China News Service, Beijing, April 9th ​​(Reporter Liang Xiaohui) People often use the "first step in the Long March" as a metaphor for "the long journey."

Obviously, more than 80 years after the 25,000-mile Long March of the Red Army, the term "Long March" has been transformed from a revolutionary discourse into the life vocabulary of the Chinese people.

　　How was the well-known "Twenty-Five Thousand Miles" Long March calculated?

　　According to the "Party History Bocai" magazine, some Red Army cadres insisted on keeping diaries during the Long March.

Among them, Xiao Feng's diary is the most complete and detailed, covering almost a day. The content includes daily weather, marching routes, combat operations, casualties, ammunition consumption, and capture of prisoners, as well as the distance traveled and places visited on the day.

　　According to these diaries, the Red Army made a preliminary summary of the Long March after it successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi, and the distance was calculated one by one.

　　For the first time in the history of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong clearly stated the number of "25,000 miles" in the Long March.

In October 1935, he said in a speech at Wu Qizhen: "We have traveled through 11 provinces including Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Kang, Gan, and Shaan. According to the Red Army Corps The (army) regiment department has traveled as many as 25,000 miles."

　　On November 13 of that year, the official document of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appeared in the expression of the Red Army’s long march of "more than 25,000 li", and immediately used the argument of "25,000 li" in the Declaration of Anti-Japanese and National Salvation.

　　From then on, the concept of the Red Army’s "25,000-mile Long March" was formally established in the history of the Chinese revolution.

　　Since then, with Mao Zedong’s popular poem "Seven Lü Long March" and some revolutionary songs in the future, the journey of the "Twenty-Five Thousand Miles" Long March has been more widely confirmed and has been passed down to this day.

　　In the new era, many people have verified this mileage in the form of "revisiting the Long March."

However, some people believe that in the calculation of the Long March mileage, there are several factors that should not be ignored.

　　One is that during the Long March, the Red Army fought in sports warfare, with frequent roundabouts and repeated walks.

　　The second is that the Red Army has to raise funds and do mass work during marching operations, all of which need to be walked.

　　Third, during the Long March, especially at the beginning of the Long March, the Red Army often went wrong due to lack of maps.

　　These factors all increased the Red Army’s long march to varying degrees.

"Therefore, it is fundamentally unscientific for people who re-take the Long March to use their own mileage to calculate and verify the'twenty-five thousand miles'."

　　But it is also these factors that cannot be ignored that make people even more amazed at the miracle of the 25,000-mile Long March: its long duration, scale, distance, dangerous environment, and fierce fighting are not only in Chinese history. Unique and extremely rare in the history of world wars and even the history of human civilization.

　　Therefore, the journey of "25,000 miles" has become the spiritual symbol of the Long March "difficulties and hardships.

　　This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Looking back at the 25,000-mile Long March at this time, I have new insights—the progress and development of China today came out of the Long March.

　　As General Secretary Xi Jinping said, to reach the ideal side, we must continue to advance along the path we have determined.

"Each generation has its own Long March, and each generation must walk its own Long March."

　　Today, what is the long march of our generation?

It is to achieve the "two centenary" goals and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

How to achieve?

Only struggle.

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