Red Army bugle book inspires discipline and boosts tourism in Fujian village

At the end of his training, a military commander gave him the Red Army bugle sheet music and stressed that it was both important and confidential. "Protect it as you would your own life," Luo was told. "Where I am, the sheet music will be there," he replied.

He later served as a bugler alongside Zhu De, one of the Red Army's principal commanders. In 1934, after being wounded and transferred to the rear, Luo became separated from the main force. Determined to protect the book, Luo secretly returned home and gave it to his mother, who hid it beneath the floorboards of a granary.

The book resurfaced in 1974 when the granary was being demolished. The following year, Luo donated it, together with the mouthpiece of his bugle, to the Ninghua Revolutionary Memorial Museum.

Lin Mengjia, head of the museum, said the artifact's educational value is not only in its rarity, but also in the promise Luo kept for 40 years. "It can teach students to keep their promises," Lin said.