Ma Lanhua opens the secret code
When you were a child, did you ever hear such a familiar nursery rhyme: "Little leather ball, kicking, Ma Lanhua blooms twenty-one." 256257, 282931. ”
Especially those children who are keen to jump rubber bands, this nursery rhyme is even more treasured. However, did you know that this nursery rhyme, which is widely sung in the north and south of China, actually hides a mysterious code?
So, what exactly does this nursery rhyme represent? Today, let's uncover this secret together!
Nuclear ** research and development: General Zhang Yunyu, the first site in Dunhuang, Gansu. In order to ensure China's own security, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China began to conduct nuclear research.
In this process, our country maintained close relations with the USSR, and Soviet specialists provided our country with a lot of support. At the stage of selecting a site for a nuclear base, Soviet experts suggested that China set up a nuclear base in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, and some Chinese technical experts also carried out geological surveying and mapping and communications construction here.
In October 1958, General Zhang Yunyu was appointed as the first nuclear commander of the Republic and arrived in Dunhuang by train. Upon arrival at the station, he carefully studied the scheme designed by Soviet advisers for the nuclear test site.
Although many praised the selfless assistance of the Soviet advisers, General Zhang Yunyu's observation and insight did not diminish because of this, but keenly identified some problems.
We should not conduct a nuclear test in Dunhuang. First of all, we have already tested a hydrogen bomb with a 15 million tons of TNT equivalent on Bikini Island, but the nuclear test site designed for us by Soviet consultants can only test an atomic bomb with a 20,000 TNT equivalent.
With this 20,000-ton TNT equivalent atomic bomb, it was not enough to protect the 60,000 Chinese at that time. Secondly, the nuclear test base is too close to Dunhuang, only 120 kilometers, if the experiment is officially started, the Thousand Buddha Cave, the beacon tower, Mingsha Mountain, the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty, everything will come to naught.
In addition, nuclear tests can seriously damage the local ecological environment and threaten people's lives. Finally, a nuclear test requires a lot of water, and the only weir pond is running out of water, leaving only patches of grass to shiver helplessly in the cold wind.
General Zhang was very dissatisfied with this result, and immediately organized a team to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth investigation and study of the Dunhuang test site, and held a meeting, using scientific and rational thinking, to carry out detailed weighing and analysis of its various problems, and finally formed a conclusion, repudiated the Dunhuang test site, and made a report to Beijing.
* Adopted the advice of General Zhang Yunyu and entrusted him with the task of finding the experimental site again.
General Zhang Yunyu went through many difficulties and finally found an ideal place in Huangyang Dagou on the northeastern edge of the Tarim Basin. To the north and south of this place are mountains with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, like two natural barriers; The east is hilly, and the south is a vast desert.
At the same time, there are abundant water sources of Lop Nur and Peacock River, and it is the original Gobi, with no villages and no mineral deposits for mining within more than 300 kilometers around.
In the eyes of Western explorers, it is a "sea of death", but in the eyes of General Zhang Yunyu, it is a "treasure of feng shui" for conducting nuclear tests. As a result, the Lop Nur test base was established, and in late May 1959, General Zhang Yunyu led the newly formed 50,000 construction troops to enter Lop Nur in a mighty way.
Since the Malan flowers were in full bloom at that time, at the suggestion of General Zhang, the living area of the base was named "Malan Base". This is also the origin of "Malan" in the nursery rhyme.
The origin of the name "Ma Lanhua Blooming Twenty-One" is somewhat special. In that year, China began to build a nuclear base, but encountered difficulties in the construction process, because the Soviet Union unilaterally tore up the aid agreement and withdrew all specialists and technicians.
Despite this, General Zhang Yunyu still led the scientific research personnel to face the difficulties, and finally succeeded in establishing the nuclear research institute. For the sake of secrecy, this institute was named "21 Institutes".
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of scientific researchers, our country successfully developed the first atomic bomb and decided to test it in 1964. The size of the atomic bomb is only the size of a leather ball, and it has an oval shape, so the "little leather ball" in the nursery rhyme refers to the atomic bomb.
China's first atomic bomb was detonated by a "tower explosion". However, in order to achieve the tower explosion, it was necessary to build a tower more than 100 meters high, which was undoubtedly a huge technical problem for our country at that time.
In order to solve this problem, Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and North China Metal Factory worked together, read a large number of foreign documents, devoted themselves to the construction of the factory, and finally succeeded in manufacturing an iron tower of more than 100 meters, which is the "legs" in the nursery rhyme.
On October 16, 1964, a mushroom cloud rose in Lop Nur, and China's first atomic bomb was successful, shocking the world and the whole country rejoiced. For the staff of the nuclear base, this mushroom cloud symbolizes their victory and success, like a horse orchid blooming.
Therefore, the implicit meaning of this nursery rhyme is that "the atomic bomb was detonated in the form of a tower explosion, created by the scientific researchers of the 21st Institute and all the workers at the Malan base".
However, due to the need for confidentiality of their work, many researchers have remained incognito and obscure all their lives. It wasn't until the state began to reveal its secrets that this momentous event was added to nursery rhymes in the form of "code words".
Here, let us pay tribute to the great revolutionary ancestors!