By reviewing the revolutionary history of Shaoshan people, this work describes the bumper harvest of people's commune members through enthusiastic labor, praises the spirit of revolutionary people's hard struggle, praises the style of China people's struggle with heaven and earth, and clearly embodies Mao Zedong's lofty ideological realm.
Seven methods of Shaoshan
Don't dream of vaguely cursing the passing of Sichuan. My hometown was thirty-two years ago. The red flag rolls the serf halberd (3), and the black hand hangs the overlord whip (4).
For the sake of sacrifice and ambition, I dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky. I like to watch the waves of rice and heroes from all over the world fall in the evening smoke. [ 1]
To annotate ...
(1) Don't dream: It means that after you leave, you can't forget that your hometown and old friends often appear in your dreams. Zhang Mi's poem "Send away": "Don't dream of vaguely arriving in Xie Jia." Vaguely: As if, vaguely, not very clear. Curse: Curse, hate, here just means hate. Chuanchuan: Running water is a metaphor for lost time. Li Bai's "Fifty-nine Ancient Styles" No.11: "Passing through Sichuan for a fleeting time, drifting and not treating each other."
(2) Hometown: Hometown refers to Shaoshan.
(3) Red Flag: the flag of the revolution, symbolizing the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Serfs: This refers to the agricultural laborers who belonged to serf owners in feudal times and had no personal freedom, and here refers to the poor peasants who were enslaved in old China. Halberd: An ancient assassination weapon.
(4) Black hand: refers to the clutches of the feudal landlord class, the comprador bourgeoisie and the dark forces representing the Kuomintang Rightists, and is a metaphor for reactionaries. Hang high: hold high. Overlord whip: refers to counter-revolutionary armed forces, that is, Chiang Kai-shek reactionary armed forces.
5] Existence: Because there is. More: Enhance incentives. Dare to teach: can make, can make.
[6] The sun and the moon change into a new sky: It means that the charm of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism has turned old China into a new socialist China.
(7) happy to see: happy to see. Spike: the general term for beans. Thousand waves: layers of waves refer to large crops that fluctuate with the wind.
(8) Heroes: This refers to farmers in New China. Dusk smoke: dusk returns from the dusk.
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How many dreams curse the passage of time after parting? I have been away from you in my hometown for thirty-two years. The red flag is blowing the farmer's arm, and the enemy is holding high the whip of the overlord.
Because there are too many ambitions, there will be sacrifices, but I dare to turn the world upside down for a new look. I like to see large crops rolling like waves again, and peasant heroes returning from work in the twilight. [2]
Creation background
Shaoshan, a Shaoshanchong, located 90 miles northwest of Xiangtan, Hunan Province, is the hometown of Mao Zedong. 1925 1 month, Mao Zedong returned to his hometown from Shanghai, established Shaoshan branch of China * * * Production Party, and later organized People's Association. During the periods of 1927 and 1, Mao Zedong returned to Shaoshan when he visited the peasant movement in Hunan. This time I went back to my hometown and was busy for three days and nights. I gave a speech to the masses, organized several symposiums on the work of the peasant movement, and listened to the report of the Party branch. In particular, he pointed out that it is necessary to build peasant revolutionary armed forces and be ready to smash counter-revolutionary plots to undermine the peasant movement at any time. Since then, the peasant movement in Shaoshan area has further developed. Three months later, Kuomintang reactionaries launched the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup, and then Hunan reactionary warlords suddenly attacked Changsha Federation of Trade Unions, peasant associations and other revolutionary organizations on May 1 1, arresting and slaughtering revolutionaries. This is the bloody "Ma Ri incident". This incident aroused the anger of the broad masses of workers and peasants, and all localities immediately set up revolutionary armed forces. At that time, Shaoshan also set up the command of peasant self-defense forces in the Xiangning border region, concentrating more than 1000 people and more than 300 guns, ready to cooperate with friendly forces to seize Changsha. Due to the wrong leadership of Chen Duxiu's right opportunism, this revolutionary plan failed. Instead, the peasant armed forces were broken by reactionaries one by one. Later, the opposition army attacked Shaoshan in three ways, and the peasant self-defense forces fought bravely, but failed because of the disparity in numbers. Then came the cruel suppression of reactionaries, and many peasants died heroically.
From then on, after ten years of agrarian revolutionary war, eight years of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and three years of liberation war, Mao Zedong finally returned to his hometown for the third time in the tenth year after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After 32 years, the face of his hometown has completely changed. Remembering the past and writing poems emotionally. Mao Zedong returned to his hometown this time, stayed for two days and chatted with the elders in his hometown, which made people very excited and happy. These two days have become a real festival in Shaoshan. This seven melody was written late at night on the 25th. Although in 1959, the young Republic of China was in trouble due to natural and man-made disasters at home and abroad, and Mao Zedong was worried at this time, as a romantic poet, he found a spiritual strength in his hometown and history. In the revolutionary war years, the people of China were not afraid of sacrifice and defeated all their enemies. What's terrible about temporary difficulties now? This gave the poet great comfort and filled his heart with passion. This poem written in this mood is also full of this passion.