Revolutionary Memory in Notes

In the Jinggangshan Reunion Memorial Hall, there is a special collection: a notebook used by both the enemy and the enemy. The notebook is bound with Dowling paper, 64 karat, 12.5 centimeters long, and weighs 10 grams. The inner pages are printed with blue horizontal lines, and the bottom page is stamped with 17 seals. Although the notebook has been stripped of threads and pulped into bulk after the erosion of time, the lecture notes recorded on it when the revolutionary martyr Cai Dehua participated in the training of the teaching team, cherish the precious memories of our party and army’s early training of military and political cadres and the establishment of the teaching team.

Cai Dehua was originally an ordinary farmer in Caiya Village, Bailu Township, Ninggang County, Jiangxi Province. He actively joined the revolutionary ranks after Mao Zedong led troops to Jinggangshan. In November 1927, in order to train military and local cadres, according to the instructions of the Front Committee, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army established the first officer training team in the "Mingdaotang" in the middle hall of Longjiang Academy in Ninggang County. It was during this period that Cai Dehua was dispatched by the Ninggang County Party Organization of the Communist Party of China to participate in training in the teaching team.

After graduation, he successively served as the captain of the Red Guards of the Third District of Ninggang County and the deputy captain of the Red Guards of Ninggang County. He was called "Coach Cai" by the team members and participated in Qixi The battle of Ling and the defense of Huangyang.

In February 1928, the trainees of the training team followed the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in the New City Battle, killing the enemy battalion commander Wang Guozhen and capturing the pseudo-county magistrate Kaiyang alive. While searching the county office and enemy camps, Cai Dehua, then captain of the county Red Guard, found a yellow hard-shell notebook in Kaiyang's office. Due to the economic difficulties at that time and the enemy's long-term strict blockade of the base area, the military and civilian living supplies were very tight. The students' learning environment was also very difficult. It was difficult to get a piece of paper or a pen. Therefore, Cai Dehua felt that it was a pity to throw away the notebook. After reporting to his superiors and getting approval, he kept it as a record book for his lectures.

Since the first 12 pages were the notes of the pseudo-county magistrate Kai Yang, Cai Dehua turned the notebook over and used it from back to front.

The notebook contains not only the content of his lectures, meetings, and reports, but also the Internationale, the Workers', Peasants, and Soldiers' Song that he copied. It also records Mao Zedong's lecture to the students on February 24, 1928. content of political courses. It is worth mentioning that the "Ninggang County Red Committee Coaching Outline" in the notebook was rated as a national first-class cultural relic.

In early 1929, Jinggangshan fell and the main force of the Fourth Red Army was transferred. Cai Dehua realized that the struggle situation in the base area was becoming increasingly severe, so he wrapped the documents and information he kept in oil paper, put them in bamboo tubes, and hid them in the eaves of his home. down, just in case something unexpected happens. Subsequently, he persisted in the struggle in Jinggangshan with his comrades with the determination to sacrifice his life. Unfortunately, he was arrested in 1930 and later died heroically in Ninggang New Town.

During the early revolutionary struggle period of our army, living conditions were very difficult and supplies were very scarce. This notebook, obtained by chance and used by both the enemy and the enemy, is extremely precious. It not only witnesses the original intention of the revolutionary predecessors in their hard work and the virtue of diligence and thrift, but also leaves us with the earliest organization of our army in the war years. Valuable historical materials on cadre training and establishment of teaching teams.