Author丨Li Guangming, Reader丨Ma Haonan
Hometown Gantun
When I got out of the Yangjiang Expressway intersection, I could see my hometown, the Gantun villager group in Maidi Village, Yangjiang Town, and there was a bright red five-pointed star on the wall of every house in the village. It used to be the Jinmai Revolutionary Base of the Western Yunnan Working Committee, one of the old revolutionary areas in Yunnan Province, and a village with shining red stars.
The Gantun villager group is located at the end of a beam from east to west on the western slope of Cangshan Mountain, and the whole beam looks like a dragon rushing straight to the Yangjiang River from a distance. Why is it called "Gantun", according to the record on the epitaph of the ancestors of the Li clan, the Li clan is moved from Nanjing Yingtianfu to settle here to settle as a tun, because there is no water source, the ancestors of the clan overcame many difficulties, dug out a ditch more than 4,000 meters long, and introduced the clear mountain spring water into the tunli, the people drank it and felt particularly refreshing and sweet, so they set the name of the tun as "gantun", and named the small river that benefited one party "Gantun river".
When it comes to Gantun, it is impossible to forget the Gantun School. At that time, Gantun School also opened a high school at the end of the 70s of the 20th century, and every day, children from all over the world learned to improve and set sail here, and the sound of water, bells, and reading was heard in the ears. From elementary school to junior high school, I went to school in the village, because I was greedy for fun, my academic performance in junior high school was not very good, and my dream of winning honor for the class could only be completed in the sports field, so the sports field of the school became the main battlefield for me to fly my dreams. This sports field is not only a place where I can get applause, but also a place where movies are shown in my hometown, and in those days, it was really not easy to watch a few movies. Every evening when the movie is shown, men, women and children from nearby villages rush to Gantun early to watch "Shining Red Star", "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Crossing the River Reconnaissance", "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and other old films that they never get tired of watching...... Many heroes on the screen sowed "seeds" here and took deep roots in Gantun.
Gantun has always been a well-known "army support village", and there are many families with two brothers who joined the army together, and my second and third brothers also joined the army and became the pride of the family. There are many people in Gantun and little land, there is a big courtyard where seven or eight families live together, there is a respected old man in the big courtyard, we all call him "Big Yard Boss", is a well-known folk Chinese herbal medicine doctor, never charge for treating people, especially amiable. The "big yard guys" often told us stories about the guerrillas fighting in the village, such as intercepting the security regiment on the top of the big slope of the back mountain, attacking the security squadron on the red seed tree ridge of Dapingtan, chasing and suppressing the fleeing enemy on the back slope of the west of the village, and so on. The "big yard guy" would shed tears when he spoke, and he often told us: "Don't forget these guerrillas!" "In fact, many village elders, including my grandfather, have told us many of these real historical stories that happened in Gantun, and each story is like an indelible monument, inspiring generations in this red land.
Today, walking into Gantun, the old school has been transformed into a red cultural square and a new exhibition hall, and a red lecture hall has also been built on the edge of the red seed tree in Dapingtan, and the original "Shangmill" is planned as a national square, and "carrying forward the revolutionary spirit, inheriting the red gene, and empowering rural revitalization" has become the historical mission of Gantun. With the advancement of rural revitalization, small buildings have risen from the ground, cement roads have been repaired to every household, and people have come to pay tribute to their heroic predecessors. As a native of Gantun, I am proud of this, and I sincerely hope that the sky in Gantun will be bluer, the trees will be greener, the flowers will be more fragrant, the water will be sweeter, and the people in the old red area will live a happier life!
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