Do you still remember the elementary school students who cried when they read "Liu Hulan" in this popular video?

The classmates are still young and ignorant, so it's normal to laugh in the hall. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

What is chilling is that some netizens commented, with sarcasm and sarcasm:

These seemingly "smart" commenters should read the following article!

If that girl didn't resist back then

Text: Attack on Papa Bear

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January 1947, Yunzhou West Village, Wenshui, Shanxi.

In the cold wind, a 14-year-old girl is pushed in front of a guillotine by a vicious gendarme. There were already several headless, bloodied corpses.

She knew all the men lying on the ground, and even just now, she had seen their heads separated—and in a matter of moments, the living people had become bloody and twitching corpses.

The gendarmes at the scene looked at the little girl with strange eyes, presumably trying to capture the exciting feeling of fear, preferably to collapse in fright, weep bitterly, and then fall to their knees and beg for mercy. In their subconscious, men will give in in front of the guillotine, let alone a little girl of this age?

However, to their disappointment, this scene did not happen.

The girl calmly walked towards the guillotine, her eyes wide open to show clarity and brightness that only her age could have. She first glanced at the people gathered around, then angrily at the executioners who were about to kill her, and then closed her eyes and calmly welcomed death. But before the guillotine fell, she suddenly let out a hoarse roar......

This roar was remembered, spread, and eventually written into our primary school textbooks.

You and I should 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, the question that came to my mind: What was it about a 14-year-old girl who was so fearless and generous to die at such a bloody murder scene?

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 rich land in southwest Luxi, where the air is fresh, the population is large, and the land is fertile. When I came back from the big city, everything felt good. However, when I accompanied my grandfather through a small hill next to the village, he suddenly told me that this place was called Wolf Food Gangzi before liberation.

There used to be wild animals like wolves here? I'm interested. But then I heard the creepy story from my grandfather's mouth.

The so-called wolf food gangzi is the place where wolves eat, and their food is human babies. At that time, the maternal and infant mortality rate was extremely high, and the dead mothers often had a thin-skinned coffin buried in the ground, but the dead babies were often wrapped in a handful of thatch and thrown here, becoming the food of the wolves. There were so many abandoned babies that they fed many wild wolves, and at that time almost every village had such wolf food gangs next to them.

My grandfather also told me that at that time, people lived in a miserable way that people can't imagine now. If you give birth to a boy, you are a strong 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 drown and be thrown 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 that hill, the green and green, I couldn't imagine that so many young lives had been buried here.

For some reason, I suddenly thought of Liu Hulan, if she was still alive, she would be the same age as my grandfather.

But back then, in the face of this fate, did she accept it?

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About that era, what I saw from Zhang Ailing's pen in the past was a petty bourgeois and emotionally charged Republic of China woman. Later, after reading more books, I realized that the number of women who could sit elegantly in a Shanghai café and drink coffee at night was less than 1 in 1,000 women in this country at that time, and the remaining 999 out of 1,000 women may have more to do with "wolf food posts" in their lives.

It was a time of despair and suffocation. People of the older generation once told me that in those days, when a girl was lucky enough to be born and survived, her fate was almost sealed.

Girls are forced to do housework and farm work at the age of four or five, because high rents and taxes are crushing every family, and when they are seven or eight years old, they are sent out as child brides, then married, and then watched their children be thrown into the wolf or toiled for a lifetime in a barren land for heavy rent.

Don't try to rebel against fate, for there are already squires who are keeping everything up to the table. I once saw a kind of stone mill left behind before liberation in a place on the edge of the Yellow River, and after learning about it, I knew that this stone mill had another purpose -- to sink women into the river.

Women who are considered to have rebelled against family traditions. I imagined them tied to a stone mill pushing the Yellow River, watched by the squires drinking tea elegantly and the crowd watching the excitement.

It occurred to me that the "honor killings" that were regarded as bizarre in the news on the Internet (honor murder refers to the murder of family members by murderers to achieve the purpose of saving family honor, the victims are almost all women, and the main reasons for the murder are "loss of virginity" and "indiscretion"). Who would have imagined that this kind of "murder" was once so common and natural in our land.

It's still a normal year, but what about when disasters and wars strike?

During the great famine in Henan in 1942, victims sold their wives for a few liters of millet, and a 12- or 3-year-old girl was sold to a brothel or given to a wealthy family as a concubine for this price.

In 1949, the People's Liberation Army counted 2,451 soldiers in a division of the Nationalist Army, and 850 mothers, sisters, and sisters-in-law were 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, 5 of the 26 families in the Nanda Temple of the Jin Temple sold their wives, 9 families sold their children, and 28 people starved to death.

I could feel that despair permeated the marrow of almost every girl of that era.

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What is it that can fight fear and despair?

Today, after talking to that generation, I know that it is a rebellion against despair. Because of resistance, so fearless, so there is no expectation to change the way of the world.

Now it is hard for people to imagine that in that bloody era, there were such a group of Chinese women who stood up so bravely. Their names are Qiu Jin, Chen Tiejun, Yang Kaihui, Zhao Yiman, Jiang Zhuyun and Liu Hulan......

They were progressive intellectuals, underground workers, guerrillas, women's salvation presidents, or whatever......

But they only have one common ideal, that is, for the sake of New China.

Do you think there's only one Liu Hulan? No, if you look closely at that period of history, you will find that there have been thousands of Liu Hulans: they have returned from a safe foreign country, they have betrayed their class families, they are willing to risk their heads to fight, they are not afraid of any sacrifice.

The power to resist despair is so strong that sacrifices like Liu Hulan's abound, but the time is too long for us to know. In fact, from a letter included in Wang Shuzeng's "Liberation War", we can feel:

“…… Dear comrades, when we see you, we are sad and happy, happy that we can be saved, and sad that we have suffered a great calamity unprecedented in the past few months. Since the Kuomintang puppet army occupied Weixian, it burned, killed, robbed, arrested, and robbed grain, doing everything, and more than 2,000 livestock were pulled away from Weibei County, and the grain was robbed, and it was difficult to count the strong men who were caught. What was even more brutal was the brutal killing of the masses.

Over the past two years, more than 1,000 people have been brutally killed by the people of Weibei, and to this day, the dead compatriots around the Hanting stronghold are still exposed to the wilderness, and no one has to pick them up.

In Lijiaying Village, Zhifang District, more than 70 people were buried alive. The brutal methods were even more terrifying, and guillotine knives and burying them alive had become the common methods of the Chiang bandits. Some cut off their ears and tongues first, and then buried them alive; Some women were stripped of their hair and died; Some women were stripped naked, tied to trees**, and thrust into red-hot guns** and killed alive; Some were stripped naked and tied to a tree and watered with boiling water, blistered all over the body, and then swept with a bamboo broom, called "sweeping the eight road hair"; Some use scissors to cut the flesh and skin, called "cutting hedgehogs"; Some of them were cut open by a knife and thrown into a fiery pot, which is called "poor boy turning over". The paper landlord Zhuang Jiang bandit planted 12 guillotines at the corner of the street, arrested people and killed them according to the household.

Xingjia Dongzhuang was divided into 12 people at one time, and a four-year-old child was also divided into three sections. Fourteen of the three families of the poor peasant Han Zailin brothers were killed by the family, and the remaining old mother begged her to leave a descendant but could not, she saw that all her grandsons were killed, and she was so grieved that she also hanged herself.

…… A women's rescue president in Gaoli District once said to everyone when she died: "Tell the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army that you will definitely avenge us!" "Dear comrades: You are the main force of the East China Field Army, you are the children of Jiaodong, you have won many victories, with you there is hope and dependence.

You are our saviors, we can't let you go, we want you to avenge us. We ask you to resolutely and completely eliminate the Jiang bandit army and the "homecoming regiment", to destroy the enemy as in Menglianggu, to leave a heroic victory in Weixian, and to make great contributions, this is our noble belief in you, and it is also the people's order to their own army! ”

Today we have a lot of missing education, and the problem is that we don't tell those who question the heroes what kind of world the martyrs were in at that time. When they knew the cruelty of that human world, would they still question and mock their courage to face the butcher's knife?

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What if Liu Hulan didn't resist back then?

One day at the end of May 2017, in a country with a parallel world of vitality, several viewers were coming out of the cinema to watch the Indian film "Let's Wrestle! Dad", and was moved by the plot of the movie.

On the way back, they will discuss how this country has made such a good movie, and they will also discuss the backwardness and barbarism that still exist in that country, discuss the rape, sexual assault or other jokes that flow on the Internet, and discuss the life of women who are bound by feudalism and have no hope...... In the end, they will sigh, why did no one resist this nation back then?

If they had resisted, they wondered, the country might now have 98 per cent of girls enrolled in school, the average life expectancy of women would exceed the world average of 10 years, and the maternal mortality rate would fall to the level of developed countries.

Maybe the women of this country can be pilots in flying teams, they can be in military parades in front of heads of state around the world, and they can pick up their citizens hand in hand off the coast of Yemen.

Maybe the women of this country can design rockets, satellites, submarines, walk on the Nobel podium, fly into space, win gold medals in the Olympic Games, and make suggestions for the future development of the world as representatives of the world's second largest country......

Then they laughed at the strange thoughts that popped into their heads. In that country, heh, there are still parents who are educating their children not to believe in national heroes, not to believe in nobility and sacrifice, not to believe in glorious history, so, how is it possible?

They don't know that because they resisted, today - a different world!