"Vow to be the country and not the home, wading the river and crossing the sea to the end of the world." "The first generation is loyal to the homeland and full of enthusiasm for China." This is an excerpt from "Lyrics on the Riverside" written by the anti-Japanese heroine Zhao Yiman. The poem expresses Zhao Yiman's heroic ambition of abandoning his "small family" for the country and the people, and wading through mountains and rivers without fear. In the war of national independence and liberation in modern China, many heroines like Zhao Yiman emerged in the land of China. And the protagonist of this article is such a female Haojie.
Chen Kangrong, born in 1915, is a returned overseas Chinese from Myanmar. At the age of 15, he returned to his hometown with his father to attend Jimei School, during which time he actively participated in progressive activities. Later, in order to avoid the attention of the Kuomintang, Chen Kangrong had to return to Burma. At that time, although she was in a foreign country, she was concerned about the motherland and actively participated in the overseas Chinese anti-Japanese rescue activities. In 1937, Chen Kangrong returned to Xiamen University and joined the Communist Party of China as he wished. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chen Kangrong resolutely threw herself into the pen, suspended her studies and refused the comfortable life arranged for her by her father in Burma, and threw herself into the anti-Japanese salvation movement, and later joined the western Fujian guerrillas.
In 1938, Chen Kangrong was sent to his hometown of Yongding Qiling to organize anti-Japanese activities. Because she was a teacher in the township primary school in her public identity, she took the Qiling Primary School as her position and set up an anti-enemy support association inside and outside the school, launched various forms of anti-Japanese salvation movements, publicized the party's line, principles, and policies of the war of resistance, propagated the principle of victory in the war of resistance, mobilized the masses to support the front line, and vigorously launched the anti-Japanese salvation movement within a radius of tens of miles.
Just when the Qiling Anti-Japanese Movement was being carried out with great sound and color, the reactionary claws reached out to her. Betrayed by traitors, Chan was arrested in 1940. In order to obtain from her the situation of the Party organization, the enemy first coerced and seduced her, and then tortured her, but in the face of the enemy's torture, she was unyielding, and wrote in the "Letter of Surrender" that the enemy wanted her to write: "Youth is priceless, reunion should not be mentioned, in order to achieve justice, do you have to be afraid of skinning!" After the enemy saw this poem, he stripped off her clothes and pants in anger, hung up and whipped her with a leather whip, and for three consecutive days, Chen Kangrong was beaten and scaled all over his body, but he still refused to give in. On the night of August 16, 1940, on the hill pier in Fushi, the enemy buried her alive. Chen Kangrong was only 25 years old.