Mr. Lu Xun once described our nation as saying that since ancient times there has been no shortage of real revolutionary fighters in China, some of whom are immersed in hard work, and some of whom are willing to sacrifice their lives to seek the law, and it is these people who have forged the spiritual strength of the Chinese nation to make unremitting efforts to improve itself.
However, just as everything has its own two sides, especially during those arduous years, not every revolutionary was able to stand up for his ideals.
Some of these weak-willed and lacking confidence have willingly degenerated and easily abandoned their revolutionary convictions, and even some greedy and fearful of death have easily betrayed their former revolutionary comrades-in-arms who fought side by side in order to gain the favor of high-ranking officials.
In 1933, at the height of the first civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists, Lin Suqin, then the rescue minister of the All-China Revolutionary Mutual Aid Federation, was secretly arrested by the enemy, but what she did not expect was that this female revolutionary in the party actually rebelled against the revolution under the threat and inducement of the enemy, and also confessed other revolutionaries in the party, Deng Zhongxia and his wife Li Ying.
It was precisely because of the whistle-blowing of this shameless revolutionary betrayer that the revolutionary Deng Zhongxia died tragically, and the Deng family was forced to separate their wives.
Deng Zhongxia was born in 1894 to a wealthy landlord family in Hunan Province. Due to his family's favorable situation, Deng Zhongxia was influenced by a good culture from an early age.
In 1917, Deng Zhongxia was admitted to the Department of Chinese Literature of Peking University with his excellent results, and during his college years, he met Comrade Li Dazhao, the founder of the Communist Party of China, and began to understand Marxism in all aspects.
Under the leadership of Comrade Li Dazhao, Deng Zhongxia re-examined his own life, re-established his revolutionary conviction, and devoted all his efforts to the anti-imperialist patriotic struggle. After graduating from university, Deng Zhongxia, who was able to return home to live a peaceful life, sternly refused his parents' request and resolutely decided to join the Communist Party of China.
After the failure of Paris diplomacy, Deng Zhongxia was not afraid of sacrifice, actively participated in various patriotic movements, and even burned the traitor's mansion with other patriots. In the May Fourth Movement that broke out later, Deng Zhongxia was the first to see the power of the working class, and he proposed to other members of the party that the May Fourth Movement should be carried out with the theme of workers.
Facts have proved that deng Zhongxia's vision is very correct, he not only smoothly led and participated in this workers' movement, but also provided valuable experience in the theoretical construction of the Chinese workers' movement afterwards, and also successfully made indelible and important contributions to the Chinese revolutionary forces.
When Deng Zhongxia was 15 years old, he ushered in his first marriage. Talking about this marriage, it is really ridiculous and pitiful.
At that time, Deng Zhongxia's first wife, Yang Xianhuai, was originally his brother's wife, but because his brother fell seriously ill after marriage, Deng Zhongxia's parents thought that it was his sister-in-law Yang Xianhuai who was born with Kefu, so they had the idea of letting the two reconcile and leave.
However, at that time, the eldest sister-in-law Yang Xianhuai's mother-in-law's family was a rich and prestigious family in the local area and the Deng family, and had already married into the Deng family. In desperation, Deng Zhongxia's father consulted with the Yang family to change Yang Xianhuai, who was already The daughter-in-law of Deng's parents, to Deng Zhongxia, who was only 15 years old, and to marry his eldest brother to a wife with eight characters.
Although Deng Zhongxia had just weakened at that time, he had received a new education since he was a child, and he was also extremely resistant to this ridiculous marriage.
What is helpless is that even if Deng Zhongxia resists in the end, he cannot change his parents' wishes, and can only marry his former sister-in-law Baitang. It was also this ridiculous marriage that made Deng Zhongxia clearly see the people's sorrow under feudalism.
After 1917, Deng Zhongxia, who came to Beijing to study, became acquainted with the early members of the Communist Party of China and began his revolutionary career.
Of course, Deng Zhongxia did not forget his elder sister-in-law who was far away from home, he often wrote letters to care for this woman with a difficult fate, and took out his own manuscript fee to fund Yang Xianhuai to go out to study.
With the support of Deng Zhongxia, Yang Xianhuai successfully graduated from Hunan Girls' School. Subsequently, Deng Zhongxia ignored the severe opposition of his parents and resolutely divorced Yang Xianhuai.
However, it is sad that although Yang Xianhuai, who went out to study, accepted new ideas, the feudal shackles that had long been engraved in her bones still made her accept her sad fate.
In 1926, Deng Zhongxia, who was working in Guangzhou, happened to meet the love of his life, Li Ying.
Li Ying was born in 1909 to a poor family in Hunan Province, and because the family life was extremely difficult at that time, her parents could only sell the young Li Ying to the landlord's family as a child bride.
It was not until Li Ying was 14 years old that her brother Li Qihan redeemed her from the landlord. Like Deng Zhongxia, both of them were early Communist Party members with the same revolutionary convictions, and it was Li Qihan's matchmaking that Deng Zhongxia and Li Ying were able to love and combine smoothly.
In August of the same year, Deng Zhongxia and Li Ying walked into the marriage hall hand in hand under the witness of Liu Shaoqi and others.
After marriage, the two take care of each other in life, learn from each other in the work, discuss each other, and the husband and wife have extremely deep feelings. With the failure of the vigorous National Revolution, Deng Zhongxia and Li Ying also ushered in the first storm in their marriage.
In 1933, there was a disagreement within the party, and Deng Zhongxia and many comrades suffered with them, and Deng Zhongxia at that time not only had to face the pursuit of the Kuomintang reactionaries at all times, but even lived a life of starvation. In desperation, Li Ying, who was pregnant at the time, could only work hard to support her family.
Fortunately, the hardships of life did not make the two of them feel weak, but made their feelings deeper and deeper. Soon Li Ying was overworked, resulting in the early death of the baby.
Deng Zhongxia and Li Ying had a total of four children, but due to work reasons, two children died prematurely, and the other two could only be sent to others to raise.
In 1932, Li Ying, who was working secretly at home, was betrayed by traitors, arrested by the enemy in Shanghai, and sentenced to five years in prison, while Deng Zhongxia, who was out at the time, luckily escaped the disaster.
When Deng Zhongxia looked at his arrested wife, he burst into tears, but the faith in his heart became firmer. Three years later, Deng Zhongxia, who was working in Shanghai, was betrayed by the traitor Lin Suqin and secretly arrested by the enemy.
In order to confirm Deng Zhongxia's identity, kuomintang agents, informed by the traitor Lin Suqin, specially arranged for Deng Zhongxia to meet with Li Ying in prison.
When Li Ying looked at Deng Zhongxia, who was severely tortured, although her heart was in great pain, she was very calm and resolutely refused to admit that the Deng Zhongxia in front of her was her husband. What Li Ying did not expect was that this would be her last meeting with Deng Zhongxia.
In 1933, Deng Zhongxia was taken to Nanjing Yuhuatai for execution, and on the eve of dawn, the CCP member who had devoted his life to revolution collapsed in a pool of blood. Three years later, Li Ying, who had completed his sentence, successfully walked out of prison with the help of party members and went to Yan'an to continue his revolutionary career.
In order to commemorate her husband, Li Ying also changed her name to Li Xiaming, after the founding of New China, Li Ying repeatedly searched for the two children she and Deng Zhongxia sent away, but it was just a vast sea of people, and she searched for many years and never found it.
Perhaps in Li Ying's heart, her husband Deng Zhongxia has never left him forever, and his spirit will always shine on every Chinese child. In those arduous years, it was countless revolutionary sons and daughters like Deng Zhongxia and Li Ying who rebuilt the strong backbone of the Chinese nation.