I must reprint this article 'If that girl did not resist'
Do you still remember the primary school student who cried loudly while reading "Liu Hulan" in this viral video?
The classmates are still young and ignorant, so it is normal for them to burst into laughter.
What is chilling is the comments made by some netizens, which are sarcastic and sarcastic:
These seemingly "smart" commenters should read the following article!
If that girl didn't resist back then
Text | Attack of the Papa Bears
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January 1947, Yunzhouxi Village, Wenshui, Shanxi.
In the howling cold wind, a 14-year-old girl was pushed in front of a guillotine by a vicious military policeman. Several headless corpses dripping with blood were already lying there.
She knew all the people lying on the ground, and just now, she had witnessed with her own eyes the process of their heads being separated - in just a short moment, the living people turned into bloody, twitching corpses.
The gendarmes at the execution site looked at the little girl with a strange look. They probably wanted to capture the exciting fear. It was best to be so scared that they collapsed, cried bitterly, and then knelt down to beg for mercy. Before they
In the subconscious mind, men will succumb in front of the guillotine, let alone a little girl of this age?
However, to their disappointment, this scene did not appear.
The girl walked towards the guillotine calmly, her wide-open eyes showing the clarity and brightness that only her age could have. She first glanced at the villagers gathered around, then looked angrily at the executioners who were about to kill her, and then
She closed her eyes and welcomed death calmly. But before the guillotine fell, she suddenly let out a hoarse roar...
This roar was remembered and spread by people around, and was eventually written into our primary school textbooks.
You and I should both know the girl's name. Her name is Liu Hulan.
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More than 20 years ago, when I first read her story, this question came to my mind: How could a 14-year-old girl survive such a bloody murder scene without any trace of her?
Have no fear and die generously?
It wasn't until one day a few years ago, when I went back to my hometown in the countryside to visit my grandfather, that I seemed to understand something.
My hometown is in a fertile land in southwest Shandong, where the air is fresh, the population is large, and the land is fertile. When I came back here from the big city, everything felt wonderful. However, when I accompanied my grandfather through a building next to the village,
When we were at the top of the hill, my grandfather suddenly told me that this place was called Langshi Gangzi before liberation.
There used to be wild animals like wolves here? I was very interested. However, next, I heard a horrifying story from my grandfather’s mouth.
The so-called wolf food hillock is a place where wolves eat, and their food is human babies. In that era, the maternal and infant mortality rate was extremely high. The mothers who died often had thin-skinned coffins to bury them in the ground, but dead babies were often buried in the ground.
They were wrapped in a handful of thatch and thrown here, and became food for wild wolves. There were so many abandoned babies that they fed many wild wolves. At that time, almost every village had such a wolf feeding post.
Grandpa also told me that people's lives at that time were so miserable that people today can't imagine. If you give birth to a boy, he will be the strongest man in the family and you have to work hard to support him no matter what; but if you give birth to a daughter, you may be drowned and thrown away.
Here. Grandpa said that when he was a child, he could occasionally see fat wild wolves wandering around here, chewing something in their mouths.
I looked at the hills, which were green and lush. I couldn't imagine that so many young lives had been buried here.
For some reason, I suddenly thought of Liu Hulan. If she were still alive, she would be about the same age as my grandfather.
But back then, faced with this fate, would she accept it?
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Regarding that era, what I saw from Zhang Ailing’s writings were the women of the Republic of China who were full of petty bourgeoisie and sentiment. Later, after reading more books, I realized that women who could sit elegantly and drink coffee in Shanghai cafes at night were not at that time.
The proportion of women in this country is 1/1000, and the remaining 999/1000 women may have more to do with the "wolf food hill" in their lives.
It was a desperate and suffocating era. People of the older generation once told me that in that era, when a girl was lucky enough to be born and survive, her fate was almost sealed.
Poverty since childhood forces girls to start doing housework and farm work at the age of four or five, because high land rents and taxes are crushing every family. When they are seven or eight years old, they are sent out to be child brides and then married off.
People then watch their children being thrown into the wolf-grazing post or working hard all their lives on a barren land for heavy land rent.
Don't try to resist fate, because the squires have been strictly maintaining everything. I once saw a stone roller left before liberation at a place on the edge of the Yellow River. After learning about it, I learned that this stone roller has another use.
——Sink the woman into the river.
Those women who were considered to have violated family traditions. I imagined them being tied to a stone mill and pushed into the Yellow River, surrounded by elegant squires drinking tea and a crowd of spectators.
I suddenly thought of the "honor killings" that were regarded as bizarre in the news on the Internet.
Who can imagine that this kind of "murder" was so common and natural in our land.
This is still a normal year, but what happens when disasters and wars come?
During the great famine in Henan in 1942, victims sold their wives just for a few liters of millet. A twelve or three-year-old girl was sold to a brothel or given as a maid or concubine to a wealthy family for the same price.
In 1949, the People's Liberation Army counted 2,451 soldiers who surrendered from a division of the National Army. Among them, 850 had their mothers, sisters, and sisters-in-law raped, occupied, or forced to remarry.
In 1948, in the suburbs of Taiyuan, Liu Hulan's hometown in Shanxi, no less than 6,000 peasants starved to death or were killed. Five of the 26 households in Jinci Nanda Temple sold their wives, nine households sold their children, and 28 people starved to death.
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I can feel that despair almost penetrates into the bones of every girl of that era.
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What can counter fear and despair?
Today, after talking to people of that generation, I know that it is resistance to despair. Because of resistance, I am fearless, so I hope to change the world.
It is hard for people to imagine now that in that bloody era, a group of Chinese women stood up so bravely. Their names are Qiu Jin, Chen Tiejun, Yang Kaihui, Zhao Yiman, Jiang Zhujun and Liu Hulan...
They are progressive intellectuals, underground workers, guerrillas, women's rescue presidents or other professions...
But they only have one common ideal, which is for New China.
Do you think there is only one Liu Hulan? No, if you look closely at that period of history, you will find that there were thousands of Liu Hulans: they returned from a stable foreign country, they betrayed their class and family, and they were willing to risk beheading to fight.
, they are not afraid of any sacrifice.
The power to resist despair is so strong that sacrifices like Liu Hulan's are everywhere, but it has been a long time ago and is not known to us. In fact, we can feel it from a letter included in Wang Shuzeng's "Liberation War":
"...Dear comrades, when we see you, we are sad and happy. We are happy that we have been saved, but sad that we have suffered unprecedented disasters in the past few months. The Kuomintang puppet troops have occupied Weixian.
After that, they burned, killed, robbed, arrested men, and robbed grain. They did everything. More than 2,000 livestock were taken away from Weibei County, all the grain was robbed, and it was difficult to count the captured men. What was even more cruel was that the masses were massacred.
Over the past two years, more than a thousand people in Weibei have been brutally murdered. To this day, the bodies of the dead compatriots around the Hanting stronghold are still exposed in the wilderness without anyone to take care of them.
In Lijiaying Village, Zhifang District, more than 70 people were buried alive. The cruel methods are even more horrifying. Guillotine and burying alive have become common methods of Chiang Kai-shek bandits. Some cut off their ears and tongues first, and then buried them alive; some women
Their hair was pulled out and guillotined to death; some women were stripped of their clothes, tied to trees and tortured to death with red-hot gun sticks inserted into their bodies; some were stripped of their clothes, tied to trees, and doused with boiling water.
, scald the whole body with blisters, and then sweep it with a bamboo broom, which is called "sweeping the eight-year-old hair"; some use scissors to cut the skin and flesh, which is called "cutting the hedgehog"; some have their whole bodies cut open with knives and thrown into the flaming pot.
, called "a poor boy turning around". The gangsters of the paper landlord Zhuang Jiang planted twelve guillotines at the street corner, arrested people by house and guillotined them to death.
Twelve people were guillotined at one time in Dongzhuang, Xingjia. A four-year-old child, the president of the Women’s Rescue Association, was also guillotined into three pieces. Fourteen of the fifteen family members of the poor peasant Han Zai and the Lin brothers were guillotined to death, leaving an old mother begging for help.
Unable to leave a single descendant, she saw all her grandchildren being guillotined to death, and was so sad that she also hanged herself.
... A women's rescue committee president in Gaoli District once said to everyone when he died: "Tell the Communist Party that the People's Liberation Army will definitely avenge us!" Dear comrades: You are the main force of the East China Field Army, you are the soldiers of Jiaodong, you
With repeated victories, I have hope and support because of you.
You are our savior, we cannot let you go, we want you to avenge us. We ask you to resolutely and completely eliminate the Chiang Kai-shek army and the "Returning Regiment", we ask you to destroy the enemy like you did in Menglianggu, and leave a legacy of heroes in Weixian County.
Victory and great achievements, this is our noble belief in you, and it is also the order of the people to their own army!"
Our education today is missing a lot. The problem is that we did not tell those who question heroes what kind of world the martyrs were in at that time. When they know the cruelty of the world, will they still question and laugh at their courage to face the butcher's knife?
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What if Liu Hulan and the others didn’t resist back then?
One day at the end of May 2017, in a country with a vibrant parallel world, several audiences were coming out of the cinema. They had just watched "Dangal", an Indian film about women, and were completely moved by the plot of the film.
On the way back, they will discuss how this country has produced such good movies, the backwardness and barbarism that still exists in that country, the rape, sexual assault or other jokes leaked on the Internet, and how they can’t watch it if they are bound by feudalism.
To the hopeful female life... At the end, they will sigh, why did no one in this nation resist?
They wonder: If they had resisted back then, perhaps now the country's girl enrollment rate would have reached 98%, the average life expectancy of women would have been 10 years higher than the world average, and the maternal mortality rate would have dropped to the level of developed countries.
Maybe women in this country can be pilots in the flying team, parade in front of heads of state in the world, and pick up their own citizens hand in hand on the coast of Yemen.
Maybe women in this country can design rockets, satellites, and submarines, can stand on the Nobel podium, fly into space, win gold medals in the Olympics, and contribute to the future of the world as representatives of the world's second largest country.
Development suggestions...
Then they laughed at the strange ideas that came into their minds. In that country, well, there are still parents teaching their children not to believe in national heroes, not to believe in nobility and sacrifice, and not to believe in glorious history, so how is it possible?
They don’t know that because they resisted, today they have changed their world!