Westward travel

The reading process of the Westbound Travel is exciting and exciting. The most infective and shocking people are the Soviet Union, which is full of vitality and vitality, and the people who are fighting for their country and nation.

In 1936, American journalist Edgar Snow was the first Western journalist to interview the red region of China. With countless questions about the revolutionary war that he could not understand at the time, he went to the northwest region to live with the Red Army under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party for four months and had face-to-face exchanges with many leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. This unusual journey and experience provides a lot of real and objective material for Snow's creation. On this basis, he first wrote a lot of sensational news reports for the British and American newspapers, and then compiled a book - "Westbound Man". For the first time, the book comprehensively tells the world the revolutionary history and life of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and reproduces the struggle of the Chinese people for aggression, oppression and unyielding.

With his passion and vivid brushstrokes, Snow recorded the growing maturity of the Chinese Communist Party in the Soviet Union. From the famous assertion of Mao Zedong against the Japanese War, the basic policies of the Communist Party, and the verbal expression of the party members and the people, Snow recorded a three-dimensional and rich image of the growing Northern Shaanxi Soviet Area with his excellent documentary skills. Let the readers feel the immersive and moving. I am very excited to read such a scene. I think my excitement is no less than the journalist Snow who wrote this book. His ignorance of Mao Zedong and the Red Army is like we have nothing to do with the history of the past. Knowing the same, we are tired of repeating, no novelty of preaching TV dramas, just as Snow is tired of the Kuomintang’s derogatory reports against the Red Army, and we are eager for real things. What is brought to people by "The Westward Travel" is the real thing. After the publication of this book, it was popular in many countries. Many young people used this book to go through Yan'an and join the revolution.

Unlike other red classics, the content of this book is as wonderful as a novel, and it is a living fact. In Snow's own words, "These stories are written by the Chinese revolutionary youth. These revolutionary youths make the stories described in this book alive. And in a strict literal sense, this A large part of the book is not written by me, but Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai, Zhou Enlai, Lin Boqu, Xu Haidong, Xu Te Li, Lin Biao, whose struggle life is the object of the book, is also dictated. There are long conversations made by Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai, explaining the reasons and purposes of the Chinese revolution with the clear words of spring water. There are also dozens of dialogues with unknown red warriors, peasants, workers, and intellectuals. Inside, readers can roughly understand the spirit that makes them unconquerable, the kind of power, the desire, the enthusiasm."

Reading this book, I really felt the people's love for the Communist Party. I realized that socialism can save China and why the fire of the stars can be punished when it has been seen in textbooks for countless times. If our students are able to get in touch with these real newsletters earlier, rather than textbooks that have no feelings like chewing wax, how much we should love and admire our ancestors.

The Westward Traveler depicts the Soviet region, full of vitality and vitality, depicting the great struggle of the Chinese Communists and the Red Army fighters, the heroic and heroic, and the great and ordinary spirit of their leaders. The Soviet area is undoubtedly the most happy place for the people of the country at that time. Of course, this people refers to farmers, not oppressors. The elimination of oppression, the elimination of malpractice, and the literacy rate far ahead of the country, in this context, it is not difficult to understand why the Red Army can win the hearts of the people. Because they do not rob, do not murder, they respect the people, strict discipline, and willing to help, the heaviest point, they give farmers land. In the case of a black cloud in China, there is no light here. It is no wonder that there are so many intellectuals, so many young people, abandoning their original status and wealth, and rushing to the Soviet Union without any care. At this time, the Soviet area is indeed an ideal place, and it is the most equal, clean and pure place in China. Snow described the first president of the poor society he saw. "He seems to be a timid peasant with other parts of China. The happy eyes of a pair of gods have a challenging look. Certainly scary." It is "rare" among the Chinese who are used to the "negative satisfaction" that Snow is used to. This "God" makes Snow shake. The group of men who had been in contact with the Long March Red Army also fascinated him. He wrote, "Although they have almost experienced the tragedy of life, they are not too sad, perhaps because they are too young, maybe I have seen it. The first batch of Chinese proletarians who really felt happy. In China, negative satisfaction is a common phenomenon, but the higher level of feelings in this happy life is rare. This means that there is a sense of self-confidence for survival." Snow said: "Sometimes I can hardly believe it. It is only because this group of determined young people, armed with a kind of thought, can carry out a mass struggle against the army of Nanjing for ten years."

The Red Army and the Communist Party were definitely an excellent force full of vitality at that time: the average age of ordinary soldiers was 19 and the average age of officers in the Red Army was 24 years old. Among the commanders of the Red Army, many are graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy, graduates of the Moscow Red Army University, former officers of the "Northeast Army" of Zhang Xueliang, students of the Baoding Military Academy, soldiers of the former National Army, and several from France, the Soviet Union, and Germany. International students returning from the United Kingdom and the United States. And their leaders are even more impressive. In my impression, the leaders are mostly older than 60. Many people wear reading glasses. They always feel a little bit sullen. Compared with Snow's words, the contrast is too big: In 1936, Zhu De was 50 years old, Mao Zedong forty-three, Zhou Enlai thirty-eight, Lin Biao twenty-nine, Yang Shangkun twenty-nine, Peng Dehuai and He Long were not more than forty years old. There were only three leaders over 60 years old: Lin Boqu Xu Teli, Xie Jueyi, respectively, are in charge of finance and education. The Red Army and their leaders are energetic, convinced, optimistic and energetic.

The leaders of the Communist Party at that time, under the description of Snow, I have all been admired for the five bodies. They are temperament, demeanor, and a group of people who have the ability to lead the Chinese people forward. Each of them has a legendary experience, not a mortal. It was Snow's remark that made my original impression of the revolutionary cold and frozen now alive. The first is Mao Zedong. His experience is a major focus of this book. This is also a story of the Chinese revolution to a considerable extent. Snow wrote that "Mao Zedong works 13 or 4 hours a day, and often stops at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night. His body seems to be iron. He thinks this is due to his father's field in his youth. After working hard, it was due to his hard time at school, when he and several like-minded people organized groups such as the Spartan club. They often hungry and traveled long distances to the South China forest. Going to swim in the cold days, barefoot in the rain and snow - all in order to train themselves. They intuitively know that China's coming to Japan requires them to endure the greatest hardships and hardships." And now we What about college students? Many people are afraid of cold in winter and even wash their faces. In the morning, they can sleep more when they sleep more. How many people still want to hone their will? Mao Zedong likes to read books since he was a child. He said, "I am hungry. I am thirsty to read all the books that I can find." Especially when I was about 18, he dropped out of school six months ago, booked a self-study program, and went to the Hunan Provincial Library every day. Read a book. He carried out very seriously, insisting that the library would open every morning when the library opened and read it out in the library. During this period of self-study, he read many books and studied world geography and world history. He said, "I read Adam Smith's "The Rich", Darwin's "The Origin of Species" and John Muller's book on ethics. I read Rousseau's book, Spencer's "Logic" A book about law written by Judeth. While studying the historical geography of Russia, the United States, Britain, France and other countries, I also read poetry, novels and ancient Greek stories. "When we are at the same age His reading quality and quantity have far exceeded most of us. When reading Mao Wandong's Wanli Road, Mao Zedong also went to Taishan when he was young. He saw the tomb of the tomb, walked through Hunan, walked on the ice of the North Bay, circled along the Dongting Lake, and walked around the wall of Baoding. The famous Xuzhou city wall in "Three Kingdoms" has a famous Nanjing city wall in history. He has been surrounded once. Compared with Mao Zedong, Zhu De gave me even more shock. I don’t know why, I was not familiar with Zhu De before, although his reputation is very big. Zhu De is older and has a richer experience. He went to Yunnan to speak the martial arts in his early years, and later joined the League, followed Cai Yi to overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty. In 1921, he was the director of the Yunnan Police Department... even he was infected with cigarettes. The defeat of the revolution in 1911 and the warlords who later fell into the country and the wounded of the people and the people made him disappointed. He realized that the Chinese revolution must go further and must be as thorough as the Russian revolution. From Shanghai to Beijing and then to Shanghai, the Chinese Communist Party, which was just looking for it, has been unable to get in touch and finally decided to go to Germany to study military science. I took a boat to Europe, passed Singapore and Marseille, went to Paris, and finally found the Chinese Communist Party in Berlin! He lived in Berlin for a year, studied German, then went to a university in Göttingen and completed a two-semester social science. He attended the World Student Congress, traveled around Europe, went to the Soviet Union, stayed in Europe for four years, and returned to China in 1926. These are all different from my original impression of Zhu De. In addition, there are scholarships that are awarded every year, Zhou Enlai, who has been to France, Germany, and Germany. The Huangpu Military Academy graduated with invincible Lin Biao; at the age of nine, he was 17 years old and led the hungry people to attack the granary. Peng Dehuai; He Long, a Soviet district; studied in Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union, knows Japanese, can speak in English, and has a high level of Russian; Luo Haidong, Liu Zhidan, Xu Te Li, Lin Boqu, Zuo Quanxu, many outstanding leaders ......