Yun Daiying: A model of heroic martyrdom in the rain flower

Reporter Chen Minghui sorted it out

It is rare for a person to be regarded as a "saint" by his comrades and friends when he is alive and young. Yun Daiying, whose ancestral home is Changzhou, is such a person. During the Great Revolution, Yun Daiying's close friend Xiao Chunu once said: "Among the sages of daiying, among the sages of the past and the present, only Mozi is a bit like, and Daiying is the modern Mozi."

From 1909 to 1919, Yun Daiying kept a diary for ten years without interruption. Why is Yun Daiying so enthusiastic about keeping a diary? On New Year's Day 1919, he listed three major roles of the diary: first, to reflect on himself and spur himself to correct his mistakes; second, to summarize his experience in learning and handling things, cultivate his habit of thinking diligently, and improve his interest in learning; third, he practiced writing with the help of a diary every day to improve his writing ability and expression ability. He admired the self-cultivation method of Confucius's disciples who had participated in one day and three provinces, and made self-examination records every day, and even scored their own behavior every day.

For Yun Daiying, theory is never just used to say, but to be practiced. He advocated the emphasis on "practicing by force" in traditional culture, and for this reason he also wrote an article on "practicing the theory of national salvation". Yun Daiying lived a simple life, wearing a blue robe and a pair of glasses on weekdays. When he was hired at a normal school in Anhui, the teachers and students went to the dock to greet him, but he wore straw shoes and carried his luggage to the school gate, and as a result, he was regarded as a "porter" by his co-workers and turned away. In fact, Yun Daiying was not short of money, with a monthly salary of hundreds of dollars when teaching, as well as a writing fee income, which was already a high income at that time. But he only spends about 4 yuan a month, and the rest is used for public welfare. In 1918, with a sense of mission to save the country and save the people, in order to oppose the Beiyang government's agreement with Japan that harmed national interests, he led the students to shave their heads and vowed not to use The Japanese haircut fader. Since then, in all the photographs, he has left almost a flat head.

In 1927, Yun Daiying participated in leading the Nanchang Uprising, and when the rebel army braved the sweltering heat to go south, there were many difficulties. In order to boost morale, Yun Daiying, although suffering from lung disease, gave up his horse to the sick number and marched on foot with the soldiers, sunburning like a black man. The soldiers were amazed and said, "The Grand Commissar can suffer as much as we do!" "Yun Daiying cares for comrades, has strict requirements for himself, works for the party without complaint or regret, and his personality charm wins everyone's sincere respect." On April 5, 1929, Mao Zedong wrote to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, stating that if he was transferred out of the Soviet zone, he proposed that Yun Daiying take his place.

At noon on April 29, 1931, Yun Daiying was killed in the Kuomintang Central Military Prison in Nanjing. Before the sacrifice, he left behind such a touching and profound sentence: "I don't have a single valuable thing on me, only a pair of myopic glasses, worth a few dollars." The phosphorus on my body can only make four boxes of foreign fire. I want my phosphorus to emit more heat and light, and I hope it burns up, burns away the old China, and gives birth to a new China! ”

【Comments】 Li Jifeng, a member of the propaganda group of the provincial party committee for the study and education of party history and education, and a professor of the party history and party building teaching and research department of the party school of the provincial party committee: Yun Daiying was one of the early leaders of the party and a model of heroic martyrdom in Yuhua. He is the disseminator of Marxism, the inheritor of the essence of traditional culture, and the practitioner of revolutionary morality, who is willing to be poor, dedicated and regard death as a homecoming, all of which confirm the purity of his soul and the purity of virtue.