On April 8, 1946, Bogu followed Ye Ting and others on the plane back to Yan'an and encountered an air crash, and was only 39 years old when he died.
Bogu was married twice in his lifetime.
His first wife was named Liu Qunxian, although she was born as a female worker, she was an excellent revolutionary, in 1927 was organized to study at Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union, she and Bogu are Wuxi compatriots, the same age, this pair of excellent young people soon fell in love, and married in 1928.
Two years later Liu Qunxian returned to China with her husband, served as the minister of female workers in the Central Soviet District, in 1934 during the Long March of the Red Army, she became one of the 30 female Red Army soldiers in the whole army, after arriving in Yan'an, she became the deputy director of the Federation of Trade Unions, the long march of thousands of miles made her sick, the day and night work after the War of Resistance made her sick, with the consent of her superiors, she went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment in 1939, before leaving, she and Bogu broke off the marriage contract, but unfortunately, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Liu Qunxian died of German bombing.
Bogu's second wife, Zhang Yuexia, was a veteran party member who joined the party in 1927 and was arrested twice while performing underground work in Shanghai, the first time only a few months in prison for insufficient evidence, the second time he was sentenced to 7 years in prison, and only in 1937 was rescued by the organization.
Zhang Yuexia once had a marriage, but her husband Zhang Jien defected after his arrest, this marriage also ended, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Yuexia after his release from prison was transferred to the Organization Department of the Yangtze River Bureau as an organization officer, and Bogu was the director of the Organization Department, because of the working relationship, the two gradually became familiar, in 1939, Bogu and Liu Qunxian divorced, they married Zhang Yuexia in Chongqing, the witness is very familiar with everyone, he is Dong Biwu.
Because both had a failed marriage, they cherished the reorganized family, and after the marriage, the couple loved each other, but unfortunately they were together for only 7 years, and on April 8, 1946, Bogu suffered an accident.
Bogu had a total of 6 children in his lifetime, five children were born by Liu Qunxian, only the younger son Qin Tie was born to Zhang Yuexia, when Bogu died, the second son Xiao Qin Gang (the eldest son was called Great Qin Gang), the second daughter Qin Xinhua and the younger son Qin Tie lived with Zhang Yuexia, the eldest son Qin Gang, the eldest daughter Qin Moya and the younger daughter Qin Jima were not around.
In 1949, Zhang Yuexia managed to find Qin Gang, who lived in Guangzhou, and Qin Jima, who grew up from the Soviet Union's International Children's Directorate, was also taken back to Beijing by the state, but Qin Moya has not been heard.
It turned out that Qin Moya had lived with her aunt since she was a child, and she missed her parents, but she ran out of the house, but she was tricked into going to Chongqing as a maid of someone else's family, until after the liberation of Chongqing, she secretly wrote a letter to her aunt, and was rescued by the organization.
At this time, Zhang Yuexia could form another family, but for the sake of these five children who had lost their parents, she sacrificed her personal happiness and let the 5 orphans have a warm home with great maternal love.
Under the careful care of Zhang Yuexia, the six children grew up healthy, but in the university of the eldest son Da Qin Gang unfortunately suffered from tuberculosis, Zhang Yuexia took time to take care of him, and also sent him to the Beidaihe Sanatorium through the organization, but he still died because of the aggravation of his illness, but as a stepmother, Zhang Yuexia has done her best.