"Leaf newspaper" and "radish word

In the revolutionary war years, under extremely difficult and difficult conditions, the journalists of our party and our army used various "local methods" to persist in publishing and distributing newspapers and periodicals in accordance with local conditions, in order to consolidate our party's public opinion position and promote the development of our party's news and propaganda cause. Has made outstanding contributions.

In December 1930, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 100000 troops to launch an "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the central revolutionary base areas ". Under the command of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, the Red Army lured the enemy deep and captured 9000 people under Zhang Huizan, commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang. Later, in the Dongshao area, the Kuomintang's 50th division was annihilated by half, and the remaining enemies retreated one after another. So far, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army won the first war against "encirclement and suppression. However, how to let more Red Army soldiers and the masses in the base areas share this good news has become a difficult problem-at that time, the material conditions of the Red Army were very difficult, and there were not even a few ordinary sheets of paper, let alone printing "battlefield newsletters. Just as the comrades in charge of propaganda in the Red Army were thinking hard about ways, a propaganda officer named Guo Xiaicai in the Fourth Red Army suddenly got inspiration from the allusion of "Red Leaf Poems. He found a large pile of leaves with broad leaves of tung trees, wrote the news content of "the Red Army won the battle and captured Zhang Huizan alive" with a brush, and quickly distributed it to the propaganda departments of the Red Army. Various departments immediately imitated it, and soon made the "Tung Tree Leaf Newspaper" and distributed it. It was immediately loved by the local people and the Red Army officers and men, and was read by the rush. Seeing the news of the victory of the Red Army in the leaf newspaper, the army and people in the base area rejoiced, and comrades in the propaganda department praised Guo Xiaocai for his shrewdness and ability. From then on, the propaganda tools with leaves as paper spread widely in the Red Army. Regrettably, this precious newspaper did not survive, and its founder Guo Xiaocai also died heroically in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle.

In 1940, in order to consolidate the ties between North China and the two anti-Japanese base areas in Central China, and to strengthen the leadership of the anti-Japanese national salvation movement in the border areas of Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces, our party established the Jiluyu District Party Committee with the counties of today's Puyang City as the main body. Among them, Nanle, Qingfeng, Neihuang, Shanghe, Weihe, Dunqiu, and Gaoling counties are designated as the first prefectural. The Ji-Lu-Yu-Yi Prefectural Committee has a waxed paper mimeographed "Anti-Sweeping Newspaper". In order to be eye-catching, the title of the article in the Anti-Sweeping Newspaper is generally engraved in large characters. Due to difficult conditions, a high-quality wax paper version is not available. When printing to the position of the headline, the wax paper version often breaks, affecting the printing quality of the newspaper. In order to overcome this difficulty, Liu Chaoqi, who is responsible for writing, actively used his brains to find "substitutes" around him ". He first tried to use wood, sweet potato chips and other materials to stereotype, but wood stereotype is time-consuming and laborious, and sweet potato chips are not easy to ink due to poor stickiness. After many experiments with the articles around him, he found that the engraving of white radish slices not only saves labor and time, but also has better printing effect than other articles. So began "large-scale" engraving. At the beginning, Liu Chaoqi used white radish engraving for monochrome printing. Later, he also tried to carry out color printing, and achieved good results. This "research result" guaranteed the printing and publication of the "Anti-Sweeping News. In July 1941, Liu Chaoqi transferred Ji Lu Yu Daily to do back office work and later became a field reporter. In early December 1943, Liu Chaoqi died heroically during an interview at the front line at the age of 22.

Source: People's Political Consultative Conference