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Excerpt from " Red Star Shines on China "
Author: Edgar Snow
Reader: Binzhou Intermediate People's Court Zhang Yulong
"Red Star Shines on China" was once renamed " Journey to the West". This work truly records Edgar Snow's on-the-spot interviews in the revolutionary base area in northwest China from June 1936 to October 1936. What he saw and heard, he reported on the situation in China and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, as well as many leaders and generals of the Red Army. It demonstrated the spirit of hard work and sacrifice of the Communist Party of China for national liberation from many aspects, and dispelled various rumors that distorted and vilified the Communist Party. Through observations and descriptions of leaders and ordinary people, Snow transforms boring red zone party organizations, various documents, meetings, etc. into words that readers feel warm and vivid when reading. The statistics of
Long March are shocking. There was an encounter almost every day, somewhere on the road, and a total of fifteen full days were devoted to the final battle. There were a total of 368 days on the road, 235 days were spent marching during the day and 18 days were spent marching at night. Fifty-six of the remaining one hundred days—many of which were skirmishes—were in northwest Sichuan, so there were only forty-four days of rest on a total length of five thousand miles, an average of one hundred and fourteen miles per mile. Take a break. On average, they marched seventy-one miles per day, or nearly twenty-four miles. It can be said to be almost a miracle that a large army and its baggage could maintain such an average speed in one of the most dangerous areas on earth.
The Red Army climbed a total of 18 mountain ranges, five of which were covered with snow all year round, crossed 24 rivers, passed through 12 provinces, occupied 62 large and small cities, and broke through the siege of ten local warlord armies. In addition, they defeated, evaded or defeated the Central Army units sent to pursue them. They drove into and smoothly passed through at least six different ethnic minority areas, some places where Chinese troops had not been in decades.
The Red Army's Northwest Long March was undoubtedly a strategic retreat, but it cannot be said to be a retreat, because the Red Army finally reached its destination, its core strength was still intact, and its military morale and political will were obviously as strong as ever. The Communists believed, and apparently believed, that they were marching towards the anti-Japanese front, and this was a very important psychological factor. This helped them turn what might have been a demoralizing retreat into a spirited and victorious march. Marching to the strategically important northwest was undoubtedly the second basic reason for their great move. They correctly foresaw that this area would play a decisive role in the current fate of China, Japan, and the Soviet Union. Later history proved that they were absolutely right to emphasize this reason. This propaganda ingenuity must be seen as a brilliant political strategy. To a large extent, this was responsible for the triumphant conclusion of the heroic Long March.
In a sense, this large-scale transfer was the greatest armed propaganda tour in history. The provinces through which the Red Army passed had more than 200 million people. During the breaks in the battles, every time they occupied a town, they held mass meetings and staged theatrical performances. They focused on "conscripting" the rich, liberating many "slaves," preaching "freedom, equality, and democracy," and confiscating "traitors" (bureaucrats, landlords) , tax collectors) and distribute their property to the poor. Now millions of peasants have seen the Red Army, heard their speeches, and are no longer afraid. The Red Army explained the purpose of the Agrarian Revolution and their anti-Japanese policy. They armed tens of millions of peasants and left behind cadres to train guerrillas, which made the Nanjing army exhausted from then on.On the long and arduous journey, thousands of people fell, but there were thousands more - farmers, apprentices, slaves, Kuomintang deserters, workers, and all the destitute people - Joining in enriches the ranks.
Someday someone will write down this thrilling epic of the expedition. Until then, I have to continue writing my report, because we have now written about the Red Army's rendezvous in the northwest. I attach Chairman Mao Zedong's old-style poem about the six thousand-mile Long March here as an end. He was a rebel who could both lead the expedition and write poetry:
The Red Army is not afraid of the difficulty of the expedition, and the vast rivers and mountains are nothing but leisure.
The five ridges are meandering and the waves are flowing, and the Wumeng is majestic and muddy.
The clouds and cliffs are warm when the golden sands and water are photographed, and the iron cables across the Dadu Bridge are cold.
is even more happy with the thousands of miles of snow in Minshan Mountain, and the three armies are all happy after the passing.
"Walking the Long March of the New Era"
- Zhang Yulong
From June to October 1936, the author Snow conducted an on-the-spot investigation of the revolutionary base area in northwest China, and completed the writing of this book based on the first-hand information he obtained during the investigation. As a Western journalist, Snow described the people's lives and psychological state at that time from a fair and objective perspective. In addition, it also shows the mental state and ideological status of the Red Army and its leaders. This book can be said to allow people to further understand China's Red Revolution, which was very mysterious at the time. Moreover, he recorded everything he saw and heard in the red zone bit by bit. Later it will become "Red Star Shines on China", and the content of the whole book is rich and vivid.
In 1936, the most ferocious and dangerous period of the Chinese revolution and war, Snow alone ventured through the news blockade of the Kuomintang army in Nanjing and trekked to the Xibei Soviet area in search of Red China. The story gives people a strong sense of reality, and it also gives us a new and subversive understanding of the people and the Red Army at that time.
If China is not liberated and remains as bombarded and smoke-filled as before, we will be like lambs waiting to be hunted, homeless and homeless. The beautiful life we have now was won for us by the Red Army. They used perseverance to defeat the enemy and were never discouraged in defeat, thus ushering in this peaceful and prosperous era. One leader after another, relying on the belief of saving the country and the people, strengthened the Red Army and created what it is today. They take the lead and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers; they do not seek fame or fortune, just so that the people can live a peaceful life; they do not seek fame, just so that the Chinese people will no longer be bullied by other countries. The Red Army soldiers used their sweat, their blood, and their lives to compose triumphal songs of victory.
Each generation has its own Long March. We, who were born in peaceful times, should pay tribute to the Red Army soldiers and the Communist Party of China. We should inspire ourselves with the Red Army soldiers’ fearless difficulties, sacrifices, and confident and optimistic spirit shown in the book, and go forward. Let us carry out the Long March of our generation and gather our individual stars to illuminate the road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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