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, an ordinary and silent man, had carried this bugle 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
After entering Sanming City, Fujian Province In front of the Ninghua County Long March Spiritual Education Base, members of the “Now we are starting from the beginning – Learning Party History on the Long March” interview and research team may have never seen so many people playing the bugle.
Outside the main entrance of the exhibition hall, “The Wind Exhibits the Red Flag”On both sides of the “picturesque” sculpture, ten statues of Red Army buglers come into view. They are several meters high, holding trumpets and have different shapes, painting a picture of a revolution in full swing.
A vivid sculpture of the Red Army trumpet blowing outside the Long March Spiritual Education Base in Ninghua County. Photo by Liu Yue
So many trumpeters The design originated from the “treasure of the museum” here, a copy of the “Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Military Bugle Book” printed in 1932. 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’s joining the army is quite legendary: “My father was only 15 years old. He was an only child at the age of 18, so his family naturally opposed his joining the army. My grandma was a very ‘powerful’ person, 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 “Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Military Bugle Score” issued by the school and the instruction of the army chief to “protect the signal number as if it were 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, during the meeting with the Kuomintang army During the battle, Luo Guangmao was unfortunately injured and his knee was hit by a bullet, and he was admitted to the Red Army Hospital for treatment. Luo Yunqing said that after the defeat of the anti-“encirclement and suppression” campaign, the hospital was washed away. Luo Guangmao returned home, and the cellar became his temporary residence to avoid enemy arrest.
However, at that time, the reactionariesAs the crackdown continued, Luo Guangmao had to leave the trumpet music and the trumpet he used to his mother for safekeeping, while he went out to work to avoid arrest. As time goes by, when he comes back, if you want to get these two back, you will not try to dig them out of his mouth. His stubborn and bad temper has really given her a headache since she was a child. When she was a baby, her mother forgot where the music score was stored due to her old age.
The loss of the musical notation has been Luo Guangmao’s heartache for many years, and Luo Yunqing even received a beating because of it. “My father’s mouthpiece is made of copper, about five or six centimeters long. When I was a child, I wanted to exchange it for candy, but I turned around and was as quiet as I did. In the end, I was beaten.”
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 it two days after finding the music score. “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 of traces of time.
“This bugle book records more than 340 pieces of music, recording manyThe numbers and combat commands of the many Red Army units can be called the “code book of the Red Army.” “
In the venue, Qiu Minghua, director of the Site Protection Center of the Long March Starting Point in Ninghua County, told the interview group in detail the importance of this Red Army bugle 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. ”
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 trumpet spectrum. Therefore, once the trumpet spectrum fell into the hands of the enemy, it would be 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, proving that ‘when people are there, the trumpet music is In’ firm belief. ”
However, after completing this feat, Luo Guangmao “went away, hid his body and reputation” and returned to his own life in a down-to-earth manner.
“He is a very accurate shooter and can shoot down a bird; he is very strong and can lift a barrel with one hand and pour it down at the same time. Drink saliva. “In Luo Yunqing’s memory, these are the few traces of his father’s military service. By the way, there is also the injured leg. That leg was smaller than the other leg, and there were scars left where the bullet penetrated , there will always be a dull pain in rainy days
A group of sculptures of Red Army soldiers in 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 work well.”
This simple and short saying 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 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 is not picky about food, but he doesn’t eat spicy food. When the village production team kills pigs, they can only get a little meat. Now I can eat it every day. Meat.”
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.
What happened to the Party History and Local History Research Office of the Ninghua County Party Committee? Director Yi Shipeng said that 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 red tourismdevelopment, 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 dispatching troops. It has a simple structure and a loud sound, giving soldiers the power to move forward bravely and not be afraid of sacrifice. Today, the bugle also inherits the red gene. Carry forward the spiritual symbol of red tradition
In the clarion call of the new era, the dream chasers on the new Long March are still conveying orders and sowing faith just like their ancestors. , step on the land of the motherland, shoulder the hope of the nation, and stride forward on the journey to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Listen carefully, the sound of the trumpet is still echoing. End)