Text/Jinyang.com reporter Hou Mengfei Tan Zheng
When I look back on the long-standing history, I am shaved by time. I still exudes the dazzling light of ideals and beliefs.
This light –
It was Ye Ting’s determination to apply to join the Communist Party of China less than a day after he was released from prison;
It was Peng Pai and Yang Yin who jointly wrote a letter to the Party Central Committee in prison in Shanghai, and he would rather sacrifice himself for the revolution;
It was Su Zhaozheng and Zhou Wenyong who wrote down their consistent loyal beliefs and original feelings for the Party at the last moment of their lives…
Following these lights of ideals and beliefs, let us get closer to history, relive the spiritual power brought by the red script of the heroes, and appreciate the original aspirations and mission of the Communists.
Ye Ting
Ye Ting
Leave less than one day after he was released from prison, and handed over his second application for joining the party
“I was released from prison last night.
I am determined to fulfill my wish for many years, join the great Communist Party of China, and under your leadership, contribute my everything to the liberation of the Chinese people.”
This is the second application for joining the party written by Ye Ting in March 1946. It was less than a day since he was released from prison. A few words condense Ye Ting’s ideals and beliefs of being extremely loyal and unremittingly pursued for the revolutionary cause.
Ye Ting was a famous general of the Northern Expedition and one of the main leaders of the Nanchang Uprising and the Guangzhou Uprising. After the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, he served as the commander of the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party of China. During the Southern Anhui Incident, Ye Ting was unreasonably detained by the Kuomintang and then spent more than five years in prison. After being released from prison, the first thing he did was to reapply for joining the party.
The first thing to do after being released from prison is to apply for re-application to join the party
Ye Ting’s application for joining the party is still preserved in the Central Archives. On March 4, 1946, Ye Ting, who was detained by the Kuomintang for five years and two months, was finally released. Less than one after being released from prisonIn a day, Ye Ting called the Party Central Committee and requested to join the Communist Party of China. He wrote in the telegram: “Comrade Mao Zedong sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China: I was released from prison last night. I am determined to fulfill my wish for many years, join the great Communist Party of China, and under your leadership, contribute my everything to the liberation of the Chinese people. I ask the Central Committee to review whether my history is qualified and please reply.” This is the first entry written by Ye Ting to the Moscow branch of the Communist Party of China. More than 20 years have passed since the Party application. What kind of tortuous story is behind it?
In 1896, Ye Ting was born in a poor farmer’s family in Guishan, Guangdong (now part of Huiyang). In 1919, he devoted himself to the democratic revolution led by Sun Yat-sen. In 1924, with the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Ye Ting began to come into contact with communist ideas, and in this year he went to the Soviet Union to study as a member of the Kuomintang. Joined the Communist Party of China in December 1924.
In 1925, after returning to China, Ye Ting participated in the establishment of the 34th Regiment of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army with Communist Party members as the backbone (later changed to the famous Ye Ting Independent Regiment) and served as the regiment commander. In May 1926, he led the Independent Regiment as an advance team to go to the Northern Expedition, and was known as a “famous general of the Northern Expedition” for his outstanding military achievements. After the failure of the Great Revolution in 1927, facing the white terror of the Kuomintang reactionaries, Ye Ting participated in the launch of the Nanchang Uprising and served as the commander-in-chief of the front enemy. After the uprising, he led his troops south to Guangdong to continue the revolutionary struggle. In December of the same year, he was appointed by the Party to participate in the launch of the Guangzhou Uprising and served as the commander-in-chief of the rebel military.
After the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, affected by the erroneous “left” thinking within the party, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee at that time imposed a 6-month probation on Ye Ting. After that, Ye Ting wrote a detailed report on the Guangzhou Uprising in Moscow to the party organization, but was severely criticized and attacked by Miff, Minister of the Eastern Department of the Communist International and Wang Ming. Ye Ting was forced to leave the party and lived abroad for nearly 10 years.
Stand out at a critical moment, and the Southern Anhui Incident was imprisoned
History has proved that the accusations against Ye Ting at that time were completely wrong. Although Ye stood up overseas, he was still concerned about the Chinese revolution.
After the September 18th Incident in 1931, Ye Ting returned from abroadIn Macau, he tried every means to find the party organization. In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing, Ye Ting left Macau and went to Shanghai, confides to Zhou Enlai with his strong desire to return to his motherland to participate in the anti-Japanese cause, and resolutely accepted the mission of forming the New Fourth Army. Ye Ting made outstanding contributions to China’s war of resistance against Japan, and Mao Zedong praised him for “leading the war of resistance and outstanding contributions.”
In January 1941, the Kuomintang diehards created the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked China and the world. Ye Ting was illegally detained by the Kuomintang authorities and was displaced in Shangrao, Chongqing, Enshi, Guilin and other places. Although he was no longer a Communist Party member when he was imprisoned, he still fully demonstrated the firm ideals and beliefs and revolutionary beliefs that Communists should have.
Although the Kuomintang coerced and tempted and Chiang Kai-shek personally persuaded surrender, Ye Ting was still unmoved. While being imprisoned in the cell of the Hongfu Factory of the Chongqing Sino-US Cooperation Institute, he wrote the famous “Prison Song”, saying that he would never “climb out of the dog’s hole” and would “get immortality in the fire and blood.”
Requesting to join the party again was the result of more than five years of consideration
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Ting was released on March 4, 1946 after the rescue of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After being released from prison, the first thing Ye Ting did was to call the Party Central Committee and request to “join the great Communist Party of China.”
This telegram soon arrived in Yan’an. Mao Zedong personally revised the reply and issued a sign language finalized as “Dear Comrade Ye Ting”, showing his love. The re-design fully affirmed that Ye Ting had “more than 20 years of struggle” for the cause of liberation of the Chinese nation and the people, highly praised Ye Ting’s “infinite loyalty to the nation and the people”, and decided to accept his joining the Communist Party of China, and extended his “warm condolences and welcomes”. Yang Jianwei, director of the Party History Research Office of the Provincial Party Committee, said: “Ye Ting’s application to the Party Central Committee for joining the Party is only 69 words, but the word Babaylan‘s courtesy name is Qianjun. The innocent loyalty of the Party for the people is vividly revealed on the paper.” After receiving the reply from the Central Committee, Ye Ting once told the newspaper reporter that the reason for his rejoining the Party. He said that requesting to join the Communist Party of China the day after he was released from prison was the result of more than five years of consideration, because only the comrades of the Communist Party of China are truly working for the happiness of the Chinese people. He is determined to rejoin the Communist Party, contribute all his strength, and serve the Chinese people.
Yang Jianwei believes that joining the party is the most important choice faced by a Communist Party member in his life, and it is also the most solemn promise he makes to fulfill the party’s original aspiration and mission. Ye Ting has set an example for the Communists with practical actions. At this special period of the whole party’s comprehensive and in-depth development of the theme education of “Never Forget the Original Intention and Keep the Mission in Mind”, review Ye Ting’s application for joining the party and educating the partyIt is timely for the cadres to adhere to their ideals and beliefs and keep their original aspirations and missions in mind!
Peng Pai Yang Yin
Defend his lofty faith with his life
In August 1929, Peng Pai and Yang Yin were arrested in Shanghai. This is a letter they wrote to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in prison before the execution. When they were about to be executed, they sang the Internationale, shouted revolutionary slogans, died bravely, and defended their lofty faith with their lives.
Peng Pai and Yang Yin were both early leaders of the Communist Party of China. One of them was born into a landlord family and the other was from a prominent family. They could have lived a rich and decent life, but they resolutely devoted themselves to the cause of national independence and people’s liberation. In the end, Peng Pai grew up to be the pioneer of the Chinese peasant revolutionary movement and the founder of the famous Hailufeng Soviet regime, while Yang Yin became an important leader in the early military work of the Communist Party of China and a famous leader of the workers’ movement.
Peng Pai
Peng Pai
Brothered from a landlord family, but became the “king of the peasant movement”
Peng Pai was born in a landlord family in Haifeng County, Guangdong Province. In 1921, Peng Pai, who had been in Japan for four years, returned to his hometown. As soon as he returned to Haifeng, he devoted his enthusiasm to the movement to spread socialist ideas and transform Chinese society. Jiang Jiannong, professor at the School of History and Culture of South China Normal University, introduced that within the Communist Party of China, Peng Pai was the first leader to turn his attention to rural areas and farmers. 19KomiksIn the summer of 22, in the fields of rural Haifeng, busy farmers could always see a “speaker” wearing a student outfit and a white hat. This “literary man” is Peng Pai.
Although he tried his best to integrate, he could never get close to the farmers. So, the students changed their clothes into coarse cloth short shirts and white hats into ragged hats. Peng Pai barefoot, stepped on the muddy field path, and once again penetrated into the farmers, mobilizing and organizing farmers to participate in the revolution.
In order to ignite the enthusiasm of farmers to participate in the revolution, Peng Pai took the lead in burning the land deeds for himself, winning the trust of farmers. The raging fire of the peasant revolution ignited from Haifeng. The Guangdong peasant movement he led was the forerunner of the national peasant movement during the Great Revolution. It effectively promoted the rapid development of the national revolution and was praised by Mao Zedong as a”The King of the Peasant Movement”.
Yang Yin
Yang Yin
Sales all savings to solve the funds for the party’s activities
In 1892, Yang Yin was born in a prominent family in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan (now Zhongshan City), Guangdong Province. As a fellow countryman of Sun Yat-sen, he participated in the China Tongmenghui in 1911, followed Sun Yat-sen and became Sun Yat-sen’s personal bodyguard and adjutant, and was deeply trusted.
“But after witnessing the warlords fighting melee and the people’s miserable life since the Revolution of 1911, and the Kuomintang’s internal struggle for power and profit and conflicts, he realized that the Kuomintang was limited by its own class limitations and could not lead the realization of the Chinese nation and the liberation and happiness of the entire Chinese people. He then looked for a new life path for the revolution.” Jiang Jiannong introduced.
After the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement, Yang Yin began to study Marxism-Leninism and joined the Communist Party of China in 1922. “At that time, the CCP had only 195 party members across the country, with weak strength and tight funds, and the future was uncertain.” Jiang Jiannong introduced that Yang Yin sold all his savings, houses and land in his hometown and jewelry left by his late wife to the party to solve the funds for the party’s activities. In 1923, after returning from the Soviet Union, Yang Yin worked in the workers’ movement and led the establishment of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway Federation. In 1925, he participated in leading the provincial and Hong Kong general strike.
Shanghai was arrested, and the revolutionary proposition was still promoted in prison.
In November 1928, Peng Pai was ordered to work in the Shanghai Party Central Committee, served as secretary of the Central Agricultural Commission, and was elected as a member of the Central Political Bureau. At the same time, Yang Yin was also added as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, serving as the Minister of the Central Military Affairs Office, and assisted Zhou Enlai in the Party Central Committee in doing the military work of the Party.
However, in August 1929, five people including Peng Pai, Yang Yin, Yan Changyi, Xing Shizhen, Zhang Jichun were arrested in Shanghai and detained in Longhua Prison due to the betrayal of the traitor Bai Xin. In prison, they were tortured, but they still promoted revolutionary propositions to the people in the same prison and the Kuomintang soldiers. In their letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the soldiers said: “After listening to us, they sighed and beat the chest.”
Peng Pai made a generous speech in prison: “As long as I have a breath, I will fight for the cause of communism to the end!” “In the near future, we will definitely be able to overthrow the reactionary rule and establish the Soviet regime across the country.” “Cinema ForOur descendants strive for a happy life, and they will sacrifice their lives. “Faced with the enemy’s coercion and temptation, Yang Yin looked at him as if he was home: “I will never surrender. You have your faith. I have my ideals and beliefs, and I only believe in communism! After the severe winter, spring is coming. I firmly believe that the cause of China’s revolution will surely win! ”
On August 30, 1929, on the morning of the day of execution, Peng Pai and Yang Yin jointly wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to report on the situation of the struggle in prison and put forward opinions on rescuing comrades. The letter stated that if the party organization cannot rescue the five comrades who were arrested at the same time, Peng and Yang could be sacrificed and tried to rescue the other three.
Afterward, Peng Pai and Yang Yin jointly wrote a letter to Zhou Enlai, the leader of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, saying that “we are in good spirits here”, and urged comrades to “not be sad because of the sacrifice of my brother and others”, “I hope to take care of my health as the key! “At this time, they have put their personal life and death aside, and what they think is only the cause of the party and the safety of their comrades!
When they were executed, they chanted the Internationale, shouted revolutionary slogans, and died bravely. They defended the lofty belief of communism with their lives. Jiang Jiannong believes that as the prides of the land of Guangdong, Peng Pai and Yang Yin destroyed their families and relieved their difficulties in order to save the country and the people, sacrificed themselves for the party, devoted themselves to the cause of national independence and people’s liberation, and wrote the original aspiration and mission of the Chinese Communists with their blood.
Letter written to the Party Central Committee before Peng Pai and Yang Yin’s death
Notes
Letter to the Party Central Committee before Peng Pai and Yang Yin’s death①
Guansheng② and the young and old in the family③:
We were irresistible this time. Zhang, Meng, Meng⑤ all publicly admitted it and tried their best to expand the publicity. Qiu⑥ and the people in the same prison expressed great sympathy. Especially Qiu, those who sighed and beat their chests after listening to us. We are in good spirits here. Brothers, don’t be sad because of the sacrifice of my brothers. I hope to take care of our health.
The rest of the people insisted on not recognizing it. Yi and Xiao Yu have a good personal relationship.
Kui Meng Meng
① href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan is a letter written by Peng Pai and Yang Yin to Zhou Enlai, the leader of the CPC Central Committee, in prison before their death on August 30, 1929. It is quoted from the “Chronology of Peng Pai” compiled by Guo Dehong, 2007 edition of the CPC Central Committee Party School Press, page 463.
② Guansheng is Zhou Enlai.
③ The elderly and young in the family, that is, relevant comrades in the party.
④Bai is the traitor Bai Xin.
⑤Zhang refers to Zhang Jichun; Meng refers to Yang Yin, Yang Yin’s pseudonym Mengkui; Meng refers to Peng Pai, Peng Pai’s pseudonym Meng’an. Zhang, Meng and Meng were arrested for traitors’ reports, so Cinema publicly recognized the identity of a Communist Party member and insisted on promoting communism.
⑥Qiu refers to Kuomintang soldiers.
Su Zhaozheng
Su Zhaozheng
Meticulous and meticulous care, and the wholehearted revolution reached the end of life
“Everyone works together.
Everyone works together and cooperates unanimously to reach our final end.
Babaylan href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema was successful. “
This will, recorded by Deng Yingchao and noted by Deng Xiaoping, was left by 44-year-old Su Zhaozheng on the hospital bed. Due to the long-term struggle of revolutionary work, Su Zhaozheng became ill due to overwork. In February 1929, after Su Zhaozheng presided over the second enlarged meeting of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in Shanghai, his old illness broke out. When his life was in danger, he left this will with a faint voice.
Su Zhaozheng’s WillCinema (Records of Deng Yingchao, Deng Xiaoping’s side note, February 1929)
Meticulous care The “Great Steward” in the Provincial and Hong Kong General Strike
In November 1885, Su Zhaozheng was born in Xiangshan, Guangdong (now Zhuhai City). He is an outstanding leader of the workers’ movement of the Communist Party of China. He has served as chairman of the Third and Fourth Executive Committees of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, chairman of the Guangzhou Soviet Government, and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He has participated in the leadership of the Hong Kong seafarers’ strike and the provincial and Hong Kong general strike that shocked China and the foreign countries, setting off a climax of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership of the workers’ movement.
After the provincial and Hong Kong general strike broke out, workers from various industries in Hong Kong left Hong Kong and returned to Guangzhou one after another. Historical data show that at that time, there were seven strike workers gathered in Guangzhou.Eighty thousand people. How to properly solve their problems such as food, clothing, housing and transportation? While entrusting the Director of the Officer Li Sen to be fully responsible, Su Zhaozheng cares about the food, clothing and other matters of the strikers. Under the care of Su Zhaozheng, Li Sen and others, the Office of the Office formulated the “Dining Regulations” for the canteens in each district.
During the provincial and Hong Kong general strike, in addition to leading the strike, Su Zhaozheng was like a big housekeeper, taking care of the lives of every striker and the workers’ families.
Full in revolutionary work until the last moment of his life
In February 1929, Su Zhaozheng presided over the second enlarged meeting of the China Federation of Trade Unions in Shanghai, due to long-term running around revolutionary work, overwork caused illness and old illness. As the condition became worse and worse, Su Zhaozheng did not tell other comrades about the condition. It was not until his condition worsened and he was sent to a private hospital by his family for treatment, Su Zhaozheng, who was already in a dying state, met comrades such as Zhou Enlai, Li Lisan, Deng Xiaoping, and Deng Yingchao who rushed over after hearing the news. He struggled hard and in a weak voice, he said, “The people can no longer live, we need revolution, waiting for us to organize. I hope everyone will work hard together.”
Later, he pointed to his chest and repeatedly said, “Everyone works together and cooperates together to achieve our final success!” At the last moment of his life, Su Zhaozheng still did not forget to organize the struggle of the masses, and emphasized the unity of the Party, and was full of confidence in the revolutionary cause.
Before execution, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun took a photo in front of the iron window of the prison cell
Zhou Wenyong
“Wedding on the execution ground”, they joined hands to bravely die
“The head can be broken, the limbs can be broken, the revolutionary spirit cannot be destroyed!
The head of the patriot falls for the party, and the body of the hero is split!”
This is the last letter left by a martyr who died at the age of 23, in prison.
On February 6, 1928, Zhou Wenyong, who was under 23 years old, and his wife, 24-year-old Chen Tiejun, resolutely walked to the execution ground of Honghuagang, Guangzhou, completed the revolutionary wedding amid gunfire, and was executed generously.
In 1980, “Wedding on the Execution Field” produced by Changchun Film Studio showed this revolutionary love to the world.
Entered to the “Red A-Tech” school and was determined to save China
Zhou Wenyong was born in August 1905 in a poor intellectual family in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province (then known as “Kaiping County”). 192In two years, with the support of relatives and friends, Zhou Wenyong was admitted to the Guangzhou Provincial Type A Industrial School, known as the “Red A-level Worker”.
At school, Zhou Wenyong came into contact with revolutionary books such as the “Guide”, an official publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1923. In 1925, 20-year-old Zhou Wenyong joined the Communist Party of China. On the eve of the provincial and Hong Kong workers’ general strike, Zhou Wenyong was sent to the Shamian Western Foreign Affairs Union to serve as a leadership position. After many training, he was elected as a member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China.
“Wedding on the execution ground” The love masterpiece of revolutionary couples
After the April 15 counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, Zhou WenBabaylanYong moved into underground activities in Guangzhou. Because being single is prone to suspicion, the organization arranged for Chen Tiejun to go to Zhou Wenyong to pretend to be a couple and assist Zhou Wenyong in establishing the Guangzhou Riot Committee.
The Guangzhou Uprising failed in December 1927, and the revolutionary organization was severely damaged and paralyzed. In order to restore the work of the Guangzhou Party Organization, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun tried their best to find the lost revolutionary comrades in the white and terrifying Guangzhou, and restored the party’s underground liaison point. However, just when the work situation was opened, he and Chen Tiejun were arrested at the same time on January 27, 1928 due to a traitor’s informing.
In prison, the enemy used high-ranking officials, money, freedom, etc. to tempt Zhou Wenyong many times to write a letter of surrender. Zhou Wenyong took a pen and wrote, “The head can be broken, the limbs can be broken, the revolutionary spirit cannot be destroyed! The head of the patriots is the party, and the body of the heroes is the broken!” Before the execution, the enemy asked Zhou Wenyong what his request was, and he proposed to take a photo with Chen Tiejun. Under the iron window, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun took the last photo as a souvenir for the party and comrades. On February 6, 1928, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun completed the revolutionary wedding on the execution ground of the reactionaries and were executed bravely.
Chen Jinlong, dean and professor of the School of Marxism at South China Normal University, believes that whether it is Su Zhaozheng’s “achieve our final success” or Zhou Wenyong’s “revolutionary spirit is indelible”, they all demonstrate the original intention of the Chinese Communists to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. The persistence of the original aspiration and mission has become an inexhaustible driving force for revolutionary martyrs to move forward and a spiritual wealth passed down from generation to generation by the Chinese Communists. Over the past 98 years, the Communist Party of China has led the people to achieve world-renowned brilliant achievements, but realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is by no means an easy task. Only by “not forgetting the original aspiration and keeping the mission in mind” can we comfort our ancestors, move forward and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.