The front is tight, the rear is tight

The soldiers fighting in the front are fighting desperately, while the officials in the rear are eating, drinking and having fun.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang government in Chongqing, which served as the rear area, once circulated these four sentences - 'If the front is tight, wounded troops will lose ground; if the rear is tight, people will live in drunken dreams and die'. Tightness at the front means that the war is tight and the people's lives are tight; tightness at the rear means that the officialdom is still a feast of entertainment, people are still enjoying themselves, and they are still eating well and drinking spicy food, and they are still eating hard. It doesn’t matter whether the situation ahead is tight or not, whether the people have enough to eat or not, whether it is Mao eating Yinliang or Yin eating Maoliang, anyway, it is a blessing to eat. The natural cycle of things, and the tight squeeze from the rear, resulted in the "cannot afford to go around." This is how the Kuomintang's regime in the mainland collapsed.

I don’t know who said it, but the earliest record is from the newspaper that Zhang Zhongliang held when he first arrived in Chongqing. Chongqing during the war was the rear area.