However, this is for children who grew up in peacetime. Do you know that many children went to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period in China? They stood guard to transmit information, collect medicinal materials to increase income, organize and transform industrial production, support the war of resistance against Japan, transport public grain, and so on. Can you imagine this situation? Now, please follow the pace of school easy search and return to the anti-Japanese era together to see how these sad children survived in that era.
During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, there was a group of children's legions in ditch village of Niangziguan Town. They are still children, but they are already members of the vanguard of children. The following is the memoir of a young pioneer captain under 17 at that time.
According to records, the leader of the Young Pioneers recalled: I was the first child leader and the leader of the Young Pioneers in Diaogou Village, Niangziguan Town. 1February, 943, began to serve as Minister of Children's Department and member of the Youth League Committee. My community is located in the north of Niangziguan, the eastern half of Pingding County in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region, with 10 administrative villages and 60 natural villages. 1July, 945, when I was under 17 years old, I joined the China * * * Production Party and was transferred to Xijiazhuang Village Primary School. 1March, 949, went south with the army and worked in Hunan and Guangxi. This one
Stand guard to prevent the safety of enemy agents.
At that time, the Japanese and puppet troops entrenched in Niangziguan, Shakoukou and Yangquan concave strongholds often "swept through" the base areas and implemented the "three lights" policy of burning, killing and looting, which led to many tragedies. The people in our anti-Japanese base areas set up three serial sentries day and night to closely monitor the enemy's movements. Put up a "news tree" on the pillar at the top of the mountain. The enemy attacked during the day, knocked down the "news tree" and lit the grass on the "news tree" at night to inform the masses to move. The militia set a mine fuse and ambushed the enemy on the mountain.
At the same time, there are sentries at the intersections of villages. During the day, there are women's self-defense forces and children's vanguard, and at night there are senior self-defense forces. At that time, young pioneers were holding red tassels to check the roads of passers-by, and pairs of roads were released. If there is no road, or there is something suspicious between the lines, they will send people to the militia headquarters for review. Young pioneers are also responsible for delivering letters and information. There are two people on duty every day. Generally, letters are sent once a day, and feather letters and materials are delivered quickly.
Collect medicinal materials, increase income, find wild vegetables and spend the famine years.
From 194 1 to 1943, the Japanese invaders built bunkers and strongholds in the north of Niangziguan, repaired the blockade wall, "encroached" and "swept away" the anti-Japanese democratic base areas behind the enemy lines and blocked the economy. In those years, there were natural disasters such as drought, insect disaster, hail and strong wind. People lack food and vegetables, even salt, lamp oil and matches, and life is very difficult. At that time, many people lived in barren hills and caves to avoid the Japanese army because they didn't have enough food and clothes. Many people suffer from scabies, malaria, typhoid dysentery and edema. My 5-year-old sister Duan Runmei and my 3-year-old brother Duan Xin died of hunger and cold after eating bran swallow vegetables.
In this harsh environment, under the leadership of the Party, the soldiers and civilians in the base areas behind enemy lines are fully armed and combined with each other, and at the same time, they are carrying out anti-blockade, anti-occupation, anti-mopping-up, production self-help and disaster relief. Children's groups were organized in villages in the eastern district to collect Chinese herbal medicines such as Bupleurum, Pinellia ternata, Platycodon grandiflorum, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Plantago asiatica, Scutellaria baicalensis and Schizonepeta tenuifolia on the hillside to increase income. At the same time, climb wild Sophora japonica, apricot and mulberry to pick leaves, pick walnuts and chestnuts on the ground, dig chicory, thistle and hawthorn eggs, cut peach leaves, garlic seedlings, celery and Shapeilai, and collect edible leaves and wild vegetables such as hemp milk, seedlings and melons. In the children's group of Diaogou Village, experts in climbing trees and digging wild vegetables emerged in the process of finding wild vegetables. The villagers praised us as the main force in finding wild vegetables and played an important role in disaster relief.
Organize industrial production reform, support anti-Japanese, and distribute public grain.
At that time, under the call of Mao Zedong's "self-help, adequate food and clothing", the government of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region formulated the economic construction policy of "crushing the enemy, overcoming famine, ensuring military supplies, enriching the people and strengthening agriculture". Under the leadership of Party committees and anti-Japanese governments at all levels, the masses organized themselves to develop production and realized "three surpluses". The old members of our village in the eastern region have also formed shift working groups to intensively cultivate and increase food production. For example, the children's group in Diaogou Village is divided into two groups: men and women. Eight people in each group, in the farmland of Baitupo and Longhanwa, carry donkey dung on their backs, cut Artemisia annua and shovel turf as fertilizer, which can not only fertilize the fields, but also improve the soil and increase the grain yield.