我认识云晓同志是在粉碎“四人帮”以后了。那时我在北京军区任文化部长,他在沈阳军区任丈化部长,每逢总政开会就有相聚的机会。我们年龄差不多,我却特别敬重他,因为他是文化部长中唯一的老红军了。他出身很苦,年纪很小就参加了红军,在红四方面军中当过宣传员,做过各方面的工作,有丰富的斗争经历。我只听人说他会作曲,却不知道他还善诗。当年他把他的一大摞诗稿——就是《一个红军战士的诗》——捧给我,我颇有点惊讶,我把全诗细细地拜 I know Yunxiao comrades after smashing the “gang of four.” At that time, I was Minister of Culture in the Beijing Military Region. As Minister of Civilization in the Shenyang Military Region, I had the opportunity to meet whenever the General Political Department met. We are about the same age, but I respect him with special respect because he is the only old Red Army in the culture minister. He was born very bitter, very young, he joined the Red Army, served as a propagandist in the Fourth Front Army, did all kinds of work, and had rich experience of struggle. I only heard people say he would compose, but do not know he is good poetry. In those days he gave me a large pile of poems - that is, “a poem of the Red Army soldiers” - holding it to me. I was a bit surprised.