Melodies of the Dust Land Chapter 15

At the beginning of the 1920s, a huge "storm" swept across China, which was the Agrarian Revolution led by the Communist Party of China. This "storm" swept across the northern Shaanxi Plateau without exception. It turned the society there completely and turned "everything upside down." The intense social turmoil and changes have written a new page for northern Shaanxi folk songs.

"Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas, Lao Xie is the commander-in-chief", this is a popular folk song in northern Shaanxi around 1934. However, the agrarian revolution in northern Shaanxi had already begun more than ten years ago. 

In 1921, not long after the founding of the Communist Party of China, Wei Yechou, Li Zizhou and other Communist Party members who had traveled to Beijing, Tianjin and other places returned to northern Shaanxi upon the Party's appointment and established party and league organizations to spread Marxism-Leninism and organize revolutionary struggles. 

When the Central Red Army led by Chairman Mao arrived in northern Shaanxi, the Northern Shaanxi Red Army already had an armed force of more than 5,000 people. Since then, the Party Central Committee has directed the Chinese revolution in northern Shaanxi, and has experienced the agrarian revolution, the anti-Japanese

① Lao Xie, also known as martyr Xie Zichang, was born in Anding County (now Zichang County) in northern Shaanxi. He was one of the main founders of the Soviet Area in northern Shaanxi. He once served as the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas. He was wounded in a battle in 1934. Because there was no cure, he died the next year at the age of thirty-eight.