为了答复党内外对于农民革命斗争的责难,驳斥阶级敌人对农民运动的种种污蔑和攻击,支持正在蓬勃发展的农民运动,进一步将农村大革命推向前进,毛泽东同志于1927年1月4日至2月5日,深入湖南农村,先后实地考察了湘潭、湘乡、衡山、醴陵、长沙五县农民运动的情况,于2月16日撰写了《视察湖 In order to answer the censure of the revolutionary struggle both inside and outside the Party and the peasants, to refute the slanders and attacks on the peasant movement by the class enemy, to support the vigorous development of the peasant movement and to further push the great rural revolution forward, Comrade Mao Tse-tung, from January 4 to January 2, 1927 On the 5th of January, he went deep into the rural areas of Hunan Province and inspected the peasant movements in five counties of Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Hengshan, Liling and Changsha. On February 16, he wrote "Visiting the Lake