Abstract：In the AntiJapanese War period，there were several major features of the Eighth Route Army built by the wide perception of civilians in western Shandong and southern Hebei，which were recognized as disadvantages on weapons，fidelity in operations and disciplines，arduousness in life，as well as intimacy with indigenous residents. The civilians back then remained gratitude to the Eighth Route Army for their loose control on tax collection and their disaster relief in the famine period in 1943. In fact，it was on these evident behaviors that the civilians realized that the Eighth Route Army was a force trustworthy of relying on and was much superior to any other armed forces. Based on the impression and cognition perceived by the civilians in western Shandong and southern Hebei and their support， the army developed quickly and grew like a fireball that swept through the country. The growing of the Eighth Route Army in western Shandong and southern Hebei can be regarded as the miniature of the expanding of the Communist Party behind the enemy’s rear lines and the legitimizing of the Communist Party.
