The Mongolian folk narrative poem "Gada Meilin" is an influential and excellent work. The story recorded in the long poem took place in the old society. At that time, our country was in a turbulent era of invasion by foreign powers and separatist rule by warlords. The Prince of Darkhan Banner colluded with the reactionary warlords and brutally exploited and plundered the people of all ethnic groups on the grasslands. The vast number of poor herdsmen were displaced and fled to death, and suffered huge disasters. Gada, who was in charge of the flag soldiers of Prince Merlin, was dissatisfied with the prince's collusion with the warlords and preyed on the common people, so he spoke out and remonstrated with him. As a result, he was dismissed from his post, expelled from the palace, and later sentenced to death. After Gadamelin was rescued from prison, he resolutely led the slaves to raise the flag to revolt and started a fierce battle with the prince's warlord's army. Gada fought many victorious battles and persisted for some time, but this spontaneous herdsman uprising, like all previous peasant uprisings in Chinese history, still ended in failure. The story enthusiastically praises Gada Merlin, a heroic figure, for his revolutionary spirit of resisting feudal oppression and daring to fight. It is a tragic and heroic hymn.
Additional introduction about Gada Meilin
Gada Meilin, named Nadamud, also known as Meng Qingshan, is a Mongolian. Born in 1892, he is a native of the Horqin Zuizhong Banner of the Jelim League in Inner Mongolia.
In 1908, he served as a soldier in the Dalhan Flag Guard and was promoted to Zhang Jing of the Flag Guard five years later. In 1916, he was appointed as Zalan (co-leader) of the flag guard, and in 1925 he was promoted to Meilin (commander) of the flag military affairs. Later, he was dismissed because he refused to allow King Fujin of Darkhan to hand over the land rented by the Banner Guard to the royal palace.
In 1929, Prince Namujile Seleng of Banner Zasak colluded with the Northeast warlord Zhang Zuolin to sell the banner land and forcibly reclaimed it. He brought a protest signed by ten thousand people to Fengtian (today's Shenyang) to petition, and was imprisoned. He was arrested as a "criminal" and taken back to the Banner Palace to be imprisoned. In the winter of that year, his wife Mudan led people to rob the prison and rescue him. Then he resolutely led the people to revolt and put forward the slogan "Down with the Survey Bureau and don't plunder people's property." They attacked the Bureau of Reclamation and the Reclamation Army, expelled the survey team, and destroyed the land boundaries. cards, burning the books and contracts of landlords, bullies, loan sharks and profiteers. By the autumn of 1930, the number of rebels had reached more than 1,000, and they moved to fight in the Zhaowuda League and Zhelim League, insisting on armed resistance to reclamation. In April 1931, the rebel army was surrounded by the Rehe warlord Tang Yulin's tribe in Tongliao County. Because he was outnumbered, he died heroically in Chuanding Gaole (today's Uli Jimuren River).
Only 39 years old