One day in 1985, a founding major general was going to visit a friend in Fujian, and his family tried to discourage him before going out, but he insisted on going, so several subordinates took a train with him. While the train was on, the Major General kept looking out the window and said nothing.
Along the way, time passed quickly, and the group came to a temple in Fujian, and just after entering the door, a young monk came and asked:
"Donor, are you Mr. Zhong Guochu?"
Without waiting for the guard to speak, the major general said:
"It's me, I've made an appointment with a deceased person in your temple."
The guards were full of doubts, and they had not seen the Major General worship the Buddha on incense, and the little monk said:
"Lord, please come with me, Master XinYang has been waiting in the temple for a long time."
When the crowd came to a compartment, an old monk was sitting in the compartment, and the major general said:
"Old chief, are you all right?"
The monk laughed
"Xiao Zhong, the last time we met was more than 50 years ago." ”
The crowd was shocked, what the hell was going on? Why did the Major General call this old monk chief? Why is he a monk here?
Master Xin Yang's original name was Yang Daoming.
In 1910, Yang Daoming was born in a village such as Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province. He also had two older brothers, the third in line, and both his father and brother joined the revolution.
Therefore, Yang Daoming has been determined since he was a child to wear a military uniform,
His mother saw that he was too naughty and was particularly harsh on him.
In February 1930, when Yang Daoming was 20 years old, he secretly ran out of the house, turned over the hill and came to the town, the Red Army was holding a military and civilian oath meeting, Yang Daoming squeezed his head and came to the front of the line.
The oath-taking meeting was presided over by Mao Zedong, who told his revolutionary ideas and told everyone why he wanted to join the revolution, what kind of contingent the Red Army was, and the ultimate goal of the revolution.
Red Army Oath Conference
Mao Zedong's passionate narration on the stage made the young people in the audience boil with blood and applaud and cheer, while Yang Daoming left a deep impression on Mao Zedong because he was in the forefront. After attending the oath ceremony,
Yang Daoming resolutely chose to join the revolutionary ranks.
In December of the same year. The Kuomintang reactionaries retaliated against the Red Army in the Central Soviet Region. Because Yang Daoming's family had all joined the revolutionary ranks and were frantically retaliated against in this encirclement and suppression campaign, the Kuomintang was fierce and ruthless, brutally killing one of his brothers, and the other was in hiding without a message, and there was no one alive or dead. His mother was beaten to death and died, his father committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, his wife was pregnant for 10 months, but the Kuomintang defiled his sister-in-law and his wife and sold them to other places.
On this night alone, what was originally a happy family became fragmented and the family was broken.
national party
Hatred of the country and the family surged into his heart, and Yang Daoming vowed to overthrow the Kuomintang reactionaries.
In 1932, Yang Daoming officially joined the Communist Party.
Because of his outstanding performance in the revolutionary ranks, he was transferred to Min Gan Province as chairman of the Soviet government, and later, Yang Daoming received the task of leading the troops of Min Gan Province to cover the retreat of the main red army.
Soon after the Long March of the Red Army, the Kuomintang dispatched a large number of troops to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the revolutionary base areas in Min Gan Province, hoping to completely eliminate the Red Army troops. In this encirclement and suppression campaign, the Kuomintang dispatched more than 9,000 people, while our Soviet government in Mingan Province only had more than 100 people.
The situation was critical, Song Qingquan, commander of the Min Gan Provincial Military Region, wanted to lead his troops in a direct confrontation with the enemy army, and the disparity in the number of the enemy and us was huge; Yang Daoming and others thought that frontal confrontation was very unfavorable and tried everything to block it, but Song Qingquan insisted on doing so, and our army suffered heavy losses as a result.
April 1935. When the troops arrived at the Area of Sand Creek to rest. The Kuomintang reactionaries made a surprise attack. The troops of our army were encircled and suppressed. Zhong Guochu led his troops out of the encirclement, and when they met at the safety point, they found that their accompanying team had been beaten to the point that only three battalions were left, and the other teams were missing.
Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren and others reluctantly retreated to the Purple Mountain, arriving on the 2nd day. Yang Daoming inadvertently saw Song Qingquan and a stranger talking with their heads down, with squirrel eyes and strange behavior, Yang Daoming had doubts about this, so he found Zhong Xunren for consultation, and guessed in his heart that Song Qingquan had betrayed.
A meeting of cadres was held in the army that evening, and Zhong Xunren and Yang Daoming said,
In difficult times, everyone should not waver, but stand firm,
He also warned Song Qingquan and others, and Song Qingquan and many people at the meeting looked embarrassed. After the meeting, Song Qingquan secretly led a group of people down the mountain and surrendered to the enemy army, and on the 2nd day, Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren woke up and found that the large army was gone. Only then did it become certain that Song Qingquan had defected, and after several people's deliberations, they decided to move.
Before the transfer troops left, the enemy army launched a fierce attack on them, and the remaining number of people at that time was less than 40 people, although stubborn resistance, but like eggs touching stones, after a day, our troops suffered more than half of the casualties, more than a dozen people were captured by the enemy, Zhong Xunren and Yang Daoming and other 9 cadres were unknown, missing.
Later, when dealing with the rebellious Peng Hu and the counter-revolutionaries, several people said that they had killed Zhong Xunren and killed several political commissars, one of whom was surnamed Yang, so the Party Central Committee took it
Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren were sacrificed.
temple
In fact, the two were on the run, could not speak the local dialect, could not communicate with the masses, could not contact the organization, and could only walk aimlessly forward, and arrived at one on the way
"Nine Temples"
Inside the temple.
Zhong Xunren assumed the pseudonym Huang Jiafa, and Yang Daoming assumed the pseudonym Xie Changsheng.
The two decided to stay in the temple temporarily, and then make other plans after contacting the organization. So he expressed his intentions to the temple abbot, who had the intention of taking them in, but the nine temples were full of people, and for a long time they were afraid of revealing their identities, so they were introduced to another temple.
In order to better hide their identities, the two shaved their heads and became monks in the temple.
Zhong Xunren law number "Miaoyuan" Yang Daoming law number "Xinyang"
。 In 1939. The old abbot in the temple died, and Yang Daoming served as the abbot of the temple until the founding of New China.
Yang Daoming took a photo with everyone
During this period, Yang Daoming always wanted to write letters to Chairman Mao and other leaders to explain his experience, so he asked Zhong Xunren's opinion, but Zhong Xunren said:
"It was registered in the newspapers before the liberation, the two of us were shot and killed by the reactionaries, the two of us did not sacrifice anything for the revolution, betrayed the trust of the organization in us at the beginning, and let the previous events pass."
In this way, the two decided to spend the second half of their lives in the temple. Until one time, the Red Guards found Yang Daoming and slandered them as spies, Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren were reluctant to mention the past again, but there was no other way to prove the innocence of the two, in desperation, Yang Daoming sent a letter to his hometown, Yang Daoming's family received this letter, immediately reported it to the Party Central Committee, everyone knew that they were still alive, the Party Central Committee sent a letter:
Be sure to keep the two safe, they are heroes.
In 1980. Zhong Xunren died of illness. Before leaving, he confessed:
"Don't tell others your real names, let alone write to your family",
And Yang Daoming also understood Zhong Xunren's meaning, except for the family letter, he had never contacted his superiors again, and their lives were also very poor when they were in the temple, but they would still help the people around them who had difficulties.
More than 50 years after Yang Daoming disappeared, in 1985. Zhong Guochu, who broke out at that time, did not know the news from nowhere, contacted the local government, after the investigation learned that Yang Daoming was in a temple in Fujian, after knowing the news, he was very happy in his heart, sitting in peace, eager to see Yang Daoming, so in the early morning of the 2nd day immediately went to Fujian, there was the opening scene, the two were separated for more than 50 years. Bye bye-bye was graying hair.
Yang Daoming
After this, there were also central government leaders who came to visit Yang Daoming, and the local government also took good care of him, and later Yang Daoming served as a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Provincial Buddhist Association.
Due to his advanced age, Yang Daoming's health is not very good, he does not know how long he can live, and if he does not say it now, he is afraid that he will sink into the sea forever, so he violated the agreement with Zhong Xunren and reported the truth of the matter to the party organization, which is also a matter of his heart.
On May 14, 1999, Yang Daoming, the Master of Xinyang, died at the age of 90 at Nengren Temple in Yongtai County. The experiences of Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren are full of legends, from high-ranking cadres to monks, even if they become monks, their patriotic and party-loving beliefs have not changed, and this spirit is worth learning from everyone.
Greetings to Yang Daoming and Zhong Xunren, as well as to all the revolutionary heroes!