Where did Chairman Mao dig the well?

In Shazhouba, Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province, when Comrade Mao Zedong was in Ruijin, he personally led the Red Army soldiers and villagers to dig wells together to solve the drinking water difficulties of local soldiers and civilians. After the founding of New China, the local people set up a stone tablet beside the well, which was engraved with the characters 14: "Those who dig for water will always remember Chairman Mao." This well in Shazhouba was later called "Red Well".

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Shazhouba used to be a dry and water-deficient village. At that time, the villagers were superstitious and thought that digging wells would destroy the geomantic omen in the village, resulting in no one in the village dare to dig wells without authorization, and the villagers had to carry water in the river several kilometers away. 1933 in April, after the temporary central government of the Chinese Soviet moved from Yeping to Shazhouba, President Mao Zedong also lived in this small village. In September of that year, when President Mao Zedong learned that local soldiers and civilians had difficulty drinking water, he led several Red Army soldiers to explore water in the village, determined the well location and broke ground. Later, many villagers also brought their own tools to dig wells with the Red Army soldiers. With the joint efforts of the military and civilians, a well with a diameter of 0.85 meters and a depth of 6 meters was quickly dug out, thus solving the draught problem of villagers in Shazhouba.

Later, due to the failure of the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area, the main force of the Central Red Army was forced to withdraw from Ruijin and set foot on the journey of Wan Li's strategic shift. Subsequently, Kuomintang troops and local reactionary forces made a comeback, madly counterattacked, clamoring to stone the Central Soviet Area, burn down houses and replace people. They not only destroyed the building facilities left by the Red Army in Ruijin and other places, but also filled the wells dug by Mao Zedong and Red Army soldiers. Faced with the arrogance of the reactionary forces, the villagers in Shazhouba did not give in, and they tried their best to dig out the filled well again. Since then, the villagers have fought with the reactionary forces many times, and after several times of filling and digging, the well has finally been preserved.

1950, in order to welcome the arrival of the sympathy group in the southern old base area, Ruijin people renovated the well of Shazhouba and named it "Hongjing". At the same time, a wooden sign was set up beside the well, which read "Don't forget to dig people when eating, and always miss Chairman Mao" to show gratitude and nostalgia for Chairman Mao and the Red Army. Soon, the local changed the wooden sign into a stone tablet. 1952 People's Education Publishing House has collectively created a short essay with more than 100 words based on the relevant materials of Hongjing, which was uniformly incorporated into the primary school Chinese textbook by the Ministry of Education. As a result, the story of "Red Well" has become a classic handed down from generation to generation, which has educated and touched China people from generation to generation for decades. 1961March, "Hongjing" was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council. Perhaps it is the source of drinking water, perhaps because of the success of literature, "red scenery" has become an important point of Ruijin red tourism and red education.

Source: People's Daily commemorates the excavator-commemorating the birthday of Comrade Mao Zedong123rd anniversary.