the War of Liberation.
1944 Chairman Mao and Zhu Rui in Yan'an
Below is a rare photo of the five coaches in the same frame. It was taken in 1944. From left to right are General Peng, General Zhu, General Zhu, General Ye, General Nie and General Chen. These five are founding fathers and have made great contributions to the cause of national independence and liberation. Each of them is a revolutionary with the medal of merit. They have rarely taken photos together, so they are extremely precious.
55 coaches in the same frame
Li Gongpu is a great democratic fighter and a social educator. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Gongpu repeatedly promoted anti-Japanese war education, and went to the Jin-Cha-Hebei base area, went to the front line of the North China War of Resistance Against Japan for four years and visited Yan'an for the second time. During this period, he wrote a lot of texts and educational articles about the War of Resistance Against Japan, which greatly inspired the anti-Japanese people at that time.
1938 Winter Chairman and Li Gongpu
Chairman Mao said that women can stand half the sky. During the Red Army period, there were many female Red Army soldiers. They arrived in Yan'an after Long March , and went through a lot of hardships along the way. Later, they had been engaged in women's work for a long time and made great contributions to the cause of women's liberation. They were women who were as good as men. The group photos below were Mrs. Peng, Mrs. Deng, and Mrs. Zhu's wife Kang Keqing.
women can support half the sky
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, in addition to many young people coming to Yan'an, many foreigners also came to Yan'an to visit and report on the anti-Japanese activities in Yan'an. The most famous of these is Snow . He took and left many photos from the Yan'an period here, and later published the book "Red Stars Shine China", which talked about the revolutionary activities in Yan'an in detail, and became an important information for us to understand life in Yan'an later.
1944 Chairman Mao, President Zhu and Premier Zhou returned to meet with Chinese and foreign journalists Northwest Visiting Group
1944, the US military observation group visited Yan'an
1944, Chairman Mao welcomed the US military observation group
Marshal Ye tried the guns brought by the US military observation group
Below is a group of other group photos from the Yan'an period. These photos deeply show some activities at that time and record the situation at that time.
President Zhu, Mr. He, and Xu Shuai at Yan'an Airport
1944 Chairman Mao and Mr. Zhu and others reviewed the troops going south
The inspected troops
1938 group photo
Below is a group of photos of founding fathers during the Yan'an period. These photos are rare. They have bright smiles and firm eyes, and are full of hope for the bright future of the revolution. This spirit will really drive the people around them.
General Luo Ruiqing
General Xiao Ke
General Xu Haidong
General Nie Shuai
Marshal Chen Yi
Mr. Peng
Mr. Zhu
Prince Zhou
There were still many life in Yan'an period, and they did not fight every day. The soldiers had different entertainment activities every day. Ordinary soldiers had to learn to recognize words every day, watch the art troupe perform various dramas, sing military songs, and various labor mail , and of course there were rich sports activities. How to fight without a healthy body? Therefore, during the Yan'an period, there were various sports activities such as basketball and table tennis, and sometimes movies were played. It can be said that the amateur activities were still very rich.
1946, on the 60th birthday of Mr. Zhu, everyone's faces were full of smiles
Chairman is playing table tennis
Eighth Route Army female soldiers
Eighth Route Army female soldiers
Eighth Route Army soldiers
Volleyball match
Basketball match
Eighth Route Army soldiers
Volleyball match
Basketball match
play badminton
The wild is the classroom
The little warrior who writes seriously
Nowadays, our material conditions are better, and our lives are much better than before. We have enough food and clothing and various entertainment activities. But the better our lives are, the more we cannot forget the hard work of the revolutionary ancestors back then. In the extreme lack of material conditions, a group of people have gone through thousands of hardships and created an unimaginable happy life for us. Although they were hard in the past, they always had smiles on their faces. How great it would be if they could see such a powerful country today.
