During the period of the modern national liberation movement, a number of national heroes emerged to save the country and defend the country without letting their eyebrows be raised. There is such a heroine in Shuzhong who does not seek fame and fortune, and for the sake of the revolution, even her son can only be entrusted to the care of others.
She is the modern national hero - Zhao Yiman, who died young in the anti-Japanese struggle in northeast China in 1936 at the age of 31, and used "youth to exchange mountains and rivers for strong, and blue blood stained the heavens and the earth red."
Today, there are also many literary and artistic works commemorating Ms. Zhao Yiman, praising the spirit of the Sons and Daughters of China in rebelling against independence, "The Song of Zhao Yiman from all over the world, the eternal memory of the heroine of all people", which can also be regarded as the best comfort for Zhao Yiman and other martyrs.
Don't love red clothes, love to be armed
Zhao Yiman was born in Yibin, Sichuan in 1905, his original name was Li Kuntai, also known as Li Yichao. Zhao Yiman was born into a landlord family, entered a private school at the age of 8, her father died at the age of 13, and in 1924, her brother-in-law introduced her to join the Socialist Youth League.
When she was young, Zhao Yiman's thinking was relatively progressive, and she opposed the backward feudal customs, prohibited foot binding, and even used a kitchen knife to chop up foot wraps and small pointed shoes. In order to promote women's liberation, the "Women's Liberation League" was organized, and in order to expand its influence, slogans were posted in the downtown area, and the squires were drawn in the form of cartoons as foxes and dogs.
The local local squire hated her to the bone and threatened to splash her with dung, but this did not shake Zhao Yiman's revolutionary belief, and her mother also wanted to use female red to stimulate Zhao Yiman's daughter's heart and let her learn embroidery. Helplessly, "the sons and daughters of China are more than qizhi, do not love red clothes and love arms", Zhao Yiman did not show a flower for 9 months, but read a lot of revolutionary books.
When Zhao Yiman was studying at Yibin Girls' High School, in accordance with the requirements of feudal etiquette at that time, it was stipulated that all students in the girls' school should wear buns. At that time, new ideas had already erupted, but the feudal etiquette imprisoned people was still strong.
In order to resist the old etiquette system, Zhao Yiman led several female classmates to find the superintendent, "We can't comb our heads, we can't pull the bun, please give the comb and give the bun!" Traditional Taoist etiquette is to ask women to talk about three from four virtues, and these stubborn old masters have never seen such a "wanton" female doll. Subsequently, Zhao Yiman and his classmates cut their own short hair, and of course they were expelled from the school controlled by feudal forces.
In 1926, he joined our Party and actively engaged in revolutionary work, and in the autumn of 1927 he was sent to Moscow to study, and a year later he returned to China to engage in revolutionary work.
In 1928, Zhao Yiman married Chen Dabang from Hunan and gave birth to a son the following year, named Chen Yexian and nicknamed "Ning'er". After raising Ning Er to the age of one, he had to put the child in the house of her husband's brother for revolutionary work.
Don't let the eyebrows be shaved
During the Great Revolution, Zhao Yiman entered the girls' team of the Wuchang Central Military Academy and became one of the first batch of female cadets of the military academy in modern China. Later, in the revolutionary military academy, the students were organized into independent divisions, and Ye Ting commanded the westward march. At that time, Zhao Yiman was still in a hospital bed, struggling to join the battle, and she wrote in her poem: "If the boys are all good, why are the women so bad?" ”
When Zhao Yiman was serving as a political commissar in the anti-coalition team, the team was surrounded by enemies and needed someone to stay behind to cover the team, so she took the initiative to ask to stay, but the regimental commander did not agree because she was a female comrade.
Zhao Yiman, who was usually kind, suddenly became stern: "What a man or a woman! Whoever said lesbians can't cover up! "Zhao Yiman's thinking is very advanced and very progressive, because she is a female comrade, objectively a minority in the revolution, and there is nothing wrong with taking extra care of her, and comrades will not be harsh. But she not only pursues women's rights, but also consciously fulfills her obligations, which is really admirable.
Perhaps the greatest respect is not to see women as vassals, nor as commodities, nor as vulnerable groups. When the gender differences between men and women are only at the physiological level, not at the social level, it should be relatively fair.
Zhao Yiman's strength of not accepting defeat is of particularly great significance in the period of great changes that have not occurred in China in the millennium and the survival of the nation. She resisted both imperialist colonial exploitation and the feudal ritual system of "cannibalism", and as a feudal woman, she also had to oppose the oppression of women by male power.
The feudal system may have been buried, but Zhao Yiman's free spirit of resisting oppression and pursuing independence has always inspired people. As long as human oppression and exploitation exist, the flame of the spirit of freedom to resist the struggle will never die.
Red gun white horse real heroine
After the September 18 Incident, Zhao Yiman went to the northeast to engage in revolutionary work and led the workers' struggle in the Shenyang factory. He first carried out organizational work in the Harbin Manchurian Federation of Trade Unions, and later served as the acting secretary of the Harbin Federation of Trade Unions, participating in the leadership of the anti-Japanese strike struggle of Harbin tram workers.
After the Harbin organization was destroyed by the enemy, she went to the Pearl River to mobilize the masses and organize the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Force to cooperate with the main anti-Japanese forces to fight in coordination, deal a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppets, and contain the Japanese and Kosovars.
During her tenure as political commissar of the First Division and The Second Regiment of the Third Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, the masses affectionately called her "Skinny Li" and "Sister Li", while local fighters called her "our female political commissar". Even the Japanese army had heard of Zhao Yiman's name and marveled at the woman who was "red gun and white horse".
In the autumn of 1935, during a guerrilla struggle with the Japanese army, Zhao Yiman, who was wounded in the leg, was captured by the Japanese army to cover the troops, and in order to collect valuable information, the Japanese army briefly treated his leg injury and interrogated him overnight.
In prison, the Japanese army used torture and stabbed her wounds with a horse whip, and Zhao Yiman fainted many times in pain, but did not reveal a single information about the revolution, and still unyieldingly denounced all kinds of ugly crimes committed by the Japanese army in invading China.
Although Zhao Yiman was determined and uncompromising, his leg injury was seriously life-threatening. In order to obtain an important confession, the Japanese army sent it to the hospital for surveillance and treatment.
During her hospitalization, Zhao Yiman educated the police and nurses guarding her on anti-Japanese patriotism, and the two who changed their minds decided to help her escape. Zhao Yiman was first quietly carried out of the hospital, sent to a prepared car, and after several twists and turns, he arrived at Dong Xianxun's uncle's house, and later was unfortunately arrested on the way to the guerrilla zone, and fell into the clutches of the Japanese army again.
After being taken back to the cage, the Japanese army inflicted inhumane torture on Zhao Yiman, such as a tiger stool, pepper water, and electrocution, but never found anything. The Japanese eventually gave up hope of getting information from her mouth and decided to execute her for public display.
In 1936, Zhao Yiman was escorted to Zhuhe, she was tied to a big car, in Zhuhe County "parade street parade", on the way to sing the "Red Flag Song", the villagers all wept bitterly. On August 2, he was 31 years old. Zhao Yiman once wrote a poem: "I did not hesitate to head the new homeland, and I will be willing to fertilize China with my blood." The white mountain and black water removed the enemy, and smiled at the flag red like a flower. ”
Zhao Yiman's son Chen Yexian
Before his death, Zhao Yiman wrote a scroll of paper for his son, leaving a thought for his son: "Mother is really sorry that you have not fulfilled your responsibility for education. ”
She not only loves her son, but also regrets and blames herself for having to leave her son because of her career. At the same time, it is also full of the mother's deep expectations for her son: "Today has reached the eve of sacrifice, I hope you, Ning Er! Hurry up adults and come and comfort your underground mother! When you grow up, hopefully don't forget that your mother died for your country! ”
Zhao Yiman was separated from his son since childhood, although the mother and son did not get along for a long time, but Chen Yexian missed his birth mother very deeply. After knowing that his mother was heroic and righteous, Chen Yexian was deeply saddened, but he also felt the greatness of his mother.
In 1955, when the government learned that Chen Yexian was the child of Zhao Yiman, a famous anti-Japanese soldier, it wanted to give him some pension, but he did not hesitate to refuse, and he did not want to exchange his mother's heroic righteousness for a pension.
Chen Yexian even taught his children not to be proud of their grandmother's heroic deeds, but to always remember her grandmother's righteous spirit.
In order to commemorate his mother, Chen Yexian carved the three words "Zhao Yiman" on his arm. In 1957, Chen Yexian married and later had two children, but the husband and wife were not harmonious. He divorced his wife in 1960, but the two remarried after their old love affair.
During the period of turmoil, Chen Yexian's father was imprisoned, for which he ran around, and in the end, instead of rescuing his father, he put himself in it and lived in a cowshed.
Later, by the time Chen Yexian was rehabilitated, his wife had already died of illness, which made him suffer a great mental blow. He hanged himself at home in 1982 at the age of 53
brief summary:
Zhao Yiman's life was a life of ideological progress and positive progress, and he was always fighting against the feudal and backward system, against the exploitation and oppression of imperialism, and for the cause of women's liberation.
Although she died young, her dedication to the cause has been deeply engraved in the minds of future generations, inspiring future generations to strive for the cause of eliminating inequality.
She did not leave anything for her family, and even sacrificed too many families for the revolutionary cause, "vowing to be a man not to be a family, crossing the river and crossing the sea to the end of the world", this fearless revolutionary sacrifice spirit shines in future generations, "for the sacrifice of many heroic ambitions, dare to call the sun and the moon for a new day", idealists for the ideal of lifelong struggle is respectable, the power of thought into material force can change the world.