[Explanation] In the past few days, Yang Chaolin, a villager in Zhangshantou Village, Yangzhuang Township, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, has been very busy. Near Qingming, he and several villagers used the farming slack to replace the "tombstones" for the Red Army tombs.
[Explanation] Zhangshantou, Yangzhuang Township, Wuyishan City, has a dense bamboo forest covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, scattered with 1343 tombs of the unknown Red Army.
Three blue bricks, one number, and one red ribbon, mark a Red Army tomb.
In this small village deep in the mountains, there is a heroic epic hidden.
A few days ago, the reporter came to Zhangshantou Village for field interviews.
[Concurrent] Yang Chaolin, a local villager
It turned out that we had to change it once during the Chinese New Year very soon last year. Now this Qingming Festival has arrived again, and we have to change it again, we need to number, and the red cloth belt must be neatly arranged. That means there is a Red Army tomb there, because that is not. Knowing if their name was, I had to use that instead.
[Explanation] The red ribbons and bamboo "tombstones" of these unnamed Red Army tombs, which are always in Qingshan, have been damaged to varying degrees under long-term weathering.
On the eve of the Qingming Festival, Yang Chaolin and the villagers made new "tombstones" and tied bright red ribbons on the spot.
[Concurrent] Wu Fuhua, a local villager
At the beginning, it was spontaneous in our village, and the village took the initiative to do this.
I found this tombstone by myself, tied each tomb with red ribbons, and the annual Qingming Festival sweeping of 1343 tombs has been silently in this forest and bamboo forest. They (Red Army martyrs) have paid so much effort for us, then we are here. Point should also be done.
[Explanation] Zhang Shantou is located on a high mountain at an altitude of 850 meters.
When the Red Army entered Fujian to fight, a hospital was set up here.
When the fighting was the fiercest that year, the number of wounded and sick people sent to Zhangshantou Red Army Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine reached more than 1,000 people. The villagers voluntarily organized stretcher teams and laundry teams, and every household was an inpatient department.
The tombs of the unknown Red Army scattered among the dense bamboo forests on the back of Zhangshantou are the testimony of that period of history.
[Concurrent] Zhao Jianping, former director of Wuyishan Cultural Relics and Cultural Heritage Management Office
There are tomb stone, a standing stone on both sides, and an altar underneath. This altar has been covered by drift soil. Then there is a mound of soil on the top, and a burial underneath. This tomb has the basic elements of our tomb and reflects the burial's respect for the martyrs who died.
[Explanation] Zhao Jianping is the former director of the Wuyishan Cultural Relics and Cultural Heritage Management Office. He has been involved in the investigation of the Red Army tombs in Zhangshantou and the compilation of historical materials.
In 2016, Wuyishan City conducted a census of more than 1,000 acres of mountain forests in Zhangshantou. After verification by relevant departments, as of now, 1343 Red Army tombs have been found and marked.
[Concurrent] Zhao Jianping, former director of Wuyishan Cultural Relics and Cultural Heritage Management Office
As the task of treating the wounded and sick becomes heavier and heavier, the scale of the hospital becomes larger and larger.
The fighting conditions are very bad, so if we leave names on the tombs, then we say here that the White Army can know their family members through the names of the tombs, so the tombs are not named.
[Explanation] Since 2016, Wuyishan City has fully promoted the rescue protection of the Red Army tombs in Zhangshantou. The Red Army tombs in Zhangshantou have been included in the ninth batch of provincial cultural relics protection units in Fujian Province and the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protections. unit.
[Concurrent] Yang Chaolin, a local villager
I have to go up every day to check it out. If the weather is going to rain, we have to go there in about three days. If there is any damage, we will report to them (the management department).
[Explanation] Yang Meigu is a villager in Zhangshantou Village. She has been going up the mountain every year to make sacrifices for five years.
[Concurrent] Yang Meigu, a local villager
Everyone is here to get it, so I'll do it too. I'll do it a little bit. It's voluntary. No one calls it. We come here to get it voluntarily.
Once in winter, once in Qingming, and twice, we buy a little paper incense to burn and worship.
When I think of it, we are tempted, so we go to get this.
[Explanation] In Zhangshantou Village, there are many villagers like Yang Meigu.
On the eve of the Lunar New Year and before the Qingming Festival, they all spontaneously went up the mountain to clear the weeds around the cemetery and silently guarded the Red Army tombs.
[Concurrent] Zeng Yueying, a local villager
I have been sweeping for four or five years, that is to say, the grass is weeded, the tomb is sometimes broken and repaired, and the red flag is inserted there, and wherever there is a tomb, we will insert it there.
[Explanation] The reporter learned that Zhang Shantou, located in the steep mountains, was once the residence of the Northern Fujian Red Army Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Northern Fujian Sub-district Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Northern Fujian Red Army Independent Corps.
In this mountain forest of about 1,000 acres, the wounded and sick of the Red Army Hospital and the Red Army soldiers who defended the hospital are buried.
In recent years, more and more people have come here organized or spontaneously to pay homage and sacrifice, cherish the memory of revolutionary martyrs, and understand the history of the red.
Reporter Wu Shengwei reports from Wuyishan, Fujian
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]