The evening tide | Pan Mohua, galloping great love to death

□ Yanzi and

Pan Mohua's hometown of Wuyi Tanhong Township Shangtan Village, is the fourth batch of zhejiang province's historical and cultural villages, a source of Wu junction dragon head eyes of the Tan Creek through the village, flowing to Xuanping Creek and Oujiang River.

Mo Hua has been spiritual, endowed and ambitious since childhood, he is like a brave and witty military fish swimming in Tan Creek, the military fish will migrate to the source of the depths of the mountain, and the wild rhododendron on the top of the eye of the Dalai Dragon Head is very red, just like the Yingshan Red sent to the Red Army in the movie "Shining Red Star".

Mo Hua was the best student in terms of academic performance, whether he was studying at the family school, the village primary school and the county normal school, but he was admitted to the Zhejiang Yi Normal School and the well-known Peking University in Hangcheng, and his father died of illness, and his tuition and living expenses have always been funded by his grandfather JinfangGong and his uncle's relatives and friends.

From an early age, Mo Hua loved to read books for the poor to seek freedom and happiness, to cultivate chivalrous courage, and to hate feudal etiquette and oppress the unfair society of the poor. In Hangzhou West Lake while reading and founding the "Morning Light Society" and "Lakeside Poetry Society" with colleagues, even if leisurely sneaking in the West Lake, the body and mind still listen to the waves of the Qianjiang River and the roar of the East China Sea day and night, after the "May Fourth" new cultural movement, some of the national thought has awakened, Mohua not only took the lead in awakening himself, but also summoned and mobilized 40,000 people to awaken together.

The author remembers that a small stream in his hometown flows into the Wuyi River, and he has caught many fish in the big stream (that is, the Wuyi River) since childhood, but the most thrilling thing is to chase and catch the shiny and healthy military fish, which bravely swims upwards and meets the dam of the water storage dam, like a pole leaping into the air. Once a four- or five-pound heavy army fish made a sharp turn and jumped on the pebble bank of the creek beach, and when I was a teenager, my whole body pounced on it, but it was still slipped away by it, and it jumped back into the stream after a few tumbles, and swam away like a king. This is the deepest memory of my entire childhood fishing history.

Since joining the revolution, Mo Hua was in the iron net of white terror and Kuomintang rule, and from 1927 to 1934, he was heroically righteous, arrested again and again, and escaped again and again, which always reminded me of the picture of the military fish I had seen when I was a child. Mo Hua was in the torrent of revolution, rampaged to open up his own road, and at the same time, he also led a large number of progressive young people and revolutionary comrades to advance. In the first half of the 20th century, in the 1920s and 1930s, when Mohua flourished as a revolutionary, all the contradictions and problems left over from the Qing Dynasty with a history of nearly 300 years needed to be solved by the benevolent people who sought new ideas and new ideas from top to bottom. However, the Xinhai Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the feudal imperial system for more than two thousand years, and was revived by a group of reactionary warlords such as Yuan Shikai to steal the fruits of the revolution, and only the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated in the Northern Expedition to resist the war. During the Northern Expedition, ambitionists emerged one after another, and Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei successively launched coups and rebellions, brutally purging and suppressing the surging Communist Party. Communists who embrace communist ideals can only embark on a long revolutionary journey by becoming independent and self-reliant. "Ask the vast land, who is in charge of the ups and downs", the Communist Party of China, founded in 1921, chose to unite the people of the whole country and open up a revolutionary road for the poor.

Pan Mohua, who believed that Marxist-Leninist ideology and communism saved China, changed himself in the revolutionary journey, and realized from personal experience that feudal autocracy and decadent government were the root causes of the decline, poverty and suffering of the Chinese people, and only by taking the socialist road of science and democracy could china and themselves be saved. The middle-class landlord family that once opened a southern goods store, a medicine shop, and a dyeing house was defeated and the only hired worker, Shi Huozha, was dismissed, and Mo Hua recognized that the fire master of the extremely poor mountain people at the foot of Niu Shantou and the carpenter Ah Gui of the neighboring village were his intimate colleagues and class brothers, and his sister-brother love from a careful heart was a sin determined by feudal ethics, and even if it did not violate ethics, he must accept arranged marriages. The industrious and kind people cannot live a good life, the people who study hard cannot find a good job, the whole bottom has no freedom, independence and a bright way out, and there is no other way but to participate in the revolution to overthrow the old world and create a new order.

Mohua's participation in the revolution is not paid, even if there is sometimes a little money for activities, it is precarious, and more importantly, once his identity is exposed, he will be arrested and suppressed, and the CCP organization that participates in the underground state is carrying his head to do the revolution. But this cannot stop Mo Hua from becoming a scholar and a warrior, from a lakeside poet to the main initiator and leader of the "Northern Left League"; while forming the Tianjin Municipal CPC Committee as the propaganda director, he also has to go from east to west to seek teaching posts in middle schools and universities, write a large number of short articles and comments to make a living, and at the same time launch and train progressive young people to establish party organizations everywhere, enrich the "Northern Left League" contingent and peripheral organizations at any time, and concurrently hold three or four jobs at the same time, and at any time he has to live a life with hunger and boiling water, and he occasionally has a little money or a piece of clothing. Whenever comrades or organizations have needs, they will give out.

Mo Hua had no illusions about the revolution, believing that the Chinese revolution must go through a long and arduous price of great sacrifice, but he moved forward without complaint or regret. Chen Zhujun, a sister of Mohua's partner Chuan, recalled: Mohua's personal life was very difficult, but he was very righteous to his comrades. He often wears a summer coat in winter and a winter coat in summer, often has a pawn ticket on his body, has no money to eat a few burnt cakes a day, and eats a big meal when he has money. Once, a comrade was going to go to a foreign country, and we bought all the food for the only two dollars. He said, "This friend is leaving, let's play together." Later, I saw in the newspaper that the comrade had died in Baoding.

Mohua not only has a rich art of underground secret work struggle, but also has a strong spiritual will to deal with torture, and usually intentionally or unintentionally affects comrades. Chen Zhujun wrote in "The 30th Anniversary of Comrade Mohua's Sacrifice": "Martyrs often teach comrades some art of struggle on how to carry out underground secret work, how to deal with the cruel torture and cunning means of the enemy after being arrested. He introduced his own personal experience that after being arrested, the enemy inflicted all kinds of inhuman torture and poison on revolutionaries, and he believed that the most painful and unbearable thing in the torture device was electrocution, which was worse than the pain of flesh and skin. The aim of the enemy is to torture the will of the revolutionaries, and therefore to have a fearless spirit of not being afraid of suffering and death to deal with a seemingly powerful and vicious enemy. The article also reads: "When I visited the detention center, the martyr was imprisoned in a dark and damp cell with things in the room — a urine bucket, a bed board, a quilt." He was twitching all over his body (convulsions). He suppressed the pain and said that there should be no illusions about the enemy, and that illusions could be unleashed. He bid farewell to his comrades outside and said that he had not caused any loss to the Party, or that there had been anything unfavorable to the Party..."

Wang Jingzhi (left), Pan Mohua (center), and Feng Xuefeng (right) (taken on April 8, 1922. Excerpt from "The Song of Love")

In 1980, Mohua's cousin Pan Cuiju wrote "Memories of the Long Life Lock - Commemorating the Forty-fifth Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Pan Mohua", which was published in the third issue of Donghai magazine that year. In 1984, in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pan Mohua's sacrifice, she wrote a reminiscence article "Participating in the Revolution, Not Expecting a Long Life", which said: "Reading Comrade Ding Jingtang's article "The Handwriting of Pan Mohua Martyrs collected by the Lu Xun Museum", the text said that the handwriting left by the Mohua martyrs was very small, except for the original manuscripts of the early new poems, the later manuscripts have not yet been discovered... In Xuanping, Zhejiang, now Liucheng Town, Wuyi County, my family once had four handwritten letters he gave me, rectangular envelopes, ten lines of paper, written with a brush; six handwritten letters to Shen Zaixi, two in Western-style envelopes, the rest of the same; three to the second brother Kai detailed, also Chinese rectangular envelopes; a total of thirteen autographed letters. In addition, there is a manuscript of the novel "Cold Spring Rock", thirty-two pieces of whiteboard paper, written on two sides of three and a half pieces; an unfinished manuscript "Deep Mountain Snow", written in ten lines of paper, twenty pieces, which is a recollection of the return to the hometown disaster relief and the reunion of shi huozha; there is also a translation, which is a story about an ancient fairy tale in a certain country, the title of the book is not clear, and the translation is also bound in ten lines of paper, there are seventy or eighty pieces. These manuscripts, together with a silver longevity lock and a pair of gold and silver bracelets that Mo Hua had worn since he was a child, were handed over to me for preservation. At the lower end of the front of the silver long-life lock, there are eight words engraved by Mo Hua himself: Join the revolution, do not expect a long life. On a pair of gold and silver bracelets, there are eight other words engraved by Mo Hua himself: arranged marriage, faith and unbelief. Since Mo Hua was martyred, I have carefully preserved these precious relics and placed my infinite sorrow on him. Unfortunately, when the Cultural Revolution came, my family was raided eight times..."

Lakeside poet Wang Jingzhi composed a poem "Mohua Zan" for the 50th anniversary of Pan Mohua's sacrifice:

You say that the world is like a desert,

You are determined to blossom in the desert.

Determined to beautify the desert, take a name to call it "Mohua"

……

You will make fertilizer with your blood,

Cultivate the desert to make a paradise.

You'd rather be filled with a thousand pots of chili water,

Unwilling to drink a drop of the enemy's nectar...

About the author: Yan Zihe: Pen name Lao Miao. In the 1980s, he learned poetry, essays, novels, etc. Local media person, chairman of Wuyi County Writers Association.

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