introduction
The reason why the Chinese nation has been able to stand tall among the nations of the world for thousands of years has a lot to do with our unique spiritual character and is the most typical representative spirit of the Chinese nation since ancient times; in the face of great difficulties and how powerful the enemy is, the Chinese nation will never yield, and in the face of foreign invasion, many heroic sons and daughters have sacrificed their lives for the safety and security of the country.
In the arduous course of China's struggle for national independence and national rejuvenation in modern times, countless great revolutionary ancestors have emerged, many of whom are brothers in the family, or fathers and sons who have joined the revolutionary movement together and have gone forward for the great revolutionary cause, such as Comrade Li Dazhao, one of the founders of communism in our country, who devoted his life to the spread of communist ideas. The three Yang family brothers represented by Comrade Yang Shangkun, whom I want to talk about today, have all made outstanding contributions to China's revolutionary cause.
Among the three brothers, the youngest Yang Baibing ranked twelfth in the family, the youngest of the Yang family. Born in September 1920 in Shuangjiang, Sichuan, he was influenced by his two older brothers, Yang Mingong and Yang Shangkun, who grew up with a dislike for the feudal rule of the warlords of the old society. In order to pursue advanced communist ideas, Yang Baibing came to a middle school in Chengdu to study, and during his studies, he came into contact with many young intellectuals with advanced ideas, read many progressive books on communist ideas, and actively participated in ideological propaganda activities.
In 1938, in order to follow the great proletarian leaders, the 18-year-old Yang Baibing came to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, entered the Northern Shaanxi Public School and began to study Marxism systematically. After completing more than 8 months of military training, Yang Baibing came to work in the Jin-Cha-Ji revolutionary base area, participated in many famous battles, and brilliantly completed the tasks entrusted to him by the superior organization. In the War of Liberation, he led his troops to participate in many decisive and important battles such as the Battle of Huaihai and the Battle of Crossing the River, and made important contributions to the liberation of all China by the People's Liberation Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Baibing has also been committed to the military and national defense construction in southwest China, and was promoted to general in 1988.
Among the three brothers, Yang Shangkun held the position of the supreme leader of the country after the founding of New China, and everyone is most familiar with him. In 1907, Yang Shangkun was born, due to the large number of brothers and sisters in the family, the parents would exercise their independent life ability when they were very young, Yang Shangkun earned money by doing odd jobs outside in his youth, and used the money earned to subsidize the family. When Yang Shangkun was more than ten years old, he bid farewell to his parents, followed the advice of his fourth brother Yang Mingong, and went to a publicly-funded school in Chengdu to study.
In 1926, Yang Shangkun was selected to go to Shanghai to study, in order to deeply contact with communist ideas, Yang Shangkun followed a part of the CCP cadres, went to Moscow, the Soviet Union to study, after returning to China, served as the propaganda director of the Central Committee and other positions, organized and participated in a number of patriotic salvation movements. During the most difficult period of the Communist Party of China from 1933 to 1935, Yang Shangkun always firmly implemented the principle of serving the people and proceeding from reality in everything, always maintained a unified political attitude with Chairman Mao, and firmly safeguarded the correct thinking within the party. Comrade Yang Shangkun spent most of his political career in the central government, and after liberation, he held senior positions in important departments such as the Political Bureau and the Military Commission of the Central Committee, and was elected President of the People's Republic of China at the Seventh Session of the National People's Congress in April 1988.
The revolutionary ideals and beliefs of the brothers Yang Shangkun and Yang Baibing are inseparable from the influence of Yang Mingong. Born in 1898, Yang Mingong established a good patriotic ideology from an early age, and like many aspiring young people of that era, he regarded the independence of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation as his responsibility. He went to Nanjing at the age of 15, entered the officer school to participate in the training of military command, graduated with excellent results, joined the revolution that overthrew the feudal rule of yuan shikai and other old warlords, but there were still the core ideas of feudal capitalism within the Kuomintang, Yang Mingong realized that after taking the initiative to leave the team and go to Japan to study, in Tokyo, Yang Mingong met many excellent proletarian intellectuals, he realized that only communism can save China.
In September 1920, Yang Mingong returned to Sichuan and carried out a movement to spread proletarian ideas in the local area, and in 1926, Yang Mingong led the establishment of the Chongqing Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China, organized and participated in many armed revolutionary uprisings in Sichuan and Chongqing, and successfully spread the seeds of the proletarian revolutionary movement on the land of Sichuan and Chongqing. In 1927, Comrade Yang Mingong was arrested by the reactionaries, and in prison the enemy brutally tortured him, but Yang Mingong's revolutionary beliefs were unbreakable, and he finally died heroically at the age of 29.
epilogue
The three brothers of the Yang family have dedicated their entirety to the Chinese revolution, the fourth brother Yang Mingong has been heroic and righteous, and Yang Shangkun and Yang Baibing have taken over their brother's faith on the revolutionary road and have struggled unremittingly for it all their lives.