重上井冈山

重上井岡山

chóng shàng Jǐnggāngshān

quotation

Meanings

1 to climb Jinggangshan again
2 fig. to revisit the site of one's revolutionary origins
3 title of a famous Mao Zedong ci poem

Characters

well (in place name)

Examples

HSK 7-9

他时隔三十年重上井冈山，感慨万千。

Tā shígé sānshí nián chóngshàngjǐnggāngshān, gǎnkǎiwànqiān.

After thirty years he climbed Jinggangshan again, filled with emotion.

HSK 7-9

毛泽东《水调歌头·重上井冈山》是一首重要的诗词。

Máo Zédōng 《 Shuǐ diào gē tóu · Chóngshàngjǐnggāngshān 》 shì yì shǒu zhòngyào de shīcí.

Mao Zedong's ci 'Climbing Jinggangshan Again' is an important poem.

Tips

history

Title of 毛泽东's May 1965 ci 《水调歌头·重上井冈山》, written when he revisited the Jinggangshan base area (Jiangxi-Hunan border, where the Red Army established its first rural revolutionary base in 1927) for the first time in 38 years: 久有凌云志，重上井冈山……世上无难事，只要肯登攀。 'Long I held an ambition to reach the clouds; now I climb Jinggangshan again. Nothing on earth is truly hard, so long as one is willing to climb.'

usage

Read 重 as chóng (again), not zhòng (heavy). 井冈山 (Jinggangshan) has since become a political-pilgrimage destination - the phrase itself signals a return to founding ideals.

In Pop Culture

井冈山 Jǐng gāng shān

Jinggangshan

Mountain base area in Jiangxi where Mao and Zhu De established the Red Army's first rural soviet in 1927–1928; today a CCP 'red tourism' site.

Stroke Order

重 zhòng

上 shàng

井 jǐng

冈 gāng

山 shān