[Red Memory] Zhang Side -The Glorious model of serving the people ‖ Zhu Zhenzhen

Zhang Side

A model for the people

Zhu Zhenzhen

On September 8, 1944, Mao Zedong attended a memorial service of an ordinary soldier. He not only wrote the rollover for him, but also delivered a well -known speech for "Serving the People's". The warrior named Zhang Side, a native of Yilong, Sichuan, sacrificed in ordinary posts. For decades, Zhang Side's model image of "serving the people" with his name shone the glory of the times and inspired generations of generations to grow.

"Serving the People's" in Mao Zedong, Yan'an Zaoyuan (Photo by Pengzhou Leisure, Picture Source: Sichuan Fangzhi Gallery)

Deep in Dashan · Enter the Communist Warrior

In April 1915, Zhang Side was born in a poor farmer family in Yilong, Sichuan. Just 7 months after he was born, his mother died of illness and was adopted by her aunt Liu Guangyou. He eaten "Hundred Family Means" and grew up in "Hundreds of Cloths". In order to let him forever the people's kindness, Liu Guangyou named him "Side".

In 1933, the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army founded the Sichuan -Shaanxi Revolutionary Base. In the same year, Zhang Side participated in the Red Army and soon joined the Communist Youth League. In 1935, he followed the Four Army Long March, crossing the snowy mountains four times and crossing the grass three times. He bravely and witty: he once crossed the river and won the enemy's ferry, creating conditions for the Red Army to force the Jialing River. In October 1936, Zhang Side arrived in northern Shaanxi with his troops and joined the Communist Party of China in 1937.

Zhang Side is seriously responsible for revolutionary work. He always puts the interests of the party and the people higher than all. In ordinary work, he practiced the purpose of a Communist Party member "serving the people". In the spring of 1938, Zhang Side was transferred to the guard camp of the left -behind office of the Yunyang Eighth Route Army as the squad leader. In the spring of 1940, the Central Military Commission's security camp was appointed as the communication squad leader. At work, he always takes the most difficult and hard work. Under his leadership, the whole class of soldiers completed various tasks.

The former residence of Zhang Side, Hanjiawan Village, Sid Township, Yilong County (Picture Source: Zhang Side Memorial Hall Network)

Heroic sacrifice · Mao Zedong's personal inscription

In November 1942, the troops merged and reorganized, and the cadres were reduced. Soon, he was transferred to Yan'an Zaoyuan, performing guard tasks in the place where the central leaders and comrades worked in Mao Zedong.

In early 1944, Zhang Side responded to the call of the Party Central Committee's production campaign and took the initiative to sign up for the production team organized by the central government. He was selected as the deputy captain of the farm. In July of the same year, he burned charcoal in the mountains of Acet County. On September 5th, the world was raining, and Zhang Side took the assault team's comrades in the mountains to dig into the mountain. At noon, the charcoal kiln collapsed during the rain. At the critical moment, Zhang Side decisively pushed the soldier Xiaobai for the kiln, but he was buried in the collapsed soil. Comrades were saved, but Zhang Side presented a life of only 29 years old.

In 1944, Zhang Side (left) burned charcoal in Ansai

On September 8, 1944, more than 1,000 people directly under the central government and the Central Police Regiment held a memorial service of Zhang Side in Yan'an. Chairman Mao Zedong personally participated and wrote the "to pay tribute to Comrade Zhang Side who sacrificed for the interests of the people". , Also delivered a famous speech for "Serving the People's".

In the speech, Chairman Mao Zedong fully affirmed Comrade Zhang Side: "Our Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party are the revolutionary teams. Our team is completely for liberating the people. . Comrade Zhang Side is a comrade in our team. "At the same time, he also quoted Sima Qian" a person inherently, or more important than Taishan, or lighter than Hongmao. " Chairman Mao Zedong pointed out: "Deadly for the benefit of the people is heavier than Taishan." "Comrade Zhang Side died for the benefit of the people. His death was heavier than Taishan." " Thinking of the interests of the people, and the pain of most people, we die for the people is to die. "

Zhang Side Square, Yan'an Zaoyuan. On September 8, 1944, Chairman Mao Zedong attended the memorial service of Comrade Zhang Side here and delivered the famous speech of "Serving the People" (Photo Photo of Pengzhou Leisure, Picture Source: Sichuan Fangzhi Gallery)

The party's purpose · serving the people wholeheartedly

The speech delivered by Chairman Mao Zedong at Zhang Side's memorial service highly praised him with a lofty ideological realm and revolutionary spirit that served the people completely and completely. This speech is not only a mourning mourning of revolutionary warriors, but also a glorious declaration of serving the people.

After the memorial service, Hu Qiaomu, the secretary of Chairman Mao Zedong, believed that the content of the speech was very important and had great educational significance for all party members. They sorted out the content of the speech in time and suggested that they were published in the Liberation Daily. After the manuscript was completed, Hu Qiaomu was reviewed by Chairman Mao Zedong.

Chairman Mao Zedong saw more than 15,000 words after the sorting manuscript. He believed that the newspaper was a bit long and should be refined in the essence of the speech and compressed into a short text. Therefore, he wrote to delete and modify it.

On September 21, 1944, the "Liberation Daily" published a significant position on the front page, published a memorial service report on the topic of "Police Mudget Messenger Zhang Side Zhang Side". Since then, the voice of "serving the people" has spread throughout Yan'an and spread throughout the battlefields of the liberated areas across the country. Soon, Zhang Side became a model of "serving the people".

On September 21, 1944, the "Liberation Daily" front page published a memorial service from Zhang Side

On April 24, 1945, Mao Zedong officially proposed "serving the people wholeheartedly" in the seven major reports of the party, and wrote it as the party's purpose into the Chinese Communist Party Constitution.The party constitution clearly stipulates: "Chinese Communists must have the spirit of serving the Chinese people wholeheartedly ... Every party member must understand the consistency of the party's interests and the interests of the people, and the consistency of the party's responsibility and the people."

Source: Sichuan Provincial Local House Work Office

Author: Zhu Zhenzhen

Supply: Nanchong City Local Chronicles Office

Picture: Fang Zhi Sichuan

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