There is a text called "People Digging Wells while Drinking Water" in the first volume of Chinese textbooks for primary schools, which is about the red well of Ruijin Shazhouba. There is a song called Red Well Water, which is sung all over the country. Hongjing is the witness of the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party, the Red Army and the people in the Soviet area, and Hongjing is the water of happiness.
Shazhouba is a dry and water-deficient village. At that time, the villagers were superstitious and thought that digging wells would destroy the local geomantic omen. So no villagers dare to dig without authorization. People usually have to take water from the river several kilometers away, and they can only pick up the dirty pond water in front of the village during the busy farming season.
Everyone outside the village said, "Shazhouba, Shazhouba, it won't rain for three days, and you won't wash your handkerchiefs. Rats will die of thirst, frogs will die, and women will not marry sandbars. "
1933 in April, after the temporary central government moved from Yeping to Shazhouba, President Mao Zedong lived in this village. After he found that the villagers had difficulty drinking water, he called the whole village to hold a villagers' meeting to solve the drinking water problem.
At the meeting, many people said, "You can't dig wells here, and you will be rewarded for digging wells. Even if you dig, you may not be able to dig water. This place is a dry dragon. " Mao Zedong listened, haha everyone said, "Superstition is not credible. I'll dig this well. "
As the saying goes, you can't forget to dig people when you draft. Forgetting history means betrayal. This is to warn people not to cut off history, let alone abandon tradition, so as to maintain the continuity of historical development. In order to remember the predecessors, future generations passed on their own inheritance from generation to generation.
Perhaps the reason why human civilization can keep moving forward is based on this endless generation-to-generation transmission. The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the cool; The foundation laid by predecessors will benefit future generations. Future generations will not forget, the teacher of past lives.
The article "People Digging Wells after Towing Water" is a narrative, which has been included in the Chinese textbook of China People's Primary School. The work tells the story of Chairman Mao leading people to dig deep wells in Shazhouba when he led the Jiangxi revolution, expressing gratitude and admiration for his ancestors.
According to reports, this article has been selected into the Chinese textbook of People's Education Edition for many times, but the source is not clear. In order to find the earliest source of the article, the editors found several versions with similar themes after several searches, but all of them have low similarity with this article.
In the end, the editors found a photocopy of People's Daily in the National Library, entitled Our Great Motherland, with a high degree of copy overlap, and finally found the original source of The Excavator who was obsessed with the manuscript. In this regard, Chen Xianyun, one of the editors, responded that "inaccuracy is easy to cause controversy."