One thing is worth a thousand words, and seeing things reflects on history. During the tumultuous years of the Land Revolution War, it condensed the resilience, selflessness, and fearlessness of the Red Army, and witnessed the close connection between the people’s army and the people’s fish, water, and family.
At the Sidu Chishui Memorial Hall in Guizhou, three ordinary door panels that have been repaired in multiple places tell an extraordinary story of red history. They are the best interpretation of the military and civilian fish and water situation, and also a manifestation of the revolutionary old areas where the masses love the party and support the army and inherit the red gene.
In the exhibition hall of the Chinese People’s Revolutionary Military Museum, a pair of eyewash cups and measuring cups used during the Long March tell the touching story of the “Red Huatuo” Fu Lianzhang, who saved lives and helped injured in the midst of gunfire. Medical equipment is his powerful weapon, and Fu Lianzhang devoted his life to the medical and health cause of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and New China.
A person without spirit cannot stand, and a country without spirit is not strong. As witnesses of the Chinese revolutionary spirit, revolutionary cultural relics contain the red spirit, which is a nutrient that stimulates red emotions. Historical photos, precious objects, and revolutionary relics have baptized our spirit. The CPC has led the Chinese people to ride the waves from a small boat to a giant ship. The indomitable spirit of struggle, the revolutionary spirit of dying rather than yielding, and the fearless spirit of struggle have deeply rooted the red sentiment of the Chinese nation.
The red sentiment contains the spiritual code of communists, whose original intention remains unchanged. Only by not forgetting their original intention can they console history, martyrs, and win the hearts of the people and the times. We not only need to admire revolutionary cultural relics and accept the baptism of the red, but also let revolutionary cultural relics “live” in our hearts, inherit the red gene, continue the red blood, draw the inexhaustible driving force of progress, and continue to forge ahead and sail far.
Zhao Shan