[Editor's Note] "Whoever sends the Jinshu in the clouds, when the goose character returns, the moon is full in the West Building." On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, the reading column specially planned the special topic of "Readers, Red Family Letters", excavating the life stories and family style transmission in the depths of time, and looking for the source of the revolutionaries' spirit, will and emotions.
Today's reading: Zhao Yiman to his son Chen Yexian," "Don't Forget That Your Mother Sacrificed for the Country."
The only group photo of martyr Zhao Yiman with his son. Infographic
One, two, three... The pen poked at his hand until countless blood spots were connected into three words, "Zhao Yiman.". Chen Yexian no longer felt pain. Compared with the pain suffered by my mother 21 years ago, what is this pain?
In the early years, he and his father Chen Dabang (a native of Changsha, Hunan, Ren Bishi's brother-in-law) watched the movie "Zhao Yiman", the female political commissar of the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, with a red gun and a white horse, galloping in Lin Hai, and leading the anti-Japanese resistance with great hardship, which made him extremely revered.
In 1957, suddenly one day, someone traveled from the northeast to verify the identity of zhao Yiman. He was shocked to hear that Zhao Yiman on the screen was his biological mother Li Kuntai, who had been separated for 21 years.
Chen Yexian heard with tears that when he consulted the Harbin Japanese archives, he found a secret file detailing the murder of martyr Zhao Yiman, and one of the yellowed post-prison photos confirmed to be Li Kuntai himself.
Zhao Yiman in the secret file healed his injuries. Infographic
Zhao Yiman also wrote two suicide notes to his son, the original of which is in the Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall.
Chen Yexian rushed to the northeast in tears, copied the suicide note, and with tears in his eyes, he stabbed "Zhao Yiman" deeply in his hand with a fountain pen.
The martyr's suicide note was 21 years late; the true identity of the martyr was finally revealed.
In that bloody and unyielding era, revolution meant death and danger. Li Kuntai pseudonym "Zhao Yiman", Chen Yexian pseudonym "Ning Er", "wrong" plus "wrong", doomed to "check no one", how many people here can not bear the weight, family affection can not bear the sorrow, only the sky can learn.
Step back in time, August 2, 1936...
Zhao Yiman, political commissar of the Second Regiment of the Third Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, is about to go to the execution ground. In the dangling prison cart of Riko, in the dim light, she tearfully wrote a suicide note to her son. Arrested for 9 months, she was tortured like a beast, and her life was coming to an end, although she was exhausted, her will was more and more frustrated. However, at the last moment of her life, she removed all her armor and returned to her motherhood.
The original suicide note of martyr Zhao Yiman. Infographic
In the first suicide note, she sadly admonished her son: "Mother and you will never have a chance to see each other again." Hope you, Ning'er! Hurry up adults and come and comfort your underground mother! ”
"I hope you don't forget that your mother died for the country!" "O my dearest child! Mother does not use a thousand words to educate you, but uses practical actions to educate you. ”
However, she then wrote a second suicide note.
"Mother went to the northeast to find a profession, and at the end of today's misfortune, who knows?" "Your father came to the northeast to die in the northeast, and your mother followed in his footsteps. My child, dear poor my child! ”
This additional suicide note contains a huge secret. Her husband did not die, and in order to protect her family from being hunted down and persecuted by the enemy, she deliberately left misinformation and never revealed her and her son's real names. Her love for her son is so deep and delicate, great and real!
Between the fate of the nation and the life of the individual, between the revolutionary road and the screaming young children, who knows how difficult the choice of a mother is!
Military attire when attending the Whampoa Military Academy. Infographic
Li Kuntai, a native of Yibin, Sichuan, was born in 1905 into a wealthy family, joined the party at the age of 21, and enrolled in the sixth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy at the age of 22. However, the September 18 Incident changed the fate of the country and shattered the happy life of thousands of Chinese families.
In the spring of 1932, his son Chen Yexian was less than 3 years old. Li Kuntai received a dispatch from the Party Central Committee to secretly go to the northeast to resist Japan. Since then, as soon as the yellow crane has gone, there has been no news, leaving only a mother and son group photo.
Soon, the northeast anti-Japanese battlefield killed a heroine named Zhao Yiman. Leading the workers' movement, organizing guerrillas, red guns and white horses, and haunting the japanese and pseudo-reactionaries, hated them to the bone.
In the autumn and winter of 1935, Zhao Yiman organized a battle against Japan and was captured due to a leg injury and was in a coma. In order to obtain intelligence from the Northeast Anti-Japanese League, the Japanese army tortured her with various perverts, humiliated her, and even stabbed her leg wound with a red-hot soldering iron. Nine months later, Zhao Yiman is still proud: "My purpose, my doctrine, and my belief are to oppose Manchu resistance." ”
She left behind the poem "Binjiang Shuhuai": "Oath to be a person not to be home, wading the river and crossing the sea to the end of the world." Men are all good, women are very different. Without sparing the head of the new homeland, Gan will be enthusiastic about China. The white mountain and black water removed the enemy, and smiled at the flag red like a flower. ”
Zhao Yiman led the tram workers' general strike of the tram. Infographic
At the time of her death, she was only 31 years old and had been separated from her son for 4 years.
When death comes, who is the name that the mother remembers? Who is the mother's tears washed away the thoughts? Only children!
The suicide note left by martyr Zhao Yiman to his son is full of fist and love for his son, but it is also a profound patriotic education. She redefined the height of maternal love, that is, in times of national crisis, "vowing to be a man and not a home", and seeking a better future for the whole nation with selfless love and sacrifice.
In the beacon of the search for national liberation, there is a kind of maternal love called "Zhao Yiman", which does not exist in isolation, but stands among many female martyrs. Zhao Yiman, Yang Kaihui, Sister Jiang, Zhao Yunxiao, Wang Shuzhen... Before the sacrifice, they all wrote bloody last words and letters of loneliness for their children, and they bid farewell to their children with pain, and sang a different kind of touching mother's love song with a broader, stronger, braver and loving mind. This love, earth-shattering weeping ghosts and gods, transcends the individual and goes to the far-reaching height of national love!
Text: Chen Xiaodan
Read aloud: Minying Chen
Reader Red Family Letter
Series of articles:
Reader Red Family Letter: Born Ruo Xia Hua to the police
Reader Red Family Letter: Proud Yang Feng Bone Yang Kaihui
Reader Red Family Letter: "The Camel of the People" Ren Bishi
Reader Red Family Letter: He finally sent a newspaper "Comrades, farewell forever!" ”
Reader Red Family Letter: "Red Boat" carried a letter from home
Reader Red Family Letter: "Iron Armor Commander" Xu Guangda Iron Blood Protector Party
Reader Red Family Letter: Glorious Love: Holding the Hand of the Son, Dying with the Son!
Reader, Red Family Letter: Zuo Quan's Affectionate "Thoughts"