In the history of the CCP, most of the well-known leaders were men, and female leaders were rare.
When it comes to outstanding female REPRESENTATIVEs of the CCP, we have to mention heroes such as Xiang Jingyu and Yang Zhihua.
There is also a female legend in the party, who has been running for the cause of communism, and has even been wrongfully accused of being a traitor to her comrades, and has been arrested and imprisoned for decades.
But in fact, in order to protect her comrades-in-arms, she was caught by the Kuomintang and imprisoned. After being released from prison, he committed himself to marrying a poor boatman.
But later, even if she was wronged or even imprisoned, she did not change her belief in communism, until after rehabilitation, she still had the same mentality, living to the age of 91, she is the CCP women's minister Zhou Yuelin.
First, join the Communist Party
Zhou Yuelin, like thousands of working people, has no prominent family lineage. In 1906, she was born in a run-down fishing village in Shanghai to her parents who relied on rocking boats on the Huangpu River to feed themselves. Because she had no money to support Zhou Yuelin's schooling, she went out to work as a yarn picker in a yarn factory at the age of nine to subsidize her family, becoming a poor child laborer who was exploited.
In 1921, seventeen-year-old Zhou Yuelin entered the Dakang Spinning Factory as a worker.
It was here that she received the advanced revolutionary enlightenment education for the first time, sowing the seeds of progress and science in her young heart.
She actively participated in the workers' clubs organized by the spinning mill and the workers' morality association, learned a lot of cultural knowledge, and was also exposed to revolutionary ideas.
Although his personal origin is not good, Zhou Yuelin is proactive and does not want to waste his life like this, so after work, he privately participates in night school and studies diligently.
In 1925, when the May Fourth Movement broke out, Zhou Yuelin stood firmly and responded to the revolution with the workers of the Dakang Spinning Factory, standing at the forefront of the struggle
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After experiencing the baptism of the May Fourth Movement, Zhou Yuelin joined the Communist Party of China in 1925 through an introduction and embarked on the road of unremitting struggle for the revolutionary cause. Zhou Yuelin, who worked diligently, was quickly taken seriously by the party organization, and soon organized her to be transferred to the Federation of Trade Unions in Shanghai to participate in the party's secrecy work.
The following year, Zhou Yuelin became the head of the women's department in Caojiadu, Shanghai
For the first time, she reached the height of life that the former fisherman girl could not reach. In this year, Zhou Yuelin fell in love with Zhang Zuochen, the leader of the May Fourth Movement, but the weather was unpredictable, and Zhang Zuochen was brutally killed and sacrificed in the counter-revolutionary coup launched by Chiang Kai-shek.
Second, the new life in the Soviet Union
At this time, Zhou Yuelin's identity was also on the verge of being exposed. So the party organization decided to send her to the Soviet Union to study and avoid the wind.
At a young age, Zhou Yuelin came to the Chinese Party School in Vladivostok for further study
。 Under the pseudonym Wang Yuemei, she met Liang Baitai, the person responsible for the Chinese worker, and the two young and young Ai joined the revolution together and soon fell in love.
In the summer of 1927, Zhou Yuelin married Liang Baitai in Vladivostok, and was later transferred to Boli City in the Soviet Union as the director of the Chinese Workers' Club, where he and Liang Baitai engaged in the propaganda and education of Chinese workers. During this period, she received Qu Qiubai and Cai Hesen and other CCP leaders who passed by here, and made friends with them.
In the years of working in the Soviet Union, Zhou Yuelin and Liang Baitai gave birth to a pair of children.
In 1929, Zhou Yuelin came to Moscow with his children and entered the preparatory class of Sun Yat-sen University to begin further studies.
Soon after, the two were forced to return to China due to changes in the domestic situation, and the young children could not withstand the long journey, so Zhou Yuelin had to leave them in the children's welfare home in Moscow.
Third, the Soviet union encountered a crisis
In 1931, Zhou Yuelin, who returned to China to work, was appointed minister of women's affairs after the first party congress of the Communist Party of China, and asked her to lead women's work and make efforts to improve women's lives.
Since then, the female leader has begun the road to lead the women of the Soviet Union to a new life.
Zhou Yuelin often rode his horse through the streets and alleys, publicizing the "Marriage Regulations" to women everywhere he went, mobilizing women to participate in agricultural production such as ploughing fields, and creatively carrying out women's work.
In 1934, the CCP elected the Central Executive Committee, and Zhou Yuelin was the only woman in the presidium of the seventeen leaders.
Soon, however, in the autumn of that year, the Soviet area was shrouded in a tense atmosphere. As the situation of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression worsened, the central authorities decided to move the march. In order to persist in the struggle in the Soviet zone, the Central Committee still set up a sub-bureau, with Xiang Ying and Chen Yi as the leaders.
However, Chen Yi was wounded in the leg during the battle not long ago, and in order not to delay the government's work, the central government decided to leave one more person.
Who did this person choose? Xiang Ying finally picked Liang Baitai, and when Zhou Yuelin learned of it, he resolutely accompanied him to stay in the base area. As the situation became more and more tense, the central sub-bureau was surrounded by the enemy in a small village in DuXian County, and the sub-bureau finally decided to send people to advance separately to break through, and before the breakthrough, Qu Qiubai and Zhou Yuelin and others were arranged to go to Hong Kong or Shanghai to carry out underground work.
In February 1935, the group began to set off, but when they arrived in Changting County, Fujian Province, they fell into the enemy's encirclement, and the mountains were full of enemy sentries.
Forced to be helpless, pretending to be prisoners of the Red Army, they were escorted across the blockade line in disguise.
After the line, everyone went out day and night, taking the mountain path to rush forward.
4. Unjustly imprisoned
In the early morning of the 24th, when the tired people passed by the village, they decided to stop and rest for a while. Unexpectedly, suddenly there was a burst of gunfire at the mouth of the village, and it turned out that the enemy had already taken advantage of the dark package to copy it. The captain of the guard, with Qu Qiubai and Zhou Yuelin and others, hurriedly retreated to hide, but he was dizzy because he was not familiar with the terrain.
Qu Qiubai, who was nearly sixty years old, really couldn't stand the tossing and turning, and fell down in the grass for everyone to hide first. Zhou Yuelin found a hidden small pond to hide, and always observed the movements of Qu Qiubai and others. He moved slowly in the grass, but unfortunately he fell, alarming the nearby enemies, who quickly ran over to restrain Qu Qiubai and the people hidden nearby.
Zhou Yuelin was anxious to see in the hiding place, and finally decided to run out to protect Qu Qiubai
All the people in the group were arrested by the Kuomintang and taken back for interrogation. After Qu Qiubai was guessed to be true, he was immediately executed. Zhou Yuelin was also identified as a "strong member of the communist bandits" and sentenced to ten years in prison.
In 1937, Zhou Yuelin was released on bail by her old relatives within the Kuomintang, and she was happy to go to find the party organization, but time has changed, where to find the revolutionary contingent now? Zhou Yuelin wandered alone for several months, and in order to survive, she returned to her hometown in Shanghai's fishing village, married a poor boatman, and became an authentic housewife.
In 1955, Qu Qiubai's burial ceremony was held in Beijing. At this point, the question was revived:
Who in the end gave Qu Qiubai's true identity?
？ Soon some people speculated that it was Zhou Yuelin beside him. This speculation has not been too much confirmed by most people decisively agreed,
She was imprisoned for ten years, first unfounded, and then imprisoned for twelve years on charges.
5. Conclusion
It was not until 1979, when Zhou Yuelin filed a complaint, that he was finally dismissed and rehabilitated. Zhou Yuelin can finally spend her old age peacefully and comfortably, she maintains an optimistic and open-minded state of mind, lives a cheerful life every day, and spends more than ten years happily. In December 1997, Zhou Yuelin, then ninety-one years old, quietly left.
In the ups and downs of this female CPC cadre's life, the only thing that has not changed is her loyalty and faith in the party, and her life is tragic and unyielding. Zhou Yuelin, who is full of revolutionary progress, optimism, and the spirit of self-denial, is the epitome of countless communists, who have burned their lives for the revolutionary cause.