The little martyr we mentioned above is the son of the revolutionary martyrs Xu Linxia and Song Qiyun, and his nickname is Little Radish Head.
Song Qiyun was the secretary of General Yang Hucheng, and in an urgent report from his family that year, he returned to his hometown from the army without hesitation, but he did not expect that this was originally part of the careful plan of the reactionaries.
Xu Linxia and Song Qiyun
Song Qiyun, who had just arrived at her hometown, was arrested and imprisoned by reactionary agents, Xu Linxia was worried about her husband's condition, some of them suffered from gains and losses, and helplessly held their eight-month-old son (the younger son was called Song Zhenzhong) around the arrest room to keep inquiring, she did not expect that the women and children who were family members had also become the target of the secret agents, and made up reasons to deceive Xu Linxia to a location, and carried out the arrest, really even the nine-month-old child did not let go, saying that he was also a political prisoner.
The young Song Zhenzhong was in a difficult prison, and he could only follow his mother to eat rotten cabbage and rice in prison, otherwise he would starve to death. From childhood, I slept on my mother's stomach as a bed.
Stills of the little radish head
Until Song Zhenzhong was five or six years old, malnutrition looked even more emaciated, and his whole body appeared to have a big head, so the revolutionaries in prison, as uncles and aunts teased him, gave him a nickname of "little radish head".
When Xiao Radish Head reached the age of five or six and should go to school, Song Qiyun had cheekily repeatedly requested to give Song Zhenzhong the opportunity to go to school, but the secret service faction always refused such a demand on the grounds that they were all prisoners.
The comrades in prison really couldn't see it anymore, so they launched a collective rebellion, and the secret service faction could not allow Song Zhenzhong to study in prison, that is, the revolutionary fighters who were in prison at that time taught him to read and draw, and to recite some ancient poems.
Song Zhenzhong's painting in prison
You don't have to say that although Song Zhenzhong has a big head, this smart big head may contain something. The multiplication tips and Tang poems and poems that the primary school students were worried about, Song Zhenzhong could quickly write down. It is precisely because of this privilege of study that Song Zhenzhong has become a small free man in prison, and can even be said to be a small correspondent for the soldiers in each cell.
At that time, in response to the suppression of the reactionary forces, the underground party set up a "Forward Newspaper" to crack down on the arrogance of the reactionaries, but the person in charge, Chen Ran, was actually sentenced to prison, and Chen Ran, who was arrested and imprisoned, discovered this small turnip head that moved freely, and he thought of continuing to publish the "Advance Newspaper" in prison.
And it is worth mentioning Hua Ziliang's imprisonment, after Hua Ziliang was imprisoned, he began to plan to escape. Once Hua Ziliang was helping to escort a soldier to shoot, afterwards he pretended to be crazy, and then the reactionaries relaxed his guard, Hua Ziliang took the opportunity to understand the terrain and structure of the prison, and made a topographic map, and passed it to each cell by the little radish head Song Zhenzhong, but unfortunately in the end, only Hua Ziliang escaped from prison successfully, of which Song Zhenzhong was very credited.
Statue of Song Zhenzhong
Until a month before the founding of New China, the reactionary Yang Jinxing completely ended the life of this family of three, and the little radish head became the smallest martyr in the history of the republic. It was not until after the liberation of Chongqing that their hidden bodies were found, and the little radish head was found holding a small pencil in his hand.
Paying tribute to the martyrs, while we are sad, we must learn to remember that history lives in the present!