China News Service, Ninghua, August 31 (Liu Yue) Amidst the intermittent bugles on the radio, the thin Luo Yunqing paced back and forth in front of a red display board.
Although he is 70 years old, his body is still strong. Speaking of his father Luo Guangmao, Luo Yunqing made a joke: “My father’s figure is similar to mine.”
In Luo Yunqing’s impression, his father was very strict and did not Loves to talk, but always works in silence. Therefore, none of the neighbors knew that this silent man was once an outstanding bugler in the Red Army.
Luo Yunqing knew. He had seen a deep wound on his father’s knee. “The bullet penetrated his knee and left a scar. It hurts when it rains and also hurts when the weather changes.”
”He will endure the pain and never shout”
In the Long March Spiritual Education Base of Ninghua County, ” Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Military Bugle Score” and trumpet. Photo by Liu Yue
Behind Luo Yunqing, a thin book of Red Army bugle music is lying in a glass display case. It was hard for him to imagine that his father, who was ordinary and silent, had carried this trumpet book and blew the loud bugle on the battlefield despite the enemy’s artillery fire.
The score is silent, but it seems that people can hear the echo of the bugle in the red age.
The silent father and the loud bugle
When she entered Sanming, Fujian Province All the happiness, laughter, and joy in this life seem to exist only in this mansion. After she left here, happiness, laughter and joy were cut off from her. Before she could find the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County, the members of the interview and research team “Now we are starting from the beginning again – Learning Party History on the Long March Road”, maybe I’ve never seen so many instrumentsBugle gesture.
Outside the main entrance of the exhibition hall, on both sides of the sculpture “The Wind Displays the Red Flag Picturesquely”, ten statues of Red Army buglers come into view. They are several meters high. Holding trumpets in different shapes, they painted a picture of a revolution in full swing.
Outside the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County, there is a lifelike sculpture of the Red Army trumpet blowing. Photo by Liu Yue
So many trumpeter designs originate from the “treasure of the town hall” here, a book “The Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army” printed in 1932 “Military Signal Book”. This is currently the only most complete, officially published and printed Red Army bugle book in the country. The person who donated this call sheet was Luo Guangmao, an old Red Army soldier.
In Luo Yunqing’s narration, the story of Luo Guangmao joining the army is quite legendary. “My father was only 15 years old at the time. He was an only son, so his family naturally opposed him joining the army. My grandma was very ‘powerful’, so he and his cousin ran out to join the army behind my grandma’s back.”
Although he is not tall, Luo Guangmao has a resonant and good voice, so he was selected by the army to be sent to the Central Military and Political School to learn the command number. Upon graduation, Luo Guangmao became a bugler with the “Military Bugle Spectrum of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army” issued by the school and the instruction of the army chief to “protect the bugle spectrum as much as you protect life.”
Cultural and creative products with the theme of “Military Bugle” at the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County. Photo by Liu Yue
Later, while fighting the Kuomintang army, Luo Guangmao was unfortunately injured. His knee was hit by a bullet and he was admitted to the Red Army Hospital for treatment. Luo Yunqing said that after the failure of the counter-campaign against “encirclement and suppression”, the hospital was washed away. Luo Guangmao returned home and the cellar became his refuge.Temporary residence for enemy capture.
However, at that time, the reactionaries were constantly purging, and Luo Guangmao had to leave the trumpet music and the mouthpiece he used to his mother for safekeeping, while he went out to work to avoid arrest. As time went by, when he came back and wanted to retrieve these two treasures, his mother had forgotten where the music score was stored because of her old age.
Explain why an ordinary wife turns into an ordinary wife after returning home. That will be discussed later. .At this moment, he only had one thought, which was to capture this girl. The loss of the trumpet score has been Luo Guangmao’s worry for many years, and Luo Yunqing even received a beating because of it. “My father’s mouthpiece was made of copper and was about five or six centimeters long. When I was a child, I wanted to exchange it for candy, but I got beaten up.”
The “Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Military Bugle Score” and trumpet donated by Luo Guangmao at the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County. Photo by Liu Yue
However, when thinking about his father’s expression when the trumpet score was later recovered, Luo Yunqing no longer “held grudges”. It was 1974, shortly after his grandmother passed away. According to local custom, Luo Guangmao had to organize some items in the family barn. He found that the Red Army bugle music, which was tightly tied with oil paper, was firmly nailed to the wooden board of the barn.
Although he said that he did not understand his son’s beliefs, the music score was cherished and kept in such a secret manner – it is a pity that in When Luo Guangmao learned about this, his mother had passed away.
Luo Yunqing couldn’t guess what his father was thinking at that time. All he knew was that Luo Guangmao donated the number two days after finding it. “I didn’t even have time to take a look or flip through it. To this day, I still don’t know what the content is.”
“The food must be delicious and the work must be done well”
“In the glass display case, the book with rough edges , the “Military Score of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army” printed with black ink lay there quietly, full ofContains traces of time.
“This bugle book records more than 340 pieces of music, recording the numbers and combat commands of many Red Army units. It can be called the ‘Red Army’s code book’ ‘.”
In the venue, Qiu Minghua, director of the Ninghua County Long March Site Protection Center, told the interview group in detail the importance of this Red Army trumpet book. . “In the war years when communication means were very weak, this Red Army trumpet book was not only a key tool for Red Army soldiers to transmit information, but also played an irreplaceable role in commanding operations, issuing orders and arranging daily life.”
Ninghua County Long March Spiritual Education Base, “Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Military Trumpet” experience facility. Photo by Liu Yue
He gave an example. In the “Flying to Seize Luding Bridge” operation, the Red Army successfully confused the enemy and won the victory through the command of the signal spectrum. Therefore, once the signal spectrum falls into the hands of the enemy, it is tantamount to leaking the secret. “The Red Army officers and soldiers protected the trumpet music to the extreme. Trumpeters like Luo Guangmao, even after being injured and separated from the team, still spent their lives guarding and donating this precious Red Army trumpet music, which proves that ‘people are here, trumpet music is “”
However, after completing this feat, Luo Guangmao “went away, hid his body and reputation”, and resumed his career. I went back to my little life in a down-to-earth manner.
”His marksmanship is so accurate that he can shoot down a bird; he is so strong that he can lift a barrel with one hand and drink water at the same time.” In Luo Yunqing’s memories, these are the few traces of his father’s military service. Oh, and the injured leg. That leg was smaller than the other leg, and the scar left by the bullet would always hurt in the rainy days.
A group of sculptures of Red Army soldiers at the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County. Photo by Liu Yue
In addition, after taking off his military uniform, Luo Guangmao looks like thousands of ordinary working people. “Being a trumpeter did not make him feel particularly proud. My father believed that he learned to play the trumpet when he was a soldier and learned carpentry when he came back. They just learned the same thing.”
Luo Yunqing told reporters that his father had changed his livelihood in many ways: carpenter, farmer, cashier, and production team leader. He even tried to do business and sold chickens in the village. As for the education of his children, he was always concise and to the point.
”He doesn’t scold children, but if you are disobedient or do something wrong, you will be beaten. He doesn’t talk much. He will tell me, ‘Eat Just eat well and do your work well.”
Thinking of her parents’ love and dedication to her, Lan Yuhua’s heart suddenly warmed up, and she was originally uneasy. The mood gradually stabilized. This simple and short truth runs through Luo Guangmao’s life. And it is precisely following this principle that under the sound of the hero’s horn, the younger generations are following the footsteps of their predecessors and seeking a new path of development.
Marching forward in the clarion call of the new era
“We have three college students in our family “My eldest son, my eldest daughter-in-law, and my second son.” Luo Yunqing is very proud. Today, his two children are working in Xiamen and Shijiazhuang respectively. The eldest son is married and has a happy family.
Although the children have invited Luo Yunqing to live in their city many times, he prefers to stay in his hometown. Every year during the Qingming Festival, he would go up the mountain to visit his father Luo Guangmao’s grave and clear the weeds in front of it. A handful of paper money, a glass of turbid wine, and a lingering aroma.
Outside the Changzheng Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County, there are many tall buildings and green trees. Photo by Liu Yue
This year, Luo Yunqing was stunned when he saw Mother Lan. Although she didn’t understand why her daughter suddenly asked this, she thought about it seriously and replied: “It will be twenty tomorrow.” She stayed in Shijiazhuang for more than 50 days. “My eldest son took me to Beijing, to Tiananmen Square, and to climb the Great Wall.” Luo Yunqing once never imagined that he could live such a life.
“Every meal at home used to be vegetables and radishes. My father was not picky about food, but he didn’t eat spicy food. When the village production team killed pigs, they could only get a little bit of meat. Now I can eat meat every day.”
What has changed more than the Luo family’s dining table is his hometown of Ninghua. “Now the whole world has turned upside down, and it has undergone earth-shaking changes.” He recalled that when he was a child, the school he studied in was an adobe house made of mud, but now it has become a three- or four-story brick house; in the past, the dirt roads in the village were only more than one meter wide. When it rains, the ground becomes muddy, and now there are spacious and flat cement roads everywhere. These changes made him deeply feel the progress of the times and the development of his hometown.
In the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County, the instructor tells the history to the interview and research group. Photo by Liu Yue
Luo Yunqing’s good days are a small microcosm of the changes in Ninghua County. Standing at a new historical starting point, Ninghua County vigorously promotes the Soviet spirit, the Long March spirit, and the Hakka spirit, seizes opportunities, works hard, moves forward courageously, and strives to write a new chapter of making the county strong and enriching the people. In 2020, Ninghua County will withdraw from the provincial key county for poverty alleviation and development. All 12,960 registered poor people in 4,569 households in the county have been lifted out of poverty.
From vigorously developing characteristic modern agriculture such as “two meters, two tea, one leaf and one rice seed” to firmly establishing the concept of “project is king” and solidly promoting new industrialization , In recent years, Ninghua’s economic operation has been generally stable while making progress. Not only that, as the red cultural tourism industry is advancing rapidly, Ninghua is also flexing its muscles, adhering to the concept of using culture to shape tourism, using tourism to highlight culture, and integrating development to promote the integrated development of cultural tourism to a higher level and achieve results.
Introduced by Yi Shipeng, Director of the Party History and Local History Research Office of the Ninghua County Party Committee, Ninghua has made many efforts in exploring and protecting red resources in recent years. The county digs deeper into red stories and strengthens the protection of red sites and relics through cultural relic census and addition of red relics.
“Ninghua County will continue to inherit and promote red culture, tell red stories well, spread red voices well, and at the same time actively promote the development of red tourism , transforming red resources into new driving forces for economic and social development”
Outside the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County, a sculpture with the theme of “Red Flag” is eye-catching. Photo by Liu Yue
Once upon a time, the bugle was the king’s weapon for marching troops and dispatching generals. It has a simple structure and a loud sound, giving soldiers the power to move forward without fear of sacrifice. Today, the bugle is also a spiritual symbol that inherits the red gene and promotes the red tradition.
In the clarion call of the new era, the dream chasers on the new Long March are still the same as their ancestors, conveying orders, sowing faith, stepping on the land of the motherland, carrying The hope of the nation is asking him if he regrets it? Make great strides forward on the journey to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Listen carefully, the sound of the trumpet is still echoing. (End)