In 1906, after Qiu Jin returned from studying in Japan, she adopted a woman named Wu Min. Under the influence of Qiu Jin, she is not only Qiu Jin's student, but also Qiu Jin's most powerful assistant. After the founding of the Republic of China, Wu Min lived in Shanghai in anonymity, and it was not until her later years that people learned of her relationship with Qiu Jin.
Wu Min was born in 1887 in Wuxing, Zhejiang. His parents died when he was 9 years old, and his grandfather was gone when he was 14 years old. In order to take care of his grandfather's funeral and the family's debts, he was sold by his clan to Lao Hegong as a child bride.
At the age of 19, she fled to Qian Qinyun's house, qian Qinyun was the trustee of Xunxi Girls' School, and was good friends with Qiu Jin, who worked at the school, and they were very sympathetic to Wu Min's anti-marriage escape. Soon, Wu Min's whereabouts were discovered by the in-laws, and they sent people to ask for people, and Qiu Jin argued on the basis of reason, willing to redeem Wu Min.
The other party knew that Qiu Jin and Qian Qinyun were capable people, so they had to agree. Qiu Jin sold all her jewelry before redeeming Wu Min. Since then, Wu Min has vowed to follow Qiu Jin to the death and start her new life.
Wu Min was Qiu Jin's most trusted revolutionary partner
Subsequently, Wu Min entered the Xunxi Girls' School to study. She is intelligent by nature and is the first place in every exam. Soon, Qiu Jin and Qian Qinyun opened another hospital, and Wu Min was drawn to work as a temporary nurse. In 1906, Qiu Jin founded the "China Women's Daily", and Wu Min worked in the women's persuasion company founded by Qiu Jin.
In the winter of the same year, Qiu Jin succeeded Xu Xilin in presiding over the Chase Sports Normal School, and Wu Min also lived in Qiu Jin's home, and the Qiu family called Wu Min Miss Wu. At this time, Wu Min was not only in charge of Qiu Jin's daily life, but also the most powerful assistant of Qiu Jin's revolutionary activities.
At the beginning of 1907, when Qiu Jin was actively preparing to organize the anti-Qing uprising revolutionary armed Guangfu Army, the correspondence, letters and telegrams and confidential documents exchanged were all copied and kept by Wu Min.
At that time, Qiu Jin served as the assistant leader of the Guangfu Army, and 28 gold rings were cast in the army, and the ring surface was engraved with a "辕" character as a contact code.
Wu Min was also awarded a ring with the character 辕. She often carried it in her hand, and her family did not know it, thinking that it was a gift from Qiu Jin personally. Wu Min never mentioned it, never explaining the origin of the ring. During this period, Qiu Jin traveled to various places to contact the party and strengthen the armed forces.
Wu Min followed Qiu Jin, and everywhere they went, they would pretend to be servants or sisters, so until Qiu Jin's death, even among Qiu Jin's relatives, only Wu Min was a student of Qiu Jin.
Qiu Jin died, and Wu Min continued the revolution
On July 15, 1907, Qiu Jin was killed in Shaoxing, and Wu Min, like a thousand arrows piercing her heart, said: "The spiritual stimulation she received in her life was nothing more than the pain of losing her teacher." But in the dangerous situation at that time, she could only secretly lament.
Three months later, the wind gradually calmed down, Qiu Jin's brother and sister-in-law returned from refuge in other places, Wu Min and Qiu Jin's brother discussed, decided to go to Shanghai to find Xu Jichen and Xu Xiaoshu, the principals of Xunxi Girls' School. When Wu Min was parting, he said to Qiu Jin's brother and sister-in-law, "I must not forget the teachings of my predecessors and vow to make efforts to strive for women's liberation." ”
Wu Min successfully found Principal Xu Jichen, and soon, with the help of President Xu, she went to Shanghai Yuxian Girls' School to study, and later studied nursing in the hospital. From this time on, Wu Min took the name Wu Huiqiu to show his eternal ambition for Qiu Jin.
At this time, she began to contact the revolutionary comrades familiar to the Guangfu Society, carried out underground work, and gradually opened up a new situation, becoming an excellent liaison officer of the Guangfu Society. After Wu Min graduated, she continued to stay in the hospital and work. In less than half a year, the battle to restore Shanghai began rapidly.
Wu Min immediately joined the fight, and she was assigned to the ambulance team to rescue the wounded. During the attack on the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau of Gaochang Temple, he rescued a warrior named Yan Weisan, who was dying, and Wu Min single-handedly carried him away from the line of fire and was sent to the rear hospital.
After the battle, Yan under the careful care of Wu Min, the wound healed quickly, Yan was very grateful to Wu Min for saving his life, and since then the two have become good friends who have nothing to talk about, and later, the two actually formed a revolutionary partner with their hearts.
In 1912, Qiu Jin's former friend Xu Jichen and others founded the Jingxiong Girls' School named after Qiu Jin's nickname in Shanghai. Wu Min was also invited to work as a teacher at the girls' school. For more than ten years, every July 15, she would sacrifice Qiu Jin, never interrupted.
After Wu Min got married, she left Jingxiong Girls' School and became an ordinary housewife. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she met Qiu Jin's sister-in-law in Shanghai. At that time, Wu Min's wife had died, the children were still young, and the family's economic situation was not very good.
But she is full of hope for life, once said, "Qiu Shi spilled blood Xuanting, her spirit of seeing death as a homecoming for the revolution, always gave me the greatest inspiration of my life, life is endless, no matter how difficult the environment is, I will struggle." ”
Life goes on, and the environment struggles no matter how hard it is
In 1957, the state held a commemorative event for Qiu Jin in Shaoxing, and Qiu Jin's former residence was also opened at the same time. As far as the influence was concerned, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government learned that Wu Min had followed Qiu Jin and had contributed to the revolution, so it inquired about Wu Min's whereabouts.
At this time, Wu Min was already a white-haired old man, and she was buried in anonymity in Shanghai's Lanqiao Small Vegetable Market, a vendor selling pickles for a living. When the government found her with difficulty, she was mobilized several times before she admitted that she was a student of Qiu Jin.
When asked why she refused to reveal her past identity, she cried and said, "In the more than thirty years since the founding of the Republic of China, I have been indifferent to others. Now that I have fallen into this step, I am not only ashamed of the teacher's cultivation and rescue of me, but also afraid of tarnishing the noble image of the teacher, so it is still good not to say it. ”
In fact, at that time, Wu Min's children and grandchildren had grown up, but she still insisted on supporting herself, in order to fulfill her vow of "life is endless, the environment is no longer bitter", this stubborn character, and Qiu Jin is exactly the same.
In 1957, Chen Yi appointed Wu Min as a librarian at the Shanghai Museum of Culture and History. Since then, the life of the elderly Wu Min has been guaranteed. In her later years she also wrote a number of articles about the revolution. In 1977, Comrade Wu Min died in Shanghai at the age of 91.