A Female Surveying Soldier's Snowy Romance

I am an old surveying and mapping soldier with a 20-year military career. Between the lines of the novel "Snowy Romance of Female Surveying and Mapping Soldiers", I saw a group of women who used surveying and mapping instruments as weapons and wrote their military feelings with contour lines. They carved unique life coordinates in the folds of the times. The novel focuses on the group of "bronze roses" who tramped through the snowy plateau. Their measuring ropes measured the ice crevices 5 kilometers above sea level. The theodolite reflected the compressed dry food during the food shortage, and the draftsmen's hands cracked by the cold wind always held letters from home that were wrinkled by the water. When Zhang Xiaowen dragged his exhausted and weak body to operate the theodolite in the snow; when the girls on the snowy plateau pressed the sonorous rose's heroic words with their fingerprints superimposed on frostbite; when Xu Dongsheng, Da Tashi and their comrades performed gravity measurements at more than 7,000 meters on Mount Everest, and When the flesh-and-blood soldiers used their frostbitten hands to obtain the measurement data of Mount Everest, these details gave the "blood color" a specific height and temperature. It was the bloodshot coughed up during altitude sickness, the forbearance of mapping injuries wrapped in military coats, and the stubbornness that regarded injuries as medals.

The story of the surveying and mapping soldiers is described in poem-like words, coupled with the particularity of the Tibetan region, it is very attractive.

This book is real and down-to-earth. It is not a fictional subject. It truly records the life of the surveying and mapping soldiers at that time. The language is rich and interesting. It is a rare good book. Thanks to the gatherings of comrades again and again for allowing me to record these unforgettable stories in that special era and under special circumstances.