Moon on Kunlun

Author: Wang Ling
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The youth of 200,000 military settlers and 8,000 Shandong girls made Kunlun majestic and the frontier radiant. The moving power contained in the tragic youth stories can stir the readers' hearts.
In the early days of liberation, the 200,000 PLA soldiers and the rebel forces of the Kuomintang who peacefully liberated Xinjiang responded to the Party's call to settle and defend the frontier. In the vast desert and endless Gobi, the harsh environment could not crush the passion of the soldiers, but love and marriage issues shook the morale of the 200,000-strong army. To address this, General Wang Zhen specially recruited 8,000 female soldiers from the revolutionary old areas of Shandong to go to Xinjiang to solve the "big problem." From then on, stories of arranged marriages, free love, and mismatched pairings took the stage, performing a series of tragic and joyful human dramas.
Truly, it can be said:
200,000 soldiers bled, sweated, and shed tears,
8,000 girls gave their youth and love.