Visit the Station Training Park, the birthplace of China's modern army-Tianjin Station Training Park.

My wife and I drove south to Xiaozhan Town in the southern suburbs of Tianjin. It has long been known that there is a "small station" in Tianjin, which is a historical scene of China's army's transition from ancient soldiers to modern ranks.

Because I carefully checked the map route before I left, it only took me more than an hour to get to this "small station training park" rebuilt on the basis of Yuan Shikai's small station training ground.

There are neat and dense gray tile and brick barracks, a training ground surrounded by high walls and a lecture hall with a white marble base in the courtyard. Inside a circle of city walls is a gallery museum.

I boarded the fence of the station training park, looked at the Eight Banners of the Qing army, and remembered Lu Xun's poem "The flag of the king changed to the head of the city". The northern warlords who came out from here and the later warlords fought in China for decades, causing extremely deep national disasters. ...

The "Wujiangtang" on the high platform in the middle of the training park is Yuan Shikai's "School Companion Camp" of Beiyang New Army. Looking at the Chinese-style teaching desks and chairs in the lecture hall, I imagined that most of the first generation of modern military talents from China had become famous warlords. This can be said to be the "origin" of the rise of China's army.

Walking at the gate, I "sneaked into" the abdominal cavity of the city wall and began to visit the training history of tianjin railway station. Walking through the promenade, it seems that crossing is just a visit. More than 100 years ago, the humiliation of knitting swords and guns and the braiding under weird hats came face to face.

The display and exhibition here let us systematically understand for the first time how China soldiers moved from the ancient military system to the modern military system. The organizational system of towns (divisions), associations (brigades), targets (regiments), battalions, teams (companies), sentries (platoons) and sheds (classes) is the product of this transition.

Armor pocket, bow and arrow broadsword were once the constant equipment of China soldiers for thousands of years; Adding an old gun and a foreign gun to the military uniform is the beginning of the evolution of China soldiers.

This excessive nature can be seen in many things displayed here. For example, the hats of senior officers are actually decorated with "top-wearing" beads of different colors and textures, but there are no "flower feathers"; Sometimes I simply wear western-style military uniforms, but I wear a red tassel hat with a "flower feather" on it. The soldiers are wearing big braid under their big hats, which is very funny. Its hat badge is also inlaid with "top-wearing" beads of different textures and colors. The officer's dress is very fancy, which is worse than the western military uniform in19th century.

The Western-style military uniform created during the small station training made the Qing army as clumsy and agile as a mandarin jacket, but braided hair under the new military cap made the China army at that time the most peculiar "braid army" in the world, which made the world laugh.

Small station training has completely abandoned the old system of brave soldiers and swords, spears and bows, and all of them are equipped with western-style guns, only retaining the officers' waist knives, becoming the ceremonial function of only commanding knives.

At this time, the code of conduct and array method completely abandoned the old habits of array methods such as "Yanmen Array" and "Bagua Array" in the old cold weapon era. With surveying and mapping, there is also a pre-war deployment similar to today's army. For example, there were already infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, trench teams, field hospitals, reserves and even military bands.

The new army in Xiaozhan not only has a brand-new change in training and tactics, but also pays attention to cultivating and tempering soldiers in ideology and culture, showing unprecedented characteristics in military reform.

However, this new Qing army, armed with foreign guns, guns and military uniforms, is still the Eight Banners or the Handsome Banners. Looking back, we feel a little strange.

However, it should be acknowledged that small station training has achieved a major turning point for China soldiers from ancient times to modern times. As some experts have summarized, this turning point has achieved ten "firsts":

1. For the first time, the main arms of the army, such as infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers and trench, were standardized, all equipped with modern firearms and new combat equipment, forming a modern army with multiple arms in China.

2. For the first time, it imitated the modern western army, formed the establishment of army, division (town), brigade (company), regiment (target), battalion, company (team), platoon and squad (shed), established standardized military hospitals and specialized detachments using modern communication means, and all of them were equipped with new communication observation equipment and trench vehicles.

3. For the first time, the training plan was made according to the modern western military model, and the troops were trained by western laws and regulations. Combined with China's ancient training and management experience, various military laws and regulations were formulated.

4. For the first time, referring to the army conscription standards of modern European countries, a soldier conscription system was formulated to encourage educated people to join the army, thus changing the composition of China's army.

5. For the first time, the General Staff Office, Law Enforcement Office, Supervision Office and other regular staff offices, military law enforcement agencies and training supervision agencies were established to improve the efficiency of military command and management.

6. For the first time, a relatively complete modern logistics support organization, such as Grain Bureau, Ordnance Bureau and Transit Bureau, was established to improve the military operation support capability.

7. For the first time, the old feudal etiquette such as bowing down was abolished, and a regular army band was formed to regulate the daily behavior of officers and men with civilized military etiquette.

8. For the first time, a series of military educational institutions with sound discipline and standardized management, such as various military schools, training camps and training teams, have been established, military students have been sent abroad for further study, and graduates or foreign students have been appointed as officers at all levels of the army.

9. For the first time, China's army implemented a formal modern rank system, imitating the military system of the western army, which further promoted the regularization of China's army.

10. For the first time, according to the requirements of the modern army's individual combat, the heavy old-fashioned military uniforms were eliminated and western-style military uniforms were adopted, which made the new army look brand-new.

From a purely military point of view, Yuan Shikai made an important contribution to China's transformation from the old system of warriors with swords and bows to the modern army, which can be said to be the "originator" of China's modern army.

In the historical exhibition, we can see that all the rules and regulations, military discipline, academic system, regulations and even military songs here have been boldly imitated and innovated by Yuan Shikai. Interestingly, the tune of "The Emperor's Training Song" compiled by him turned out to be the tune of today's PLA military song "Three Disciplines and Eight Notices"! This simple arrangement and combination of seven notes is actually the genetic code of historical inheritance?

Visiting the station training park is like stepping into a historical scene and feeling a kind of change and inheritance. Four presidents of the Republic of China, six prime ministers of the Republic of China and the chief of the army emerged from the small station training, and the largest military and political group in modern China was established.

What emerged from the small station is China, a soldier who serves as a link between the past and the future, and also a magic bottle to release the chaos of warlords who have brought disaster to the country and the people. Yuan Shikai, on the other hand, is only here, and has become a dual symbol of contributing to history and being a historical villain.

History is advancing. Yuan Shikai Group, which replaced Xiang Huaijun Group, was still destroyed, and then the powerful Chiang Kai-shek Group was also destroyed. China people's century-long history of humiliating and strengthening the military, from the exploration and failure of "inferior weapons, inferior systems, inferior ideology and culture" to the discovery and launching of a revolutionary wave of "awakening, mobilizing and organizing the people", finally appeared a journey of faith and a people's army completely different from the traditional old army. Under the banner of Mao Zedong, with 28 years of hard struggle and bloody battles, they ushered in a 28-gun salute in Tiananmen Square, which opened the road to the great rejuvenation and rise of the Chinese nation.

But in any case, looking back on the past century, tianjin railway station, a magnificent training park, reproduces a painful evolution history of China soldiers from ancient times to modern times.

Please follow our lens, enjoy this rare historical scene, and see how China soldiers set out here, from ancient times to modern times:

A hundred years ago, in the training camp area of a small station, we sold the pace of our wives and soldiers and strode.

Tianjin "station" is a historical scene of China's army's transition from ancient soldiers to modern ranks.

There is a high wall around the training ground, and there is a gallery museum in the wall.

This "soldier" monument in the station training park is very creative.

The magnificent training park reproduces a painful evolutionary history of China soldiers from ancient times to modern times.

Jiangwutang is the military school of Beiyang New Army.

The Eight Banners on the wall of the small station training garden reminds me of Lu Xun's poem "Wang Qi changed to Chengtou".

Most of the first generation of modern military talents in China who came out from here became warlords and generals.

Walking at the gate, I "sneaked into" the abdominal cavity of the city wall and began to visit the training history of tianjin railway station.

Walking on the promenade is like visiting. The humiliation of knitting swords and guns and the drooping braids of weird hats came face to face.

The "soldiers" wearing flower feathers are discussing the composition of the troops.

Armor pocket, bow and arrow broadsword were once the equipment of China soldiers for thousands of years.

Adding an old gun and a foreign gun to the military uniform is the beginning of the evolution of China soldiers.

Top hats of senior officers are also decorated with "capped" beads of different colors and textures, but there are no "flower feathers".

During the training in the small station, Yuan's guards' uniforms were very chic and exquisite.

The braid under the modern military cap made the China army at that time the strangest braid army in the world, which made the world laugh.

The army armed with foreign guns, foreign guns and foreign clothes is still full of flags and eight flags, with Shuai Qi as the leader. Let's look back today and find it funny.

Training, expanding and recruiting troops in small stations are based on strength and height. The monthly salary of the regular army was actually the same as that of the local officials at that time.

Beiyang Qing artillery came out of a small station.

Small station training camp "Jiangwutang" student dormitory.

You see, Yuan Shikai, commander-in-chief of Beiyang Qing army, still can't give up the sedan chair for thousands of years.

The ceremonial soldiers of Beiyang Qing army trained in the small station.

The flag array of Beiyang New Army led by Longqi entered the inspection field.

Western military band of Beiyang Qing army.

Train new recruits.

Show the training results in a small police station-line up for inspection and review by court officials.

At this time, the code of conduct completely abandoned the old habits of "Yanmen Array" and "Bagua Array" in the old cold weapon era.

When the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing court, Yuan Shikai conspired to steal the country and usurp power, and wanted to be emperor.

The station walked out of the soldiers in China, and it also released the chaotic magic bottle of warlords who had ruined the country and the people.

Beiyang warlord military band with pigtails cut off.

Practice continues, and disaster continues. ...

Beiyang warlord heavy machine gun drill.

Artillery live ammunition exercise of Beiyang warlord.

The guns of the Beiyang New Army displayed in the station seem to be telling a hundred years.

Around the New Army in the Late Qing Dynasty ...

Tianjin railway station is a century-old history of China people's humiliation and self-improvement, and it is a famous historical landmark.

A hundred years ago, in the resident training camp area, we strode forward with the pace of soldiers.

The soldier monument in the square outside the station training park, the hollow image of the soldier, is unique!

Looking back at the station, it can be said that it is the "origin" of the rise of China's army.