The red leaves in the western hills are good, and the frost is heavier.

-Chen Yi's "Red Leaves in Xishan"

Walking at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, there is a strong breath that touches you. Vision is full of strong colors, eyes are full of red world!

In late autumn, the red leaves of Dawushan are like clusters of burning torches, just like the torches lit by the Red 25 Army when it set off from here, illuminating the mountains and plains and illuminating the days and nights on both sides of the road.

Dawu is a red land. As early as the early days of the founding of the Party, Xu Haidong established the peasant self-defense forces based on Dawushan, which ignited the beacon of the peasant revolutionary armed struggle; Lenin, the first aircraft of the People's Air Force, was born here, which gave birth to the steel powerhouse of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army and fired the first shot of the Central Plains breakthrough and liberation war.

Dawu is also a place of heroes. This used to be the revolutionary Soviet area of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. During the revolutionary war, 340,000 heroic warriors marched on wave after wave, not afraid of sacrifice, 1.7 million people joined the Red Army, and 70,000 heroic sons and daughters gave their precious lives. Dawu's land was dyed red with the blood of martyrs. Among the 37 founding generals such as Xu Haidong, Nie and Liu Huaqing. At the same time, Dawu is also a famous "butter town" in China. Millions of Sapium sebiferum plants are scattered in the mountains, rivers and corners of Dawu. Looking up, tallow can be seen everywhere.

You see, in the hills, hills and rivers of Dawu, pieces of Chinese tallow trees turn from green to yellow, from yellow to red, or stand alone in the cold autumn, or three or two trees are born at the foot of the mountain, or dozens of trees become forests. From the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, from Pingchuan to the hills, pine and cypress are mixed, red, yellow and green. It is said that the more barren the land, the worse the environment, whether it is a Chinese tallow tree or a Chinese tallow tree, the more exotic and attractive its tree shape, the more dazzling its leaves are.

Is the Chinese tallow tree here like a Red Army soldier fighting in Dabie Mountain?

The red color of that tree shines in the late autumn sunset, quiet and peaceful, like the heroic spirit of a martyr, and the soul returns to its hometown. For more than 80 years, the red leaves are green and red, and the red leaves are falling and green ..... After vicissitudes and tempering, the dawn finally emerges.

Xuanhuadian, Baiguoshu Bay and Dawushan on the border of Hubei and Henan ... Once a battlefield filled with smoke, it has now become a red education base.

Walking on the mountain road covered with red leaves, chasing the rugged mountain ridge that the martyrs turned over in the past, the echo of history sounded in my ears, and gunfire, guns and charge signals kept coming and going ... How many traces of the bonfire years did the red leaves remember? And this flying red leaf is not only a distant red epic, but also a heroic legend of revolutionary martyrs!