Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-05-24

Old Photographs · Red Lens | Tilling the Earth Is Itself a Hero's Work

老照片·红镜头丨躬耕本是英雄事

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躬耕本是英雄事 ■郑蜀炎从他们抡镐挥锄的招式中，你看到的是寒耕热耘、胼手胝足的农家子弟。但他们身上的军装和绑腿却表明，他们是训练有素的军人。没错。他们是生长在这片土地上的普通百姓，但又是为了家园乡土不受侵犯而勇敢拿起枪杆的八路军战士。从“黄沙百战穿金甲”的沙场鏖战，到“汗滴禾下土”的垦荒耕作，这张老照片背后，蕴藏着一段直击人心的历史篇章。那是1941年至1943年间，日寇对华北抗日根据地实施残酷的“三光”政策，加上自然灾害频发，赤地千里，根据地军民遭遇最困难的时刻。时有民谣“一春树叶半年粮”，道尽了生活的艰难。 1942年，一份情况报告送到晋察冀军区司令员聂荣臻的案头，说的是一些村庄由于部队采摘树叶，当地群众已“无叶可摘”。聂荣臻同志看罢，久久无语。紧接着，一道独特的训令下达各部队：不得在村庄方圆15里以内采摘树叶，把树叶让给老百姓。这就是著名的“树叶训令”。宁肯自己饿肚子，绝不与民争食。这种心系百姓、心忧民生的军民深情让人动容。同时，我们看到，就连树叶都成了维系生命的稀罕之物，可见当时根据地面临何等严峻的困境。为了战胜困难、坚持抗战，党中央和毛泽东同志号召各根据地军民自力更生，开展大生产运动。朱德总司令专门向部队下达了“敌人来了就打仗，敌人不来就生产”的命令。一手拿枪，一手挥锄。根据党中央的指示，各根据地陆续展开了轰轰烈烈的大生产运动。为了不与民争地，八路军部队一方面开垦荒地，一方面在武装掩护下，到敌人的封锁沟、据点四周耕种，其中艰险可想而知。马克思说：“人是在既定的物质条件下创造历史。”根据地军民在极端艰苦的环境中，创造了“自己动手、丰衣足食”的辉煌成果。仅1944年，太行区部队和群众就开荒33万亩，增产细粮超过1200余万公斤…… 正如邓小平同志的精辟总结：“谁有了粮食，谁就有了一切。”大生产运动硕果累累，不仅改善了根据地军民的生活条件，积累了大量粮、油、棉、盐等重要物资，而且锻造出高昂的精神斗志，为抗日战争的战略大反攻打下坚实的基础。历史如镜，岁月似碑。回溯“树叶训令”，我们看到的绝不仅仅是一道简单的命令，而是我军官兵在生死关头的价值选择，是人民军队“人民至上”的初心展现。一树一叶何其小也，但当它与“我是谁、为了谁、依靠谁”这些命题联系在一起时，就构成一种精神标识，彰显着人民军队独特的精神特质和价值追求。一树一叶何其大也，片片树叶不仅承载军民共克时艰的历史，同时还见证着人民军队战胜一切艰难困苦，“压倒一切敌人，而不被敌人所屈服”的大无畏气概。凝视这张老照片，想起了陆游的诗句：“躬耕本是英雄事。”是的，战士在烽火硝烟中冲锋陷阵是英雄，面对生存困境时挥汗如雨、自力更生，以双手劳作支撑抗战伟业，同样是顶天立地的英雄。图片由《解放军画报》资料室提供请扫描二维码，阅览更多老照片故事

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PLA Pictorial's archive section published a political education piece by Zheng Shuyan using a wartime photograph to retell the 1942–1944 Great Production Movement in the Jin-Cha-Ji base area, centering on Nie Rongzhen's 'Tree Leaf Order' and Zhu De's production directive as models of army-people relations under existential hardship. This is standard red history content aimed at junior personnel; its value is as a record of how PLA political work currently frames the 'people-first' (人民至上) principle and the 'who we are, for whom we exist, on whom we rely' formulation as foundational identity questions, not as evidence of any new policy line or operational development. The piece fits the ongoing institutional pattern of using Second Sino-Japanese War precedents to reinforce loyalty norms and self-reliance ideology, a frame that has intensified across PLA media since 2021.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "老照片·红镜头丨躬耕本是英雄事." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-05-24. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16463035.html.

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