The poem "Loyal bones are buried everywhere in the mountains, why return them wrapped in horse leather" comes from the story of Ma Yuan, the famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Ma Yuan

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Biography of Ma Yuan" records that when he was over sixty years old, he still requested Emperor Guangwu to go to Jiaozhi, facing the emperor's worry that he would not be able to enjoy his old age in peace. At that time, Dayi said solemnly: "A man should die in the field, and his body should be buried with his ears wrapped in horse leather. How can he lie in bed and do evil in the hands of his son?" It is said that a man died on the battlefield and died in a worthy place. He was not satisfied with dying under the roof of his house.

However, if we want to talk about the original poem, it should be derived from the seven-character quatrain "Out of the Fortress" written by Xu Xilin in the late Qing Dynasty: "The military song should be sung with a big sword ring, swearing to destroy the Hunu and leaving Yuguan. Only the battlefield is for the country. If you die, why should you return your body wrapped in horse leather?"

It is not the commonly referred to Gong Zizhen's "Miscellaneous Poems of Ji Hai".

Xu Xilin

After all, such a generous sentence is neither suitable nor rhymes with "Falling flowers are not heartless things, they turn into spring mud to protect them."

As for the person who finally wrote the sentence, it was Chairman Mao. As a passionate young man, when he rushed out of Shaoshan, he made a heroic oath because of his great ambition to make sacrifices.

Young Mao Zedong

Later, when Mao Anying died and asked whether his son's body should be transported back to China for burial, Chairman Mao held back his grief and answered with this poem: "Green hills are buried everywhere." "Why should a loyal person be returned wrapped in horse leather?" This fully demonstrates the broad mind of a proletarian revolutionary and has been known to the people of the country since then.