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In 1963, a lumberjack at Guanyuanshan Forest Farm accidentally found a black box while going to the toilet. He opened it curiously and found that there was a palm-sized seal inside, with three different sizes on it, with sickles and hammers engraved inside. There seemed to be words around, but he did not recognize any of them.
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He didn't have much education and did not take this seal to heart. He took it home and put it on his own, and forgot it soon.
But he didn't know that this seal was a "baby", which carries an important historical event behind it, and also records the heroism and lofty spirit of the Red Army martyrs.
After the local public security bureau learned about the existence of this seal, it not only invited the lumberjack to the public security bureau to "drink tea", but also immediately dispatched a large number of public security personnel, filled three trucks, and headed straight to Guanyuan Mountain Forest Farm to search the mountains. What seal is so important? Why did the police send three trucks of troops to search the mountains?
The mysterious black box in the forest farm
let us turn our time back to the winter of 1963. The protagonist of the
incident Guo Taoren is the captain of the logging team of Guanyuanshan Forest Farm. On this day, he brought his younger brother Guo Xingren into the forest farm to log in as usual.
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Just as the logging work was halfway through, my younger brother Guo Xingren suddenly felt a severe pain in his abdomen, so he stopped the work at hand and said to Guo Taoren: "Brother, I can't hold on anymore, I want to go to the toilet."
Guo Taoren had no choice but to wave his hand helplessly and let him go back quickly. Guo Xingren covered his stomach and slept into the depths of the woods, squatting down beside a big tree. In less than a cigarette, he solved the physiological problems.
However, just as Guo Xingren breathed a sigh of relief and was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly tripped under his feet and almost fell to the ground.
Guo Xingren secretly complained of bad luck in his heart, and turned around to see what exactly tripped him up.
He carefully pushed away the leaves on the ground with his hands, and a black box came into his eyes. Guo Xingren's heart moved, thinking that he had discovered some treasure, so he carefully opened the box.
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I don’t know how many years of wind and rain, the shell has long been rotten and broken all over the floor with a slight touch. The files in the
box have long become a ball of paste, and the handwriting on it is blurred. Guo Xingren, who doesn't know a single word, has no interest in these files at all.
Guo Xingren felt a little disappointed. He found such a box in the deep mountains and forests. He thought it was very likely that it was a bandit leader or a rich man. In order to avoid disaster, he put his property into a box and threw it into the deep mountains and forests.
But except for the files, there is only a round silver seal left in the box.
"Guo Xingren! Guo Xingren! Are you okay?"
Before he could take a closer look at the seal, his eldest brother Guo Taoren began to shout and urge him to go back to work quickly.
Guo Xingren had no choice but to put this thing in his pocket and then return to the logging post.
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The day's work has finally ended, and Guo Xingren was exhausted. When he got home, he suddenly thought of the seal he found in the woods.
Guo Xingren opened the flashlight to aim at the seal, carefully wiped the seal again and again, and began to study it.
He found that there were some patterns engraved on the seal, and a large string of words that he couldn't understand.
Guo Xingren was confused and had to call his brother over and tell Guo Taoren the whole process of picking up the seal.
Guo Taoren was also curious about this seal. He took out a piece of ink from home and put a few red marks on his laptop.The text and patterns printed on
on the paper are clearly visible, but since both of them are not very literate, they threw the seal behind their minds not long after.
are all seals causing "mistake"
In 1963, Guo Taoren went to the county to attend a forest farm work meeting. The leader spoke on it, and he wrote and painted in his notebook.
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"Old Guo, what did you draw in the book? Why can't I understand?"
Because of limited cultural level, Guo Taoren can only use symbols that he can understand to record what the leader said. However, the colleague beside him was very interested in the notes on his notebook, so he borrowed his notebook.
Guo Taoren was a little embarrassed, afraid of being laughed at by his colleagues. Unexpectedly, his colleague took over the notebook and showed a kind smile on his face.
However, after turning a few pages, the colleague's expression suddenly changed and he immediately stood up and left the conference room.
"Comrade Guo Taoren, please stay!"
Guo Taoren just returned home from the work meeting of the forest farm and was stopped by a serious policeman.
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Guo Taoren didn't know what illegal things he had done. The things he had done in the past few days flashed through his mind one by one like a movie, but he didn't expect what it was if he wanted to break his head.
But when he heard the police call his name, he nodded.
Several policemen looked at each other and took the notebook with seal from Guo Taoren and said: "Comrade Guo Taoren, please come back to the Public Security Bureau with us. We need your help. Please cooperate with our investigation."
After coming to the Public Security Bureau, Guo Taoren was in a state of ease.
A police officer named Pan came over and patted him on the shoulder, signaling him not to be so nervous, and took out the record book and began to ask him: "Where did your red seal on the notebook come from?"
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Officer Pan recorded the matter that Guo Taoren said in full and detailed, and then reported the matter to the director. After learning about the whole story, Director
immediately dispatched three trucks of troops, first went to Guo Taoren's house, found the seal he mentioned, and then entered the forest farm where the seal was found, and started a carpet-style search.
So, where did this silver seal come from? Why was the Public Security Bureau mobilized a lot of carpet searches? The "real identity" of the
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This silver seal is engraved with 20 traditional literati characters. The inner circle of the seal is a pattern composed of an axe, a sickle, rice ears, and five stars. There is a light silver color on it, and the handwriting and pattern are very clear.
Seal
This seal is the official seal of the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi Provincial Government during the Agrarian Revolution.
Government seal is a symbol of state power and a reflection of state authority and credibility.
During the revolutionary period, this seal was top secret and had a dedicated person to keep it. However, why did such an important official seal appear in this rarely visited mountain forest?
This starts with the failure of the National Revolution in 1927.
After the failure of the revolution, Chairman Mao put forward the important conclusion that "the regime comes from the barrel of a gun" at the "August 7" meeting .
Then Chairman Mao launched the " Autumn Harvest Uprising" and established the Jinggangshan base. "A spark can start a prairie fire." In just four years, the Communist Party of China established more than a dozen rural revolutionary bases and carried out a vigorous agrarian revolution.
Chairman Mao
However, new problems have also emerged in the development of the revolution. Due to the enemy's obstruction, the news between the various bases is not mutually communicated, and they even acted independently, so it is difficult to implement the Party's policies in a unified manner.
Because of fighting against the Kuomintang reactionaries, it must not only be carried out in the military but also in politics.Therefore, there must be a unified political group to lead and direct the entire revolution.
Hannan and Hanxi Fujian have been connected after three victories against the "encirclement and suppression". It has become a central base with vast land and dense population. It not only has unique geographical advantages, but also has a broad mass base. It is an excellent place to establish a regime.
Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic
On November 7, 1931, Ruijin Yeping held the first Congress of the Chinese Soviet Union. This meeting not only included representatives from various base areas, army, and trade unions, but also the Communist Party from Vietnam and North Korea.
Congress announced the establishment of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, and elected 63 members to establish an Central Executive Committee .
Comrade Mao Zedong was elected as the chairman of the Central Executive Committee and the People's Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic at the first meeting of the Central Executive Committee.
Since the central government has been established, local governments will also follow the central government’s pace.
By September 1931, the first Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Congress of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Committee was held in Pingjiang County . At the conference, the Communist Party of China decided to temporarily form a Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Executive Committee in Pingjiang County after a vote.
First meeting of the Central Committee of the Soviet Area
In order to facilitate management and ensure the authority and independence of the regime, the provincial government decided to make a seal.
However, everyone was confused about the selection of seal materials.
If jade is used as seals, the anti-counterfeiting effect of the seal will be very poor and will be easily used by those who are interested, which will bring great harm to the revolutionary cause of the Communist Party of China.
Some people suggest using silver as a seal for two reasons: one is that the hardness of silver is relatively high and is not easy to damage; the other is that silver is very easy to react chemically with oxygen, and the appearance will change after forming oxide .
In this way, in the process of stamping the document, the traces of oxidation will be reflected on the lines of the seal. Even if someone is ill-hearted and replicates the lines of the seal one by one, the traces of oxidation and changes in the appearance of the seal cannot be reproduced, thus ensuring the authenticity and authority of the document stamped with the official seal.
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So everyone chose to use silver to make official seals. This is how the seal discovered by the Guo brothers came from. The official seal of
left a red mark on every document in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Area. It is like a torch, igniting the hope of the people. Why did the seal appear in the forest farm
revolutionary base area? The rapid development of the Kuomintang reactionaries are very afraid.
So on September 25, 1933, Chiang Kai-shek adopted the new strategy of "fortressism", concentrating one million people and more than 200 aircraft, and launched the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the revolutionary base of the Communist Party of China.
Although the base area developed very quickly, the main force of the Red Army was only more than 100,000. Bogu and others not only deviated from reality, adopted "left" adventurism, and fought head-on with the enemy, but also drove Chairman Mao out of the command team. The result was that the Red Army suffered heavy casualties.
Chiang Kai-shek
Xiaoyuan Township, where the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and the government were stationed, was also attacked violently by the enemy.
At dawn on January 28, 1934, the enemy gathered three brigades in Xiaoyuan. Due to the huge gap in strength and the critical situation, the Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee had to move towards Tonggu Zizhuang.
At this time, the problem arises. Because the transfer time is too hasty, many important files have not been processed, and these important files cannot be thrown away and will be used in the future. What should I do?
Later, the leaders of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi Soviet Area discussed and decided to hand over the most important documents and seals to the five Red Army soldiers, namely Zhang Chunji , Qiu Siyan , Yirong , Wang Qun , Liu Bofang .
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Due to the urgent and imminent situation, they had no time to make any preparations. They just packed the ID and seals in a black box and left with the team.
They and the large troops were attacked by the enemy while passing through the inspection pit, and the team was dispersed. The five of them hid in the woods with boxes, with enemies everywhere, and shouting and killing sounds shook the sky.
The enemy was like hunting dog discovering prey, chasing the five of them reluctantly, and comrades died one by one.
Wang Qun ran away and said to Liu Bofang: "It seems that we can't rush out anymore. Those information and seals must not fall into the hands of the enemy."
The enemy's footsteps went from far to near. Wang Qun and the others had no time to think of a way, so they buried the box under a big tree and covered it with leaves falling on the ground.
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Then, they led the enemies away from the opposite direction and died one after another under the enemy's artillery fire when they ran away.
For more than 30 years after that, this black box was buried underground, and it was not until it was accidentally discovered by Guo Xingren in 1963 that he saw the light of day again. Why is the seal of
so important?
This silver seal witnessed the arduous and tortuous journey of the Chinese revolution. It embodies the blood of countless revolutionary ancestors and is an educational red history.
On the way to the forest farm, the head of the Public Security Bureau told Guo Taoren: "This seal is a precious cultural relic left by the revolution and must be handed over to the state for safekeeping; you must specify where to find the black boxes found to see if there are any other relics of the Red Army that died; and we must find out the Red Army who died for the revolution and bury their bodies."
Seal
After learning about the origin of this seal, Guo Taoren was very moved and immediately took the people from the Public Security Bureau to the forest farm, and handed the seal found by his younger brother Guo Xingren to the hands of the Public Security Bureau.
More than one hundred police officers turned the forest farm upside down, and no other discoveries were found except that box and some decaying documents. Finally, they went back with the seal.
However, just in case, the police handed the seal to the Cultural Relics Bureau for identification. After all, this is a witness to history. As the country's public property , there can be no mistakes.
After confirmation by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the official seal of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet Government became the "treasure of the museum" of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolutionary Memorial Hall.
It witnessed the arduous and tortuous journey of the Chinese revolution, condensed the blood of revolutionary martyrs, and was a red history with great educational significance.
Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi Revolutionary Memorial Hall
Although the Soviet era has passed, it still occupies a strong color in the long history of China. Therefore, as a witness of that period of history, this seal deserves to be well protected so that future generations can remember history and remember history. Let us stand on the shoulders of our predecessors and devote ourselves to building a better China.
