On April 20, 1949, the Kuomintang refused to sign the peace agreement. That night, the People's Liberation Army forcibly crossed the Yangtze River in three ways, stretching from Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province in the east to Hukou, Jiangxi Province in the west. On the evening of the 23rd, Chen Yi's Third Field Army on the East Road occupied Nanjing. Mao Zedong was extremely excited when he heard the news and wrote the famous "The People's Liberation Army Occupies Nanjing". This poem is magnificent and the language is sonorous and powerful. It expresses the confidence and determination of the People's Liberation Army to completely defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries, and expresses the belief in victory in liberating the whole of China!
On April 21, 1949, Mao Zedong and Zhu De jointly issued the "Order to March Nationwide" to the Chinese People's Liberation Army: "We order you" to "move forward bravely, resolutely, thoroughly and cleanly" , completely annihilate all Kuomintang reactionaries in China who dare to resist, liberate the people of the country, and safeguard the independence and integrity of China's territorial sovereignty."
According to the "Order to March on the Nation" issued by Mao Zedong and Zhu De, the General Secretary The Second and Third Field Armies (formerly the People's Liberation Army of the Central Plains and the East China Field Army) under the unified command of Deng Xiaoping, Secretary of the Front Committee, braved the wind and waves on a thousand-mile front starting from Hukou, Jiangxi in the west, to Jiangyin in the east, and rushed to cross the Yangtze River in three ways. The Yangtze River defense line that the Kuomintang had worked hard for a long time collapsed in an instant.
On April 23, the People's Liberation Army occupied Nanjing, the center of Kuomintang rule. The next afternoon, "Chairman Mao got up, holding the People's Daily newspaper in his hand, and came from the house to the pavilion in the courtyard. He sat on a wicker chair and read the newspaper. Because what was published in the newspaper was the People's Daily There was news about the People's Liberation Army occupying Nanjing, so he was very happy when he read the newspaper. Without walking in the yard or talking to anyone, he went back to the office to read the newspaper again. After reading the newspaper, he wrote a congratulatory message to Deng Xiaoping and Liu Bocheng, and also wrote "Seven Rules: The People's Liberation Army Occupies Nanjing".
"It is better to chase down the enemy with victory and courage, and not to be known as an academic overlord." These two sentences clearly expressed Mao Zedong's determination to carry the revolution to the end.
"It is better to be victorious and to pursue the poor bandits bravely" is the main theme of "Seven Rules: The People's Liberation Army Occupies Nanjing".
As early as New Year's Day in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek issued the "New Year's Proclamation", which proposed peace talks with the Chinese Communist Party on the preconditions of preserving the so-called "Constitution", "Legal System" and "National Army". And we must use the method of "taking the initiative to step down" to promote peace talks with the Chinese Communist Party.
It is against this background that some people in the country have unrealistic fantasies. There are some elements of the middle bourgeoisie and the upper and lower bourgeoisie who are afraid that the further development of the revolution will damage their interests and hope that the revolution will stop here or take on a moderate tone. Some bourgeois right-wing elements want the Communists to turn the great revolution into a The war "stops immediately" and opposes "eliminating all evil". Internationally, there are various discussions, it seems that the revolutionary struggle of the Chinese people should be stopped.
December 1948 On the 30th, Mao Zedong wrote a New Year's message for Xinhua News Agency entitled "Carry the Revolution to the End." Mao Zedong sharply pointed out in his dedication speech: "There is indeed such a kind of 'Kuomintang liberals' or non-Kuomintang 'liberals' who advise the Chinese people to accept the 'peace' of the United States and the Kuomintang. That is to say, they should We should support imperialism, feudalism and bureaucracy as spiritual treasures, so that these treasures will not become extinct in the world. Returning the country to a world of darkness."
Mao Zedong made it clear: "The Chinese people will never pity evil people like snakes." "Besides, the big snakes and small snakes, black snakes and white snakes, snakes showing their fangs and snakes disguised as beauties that are entrenched on the land of China, although they have already felt the threat of winter, they are not frozen yet!"
In fact, “When the People’s Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River south, the Kuomintang still had 2.04 million troops, controlling 58% of China’s population, 63% of its cities, and its land. Seventy-three percent of the area. Warships and marines from the United States, Britain and other countries were stationed in Qingdao and other places." Therefore, Mao Zedong called on the people to "use revolutionary methods to resolutely and thoroughly clean up." We must completely eliminate all reactionary forces, unswervingly persist in overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing feudalism, overthrowing bureaucratic capitalism, and overthrow the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang nationwide."
In a word, it is necessary to "be victorious and pursue the poor aggressors bravely".
In order to strengthen the revolutionary people's revolutionary consciousness of "chasing victory with courage" and "carrying the revolution to the end", the poet borrowed the sentence "Heaven is sentimental" from the great poet Li He of the Tang Dynasty in the last couplet of this rhyme. "Heaven is also old", further sublimates the revolutionary concept of "it is better to chase down the enemy with vigor and courage" to the level of philosophy, and explains the philosophy of "the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life", making "it is better to chase the enemy with victory and courage" has an irrefutable theory in accordance with.
On January 27, 1964, Mao Zedong commented on "If Heaven is sentimental, Heaven is also old" and said: "This is a sentence borrowed from Li He. Compared with the world, Heaven is not old. "Heaven is nature", "Nature and human society also have processes of emergence and destruction."
Yes, heaven refers to nature and human society.
Nature, human society, the universe, and everything are always in a state of development and change. This is a ruthless and cruel objective law that is independent of human will.
"If the sky is sentimental, the sky will also grow old." Mao Zedong here means that if the sky is ruthless, the sky will never grow old. Yes, God is ruthless, so it will never age, never stop developing, stopping moving, or stopping changing.
"The right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life" This is the conclusion.
Just like the changes in the vicissitudes of life, human society is constantly developing, moving, and changing. This is the "right path of life" and this is the eternal law of human society.
Because "the right path in the world is subject to vicissitudes of life", the revolutionary people must "pursue victory with courage and courage"; therefore, the revolutionary people must "carry the revolution to the end".
Mao Zedong was an expert in permanent revolution. "Qilu: The People's Liberation Army Occupies Nanjing" is exactly what Mao Zedong once again sounded in the language of poetry as "the historical clarion call to march across the country."