Zhang sider

Zhang sider

Zhang sider (April 19, 1915 - September 5, 1944), born in Yilong, Sichuan Province, is a communist soldier and a model of serving the people wholeheartedly.

Zhang sider was born in a poor peasant family in Yilong County, Sichuan Province. He joined the Red Army in December 1933 and soon joined the Communist Youth League. In October 1937, he joined the Communist Party of China. He once served as the monitor of the Central Police Corps and the guard of Mao Zedong. In a battle against the siege of the sixth route, he suffered two injuries in his right leg. He still endured the pain, rushed into the enemy's line and captured two machine guns. On the way of the Long March, he twice passed through the snow mountains and meadows, which were rarely visited by people. On September 5, 1944, when he led his soldiers on a charcoal burning mission in Ansai County, Northern Shaanxi Province, the cave he was about to dig suddenly collapsed. He pushed his comrades out of the cave, but he was buried in the cave. He died at the age of 29.

In memory of Zhang sider, the central authorities and the central security corps held a memorial meeting for Zhang sider on the playground of Zaoyuan gully in Yan'an. Mao Zedong attended the memorial service, personally inscribed the Elegy "pay homage to Comrade Zhang sider who died for the people's interests", and delivered a speech "serve the people", highly praising Zhang sider's ideological realm and revolutionary spirit of completely and thoroughly serving the people.

Zhang sider's image has become the pronoun and milestone of serving the people.

On September 10, 2009, Zhang sider was rated as one of the "100 heroes and models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of new China".

Life of the characters

Zhang sider's family lived a very hard life. His father, Zhang xingpin, came of age to carry long-term and short-term jobs for the landlords. Later, he also went abroad. When Zhang sider was born, his family was so poor that they didn't even have a grain of rice. His mother was seriously ill, and little Sid was so hungry that he screamed desperately. He broke his mother's nipple and couldn't suck out a drop of milk. No way, my mother dragged seriously ill body, go to the owner, string West, want to come to half a handful of millet, mash boiled into paste to feed him, so gave him a nickname guwazi. Gu Wazi's mother died less than seven months after she was born. After his mother died, Zhang sider's Aunt Liu Guangyou adopted him. At the age of 6, Zhang sider worked in the fields, mowing grass, digging wild vegetables, picking mushrooms, picking pinecones, and doing everything.

In August 1933, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army liberated Yilong county. Zhang sider was the first to sign up for the young pioneers and became the first leader of the young pioneers in the village. He actively helped the Red Army raise food and money, and was praised by the rural Soviet. In October of the same year, he joined the Red Army, worked as a correspondent in the second battalion of the county independent regiment, and made a meritorious service in the battle of wazizhai. In the winter of the same year, Zhang sider entered Lenin primary school to study culture and military. After graduation, he was transferred to the Political Department of the provincial military command as a traffic officer, and soon joined the Communist Youth League. Later, he became the monitor of the spy company. In the Red Army, he was resourceful and brave in fighting. He once created a record of one man winning two machine guns in one battle and was injured many times.

In 1935, he took part in the long march with the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army. After arriving in Northern Shaanxi in 1936, he went to Yunyang honorary military school to study and recuperate. In 1937, when the Anti Japanese war broke out, Zhang sider's troops left the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled before going to the front line and formed a guard company. Zhang sider was also incorporated into the guard company due to his injuries and served as the Deputy monitor, responsible for the guards of the Eighth Route Army left behind and honorary military school in Yunyang town. In October 1937, Zhang sider joined the Communist Party. Since then, he has been more strict with himself, obeying the interests of the party and the people, and doing whatever the party calls for.

In the spring of 1938, he was transferred to the guard camp of a unit of the Eighth Route Army in Yunyang as the monitor. In the spring of 1940, he was transferred to the guard battalion of the Central Military Commission as the communication monitor. In his work, he always undertakes difficult and hard work. Under his leadership, all the soldiers in the class accomplished various tasks excellently.

In November 1942, the troops were consolidated and reorganized, and the cadres were simplified and sent down. Some company and platoon cadres wanted to be squad leaders, while most of the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders wanted to be soldiers. Zhang sider transferred company 1 of the central guard regiment as a soldier, and he happily obeyed the organization's assignment. Soon after, he was transferred to the jujube garden in Yan'an, where Mao Zedong and other leaders of the CPC Central Committee worked as security guards. He devoted all his efforts to the security work. In order to ensure a good working and living environment for Mao Zedong and other central leaders, he often took the initiative to clean the residence, pave the stone road, repair the cave, and conscientiously do every job. In addition, he often helped his comrades in arms wash their clothes, weave straw sandals, feed their horses, carry water and fire, collect medicine and prevent diseases, stand guard and guard, and took the lead in helping the people in the camp to produce and work well in every revolutionary work.

At the beginning of 1944, responding to the call of the mass production movement of the CPC Central Committee, Zhang sider took the initiative to sign up for the production team organized by the central authorities, and went to Ansai County production farm, which is more than 70 miles away from Yan'an, and was selected as the vice leader of the farm. In July of the same year, he went to Ansai county to burn charcoal in the mountains. He plays an exemplary role everywhere. He is not afraid of hardship and tiredness. He appears where the bitterest and the most tiring are. He always gets into the kiln first when he comes out of the coal. On September 5, when it was raining, Zhang sider and his commando comrades went into the mountain as usual to dig a new kiln. At noon, the kiln collapsed in the rain. At the critical moment, Zhang sider pushes soldier Xiaobai out of the kiln mouth, but he is buried in the collapsed soil. His comrades in arms are saved, but Zhang sider gives his 29 year old life.

Get honor

On September 8, 1944, more than 1000 people from the organs directly under the central government and the central security corps held a memorial service for Zhang sider on the playground at the mouth of Zaoyuan gully in Yan'an. Mao Zedong personally attended the memorial service, laid a wreath, personally inscribed the Elegy "pay homage to Comrade Zhang sider who died for the people's interests", and delivered a memorial speech, highly praising Zhang sider's revolutionary spirit and realm of serving the people wholeheartedly.

In September 2018, the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission uniformly printed 10 portraits of Zhang sider, Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Lei Feng, Suning, Li Xiangqun, Yang Yegong, Lin Junde and Zhang Chao, and distributed them to units above the company level.

Character evaluation

His former comrade in arms Chen Yao commented that Zhang sider's life was very hard and plain. He never cared about personal gains and losses, never asked for anything, and never worried about anything. He always considered the sufferings of the people and cared for the growth of his comrades in arms. He is considerate of others, sincere, warm and considerate to his comrades.

Li Jinhua, an old man who was rated as an advanced individual of the national education system caring for the next generation of work, commented that Zhang sider was a model of caring for his comrades in arms in the revolutionary team. He always cares more about others than himself. His life is short and ordinary, but his spirit always shines.

According to the Beijing Youth Daily, Zhang sider usually gives people the feeling that he is honest and hardworking. In fact, he is very talented, willing to use his brains in his work and brave in fighting. He is known as "little tiger".

Xinhua News Agency reported that: the success of the revolution requires someone to fight bravely under the brutal rule of the enemy, and someone to rush to death in a hail of bullets. At the same time, also need someone in the ordinary post silent dedication. Zhang sider is such a selfless devotee.

social influence

The five big words of "serving the people" are Mao Zedong's full affirmation and high generalization of Zhang sider's ideology, morality, ideal pursuit and struggle footprint. Zhang sider's spirit is the spirit of daring to sacrifice for the people's interests, the spirit of working hard for the people's interests, and the spirit of working hard for the people's interests.

Comrade Zhang sider is an ordinary soldier. After his ordinary life, he has become a model of the times and achieved great spirit. The era has created the spirit of Zhang sider, which enriches the spirit of the times. Zhang sider's spirit is both eternal and developmental, and has different value efficacy and leading role in different times. It has absorbed the essence of the Chinese traditional culture, inherited the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, complied with the trend of the times, and constantly added fresh contents of the times with the times.

After more than 60 years of Zhang sider's sacrifice, "seminar on promoting Zhang sider's spirit of serving the people and practicing the party's mass line" was held in Sichuan Academy of social sciences on September 15, 2013. More than 80 experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Defense University, Peking University, Guangming Daily and other units attended the seminar, and received more than 140 academic papers from experts and scholars from 18 provinces and autonomous regions in China.

Zhang sider, an ordinary soldier. He turned himself into a seed and buried himself in a charcoal kiln, sublimating a great spirit of serving the people! An ordinary name has been closely linked with a political party and an army ever since,

It has raised the spiritual height of the whole Chinese nation

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Anecdotes and allusions

Brave taste of weeds

On the Long March, in order to overcome hunger, get out of the grassland and complete the task of going north to resist Japan, the organization issued the call of "tasting all kinds of grass". In the vast grassland, weeds everywhere, poisonous grass. It's not easy to taste a kind of edible wild grass. It often costs a lot. The light ones are poisoned, and the heavy ones may die. At that time, Zhang sider always took the lead in the activities of "tasting a hundred herbs". When he saw a kind of grass, he always tasted it first, found a kind of grass he could eat, and then immediately told his brother.

Once, the troops came to camp beside a swamp with abundant water and grass. A little soldier came to the pond and suddenly called out: "eat mushrooms! Eat mushrooms! Zhang sider came to have a look. Sure enough, there were clumps of weeds near the pond, with green leaves, similar to radish leaves. The little soldier came over excitedly and pulled up a tree

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