In 2021, the Party Central Committee made important instructions on the work of revolutionary cultural relics, pointing out that revolutionary cultural relics carry the glorious history of the heroic struggle of the party and the people, record the great course and touching deeds of the Chinese revolution, are the precious wealth of the party and the country, and are vivid teaching materials for carrying forward revolutionary traditions and revolutionary culture, strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, stimulating patriotic enthusiasm, and invigorating the national spirit. Revolutionary cultural relics are the best witness of history, and they are also "living teaching materials" for inheriting red genes. The Editorial Department of the Red Boat launched the column "Revolutionary Cultural Relics Show the History of the Party in the Past Hundred Years", excavating the revolutionary history behind the cultural relics through the revolutionary cultural relics, so that readers can feel the historical temperature and feel the spirit of the martyrs in specific objects and individual stories.
In the Revolutionary Museum in the capital of the Eyu-Anhui Su District in Xinyang City, Henan Province, Chen zhan exhibited a blood-stained party card, which was awarded to outstanding Communist Party members in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Su District in 1934, and a total of 2,000 copies were issued at that time, but only this one was found after the founding of New China. The party card is made of cloth, rectangular in shape, with two five-pointed stars, Lenin and Stalin heads and the words of the party card printed on the upper center, and a rectangular form with a width of 11.5 centimeters and a height of 10 centimeters on the bottom, which contains the name of the holder, the time of joining the army, the issuing unit and the time of issuance.
The owner of this party card is one of the 13 one-armed generals among the founding generals, the founding major general Chen Bo. Since he was issued this party card, Chen Bo has always carried it with him, and this small party card has experienced the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the period of the War of Liberation, witnessed Chen Bo's life of fighting horses, and also witnessed the sincere heart of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation towards the Communist Party of China. In 2010, Chen Tiesheng, the son of Chen Bo, donated his party card to the Revolution Museum in the capital of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District.
Chen Bo's blood-stained party card
He was seriously injured and his party card was stained red with blood
Chen Bo, formerly known as Chen Hanqing, was born in 1908 in Macheng Chengmajiu Township (now part of Xinxian County, Henan), and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. He was awarded the Order of August 1, Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, the Order of Liberation, Second Class, and the Order of Merit of the Red Star, First Class. He died in Beijing on December 3, 2009 at the age of 101 due to ineffective medical treatment.
In the early spring of 1929, at the age of 20, Chen Bo joined the Red Army in Qiliping, Huang'an (present-day Hong'an, Hubei). Because he had worked as a tailor, he was organizationally assigned to work in a quilt factory. One night in July of the same year, the party branch of the garment factory held a branch meeting under a large tree, which was a specific way for the Chinese Communist Party to hold in a secret stage: with the help of night, no lights were allowed, and there was no need to raise their hands to vote, just say "I agree" or "disagree" just. At this "black light" meeting, Chen Bo officially joined the Communist Party of China.
In October 1934, under the circumstances of diplomatic difficulties in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, the Party Organization of the Red Fourth Front Army decided to issue party cards to outstanding party members in order to encourage the majority of party members to move forward courageously. Every party member must explain his or her family origin, social relations, personal resume, combat performance, etc. at the branch meeting, and then go through the mass appraisal and approval of the branch committee, and submit it to the higher-level party organization for approval before the party card can be issued.
At the branch meeting at which party cards were issued, Propaganda Committee member Xu Xiangqian said: "Comrade Chen Hanqing, secretary of our branch, came from a poor background, worked actively, fought bravely, and agreed to issue party cards. After Chen Bo received the party card, he cherished it very much, and specially sewed a small leather bag to pin it to his belt, and specially placed the party card and the copper coin for paying the party fee.
One day in March 1941, Chen Bo, then deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army's former General Special Service Regiment, introduced the use of rolling thunder to the soldiers and began to demonstrate. He ordered everyone to retreat 300 meters, and then picked up the watermelon-sized rolling thunder and walked toward the hill, and the regimental commander Ou Zhifu stopped him and said, "This is a new system, there is danger, I will come!" Chen Bo said, "Are you the leader of a regiment, or shall I come!" After everyone entered the safe area, Chen Bo began to press the thunder and wipe the fire, and with a "bang" sound, the unqualified rolling thunder was about to erupt, and Chen Bo fell in a pool of blood.
After struggling to rescue him, he miraculously survived, but only one arm and two stump legs that could not be bent. When he woke up, he touched the belt of his pants with his only right hand, and when he noticed that something was missing, he anxiously asked the nurse, "What about the little leather bag?" The nurse did not know what he meant, Chen Bo explained: "The size of the matchbox, on the trouser belt." The nurse turned over his bloody clothes and finally found the small leather bag soaked in blood, and the party card had been stained with blood.
Major General Chen Bo
Become a special member of the "Dungan Regiment"
After being injured, although Chen Bo could no longer charge forward like before, he was determined to do more work for the party. Because of his poor family, Chen Bo, who had never entered the school, could not even write his own name before joining the army. This time to recuperate from his wounds became an excellent time for him to study culture, and a book called "On Protracted War" was both a political and military textbook and a cultural reader. Losing his left hand, he flattened the books with a wooden ruler; without a teacher, the doctors and nurses were the teachers.
Half a year later, Chen Bo "graduated" and became the principal of an "honorary soldier" school. Since then, he has led more than 30 disabled soldiers to recuperate and practice martial arts in a small mountain village in Hebei Province. In 1944, as the Japanese invasion intensified, the Party Central Committee ordered Chen Bo and others to move to Yan'an to recuperate. Without being escorted by troops, Chen Bo and others repeatedly crossed the enemy's blockade line and finally reached Yan'an smoothly. When yan'an's old comrades-in-arms saw Chen Bo, they were excited: "In the face of so many devils' encirclement, pursuit, and interception, you have created a miracle. ”
On the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to snatch the fruits of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the northeast, wantonly increased the number of troops to the northeast; the party Central Committee adopted a tit-for-tat policy and set up a "cadre regiment for work in the northeast," referred to as the "Donggan Regiment," which rushed to the northeast to help. Chen Bo took the reins, pressed the horse's back with his right hand, jumped on the horse's back with a slight plunge, and returned to the same place after more than ten minutes. In this way, he became a special member of the "Dungan Regiment".
When the Japanese army surrendered, according to the instructions of the Party Central Committee, Chen Bo alone took over a military warehouse of the Japanese army, and he guarded day and night, and the gun did not leave his body. When the officers and men of the 359th Brigade, who had rushed to support the northeast later, were worried about cotton clothes and guns and ammunition, Chen Bo waved his only remaining right hand and said, "Come and get it, there is everything here." ”
During the arduous Long March, the bloody battles in Gannan, Ningxia, Shanxi, etc., to Yan'an and the northeast of the war, Chen Bo always carried his party card with him. When crossing the Japanese blockade line, in order to prevent falling into the hands of the enemy and exposing their identities, many people destroyed their party cards, Chen Bo said: "Just by virtue of my two stumped legs, either the Red Army or the Eighth Road, whether there is a party card or not, it will fall into the hands of the enemy and die." "So he has been carrying the party card to fight the world, accompanied by the party card to tide over the difficulties."
This small party card has gone through the period of the agrarian revolutionary war, the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the period of the War of Liberation, witnessed Chen Bo's life of fighting horses, witnessed the great historical transformation of the Communist Party of China from small to large and from weak to strong, and also witnessed the sincere heart of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation for the party.
Editor: Zhou Xiaoyu