Suoduo 索多

Ninety years ago, Suoduo volunteered to guide the Red Army to the border with Aba in Sichuan, and a Red Army soldier gave him a copper pot in thanks upon parting.

In July 1936, more than 30,000 members of the Left Column, formed after the Second and Fourth Front Armies of the Red Army joined forces, entered the Banma area of Golog, Qinghai. They stayed in the Make River valley for more than 20 days, marching and gathering provisions, sowing the seeds of revolution and explaining the Party's position on resisting Japanese aggression to local residents. At the time, the Red Army lacked food and fodder and faced the plateau's harsh cold, yet it maintained strict discipline and helped Tibetan villagers carry water and chop firewood. A cast-copper cooking pot is displayed in the Hongjungou Memorial Hall. Ninety years ago, a herder named Suoduo volunteered to guide the troops, leading the Red Army all the way to the border with Aba in Sichuan. On parting, a Red Army soldier cleaned the copper pot he carried and gave it to him as an expression of thanks.