A trip to Shaoshan and Xiaoxiang, the Holy Land

A trip to Shaoshan and Xiaoxiang, the holy land

? Shaoshan is a towering monument and a sacred place that everyone wants to visit in the heart of every China person. On August 9th, 219, we got on a tourist bus in Changsha, and prepared to go to Shaoshan, the holy place we dreamed of. The name Shaoshan has long been engraved in the bones of China people. I have heard of it since I was a child, and I have seen the film and television pictures, but when I really want to come to her side, I still can't help but feel excited.

In the midsummer, Sanxiang was scorching the earth with hot sun and rolling heat waves. Sitting in an air-conditioned car, I looked at the scenery outside the car window leisurely with greedy eyes. There were blue sky and clear water everywhere, green trees and green mountains everywhere, and the car took the expressway. Soon I arrived at Tanzichong, huaminglou, Ningxiang City, Hunan Province, and visited Liu Shaoqi's former residence. Liu Shaoqi's former residence was 5 kilometers east of Changsha, the provincial capital, and 37 kilometers south of Mao Zedong's former residence in Shaoshan City. It is a village where Liu Shaoqi was born and spent his childhood and adolescence. There are bronze statue squares, memorial halls, etc., with a large scale and reasonable layout, covering an area of nearly 8 square meters and more than 3 thatched houses. Liu Shaoqi's former residence is a four-in-one farmhouse with a civil structure, with 21 and a half houses, including 16 and a half tiled houses and 5 huts. A plaque inscribed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 198, "Former Residence of Comrade Liu Shaoqi", hangs at the front door of the former residence. In the hall, an almanac of ten years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty and a photo of Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei in the former residence in May 1961 are displayed. Out of this bedroom, you can go to the wine room, where the Liu family used to store and sell wine. From the wine room to the east, it is Liu Shaoqi's parents' bedroom, with beds, bedside tables, desks, cabinets and dressing tables. The living room is a horizontal room with a candle cabinet, a square table, a bench and so on. After a hasty visit to Liu Shaoqi Memorial Hall, everyone can't wait to get on the bus and set off for Shaoshan, which has been longing for a long time.

? The car left Xiangning and headed south for Shaoshan City, heading for the hometown of Comrade Mao Zedong, the great leader of China people. Soon after the car was driven, it arrived at Shaoshan's global tourism distribution center. The small mountain village of that year has developed into a tourist da shi, where there are cultural landscapes such as Mao Zedong's former residence, bronze statues, squares, memorial halls, relics halls, poetry forest, memorial gardens, and mysterious natural landscapes such as "Western Cave" Dripping Cave and Heishizhai, which are both revolutionary memorial sites.

? Shaoshan peaks stand around the mountains, and the main peak is Shaofeng, also known as Fairy Peak, which is one of the 77 peaks in Nanyue. It is located in the south of Shaoshan tourist area, with an altitude of 519 meters. It is the first peak in the scenic spot, and "Shaofeng is verdant" is one of the eight scenic spots in Shaoshan. We walked slowly along the winding mountain road, followed by a tidal stream of people, waiting in line to see Mao Zedong's former residence. After about an hour of queuing, we finally arrived at the home of the great leader Chairman Mao. The house is made of mud bricks and blue tiles, with a civil structure, facing south and facing the mountain, and it is concave, earthy and fragrant, with an original flavor, covering an area of 566.39 square meters and a construction area of 472. There is a small ping in front of the roof farm, and there are two parallel ponds in front of the ping. The small pond is covered with lotus roots, and the water surface of the big pond is wide. The lotus is particularly delicate against the green lotus leaves, which is really a bit of a charm. The back of the chairman's house is backed by the green hills, and the pine and bamboo are flourishing. Looking around, it is just "the best place is Shaoshan, and the smoke cage is light in color", which is also "purple gas" At noon, in front of the bronze statue of Chairman Mao in the square, a dozen of us, under the scorching sun, carried flower baskets and respectfully placed them at the foot of the bronze statue of Chairman Mao, and bowed to the bronze statue of Chairman Mao three times with the crowd to express our high respect for his old man's house.

? On December 26th, 1893, Mao Zedong was born here, and spent his childhood and adolescence. At the age of 8, he began to study in private schools, dropped out at the age of 14, and took part in agricultural production at home for two years. At the age of 16, he studied in private schools for another year. In the autumn of 191, Mao Zedong left Shaoshan and went to study in the Dongshan Higher Primary School in Xiangxiang County. Before he left, he wrote a poem for his father, "Seven Unique Poems for Father":

"My son is determined to leave the countryside, and he will never return it if he fails to become famous. There is no need to bury the bones, and life is everywhere. " In the same year, he wrote "Seven Ancient Frogs": "Sitting alone in a pond is like a tiger's house, and keeping the spirit under a shady tree. If I don't speak first in spring, which worm dares to be quiet? "

? At that time, 17-year-old Mao Zedong made the exam in the entrance examination of Dongshan Higher Education College in Xiangxiang, and the exam question was "Express Your Will". Through the description of the frog's environment, its image and mentality, it profoundly shows Mao Zedong's lofty ambition and broad mind in his youth, and shows the author's fighting spirit of striving for progress and caring about the fate of the country. As can be seen from this poem, Mao Zedong took the motto "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" and gave himself the name "Zi Ren", which means he is determined to save the country and the people as his lofty responsibility. This ideal shows his lofty ideal in his youth. It not only mocked and despised those rich children, but also expressed the young Mao Zedong's courage to be the first in the world and the heroic consciousness of leading the group in the hazy period. Tan Yongchun, a Chinese teacher, approved after reading it: "It seems that you have a fairy bone, and you are like the water of the Yellow River, and it flows a thousand miles!" .

? In 1911, he went to Changsha to study in Xiangxiang Middle School in the province, and then went to the First Normal School in the province to study, and occasionally went home to live in winter and summer vacations. In October 1919, Mao Zedong's mother died of illness, and Mao Zedong went home to attend the funeral, and wrote elegiac couplets and "A Tribute to Mother" with tears in her eyes.

in February 1925, Mao Zedong and his wife Yang Kaihui returned to Shaoshan with their children, An Ying and An Qing, and lived in Shangwuchang for half a year. I often talk with the villagers here, hold various small meetings, understand the political and economic situation in rural areas, publicize the revolutionary truth to farmers, and secretly establish farmers' associations and open anti-imperialist patriotic organizations-the revenge society. This year, in Changsha, he wrote the magnificent "Qinyuanchun Changsha". In 1927, Mao Zedong returned to Shaoshan to inspect the peasant movement, called the peasant movement cadres and peasant activists to hold an investigation meeting, got to know the situation of the peasant movement in Shaoshan, and proposed that the peasants should build their own armed forces and run the peasant association better. In this year, he left Shaoshan for 32 years. In August 1949, Shaoshan was liberated. In February, 1951, the former residence was officially opened to the public, and the plaque "The Home of Chairman Mao, the Great Leader of China People" was hung above the main entrance of the hall, which was later renamed as "The Former Residence of Comrade Mao Zedong". On June 25th, 1959, Mao Zedong returned to Shaoshan, his hometown after 32 years' absence. On June 26th, accompanied by Luo Ruiqing and others, he visited his former residence, took photos with the welcome crowd in Qianping and wrote "Seven Laws to Shaoshan"

Farewell to a Dream, vaguely cursing the passing of Sichuan,

32 years ago.

The red flag rolls up the serf halberd,

The black hand hangs the overlord whip.

For the sake of sacrifice and ambition,

I dare to change the sun and moon into a new sky.

I like to see thousands of waves of paddy rice, and

heroes everywhere are falling in the evening smoke.

On September 28th, 1965, it was changed to the inscription "Former Residence of Comrade Mao Zedong" by Guo Moruo, and on June 27th, 1983, it was changed to "Former Residence of Comrade Mao Zedong" inscribed by Deng Xiaoping.

? The Dripping Cave, which is 3 kilometers away from the former residence of the Chairman, is the Chairman's Villa. It is located in the narrow valley to the west of Shaoshanchong. The cave is elegant and peerless, with green peaks, bamboo trees, wild flowers and weeds, butterflies and songbirds. "Mao Shi Genealogy" praised: "A hook with flowing water and a fist mountain, the tiger is here; Lingxiu gathers bells and people don't know, and the stone bridge is locked several times. " In 1959, Mao Zedong also went swimming in Shaoshan Reservoir at the mouth of the dripping water. As a result, he casually said to Zhou Xiaozhou, secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, "Boat, build some thatched houses in this ravine. I will come and live when I am old." So there was the construction of Dishuidong Villa. The villa was built in 196, and its architectural form is similar to that of Beijing Zhongnanhai. In June, 1966, Mao Zedong visited Shaoshan in the south and lived in Building No.1 for 11 days. In 197, a 1-meter-long bomb shelter was built behind the villa. One side of the cave has military facilities such as earthquake-proof room and command room. At both ends of the cave, there are heavy iron gates with automatic control, which are nearly a foot thick and weigh several tons. Even if an atomic bomb is cast outside the cave, it will not damage the safety of the command system and the people in the cave. Dishui Cave is famous both at home and abroad for its beautiful scenery and humanistic events. Tourists are like weaving. This "Western Cave", which is hailed as the "Pearl of Mountains and Waters" in Hunan, is really "a beautiful place with three Hunan, and there is a different sky in the cave."

? Ten miles and eight townships around Chairman's former residence are tourist areas, and the whole Dashaoshan area is enjoying the gospel brought by Chairman. Even though the old man has left us for more than 4 years, he is still "a descendant of blessing and grace". In the evening, we said goodbye to Shaoshan. It's been three years, and she's still haunting me ...

Monday, June 2th, 222.