Source: North Theater Army micro-channel public Author: Wang Pei, Zhang Runze, Wang Yang
Unknown Soldier to stay because a paper last words, he will set a life-long regret beginning of the heart as a hero roots biographer, alone set foot on the long The Long March; 30 years have passed. In order to find the way home and heroic deeds of the martyrs, he kept running, measuring 50,000 kilometers of mountains and rivers with his feet; from a blue silk full of hair, he engraved the vow of youth into the year In this round, he has successively written books and biographies for more than 200 heroes, with a total of more than 3 million words; now in his sixtieth year, he studied computers and opened Weibo to continue on the new journey of "endorsing" the martyrs. Zhang Qingqiu, the curator of a brigade history museum of the Army in the Northern War Zone, wrote an elegy for the heroes and heroes.
Zhang Qingqiu's work photo
In a brigade history museum of the Army in the northern theater, a densely marked "march map" with red pen is eye-catching. If you look closely, you can see that Nanchang, Sanwan, Gutian, Baise...the names of the places that were once passionate and fertile are connected into a long march. The trekker of the
map is Zhang Qingqiu, the curator of the history museum of the brigade. At the age of 62, he has actually retired and "gave his place", but he still comes to the History Museum every day to serve as commentators. The officers and soldiers also call Shunzui, so he still respects him as the curator. The respect of
, the officers and soldiers said, "It is a special respect for special people." Because for the past 30 years, Zhang Qingqiu carried this map to find the way home for the martyrs who slept in other places. Recover lost memories for the martyrs who do not know their lives. His footsteps have been arduous all his life, and he is persistent all the way forward.
"What urged him to refuse to stop his path?" Recently, a reporter came to the brigade and interviewed this highly respected veteran.
In November 1985, in the cat ear hole on the Laoshan Frontline, I studied the deeds of heroes and martyrs
A note with short numbers, a promise that will never change —
"I would like to use blood as a pen to record that you cannot forget. "
" no matter how far you go, you have a starting point. Zhang Qingqiu's starting point was a note.
dates back to the frontier defense battle in the 1980s. Zhang Qingqiu, then deputy chief of the propaganda section of the brigade's predecessor, after a bloody battle ended with his comrades in a heavy heart, sorting out the remains of the fallen martyrs. In a pack of blood-stained "Da Chong Nine" cigarette packs, he found a note with no signature on it, but it said in a correct manner: "Dear comrades in arms, thank you for helping me clean up the relics, please smoke!"
"What a good brother, I was determined to die when I stepped onto the battlefield!" Zhang Qingqiu folded the note and stored it next to his body, and made an oath, "I will take you home!" After
returned from the front line, Zhang Qingqiu held it. The list and notes of the martyrs in that battle have been running for nearly five years. After checking thousands of clues and asking nearly 10,000 people, they finally found out the name of the martyr—Li Qingxuan. When the notes with the torn corners were handed over to the martyrs' family members, Zhang Qingqiu couldn't calm down when watching the scene of their gratitude and sadness intertwined.
In November 1985, in the cat ear hole on the Laoshan Frontline, and his comrades studied the deeds of heroes and model martyrs
actually withdrew from the frontline, he found in the aftermath work that many martyrs only left a few notes in historical materials. They don’t even have a name, and can’t even contact their family. His heart was pierced, and he died a heroic life on the battlefield, but he couldn't leave a line of name.
"Create names for heroes, establish biographies for martyrs, and seek roots for blood!" Zhang Qingqiu started the Long March again and again.
"During a battle, Panga was in front of his comrades to cover his comrades, and he went back to the flanks to contain the enemy alone. Unfortunately, he was injured and sacrificed..." And this is the 206th martyrs in Zhang Qingqiu's biography.
At the beginning of this year, I heard that a border resident in Zengzhi knew about Panjiaqian's deeds. He was more than 60 years old, and he "goed away" and rushed to the local area. After several days of interviews and verifications, he made up for Panjiaqian. Heroic deeds.
Last year, in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he endured low back pain, participated in the "Revisited Seventh Army and Long March Road" activity, visited 29 old sites, and improved the lives of 17 martyrs. The reporter
opened Zhang Qingqiu’s notebook and saw that it was densely packed with notes:
According to Wu Xu, his comrade-in-arms who interviewed Jiang Yuping, he was inAfter his legs were broken, he still crawled for hundreds of meters in the direction of the charge, until the last drop of blood was drained;
According to Li Changfeng, a former resident, the martyr Wang Zhong not only fought bravely, but also took the initiative to call for battle. He braved bullets for repairs 35 times. Line;
...
"We should do our best to let future generations know their story, not just a cold name or an unknown martyr." During the interview, Zhang Qingqiu's eyes were always wet, but there are still many martyrs who perform special tasks. There are few witnesses, and it is difficult to find information about them before they are alive. At present, there is still a bloody "blank". This is also his biggest knot.
Zhang Qingqiu, as a military history expert, participated in the "Long March Road Revisiting" event. "Bitter"
is a lonely pilgrimage road without fame and fortune, and even throws away the "baggage" of fame and fortune, and it is better to start lightly.
In 1993, Zhang Qingqiu had served as section chief for many years. There were two choices before him: one was to be promoted to the political commissar of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, and the other was that the army was preparing to build a history museum and lacked a director.
Ordinarily, this is an effortless multiple-choice question. For Zhang Qingqiu, making a choice does not take much effort, but it takes a lot of setbacks to realize the choice.
Hearing that her husband is expected to be promoted, Zhang Qingqiu's family member Li Yunlan was relieved. Over the years, Zhang Qingqiu has been busy looking for clues and writing biographies for the martyrs. Due to various reasons, Zhang Qingqiu has given up opportunities for improvement, and his position has been "hovering".
can Zhang Qingqiu's heart, in fact, already has an "answer". But looking at his wife who was alone in the family for these years, his heart was often filled with deep debts during that time.
In November 2014, I was invited to Wenshan, Yunnan to participate in the "Laoshan Heroes Laoshan Tour and Laoshan Spiritual Seminar"
"Think about the sacrificed comrades in arms, why do I not know enough and what qualifications to say bitterness." Zhang Qingqiu finally convinced his wife. , Took up the thankless "leisure" of founding the History Museum. His reason is simple. I can't leave behind so many sacrificed comrades.
Zhang Qingqiu had many chances to "progress" or "turn around" on this long path to roots, but he pushed him down. Some relatives and friends said he was too stupid, but he said: "Compared with those martyrs, I am already very happy, and I should do more to make a name for them!"
he said so, and he did so. For so many years, he went into the history hall to collect information day and night, traveled time after time, to retrieve the deeds of the martyrs scattered everywhere, and then wrote them down one by one and organized them into a book.
In late autumn that year, the wind grew colder. When he learned that the remains of Chen Shuxiang, commander of the Red 34th Division, the predecessor unit of the brigade, were found, he set off overnight from the coast of the Bohai Sea to the land of Sanxiang, regardless of his illness.
was exhausted due to the difficulty of getting on the road. On the shuttle bus from Changsha to Daoxian, he had a sudden illness and almost fainted. Fortunately, the passengers in the same car sent him to the hospital in time to save his life. Li Yunlan heard the news and immediately bought a ticket to Daoxian County, but when the person was still on the train, he received the news that Zhang Qingqiu was discharged from the hospital early and set off.
Two years later, the bronze statue of Chen Shuxiang was unveiled in the Museum of History. Watching a stubble of officers and soldiers stop in front of the statue, cherishing the memory of the wounded and captured, he graciously strangled himself and killed himself. Zhang Qingqiu’s face was full of relief. .
Thousands of bird's nests are titled in mud, and the Spring and Autumn are written with great efforts. Zhang Qingqiu is like the root of an old tree, piercing deeply into the vast soil, "absorbing" manuscripts and cultural relics into the history museum, and gathered them into the red soul of this army.
"For him, the matter of martyrs is bigger than the sky." Qin Jianhua, an interpreter of the History Museum with 15 years of service, always speaks of Zhang Qingqiu with admiration. He told reporters that last year, a higher-level leader visited the History Museum and said with emotion after seeing Zhang Qingqiu: "You were here when I was a secretary, and you were here when I was a director and minister. I didn't expect that now, you are still retired. Here, it is really admirable!"
"Life is short, I will be satisfied if I do this thing well." Zhang Qingqiu said with a smile.
In the Military History Museum, explaining the glorious history of the troops to the soldiers
A heart that has never changed for a long time, and a blood is always hot-
"As long as our lives continue, we will be determined to walk on the new journey of spreading the red fire"
How can the officers and soldiers who continue from generation to generation pass on the heroic demeanor from generation to generation? It is the biggest worry that lingers in Zhang Qingqiu's mind. His "worry" is the feet that don't want to stop for a moment, and "thinking" is the hands that won't stop writing a word.
"A soldier is a mountain, and a strong division is a great wall..." This was 2003, when the brigade was facing streamlining and reorganization, and many officers and soldiers were in panic. Zhang Qingqiu wrote a song that sang the entire brigade, praising the unknown martyrs. We would rather give up our lives and only have the loyalty and passion of the country and iron shoulders in our hearts, which made many officers and soldiers deeply educated after singing.
"Every time I sing a song, I can't help but think of martyrs, Chen Shuxiang, Li Qingxuan, Pan Jiaqian...They dim their flowery lives and illuminate the road to the light of the motherland." I experienced that streamlining. Yang Zhao, the deputy political commissar of the brigade reorganizing, said emotionally that the officers and soldiers sang the song composed by Zhang Qingqiu with tears, leaving behind a steady and hard work and walking without complaint. A reporter from
walked into the history hall of the brigade and saw that in the past ten years, as the officers and soldiers of the brigade have stepped out of the country to carry out their tasks, this song carrying the unique style of the martyrs has been sung on the red land of peacekeeping in Juba, South Sudan. , Singing on the banks of the Mugla River in Pune, India, and singing on the green side of the competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, inspiring officers and soldiers to complete their tasks fearlessly.
is in the Military History Museum, explaining the glorious history of the army to the soldiers
has an eternal heart and fearless years. After 30 years of life, the figure that once walked in a hurry has now staggered a little. With 30 years of traces left, Zhang Qingqiu used his footsteps to travel more than half of China to connect nearly 200 martyrs who were drowned in gunfire and smoke, and wrote more than 3 million words of life elegy for them, including the deeds of more than 30 martyrs. It has been included in historical books such as "The British List of Heroes and Martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers", "Lighting the Ages", "Laoshan Soul" and other historical books.
“Without their bloodshed and sacrifice yesterday, we cannot have our happy life today. We must keep in mind their heroic deeds and let the martyrs' demeanor be deeply engraved in our hearts!” In July this year, Zhang Qingqiu participated in the Communist Party’s Army as a party representative. In a congress, his proposal was still related to martyrs. After the
meeting, he couldn't help his excitement and registered a Weibo named "199 Shizhiyi" to tell netizens battle stories and recall battle heroes. In just two months, the number of visits to this account Already close to 100,000 people. The curator
has transformed into a "net celebrity". Now Zhang Qingqiu has become busier. Because he is not familiar with typing, an article often has to be typed late at night, but he feels that he can let more people know the stories of the heroes. Very happy. In his view, people do not stand without thinking, and the army has no soul and will die. Seeking roots, establishing biography, and building "online" history museums are all for the purpose of erecting the soul of the army, in order to live up to the figures that charge forward.
Text/Wang Pei, Zhang Runze, Wang Yang
Editor/Kang Zizhan, editor/Zhang Forest
