Why do Chinese soldiers fold tofu block quilts and how did this tradition come about, seek the proper history!

Folding quilts is a practice that has been carried over from the war years. The reason why it can persist, and even into a unique tradition, lies in this way of folding the quilt is conducive to the implementation of urgent tasks, especially to take the width of three long four folding, easy to fold and tie, can be very good to ensure that the rucksack straps do not fall off, and is conducive to marching and fighting. As for the development of today's in the practical basis of aesthetics, and even go to the extent of the pursuit of the ultimate. Shortly after the end of the liberation war, the army had to carry out the formalization construction, set up a lot of cadre school to train cadres. It was at that time in the cadre school to study the cadet comrade Liu Jichuan according to the previous marching and fighting some experience and lessons learned, invented this folding tofu block to organize the housekeeping method. Can be in a few minutes to the quilt sundries clean up, the dormitory housekeeping, marching and fighting, discipline are very helpful. So it was popularized throughout the army, forming a fine tradition in our army today. Later, this kind of housekeeping, evaluation will gradually be used as a kind of grass-roots management, grass-roots construction of the basic content retained, and even developed into a bright landscape.