In the War of Resistance Against Japan, many outstanding patriotic heroes emerged, and among these patriotic heroes was such a legendary woman, who was a very powerful and important member of our Party and a revolutionary who constantly broke the decadent world, who was full of confidence in establishing a new era that belonged to the people and regarded it as her life's faith.
The legendary woman I want to talk about today is Zhao Yiman, she has a very important position in the history of our party, after her heroic sacrifice, Mao Zedong and Chen Yi and others have given high praise, even her son, after the founding of New China, our party must find special care.
Progressive youth who dare to break stereotypes
Zhao Yiman was born in 1905, is a native of Yibin, Sichuan, formerly known as Li Kuntai, also known as Li Yichao, her father is a local feudal landlord, can be described as a solid family, her family has a total of 8 brothers and sisters, Zhao Yiman ranked seventh, but even if she ranked seventh, and was also born in the feudal landlord's family, but her parents still gave Zhao Yiman the opportunity to read and write, when she was young, she sent him to a private school to study.
In 1918, after the death of Zhao Yiman's father, the eldest brother and sister-in-law housekeeper, but they still supported Zhao Yiman's study, and Zhao Yiman's family, as well as brother-in-law Zheng Youzhi was also an early member of our party, under his influence, Zhao Yiman's thinking produced some subtle changes.
In 1924, Zhao Yiman, who was already 19 years old, joined the Socialist Youth League under the introduction of his brother-in-law Zheng Youzhi (a member of the first Sichuan Provincial Party Committee in China), and his understanding of our party gradually deepened. Although Zhao Yiman was born in the landlord family of the old society, she has been deeply touched by the sufferings of the people since she was a child, and she has the idea of saving the suffering and the difficulties, which is very valuable.
It is also under the influence of Zhao Yiman's ideology that she will get closer and closer to our party. After Zhao Yiman became a member of the regiment, she was actually still studying, and her grades were very good, and in 1926 she was admitted to Yibin Girls' High School (now Yibin No. 2 Middle School in Sichuan Province).
At that time, the school was full of the influence of progressive ideas, there were many advanced organizations, Zhao Yiman after enrollment, actively joined some patriotic organizations, and was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Girls' Secondary School Students' Union and the head of the Communication Unit and other important positions, relying on his outstanding performance in the school, and finally Zhao Yiman officially changed from a member of the League to a party member, and served as the secretary of the Yibin Women's Federation and the Student Federation Party Group.
After becoming a party member, Zhao Yiman also organized members of our party to propagate among the students in accordance with the instructions of the central authorities, and resolutely resisted the arrival of British kerosene ships at the Yibin Wharf, because of this move, the students who participated in the boycott activities were suppressed by armed forces, but even so, it still did not affect everyone's revolutionary enthusiasm, and after the students were armedly suppressed, a city-wide strike, strike, and class strike broke out, which gave the authorities great pressure.
It can be said that in these patriotic actions, Zhao Yiman played a very important role, to know that at that time she was only a girl in her early twenties, she was already able to have such courage and courage, enough to see Zhao Yiman's strength, that is, relying on these excellent performances, Zhao Yiman was more recognized and appreciated by our party, and finally in November 1926, let her enter the Wuhan branch of the Central Military and Political School for further study.
In September 1927, Zhao Yiman became one of the few women among the students who went to study at sun yat-sen university in Moscow, Soviet Union, with excellent results. During his studies in Moscow, Zhao Yiman met Chen Dabang, and the two soon fell in love, and married in April 1928, and Zhao Yiman became pregnant shortly after the marriage.
However, Zhao Yiman did not tell Chen Dabang about her pregnancy, and even when the two were separated, they were not happy, and after Zhao Yiman was ordered to return to China, he was assigned by the organization to work in Yichang, when she was pregnant, but still insisted on working.
In February 1929, Zhao Yiman gave birth to a son in Yichang, named Chen Yexian, nicknamed "Ning'er", after the birth of this child, Zhao Yiman fostered it in the home of Chen Dabang's brother Chen Yueyun, Chen Dabang was after his brother informed the news, only to understand that when he and Zhao Yiman left, she was already pregnant, but because Chen Dabang had later re-established a new family, Chen Yexian had lived in the home of his uncle Chen Yueyun since he was a child, lacking the love of his parents. It had a great influence on Chen Yexian's later character formation.
Heroic sacrifices in the war against Japan
In 1931, after the "918" incident, Zhao Yiman was transferred to the Shenyang factory in the northeast to lead the workers' struggle, and after working here for a year, Zhao Yiman became the secretary of the Manchurian Federation of Trade Unions and the director of the organization department and other important positions, which shows that his ability is indeed very strong.
In 1933, Zhao Yiman was also the acting secretary of the Harbin Federation of Trade Unions, and during his tenure organized many patriotic activities, which were recognized by the people and organizations, at that time the masses affectionately called her "Sister Li", and the local fighters called her "our female political commissar".
In 1935, in the process of fighting with the Japanese army, Zhao Yiman in order to cover the withdrawal of troops, unfortunately fell unconscious after being shot in the leg, when she woke up, she found that she had been captured by the Japanese army, the Japanese army in order to be able to get important reports from Zhao Yiman, they found a military doctor to deal with his leg injury, and when Zhao Yiman's condition improved slightly, after some wake-up, the Japanese army interrogated Zhao Yiman overnight, hoping to get useful information from it.
Unfortunately, Zhao Yiman was loyal and unswerving, even if the wounds on his legs were painful and combined with all kinds of torture and torture by the enemy, Zhao Yiman was still unswerving, never mentioning half a word about our party information, and after several consecutive comas, Zhao Yiman's first words when he woke up were still: "My purpose, my doctrine, and my belief are anti-Manchu resistance."
After continuous torture by the Japanese army, still did not get any useful information, at this time Zhao Yiman, has long been in danger, the Japanese army saw Zhao Yiman gradually unconscious, worried that she really died can not get more useful information, so he sent her to the hospital for treatment, wait until the condition improves to continue interrogation.
During the hospital, after Zhao Yiman's condition improved, he painstakingly plotted against the female nurse who treated himself and the policeman guarding him, in Zhao Yiman's impassioned words, the patriotic feelings in their hearts were ignited, and finally the guarding police officer Dong Xianxun and the female nurse Han Yongyi assisted Zhao Yiman to escape from the hospital and send him to the home of Uncle Dong Xianxun in Acheng County with a car hired in advance.
After Zhao Yiman's condition improved, she left Dong Xianxun's uncle's house and continued to go to the local anti-Japanese guerrilla zone, because Zhao Yiman's leg wound did not heal, it was not very convenient to move, plus the enemy had been searching for Zhao Yiman, so in the end Zhao Yiman was once again chased by the Japanese army on the way to the anti-Japanese guerrilla zone, and brought back to Harbin.
This time, the Japanese army did not have the patience of the last time, and directly used extremely cruel torture such as tiger stools and electrocution to force Zhao Yiman to tell the news of the members of our party's underground organization.
Zhao Yiman was only 31 years old when he died, and after learning the bad news of Zhao Yiman's sacrifice, Mao Zedong's mood could not be calmed for a long time, and after saying a sentence of "heroic heroine among women", he was silent for a long time, and Chen Yi and Dong Biwu and others all wrote poems to express their deep condolences to Zhao Yiman.
epilogue
Although Zhao Yiman's life is forever fixed at the age of 31, but the country and the people have never forgotten her and her patriotic spirit, after the founding of New China, Mao Zedong also asked the staff to find every means to find Zhao Yiman's son Chen Yexian and give him special care, in 2009, Zhao Yiman was named one of the "100 heroic model figures who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China", our descendants have never forgotten her, her spirit and story will be immortal!
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