The genre is a seven-line poem.
The Long March is a poem in seven lines, taken from the Collected Poems of Mao Zedong, the original text:
The Long March
Modern: Mao Zedong
The Red Army is not afraid of a long march; it waits only for ten thousand miles of water and thousands of mountains.
The Five Ridges are curving into thin waves, and the Wumeng Pound is walking on mud.
The Jinsha water is warming the cloud cliffs, and the Dadu Bridge is cold.
What's more, Minshan Mountain has snowed for thousands of miles, and the three armies have all opened their faces.
Translation:
The Red Army was not afraid of all the hardships on the Long March, and regarded the thousands of mountains and waters as extremely normal. The endless Five Ridges, in the eyes of the Red Army, are nothing more than microwave waves undulating, and the imposing Wumeng Mountains, in the eyes of the Red Army, are nothing more than a mudball.
The Jinsha River is turbid, lapping at the towering cliffs, steaming. Dadu River dangerous bridge across the frame, shaking the sky hanging high on the root of the iron rope, chilly burst. More delightful is to set foot on the thousands of miles of snow Minshan, the Red Army over the past after each smiling.
Expanded Information:
Background of Creation:
October, 1934, China's Workers and Peasants Red Army in order to crush the Nationalist Government's encirclement and to save their own strength. In October 1934, in order to crush the siege of the Nationalist government, save their strength, and also to go north to fight against the Japanese and save the nation from peril, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army set off from Ruijin in Jiangxi Province and began the world-famous Long March.
On the way, the Red Army soldiers defeated the enemy's countless siege, they trekked through the mountains, over the rolling five mountain ranges, breaking through the Wujiang River, crossing the Chishui River, and crossing the Wumeng Mountains.
Skilfully crossing the Jinsha River, flying over the Luding Bridge, climbing snow-covered mountains, crossing the grasslands, and finally crossing the Minshan Mountains, passing through eleven provinces, and arriving at Shaanbei in October 1936, with a total journey of more than twenty-five thousand miles, is a great event in the history of mankind.
Backstory:
In the process of creating, disseminating, revising, interpreting, and giving away books of this poem, some anecdotes and anecdotes were left behind.On September 18, 1935, Mao Zedong led the Central Red Army (Shaanxi-Gansu detachment) to leave Lazikou, and advance to Hadapu.
The way to go over the year-round snow, stretches for 30 miles, with steep mountain passes Minshan. That day, Mao Zedong on crutches and climbed with everyone. He encouraged everyone to climb hard, do not stop, stop will be frostbite, perseverance is victory!
At 3:00 p.m., the Red Army triumphantly climbed to the top of the mountain. Mao Zedong looked up at the western sky, heart pounding. This is the last snow-capped mountain the Central Red Army crossed on the Long March. On the morning of Sept. 20, the third day after crossing Minshan, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai led their troops to the Gannan town of Hadapu.
The crowd warmly welcomed the Red Army, pulling them into their homes. Mao Zedong said: "The Long March, a thousand miles, a thousand twists and turns, smooth less than difficult many times, the mood is somber. After the Minshan Mountain, open up, transformed to the opposite, dark flowers and a village."
Mao Zedong successively wrote "seven rhymes - Long March", "sixteen-character order three", "Niannujiao - Kunlun", "Qingpingle - Liupan Mountain". At that time, the reconnaissance company seized a batch of newspapers from the post office in Hadapu, including a copy of the Ta Kung Pao published in Tianjin.
Mao Zedong learned from the Da Gung Pao that "there are few counties in the 2 counties of northern Shaanxi that are not in the red," and that "700,000 people are in the red in all of northern Shaanxi, with more than 200,000 organized as Red Guards and 20,000 in the Red Army." "Bandit army commander Liu Zhidan jurisdiction of three divisions", "guns have more than 10,000".
This newspaper also has news of the rendezvous of the two Red armies of Xu Haidong and Liu Zhidan. To Shaanbei! The big question of the Red Army's goal and landing point since the Long March has been adjusted and changed seven times, but now it is finally determined!
Mao Zedong wrote the above poem as he felt "darkness and lightness" and "clearness". Mao Zedong's "Seven Lines - The Long March" was written between September 20 and 29, 1935, so why did the later publication of "Mao Zedong's Poetry" list the poem as written in October 1935?
This is because, by convention, poems are short in length and the time of writing is determined by the time of revision and finalization, while novels, essays and other long articles are often marked at the end of the text with the words "first draft", "second draft", "final draft" and "final draft". "The first is the first draft, the second is the second draft, the second is the second draft, the third is the final draft.