In modern China, in order to make China, which has become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, once again become a powerful country, countless people with lofty ideals have bravely fought for it, and since the establishment of the League, Chinese people have embarked on the road of armed revolution and successfully pushed back the decadent Qing Dynasty.
"The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard", no matter from which point of view, Mr. Zhongshan is the great forerunner of the Chinese revolution, without him, there would be no vigorous Chinese revolution, there would be no final anti-imperialist and anti-feudal success.
In the Kuomintang, the status of Mr. Zhongshan is unquestionable, after all, he is the "father of the nation" of the Republic of China, and he is also the most well-known, in addition to Mr. Zhongshan, there is another person with similar status to him, that is, Liao Zhongkai.
As early as 1903, Liao Zhongkai and his wife met Mr. Zhongshan in Japan, and Mr. Zhongshan formed the China League Association with the help of Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning, and put forward the slogan of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China; establishing the Republic of China, equalizing land rights".
Whether it is the establishment of the League or the formation of revolutionary parties and Kuomintang, Liao Zhongkai has made great contributions, and it can be said that Liao Zhongkai is a well-deserved elder of the Kuomintang, although his fame is not as great as that of Mr. Zhongshan and Huang Xing, but his contribution to the Chinese revolution is very great.
But Liao Zhongkai, a veteran of the Kuomintang, his son Liao Chengzhi and daughter Liao Mengxing all joined the Communist Party, especially his son Liao Chengzhi, who remained a member of the Central Committee after the founding of New China and almost became vice chairman in the 1980s.
What is the reason for this? Is it accompanied by a break between families?
In fact, although Liao Zhongkai was an elder of the Kuomintang, he had a very profound understanding of the proletarian revolution, and he understood that without the strength of the proletariat, the Chinese revolution could not succeed, so he helped Mr. Zhongshan put forward the three major policies of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers", which successfully promoted the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and reorganized the Kuomintang, achieving very good results.
Under the influence of this family environment, Liao Chengzhi and Liao Mengxing could not have a deep understanding of the Communist Party.
In fact, Liao Chengzhi also joined the Kuomintang at the beginning, although the Kuomintang was still relatively calm on the surface, but because of the death of Mr. Zhongshan, a large number of Kuomintang diehards opposed to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had been revealed, but because of Liao Zhongkai's reasons, they could not completely destroy the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
In this way, the right wing of the Kuomintang, represented by Zou Lu, Sun Ke, and Wu Zhaoshu, regarded Liao Zhongkai as a thorn in the flesh of the eye, and they wanted to get rid of it quickly, and finally on August 20, 1925, the month that Liao Chengzhi joined the Kuomintang, they assassinated Liao Zhongkai.
After his father's death, Liao Chengzhi still had hopes for the Kuomintang, but this hope was soon dashed.
In 1925, the first stage of the Northern Expedition was victorious, but the anti-communist forces in the Kuomintang were completely impatient, because of the previous "Zhongshan Ship Incident" as a foreshadowing, Chiang then set off the "April 12" coup, implemented the "Qing Party", and wantonly slaughtered Communists, at this time Liao Chengzhi was completely disappointed in the Kuomintang, angrily broke away from the Kuomintang and went to Japan, and joined the Communist Party the following year.
After that, Liao Chengzhi led the work overseas for a long time, returned to China in 1932, and joined the Red Army the following year, and for a long time after that, although Liao Chengzhi experienced many setbacks and was even imprisoned for a while, he never wavered in his faith.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Liao Chengzhi was mainly responsible for propaganda work and made great contributions to the united front. After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Liao Chengzhi served as president of Xinhua News Agency for a long time and became deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Chengzhi held many important positions, and later became a member of the Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Central Committees, and on June 6, 1983, at the first session of the Sixth National People's Congress, he was nominated as a candidate for vice chairmanship, but at this time, Liao Chengzhi unfortunately died in Beijing on June 10, 1983 due to illness.