Tip: When the gunshots rang out, people forever remembered the place where they were married, the Honghuagang Execution Ground in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou; they also always remembered the tragic and moving wedding they held at the last moment of their lives, on the enemy's execution ground, which was unique in ancient and modern China and abroad.
Foshan, abbreviated as "Buddha", is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province. The reason why it is called Foshan is because in the Tang Dynasty, the monks of the Tang Dynasty (also known as the Rinbin Kingdom, the Robber BinGuo, and the Karma BinGuo, which is the name of the ancient Western Regions, located near the Khyber Pass) built a temple, preached the scriptures, promoted Buddhism, and once enshrined three bronze Buddhas in a place called "Tapogang" and identified it as the "Mountain of The Buddha".
Foshan also has another name, Zhongyi Township, that is, during the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, the floods in Guangdong were plagued, the farmland was lost, and the taxes of the imperial court were not reduced, which finally led to the Huangxiaoyang Uprising that broke out in 1449. In 1450, the Ming general Dong Xing led an army to the city, Huang Xiao was defeated and captured, the uprising failed, and the siege of Foshan City was broken. Subsequently, the emperor rewarded him for his merits, and appointed Xian Haotong and twenty-two others as "loyal and righteous officials", built the "Zhongyi Liufang Ancestral Hall", and Foshan gave the name "Zhongyi Township".
In this place with "Buddha" and "loyalty", the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China produced many celebrities who could fist and foot, such as: Huang Feihong, Ip Man, Bruce Lee, etc., so Foshan is also known as the "hometown of martial arts". The hero we are talking about today does not believe in "Buddha", and she does not have the "loyalty" to safeguard the interests of the feudal dynasty in her heart, let alone fist and foot, but because she has unswerving revolutionary ideals and beliefs, she has become a great hero who shines forever and lives endlessly in the hearts of the people of Foshan.
She was a weak woman. There is a primary school in today's Foshan City, whose predecessor was a girls' school founded in 1920 by Guo Jianbing, a progressive youth in the "May Fourth" era. On July 1, 1991, the Foshan Municipal People's Government made a decision to rename the school as Foshan Tiejun Primary School. "Iron Army" is her name, in the concept of many people, "Iron Army" should be a heroic collective, but here, she is a person, commemorating the revolutionary martyr Chen Tiejun, and her spirit is like the vibrant reading sound of children in the Iron Army Elementary School, polishing the past, present and future sky.
In Chen Tiejun's deeds, the most touching thing is her wedding to her lover, whose lover is called Zhou Wenyong. February 6, 1928, was the day they were married. They were covered in scales and shackles, affectionately supporting and snuggling, and walked to the wedding scene. Her lover Zhou Wenyong said: "Give me your hand, let us hold hands..." She stretched out her bloody hand and shook the hand of the lover who was also bloody, and in the pain of the bloody wound, they smiled happily and felt each other's body temperature and heartbeat. One step, two steps... As they walk towards the wedding, so do their lives.
Suddenly, her lover Zhou Wenyong stopped and shook her hard: "Let's turn the execution ground into an auditorium, and let the gunshots of the reactionaries become the salute for our marriage!" She let go of her lover's hand and stood shoulder to shoulder with her lover, but she couldn't help but tilt her head gently on her lover's shoulder, frozen into a lifetime of beauty. In this way, they announced their deeply buried love to the public and solemnly announced their marriage. When the gunshots rang out, people forever remembered the place where they were married, the Honghuagang Execution Ground in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou, and also forever remembered the tragic and moving wedding they held at the last moment of their lives, on the enemy's execution ground, which was unique in ancient and modern China and abroad.
It should be said that their wedding was "perfect", and accompanied by their wedding photos and poems, on January 27, 1928, the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, the people on the street were still enjoying the happiness of the New Year, because of the traitor informant, they were arrested at the same time and went to prison. There, the enemy used torture such as "crane planes" and "tiger stools", but they remained unyielding and did not reveal any secrets of the party organization. On February 5 of the same year, the day before he was taken to the execution ground, Zhou Wenyong offered to meet with Chen Tiejun, and the enemy agreed to his request. The reason is that they have built a deep relationship in their long-term work.
After meeting, the two looked at each other bloodily, only silently watching. Subsequently, Chen Tiejun saw Zhou Wenyong write a poem on the prison wall: "The head can be broken, the limbs can be broken, and the revolutionary spirit is indestructible." The head of the strong man is the party fall, and the body of the good man is a group of cracks. Tears flowed down. But Zhou Wenyong smiled and said to her: "Let's take a group photo, just as a wedding photo..." This is the expression of love? She wiped away her tears, tacitly stood in front of the cell door with Zhou Wenyong, looking at herself and her death, and also made herself and her lover in the photo have no bride and groom at the same time.
Zhou Wenyong was born in Kaiping, Guangdong in 1905 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1925. He once served as a member of the Working Committee of the CPC Guangdong District Committee, the chief of the Guangzhou Workers' Picket Team, the director of the Organization Department of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the secretary of the Working Committee of the Municipal Cpc Committee. After the April 15 counter-revolutionary coup in Guangzhou in 1927, he continued to lead the workers of Guangzhou to persist in the revolutionary struggle. During this period, due to the needs of work, he pretended to be a husband and wife with Chen Tiejun, rented a house with Chen Tiejun in the name of a fake husband and wife, and established an underground municipal party committee organ of the CPC in Guangzhou. Revolutionary friendship and love were established at this time.
After pretending to be husband and wife with Chen Tiejun, Zhou Wenyong's main job was to organize the Guangzhou workers' riots. In order to expose the reactionary face, Zhou Wenyong led the unemployed people to petition and was arrested and imprisoned. "Wife" Chen Tiejun worked out a rescue plan with everyone, and after she sent someone to find out where Zhou Wenyong was being held, she also had people try to tell Zhou Wenyong not to drink tea, so as to cause a "high fever", saying that he was suffering from typhoid fever; and then launched a rebellion against the prisoners to force the enemy to send Zhou Wenyong from prison to the hospital. Subsequently, the plainclothes armed forces that ambushed the hospital were organized to successfully rescue Zhou Wenyong.
After rescuing their "husbands", Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun both threw themselves into the preparations for the Guangzhou Uprising, serving as members of the General Headquarters of the Uprising and commander-in-chief of the Guangzhou Workers' Red Guards, and were elected as members (secretaries) of the Drafting Committee of the Political Program of the Uprising. The friendship and love of the revolution began to heat up in this baptism of blood and fire, but this revolutionary "couple" had no time to confess, and they were still pretending to be husband and wife.
On December 11, 1927, the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, but due to the disparity in strength between the enemy and us, after three days of bloody fighting, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun retreated to Hong Kong, the seat of the provincial party committee at that time. In early January 1928, Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun, for the success of the revolution, the two of them disguised themselves as husband and wife to sneak back to Guangzhou and continue the battle, and then both fell into the clutches of the enemy. From the outbreak of the uprising to the sneak back to Guangzhou, to falling into the clutches of the enemy, there was only one and a half months in between, and the next few days were the thoughts and blessings of the pretend couple facing the torture of the enemy, and love became a verb that did not need to be expressed and buried in the heart, and then achieved the scene in front of the prison gate and on the execution ground.
Today, people say that when the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, the red flag of the Guangzhou Soviet Government also had Chen Tiejun's needle and thread, and that needle and thread also walked through the legendary life of Chen Tiejun: in March 1904, Chen Tiejun was born in Foshan to an overseas Chinese sugar merchant family, formerly known as Chen Xiejun. As a teenager, she was in the midst of China's democratic revolution. The revolutionary torrent of the times constantly impacted the small city of Foshan and brought the dawn of revolution to her. When she was a child, her family sent her to school, and her parents also promised to the son of a rich local businessman in the city, but after meeting each other generously, she found that the other party was a vulgar little boss, so she rushed out of the feudal family, left Foshan, and went to Guangzhou to find a bright way out.
In the propaganda team organized by the students of the Guangdong Provincial Girls' Normal School, those young women who loudly shouted against imperialism, against feudalism, advocated equality between men and women, and advocated democracy and science, awakened Chen Tiejun's naïve and enthusiastic heart like spring thunder. Since then, in pursuit of progress, she has renamed herself the Iron Army, expressing her determination to break with the "old me", determined to follow the Communist Party, and vowing to dedicate everything to the party's revolutionary cause. In this process, the vast number of progressive young people held high the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, were loved by their classmates, and were elected as members of the CPC Branch of Sun Yat-sen University. At the same time, she actively participated in the women's movement, and was elected as the secretary general and third member of the Guangdong Women's Liberation Association, and was also elected as a member of the Women's Movement Committee of the Cpc Guangdong District Committee.
The guns rang out, not one gun, but two guns, or even many guns, and the sound of gunshots could end their lives, but they could not end their revolutionary ideals and love. Standing shoulder to shoulder with your lover, looking at death as if you were returning home, behind you is your lovely hometown - Foshan. When ideals and love are frozen forever, life cannot be only 24 years old. "Buddha" is silent, and no one puts down the gun in their hands because of their unique tragedy and grandeur, but to this day, the people of Foshan still integrate her spirit into the bloodline, constantly drawing the strength to move forward from it, and can surpass all the positive energy.
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