A tall leader gave my family a copper coin after liberation I learned that he was Chairman Mao!

"Journey of Twenty-Five Thousand Miles" Episode 5: The Red Army spent their first Spring Festival after the beginning of the Long March here. It was the lunar New Year's Eve, and the villagers of Shixiangzi Yi Township in Xuyong County, Sichuan Province, were busy preparing for the New Year when they suddenly saw a group of soldiers carrying a red flag with a sickle and hammer, dressed in gray military uniforms, winding their way towards the village. Seeing this, the villagers, not knowing the situation, all ran into the surrounding mountains to hide. Later, it was the scene of the Red Army standing in the snow that truly allowed the local people to recognize this group of soldiers. In the afternoon, the main Red Army forces arrived in Shixiangzi one after another, and everywhere along the streets, under the eaves, in the courtyards... there were Red Army soldiers. Some were barefoot, some wore straw sandals, and some wrapped their feet with rags... standing in the snow, not a single one disturbed the villagers or forcibly took or demanded anything from them. Feeling the difference in the Red Army, the villagers actively invited them into their homes to rest and lit fires to warm them. The local people also invited the Red Army soldiers to share the New Year's Eve dinner with them. The Red Army spent their first Spring Festival after the beginning of the Long March here. "A tall leader gave me a copper coin, and it wasn't until after liberation that I learned he was Chairman Mao." That night, Chairman Mao and other leaders stayed at the home of villager Xiao You'en. Although the Red Army only stayed in Shixiangzi for two or three days, it was the longest rest since the Zunyi Conference. Before leaving, Xiao You'en remembered a tall leader giving him a copper coin to thank him for providing food and lodging, and bidding him farewell. He repeatedly refused, but the tall leader insisted, "We ate the people's food and stayed in the people's homes, we must leave the copper coin." Deeply moved, Xiao You'en was also afraid of thieves and robbers, so he hid the copper coin inside a pillar of his house, smearing some mud of the same color as the pillar over the crack. It wasn't until after liberation, when every household put up Chairman Mao's portrait, that Xiao You'en realized the person who had given him the copper coin was Chairman Mao. He told the story to his descendants, but until his death, he never revealed the whereabouts of the copper coin to his children. This story has circulated for decades, but people have never been able to find the copper coin. It wasn't until the year when the house was protected and renovated as a revolutionary site that craftsmen, while renovating a pillar, accidentally discovered the copper coin deeply embedded in the pillar. The copper coin has become a powerful testament to the strict discipline and close relationship with the people of the Communist Party.