Du Hong/Wen
Photography: Drift Song, Orange Juice, Toot Toot, Dong Dong
Historical Examination of the Red Army: Shuangshi (Zhou Jun)

Mt Dreamweaver

It is said that the Long March road is arduous, it is said that the road of revolution is rugged, often listen to the spirit of the Red Army is great, often said that the seeds of revolution are nurtured by this piece of land, with a mysterious and challenging mentality, with a touch of remembrance and exploration of the mood, in October 2009, by the old Red Army, General Du Yide's daughters Duye, Du Ping, Du Hong, and the old man Kou Qingyan, General Du's comrade-in-arms in the era of the Red Army, a class of the old man's son Kou Nannan, Kou Dongdong, Daughter-in-law Su Lijuan, plus Red Army history research expert Shuangshi, cross-country family's Drift Qu and backpacking family's Luo Xia from Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu, to form a Red Army descendants of the Long March team. From Chengdu to the northwest of Sichuan - when General Du Yide and Kou Lao in the Red Army's main long march route, began a 11-day, the whole 3180 kilometers of the Northwest Sichuan Red Army Long March Road trip. Along the way, we will cross several snow-capped mountains and deserted prairies at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 meters, pass through several Red Army Long March memorial sites, and take a look at the mountains and meadows where tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers have fallen on the road where our fathers and mothers have walked, and listen to the winds recounting the story of the Red Army's Long March that rolled through the country more than seventy years ago .......
Day 1: October 18, Chengdu - Xiaojin
Today's weather in Chengdu is a bit hazy, but the green mountains and blue water of the treasure of Sichuan really caused us great interest. 1935 Red Army in the south during the Bazhou duel, once hit the Qionglai County side of the White Crane, where Chengdu is just two days of hiking, like Qionglai Fire Well, Baizhang of the famous mountain, Ya'an on the Li, Lushan Shuanghe, Daiyi Xiling, as well as the many relics left behind by the Red Army! such as inscriptions, slogans, and housing. Where are our father's footprints?
7:40 a.m. departure, out of the city more than 140 kilometers to Ya'an, this is the Sichuan Basin and the Tibetan Plateau combined with the transition zone, but also the gateway to the ancient Southern Silk Road and must pass through.October 1935, the Red Army of the Fourth Front soldiers to the south after the courageous fighting, hit the western Sichuan warlords Liu Wenhui, Yang Sen and its heavy, and then Zhang Guotao accumulated tens of thousands of people to attack Ya'an, Chiang Kai-shek in order to protect the Sichuan this piece of granary treasure land also to the Sichuan Army Liu Xiang troops provided dozens of regiments of troops, ammunition and aircraft after a hundred days of fierce fighting finally failed to capture the Ya'an. Treasure land also on the Sichuan army Liu Xiang's troops provided dozens of regiments of troops, ammunition and aircraft, after more than a hundred days of fierce fighting, the red four-pronged army eventually failed to capture Ya'an, coupled with the political and strategic significance from the consideration of the central red army has been constantly telegrams to persuade Zhang Guotao to rate the army to the north, the red four-pronged army on January 20, 1936 around the plan to start the west into the northern part of the Kham.
Ya'an is a natural oxygen bar with beautiful mountains and rivers, and has many charming scenic spots. Unfortunately, we have no time to stay, from Ya'an straight to Lushan, which is a root carving and marble out of the place, but also my father had fought in the place, when he was only 24 years old, is already commanding a division to fight the war of senior commanders, really the times make heroes ah!
Driving north from Ya'an, passing through Lushan, came to Baoxing County, where the Red Army's Long March over Dajinshan Memorial Museum we found the Red Army's 31st Army Political Department leaflet "GONGCHAN PARTY RED ARMY TO PAN PERSONS CLAIMS" and 31st Army's 91st Division's propaganda leaflet "Poor People's Struggle Program". My father was the political commissar of the 91st Division, and Kou Qingyan was the head of the investigation section of the 91st Division, which is a testimony to their history on the Long March! Du Yide and Kou Qingyan, who were born as cattle herders, were nurtured by this revolutionary team, and step by step they learned the revolutionary ideas and grew up to become senior leading cadres of the Party and the army.
Our main goal today is to cross a 4,114-meter Jiejianshan Mountain. Jiejinshan is the Red Army Long March over the first snowy mountains (according to evidence is the Red Army over the second snowy mountains), in the Red Army over the snowy mountains, especially the Red Army over the snowy mountains in the Red Army over the Four Side, although not the highest, but is considered to be the most hostile environment of one.
By the Baoxing County to the mountain to march more than an hour, the car has been vaguely visible outside the sporadic snow, the evening around six o'clock we arrived at the top of the snow-covered Jiejianshan Mountain. Wow! In late October, the top of Jiefangshan Mountain was already very cold, and at 6:00 p.m. the sky was already dark, the wind and snow pounded on the windows of the car, and it was so dark that it was hard to see the road in front of us. The team got out of the car and watched, the biting wind quickly froze everyone's hands and feet, the windows were immediately covered with thick ice. Everyone shivering while lamenting: when the Red Army was in the winter of 1936 in February over the mountains, then the climate must be even colder, food is not enough to eat, lack of clothing, insufficient supply, how many people starve or freeze to death in the mountains. How many people died of starvation or freezing on this mountain? What kind of difficult journey did the Red Army go through in order to keep the flame of revolution under the white terror siege!
At 8:30 p.m., we arrived at the famous red memorial site - Xiaojin County (formerly known as Maogong) in Sichuan Province, which is 2,600 meters above sea level, and the place where the Central Red Army and the Fourth Side Army met for the first time on June 18, 1935, which is known as "Maogong Rendezvous" in history. ". What kind of touching feelings can we find here from our fathers and grandfathers?
Day 2: October 19, Xiaojin-Markang
This day's journey is mainly in the big and small Jinchuan River basin - that is, when my father was in the Red Army of the Fourth Front to create the first ethnic minority in the history of China's revolutionary self-governing regime "Gleditsa People's Republic" territory. I don't know whether my father's dream later still appeared in these mountains, Tibetan villages sparse area, and today we borrowed four wheels off-road vehicle, in the Red Army had been rolling around for several months in the place, in one day, we visited the old site of Xiaojin Maogong meeting, the Dawei meeting bridge, the Rilong Four Girls Mountains, Balang Mountain, the two Hekou meeting site, the dream pen snow mountain, Drekki Tibetan village, foot foot meeting site, the Central Red Army during the north and the south. During the Red Army's northward march and the Red Army's southward march, the Central Red Army has traveled back and forth between here and there.
On June 12, 1935, the Central Red Army and the Red Fourth Front Army met on both sides of the Wozh River in the town of Dawei. In order to distinguish the troops on the other side, both sides blew their bugles and eventually judged that they were their own people, the troops rushed across the creek, and the great old men warmly embraced and wept with joy, leaving behind a historical story of the first meeting between the First and Fourth Front Armies since the founding of the army at the place. Today the wooden Dawei Rendezvous Bridge still retains its original appearance, and there is a large monument to the Dawei Rendezvous beside the Woori River, which is now a must-visit place for red tourism in Northwest Sichuan.
Xiaojin County, 2600 meters above sea level, on June 12, 1935 Mao zhu xi led by the red front army for the first time in the Wozhi river and the red four sides of the army after the division, on June 18 in Maogong (now known as the small gold) the church of the two armies held a division meeting, historically known as the "Maogong division". The church is now the site of the meeting of the Red Army and the Fourth Army, and is now a key cultural relics protection site in Sichuan Province and a place of interest for red tourism. The next day, we came to Xiaogin Red Army Rendezvous Square early in the morning, where there is a monument to the Rendezvous of the Xiaogin Red Army. In the square in the early morning, there were quite a number of old people doing calisthenics under the monument. We left a group photo of the gathering at the place where our fathers and mothers celebrated the rendezvous back in the day, experiencing the joy of their rendezvous after experiencing snowy mountains and fierce battles.
 Near midday, arrived at the Barangshan, 4480 meters above sea level, here is the red one, the fourth front army many times over the mountain range, but also to the Wenchuan, Dujiangyan (then called irrigation county) of the transportation pass.
Not far from the Barangshan downhill, we came to Rilongguan town, where the altitude of 3270 meters, the long march team in this place to rest, lunch. This two days in a row over two altitude of more than 4000 meters of snow mountains, team members in some people began to have a little plateau reaction, brain hypoxia sleepy, uncomfortable heart, this time in advance prepared rhodiola rosea, highland Ning, oxygen, fast-acting heart pills and other medicines that can alleviate the reaction of the plateau immediately used to play a role.
At 2:45 pm, we arrived at the Wozhi Tibetan Tusi Village, where the 30th Army led by Li Xiannian of the Fourth Front Army fought a fierce battle with the Tusi, who prevented the Red Army from going north. Not far from the official fortress there is a Manggu Bridge, the Red Army had a very fierce battle with the warlord Liu Xiang's Sichuan army here, in the bridge head of this cable bridge can still see the Red Army left the slogan: "Sichuan brothers do not for the warlord Liu Xiang Deng Xihou to send to death as cannon fodder! . More than seventy years later, these traces have become precious historical records.
At 4:30 p.m. arrived at the two river mouth, June 26, 1935, the Chinese gongchan party in the two river mouth of a broken guandi temple in the politburo enlarged meeting, zhang guotao made a special trip from zaoguzhanyan, through the gurgou, lu rod bridge, over the rainbow bridge snow mountain rushed to participate in the history of the famous "two river mouth meeting". At this meeting, the Central Committee made an important resolution of the Red Army's Long March to the north from the political spirit and strategic perspective of international communism. But Zhang Guotao from personal interests, resistance to the resolution of the central north, entrenched in Sichuan Aba Prefecture near, resulting in the Red Army of the Fourth Front non-war attrition is very great, this history is a later story, after the travelogue will continue to tell the story of this period.
Two Hekou meeting site has collapsed, the new imitation of the meeting house is under construction, two Hekou village folks to build the alabaster statue of Chairman Mao Zedong still stands in two Hekou village, the highest place. Listening to the villagers say, a development company in the beginning of the construction of the two river mouth site had because of the statue of Mao zhu xi hindered the entire project construction, will be Mao zhu xi statue moved down and carried out of the entrance to the village, the villagers heard the news rushed, with sticks, shovels and all kinds of tools that can be found, rushed to move the statue of the construction team, and ultimately forced the developer Mao zhu xi statue invited to the highest place in the village. The people of the old revolutionary area have always loved Chairman Mao Zedong!
At 5:10 p.m. we arrived at 4,114 meters above sea level at Mengpen Mountain, which is the third snow mountain the Red Army has crossed. According to the records of Aba Prefecture, Mengpen Mountain is the second snow mountain that the Red Army has crossed. According to Shuangshi test: the first is the rainbow bridge mountain - the red four-sided army over the snow mountain, the second is the jiajinshan mountain - the central red army over the first snow mountain, here should be the red army over the third, the central red army over the second snow mountain. I don't care if it's the second or the third, anyway, this is the place where our father came.
The snow-capped peaks of the Dreaming Pen Mountains were snow-capped and the temperature was bone-chilling, but it was a nice breezy day compared to the harsh climate of the Sandwich Mountains, which we had gone over last night.
At 6:10 in the evening, we came to Zhuokeji Tusi official fortress. This official fortress is located in Xisuo Village, Zhuokeji Town, Malcolm County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, built in the Qing Dynasty, is one of the most well-preserved official fortresses among the eighteen Tusi of Jiazhong in Northwest Sichuan. It is one of the most well-preserved official villages among the eighteen Jiajung Tusi in northwest Sichuan. Its architecture, which integrates Tibetan and Chinese styles, is a bright pearl in the history of oriental architecture. 1935, the Red Army's Long March was here, and Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and Zhang Guotao stayed for a week here. It has also left a lot of stories about the unity and mutual help between the Tibetan and Chinese nationalities in assisting the Red Army, and it is said that the TV series "Dust Settles" was filmed and shot here.
More than an hour later, at 7:20 pm, we arrived at the small place originally entrenched by four Tusi, now the capital of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, called Malcolm. It was a prosperous place with bright lights and many stores. The group stayed here and had dinner. Tomorrow, we will travel from Malkang, along the Somo River to Foot Muzu Township, then visit the former site of the Jinchuan Geldsa People's Republic, and finally arrive at Damba, a multi-ethnic county inhabited mainly by Tibetans and Chinese.