红军都是钢铁汉 野菜充饥志更坚

“Red Army Soldiers Are Made of Iron”

在红军万里征途中,茫茫几百里水草地是他们走过的最艰苦、最壮烈的路程之一。草地环境之恶劣令人难以想象,不仅人迹罕见,亦无鸟兽出入。过草地前,虽然尽了最大努力,但筹到的粮食还是严重不足。草地刚过一半,甚至不到一半,就已经断粮。为了能够走出草地,红军官兵们想尽各种办法,寻找可以充饥的东西,如皮带、皮包、皮毛坎肩、马鞍子、皮鼓、野菜、草根、树皮等。在中国国家博物馆的藏品中,不乏见证红军长征过草地艰苦生活的文物。其中最为典型的是红四方面军战士周广才和战友吃剩的牛皮带、任弼时和警卫员李少清吃剩的牛皮带,还有红四方面军团干事刘毅在葛曲河畔采集的野菜……这些都是红军长征艰苦历程的见证,也是对长征精神最好的诠释。

During the Long March, the almost lifeless grassland was the most difficult terrain to travel. Despite greatest efforts to find food before the journey, food was still in seriously short supply. It ran out even before half the journey had been made. The Red Army officers and soldiers found various materials to feed themselves, including belts, bags or drums made of skin, fur vests, saddles, wild herbs, roots and barks. Some of the objects that testify to the hard life on the grassland can be found in the collections of the National Museum of China, such as a cowhide belt half-eaten by Zhou Guangcai and his comrades in the Fourth Red Army, a cowhide belt left by Ren Bishi and his bodyguard Li Shaoqing, wild herbs collected by a Fourth Red Army officer named Liu Yi by the Gequ river, etc. They are evidence of the extremity of the Long March and are perfect examples of the Long March spirit.