In the eyes of literati, bamboo is a symbol of elegance and tranquility. "There are knots before the excavation, and I am always open-minded about Lingyun." "It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo." This kind of cultural and artistic bamboo constitutes my initial impression of bamboo. But when I arrived in Jinggangshan, I had another understanding of bamboo.
Jinggangshan is a world of bamboo, with 800 miles of wells and hills. Without bamboo, there is no forest. I have lamented the vastness of the bamboo sea countless times. What a great role this slender, tall and tough bamboo has played in Jinggangshan!
During the Red Army period, Kuomintang troops besieged Jinggangshan many times, and the living conditions were extremely difficult. The Red Army used Jinggang bamboo as a pole to carry rations and support the front. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De personally led a team to pick up the commissary, and the sweat on his shoulders turned a bamboo pole into a golden red. Men are afraid of the commander-in-chief's fatigue, so they hide the pole, so Zhu De writes his name on the pole and has the "exclusive right". No one dared to hide, and no one dared to "misappropriate", so he used this pole to set a benchmark for taking the lead. The shoulder pole is gone, but the story of Zhu De's shoulder pole is sung year after year under the yellow oak tree where he collected food and rested. The pole cut by Shizuoka Bamboo provoked a heavy revolutionary burden in China!
Jinggang Cuizhu has done medical equipment. The stretcher for rescuing the wounded on the line of fire is made of bamboo; The splint for correcting bone injury in the hospital bed is also made of bamboo. In Jinggangshan Red Army Hospital, I saw that the medicine tray was made of thin bamboo strips, and the tweezers for distributing pills were also made of elastic bamboo pieces. Bamboo has become an indispensable tool for saving lives.
Bamboo is made into weapons. Bamboo forests all over the mountains have built a hundred miles of green barriers, sheltering the Red Army guerrillas. Guerrillas use bamboo as torches, bamboo as handles for spears and darts, and bamboo as sheaths for steel broadsword. In the Battle of Huang Yangjie, bamboo with particularly hard bamboo joints and strong bamboo meat was also made into a special weapon-bamboo nails. At that time, the people cut the square bamboo into bamboo nails, cut a section from the bamboo seam, and left sharp nail corners up and down. The two nail angles are not in a straight line, but curved, like a capital English letter "n" Soak bamboo nails in the mixed liquid of cow urine and wild rattan juice, get poisoned, and insert them on the Shan Ye trail that the enemy must pass through, no matter whether the enemy wears straw sandals, cloth shoes or leather shoes, sharp bamboo nails.
Jinggang bamboo did not grow up in an illusory imagination, but was firmly rooted in the hilly red land and firmly established in the war situation. It is the condensation of strength, the embodiment of faith, the flame of unity and the kindling of China revolution, which enabled the China revolution to achieve a single spark and start a prairie fire.