Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, September 7 (Reporter Zheng Xin, Zhang Chenjun) In Yan'an in the golden autumn of September, it was another morning filled with tourists. At the former site of Qiaoergou Luyi Cultural Park in Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, the commentator Liu Meiyan picked up the wireless commentator and started a day's "trek".
"It takes nearly two hours to walk from the former site of Yan'an Lu Xun Art and Literature Institute in the front yard to the Yan'an Literature and Art Memorial Hall in the backyard. When there are many tourists, I sometimes have to walk six or seven times a day." She said .
A volleyball match at the Lu Art School during the Yan'an revolution - collected by Wang Zengming
In 1938, the Party Central Committee established the Party's first comprehensive art education institution, the Lu Xun Art Institute, in Yan'an in order to serve the Anti-Japanese War, and subsequently Changed its name to Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Letters. Most of the classic red literary and artistic works such as "Yellow River Cantata", "White-Haired Girl", "Nanniwan" and "Brothers and Sisters Open up Wasteland" were born in Lu Yi's cave dwellings, and their reverberations still linger today.
Although the conditions for literary and artistic creation during the Yan'an period were difficult, they activated the spiritual and cultural life of the soldiers and civilians in the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines and inspired the enthusiasm for the war of resistance. The same is true for sports activities. The track and field with flying yellow sand and the stone platform by the Yanhe River are all sports fields for the military and civilians. The rise of table tennis is also a thorny road.
Students of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University played table tennis at the foot of Pagoda Mountain - Wang Zengming's collection
Wang Zengming, a sports history expert and professor at Xi'an Institute of Physical Education, told reporters that in order to have a chance to play, all walks of life in Yan'an not only needed to raise funds to purchase balls and rackets in Xi'an and other places. , and you have to open up the venue yourself. Even Ma Haide, an international friend at the time, used local materials to make a table tennis table.
"During the Yan'an period, sports truly became a sport for the people, and this was particularly evident in table tennis." Wang Zengming said that due to the deep foundation of this sport, at the Yan'an "May Day" Sports Conference in 1937, table tennis Ball has become a competition event along with track and field and basketball, and the anti-Japanese military and political university team won the championship. Football and volleyball were just performance events at that time.
Yangko and waist drum in northern Shaanxi have spread throughout the country, while table tennis has taken root in Yan'an. Today, many local young people, including Liu Meiyan, are table tennis enthusiasts, and there are even employees in Luyi Cultural Park who have achieved good results in city-wide competitions. Compared with other colleagues, Liu Meiyan watched football early and played golf late. It was only in the past two years that she picked up a racket and competed with her sports-loving son in the community.
Yan'an University Gymnasium
After more than 80 years of time, the table tennis table has become a microcosm of the earth-shaking changes in Yan'an. The simple ball tables of those days are no longer seen. Nowadays, in the "cave dwellings" with strong northern Shaanxi characteristics, sturdy and beautiful domestic ball tables have been placed.
In Yan'an University, which Lu Yi later merged into, its gymnasium in Yan'an New District was the venue for the table tennis event of the 14th National Games. The national football players and table tennis athletes from across the country who have just returned from the Tokyo Olympics with great honors will perform their skills together in front of the people and students in the old district, each showing their abilities.
Yan'an University Gymnasium and its hosting of National Games competitions
Zhao Wenlong, a staff member of the Venue Environment Department of the Table Tennis Competition Committee of the 14th National Games, told reporters that as an important part of this new campus, the gymnasium will be built in 2018 and will be completed by 2020. All aspects of acceptance will be completed in November. He said that as more and more teachers and students of the school move into the new campus, this gymnasium, which can accommodate more than 4,000 spectators, has improved the overall sports facilities of the school and provided a venue for the school to carry out cultural and sports activities in the future. In the future, it can also undertake various off-campus sports events.
"The exterior of the gymnasium is designed with a very local style of cave dwelling shape, and the internal equipment takes into account the concepts of intelligence, energy conservation and environmental protection. It has provided athletes and staff with a 'cool summer' experience in previous test matches, and is about to welcome Come to the test of the main game," Zhao Wenlong said.
Liu Meiyan served as a etiquette staff at the Yan'an station of the torch relay event
Liu Meiyan took the initiative to sign up as a volunteer for the 14th National Games and will provide services to participants and tourists during the event.During the Yan'an Station of the 14th National Games and Paralympic Games torch relay half a month ago, she also served as a ceremonial member of the fire closing ceremony, holding the torch "flag" and feeling the glory of the torch.
"I really didn't expect that I could establish such a close connection with the National Games." Liu Meiyan said, "I am just waiting for the ticket sales to open, and I will go to Yanda with my son to see Ma Long and Xu Xin."
Source: Xinhua News Agency
