Luo Kaifu's Long March Road and Lushan County Hualien Village Red Army Mother Li Fengzhen (June 13, 1985)
Lushan County is located in western Sichuan, only 183 kilometers away from Chengdu. The county town is not large, with a population of more than 100,000, but it has a long history, and ancient styles, ancient Chinese and ancient rhymes can be found everywhere.
I learned from the county annals that Lushan was established in the Qin and Han dynasties, and was named Qingyi County. It was changed to Lushan County in the sixth year of Hongwu (1373 AD).
As soon as I entered Lushan County on June 10, I saw the ruins of the Kaiming royal city during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which was the location of the Qingyi Qiang Kingdom at that time. On the south street of the county town, there is a majestic ancient building called Jiang Qinglou. It was built in the Northern Song Dynasty to commemorate the general of Shu Han . The Greatest General of the Shu Han . The county cultural management office’s historical relics display room has hundreds of historical relics from the Neolithic Age to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, including precious stone tools, stone carvings, pottery, bronze ware, ironware, porcelain, pottery figurines, weapons, seals, and the famous Eastern Han Dynasty stele rubbings and Wang Hui’s sarcophagus rubbings, as well as rice field fish farming and water conservancy facilities made in the Eastern Han Dynasty, stone carving buildings with shutters and pottery buildings with pigeons lying on the balcony. These are rare unearthed cultural relics. Lushan not only preserves precious ancient cultural relics, but also preserves a large number of precious revolutionary historical relics left by the Red Army during the Long March. I saw 28 historical documents from the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area, swords and guns used by the Red Army, and many stone carved Red Army slogans. One of the slogans engraved with the four words "Anti-Japanese and Anti-Chengdu", which is more than 2 meters long and more than 1 meter wide.
Lushan County has many cultural relics left behind, and there is a reason: In June 1935, the Central Red Army went north through Lushan and arrived at the snow-capped grasslands; then, Zhang Guotao split the Red Army and split the party, and in October 1935, the left-road army of the Red Army went south to Sichuan Kangbian and passed through Lushan.
June 13, 1985 Light rain , Hualien Village, Taiping Town, Lushan County
Therefore, there are many Red Army cultural relics in Lushan, many people joining the Red Army, many people sacrificed, and many parents of martyrs.
On Dayin Mountain on the banks of the Taiping River in Lushan, I visited a tomb where the mother of a respected Red Army soldier was buried. The mother of this Red Army soldier is named Li Fengzhen. A lot of work was done to support the Red Army. Red Fourth Front Army When they were in Lushan, they organized the masses to establish district and township Soviets. Li Fengzhen's husband Gao Longshan also served as a cadre of the local Soviet regime.
When the Red Army left, Li Fengzhen sent his 16-year-old only son Gao Genlin to the Red Army. After the Red Army left, the enemy killed Gao Longshan.
More than 230 years ago, she has not only voluntarily given up enjoying the treatment of the Red Army's family, but also as always, she has tried her best to do good for the country and the people. According to information provided by the Party History Office of the Lushan County Party Committee, there were 1,095 people from Lushan County who participated in the Red Army that year.
Decades have passed, some have sacrificed, some have passed away, and 14 people are still alive, of which 10 are working in other places. After Gao Genlin left his hometown, he never came back. For many years, Li Fengzhen has been missing her son. During the war, she actively participated in revolutionary activities and supported the front line; after the victory of the revolution, she was old and still did not forget to share the worries of the country. Some people advised her to seek the government and enjoy the treatment of the Red Army's family, but she never went to find her.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee , the county party committee sent people to investigate the families of Red Army personnel one by one and confirmed the identity of Li Fengzhen's Red Army family members.
During the Spring Festival in 1983, the county party committee sent the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau and the township leaders to send money and clothes to Li Fengzhen, and the old man was so excited that he couldn't speak. Later, the relevant departments of Lushan County decided to give Li Fengzhen monthly financial subsidies starting from New Year's Day in 1984. Unexpectedly, on New Year's Day in 1984, Li Fengzhen died of illness at the age of 85.
The second day after Li Fengzhen died of illness, more than 300 people including men, women, young and old in Hualien Village and nearby villages, as well as leading cadres of the township party committee and government, held a memorial service for her in tears. The township party secretary delivered an eulogy: "For the liberation of the Chinese nation, Li Fengzhen sent her son to join the Red Army. During the Red Army's Long March, she actively supported the Red Army.After liberation, as a family member of the Red Army, she deserves generous treatment, but she does not seek special care. Her noble moral character of loving the Party, the country, and labor is always worthy of our learning. "
Hualien Village is more than 60 miles away from the county town. On June 13, I rushed to Hualien Village and made a special trip to pay homage to the Red Army mother. I saw that the grave of the old man was surrounded by wreaths.
The folk customs of Lushan are people who will not forget to benefit the people, and there are many records in the county annals. I believe that this folk customs can be preserved for a long time. Never forget the ancestors, never forget the kindness, never forget the good people.
